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  • 1 live

    1. I
    1) an creatures have an equal right to live все живое имеет равные права на жизнь; life is worth living стоит жить; while my father lived когда был жив мой отец /при жизни моего отца/; she is very ill live the doctors do not think she will live она очень больна, врачи считают, что она не выживет; the doctor said the patient would live врач сказал, что больной будет жить; one lives and learns век живи, век учись; as long as I live пока я жив...; he'll be a fool as long as he lives он всю жизнь будет дураком; make a historical character live вдохнуть жизнь в историческое лицо, дать живое описание исторического лица; his name (her memory, the legend, hope, etc.) will live его имя и т. д. будет жить /не умрет/
    2) I don't want to spend all my days in a small village, I want to live я не хочу /не желаю/ прозябать всю жизнь в этой деревушке, я хочу жить; at 40 she was just beginning to live в сорок лет она только начинала жить /наслаждаться жизнью/; he knows how to live он знает, как надо жить || there lived a king жил-был король
    2. II
    live for some time live long (forever, etc.) долго и т. д. жить; he has not long to live ему недолго остается жить; а better man never lived на свете не было человека лучше; live in same manner live honestly (simply, happily, honourably, well, comfortably, fashionably, etc.) жить честно и т. д., вести честный и т. д. образ жизни; live hard вести трудную жизнь /жизнь, полную трудностей/; live fast вести легкомысленный образ жизни; live high жить богато /на широкую ногу/; they can barely live они едва сводят концы с концами; live from hand to mouth с трудом перебиваться, влачить жалкое существование; live from day to day кое-как перебиваться; live somewhere live near (far, out west, down south, up north, abroad, etc.) жить /проживать/ близко и т. д.; live in жить по месту службы; the nurses live in медсестры живут при больнице; live out жить /иметь квартиру/ отдельно от места службы; all her servants live out у нее вся прислуга приходящая; he lives next-door он живет рядом; he is living at home at present он сейчас живет дома; I expect to live here for two months я собираюсь прожить здесь два месяца
    3. III
    1) live so much time live fifty years (a short life, a long life, etc.) прожить пятьдесят лет и т. д.
    2) live a certain kind of life live a happy (good, bad, quiet, virtuous, etc.) life прожить счастливую и т. д. жизнь; live the life of a hermit жить отшельником; live an idle life вести праздную жизнь /праздный образ жизни/; live a double life веста двойную жизнь; жить двойной жизнью; live a saint жить как святой; live a bachelor жить холостяком, вести холостяцкую жизнь
    4. IV
    live one's life at some place he lived most of his life abroad (at home, here, etc.) он провел большую часть жизни за границей и т. д.
    5. XI
    be lived in the room doesn't seem to be lived in комната имеет нежилой вид; the house looks well lived in дом выглядит вполне обжитым
    6. XIII
    live to do smth. live to be eighty (to be old, to see the day, when..., to see one's grandchildren, etc.) дожить до восьмидесята лет и т. Л; he did not live to finish the work он не смог при жизни завершить эту работу; he did not live to see its success успех пришел уже после его смерти; you will live to repent it ты об этом еще пожалеешь
    7. XV
    || live alone жить одиноко; he lives alone он живет один
    8. XVI
    1) live to a certain age live to a hundred (to a good old age, to a great ripe age, to the age of ninety-two, beyond seventy, etc.) дожить до ста лет и т. д., live through smth. live through two wars and three revolutions (through a political crisis, through financial difficulties, etc.) пережить две войны и три революции и т. д.; can he live through the night? переживет ли он эту ночь?; do you think I'll live through it, doctor? вы думаете, я выдержу /перенесу/ это, доктор?; live till some time live till May (till tomorrow, etc.) дожить до мая и т. д.; live in smth. no ship could live in such a rough sea ни один корабль не мог выдержать такого бурного моря не мог уцелеть в такой шторм/; live in smth. live in smb.'s memory жить в чьей-л. памяти, не быть забытым; the incident still lives in my memory я до сих пор ясно помню этот случай; his name (the speech, etc.) will live in history его имя и т. д. останется в истории
    2) live in some state live in poverty (in luxury, in peace with all the neighbours, in close friendship with smb., in retirement, in obscurity, in solitude, in sin, in hope, etc.) жить в бедности и т. д., live in [great /grand/] style жить на широкую ногу; live in a small way жить скромно; live in the shadow держаться в тени; live in one's trunks жить на колесах, переезжать с места на место; live in the present (in the past, in the future) жить настоящим ( прошлым, будущим); live on smth. live on one's pension (on one's income, on one's wife's income, on L 5 a month, on one's savings, etc.) жить /существовать/ на пенсию и т. д., schools which live on the fees of their students школы, которые существуют на средства, получаемые от платы за обучение; he has enough to live on он зарабатывает достаточно на жизнь, ему хватает на жизнь; how does he manage to live on that salary? как он умудряется прожить на такое жалованье?; live on rice (largely on fish, on fruit, on vegetables, on tea and soup, on bread and water, on a milk diet, etc.) питаться рисом и т. д., жить на рисе и т. д.; he is in the habit of living on plain food он привык к простой пище; live on air /on nothing/ жить неизвестно чем, питаться воздухом; live on one's past reputation (on one's name, on the memory of..., etc.) жить /существовать/ за счет былей репутации и т. д., live (up)on smb. live on his father (on one's relations, on a friend, upon woman, on its visitors, etc.) жить /существовать/ на средства своего отца и т. д.; he lives on his parents он сидит на шее у родителей; live out of smth. they live out of tins они питаются одними консервами, они живут на консервах; live out of suitcases веста кочевой образ жизни; live for smb., smth. live for others (for his work, for higher' aspirations, for one's fame, for one's pleasure, etc.) жить для /ради/ других и т.д.; she lives entirely for her children вся ее жизнь в детях; he lives for ballet он живет одним балетом; they live for /to/ no purpose они живут без всякой цели; he has nothing to live for у него нет цели в жизни, ему не для чего жить; this is an aim worth living for вот это цель, ради которой стоит жить; live by smth. live by one's hands (by toil, by the sweat of one's brow, by the /one's/ pen, by one's novels, by literature, etc.) зарабатывать себе на жизнь физическим трудом и т. д., live by brainwork зарабатывать на жизнь умственным трудом; live off smth. live off the country жить за счет страны; live within (above, beyond, to) smth., smb. live within (above /beyond/) one's means /income/ жить (не) по средствам; we are discovering more and more that the world is an interdependent world and that no country can live to itself мы все больше и больше убеждаемся, что в мире все взаимосвязано, и что ни одна страна не может жить сама по себе || live by /on/ one's wits а) изворачиваться; б) жить нечестным путем; live by oneself жить самостоятельно
    3) live In (on, at, etc.) some place live in France (in the capital, in London, in the country, at a small town, at a hotel, at No. 20, etc.) жить /проживать/ во Франции и т. д.; who lives in this house? кто живет в этом доме?; live at the seaside (at one's uncle, etc.) жить /проживать/ у моря и т. д., live in this street жить на этой улице; live upon a farm жить на ферме; live on the other side of the river жить по ту сторону реки; live across the street жить через улицу; live in the water (in a forest, in a cave, etc.) жить /обитать, водиться/ в воде и т.д., live near to (far from, etc.) smb., smth. who lives nearest to the school? кто живет ближе всех к школе?; live away from home жить не дома, жить отдельно; live apart from his wife жить отдельно от жены: live under the same roof жить под одной крышей (с кем-л.), live with (among, under) smb., smth. live with one's friends (with the Browns, with one's family, with relatives, etc.) жить у друзей и т.д., live among strangers жить среди чужих; live under an assumed name жить под вымышленным именем; we have to live with the situation приходится мириться с обстоятельствами; live at some time live in the
    9. XVII t
    th century (in the times of Queen Victoria, in our hectic age, etc.) жить в семнадцатом веке и т. д.
    10. XVII
    live by doing smth. live by writing (by teaching music, by swindling industry, etc.) жить /зарабатывать на жизнь/ литературным трудом и т. д.
    11. XIX1
    live like smb. live like a saint (like a brute, etc.) жить как святой и т. д.
    12. XXV
    11 you've never lived unless you've seen Paris тот ничего не видел в жизни, кто не бывал в Париже

