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  • 21 Australian Cadet Corps

    «Острэлиан кадет кор» (организация по вневойсковой военной подготовке молодёжи; функционирует при школах всех штатов Австралии, за исключением Северной Территории. Является отделением Гражданских сил самообороны {Citizen Military Forces}. Впервые организована при «Кингз скул» {King's School} в г. Парраматте в 1866. Была распущена в 1972. С 1975 действует вновь)

    Australia and New Zealand. English-Russian dictionary of regional studies > Australian Cadet Corps

  • 22 Boot, Henry Albert Howard

    [br]
    b. 29 July 1917 Birmingham, England
    d. 8 February 1983 Cambridge, England
    [br]
    English physicist who, with John Randall, invented the cavity magnetron used in radar systems.
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    After secondary education at King Edward School, Birmingham, Boot studied physics at Birmingham University, obtaining his BSc in 1938 and PhD in 1941. With the outbreak of the Second World War, he became involved with Randall and others in the development of a source of microwave power suitable for use in radar transmitters. Following unsuccessful attempts to use klystrons, they turned to investigation of the magnetron, and by adding cavity resonators they obtained useful power on 21 February 1940 at a wavelength of 9.8 cm. By May a cavity magnetron radar system had been constructed at TRE, Swanage, and in September submarine periscopes were detected at a range of 7 miles (11 km).
    In 1943 the physics department at Birmingham resumed its research in atomic physics and Boot moved to BTH at Rugby to continue development of magnetrons, but in 1945 he returned to Birmingham as Nuffield Research Fellow and helped construct the cyclotron there. Three years later he took up a post as a Principal Scientific Officer (PSO) at the Services Electronic Research Laboratories at Baldock, Hertfordshire, becoming a Senior PSO in 1954. He remained there until his retirement in 1977, variously carrying out research on microwaves, magnetrons, plasma physics and lasers.
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    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Royal Society of Arts Thomas Gray Memorial Prize 1943. Royal Commission Inventors Award 1946. Franklin Institute John Price Wetherill Medal 1958. City of Pennsylvania John Scott Award 1959. (All jointly with Randall.)
    Bibliography
    1976, with J.T.Randall, "Historical notes on the cavity magnetron", Transactions of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ED-23: 724 (provides an account of their development of the cavity magnetron).
    Further Reading
    E.H.Dix and W.H.Aldous, 1966, Microwave Valves.
    KF

    Biographical history of technology > Boot, Henry Albert Howard

  • 23 senior

    'si:njə
    1. noun
    1) ((also adjective) (a person who is) older in years or higher in rank or authority: John is senior to me by two years; He is two years my senior; senior army officers.) mayor
    2) ((American) a student in his/her last year in college or high school.)

    2. adjective
    ((often abbreviated to Snr, Sr or Sen. when written) used to indicate the father of a person who is alive and who has the same name: John Jones Senior.) padre
    - senior citizen
    senior adj
    1. mayor
    2. de responsabilidad senior se refiere a alguien que ocupa una posición alta o de responsabilidad en una organización
    3. padre
    Se usa para distinguir el padre del hijo cuando tienen el mismo nombre y apellido
    John Smith Senior John Smith, padre
    tr['siːnɪəSMALLr/SMALL]
    1 padre
    John Williams, Senior John Williams, padre
    senior ['si:njər] adj
    1) elder: mayor
    John Doe, Senior: John Doe, padre
    2) : superior (en rango), más antiguo (en años de servicio)
    a senior official: un alto oficial
    1) : superior m (en rango)
    2)
    to be someone's senior : ser mayor que alguien
    she's two years my senior: me lleva dos años
    adj.
    mayor adj.
    n.
    alumno del último curso s.m.
    anciano s.m.
    decano s.m.
    mayor s.m.
    padre s.m.
    socio de los más antiguos s.m.
    viejo s.m.

    I 'siːnjər, 'siːniə(r)
    1)

    senior editor — editor, -tora m,f, redactor, -tora m,f sénior

    senior lecturer — (BrE) ≈profesor adjunto, profesora adjunta m,f, ≈agregado, -da m,f a cátedra

    senior partner — socio mayoritario, socia mayoritaria m,f

    senior TO somebody: she's senior to him — es su superior

    b) ( older)

    Robert King, Senior — (esp AmE) Robert King, padre or sénior

    2) ( Educ)

    senior school — ( in UK) colegio m secundario

    the senior boyslos chicos mayores or de los últimos cursos

    senior year — ( in US) último año or curso


    II
    1)

    he's five years my senior — me lleva cinco años, es cinco años mayor que yo

    b) ( person of higher rank) superior m
    2) ( Educ) estudiante mf del último año or curso
    ['siːnɪǝ(r)]
    1. ADJ
    1) (in age) mayor

    he is senior to me by five yearsfrm es cinco años mayor que yo, tiene cinco años más que yo

    2) (in rank) [position, rank] superior; [partner, executive, officer] mayoritario; (in length of service) de más antigüedad
    2. N
    1) (in age) mayor mf

    he's my senior by two years — es dos años mayor que yo, tiene dos años más que yo

    2) (in rank) superior mf, socio(-a) m / f más antiguo(-a)
    3) (Scol) alumno(-a) m / f de los cursos más avanzados; (US) estudiante mf del último año
    See:
    4) (US) = senior citizen
    3.
    CPD

    senior citizen Njubilado(-a) m / f, persona f de la tercera edad

    senior common room N(Brit) (in university) (=room) sala f de profesores (titulares); (=lecturing staff collectively) claustro m de profesores (titulares)

    senior high school N(US) instituto m de enseñanza superior (Sp), preparatoria f (Mex)

    senior partner Nsocio(-a) m / f mayoritario(-a)

    senior school Ninstituto m de enseñanza secundaria

    the Senior Service N(Brit) la marina

    senior prom N(US) baile m del último año or curso

    senior year N(US) (at school) último año m, último curso m

    * * *

    I ['siːnjər, 'siːniə(r)]
    1)

    senior editor — editor, -tora m,f, redactor, -tora m,f sénior

    senior lecturer — (BrE) ≈profesor adjunto, profesora adjunta m,f, ≈agregado, -da m,f a cátedra

    senior partner — socio mayoritario, socia mayoritaria m,f

    senior TO somebody: she's senior to him — es su superior

    b) ( older)

    Robert King, Senior — (esp AmE) Robert King, padre or sénior

    2) ( Educ)

    senior school — ( in UK) colegio m secundario

    the senior boyslos chicos mayores or de los últimos cursos

    senior year — ( in US) último año or curso


    II
    1)

    he's five years my senior — me lleva cinco años, es cinco años mayor que yo

    b) ( person of higher rank) superior m
    2) ( Educ) estudiante mf del último año or curso

    English-spanish dictionary > senior

  • 24 Historical Portugal

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

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  • 25 do

    du:
    1. 3rd person singular present tense - does; verb
    1) (used with a more important verb in questions and negative statements: Do you smoke?) 0
    2) (used with a more important verb for emphasis; ; ðo sit down) 0
    3) (used to avoid repeating a verb which comes immediately before: I thought she wouldn't come, but she did.) 0
    4) (used with a more important verb after seldom, rarely and little: Little did he know what was in store for him.) 0
    5) (to carry out or perform: What shall I do?; That was a terrible thing to do.) hacer
    6) (to manage to finish or complete: When you've done that, you can start on this; We did a hundred kilometres in an hour.) hacer
    7) (to perform an activity concerning something: to do the washing; to do the garden / the windows.) hacer
    8) (to be enough or suitable for a purpose: Will this piece of fish do two of us?; That'll do nicely; Do you want me to look for a blue one or will a pink one do?; Will next Saturday do for our next meeting?) servir, ir bien, ser suficiente
    9) (to work at or study: She's doing sums; He's at university doing science.) hacer, dedicarse, estudiar
    10) (to manage or prosper: How's your wife doing?; My son is doing well at school.) ir
    11) (to put in order or arrange: She's doing her hair.) arreglar
    12) (to act or behave: Why don't you do as we do?) hacer, comportarse, actuar
    13) (to give or show: The whole town gathered to do him honour.) hacer
    14) (to cause: What damage did the storm do?; It won't do him any harm.) causar, hacer
    15) (to see everything and visit everything in: They tried to do London in four days.) visitar

    2. noun
    (an affair or a festivity, especially a party: The school is having a do for Christmas.) fiesta, evento
    - doings
    - done
    - do-it-yourself
    - to-do
    - I
    - he could be doing with / could do with
    - do away with
    - do for
    - done for
    - done in
    - do out
    - do out of
    - do's and don'ts
    - do without
    - to do with
    - what are you doing with

    do vb hacer
    what are you doing? ¿qué haces?
    do as you are told! ¡haz lo que se te dice!
    how do you do? ¿cómo está usted?
    Con este saludo, la respuesta típica es también how do you do?
    to do you good sentarte bien / irte bien
    to do well ir bien / tener éxito
    what do you do? ¿a qué te dedicas? / ¿cuál es tu trabajo?do también se emplea para formular las preguntas en presente
    do you like dancing? ¿te gusta bailar?
    do elephants live in Asia? ¿viven los elefantes en Asia?
    El pasado y participio pasado de do son did; el gerundio se escribe doing

    Multiple Entries: D.O.     do     do.
    do sustantivo masculino ( nota) C; ( en solfeo) do, doh (BrE);
    do sustantivo masculino Mús (de solfeo) doh, do (de escala diatónica) C
    do bemol, C-flat
    do de pecho, high C
    do sostenido, C-sharp Locuciones: dar el do de pecho, to do one's very best 'do' also found in these entries: Spanish: abrochar - acomodada - acomodado - acompañar - anda - animarse - apetecer - apostarse - aprender - arte - así - atañer - atonía - atreverse - bajeza - bastar - bastante - bastarse - bien - bola - bordar - brazo - bricolaje - broma - caballo - cacharro - cada - calaña - campar - capaz - cara - cargar - cascabel - casual - cepillarse - cerrar - colada - coletilla - comer - comandita - comecome - como - componer - componenda - compromiso - común - con - contentarse - contrapelo - corpachón English: about-face - about-turn - actually - advance - again - agree - aim to - all - all-out - allow - any - approachable - approve of - as - ask - aspect - associate - attempt - attribute - authorize - bankrupt - begin - best - born - bunk - burden - business - busywork - by - C - call - can - carry-on - cast - cease - cheap - chief - choose - cleaning - clear - come through - command - commit - compel - compelling - complaint - compute - conception - condescend - condition
    do
    tr[dʊː]
    auxiliar (3rd pers sing pres does, pt did tr[dɪd], pp done tr[dʌn], ger doing)
    do you smoke? ¿fumas?
    do you know Susan? ¿conoces a Susan?
    what do they want? ¿qué quieren?
    where does Neil live? ¿dónde vive Neil?
    what film did you see? ¿qué película viste?
    when did they leave? ¿cuándo se fueron?
    do come with us! ¡ánimo, vente con nosotros!
    I did post it, I swear! ¡sí que lo mandé, te lo juro!
    do you like basketball? - yes, I do ¿te gusta el baloncesto? - sí, me gusta
    did you see the film? - no, I didn't ¿viste la película? - no, no la vi
    who wears glasses? - Brian does ¿quién lleva gafas? - Brian
    who broke the vase? - I did ¿quién rompió el florero? - yo
    you don't smoke, do you? no fumas, ¿verdad?
    you like fish, don't you? a ti te gusta el pescado, ¿verdad?
    she lives in Madrid, doesn't she? vive en Madrid, ¿verdad?
    you went to their wedding, didn't you? tú fuiste a su boda, ¿verdad?
    they didn't believe you, did they? no te creyeron, ¿verdad?
    1 (gen) hacer
    what are you doing here? ¿qué haces aquí?
    what are you doing this weekend? ¿qué vas a hacer este fin de semana?
    whatever you do, don't drink alcohol hagas lo que hagas, no bebas alcohol
    what can I do about it? ¿qué quieres que haga yo?
    2 (as job) hacer, dedicarse
    what do you do (for a living)? ¿a qué te dedicas?
    what does he want to do when he leaves university? ¿a qué quiere dedicarse cuando deje la universidad?
    3 (carry out - job, task) hacer, realizar, llevar a cabo; (- duty) cumplir con
    I've got to do the cooking/cleaning tengo que cocinar/limpiar
    have you done your homework? ¿has hecho los deberes?
    4 (study) estudiar
    do you do biology at school? ¿estudias biología en el instituto?
    5 (solve - puzzle) solucionar; (- crossword, sum) hacer
    6 (produce, make - meal) preparar, hacer; (drawing, painting, translation, etc) hacer; (offer - service) servir, tener, hacer; (- discount) hacer
    does this pub do food? ¿sirven comidas en este pub?
    7 (attend to) atender, servir
    what can I do for you? ¿en qué le puedo servir?
    8 (put on, produce - play, opera, etc) presentar, dar, poner en escena; (play the part of) hacer el papel de
    9 (finish, complete) terminar
    have you done moaning? ¿has terminado de protestar?
    10 (achieve) lograr, conseguir
    he's done it! ¡lo ha conseguido!
    12 (be sufficient for) ser suficiente; (be satisfactory for, acceptable to) ir bien a
    will 6 glasses do you? ¿será suficiente con seis vasos?
    yes, that will do me nicely sí, eso me irá perfectamente
    13 familiar (cheat, swindle) estafar, timar; (rob) robar; (arrest, convict) coger; (fine) encajar una multa; (serve time in prison) cumplir
    you've been done! ¡te han timado!
    1 (act, behave) hacer
    how are you doing? ¿qué tal vas?, ¿cómo te van las cosas?
    how are we doing for time? ¿cómo andamos de tiempo?
    3 (complete, finish) terminar
    have you done with the hairdryer? ¿has terminado con el secador?
    4 (be sufficient) bastar, ser suficiente, alcanzar
    will one slice do for you? ¿tendrás suficiente con una rebanada?
    that'll do! ¡basta!
    5 (be satisfactory, suitable) servir, estar bien
    well, I suppose it'll have to do bueno, supongo que tendrá que servir
    it (just/simply) won't do no puede ser
    this cushion will do as/for a pillow este cojín servirá de almohada
    1 familiar (party) fiesta, guateque nombre masculino
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    how do you do? (greeting) ¿cómo está usted? 2 (answer) mucho gusto, encantado,-a
    that does it! ¡esto ya es la gota que colma el vaso!, ¡ya está bien!
    to be/have to do with somebody/something tener que ver con alguien/algo
    to do business with somebody negociar con alguien
    to do drugs drogarse, consumir drogas
    to do one's best hacer lo mejor posible
    to do one's military service hacer el servicio militar
    to do one's nails arreglarse las uñas
    to do something again volver a hacer algo
    to do something for somebody (help) hacer algo por alguien 2 (flatter, suit) favorecer a alguien, quedarle bien a alguien 3 (please) atraer a alguien, decirle algo a alguien
    what's done is done a lo hecho, pecho
    you've done it now ahora sí que la has hecho buena
    do ['du:] v, did ['dɪd] ; done ['dʌn] ; doing ; does ['dʌz] vt
    1) carry out, perform: hacer, realizar, llevar a cabo
    she did her best: hizo todo lo posible
    2) prepare: preparar, hacer
    do your homework: haz tu tarea
    3) arrange: arreglar, peinar (el pelo)
    4)
    to do in ruin: estropear, arruinar
    5)
    to do in kill: matar, liquidar fam
    do vi
    1) : hacer
    you did well: hiciste bien
    2) fare: estar, ir, andar
    how are you doing?: ¿cómo estás?, ¿cómo te va?
    3) finish: terminar
    now I'm done: ya terminé
    4) serve: servir, ser suficiente, alcanzar
    this will do for now: esto servirá por el momento
    5)
    to do away with abolish: abolir, suprimir
    6)
    to do away with kill: eliminar, matar
    7)
    to do by treat: tratar
    he does well by her: él la trata bien
    do v aux
    do you know her?: ¿la conoces?
    I don't like that: a mí no me gusta eso
    I do hope you'll come: espero que vengas
    do you speak English? yes, I do: ¿habla inglés? sí
    do (sth.) in (To destroy)
    expr.
    cargarse v.
    eliminar v.
    liquidar v.
    do (sth.) in a picky way
    expr.
    buscarle tres pies al gato expr.
    encontrarle defectos a todo expr.
    v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: did, done) = arreglar v.
    desempeñar v.
    ejecutar v.
    hacer v.
    (§pres: hago, haces...) pret: hic-
    pp: hecho
    fut/c: har-•)
    obrar v.
    resolver v.

    I
    1. duː, weak form dʊ, də
    (3rd pers sing pres does; pres doing; past did; past p done) transitive verb
    1) hacer*

    are you doing anything this evening? — ¿vas a hacer algo esta noche?

    to have something/nothing to do — tener* algo/no tener* nada que hacer

    can I do anything to help? — ¿puedo ayudar en algo?

    what have you done to your hair? — ¿qué te has hecho en el pelo?

    I don't know what I'm going to do with you! — no sé qué voy a hacer contigo!; see also do with

    2) ( carry out) \<\<job/task\>\> hacer*

    to do one's homework — hacer* los deberes

    3) ( as job)

    what do you do? — ¿usted qué hace or a qué se dedica?

    what does he do for a living? — ¿en qué trabaja?

    4) (achieve, bring about)

    she's done it: it's a new world record — lo ha logrado: es una nueva marca mundial

    he's late again: that does it! — vuelve a llegar tarde esto ya es la gota que colma el vaso!

    to do something for somebody/something: that mustache really does something for him la verdad es que le queda muy bien el bigote; what has EC membership done for Greece? — ¿en qué ha beneficiado a Grecia ser miembro de la CE?

    5)
    a) (fix, arrange, repair)
    b) ( clean) \<\<dishes\>\> lavar; \<\<brass/windows\>\> limpiar
    6) (make, produce)
    a) \<\<meal\>\> preparar, hacer*

    would you do the carrots? — ¿me preparas (or pelas etc) las zanahorias?

    b) \<\<drawinganslation\>\> hacer*
    7) (BrE) ( offer)

    they do a set meal for £12 — tienen un menú de 12 libras

    8) (suffice for, suit)
    9) ( travel)

    the car has only done 4,000 miles — el coche sólo tiene 4.000 millas

    10)
    a) ( study) estudiar
    b) ( visit) (colloq) \<\<sights/museum\>\> visitar
    11) ( Theat)
    a) ( play role of) hacer* el papel de
    b) ( take part in) \<\<play\>\> actuar* en
    c) ( impersonate) imitar
    12) (colloq) ( serve in prison) cumplir
    13) (BrE colloq)
    a) (catch, prosecute) agarrar
    b) ( cheat) estafar, timar
    14) ( use) (sl)

    to do drugs — drogarse*, consumir drogas

    15) (colloq) ( finish) terminar

    are o (esp BrE) have you done complaining? — ¿has terminado de quejarte?


    2.
    vi
    1) (act, behave) hacer*
    2) (get along, manage)

    how are you doing? — ¿qué tal estás or andas or te va?

    how do you do? — ( as greeting) mucho gusto, encantado

    how do? — (colloq & dial) ¿qué tal?

    how are we doing for time/cash? — ¿cómo or qué tal vamos or andamos de tiempo/dinero?

    she did well/badly in her exams — le fue bien/mal en los exámenes

    to do well/badly out of something — salir* bien/mal parado de algo

    3) (go on, happen) (colloq) (in -ing form)

    nothing doing! — ni hablar!, ni lo sueñes!

    4)
    a) (be suitable, acceptable)

    look, this won't do! — mira, esto no puede ser!

    it's not ideal, but it'll do — no es lo ideal, pero sirve

    I'm not going to cook, bread and cheese will do for them! — no pienso cocinar, se tendrán que conformar con pan y queso

    b)

    to do for o as something: this box will do for o as a table — esta caja nos servirá de mesa

    5) ( be enough) ser* suficiente, alcanzar*, bastar
    6) ( finish) (in past p) terminar

    I'm not o (BrE) I haven't done yet! — no he terminado todavía

    7)

    3.
    v aux [El verbo auxiliar do se usa para formar el negativo (I 1) y el interrogativo (I 2), para agregar énfasis (I 3) o para sustituir a un verbo usado anteriormente (II)]
    2)
    a) (used to form negative)

    I do not o don't know — no sé

    I did not o didn't see her — no la vi

    b) (with inversion after negative adv)
    3)
    a)
    Ex:
    does this belong to you? — ¿esto es tuyo?
    did I frighten you? — ¿te asusté?
    /Ex:
    b)
    Ex:
    boy, do you need a bath! — Dios mío! qué falta te hace un baño!
    /Ex:
    4)
    a)
    Ex:
    you must admit, she did look ill — tienes que reconocer que tenía mala cara
    do be quiet! — ¿te quieres callar?
    /Ex:
    b)
    Ex:
    I haven't decided, but if I do accept... — todavía no lo he decidido, pero si aceptara...
    /Ex:

    not only does it cost more, it also... — no sólo cuesta más, sino que también...

    5)
    Ex:
    do you live here? - yes, I do/no, I don't — ¿vives aquí? - sí/no
    she wanted to come, but he didn't — ella quería venir, pero él no
    she found it in your drawer - oh, did she? — lo encontró en tu cajón - ¿ah, sí?
    I don't need a haircut - yes, you do! — no necesito cortarme el pelo - cómo que no!
    she says she understands, but she doesn't — dice que comprende, pero no es así
    /Ex:
    6)
    Ex:
    you know Bob, don't you? — conoces a Bob, ¿no? or ¿verdad? or ¿no es cierto?
    I told you, didn't I? — te lo dije ¿no? or ¿no es cierto?
    /Ex:

    I, Charles Brown, do solemnly swear that... — yo, Charles Brown, juro solemnemente que...

    Phrasal Verbs:

    II duː
    noun (pl dos)
    1) c (party, gathering) (colloq) fiesta f, reunión f
    2) ( state of affairs) (colloq) (no pl)

    fair dos — (BrE colloq)

    fair dos all round — a partes iguales para todos; (as interj) seamos justos!

    3)

    do's and don'ts — ( rules) normas fpl


    III dəʊ
    noun (pl dos) ( Mus) do m

    I [duː] ( 3rd pers sing present does) (pt did) (pp done)
    1. TRANSITIVE VERB

    what are you doing tonight? — ¿qué haces esta noche?

    what's this doing on my chair? — ¿qué hace esto en mi silla?

    what's to be done? — ¿qué se puede hacer?

    what's the weather doing? — ¿qué tal tiempo hace?

    to do sth again — volver a hacer algo, hacer algo de nuevo

    it will have to be done again — habrá que volver a hacerlo, habrá que hacerlo de nuevo

    what's he ever done for me? — ¿qué ha hecho él por mí?

    what can I do for you? — ¿en qué puedo servirle?, ¿qué se le ofrece? (LAm)

    could you do something for me? — ¿me podrías hacer un favor?

    what are we going to do for money? — ¿de dónde vamos a sacar dinero?

    if you do anything to him I'll kill you — si le haces algo te mato

    what's he done to his hair? — ¿qué se ha hecho en el pelo?

    what have you done with my slippers? — ¿dónde has puesto mis zapatillas?

    what am I going to do with you? — ¿qué voy a hacer contigo?

    what am I going to do with myself for the rest of the day? — ¿qué puedo hacer el resto del día?

    living 2., 1)
    2) (=carry out) [+ work, essay] hacer
    Some [do] + noun combinations require a more specific Spanish verb:

    Edmund does all the accountsEdmund se encarga de or lleva la contabilidad

    to do the cookingcocinar

    he did a drawing/ portrait of her — la dibujó/retrató, hizo un dibujo/retrato de ella

    to do one's duty (by sb) — cumplir con su deber (con algn)

    to do the ironingplanchar

    we did a lot of talkinghablamos mucho

    3) (=clean)

    to do the disheslavar los platos

    to do the silverlimpiar la plata

    to do one's teethlavarse los dientes

    4) (=arrange, prepare) [+ vegetables] preparar; [+ room] hacer, arreglar

    this room needs doinghay que hacer or arreglar esta habitación

    to do the flowersarreglar las flores

    to do one's nailshacerse or arreglarse las uñas

    hair 1., 1)
    5) (=spend) pasar
    6) (=finish)

    now you've (gone and) done it! * — ¡ahora sí que la has hecho buena! *

    that's done it! * we're stuck now — ¡la hemos fastidiado! * ahora no podemos salir de aquí

    that does it! * that's the last time I lend him my car — ¡es el colmo! or ¡hasta aquí hemos llegado!, es la última vez que le dejo el coche

    have you done moaning? * — ¿has acabado de quejarte?

    good 2., 2)
    7) (=offer, make available)
    8) (=study) [+ university course, option] hacer, estudiar

    I want to do Physics at universityquiero hacer or estudiar física en la universidad

    to do Italianhacer or estudiar italiano

    9) (Theat) [+ play] representar, poner; [+ part] hacer
    10) (=mimic) [+ person] imitar
    11) (Aut, Rail etc) (=travel at) [+ speed] ir a; (=cover) [+ distance] cubrir
    12) (=attend to)
    proud
    13) * (=visit) [+ city, museum] visitar, recorrer; [+ country] visitar, viajar por
    14) * (=be suitable, sufficient for)

    will a kilo do you? — ¿le va bien un kilo?

    that'll do me nicely(=be suitable) eso me vendrá muy bien; (=suffice) con eso me basta

    15) * (=cheat) estafar, timar; (=rob) robar

    I've been done! — ¡me han estafado or timado!

    16) * (=prosecute) procesar; (=fine) multar
    17) * (=beat up) dar una paliza a

    I'll do you if I get hold of you! — ¡te voy a dar una paliza como te pille!

    2. INTRANSITIVE VERB
    1) (=act) hacer

    you would do better to accept — sería aconsejable que aceptaras

    he did righthizo lo correcto

    do as you think best — haga lo que mejor le parezca

    do as you are told! — ¡haz lo que te digo!

    she was up and doing at 6 o'clock — a las 6 de la mañana ya estaba levantada y trajinando

    you would do well to take his advice — harías bien en seguir su consejo

    you could do a lot worse than marry her — casarte con ella no es lo peor que podrías hacer

    well I, 1., 1)
    2) (=get on)

    he did badly in the exam — le fue mal en el examen

    you can do better than that — (essay, drawing) puedes hacerlo mejor; iro (=find better excuse) ¡y qué más!

    how is your father doing? — ¿cómo está tu padre?, ¿cómo le va a tu padre?

    how are you doing? * — ¿qué tal?, ¿cómo te va?

    how did you do in the audition? — ¿qué tal or cómo te fue en la audición?

    he's doing well at school — le va bien en el colegio

    how do you do? (greeting) ¿cómo está usted?, gusto en conocerlo (LAm); (as answer) ¡mucho gusto!, ¡encantado!
    3) (=be suitable)

    it doesn't do to upset her — cuidado con ofenderla

    will this one do? — ¿te parece bien este?

    will it do if I come back at eight? — ¿va bien si vuelvo a las ocho?

    will tomorrow do? — ¿iría bien mañana?

    it's not exactly what I wanted, but it will or it'll do — no es exactamente lo que quería pero servirá

    that won't do, you'll have to do it again — así no está bien, tendrás que volver a hacerlo

    you can't go on your own, that would never do! — no podemos consentir que vayas sola, ¡eso no puede ser!

    make 1., 4)
    4) (=be sufficient) bastar

    three bottles of wine should do — bastará con tres botellas de vino

    will £20 do? — ¿bastarán 20 libras?, ¿tendrás bastante con 20 libras?

    that will do! — ¡basta ya!

    5) (=happen)

    "could you lend me £50?" - "nothing doing!" — -¿me podrías prestar 50 libras? -¡de ninguna manera! or -¡ni hablar!

    6) * (=finish) (in past tenses only) terminar, acabar

    have you done? — ¿ya has terminado or acabado?

    don't take it away, I've not done yet — no te lo lleves, ¡aún no he terminado or acabado!

    I haven't done telling you — ¡no he terminado de contarte!

    I've done with travelling — ya no voy a viajar más, he renunciado a los viajes

    I've done with all that nonsenseya no tengo nada que ver or ya he terminado con todas esas tonterías

    have you done with that book? — ¿has terminado con este libro?

    7) * (=clean) hacer la limpieza (en casa)
    3. AUXILIARY VERB
    There is no equivalent in Spanish to the use of in questions, negative statements and negative commands.

    do you understand? — ¿comprendes?, ¿entiendes?

    where does he live? — ¿dónde vive?

    didn't you like it? — ¿no te gustó?

    why didn't you come? — ¿por qué no viniste?

    don't worry! — ¡no te preocupes!

    don't you tell me what to do! — ¡no me digas lo que tengo que hacer!

    do tell me! — ¡dímelo, por favor!

    do sit down — siéntese, por favor, tome asiento, por favor frm

    I do wish I could come with you — ¡ojalá pudiera ir contigo!

    but I do like it! — ¡sí que me gusta!, ¡por supuesto que me gusta!

    so you do know him! — ¡así que sí lo conoces!

    rarely does it happen that... — rara vez ocurre que...

    a)

    "did you fix the car?" - "I did" — -¿arreglaste el coche? -sí

    "I love it" - "so do I" — -me encanta -a mí también

    "he borrowed the car" - "oh he did, did he?" — -pidió el coche prestado -¿ah sí? ¡no me digas!

    I like this colour, don't you? — me gusta este color, ¿a ti no?

    "do you speak English?" - "yes, I do/no I don't" — -¿habla usted inglés? -sí, hablo inglés/no, no hablo inglés

    "may I come in?" - "(please) do!" — -¿se puede pasar? -¡pasa (por favor)!

    "who made this mess?" - "I did" — -¿quién lo ha desordenado todo? -fui yo

    "shall I ring her again?" - "no, don't!" — -¿la llamo otra vez? -¡no, no la llames!

    he lives here, doesn't he? — vive aquí, ¿verdad? or ¿no es cierto? or ¿no?

    I don't know him, do I? — no lo conozco, ¿verdad?

    it doesn't matter, does it? — no importa, ¿no?

    she said that, did she? — ¿eso es lo que dijo?

    4. NOUN
    1) (Brit) * (=party) fiesta f ; (=formal gathering) reunión f

    the do's and don'ts of buying a house — lo que debe y lo que no debe hacerse al comprar una casa

    fair dos! *(=be fair) ¡hay que ser justo!, ¡seamos justos!; (=fair shares) ¡a partes iguales!

    it's a poor do when... — es una vergüenza cuando...


    II
    [dǝʊ]
    N (Mus) do m
    * * *

    I
    1. [duː], weak form [dʊ, də]
    (3rd pers sing pres does; pres doing; past did; past p done) transitive verb
    1) hacer*

    are you doing anything this evening? — ¿vas a hacer algo esta noche?

    to have something/nothing to do — tener* algo/no tener* nada que hacer

    can I do anything to help? — ¿puedo ayudar en algo?

    what have you done to your hair? — ¿qué te has hecho en el pelo?

    I don't know what I'm going to do with you! — no sé qué voy a hacer contigo!; see also do with

    2) ( carry out) \<\<job/task\>\> hacer*

    to do one's homework — hacer* los deberes

    3) ( as job)

    what do you do? — ¿usted qué hace or a qué se dedica?

    what does he do for a living? — ¿en qué trabaja?

    4) (achieve, bring about)

    she's done it: it's a new world record — lo ha logrado: es una nueva marca mundial

    he's late again: that does it! — vuelve a llegar tarde esto ya es la gota que colma el vaso!

    to do something for somebody/something: that mustache really does something for him la verdad es que le queda muy bien el bigote; what has EC membership done for Greece? — ¿en qué ha beneficiado a Grecia ser miembro de la CE?