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > live

  • 2 one

    1. adjective
    1) attrib. ein

    one thing I must say — ein[e]s muss ich sagen

    one or two — (fig.): (a few) ein paar

    one more... — noch ein...

    it's one [o'clock] — es ist eins od. ein Uhr; see also academic.ru/23561/eight">eight 1.; half 1. 1), 3. 2); quarter 1. 1)

    2) attrib. (single, only) einzig

    in any one day/year — an einem Tag/in einem Jahr

    at any one time — zur gleichen Zeit; (always) zu jeder Zeit

    not one [little] bit — überhaupt nicht

    3) (identical, same) ein

    one and the same person/thing — ein und dieselbe Person/Sache

    at one and the same time — gleichzeitig; see also all 2. 1)

    4) pred. (united, unified)

    be one as a family/nation — eine einige Familie/Nation sein; see also with 1)

    5) attrib. (a particular but undefined)

    at one time — einmal; einst (geh.)

    one morning/night — eines Morgens/Nachts

    one day — (on day specified) einmal; (at unspecified future date) eines Tages

    one day soon — bald einmal

    one Sunday — an einem Sonntag

    6) attrib. contrasted with ‘other’/‘another’ ein

    neither one thing nor the other — weder das eine noch das andere; see also hand 1. 24)

    7)

    in one — (coll.): (at first attempt) auf Anhieb

    got it in one! — (coll.) [du hast es] erraten!

    2. noun
    1) eins
    2) (number, symbol) Eins, die; see also eight 2. 1)
    3) (unit)
    3. pronoun
    1)

    one of... — ein... (+ Gen.)

    one of them/us — etc. einer von ihnen/uns usw.

    any one of them — jeder/jede/jedes von ihnen

    every one of them — jeder/jede/jedes [einzelne] von ihnen

    not one of them — keiner/keine/keines von ihnen

    2) replacing n. implied or mentioned ein...

    the jacket is an old one — die Jacke ist [schon] alt

    the older/younger one — der/die/das ältere/jüngere

    this is the one I like — den/die/das mag ich

    you are or were the one who insisted on going to Scotland — du warst der-/diejenige, der/die unbedingt nach Schottland wollte

    this one — dieser/diese/dieses [da]

    that one — der/die/das [da]

    these ones or those ones? — (coll.) die [da] oder die [da]?

    these/those blue etc. ones — diese/die blauen usw.

    which one? — welcher/welche/welches?

    not one — keiner/keine/keines; (emphatic) nicht einer/eine/eines

    all but one — alle außer einem/einer/einem

    I for one — ich für mein[en] Teil

    one by one, one after another or the other — einzeln

    love one another — sich od. (geh.) einander lieben

    be kind to one another — nett zueinander sein

    3) (contrasted with ‘other’/‘another’)

    [the] one... the other — der/die/das eine... der/die/das andere

    4) (person or creature of specified kind)

    the little one — der/die/das Kleine

    our dear or loved ones — unsere Lieben

    young one — (youngster) Kind, das; (young animal) Junge, das

    5)

    [not] one who does or to do or for doing something — [nicht] der Typ, der etwas tut

    6) (representing people in general; also coll.): (I, we) man; as indirect object einem; as direct object einen

    one's — sein

    wash one's hands — sich (Dat.) die Hände waschen

    7) (coll.): (drink)

    I'll have just a little one — ich trinke nur einen Kleinen (ugs.)

    have one on me — ich geb dir einen aus

    8) (coll.): (blow)

    give somebody one on the head/nose — jemandem eins über den Kopf/auf die Nase geben (ugs.)