    5)
    a) (fix, arrange, repair)
    b) ( clean) \<\<dishes\>\> lavar; \<\<brass/windows\>\> limpiar
    6) (make, produce)
    a) \<\<meal\>\> preparar, hacer*

    would you do the carrots? — ¿me preparas (or pelas etc) las zanahorias?

    b) \<\<drawing/translation\>\> hacer*
    7) (BrE) ( offer)

    they do a set meal for £12 — tienen un menú de 12 libras

    8) (suffice for, suit)
    9) ( travel)

    the car has only done 4,000 miles — el coche sólo tiene 4.000 millas

    10)
    a) ( study) estudiar
    b) ( visit) (colloq) \<\<sights/museum\>\> visitar
    11) ( Theat)
    a) ( play role of) hacer* el papel de
    b) ( take part in) \<\<play\>\> actuar* en
    c) ( impersonate) imitar
    12) (colloq) ( serve in prison) cumplir
    13) (BrE colloq)
    a) (catch, prosecute) agarrar
    b) ( cheat) estafar, timar
    14) ( use) (sl)

    to do drugs — drogarse*, consumir drogas

    15) (colloq) ( finish) terminar

    are o (esp BrE) have you done complaining? — ¿has terminado de quejarte?


    2.
    vi
    1) (act, behave) hacer*
    2) (get along, manage)

    how are you doing? — ¿qué tal estás or andas or te va?

    how do you do? — ( as greeting) mucho gusto, encantado

    how do? — (colloq & dial) ¿qué tal?

    how are we doing for time/cash? — ¿cómo or qué tal vamos or andamos de tiempo/dinero?

    she did well/badly in her exams — le fue bien/mal en los exámenes

    to do well/badly out of something — salir* bien/mal parado de algo

    3) (go on, happen) (colloq) (in -ing form)

    nothing doing! — ni hablar!, ni lo sueñes!

    4)
    a) (be suitable, acceptable)

    look, this won't do! — mira, esto no puede ser!

    it's not ideal, but it'll do — no es lo ideal, pero sirve

    I'm not going to cook, bread and cheese will do for them! — no pienso cocinar, se tendrán que conformar con pan y queso

    b)

    to do for o as something: this box will do for o as a table — esta caja nos servirá de mesa

    5) ( be enough) ser* suficiente, alcanzar*, bastar
    6) ( finish) (in past p) terminar

    I'm not o (BrE) I haven't done yet! — no he terminado todavía

    7)

    3.
    v aux [El verbo auxiliar do se usa para formar el negativo (I 1) y el interrogativo (I 2), para agregar énfasis (I 3) o para sustituir a un verbo usado anteriormente (II)]
    2)
    a) (used to form negative)

    I do not o don't know — no sé

    I did not o didn't see her — no la vi

    b) (with inversion after negative adv)
    3)
    a)
    Ex:
    does this belong to you? — ¿esto es tuyo?
    did I frighten you? — ¿te asusté?
    /Ex:
    b)
    Ex:
    boy, do you need a bath! — Dios mío! qué falta te hace un baño!
    /Ex:
    4)
    a)
    Ex:
    you must admit, she did look ill — tienes que reconocer que tenía mala cara
    do be quiet! — ¿te quieres callar?
    /Ex:
    b)
    Ex:
    I haven't decided, but if I do accept... — todavía no lo he decidido, pero si aceptara...
    /Ex:

    not only does it cost more, it also... — no sólo cuesta más, sino que también...

    5)
    Ex:
    do you live here? - yes, I do/no, I don't — ¿vives aquí? - sí/no
    she wanted to come, but he didn't — ella quería venir, pero él no
    she found it in your drawer - oh, did she? — lo encontró en tu cajón - ¿ah, sí?
    I don't need a haircut - yes, you do! — no necesito cortarme el pelo - cómo que no!
    she says she understands, but she doesn't — dice que comprende, pero no es así
    /Ex:
    6)
    Ex:
    you know Bob, don't you? — conoces a Bob, ¿no? or ¿verdad? or ¿no es cierto?
    I told you, didn't I? — te lo dije ¿no? or ¿no es cierto?
    /Ex:

    I, Charles Brown, do solemnly swear that... — yo, Charles Brown, juro solemnemente que...

    Phrasal Verbs:

    II [duː]
    noun (pl dos)
    1) c (party, gathering) (colloq) fiesta f, reunión f
    2) ( state of affairs) (colloq) (no pl)

    fair dos — (BrE colloq)

    fair dos all round — a partes iguales para todos; (as interj) seamos justos!

    3)

    do's and don'ts — ( rules) normas fpl


    III [dəʊ]
    noun (pl dos) ( Mus) do m

    English-spanish dictionary > do

  • 26 attend

    ə'tend
    1) (to go to or be present at: He attended the meeting; He will attend school till he is sixteen.) asistir
    2) ((with to) to listen or give attention to: Attend carefully to what the teacher is saying!) atender, prestar atención a
    3) (to deal with: I'll attend to that problem tomorrow.) atender, ocuparse de
    4) (to look after; to help or serve: Two doctors attended her all through her illness; The queen was attended by four ladies.) asistir, atender
    - attendant
    - in attendance

    attend vb
    1. asistir a / ir a
    2. atender / cuidar / ocuparse de
    Dr. James attended her in hospital el Dr. James la atendió en el hospital
    are you being attended to? ¿ya le atienden? / ¿ya le despachan?
    3. ocuparse de
    tr[ə'tend]
    1 (be present at) asistir a
    2 (care for) atender, cuidar
    3 (accompany) acompañar
    1 (be present) asistir
    2 (pay attention) prestar atención
    attend [ə'tɛnd] vt
    1) : asistir a
    to attend a meeting: asistir a una reunión
    2) : atender, ocuparse de, cuidar
    to attend a patient: atender a un paciente
    3) heed: atender a, hacer caso de
    4) accompany: acompañar
    v.
    acompañar v.
    acudir v.
    asistir (p.e., a una charla) v.
    asistir a v.
    atender v.
    auxiliar v.
    cortejar v.
    cursar v.
    escuchar v.
    oír v.
    (§pres: oigo, oyes...oímos)
    ə'tend
    1.
    1) (frml)
    a) ( be present at) asistir a (frml)
    b) ( go to regularly) \<\<church/school\>\> ir* a; \<\<classes\>\> ir* a, asistir a
    2) ( take care of) \<\<patient\>\> atender*, ocuparse de; \<\<king/guests\>\> atender*

    2.
    vi
    1) ( be present) asistir

    to attend (to something) — atender* or prestar atención (a algo), poner* atención (a algo) (AmL)

    Phrasal Verbs:
    [ǝ'tend]
    1. VT
    1) (=be present at) [+ meeting, school etc] asistir a, acudir a; (regularly) [+ school, church] ir a
    2) (=wait upon) [waiter] servir, atender; [servant, helper] ocuparse de; (Med) atender, asistir; (=accompany) acompañar
    3) frm
    (fig)
    2. VI
    1) (=be present) asistir, acudir
    2) (=pay attention) prestar atención, poner atención (LAm)
    * * *
    [ə'tend]
    1.
    1) (frml)
    a) ( be present at) asistir a (frml)
    b) ( go to regularly) \<\<church/school\>\> ir* a; \<\<classes\>\> ir* a, asistir a
    2) ( take care of) \<\<patient\>\> atender*, ocuparse de; \<\<king/guests\>\> atender*

    2.
    vi
    1) ( be present) asistir

    to attend (to something) — atender* or prestar atención (a algo), poner* atención (a algo) (AmL)

    Phrasal Verbs:

    English-spanish dictionary > attend

  • 27 Chronology

      15,000-3,000 BCE Paleolithic cultures in western Portugal.
      400-200 BCE Greek and Carthaginian trade settlements on coast.
      202 BCE Roman armies invade ancient Lusitania.
      137 BCE Intensive Romanization of Lusitania begins.
      410 CE Germanic tribes — Suevi and Visigoths—begin conquest of Roman Lusitania and Galicia.
      714—16 Muslims begin conquest of Visigothic Lusitania.
      1034 Christian Reconquest frontier reaches Mondego River.
      1064 Christians conquer Coimbra.
      1139 Burgundian Count Afonso Henriques proclaims himself king of Portugal; birth of Portugal. Battle of Ourique: Afonso Henriques defeats Muslims.
      1147 With English Crusaders' help, Portuguese seize Lisbon from Muslims.
      1179 Papacy formally recognizes Portugal's independence (Pope Alexander III).
      1226 Campaign to reclaim Alentejo from Muslims begins.
      1249 Last Muslim city (Silves) falls to Portuguese Army.
      1381 Beginning of third war between Castile and Portugal.
      1383 Master of Aviz, João, proclaimed regent by Lisbon populace.
      1385 April: Master of Aviz, João I, proclaimed king of Portugal by Cortes of Coimbra. 14 August: Battle of Aljubarrota, Castilians defeated by royal forces, with assistance of English army.
      1394 Birth of "Prince Henry the Navigator," son of King João I.
      1415 Beginning of overseas expansion as Portugal captures Moroccan city of Ceuta.
      1419 Discovery of Madeira Islands.
      1425-28 Prince D. Pedro, older brother of Prince Henry, travels in Europe.
      1427 Discovery (or rediscovery?) of Azores Islands.
      1434 Prince Henry the Navigator's ships pass beyond Cape Bojador, West Africa.
      1437 Disaster at Tangier, Morocco, as Portuguese fail to capture city.
      1441 First African slaves from western Africa reach Portugal.
      1460 Death of Prince Henry. Portuguese reach what is now Senegal, West Africa.
      1470s Portuguese explore West African coast and reach what is now Ghana and Nigeria and begin colonizing islands of São Tomé and Príncipe.
      1479 Treaty of Alcáçovas between kings of Portugal and Spain.
      1482 Portuguese establish post at São Jorge da Mina, Gold Coast (now Ghana).
      1482-83 Portuguese navigator Diogo Cão reaches mouth of Congo River and Angola.
      1488 Navigator Bartolomeu Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, and finds route to Indian Ocean.
      1492-93 Columbus's first voyage to West Indies.
      1493 Columbus visits Azores and Portugal on return from first voyage; tells of discovery of New World. Treaty of Tordesillas signed between kings of Portugal and Spain: delimits spheres of conquest with line 370 leagues west of Cape Verde Islands (claimed by Portugal); Portugal's sphere to east of line includes, in effect, Brazil.
       King Manuel I and Royal Council decide to continue seeking all-water route around Africa to Asia.
       King Manuel I expels unconverted Jews from Portugal.
      1497-99 Epic voyage of Vasco da Gama from Portugal around Africa to west India, successful completion of sea route to Asia project; da Gama returns to Portugal with samples of Asian spices.
      1500 Bound for India, Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral "discovers" coast of Brazil and claims it for Portugal.
      1506 Anti-Jewish riots in Lisbon.
       Battle of Diu, India; Portugal's command of Indian Ocean assured for some time with Francisco de Almeida's naval victory over Egyptian and Gujerati fleets.
       Afonso de Albuquerque conquers Goa, India; beginning of Portuguese hegemony in south Asia.
       Portuguese conquest of Malacca; commerce in Spice Islands.
      1519 Magellan begins circumnavigation voyage.
      1536 Inquisition begins in Portugal.
      1543 Portuguese merchants reach Japan.
      1557 Portuguese merchants granted Chinese territory of Macau for trading factory.
      1572 Luís de Camões publishes epic poem, Os Lusíadas.
      1578 Battle of Alcácer-Quivir; Moroccan forces defeat army of King Sebastião of Portugal; King Sebastião dies in battle. Portuguese succession crisis.
      1580 King Phillip II of Spain claims and conquers Portugal; Spanish rule of Portugal, 1580-1640.
      1607-24 Dutch conquer sections of Asia and Brazil formerly held by Portugal.
      1640 1 December: Portuguese revolution in Lisbon overthrows Spanish rule, restores independence. Beginning of Portugal's Braganza royal dynasty.
      1654 Following Dutch invasions and conquest of parts of Brazil and Angola, Dutch expelled by force.
      1661 Anglo-Portuguese Alliance treaty signed: England pledges to defend Portugal "as if it were England itself." Queen Catherine of Bra-ganza marries England's Charles II.
      1668 February: In Portuguese-Spanish peace treaty, Spain recognizes independence of Portugal, thus ending 28-year War of Restoration.
      1703 Methuen Treaties signed, key commercial trade agreement and defense treaty between England and Portugal.
      1750 Pombal becomes chief minister of King José I.
      1755 1 November: Massive Lisbon earthquake, tidal wave, and fire.
      1759 Expulsion of Jesuits from Portugal and colonies.
      1761 Slavery abolished in continental Portugal.
      1769 Abandonment of Mazagão, Morocco, last Portuguese outpost.
      1777 Pombal dismissed as chief minister by Queen Maria I, after death of José I.
      1791 Portugal and United States establish full diplomatic relations.
      1807 November: First Napoleonic invasion; French forces under Junot conquer Portugal. Royal family flees to colony of Brazil and remains there until 1821.
      1809 Second French invasion of Portugal under General Soult.
      1811 Third French invasion of Portugal under General Masséna.
      1813 Following British general Wellington's military victories, French forces evacuate Portugal.
      1817 Liberal, constitutional movements against absolutist monarchist rule break out in Brazil (Pernambuco) and Portugal (Lisbon, under General Gomes Freire); crushed by government. British marshal of Portugal's army, Beresford, rules Portugal.
       Liberal insurrection in army officer corps breaks out in Cadiz, Spain, and influences similar movement in Portugal's armed forces first in Oporto.
       King João VI returns from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and early draft of constitution; era of constitutional monarchy begins.
      1822 7 September: João VI's son Pedro proclaims independence of
       Brazil from Portugal and is named emperor. 23 September: Constitution of 1822 ratified.
       Portugal recognizes sovereign independence of Brazil.
       King João VI dies; power struggle for throne ensues between his sons, brothers Pedro and Miguel; Pedro, emperor of Brazil, abdicates Portuguese throne in favor of his daughter, D. Maria II, too young to assume crown. By agreement, Miguel, uncle of D. Maria, is to accept constitution and rule in her stead.
      1828 Miguel takes throne and abolishes constitution. Sections of Portugal rebel against Miguelite rule.
      1831 Emperor Pedro abdicates throne of Brazil and returns to Portugal to expel King Miguel from Portuguese throne.
      1832-34 Civil war between absolutist King Miguel and constitutionalist Pedro, who abandons throne of Brazil to restore his young daughter Maria to throne of Portugal; Miguel's armed forces defeated by those of Pedro. Miguel leaves for exile and constitution (1826 Charter) is restored.
      1834-53 Constitutional monarchy consolidated under rule of Queen Maria II, who dies in 1853.
      1851-71 Regeneration period of economic development and political stability; public works projects sponsored by Minister Fontes Pereira de Melo.
      1871-90 Rotativism period of alternating party governments; achieves political stability and less military intervention in politics and government. Expansion of colonial territory in tropical Africa.
       January: Following territorial dispute in central Africa, Britain delivers "Ultimatum" to Portugal demanding withdrawal of Portugal's forces from what is now Malawi and Zimbabwe. Portugal's government, humiliated in accepting demand under threat of a diplomatic break, falls. Beginning of governmental and political instability; monarchist decline and republicanism's rise.
       Anglo-Portuguese treaties signed relating to delimitation of frontiers in colonial Africa.
      1899 Treaty of Windsor; renewal of Anglo-Portuguese defense and friendship alliance.
      1903 Triumphal visit of King Edward VII to Portugal.
      1906 Politician João Franco supported by King Carlos I in dictatorship to restore order and reform.
      1908 1 February: Murder in Lisbon of King Carlos I and his heir apparent, Prince Dom Luís, by Portuguese anarchists. Eighteen-year-old King Manuel II assumes throne.
      1910 3-5 October: Following republican-led military insurrection in armed forces, monarchy falls and first Portuguese republic is proclaimed. Beginning of unstable, economically troubled, parliamentary republic form of government.
       May: Violent insurrection in Lisbon overturns government of General Pimenta de Castro; nearly a thousand casualties from several days of armed combat in capital.
       March: Following Portugal's honoring ally Britain's request to confiscate German shipping in Portuguese harbors, Germany declares war on Portugal; Portugal enters World War I on Allied side.
       Portugal organizes and dispatches Portuguese Expeditionary Corps to fight on the Western Front. 9 April: Portuguese forces mauled by German offensive in Battle of Lys. Food rationing and riots in Lisbon. Portuguese military operations in Mozambique against German expedition's invasion from German East Africa. 5 December: Authoritarian, presidentialist government under Major Sidónio Pais takes power in Lisbon, following a successful military coup.
      1918 11 November: Armistice brings cessation of hostilities on Western Front in World War I. Portuguese expeditionary forces stationed in Angola, Mozambique, and Flanders begin return trip to Portugal. 14 December: President Sidónio Pais assassinated. Chaotic period of ephemeral civil war ensues.
      1919-21 Excessively unstable political period, including January
      1919 abortive effort of Portuguese monarchists to restore Braganza dynasty to power. Republican forces prevail, but level of public violence, economic distress, and deprivation remains high.
      1921 October: Political violence attains peak with murder of former prime minister and other prominent political figures in Lisbon. Sectors of armed forces and Guarda Nacional Republicana are mutinous. Year of financial and corruption scandals, including Portuguese bank note (fraud) case; military court acquits guilty military insurrectionists, and one military judge declares "the country is sick."
       28 May: Republic overthrown by military coup or pronunciamento and conspiracy among officer corps. Parliament's doors locked and parliament closed for nearly nine years to January 1935. End of parliamentary republic, Western Europe's most unstable political system in this century, beginning of the Portuguese dictatorship, after 1930 known as the Estado Novo. Officer corps assumes reins of government, initiates military censorship of the press, and suppresses opposition.
       February: Military dictatorship under General Óscar Carmona crushes failed republican armed insurrection in Oporto and Lisbon.
       April: Military dictatorship names Professor Antônio de Oliveira Salazar minister of finance, with dictatorial powers over budget, to stabilize finances and rebuild economy. Insurrectionism among military elements continues into 1931.
      1930 Dr. Salazar named minister for colonies and announces balanced budgets. Salazar consolidates support by various means, including creation of official regime "movement," the National Union. Salazar engineers Colonial Act to ensure Lisbon's control of bankrupt African colonies by means of new fiscal controls and centralization of authority. July: Military dictatorship names Salazar prime minister for first time, and cabinet composition undergoes civilianization; academic colleagues and protégés plan conservative reform and rejuvenation of society, polity, and economy. Regime comes to be called the Estado Novo (New State). New State's constitution ratified by new parliament, the National Assembly; Portugal described in document as "unitary, corporative Republic" and governance influenced by Salazar's stern personality and doctrines such as integralism, Catholicism, and fiscal conservatism.
      1936 Violent instability and ensuing civil war in neighboring Spain, soon internationalized by fascist and communist intervention, shake Estado Novo regime. Pseudofascist period of regime features creation of imitation Fascist institutions to defend regime from leftist threats; Portugal institutes "Portuguese Youth" and "Portuguese Legion."
      1939 3 September: Prime Minister Salazar declares Portugal's neutrality in World War II. October: Anglo-Portuguese agreement grants naval and air base facilities to Britain and later to United States for Battle of the Atlantic and Normandy invasion support. Third Reich protests breach of Portugal's neutrality.
       6 June: On day of Allies' Normandy invasion, Portugal suspends mining and export of wolfram ore to both sides in war.
       8 May: Popular celebrations of Allied victory and Fascist defeat in Lisbon and Oporto coincide with Victory in Europe Day. Following managed elections for Estado Novo's National Assembly in November, regime police, renamed PIDE, with increased powers, represses opposition.
      1947 Abortive military coup in central Portugal easily crushed by regime. Independence of India and initiation of Indian protests against Portuguese colonial rule in Goa and other enclaves.
      1949 Portugal becomes founding member of NATO.
      1951 Portugal alters constitution and renames overseas colonies "Overseas Provinces." Portugal and United States sign military base agreements for use of air and naval facilities in Azores Islands and military aid to Lisbon. President Carmona dies in office, succeeded by General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58). July: Indians occupy enclave of Portuguese India (dependency of Damão) by means of passive resistance movement. August: Indian passive resistance movement in Portuguese India repelled by Portuguese forces with loss of life. December: With U.S. backing, Portugal admitted as member of United Nations (along with Spain). Air force general Humberto Delgado, in opposition, challenges Estado Novo's hand-picked successor to Craveiro Lopes, Admiral Américo Tomás. Delgado rallies coalition of democratic, liberal, and communist opposition but loses rigged election and later flees to exile in Brazil. Portugal joins European Free Trade Association (EFTA).
       January and February: Estado Novo rocked by armed African insurrection in northern Angola, crushed by armed forces. Hijacking of Portuguese ocean liner by ally of Delgado, Captain Henrique Galvão. April: Salazar defeats attempted military coup and reshuffles cabinet with group of younger figures who seek to reform colonial rule and strengthen the regime's image abroad. 18 December: Indian army rapidly defeats Portugal's defense force in Goa, Damão, and Diu and incorporates Portugal's Indian possessions into Indian Union. January: Abortive military coup in Beja, Portugal.
      1965 February: General Delgado and his Brazilian secretary murdered and secretly buried near Spanish frontier by political police, PIDE.
      1968 August and September: Prime Minister Salazar, aged 79, suffers crippling stoke. President Tomás names former cabinet officer Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor. Caetano institutes modest reforms in Portugal and overseas.
      1971 Caetano government ratifies amended constitution that allows slight devolution and autonomy to overseas provinces in Africa and Asia. Right-wing loyalists oppose reforms in Portugal. 25 April: Military coup engineered by Armed Forces Movement overthrows Estado Novo and establishes provisional government emphasizing democratization, development, and decolonization. Limited resistance by loyalists. President Tomás and Premier Caetano flown to exile first in Madeira and then in Brazil. General Spínola appointed president. September: Revolution moves to left, as President Spínola, thwarted in his program, resigns.
       March: Military coup by conservative forces fails, and leftist response includes nationalization of major portion of economy. Polarization between forces and parties of left and right. 25 November: Military coup by moderate military elements thwarts leftist forces. Constituent Assembly prepares constitution. Revolution moves from left to center and then right.
       March: Constitution ratified by Assembly of the Republic. 25 April: Second general legislative election gives largest share of seats to Socialist Party (PS). Former oppositionist lawyer, Mário Soares, elected deputy and named prime minister.
      1977-85 Political pendulum of democratic Portugal moves from center-left to center-right, as Social Democratic Party (PSD) increases hold on assembly and take office under Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. July
      1985 elections give edge to PSD who advocate strong free-enterprise measures and revision of leftist-generated 1976 Constitution, amended modestly in 1982.
      1986 January: Portugal joins European Economic Community (EEC).
      1987 July: General, legislative elections for assembly give more than 50 percent to PSD led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. For first time, since 1974, Portugal has a working majority government.
      1989 June: Following revisions of 1976 Constitution, reprivatization of economy begins, under PS government.
       January: Presidential elections, Mário Soares reelected for second term. July: General, legislative elections for assembly result in new PSD victory and majority government.
       January-July: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the European Economic Community (EEC). December: Tariff barriers fall as fully integrated Common Market established in the EEC.
       November: Treaty of Maastricht comes into force. The EEC officially becomes the European Union (EU). Portugal is signatory with 11 other member-nations.
       October: General, legislative elections for assembly result in PS victory and naming of Prime Minister Guterres. PS replace PSD as leading political party. November: Excavations for Lisbon bank uncover ancient Phoenician, Roman, and Christian ruins.
       January: General, presidential elections; socialist Jorge Sampaio defeats PSD's Cavaco Silva and assumes presidency from Dr. Mário Soares. July: Community of Portuguese Languages Countries (CPLP) cofounded by Portugal and Brazil.
       May-September: Expo '98 held in Lisbon. Opening of Vasco da Gama Bridge across Tagus River, Europe's longest (17 kilometers/ 11 miles). June: National referendum on abortion law change defeated after low voter turnout. November: National referendum on regionaliza-tion and devolution of power defeated after another low voter turnout.
       October: General, legislative elections: PS victory over PSD lacks clear majority in parliament. Following East Timor referendum, which votes for independence and withdrawal of Indonesia, outburst of popular outrage in streets, media, and communications of Portugal approves armed intervention and administration of United Nations (and withdrawal of Indonesia) in East Timor. Portugal and Indonesia restore diplomatic relations. December: A Special Territory since 1975, Colony of Macau transferred to sovereignty of People's Republic of China.
       January-June: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the EU; end of Discoveries Historical Commemoration Cycle (1988-2000).
       United Nations forces continue to occupy and administer former colony of East Timor, with Portugal's approval.
       January: General, presidential elections; PS president Sampaio reelected for second term. City of Oporto, "European City of Culture" for the year, hosts arts festival. December: Municipal elections: PSD defeats PS; socialist prime minister Guterres resigns; President Sampaio calls March parliamentary elections.
       1 January: Portugal enters single European Currency system. Euro currency adopted and ceases use of former national currency, the escudo. March: Parliamentary elections; PSD defeats PS and José Durão Barroso becomes prime minister. Military modernization law passed. Portugal holds chairmanship of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
       May: Municipal law passed permitting municipalities to reorganize in new ways.
       June: Prime Minister Durão Barroso, invited to succeed Romano Prodi as president of EU Commission, resigns. Pedro Santana Lopes becomes prime minister. European Parliament elections held. Conscription for national service in army and navy ended. Mass grave uncovered at Academy of Sciences Museum, Lisbon, revealing remains of several thousand victims of Lisbon earthquake, 1755.
       February: Parliamentary elections; PS defeats PSD, socialists win first absolute majority in parliament since 1975. José Sócrates becomes prime minister.
       January: Presidential elections; PSD candidate Aníbal Cavaco Silva elected and assumes presidency from Jorge Sampaio. Portugal's national soccer team ranked 7th out of 205 countries by international soccer association. European Union's Bologna Process in educational reform initiated in Portugal.
       July-December: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the European Union. For reasons of economy, Portugal announces closure of many consulates, especially in France and the eastern US. Government begins official inspections of private institutions of higher education, following scandals.
      2008 January: Prime Minister Sócrates announces location of new Lisbon area airport as Alcochete, on south bank of Tagus River, site of air force shooting range. February: Portuguese Army begins to receive new modern battle tanks (Leopard 2 A6). March: Mass protest of 85,000 public school (primary and secondary levels) teachers in Lisbon schools dispute recent educational policies of minister of education and prime minister.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Chronology