    * * *
    1. noun
    1) (the number or figure 1: One and one is two (1 + 1 = 2).) die Eins
    2) (the age of 1: Babies start to talk at one.) die Eins
    2. pronoun
    1) (a single person or thing: She's the one I like the best; I'll buy the red one.) der/die/das(jenige)
    2) (anyone; any person: One can see the city from here.) man
    3. adjective
    1) (1 in number: one person; He took one book.) ein/e/es
    2) (aged 1: The baby will be one tomorrow.) eins
    3) (of the same opinion etc: We are one in our love of freedom.) einer Meinung
    •
    - one-
    - oneself
    - one-night stand
    - one-off
    - one-parent family
    - one-sided
    - one-way
    - one-year-old     4. adjective
    ((of a person, animal or thing) that is one year old.) einjährige
    - all one
    - be one up on a person
    - be one up on
    - not be oneself
    - one and all
    - one another
    - one by one
    - one or two
    * * *
    [wʌn]
    I. adj inv
    1. attr (not two) ein(e)
    we have two daughters and \one son wir haben zwei Töchter und einen Sohn
    \one hundred/thousand einhundert/-tausend
    \one million eine Million
    \one third/fifth ein Drittel/Fünftel nt
    2. attr (one of a number) ein(e)
    the glass tube is closed at \one end das Glasröhrchen ist an einem Ende verschlossen
    he can't tell \one wine from another er schmeckt bei Weinen keinen Unterschied
    3. attr (single, only) einzige(r, s)
    her \one concern is to save her daughter ihre einzige Sorge ist, wie sie ihre Tochter retten kann
    do you think the five of us will manage to squeeze into the \one car? glaubst du, wir fünf können uns in dieses eine Auto quetschen?
    we should paint the bedroom all \one colour wir sollten das Schlafzimmer nur in einer Farbe streichen
    he's the \one person you can rely on in an emergency er ist die einzige Person, auf die man sich im Notfall verlassen kann
    not \one man kein Mensch
    to have just \one thought nur einen [einzigen] Gedanken haben
    the \one and only... der/die/das einzige...
    ladies and gentlemen, the \one and only Muhammad Ali! meine Damen und Herren, der einzigartige Muhammad Ali!
    4. attr (some future) irgendein(e)
    I'd like to go skiing \one Christmas ich würde gern irgendwann an Weihnachten Skifahren gehen
    \one afternoon next week an irgendeinem Nachmittag nächste Woche, irgendwann nächste Woche nachmittags
    \one day irgendwann
    \one evening/night irgendwann abends/nachts
    5. attr (some in the past) ein(e)
    \one moment he says he loves me, the next moment he's asking for a divorce einmal sagt er, er liebt mich, und im nächsten Moment will er die Scheidung
    \one afternoon in late October an einem Nachmittag Ende Oktober
    \one day/evening/night eines Tages/Abends/Nachts
    \one night we stayed up talking till dawn an einem Abend plauderten wir einmal bis zum Morgengrauen
    6. attr ( form: a certain) ein gewisser/eine gewisse
    her solicitor is \one John Wintersgill ihr Anwalt ist ein gewisser John Wintersgill
    7. attr esp AM ( emph fam: noteworthy)
    his mother is \one generous woman seine Mutter ist eine wirklich großzügige Frau
    that's \one big ice cream you've got there du hast aber ein großes Eis!
    it was \one hell of a shock to find out I'd lost my job ( fam) es war ein Riesenschock für mich, als ich erfuhr, dass ich meinen Job verloren hatte fam
    he was \one hell of a snappy dresser ( fam) er war immer todschick gekleidet fam
    8. (identical) ein(e)
    all types of training meet \one common standard alle Trainingsarten unterliegen den gleichen Maßstäben
    to be of \one mind einer Meinung sein
    \one and the same ein und der-/die-/dasselbe
    that's \one and the same thing! das ist doch ein und dasselbe!
    9. (age) ein Jahr
    \one is a difficult age mit einem Jahr sind Kinder in einem schwierigen Alter
    to be \one [year old] ein Jahr alt sein
    little Jimmy's \one today der kleine Jimmy wird heute ein Jahr alt
    she'll be \one [year old] tomorrow sie wird morgen ein Jahr alt
    10. (time)
    \one [o'clock] eins, ein Uhr
    it's half past \one es ist halb zwei
    at \one um eins
    11.
    ▶ a hundred [or million] [or thousand] and \one hunderttausend
    I've got a hundred and \one things to do this morning ich muss heute Vormittag hunderttausend Dinge erledigen
    ▶ what with \one thing and another ( fam) weil alles [o viel] zusammenkommt
    what with \one thing and another she hadn't had much sleep recently da alles [o viel] zusammenkam, hat sie in letzter Zeit nicht viel Schlaf bekommen
    ▶ \one way or another [or the other] (for or against) für oder gegen; (somehow) irgendwie
    there is no evidence \one way or the other about the effectiveness of the drug es gibt keinerlei Beweise für die Wirksamkeit oder Unwirksamkeit des Medikaments
    the bills have to be paid \one way or another die Rechnungen müssen irgendwie bezahlt werden
    II. n
    1. (unit) Eins f
    \one hundred and \one einhundert[und]eins
    three \ones are three drei mal eins gibt [o ist] [o macht] drei
    2. (figure) Eins f
    the front door bore a big brass \one auf der Eingangstür prangte eine große kupferne Eins
    3. (size of garment, merchandise) Größe eins
    little Jackie's wearing \ones now die kleine Jackie trägt jetzt Größe eins
    4. no pl (unity)
    ▪ to be \one eins sein
    to be made \one getraut werden
    III. pron
    1. (single item) eine(r, s)
    four parcels came this morning, but only \one was for Mark heute Morgen kamen vier Pakete, aber nur eines war für Mark
    which cake would you like? — the \one at the front welchen Kuchen möchten Sie? — den vorderen
    I'd rather eat French croissants than English \ones ich esse lieber französische Croissants als englische
    I have two apples, do you want \one? ich habe zwei Äpfel, möchtest du einen?
    not a single \one kein Einziger/keine Einzige/kein Einziges
    \one at a time immer nur eine(r, s)
    don't gobble them up all at once — eat them \one at a time schling nicht alle auf einmal hinunter — iss sie langsam
    [all] in \one [alles] in einem
    with this model you get a radio, CD player and cassette deck [all] in \one dieses Modell enthält Radio, CD-Player und Kassettendeck in einem
    \one after another [or the other] eine(r, s) nach dem/der anderen
    \one after another the buses drew up die Busse kamen einer nach dem anderen
    \one [thing] after another [or the other] eines nach dem anderen