  • 28 at

    æt I (полная форма) ;
    (редуцированная форма) предл.
    1) (самое общее значение нахождения в некоторой точке пространства) у, в, за, на He stood at the altar. ≈ Он стоял у алтаря. He set at his table. ≈ Он сидел за столом To cut the materials at the spot. ≈ Разрезать материал прямо на месте.
    2) (значения нахождения в определенной географической области) а) амер. употребляется с названием стороны света на Mr. Mayhew has bought the provisions at the east. ≈ Мистер Мэйхью закупил еду на юге (имеется в виду на юге страны, в которой он живет) A still unsettled claim to a very large extent of territory at the eastward. ≈ До сих пор неразрешенный спор о претензиях на большую часть территории на востоке. б) амер. с о направлении ветра, переводится также прилагательным The wind which now blows at east. ≈ Сейчас, когда дует восточный ветер. The wind stood at the westward. ≈ Ветер дул с запада. в) амер., брит. диал. добавочное при слове where, опускается при переводе на русский см. where Where does he live at? ≈ Где он живет г) употребляется с рядом географических имен собственных, обычно с названиями удаленных мест или маленьких островов at St. Helena ≈ на острове Св.Елены at the Cape ≈ в Кейптауне The Parliament met at Edinburgh. ≈ Парламент заседал в Эдинбурге Did he graduate at Oxford or Cambridge? ≈ разг. Он окончил Оксфорд или Кембридж?
    3) (значение принадлежности или нахождения кого-л. или чего-л. у кого-л.) у, с (или переводится по смыслу) а) прямое значение The word was at God. ≈ Слово было у бога. That's right, you have found mercy at our lord. ≈ И то правда, наш господин пожалел тебя (буквально "ты нашел жалость, прощение у нашего господина") at smb's б) переносное значение Mrs. Jewkes is mightily at me, to go with her. ≈ Мистер Джюкс все наседает на меня, чтобы я пошел с ней. All his people are at him, you see. ≈ Как вы видите, родители ему просто проходу не дают.
    4) значение подчеркивания деловых или других официальных отношений с чем-л., а не просто нахождение в (сравни at school "в школе" in school "в школьном здании") What the parson at chapel says. ≈ Что говорит в церкви пастор. He was sent to be a boarder at the school for six months. ≈ Его отослали на шесть месяцев воспитанником в школу-интернат.
    5) значение присутствия при каком-л. событии на, в When we were at Tunis at the marriage of your daughter. ≈ Когда мы были в Тунисе на свадьбе вашей дочери. He asked whether I had been at the battle. ≈ Он поинтересовался, бывал ли я в битве.
    6) указывает на место, куда что-л. крепится, сторону, с которой что-л. находится;
    тж. перен. у, рядом, на The friend at your left hand. ≈ Ваш друг, тот, что слева от вас. I have nothing more at heart than the honour of my dear countrywomen. ≈ В моем сердце нет ничего, кроме заботы о чести наших дорогих женщин. You have the ball at your feet. ≈ Рядом с твоей ногой мяч. He wears it at his watch chain. ≈ Он носит это на цепочке своих часов. a baby at breast
    7) указывает на расстояние, на котором что-л. находится They held Dame Reason at the staff's end. ≈ Госпожу по имени Здравый Смысл они не подпускали к себе ближе, чем на расстояние вытянутой палки.
    8) указывает в общих чертах на отношения некоего места с некоторым качеством;
    обычно прямо не переводится в Withered at the root. ≈ С гнилыми корнями. The sight of the snake had turned him sick at stomach. ≈ При виде змеи его начало тошнить. The late king had been at heart a Roman Catholic. ≈ Последний король в глубине души был католик.
    9) указывает на место, служащее входом или выходом, каналом из, через And spoke out at the window. ≈ Подошел к открытому окну и заговорил. Smoke issued forth at several orifices. ≈ Из нескольких кабинетов шел дым. He entered at the front door. ≈ Он вошел через главный вход.
    10) указывает на место, у которого или в котором заканчивается некоторый процесс;
    употребляется с рядом глаголов, иногда переносно к, до To arrive at exactly the same results. ≈ Достичь совершенно тех же результатов. That great man has as many to break through to come at me, as I have to come at him. ≈ На пути этого "сильного мира сего" лежит столько препятствий, мешающих ему добраться до меня, что мне нужно идти к нему.
    11) указывает на направление, в котором нечто движется а) к, в, по (также по смыслу) Would you not spit at me? ≈ Что, даже не плюнешь в меня? A great blow was about to be aimed at the Protestant religion. ≈ По протестантской религии должны были нанести сокрушительный удар. Once they were seen and fired at. ≈ Как только их увидели, в них сразу начали стрелять. Ugly faces that were frowning over at her. ≈ Мерзкие рожи мерили ее злобными взглядами. б) против( также по смыслу) This touch at our old friends, the Whigs. ≈ Это камешек в огород нашим старым друзьям, вигам. The latter always made her speak at her husband. ≈ Этот последний всегда подстрекал ее кричать на мужа. They all had indignation at the judges. ≈ Судьи вызывали у них отвращение.
    12) о движении, направленном на приобретение чего-л, дотягивание до чего-л к, до, за, на (и по смыслу) Catching at every thing that stood by them. ≈ И хватал все, что было рядом. All men make at the same common thing, money. ≈ Все люди стремятся к одному - к деньгам. Drowning men catch at straws. ≈ Утопающий хватается за соломинку (пословица) That power at which he had aspired. ≈ Та власть, которой он хотел обладать. "Strangers are nothing to me," said the young fellow, catching at the words. ≈ "Что мне до чужаков", сказал юноша, ловя его на слове.
    13) указывает на предмет, который является важным для какой-л. деятельности, и в этом смысле сам является ею у, за And idled away the mornings at billiards. ≈ Утро он обычно убивал за биллиардом. He foils the Devil at his own weapons. ≈ Черта его же кочергой пришибет. In agility and skill at his weapons he had few equals. ≈ В ловкости и умении обращаться с оружием немногие могли с ним сравниться - men-at-arms be at the bar be diligent at lessons - be at grass at the wheel be at the plough be at bat To contest it at sword's point. ≈ Решать дело на мечах.
    14) указывает на условия, описывающие ситуацию по, при, на ( или опускается, или по смыслу) Valuable books to be sold at auction. ≈ Ценные книги пойдут с молотка. They got the land at $2 an acre. ≈ Он получили землю по два доллара за акр. She shall not look at her race at false view. ≈ Она не будет иметь ложно представления о своем роде. The preceding specimens have not been taken at random. ≈ Вышеуказанные образцы выбирались отнюдь не случайно. The water boils at 100 degrees centigrade. ≈ Вода кипит при ста градусах Цельсия. The car ran at full speed. ≈ Машина летела на полной скорости. at best at most at least at worst set smb.'s counsel at nought at risk at your own risk be at loss
    15) о производимой деятельности, употребляется с обозначением деятельности, процесса или состояния за, на, в (или по смыслу) What a pleasant picture - a brontosaurus at rest. ≈ Какая прекрасная картина - отдыхающий бронтозавр. One who is at peace within himself. ≈ Тот, кто живет в мире с самим собой. Men at work. ≈ Мужчины за работой. The countries were at war. ≈ Страны находились в состоянии войны. As she sits at supper. ≈ Когда она ужинает. The case is still at hearing. ≈ Дело все еще в суде. They were sometimes at fault. ≈ Иногда они ошибались.
    16) о позиции или положении на, под In some of the vessels at anchor. ≈ На некоторых судах из тех, что стоят на якоре. At right angles to the axis. ≈ Под прямыми углами к оси.
    17) о настроении или расположении духа, переводится по смыслу He can do that at his will. ≈ Он может это сделать, когда захочет. Your are at my mercy. ≈ Я волен тебя помиловать, я же волен тебя казнить, ты полностью в моих руках The gods come at my command ≈ Я отдал приказ, и вот, боги грядут (M.Weis, T. Hickman, "Time of the Twins"). At my witting I transgressed never. ≈ По своей воле я никогда не нарушал закона.
    18) указывает на время, когда нечто происходит или произошло From three at afternoon till nine at night. ≈ С трех дня до девяти вечера. All I have to say at present. ≈ Это все, что я имею сказать на данный момент. At the return of the Army. ≈ По возвращении из армии. He was then at thirty. ≈ Ему было тогда тридцать лет. A town at our being there, but thinly inhabited. ≈ Когда мы там были, это уже был город, но все же народу там жило мало. At the Restoration Hyde became chief minister. ≈ После реставрации Хайд стал премьер-министром. - at once be at age
    19) о количестве раз To complete the business at two sittings. ≈ Дело было решено за две встречи. at a time
    20) о порядке, в котором нечто происходит - at first - at last at conclusion
    21) указывает на причину, по которой что-л. происходит, на источник по (или по смыслу) It is at his insistence that I shall continue my rural speculations. ≈ И только по его настоянию я продолжу свои наблюдения за жизнью в деревне. At their voices he drew the sword back. ≈ Услышав их голоса, он опустил меч. II сокр. от AT - apparent time;
    астр. истинное время III сокр. от atomic атомный IV сокр. от airtight герметический
    в пространственном значении указывает на: нахождение около какого-л. предмета у, около - at the door у двери - at the table за столом, у стола нахождение в каком-л. месте на, в - at my aunt's (в доме) у моей тетки - at the factory на фабрике нахождение в каком-л. географическом пункте, особ.небольшом в, на - at Elgin в Элгине - at St.Helena на острове Св.Елены достижение места назначения к, на, в, до - to arrive at one's destination прибыть к месту( на место) назначения - to arrive at Manchester прибыть (приехать) в Манчестер проникновение через дверь, калитку и т. п. через, сквозь - to come in at the front door войти через парадную дверь при обозначении временных отношений указывает на какой-л. момент или период времени в, на, при, по - at two o'clock в два часа - at dusk в сумерки - at dawn на закате - at night ночью - at an appointed date в назначенный срок - at present в настоящее время - at one's arrival по прибытии - at parting при расставании - at the beginning of the twentieth century в начале двадцатого века возраст в - at an early age в раннем возрасте - at the age of 70, at 70 years of age в возрасте 70 лет указывает на деятельность или процесс, часто связанные с нахождением в определенном месте в, на, у, за - at school в школе - at Oxford в Оксфорде - at the wheel за рулем, за штурвалом - at the piano за роялем - at the meeting на собрании - at dinner за обедом указывает на состояние в, за, на - at peace в мире - at war в состоянии войны - at rest в покое;
    без движения, неподвижный;
    мертвый - at leisure на досуге - at work за работой - at table за едой, за обедом, ужином и т. п. указывает на направленность действия на, в, за - to point at smb., smth. указывать на кого-л., на что-л. - to look at smb., smth. смотреть на кого-л., на что-л. - to throw smth. at smb. бросать что-л. в кого-л. - to shoot at smb., smth. стрелять в кого-л., во что-л. (но промахнуться) - to talk at smb. разговаривать с кем-л. агрессивно - up and at them, boys! вперед, ребята, бей их! указывает на образ действия в, с, на - at a flash в одно мгновение - at intervals с промежутками, с перерывами, время от времени - at a run бегом - at a foot's pace шагом указывает на причину при, по, на - at the sign по знаку - at smb.'s request по чьей-л. просьбе - to be angry at smth. злиться на что-л. - surprise at smth. удивление по поводу чего-л. - he was pleased at hearing the news он обрадовался, услышав новость указывает на количество, меру, цену при, на, по, с, в - at 90 Fahrenheit при 90 по Фаренгейту - at 2 pounds a dozen по два фунта за дюжину - at a speed of 25 km со скоростью 25 км указывает на предмет занятий над, в - to work at smth. трудиться над чем-л., заниматься чем-л. - he is working at physics он занимается физикой - what are you at? (разговорное) чем вы занимаетесь? что вы делаете? - he is hard at it он за это взялся серьезно, он усиленно работает над этим сферу проявления способностей к - good at langauges способный к языкам - he is quick at understanding он сообразителен в сочетаниях at that к тому же - he lost his umbrella and a new one at that он потерял зонт, да еще новый к тому же на том - let it go at that на том мы и покончим даже так - at that you can make good profit даже так (при этих условиях) вы можете выиграть (выгадать)
    at prep употр. в словосочетаниях, содержащих указание на количество, меру, цену при, на, по, с, в, за;
    at a speed of 70 km со скоростью 70 км ~ prep во временном значении указывает на возраст в;
    at the age of 25, at 25 years of age в возрасте 25 лет;
    at an early age в раннем возрасте ~ prep во временном значении указывает на момент или период времени в, на;
    at six o'clock в шесть часов;
    at dinnertime в обеденное время;
    во время обеда ~ prep в пространств. значении указывает на движение в определенном направлении в, к, на;
    to throw a stone at smb. бросить камнем в (кого-л.) ~ prep в пространств. значении указывает на достижение места назначения к, в, на, до;
    trains arrive at the terminus every halfhour поезда приходят на конечную станцию каждые полчаса ~ prep в пространств. значении указывает на местонахождение в, на, у, при;
    at Naples в Неаполе ~ prep указывает на действие, занятие за ~ prep указывает на источник из, в;
    to get information at the fountainhead получать сведения из первоисточника;
    to find out the address at the informationbureau узнать адрес в справочном бюро ~ prep указывает на причину при, по, на;
    передается тж. твор. падежом;
    at (smb.'s) request по (чьей-л.) просьбе;
    to be surprised at smth. удивляться( чему-л.) ~ prep указывает на состояние, положение в, на;
    at anchor на якоре;
    at war в состоянии войны;
    at peace в мире;
    at watch на посту;
    at leisure на досуге ~ prep указывает на сферу проявления способностей к;
    clever at physics способный к физике;
    good at languages способный к языкам ~ prep указывает на характер, способ действия в, с, на;
    передается тж. твор. падежом;
    at a run бегом;
    at a gulp одним глотком;
    at a snail's pace черепашьим шагом
    ~ a meeting на собрании;
    at a depth of six feet на глубине шести футов;
    at the window у окна
    ~ prep указывает на характер, способ действия в, с, на;
    передается тж. твор. падежом;
    at a run бегом;
    at a gulp одним глотком;
    at a snail's pace черепашьим шагом
    ~ high remuneration за большое вознаграждение;
    at three shillings a pound по три шиллинга за фунт;
    at a high price по высокой цене
    ~ a meeting на собрании;
    at a depth of six feet на глубине шести футов;
    at the window у окна
    ~ prep указывает на характер, способ действия в, с, на;
    передается тж. твор. падежом;
    at a run бегом;
    at a gulp одним глотком;
    at a snail's pace черепашьим шагом run: run бег, пробег;
    at a run бегом ;
    on the run на ходу, в движении;
    on the run all day весь день в беготне ~ тех. погон, фракция (напр., нефти) ;
    at a run подряд ;
    in the long run в конце концов;
    в общем;
    to go with a run = идти как по маслу
    ~ prep указывает на характер, способ действия в, с, на;
    передается тж. твор. падежом;
    at a run бегом;
    at a gulp одним глотком;
    at a snail's pace черепашьим шагом snail: snail тех. спираль;
    at a snail's pace = черепашьим шагом
    at prep употр. в словосочетаниях, содержащих указание на количество, меру, цену при, на, по, с, в, за;
    at a speed of 70 km со скоростью 70 км
    ~ prep во временном значении указывает на возраст в;
    at the age of 25, at 25 years of age в возрасте 25 лет;
    at an early age в раннем возрасте
    ~ work за работой;
    at work в действии;
    at breakfast за завтраком;
    at school в школе;
    at court в суде;
    at the piano за роялем;
    at the wheel за рулем;
    at one's studies за занятиями
    ~ work за работой;
    at work в действии;
    at breakfast за завтраком;
    at school в школе;
    at court в суде;
    at the piano за роялем;
    at the wheel за рулем;
    at one's studies за занятиями
    ~ the end of the lesson в конце урока;
    at dawn на заре;
    at night ночью;
    at present в настоящее время, теперь dawn: ~ рассвет, утренняя заря;
    at dawn на рассвете, на заре
    ~ prep во временном значении указывает на момент или период времени в, на;
    at six o'clock в шесть часов;
    at dinnertime в обеденное время;
    во время обеда
    ~ high remuneration за большое вознаграждение;
    at three shillings a pound по три шиллинга за фунт;
    at a high price по высокой цене
    ~ the hospital при больнице;
    at home дома home: ~ дом, жилище;
    at home дома, у себя;
    to make one's home поселиться;
    make yourself at home будьте как дома at ~ дома
    ~ prep указывает на состояние, положение в, на;
    at anchor на якоре;
    at war в состоянии войны;
    at peace в мире;
    at watch на посту;
    at leisure на досуге leisure: leisure досуг, свободное время;
    at leisure на досуге;
    не спеша;
    to be at leisure быть свободным, незанятым;
    do it at your leisure сделайте это, когда вам будет удобно
    ~ prep в пространств. значении указывает на местонахождение в, на, у, при;
    at Naples в Неаполе
    ~ the end of the lesson в конце урока;
    at dawn на заре;
    at night ночью;
    at present в настоящее время, теперь night: at ~ вечером at ~ ночью
    ~ work за работой;
    at work в действии;
    at breakfast за завтраком;
    at school в школе;
    at court в суде;
    at the piano за роялем;
    at the wheel за рулем;
    at one's studies за занятиями
    at par по номиналу par: ~ номинальная цена, номинал;
    at par по номинальной цене, по номиналу;
    above (below) par выше (ниже) номинальной стоимости at ~ по номинальной стоимости at ~ по паритету
    ~ prep указывает на состояние, положение в, на;
    at anchor на якоре;
    at war в состоянии войны;
    at peace в мире;
    at watch на посту;
    at leisure на досуге
    ~ the end of the lesson в конце урока;
    at dawn на заре;
    at night ночью;
    at present в настоящее время, теперь present: ~ настоящее время;
    at present в данное время;
    for the present на этот раз, пока
    ~ prep указывает на причину при, по, на;
    передается тж. твор. падежом;
    at (smb.'s) request по (чьей-л.) просьбе;
    to be surprised at smth. удивляться (чему-л.) request: ~ просьба;
    требование;
    at (или by) request по просьбе;
    to make a request обратиться с просьбой
    ~ work за работой;
    at work в действии;
    at breakfast за завтраком;
    at school в школе;
    at court в суде;
    at the piano за роялем;
    at the wheel за рулем;
    at one's studies за занятиями
    ~ prep во временном значении указывает на момент или период времени в, на;
    at six o'clock в шесть часов;
    at dinnertime в обеденное время;
    во время обеда
    ~ that на том;
    let it go at that на том мы и покончили ~ that притом, к тому же;
    she lost her handbag and a new one at that она потеряла сумочку, да еще новую к тому же
    ~ prep во временном значении указывает на возраст в;
    at the age of 25, at 25 years of age в возрасте 25 лет;
    at an early age в раннем возрасте
    ~ the end of the lesson в конце урока;
    at dawn на заре;
    at night ночью;
    at present в настоящее время, теперь
    ~ the hospital при больнице;
    at home дома
    ~ work за работой;
    at work в действии;
    at breakfast за завтраком;
    at school в школе;
    at court в суде;
    at the piano за роялем;
    at the wheel за рулем;
    at one's studies за занятиями
    ~ work за работой;
    at work в действии;
    at breakfast за завтраком;
    at school в школе;
    at court в суде;
    at the piano за роялем;
    at the wheel за рулем;
    at one's studies за занятиями
    ~ a meeting на собрании;
    at a depth of six feet на глубине шести футов;
    at the window у окна
    ~ high remuneration за большое вознаграждение;
    at three shillings a pound по три шиллинга за фунт;
    at a high price по высокой цене
    ~ prep указывает на состояние, положение в, на;
    at anchor на якоре;
    at war в состоянии войны;
    at peace в мире;
    at watch на посту;
    at leisure на досуге war: in the ~ во время войны;
    war to the knife война на истребление;
    борьба не на живот, а на смерть;
    at war в состоянии войны
    ~ prep указывает на состояние, положение в, на;
    at anchor на якоре;
    at war в состоянии войны;
    at peace в мире;
    at watch на посту;
    at leisure на досуге
    ~ work за работой;
    at work в действии;
    at breakfast за завтраком;
    at school в школе;
    at court в суде;
    at the piano за роялем;
    at the wheel за рулем;
    at one's studies за занятиями ~ work за работой;
    at work в действии;
    at breakfast за завтраком;
    at school в школе;
    at court в суде;
    at the piano за роялем;
    at the wheel за рулем;
    at one's studies за занятиями work: ~ работа;
    труд;
    занятие;
    дело;
    at work за работой;
    to be at work (upon smth.) быть занятым( чем-л.)
    ~ prep во временном значении указывает на возраст в;
    at the age of 25, at 25 years of age в возрасте 25 лет;
    at an early age в раннем возрасте
    ~ prep указывает на причину при, по, на;
    передается тж. твор. падежом;
    at (smb.'s) request по (чьей-л.) просьбе;
    to be surprised at smth. удивляться (чему-л.)
    ~ prep указывает на сферу проявления способностей к;
    clever at physics способный к физике;
    good at languages способный к языкам
    ~ prep указывает на источник из, в;
    to get information at the fountainhead получать сведения из первоисточника;
    to find out the address at the informationbureau узнать адрес в справочном бюро
    ~ prep указывает на источник из, в;
    to get information at the fountainhead получать сведения из первоисточника;
    to find out the address at the informationbureau узнать адрес в справочном бюро
    ~ prep указывает на сферу проявления способностей к;
    clever at physics способный к физике;
    good at languages способный к языкам good: ~ умелый, искусный;
    good at languages способный к языкам
    what are you ~ now? что вы затеваете?;
    he is at it again он снова взялся за это
    we were sad ~ hearing such news мы огорчились, услышав такие новости;
    he was shocked at what he saw он был потрясен тем, что увидел
    ~ that на том;
    let it go at that на том мы и покончили
    ~ that притом, к тому же;
    she lost her handbag and a new one at that она потеряла сумочку, да еще новую к тому же
    ~ prep в пространств. значении указывает на движение в определенном направлении в, к, на;
    to throw a stone at smb. бросить камнем в (кого-л.)
    ~ prep в пространств. значении указывает на достижение места назначения к, в, на, до;
    trains arrive at the terminus every halfhour поезда приходят на конечную станцию каждые полчаса
    we were sad ~ hearing such news мы огорчились, услышав такие новости;
    he was shocked at what he saw он был потрясен тем, что увидел
    what are you ~ now? чем вы заняты теперь?, над чем вы работаете теперь? what are you ~ now? что вы затеваете?;
    he is at it again он снова взялся за это