    \one or another [or the other] irgendeine(r, s)
    not all instances fall neatly into \one or another of these categories nicht alle Vorkommnisse fallen genau unter eine dieser Kategorien
    this/that \one diese(r, s)/jene(r, s)
    these/those \ones diese/jene
    which \one do you want? — that \one, please! welchen möchten Sie? — den dort, bitte!
    ▪ \one of sth:
    Luxembourg is \one of the world's smallest countries Luxemburg ist eines der kleinsten Länder der Welt
    electronics is \one of his [many] hobbies die Elektronik ist eines seiner [vielen] Hobbys
    our organization is just \one of many charities unsere Organisation ist nur eine von vielen wohltätigen Vereinigungen
    2. (single person) eine(r)
    two could live as cheaply as \one zwei könnten so günstig wie einer wohnen
    she thought of her loved \ones sie dachte an ihre Lieben
    to [not] be \one to do [or who does] sth (nature) [nicht] der Typ sein, der etw tut, [nicht] zu denen gehören, die etw tun; (liking) etw [nicht] gerne tun
    she's always been \one to take [or who takes] initiative es war schon immer ihre Art, die Initiative zu ergreifen
    I've never really been \one to sit around doing nothing untätig herumzusitzen war noch nie meine Art
    he's always been \one that enjoys good food ihm hat gutes Essen schon immer geschmeckt
    he's not \one to eat exotic food er isst nicht gerne exotische Speisen
    she's [not] \one to go [or who goes] to parties sie geht [nicht] gerne auf Partys
    to not [or never] be \one to say no to sth nie zu etw dat Nein sagen können
    to be [a] \one for sth ( fam) etw gerne mögen, sich dat viel aus etw dat machen
    Jack's always been \one for the ladies Jack hatte schon immer viel für Frauen übrig
    to not be [a] \one ( fam) for sth [or to not be much of a \one] ( fam) etw nicht besonders mögen, sich dat nicht viel aus etw dat machen
    I've never really been [much of a] \one for football ich habe mir eigentlich nie viel aus Fußball gemacht
    to [not] be [a] \one for doing sth ( fam) etw [nicht] gerne machen
    he's a great \one for telling other people what to do er sagt anderen gerne, was sie zu tun haben
    \one and all ( liter) alle
    the news of his resignation came as a surprise to \one and all die Nachricht von seinem Rücktritt kam für alle überraschend
    well done \one and all! gut gemacht, ihr alle!
    like \one + pp wie ein(e)...
    Viv was running around like \one possessed before the presentation Viv lief vor der Präsentation wie eine Besessene herum
    \one after another eine/einer nach der/dem anderen
    \one by \one nacheinander
    ▪ \one of:
    she's \one of my favourite writers sie ist eine meiner Lieblingsautoren
    to be \one of many/a few eine(r) von vielen/wenigen sein
    ▪ the \one der-/die[jenige]
    Chris is the \one with curly brown hair Chris ist der mit den lockigen braunen Haaren
    3. (expressing alternatives, comparisons)
    they look very similar and it's difficult to distinguish \one from the other sie sehen sich sehr ähnlich, und es ist oft schwer sie auseinanderzuhalten
    \one or the other der/die/das eine oder der/die/das andere
    choose \one of the pictures. you may have \one or the other, but not both such dir eins der Bilder aus. du kannst nur eines davon haben, nicht beide
    \one without the other der/die/das eine ohne der/die/das andere
    \one has an obligation to \one's friends man hat Verpflichtungen seinen Freunden gegenüber
    \one must admire him er ist zu bewundern
    5. ( form: I) ich; (we) wir
    \one gets the impression that... ich habe den Eindruck, dass...
    \one has to do \one's best wir müssen unser Bestes geben
    I for \one ich für meinen Teil
    I for \one think we should proceed was mich betrifft, so denke ich, dass wir weitermachen sollten
    6. (question) Frage f
    what's the capital of Zaire? — oh, that's a difficult \one wie heißt die Hauptstadt von Zaire? — das ist eine schwierige Frage
    7. ( fam: alcoholic drink) Getränk nt
    this \one's on me! diese Runde geht auf mich!
    she likes a cool \one after a hard day nach einem harten Tag braucht sie einen kühlen Drink
    8. ( fam: joke, story) Witz m
    that was a good \one! der war gut!
    did I tell you the \one about the blind beggar? habe ich dir den [Witz] von dem blinden Bettler schon erzählt?
    9. BRIT, AUS ( dated fam: sb who is lacking respect, is rude, or amusing)
    you are a \one! du bist mir vielleicht einer! fam
    she's a \one! das ist mir vielleicht eine! fam
    10.
    ▶ to be all \one to sb Chinesisch für jdn sein fam
    Greek and Hebrew are all \one to me Griechisch und Hebräisch sind Chinesisch für mich fam
    ▶ to be as \one on sth ( form) bei etw dat einer Meinung sein
    we have discussed the matter fully and are as \one on our decision wir haben die Angelegenheit gründlich erörtert, und unsere Entscheidung ist einstimmig
    ▶ to be at \one with sb ( form) mit jdm einer Meinung sein
    ▶ to be at \one with sth ( form) mit etw dat eins sein
    they were completely at \one with their environment sie lebten in völliger Harmonie mit ihrer Umwelt
    ▶ to be \one of the family zur Familie gehören fig
    ▶ to get sth in \one ( fam: guess) etw sofort erraten; (understand) etw gleich kapieren fam
    so are you saying she's leaving him? — yep, got it in \one du sagst also, dass sie ihn verlässt? — ja, du hast es erfasst
    ▶ to get [or be] \one up on sb jdn übertrumpfen
    ▶ in \one (draught) in einem Zug, [auf] ex fam
    ▶ to be \one of a kind zur Spitze gehören
    in the world of ballet she was certainly \one of a kind as a dancer in der Welt des Ballet zählte sie zweifellos zu den besten Tänzerinnen
    ▶ to land [or sock] sb \one [on the jaw] ( fam) jdm eine reinhauen fam
    ▶ \one or two ( fam) ein paar
    I hear you've collected over 1,000 autographs! — well, I do have \one or two ich habe gehört, du hast über 1.000 Autogramme gesammelt! — na ja, ich habe schon ein paar
    ▶ in \ones and twos (in small numbers) immer nur ein paar; (alone or in a pair) allein oder paarweise [o zu zweit]
    we expected a flood of applications for the job, but we're only receiving them in \ones and twos wir haben eine Flut von Bewerbungen für die Stelle erwartet, aber es gehen [täglich] nur wenige ein
    to arrive/stand around in \ones and [or or] twos einzeln oder paarweise [o zu zweit] eintreffen/herumstehen
    * * *
    [wʌn]
    1. adj
    1) (= number) ein/eine/ein; (counting) eins