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  • 29 Architecture

       Portugal maintains an important architectural legacy from a long history of contact with invaders and other visitors who brought architectural ideas from Western Europe and North Africa. Among the migrants were Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Germanic peoples, and Arabs, as well as visitors from France, Italy, Holland, Germany, Spain, and Great Britain.
       Architecture in Portugal has been influenced by the broad Western architectural styles, including Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassicism. Two Portuguese architectural styles are unique, the Manueline architectural style and the Pombaline, named after the dictator the Marquis of Pombal. Pre-Roman-esque styles include early Megalithic structures, Roman styles, and Moorish or Arab styles, when Portugal was occupied by Muslims (711-1290). This period of Moorish castles and mosques, most but not all of which were razed, was followed by the Romanesque period (1100-ca. 1230), when many churches, monasteries, castles, and palaces were constructed.
       There followed the Gothic period (ca. 1200-1450), which was dominated by buildings for the Church, the monarchy, and the nobility. Related to Portugal's overseas empire, the kingdom's new role briefly as a world power, especially on the seas, and to the reign of King Manuel I, is the Manueline architectural style, described by scholars as "Atlantic Baroque" (ca. 1490-1520), a bold Portuguese version of late Gothic style. This was followed by styles of Renaissance and Mannerism (ca. 1520-1650), including the "Plain style," which was influenced by Castilian styles under King Felipe I.
       Following the period 1580 to 1640, when Spain ruled Portugal, there was restoration architecture (1640-1717) and then the Baroque style (1717-55). The largest and most unusual building from this era, the Mafra Palace, is said to be even larger than Spain's El Escorial. Following the Lisbon Earthquake of 1755, was Pombaline style (1755-1860), a blend of late Baroque and Neoclassicism, which began when Pombal's government oversaw the reconstruction of large sections of central Lisbon. Modern architecture followed this period, a style influenced in the 20th century by one of Europe's best architecture schools, the so-called Escola do Porto (School of Oporto). This school is the Faculdade de Arquitectura (School of Architecture), and alumni include celebrated architects Fernando Tavora; Álvaro Siza Vieira, designer of the Portuguese pavilion at Expo '98, Lisbon; and Eduardo Souto de Moura. Despite tragic losses of historic structures due to urban development, since the 1930s many Portuguese governments have sought to preserve and restore the remaining historic legacy of architecture.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Architecture

  • 30 Bomtempo, João Domingos

    (1775-1842)
       Portuguese composer who began his musical studies under his father, Francisco Saveiro Bomtempo, the oboist in the royal court of King José I (1750-77). At the age of 14, he became a singer in the Royal Chapel of Bemposta and, after his father's death, took his place as court oboist at age 20. In 1801, he decided to go to France to continue his musical studies instead of Italy, which was the custom in his day. In Paris, he associated with a group of exiled Portuguese liberals from whom he absorbed liberal ideas and became a committed constitutional monarchist. During his time in Paris, he began his career as a virtuoso pianist and, inspired by Clementi, Cramer, and Dussek, wrote his first compositions: the Grande Sonata para Piano, Primeiro Concerto em Mi bemol para Piano e Orquestra, and the Secundo Concerto para Piano.
       After Napoleon's armies were defeated by a combined Portuguese-British army commanded by General Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington), Bomtempo's prospects in France deteriorated and he left for London in 1810, where he was well received and became a well-regarded professor of piano. During this period, he published many compositions, such as the Terceiro Concerto para Piano, and Capricho e Variações Sobre " GodSave the King." Bom-tempo became active in the Masons at this time. In 1813, to celebrate the final defeat of the French, Bomtempo composed a cantata titled Hino Lusitano, with verses by the liberal poet Vicente Pedro Nolasco da Cunha. He also composed the Primeira Grande Sinfonia and the Quarto Concerto para Piano during this period.
       In 1815, Bomtempo returned to Portugal, where he founded a philharmonic society in order to fill a serious lacuna in the musical culture of Portugal. With the return of the royal court from Brazil and the increasing repression of Portuguese Masons, the situation in Lisbon became untenable for liberals. Bomtempo, who favored a constitutional monarch, returned to London, where he dedicated his work to the "Portuguese nation." He returned to Portugal in 1818, where he composed his best-known work: O Requiem: A Memória de Camões. In 1820, he composed a second requiem in memory of General Gomes Freire, the grand master of Portuguese masonry, who was hanged in 1817. In 1822, his philharmonic society began periodic concerts, but these were forbidden by the absolutist King Miguel I (1802-66) in 1828, and Bomtempo took refuge in the Russian consulate in Lisbon, where he lived for five years until a constitutional monarchy was established by King Pedro IV (1798-1834) in 1834.
       With the establishment of constitutionalism, Bomtempo returned to his artistic activities. In 1835, he composed the Segunda Sinfonia e um Libera Me, dedicated to the memory of King Pedro IV who, exhausted from his struggle against his brother during the " War of the Brothers," died soon after returning to the throne. In 1836, Bon-tempo was made music director of the Court Orchestra and professor of piano in the royal music school, where he introduced the musical pedagogy of Clementi. He continued to compose and direct until his death on 18 August 1842.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Bomtempo, João Domingos

  • 31 Achard, Franz

    [br]
    b. 1753 Germany
    d. 1821 Germany
    [br]
    German scientist of French descent who built the world's first factory to extract sugar from beet.
    [br]
    The descendant of a French refugee, Achard began the systematic study of beet on his estate at Caulsdorf in 1786. The work had been stimulated by the discovery in 1747 of the presence of sugar in fodder beet. This research had been carried out by Andreas Marggraf, under whom Franz Achard trained. After a fire destroyed his laboratories Achard established himself on the domain of Französisch in Buchholtz near Berlin.
    After thirteen years of study he felt sufficiently confident to apply for an interview with Frederick William III, King of Prussia, which took place on 11 January 1799. Achard presented the King with a loaf of sugar made from raw beet by his Sugar Boiling House method. He requested a ten-year monopoly on his idea, as well as the grant of land on which to carry out his work. The King was sufficiently impressed to establish a committee to supervise further trials, and asked Achard to make a public statement on his work. The King ordered a factory to be built at his own expense, and paid Achard a salary to manage it. In 1801 he was granted the domain of Cunern in Silesia; he built his first sugar factory there and began production in 1802. Unfortunately Achard's business skills were negligible, and he was bankrupt within the year. In 1810 the State relieved him of his debt and gave him a pension, and in 1812 the first sugar factory was turned into a school of sugar technology.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    Further Reading
    Noel Deerr, 1950, The History of Sugar, Vol. II, London (deals with the development of sugar extraction from beet, and therefore the story of both Marggraf and Achard).
    AP

    Biographical history of technology > Achard, Franz

  • 32 Morland, Sir Samuel

    [br]
    b. 1625 Sulhampton, near Reading, Berkshire, England
    d. 26 December 1695 Hammersmith, near London, England
    [br]
    English mathematician and inventor.
    [br]
    Morland was one of several sons of the Revd Thomas Morland and was probably initially educated by his father. He went to Winchester School from 1639 to 1644 and then to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1648 and MA in 1652. He was appointed a tutor there in 1650. In 1653 he went to Sweden in the ambassadorial staff of Bulstrode Whitelocke and remained there until 1654. In that year he was appointed Clerk to Mr Secretary Thurloe, and in 1655 he was accredited by Oliver Cromwell to the Duke of Savoy to appeal for the Waldenses. In 1657 he married Susanne de Milleville of Boissy, France, with whom he had three children. In 1660 he went over to the Royalists, meeting King Charles at Breda, Holland. On 20 May, the King knighted him, creating him baron, for revealing a conspiracy against the king's life. He was also granted a pension of£500 per year. In 1661, at the age of 36, he decided to devote himself to mathematics and invention. He devised a mechanical calculator, probably based on the pattern of Blaise Pascal, for adding and subtracting: this was followed in 1666 by one for multiplying and other functions. A Perpetual Calendar or Almanack followed; he toyed with the idea of a "gunpowder engine" for raising water; he developed a range of speaking trum-pets, said to have a range of 1/2 to 1 mile (0.8–1.6 km) or more; also iron stoves for use on board ships, and improvements to barometers.
    By 1675 he had started selling a range of pumps for private houses, for mines or deep wells, for ships, for emptying ponds or draining low ground as well as to quench fire or wet the sails of ships. The pumps cost from £5 to £63, and the great novelty was that he used, instead of packing around the cylinder sealing against the bore of the cylinder, a neck-gland or seal around the outside diameter of the piston or piston-rod. This revolutionary step avoided the necessity of accurately boring the cylinder, replacing it with the need to machine accurately the outside diameter of the piston or rod, a much easier operation. Twenty-seven variations of size and materials were included in his schedule of'Pumps or Water Engines of Isaac Thompson of Great Russel Street', the maker of Morland's design. In 1681 the King made him "Magister mechanicorum", or Master of Machines. In that year he sailed for France to advise Louis XIV on the waterworks being built at Marly to supply the Palace of Versailles. About this time he had shown King Charles plans for a pumping engine "worked by fire alone". He petitioned for a patent for this, but did not pursue the matter.
    In 1692 he went blind. In all, he married five times. While working for Cromwell he became an expert in ciphers, in opening sealed letters and in their rapid copying.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Knighted 1660.
    Bibliography
    Further Reading
    H.W.Dickinson, 1970, Sir Samuel Morland: Diplomat and Inventor, Cambridge: Newcomen Society/Heffers.
    IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Morland, Sir Samuel

  • 33 KES

    1) Компьютерная техника: Knowledge-based Engineering System
    2) Сокращение: Kenyan Shilling
    4) Вычислительная техника: Key Escrow System (Verschluesselung)
    5) NYSE. Keystone Consolidated Industries, Inc.
    6) Аэропорты: Kelsey, Manitoba, Canada

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > KES

  • 34 rule

    ru:l
    1. noun
    1) (government: under foreign rule.) gobierno
    2) (a regulation or order: school rules.) regla, norma, reglamento
    3) (what usually happens or is done; a general principle: He is an exception to the rule that fat people are usually happy.) regla
    4) (a general standard that guides one's actions: I make it a rule never to be late for appointments.) norma
    5) (a marked strip of wood, metal etc for measuring: He measured the windows with a rule.) regla

    2. verb
    1) (to govern: The king ruled (the people) wisely.) reinar, gobernar
    2) (to decide officially: The judge ruled that the witness should be heard.) decidir, fallar (jurídico)
    3) (to draw (a straight line): He ruled a line across the page.) trazar (con una regla)
    - ruler
    - ruling

    3. noun
    (an official decision: The judge gave his ruling.) fallo, decisión
    - rule off
    - rule out

    rule1 n
    1. regla / norma
    you can't do that, it's against the rules no puedes hacer eso, va en contra de las reglas / no puedes hacer eso, está prohibido
    2. gobierno / dominio
    rule2 vb gobernar
    tr[rʊːl]
    1 (regulation) regla, norma
    2 (control) dominio
    3 (of monarch) reinado; (by government) gobierno
    4 (measure) regla
    1 (govern) gobernar; (reign) reinar en
    2 (decree) decretar, dictaminar
    3 (draw) trazar
    1 (govern) gobernar; (reign) reinar
    2 (decree) decretar, dictaminar
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    as a rule por lo general, por regla general
    to work to rule hacer una huelga de celo
    as a rule of thumb como regla general
    rule ['ru:l] v, ruled ; ruling vt
    1) control, govern: gobernar (un país), controlar (las emociones)
    2) decide: decidir, fallar
    the judge ruled that...: el juez falló que...
    3) draw: trazar con una regla
    rule vi
    1) govern: gobernar, reinar
    2) prevail: prevalecer, imperar
    3)
    to rule against : fallar en contra de
    rule n
    1) regulation: regla f, norma f
    2) custom, habit: regla f general
    as a rule: por lo general
    3) government: gobierno m, dominio m
    4) ruler: regla f (para medir)
    n.
    arreglo s.m.
    canon s.m.
    código s.m.
    dominación s.f.
    dominio s.m.
    estatuto s.m.
    norma s.f.
    precepto s.m.
    regla s.f.
    reglamento s.m.
    señoría s.f.
    v.
    decidir v.
    dirigir v.
    gobernar v.
    imperar v.
    rayar v.
    regir v.
    reinar v.
    ruːl
    I
    1) c (regulation, principle) regla f, norma f

    to bend o stretch the rules — apartarse un poco de las reglas

    to work to rule — ( Lab Rel) hacer* huelga de celo, trabajar a reglamento (CS)

    2) (general practice, habit) (no pl)

    as a rule — por lo general, generalmente

    3) u ( government) gobierno m; ( of monarch) reinado m

    to be under foreign rule — estar* bajo dominio extranjero

    the rule of law — el imperio de la ley; majority 1) a)

    4) c ( measure) regla f

    II
    1.
    1) (govern, control) \<\<country\>\> gobernar*, administrar; \<\<person\>\> dominar; \<\<emotion\>\> controlar
    2) ( pronounce) dictaminar
    3) ( draw) \<\<line\>\> trazar* con una regla

    ruled paperpapel m con renglones


    2.
    vi
    1)
    a) ( govern) gobernar*; \<\<monarch\>\> reinar

    to rule OVER somebody — gobernar* a alguien, reinar sobre alguien

    b) (predominate, be current) imperar
    2) ( pronounce)

    to rule (ON something)fallar or resolver* (en algo)

    to rule against/in favor of somebody/something — fallar or resolver* en contra/a favor de alguien/algo

    Phrasal Verbs:
    [ruːl]
    1. N
    1) (=regulation) regla f, norma f
    rules [of competition] bases fpl

    it's the rules — son las reglas, esa es la norma

    it's a rule that all guests must vacate their rooms by 10a.m. — por norma los clientes tienen que dejar la habitación antes de las 10 de la mañana

    running is against the rules, it's against the rules to run — está prohibido correr

    to break the rules — infringir las reglas or las normas or el reglamento

    to make the rules — dictar las normas

    to play by the rules — (fig) obedecer las reglas or las normas

    I couldn't stand a life governed by rules and regulationsno soportaría una vida llena de reglas y normas

    rules of the roadnormas fpl or reglamento msing de tráfico

    bend 2., 1), golden, ground, work 2., 1)
    2) (=guiding principle) regla f

    rule of three — (Math) regla f de tres

    rule of thumbregla f general

    as a rule of thumb, a bottle of wine holds six glasses — por regla general, una botella de vino da para seis vasos

    3) (=habit, custom) norma f

    as a (general) rule — por regla general, en general, normalmente

    he makes it a rule to get up early — tiene por norma or por sistema levantarse temprano

    exception
    4) (=government) gobierno m ; (=reign) reinado m

    military/one-party rule — gobierno m militar/unipartidista

    the rule of lawel imperio de la ley

    under British rule — bajo el dominio británico

    5) (for measuring) regla f
    2. VT
    1) (=govern) gobernar
    - rule the roost
    2) (=dominate, control) controlar, dominar
    heart 1., 2)
    3) (esp Jur) (=declare) dictaminar
    4) (=draw) [+ line] trazar; (=draw lines on) [+ paper] reglar; ruled
    3. VI
    1) (=govern) gobernar; [monarch] reinar

    to rule over sth/sb — gobernar algo/a algn

    rod
    2) (=prevail) reinar

    United rules OK (in graffiti) ¡aúpa United!, ¡arriba United!

    3) (=decide) [chairman, president] decidir, resolver; [judge, jury] fallar

    to rule against sth/sb — fallar or resolver en contra de algo/algn

    to rule in favour of sth/sb — fallar en or a favor de algo/algn, resolver en or a favor de algo/algn

    to rule on sth — fallar or resolver or decidir en algo

    4.
    CPD

    we'll do it by or go by the rule book — lo haremos de acuerdo con las normas

    the rule of law — el estado de derecho

    * * *
    [ruːl]
    I
    1) c (regulation, principle) regla f, norma f

    to bend o stretch the rules — apartarse un poco de las reglas

    to work to rule — ( Lab Rel) hacer* huelga de celo, trabajar a reglamento (CS)

    2) (general practice, habit) (no pl)

    as a rule — por lo general, generalmente

    3) u ( government) gobierno m; ( of monarch) reinado m

    to be under foreign rule — estar* bajo dominio extranjero

    the rule of law — el imperio de la ley; majority 1) a)

    4) c ( measure) regla f

    II
    1.
    1) (govern, control) \<\<country\>\> gobernar*, administrar; \<\<person\>\> dominar; \<\<emotion\>\> controlar
    2) ( pronounce) dictaminar
    3) ( draw) \<\<line\>\> trazar* con una regla

    ruled paperpapel m con renglones


    2.
    vi
    1)
    a) ( govern) gobernar*; \<\<monarch\>\> reinar

    to rule OVER somebody — gobernar* a alguien, reinar sobre alguien

    b) (predominate, be current) imperar
    2) ( pronounce)

    to rule (ON something)fallar or resolver* (en algo)

    to rule against/in favor of somebody/something — fallar or resolver* en contra/a favor de alguien/algo

    Phrasal Verbs:

    English-spanish dictionary > rule

  • 35 blind

    1. adjective
    1) blind [Person, Tier]

    a blind man/woman — ein Blinder/eine Blinde

    as blind as a bat — stockblind (ugs.)

    go or become blind — blind werden

    turn a blind eye [to something] — (fig.) [bei etwas] ein Auge zudrücken

    2) (Aeronaut.)

    blind landing/flying — Blindlandung, die/Blindflug, der

    3) (unreasoning) blind [Vorurteil, Weigerung, Gehorsam, Vertrauen]
    5) (not ruled by purpose) blind [Wut, Zorn]; dunkel [Instinkt]; kopflos [Panik]
    2. adverb

    the pilot had to fly/land blind — der Pilot musste blind fliegen/landen

    3. noun
    1) (screen) Jalousie, die; (of cloth) Rouleau, das; (of shop) Markise, die
    2) (Amer. Hunting): (hide) Jagdschirm, der
    3) (pretext) Vorwand, der; (cover) Tarnung, die

    be a blind for somethingals Tarnung für etwas dienen

    4) pl. the blind: die Blinden Pl.

    it's [a case of] the blind leading the blind — (fig.) das ist, wie wenn ein Blinder einen Lahmen [spazieren]führt

    4. transitive verb
    (lit. or fig.) blenden

    be blinded(accidentally) das Augenlicht verlieren

    blind somebody with sciencejemanden mit großen Worten beeindrucken

    * * *
    1. adjective
    1) (not able to see: a blind man.) blind
    2) ((with to) unable to notice: She is blind to his faults.) blind
    3) (hiding what is beyond: a blind corner.) unübersichtlich
    4) (of or for blind people: a blind school.) Blinden-...
    2. noun
    1) ((often in plural) a screen to prevent light coming through a window etc: The sunlight is too bright - pull down the blinds!)
    2) (something intended to mislead or deceive: He did that as a blind.) der Vorwand
    3. verb
    (to make blind: He was blinded in the war.) blind machen
    - academic.ru/84686/blinding">blinding
    - blindly
    - blindness
    - blind alley
    - blindfold
    4. verb
    (to put a blindfold on (some person or animal).) die Augen verbinden
    5. adjective, adverb
    (with the eyes covered by a cloth etc: She came blindfold into the room.) mit verbundenen Augen
    - blind spot
    - the blind leading the blind
    * * *
    [blaɪnd]
    I. n
    1. BRIT (awning) Markise f
    2. (indoor window shade) [Lamellen]vorhang m, Jalousie f
    roller \blind Jalousie f, Rollo nt, Rollladen m SCHWEIZ
    Venetian \blind [Stab]jalousie f
    3. (cloaking) Tarnung f
    4. (pretext) Vorwand m, Alibi nt; (to mask emotion) Fassade f; (for illegal activities) Vertuschung f
    5. (people who can't see)
    the \blind pl die Blinden pl
    a newspaper for the \blind eine Zeitung für Blinde
    6.
    it's a case of the \blind leading the \blind ( prov) der Blinde will den Lahmen führen
    the one-eyed man is king in the country of the \blind esp BRIT ( prov) unter Blinden ist der Einäugige König prov
    II. vt
    to \blind sb jdn blind machen; (temporarily) sun, light jdn blenden
    to be \blinded by [or with] tears blind vor Tränen sein
    2. ( fig: impress)
    to \blind sb jdn blenden
    to \blind sb with science jdn mit seinem Wissen beeindrucken
    to be \blinded by sb/sth sich akk von jdm/etw blenden lassen
    his prejudices \blinded him to the fact that he was being illogical seine Vorurteile täuschten ihn über seinen Mangel an Logik hinweg
    to be \blinded by love blind vor Liebe sein
    III. adj
    1. (sightless) blind
    to go \blind erblinden, blind werden
    to be \blind in one eye auf einem Auge blind sein
    to be \blind to a colour eine Farbe nicht richtig wahrnehmen können
    2. ( fig: unable to perceive) blind
    to be \blind to sth etw nicht bemerken
    3. pred ( fig: unprepared) auf gut Glück
    he went into the interview \blind er ging unvorbereitet ins Interview
    4. pred esp BRIT ( fig: without reserve) rückhaltlos
    he swore \blind that he had locked the door er versicherte hoch und heilig, die Tür verschlossen zu haben
    5. ( fig: lack judgement) blind
    \blind acceptance/devotion bedingungslose Akzeptanz/Hingabe
    \blind anger [or rage] /jealousy blinde Wut/Eifersucht
    \blind obedience blinder Gehorsam
    6. (concealed) verborgen, versteckt
    \blind curve schwer einsehbare Kurve
    7. (closed) pipe blind; (walled up) door, window blind
    8. attr esp BRIT ( fam: any, the least)
    he hasn't done a \blind bit of work since lunch er hat seit dem Mittagessen noch keinen Handschlag getan [o Finger gerührt]
    to not take a \blind [or the \blindest] bit of notice of sth etw überhaupt nicht beachten
    it doesn't matter what I say, she doesn't take a \blind bit of notice egal, was ich sage, sie hört überhaupt nicht zu
    not a \blind bit of it kein bisschen, keine Spur fam
    9.
    to be as \blind as a bat ( fam) so blind wie ein Maulwurf sein
    love is \blind Liebe macht blind
    to turn a \blind eye to sth etw ignorieren, vor etw dat die Augen verschließen
    IV. adv
    1. (without sight) blind
    to fly \blind blind fliegen
    to taste wines \blind Weine kosten, ohne aufs Etikett zu schauen
    2. FOOD
    to bake sth \blind etw blind [o ohne Füllung] backen
    3.
    to be \blind drunk stockbetrunken sein fam
    * * *
    [blaɪnd]
    1. adj (+er)
    1) (= sightless) blind

    to go blind — erblinden, blind werden

    a blind man/woman — ein Blinder/eine Blinde

    2) (fig to beauty, charm etc) blind (to für, gegen)

    to be blind to sb's faults —

    she remained blind to the fact that... — sie sah einfach nicht, dass...

    3) (fig: lacking judgement) obedience, passion blind; fury, panic also hell

    blind with passion/rage — blind vor Leidenschaft/Wut

    4) (= vision obscured) corner unübersichtlich → blind spot
    See:
    → blind spot
    5) (Brit inf)

    it's not a blind bit of use trying to persuade him —

    6) (= false) door, window blind
    7) (= without exit) passage ohne Ausgang, blind endend attr; (= without windows and doors) wall ohne Fenster und Türen
    2. vt
    1) (= make blind light, sun) blenden
    2) (sun, light) blenden
    3) (fig love, hate etc) blind machen (to für, gegen); (wealth, beauty) blenden
    3. n
    1)

    it's the blind leading the blind (fig) — das hieße, einen Lahmen einen Blinden führen lassen

    2) (= window shade cloth) Rollo nt, Rouleau nt; (slats) Jalousie f; (outside) Rollladen m
    3) (= cover) Tarnung f
    4) (fig sl: booze-up) Sauferei f (inf)
    5) (US: hide) Versteck nt
    4. adv
    1) (AVIAT) fly blind
    2) (COOK)
    3)
    * * *
    blind [blaınd]
    A adj (adv blindly)
    1. a) blind:
    a blind man ein Blinder;
    blind in one eye auf einem Auge blind;
    are you blind? hast du keine Augen im Kopf?;
    go blind blind werden, erblinden
    b) Blinden…:
    2. fig blind (to gegen[über]), verständnislos:
    love is blind Liebe macht blind;
    blind to one’s own defects den eigenen Fehlern gegenüber blind;
    blind fury ( oder rage) blinde Wut;
    blind with fury blind vor Wut;
    a) ein Auge zudrücken,
    b) sich den Tatsachen verschließen;
    a) bei etwas ein Auge zudrücken,
    b) etwas bewusst ignorieren
    3. fig blind, unbesonnen, wahllos:
    blindly auch blindlings;
    blind bargain unüberlegter Handel;
    blind chance blinder Zufall;
    blind faith blindes Vertrauen;
    have blind faith in sb jemandem blind vertrauen
    blind interpretation, blind rating (Statistik etc) blinde Auswertung
    5. zwecklos, ziellos, leer:
    blind excuse faule Ausrede;
    blind pretence (US pretense) Vorwand m
    6. verdeckt, verborgen, geheim, auch WIRTSCH, TECH kaschiert:
    blind floor ARCH Blend-, Blindboden m;
    blind staircase Geheimtreppe f;
    blind vein (Bergbau) blinde Erzader
    7. schwer erkennbar oder verständlich:
    blind copy TYPO unleserliches Manuskript;
    blind corner unübersichtliche Kurve oder Ecke;
    blind hole (Golf) Blind Hole n (Loch, dessen Grün man beim Annäherungsschlag nicht sehen kann);
    blind letter unzustellbarer Brief
    8. ARCH blind, nicht durchbrochen:
    blind arch Bogenblende f;
    9. BOT blütenlos, taub
    10. FOTO nur gegen blaues, violettes und ultraviolettes Licht empfindlich (Film)
    11. matt, nicht poliert
    12. umg blau (betrunken):
    blind to the world sternhagelvoll
    13. Br umg it doesn’t make the blindest bit of difference das macht nicht den geringsten Unterschied;
    he didn’t take a blind bit of notice er nahm nicht die geringste Notiz (davon);
    it’s not a blind bit of use es hat überhaupt keinen Zweck;
    he hasn’t done a blind bit of work yet er hat noch keinen Handschlag oder Strich getan;
    I haven’t got a blind idea ich hab keinen blassen Schimmer
    B v/t
    1. a) blind machen:
    the accident blinded him er verlor durch den Unfall das Augenlicht;
    be blinded das Augenlicht verlieren;
    he was blinded in his left eye er wurde auf dem linken Auge blind
    b) blenden (auch fig:
    with mit):
    blind sb with science jemanden mit seinem (Fach)Wissen beeindrucken
    2. jemandem die Augen verbinden
    3. fig mit Blindheit schlagen, verblenden, blind machen (to für, gegen):
    blind o.s. to facts sich den Tatsachen verschließen
    4. verdunkeln, das Licht nehmen (dat)
    5. Straßenbau: mit Kies oder Erde ausfüllen
    6. TECH mattieren
    C v/i
    1. AUTO Br sl rasen
    2. eff 2
    D s
    1. the blind koll die Blinden pl:
    it’s a case of the blind leading the blind das ist, wie wenn ein Blinder einen anderen führt;
    among the blind the one-eyed man is king (Sprichwort) unter den Blinden ist der Einäugige König
    2. a) Rollladen m
    b) Rouleau n, Rollo n
    c) besonders Br Markise f: Venetian A
    3. pl Scheuklappen pl
    4. fig
    a) Vorwand m
    b) (Vor)Täuschung f
    c) Tarnung f
    5. umg Strohmann m
    6. JAGD besonders US Deckung f
    7. sl Sauferei:
    go (out) on a blind eine Sauftour machen
    E adv
    1. blind: fly1 B 2, swear B 3
    2. fig blindlings
    3. blind drunk umg sternhagelvoll:
    get blind drunk umg sich sinnlos volllaufen lassen
    * * *
    1. adjective
    1) blind [Person, Tier]

    a blind man/woman — ein Blinder/eine Blinde

    go or become blind — blind werden

    turn a blind eye [to something] — (fig.) [bei etwas] ein Auge zudrücken

    2) (Aeronaut.)

    blind landing/flying — Blindlandung, die/Blindflug, der

    3) (unreasoning) blind [Vorurteil, Weigerung, Gehorsam, Vertrauen]
    5) (not ruled by purpose) blind [Wut, Zorn]; dunkel [Instinkt]; kopflos [Panik]
    2. adverb

    the pilot had to fly/land blind — der Pilot musste blind fliegen/landen

    3. noun
    1) (screen) Jalousie, die; (of cloth) Rouleau, das; (of shop) Markise, die
    2) (Amer. Hunting): (hide) Jagdschirm, der
    3) (pretext) Vorwand, der; (cover) Tarnung, die
    4) pl. the blind: die Blinden Pl.

    it's [a case of] the blind leading the blind — (fig.) das ist, wie wenn ein Blinder einen Lahmen [spazieren]führt

    4. transitive verb
    (lit. or fig.) blenden

    be blinded (accidentally) das Augenlicht verlieren

    English-german dictionary > blind

  • 36 college

    noun
    1) (esp. Brit.): (independent corporation in university) College, das
    2) (place of further education) Fach[hoch]schule, die

    go to college(esp. Amer.) studieren

    start college(esp. Amer.) sein Studium aufnehmen

    3) (esp. Brit.): (school) Internatsschule, die; Kolleg, das
    * * *
    ['koli‹]
    ((any or all of the buildings housing) a higher-education institution: He studies at agricultural college.) das College
    * * *
    col·lege
    [ˈkɒlɪʤ, AM ˈkɑ:-]
    n
    1. (school) Gymnasium nt; (privately funded) Kolleg nt; (boarding school) Internatsschule f
    art \college Kunstakademie f
    to drop out of \college vom Kolleg [o Gymnasium] abgehen; BRIT, AUS (children's private school) Privatschule f
    2. (university) Universität f, Hochschule f; (privately funded) Akademie f, College nt
    to go to \college auf die Universität gehen, studieren
    3. BRIT (division of university) College nt
    to go to [or be at] a \college die Universität besuchen, studieren; (members of college) College nt
    4. AM (university faculty) Fakultät f, Fachbereich m
    I attended the C\college of Arts and Sciences ich habe an der kunst- und naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät studiert; (college building) Universitätsgebäude nt, Hochschulgebäude nt
    5. esp BRIT (collegiate group) Kollegium nt, Kammer f
    \college of Medicine Ärztekollegium nt
    \college of Physicians Ärztekammer f, Ärztebund m
    * * *
    College ist ein allgemeiner Oberbegriff für höhere Bildungsinstitute. In Großbritannien kann er sich auf Einrichtungen beziehen, in denen man in einzelnen Fachbereichen, wie Kunst oder Musik, einen Hochschulabschluss erwerben kann, aber ebenso auf Schulen ohne weiteren Abschluss, z. B. für Sekretärinnen oder Friseure. Einige britische Universitäten, darunter Oxford und Cambridge, setzen sich aus Colleges zusammen. In diesen collegiate universities sorgen die Colleges für die Unterbringung und Ausbildung der Studenten, auch wenn die Universität dann die Abschlüsse verleiht. Zu den bekanntesten Colleges zählen wohl das King's College in Cambridge und das Magdalen College in Oxford. In den USA werden die Universitäten in Verwaltungseinheiten unterteilt, die als Colleges bezeichnet werden: zum Beispiel das "College of Arts and Sciences" oder das "College of Medicine". Graduate schools, die normalerweise Teil einer Universität sind, bieten auf dem bachelor aufbauende Studiengänge zur weiteren Spezialisierung an. Junior oder community colleges sind Institute, an denen man nach zweijähriger Studienzeit einen berufsbezogenen Abschluss machen kann sie bieten auch Weiterbildungen für Berufstätige an See: → DEGREE, OXBRIDGE
    * * *
    college [ˈkɒlıdʒ; US ˈkɑ-] s
    1. Br College n:
    a) einer Universität angegliederte Lehranstalt mit Wohngemeinschaft von Dozenten und Studenten
    b) zur Hochschulreife führende private Internatsschule: academic.ru/25170/Eton_College">Eton College
    2. US College n (Eingangsstufe der Universität), weitS. Universität f:
    go to college studieren
    3. Fach(hoch)schule f:
    college of education schott pädagogische Hochschule;
    college of music Musikhochschule;
    college of technology technische Hochschule
    4. College(gebäude) n
    5. Kollegium n:
    a) organisierte Vereinigung von Personen mit gemeinsamen Pflichten und Rechten
    b) Ausschuss m: electoral 1
    6. REL (Kardinals- etc) Kollegium n:
    7. Br sl obs Kittchen n (Gefängnis)
    col. abk
    5. color (colour)
    6. colored (coloured)
    coll. abk
    * * *
    noun
    1) (esp. Brit.): (independent corporation in university) College, das
    2) (place of further education) Fach[hoch]schule, die

    go to college(esp. Amer.) studieren

    start college(esp. Amer.) sein Studium aufnehmen

    3) (esp. Brit.): (school) Internatsschule, die; Kolleg, das
    * * *
    n.
    Hochschule -n f.