    there was one person too many — da war einer zu viel

    one girl was pretty, the other was ugly —

    she was in one room, he was in the other — sie war im einen Zimmer, er im anderen

    the baby is one ( year old) — das Kind ist ein Jahr (alt)

    it is one ( o'clock) — es ist eins, es ist ein Uhr

    one hundred pounds — hundert Pfund; (on cheque etc) einhundert Pfund

    that's one way of doing it — so kann mans (natürlich) auch machen

    2)

    (indefinite) one morning/day etc he realized... — eines Morgens/Tages etc bemerkte er...

    3)

    (= a certain) one Mr Smith — ein gewisser Herr Smith

    4)

    (= sole, only) he is the one man to tell you — er ist der Einzige, der es Ihnen sagen kann

    5)

    (= same) they all came in the one car — sie kamen alle in dem einen Auto

    6)

    (= united) God is one — Gott ist unteilbar

    they were one in wanting that — sie waren sich darin einig, dass sie das wollten

    2. pron
    1) eine(r, s)

    the one who... — der(jenige), der.../die(jenige), die.../das(jenige), das...

    he/that was the one — er/das wars

    do you have one? — haben Sie einen/eine/ein(e)s?

    the red/big etc one — der/die/das Rote/Große etc

    my one (inf) — meiner/meine/mein(e)s

    his one (inf) — seiner/seine/sein(e)s

    not (a single) one of them, never one of them — nicht eine(r, s) von ihnen, kein Einziger/keine Einzige/kein Einziges

    any one — irgendeine(r, s)

    every one — jede(r, s)

    this one — diese(r, s)

    that one — der/die/das, jene(r, s) (geh)

    which one? — welche(r, s)?

    that's a good one (inf) — der (Witz) ist gut; ( iro, excuse etc ) (das ist ein) guter Witz

    I'm not one to go out often — ich bin nicht der Typ, der oft ausgeht

    I'm not usually one to go out on a week night, but today... — ich gehe sonst eigentlich nicht an Wochentagen aus, aber heute...

    she was never one to cry — Weinen war noch nie ihre Art; (but she did) sonst weinte sie nie

    he's a great one for discipline/turning up late — der ist ganz groß, wenns um Disziplin/ums Zuspätkommen geht

    ooh, you are a one! (inf) — oh, Sie sind mir vielleicht eine(r)! (inf)

    she is a teacher, and he/her sister wants to be one too — sie ist Lehrerin, und er möchte auch gern Lehrer werden/ihre Schwester möchte auch gern eine werden

    I, for one, think otherwise — ich, zum Beispiel, denke anders

    one after the other — eine(r, s) nach dem/der/dem anderen

    take one or the other —

    one or other of them will do it — der/die eine oder andere wird es tun

    one who knows the country —

    in the manner of one who... — in der Art von jemandem, der...

    like one demented/possessed — wie verrückt/besessen

    2) (impers) (nom) man; (acc) einen; (dat) einem

    one must learn to keep quiet — man muss lernen, still zu sein

    to hurt one's foot — sich (dat) den Fuß verletzen

    to wash one's face/hair — sich (dat) das Gesicht/die Haare waschen

    3. n
    (= written figure) Eins f

    to be at one (with sb) — sich (dat) (mit jdm) einig sein

    * * *
    one [wʌn]
    A adj
    1. ein, eine, ein:
    one apple ein Apfel;
    one man in ten einer von zehn;
    one or two ein oder zwei, ein paar;
    he spoke to him as one man to another er redete mit ihm von Mann zu Mann; → hundred A 1, thousand A 1
    2. (emphatisch) ein, eine, ein, ein einziger, eine einzige, ein einziges:
    all were of one mind sie waren alle einer Meinung;
    he is one with me on this er ist mit mir darüber einer Meinung;
    be made one ehelich verbunden werden;
    for one thing zunächst einmal;
    no one man could do it allein könnte das niemand schaffen;
    his one thought sein einziger Gedanke;
    the one way to do it die einzige Möglichkeit(, es zu tun);
    my one and only hope meine einzige Hoffnung;
    the one and only Mr X der unvergleichliche oder einzigartige Mr. X; → man A 5
    3. all one nur präd alles eins, ein und dasselbe:
    it is all one to me es ist mir (ganz) egal;
    it’s one fine job es ist eine einmalig schöne Arbeit
    4. ein gewisser, eine gewisse, ein gewisses, ein, eine, ein:
    one day eines Tages (in Zukunft od Vergangenheit);
    one of these days irgendwann (ein)mal;
    one John Smith ein gewisser John Smith
    B s
    1. Eins f, eins:
    one is half of two eins ist die Hälfte von zwei;
    a Roman one eine römische Eins;
    one and a half ein(und)einhalb, anderthalb;
    I bet ten to one (that …) ich wette zehn zu eins(, dass …);
    at one o’clock um ein Uhr;
    one-ten ein Uhr zehn, zehn nach eins;
    in the year one anno dazumal;
    be one up on sb jemandem (um eine Nasenlänge) voraus sein; → number one
    2. (der, die) Einzelne, (das) einzelne (Stück):
    the all and the one die Gesamtheit und der Einzelne;
    one by one, one after another, one after the other einer nach dem andern;
    one with another eins zum anderen gerechnet;
    by ones and twos einzeln und zu zweien oder zweit;
    I for one ich zum Beispiel
    3. Einheit f:
    be at one with sb mit jemandem einer Meinung oder einig sein;
    be at one with nature eins mit der Natur sein;
    be at one with life rundherum zufrieden sein;
    a) alle gemeinsam,
    b) alles in einem
    4. Ein(s)er m, besonders Eindollarnote f
    C pron
    1. ein(er), eine, ein(es), jemand:
    as one wie ein Mann, geschlossen;
    on this question they were as one in dieser Frage waren sich alle einig;
    as one enchanted wie verzaubert;
    one of the poets einer der Dichter;
    one who einer, der;
    the one who der(jenige), der oder welcher;
    one so cautious jemand, der so vorsichtig ist; ein so vorsichtiger Mann;
    help one another einander oder sich gegenseitig helfen;
    have you heard the one about …? kennen Sie den (Witz) schon von …?;
    one for all and all for one einer für alle und alle für einen
    2. (Stützwort, meist unübersetzt):
    a sly one ein ganz Schlauer;
    that one der, die, das da ( oder dort);
    a red pencil and a blue one ein roter Bleistift und ein blauer;
    the portraits are fine ones die Porträts sind gut;
    the picture is a realistic one das Bild ist realistisch; → anyone, each A, many A 1, someone
    3. man:
    4. one’s sein, seine, sein:
    break one’s leg sich das Bein brechen;
    lose one’s way sich verirren
    5. umg
    a) ein anständiges Ding (hervorragende Sache, besonders tüchtiger Schlag)
    b) Kanone f fig, Könner(in):
    one in the eye fig ein Denkzettel;
    that’s a good one! nicht schlecht!;
    you are a one! du bist mir vielleicht einer!; → land C 6
    * * *
    1. adjective
    1) attrib. ein