    English-german dictionary > college

  • 37 awe

    [o:] 1. noun
    (wonder and fear: The child looked in awe at the king.) ærefrygt
    2. verb
    (to fill with awe: He was awed by his new school.) nære ærefrygt for
    - awesome
    - awestruck
    * * *
    [o:] 1. noun
    (wonder and fear: The child looked in awe at the king.) ærefrygt
    2. verb
    (to fill with awe: He was awed by his new school.) nære ærefrygt for
    - awesome
    - awestruck

    English-Danish dictionary > awe

  • 38 rule

    [ru:l] 1. noun
    1) (government: under foreign rule.) styre
    2) (a regulation or order: school rules.) regel; -regel
    3) (what usually happens or is done; a general principle: He is an exception to the rule that fat people are usually happy.) regel
    4) (a general standard that guides one's actions: I make it a rule never to be late for appointments.) regel
    5) (a marked strip of wood, metal etc for measuring: He measured the windows with a rule.) lineal
    2. verb
    1) (to govern: The king ruled (the people) wisely.) regere
    2) (to decide officially: The judge ruled that the witness should be heard.) erklære
    3) (to draw (a straight line): He ruled a line across the page.) tegne (med lineal)
    - ruler
    - ruling
    3. noun
    (an official decision: The judge gave his ruling.) afsige kendelse
    - rule off
    - rule out
    * * *
    [ru:l] 1. noun
    1) (government: under foreign rule.) styre
    2) (a regulation or order: school rules.) regel; -regel
    3) (what usually happens or is done; a general principle: He is an exception to the rule that fat people are usually happy.) regel
    4) (a general standard that guides one's actions: I make it a rule never to be late for appointments.) regel
    5) (a marked strip of wood, metal etc for measuring: He measured the windows with a rule.) lineal
    2. verb
    1) (to govern: The king ruled (the people) wisely.) regere
    2) (to decide officially: The judge ruled that the witness should be heard.) erklære
    3) (to draw (a straight line): He ruled a line across the page.) tegne (med lineal)
    - ruler
    - ruling
    3. noun
    (an official decision: The judge gave his ruling.) afsige kendelse
    - rule off
    - rule out

    English-Danish dictionary > rule

  • 39 road

    noun
    1) Straße, die

    the Birmingham/London road — die Straße nach Birmingham/London; (name of road/street)

    London/Shelley Road — Londoner Straße/Shelleystraße

    ‘road up’ — "Straßenarbeiten"

    across or over the road [from us] — [bei uns od. (geh.) uns (Dat.)] gegenüber

    by road(by car/bus) per Auto/Bus; (by lorry/truck) per Lkw

    off the road(being repaired) in der Werkstatt; in Reparatur

    one for the road(coll.) ein Glas zum Abschied

    be on the roadauf Reisen od. unterwegs sein; [Theaterensemble usw.:] auf Tournee od. (ugs.) Tour (Dat.) sein

    2) (means of access) Weg, der

    be on the right roadauf dem richtigen Weg sein

    end of the road(destination) Ziel, das; (limit) Ende, das

    3) (one's way) Weg, der

    get in somebody's road(coll.) jemandem in die Quere kommen (ugs.)

    get out of my road!(coll.) geh mir aus dem Weg!

    4) (Amer.) see academic.ru/60118/railway">railway
    5) (Mining) Strecke, die
    6) usu. in pl. (Naut.) Reede, die
    * * *
    [rəud]
    1) (a strip of ground usually with a hard level surface for people, vehicles etc to travel on: This road takes you past the school; ( also adjective) road safety.) die Straße; Straßen-...
    2) ((often abbreviated to Rd when written) used in the names of roads or streets: His address is 24 School Road.) die Straße
    3) (a route; the correct road(s) to follow in order to arrive somewhere: We'd better look at the map because I'm not sure of the road.) der Weg
    4) (a way that leads to something: the road to peace; He's on the road to ruin.) der Weg
    - roadblock
    - road map
    - roadside
    - roadway
    - roadworks
    - roadworthy
    - roadworthiness
    - by road
    * * *
    [rəʊd, AM roʊd]
    n
    1. (way) Straße f
    is this the \road to Burlington? ist das die Straße nach Burlington?
    all \roads into the town were blocked by snow sämtliche Zufahrtsstraßen in die Stadt waren völlig zugeschneit
    on this/the other side of the \road auf dieser/der anderen Straßenseite
    back [or BRIT also minor] \road Nebenstraße f
    busy \road stark befahrene Straße
    dirt \road Feldweg m
    impassable \road unpassierbare Straße
    main \road Hauptstraße f
    to cross the \road die Straße überqueren
    2. no pl (street name) Straße f
    I live in 77 Mill R\road ich wohne in der Mill Road [Nr.] 77
    3. MIN Tunnel m, Förderstrecke f
    4. AM (railroad) Eisenbahn f
    5. BRIT (railway track) Schiene f
    6. ( fig: course) Weg m
    to be on the \road to recovery sich akk auf dem Wege der Besserung befinden
    to be on the right \road auf dem richtigen Weg sein
    7. usu pl NAUT Reede f
    8.
    by \road mit dem Auto/Bus/LKW
    to come to the end of the \road zu Ende sein
    my relationship with Ann has come to the end of the \road mit Ann ist Schluss fam
    \road to Damascus prägendes, einschneidendes Erlebnis
    meeting Martin Luther King was a \road to Damascus for many people die Begegnung mit Martin Luther King war für viele Menschen ein Erlebnis, das ihr Leben entscheidend geprägt hat
    to face a bumpy \road einen steinigen Weg vor sich dat haben
    to get out of the [or one's] \road AM ( fam) Platz machen
    the \road to hell is paved with good intentions ( saying) der Weg zur Hölle ist mit guten Absichten gepflastert hum
    all \roads lead to Rome ( saying) alle Wege führen nach Rom prov
    to be on the \road (performing at different venues) auf Tournee sein; (travelling by road) unterwegs sein; (fit for driving) straßentauglich sein
    one for the \road ( fam: drink) einen für unterwegs fam
    to take [to] the \road sich akk auf den Weg machen, losfahren
    * * *
    [rəʊd]
    n
    1) Straße f

    "road up" (Brit) — "Straßenbauarbeiten"

    "road narrows" — "Straßenverengung"

    by road (send sth) — per Spedition; (travel) mit dem Bus/Auto etc

    she lives across the road ( from us) — sie wohnt gegenüber (von uns)

    my car has never been/is never off the road — mein Auto war noch nie/ist nie in der Werkstatt

    I hope to put the car back on the road soon — ich hoffe, das Auto bald wieder fahren zu können

    he is a danger on the roader ist eine Gefahr für den Straßenverkehr

    to take to the road — sich auf den Weg machen, losfahren; (as tramp) Vagabund werden

    is this the road to London? —

    "Westlands/London road" — "Westlandsstraße/Londoner Straße"

    2) (fig) Weg m

    on the road to ruin/success — auf dem Weg ins Verderben/zum Erfolg

    somewhere along the road he changed his mind —

    you're in my road ( Brit dial inf )du bist mir im Weg

    (get) out of the road! ( Brit dial inf )geh weg!

    See:
    = anyhow
    3) pl (NAUT) Reede f
    4)
    See:
    = railroad
    * * *
    road [rəʊd] s
    1. (Land)Straße f:
    across the road gegenüber;
    a) auf dem Straßenweg,
    b) mit dem Auto etc;
    one for the road umg einen (Schnaps etc) für unterwegs oder zum Abschied;
    a) im oder durchs Gelände,
    b) in der Werkstatt;
    take one’s car off the road sein Auto abmelden;
    a) auf der Straße,
    b) ( besonders geschäftlich) unterwegs, auf Reisen, auf Achse,
    c) THEAT etc auf Tournee oder umg Tour;
    get a play on the road mit einem Stück auf Tournee gehen;
    a) auch hit the road sl sich auf den Weg machen, aufbrechen
    b) ein Tramp werden;
    hold the road well AUTO eine gute Straßenlage haben;
    “road up” „Straßenarbeiten!“;
    it is a long road that has no turning (Sprichwort) alles muss sich einmal ändern; Damascus, Rome A
    2. BAHN
    a) Br Strecke f
    b) US Bahn f
    3. fig Weg m:
    be in sb’s road jemandem im Weg stehen;
    get sth out of the road etwas aus dem Weg räumen;
    the road to ruin (to success) der Weg ins Verderben (zum Erfolg)
    4. meist pl SCHIFF Reede f:
    lie in the roads auf der Reede liegen
    5. Bergbau: Förderstrecke f
    r. abk
    1. radius r
    2. rare
    5. road Str.
    rd. abk
    1. road Str.
    * * *
    noun
    1) Straße, die

    the Birmingham/London road — die Straße nach Birmingham/London; (name of road/street)

    London/Shelley Road — Londoner Straße/Shelleystraße

    ‘road up’ — "Straßenarbeiten"

    across or over the road [from us] — [bei uns od. (geh.) uns (Dat.)] gegenüber

    by road(by car/bus) per Auto/Bus; (by lorry/truck) per Lkw

    off the road (being repaired) in der Werkstatt; in Reparatur

    one for the road(coll.) ein Glas zum Abschied

    be on the roadauf Reisen od. unterwegs sein; [Theaterensemble usw.:] auf Tournee od. (ugs.) Tour (Dat.) sein

    2) (means of access) Weg, der

    end of the road (destination) Ziel, das; (limit) Ende, das

    3) (one's way) Weg, der

    get in somebody's road(coll.) jemandem in die Quere kommen (ugs.)

    get out of my road!(coll.) geh mir aus dem Weg!

    4) (Amer.) see railway
    5) (Mining) Strecke, die
    6) usu. in pl. (Naut.) Reede, die
    * * *
    (nautical) n.
    Reede -n f. n.
    Autostraße f.
    Straße -n f.
    Weg -e m.

    English-german dictionary > road

  • 40 fit

    fit [fɪt]
       a. ( = able) capable ( for de ) ; ( = worthy) digne ( for de)
    fit to drink ( = palatable) buvable ; ( = not poisonous) potable
       b. ( = right and proper) convenable ; [time, occasion] propice
       c. ( = in trim) en forme ; ( = healthy) en bonne santé
    will he be fit for Saturday's match? sera-t-il en état de jouer samedi ?
    2. noun
       a. [of epilepsy] crise f
    she'll have a fit! (inf) elle va piquer une crise ! (inf)
       b. ( = outburst) accès m
       a. ( = be the right size for) [clothes] aller à
    "one size fits all" « taille unique »
       c. ( = correspond to) [+ mood, definition, stereotype] correspondre à ; [+ needs] répondre à
    she doesn't fit the profile of a typical drug smuggler elle ne correspond pas à l'idée que l'on se fait d'un trafiquant de drogue
       d. ( = put in place) mettre ; ( = fix) fixer ; ( = install) mettre
       a. ( = be the right size) I liked the dress but it didn't fit j'aimais la robe, mais elle n'était pas à ma taille
       b. ( = have enough room) tenir
       c. ( = match) [facts] cadrer
    how does this idea fit into your overall plan? comment cette idée s'inscrit-elle dans votre plan d'ensemble ?
    people don't always fit neatly into categories les gens ne rentrent pas toujours facilement dans des catégories bien définies
    suddenly everything fitted into place soudain, tout est devenu clair
    fit in
       a. ( = match) [fact] cadrer
       c. ( = have room) will we all fit in? y aura-t-il assez de place pour nous tous ?
       a. ( = find room for) trouver de la place pour
    can you fit another bag in? y a-t-il encore de la place pour un sac ?
       b. ( = adapt) adapter
       c. ( = find time for) prendre
    can you fit in a quick meeting? avez-vous le temps d'assister à une réunion rapide ?
    * * *
    [fɪt] 1.
    1) Medicine crise f, attaque f

    to have a fit — ( unspecified) avoir une attaque or une crise

    2) gen (of rage, passion, panic) accès m

    fit of coughingquinte f de toux

    to have somebody in fits — (colloq) donner le fou rire à quelqu'un

    to have ou throw a fit — (colloq) ( be mad) piquer (colloq) une crise

    to be a good/poor fit — être/ne pas être à la bonne taille

    2.
    1) [person] ( in trim) en forme; ( not ill) en bonne santé
    2) (suitable, appropriate)

    to be fit for — ( worthy of) être digne de [person, hero, king]; ( capable of) être capable de faire [job]

    to be fit for nothing — n'être plus bon/bonne à rien

    fit/not fit for human consumption — propre/impropre à la consommation

    to see ou think fit to do — juger or trouver bon de faire

    3) (colloq) ( in emphatic phrases)
    3.
    transitive verb (prét fitted, fit US; pp fitted)
    1) ( be the right size) [garment] être à la taille de; [shoe] être à la pointure de; [key] aller dans [lock]; aller dans [envelope, space]

    to fit something in ou into — trouver de la place pour quelque chose dans [room, house, car]

    3) ( install) mettre [quelque chose] en place [lock, door, kitchen, shower]

    to fit A to B —

    to fit somebody for[tailor] prendre les mesures de quelqu'un pour [garment, uniform]

    to fit somebody with[doctor] pourvoir quelqu'un de [hearing aid, prosthesis]

    4) ( be compatible with) correspondre à [description, requirements]; aller avec [decor]

    the punishment should fit the crime — la punition devrait être proportionnée à la faute; bill

    4.
    1) ( be the right size) [garment] être à ma/ta/sa taille, aller; [shoes] être à ma/ta/sa pointure, aller; [key, lid, sheet] aller
    2) ( have enough room) [toys, books etc] tenir ( into dans)

    to fit inside one anotheraller or se mettre les uns dans les autres

    to fit into place[part, handle] bien aller; [cupboard, brick] bien rentrer

    4) fig (tally, correspond)

    to fit withcorrespondre à [story, facts]

    to fit intoaller avec [ideology, colour scheme]

    Phrasal Verbs:
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    by ou in fits and starts — par à-coups

    English-French dictionary > fit

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