    one thing I must say — ein[e]s muss ich sagen

    one or two — (fig.): (a few) ein paar

    one more... — noch ein...

    it's one [o'clock] — es ist eins od. ein Uhr; see also eight 1.; half 1. 1), 3. 2); quarter 1. 1)

    2) attrib. (single, only) einzig

    in any one day/year — an einem Tag/in einem Jahr

    at any one time — zur gleichen Zeit; (always) zu jeder Zeit

    not one [little] bit — überhaupt nicht

    3) (identical, same) ein

    one and the same person/thing — ein und dieselbe Person/Sache

    at one and the same time — gleichzeitig; see also all 2. 1)

    4) pred. (united, unified)

    be one as a family/nation — eine einige Familie/Nation sein; see also with 1)

    5) attrib. (a particular but undefined)

    at one time — einmal; einst (geh.)

    one morning/night — eines Morgens/Nachts

    6) attrib. contrasted with ‘other’/‘another’ ein

    neither one thing nor the other — weder das eine noch das andere; see also hand 1. 24)

    7)

    in one — (coll.): (at first attempt) auf Anhieb

    got it in one! — (coll.) [du hast es] erraten!

    2. noun
    1) eins
    2) (number, symbol) Eins, die; see also eight 2. 1)
    3. pronoun
    1)

    one of... — ein... (+ Gen.)

    one of them/us — etc. einer von ihnen/uns usw.

    any one of them — jeder/jede/jedes von ihnen

    every one of them — jeder/jede/jedes [einzelne] von ihnen

    not one of them — keiner/keine/keines von ihnen

    2) replacing n. implied or mentioned ein...

    the jacket is an old one — die Jacke ist [schon] alt

    the older/younger one — der/die/das ältere/jüngere

    this is the one I like — den/die/das mag ich

    you are or were the one who insisted on going to Scotland — du warst der-/diejenige, der/die unbedingt nach Schottland wollte

    this one — dieser/diese/dieses [da]

    that one — der/die/das [da]

    these ones or those ones? — (coll.) die [da] oder die [da]?

    these/those blue etc. ones — diese/die blauen usw.

    which one? — welcher/welche/welches?

    not one — keiner/keine/keines; (emphatic) nicht einer/eine/eines

    all but one — alle außer einem/einer/einem

    I for one — ich für mein[en] Teil

    one by one, one after another or the other — einzeln

    love one another — sich od. (geh.) einander lieben

    3) (contrasted with ‘other’/‘another’)

    [the] one... the other — der/die/das eine... der/die/das andere

    4) (person or creature of specified kind)

    the little one — der/die/das Kleine

    our dear or loved ones — unsere Lieben

    young one — (youngster) Kind, das; (young animal) Junge, das

    5)

    [not] one who does or to do or for doing something — [nicht] der Typ, der etwas tut

    6) (representing people in general; also coll.): (I, we) man; as indirect object einem; as direct object einen

    one's — sein

    wash one's hands — sich (Dat.) die Hände waschen

    7) (coll.): (drink)
    8) (coll.): (blow)

    give somebody one on the head/nose — jemandem eins über den Kopf/auf die Nase geben (ugs.)

    * * *
    (number) n.
    n. adj.
    ein adj.
    eins adj. pron.
    man pron.

    English-german dictionary > one

  • 3 time

    time [taɪm]
    temps ⇒ 1 (a)-(e), 1 (m), 1 (o) durée ⇒ 1 (e) heure ⇒ 1 (f), 1 (g), 1 (m) moment ⇒ 1 (i), 1 (j) fois ⇒ 1 (k) époque ⇒ 1 (o) fin ⇒ 1 (r) mesure ⇒ 1 (u) chronométrer ⇒ 2 (a) fixer l'heure de ⇒ 2 (b) choisir le moment de ⇒ 2 (c) régler ⇒ 2 (d)
    1 noun
    ∎ as time goes by avec le temps;
    ∎ the price has gone up over time le prix a augmenté avec le temps;
    ∎ it's only a matter or a question of time ce n'est qu'une question de temps;
    ∎ these things take time cela ne se fait pas du jour au lendemain;
    ∎ to have time on one's hands or time to spare avoir du temps;
    ∎ time hangs heavy on his hands le temps lui pèse, il trouve le temps long;
    ∎ since the dawn of time depuis la nuit des temps;
    ∎ time flies le temps passe vite;
    ∎ doesn't time fly! comme le temps passe vite!;
    ∎ time heals all wounds le temps guérit tout;
    ∎ only time will tell seul l'avenir nous le dira;
    ∎ time will prove me right l'avenir me donnera raison;
    ∎ it's a race against time c'est une course contre la montre;
    ∎ they're working against time to save her ils ne disposent que de très peu de temps pour la sauver;
    ∎ time is on our side le temps joue en notre faveur;
    ∎ time out of mind de temps immémorial, de toute éternité;
    ∎ time is money le temps, c'est de l'argent;
    ∎ proverb time and tide wait for no man les événements n'attendent personne
    ∎ there's no time to lose il n'y a pas de temps à perdre;
    ∎ he lost no time in telling me il s'est empressé de me le dire;
    ∎ to make up for lost time rattraper le temps perdu;
    ∎ to make good/poor time doing sth mettre peu de temps/longtemps à faire qch;
    ∎ I passed the time reading j'ai passé mon temps à lire;
    ∎ take your time prenez votre temps;
    ∎ take your time over it prenez le temps qu'il faudra;
    ∎ it took me all my time just to get here! avec le temps que j'ai mis pour arriver ici!;
    ∎ you took your time about it! tu en as mis du temps!;
    ∎ she took the time to explain it to us elle a pris le temps de nous l'expliquer;
    ∎ she made the time to read the report elle a pris le temps de lire le rapport;
    ∎ I can always make time for you pour vous, je suis toujours là;
    ∎ I spend half/all my time cleaning up je passe la moitié de/tout mon temps à faire le ménage;
    ∎ half the time he doesn't know what he's doing la moitié du temps il ne sait pas ce qu'il fait;
    ∎ most of the time la plupart du temps;
    ∎ he was ill part or some of the time il a été malade une partie du temps;
    ∎ it rained part or some of the time il a plu par moments;
    ∎ we spend the better part of our time working nous passons le plus clair de notre temps à travailler;
    ∎ I start in three weeks' time je commence dans trois semaines;
    ∎ they'll have finished the project in three weeks' time ils auront terminé le projet dans trois semaines;
    ∎ all in good time! chaque chose en son temps!;
    ∎ I'll finish it in my own good time je le finirai quand bon me semblera;
    ∎ in no time (at all), in next to no time en un rien de temps, en moins de rien
    ∎ I haven't (the) time to do the shopping je n'ai pas le temps de faire les courses;
    ∎ I've no time for gossip je n'ai pas de temps à perdre en bavardages;
    ∎ I've no time for that sort of attitude je ne supporte pas ce genre de mentalité;
    ∎ he has no time for sycophants/for laziness il n'a pas de temps à perdre avec les flatteurs/les paresseux;
    ∎ my time is my own mon temps m'appartient;
    ∎ my time is not my own je ne suis pas libre de mon temps;
    ∎ we've just got time to catch the train on a juste le temps d'attraper le train;
    ∎ that doesn't leave them much time to get ready cela ne leur laisse guère de temps pour se préparer;
    ∎ you'll have to find the time to see her il faut que tu trouves le temps de la voir;
    ∎ you have plenty of time to finish it vous avez largement le temps de le finir;
    ∎ we've got plenty of time or all the time in the world nous avons tout le temps
    (d) (while) temps m;
    ∎ after a time après un (certain) temps;
    ∎ a long time longtemps;
    ∎ a long time ago il y a longtemps;
    ∎ it's a long time since we've been out for a meal together ça fait longtemps que nous ne sommes pas sortis dîner ensemble;
    ∎ she's been dreaming of this for a long time now voilà longtemps qu'elle en rêve;
    ∎ he waited for a long time il a attendu longtemps;
    ∎ I worked for a long time as a translator j'ai travaillé (pendant) longtemps comme traducteur;
    ∎ for a long time he refused to eat meat il a (pendant) longtemps refusé de manger de la viande;
    ∎ it'll be a long time before I do that again je ne suis pas près de recommencer, je ne recommencerai pas de si tôt ou de sitôt;
    ∎ the car takes a long time to warm up la voiture met longtemps à chauffer;
    ∎ you took a long time! tu en as mis du temps!, il t'en a fallu du temps!;
    ∎ familiar long time no see! ça faisait longtemps!;
    ∎ a short time peu de temps;
    ∎ after a short time peu (de temps) après;
    ∎ a short time before their wedding peu avant leur mariage;
    ∎ she's going to stay with us for a short time elle va rester avec nous pendant quelque temps;
    ∎ in the shortest possible time dans les plus brefs délais, le plus vite ou tôt possible;
    ∎ after some time au bout de quelque temps, après un certain temps;
    ∎ some time after their trip quelque temps après leur voyage;
    ∎ some time ago il y a quelque temps;
    ∎ for some time past depuis quelque temps;
    ∎ for some time (to come) pendant quelque temps;
    ∎ it's the best film I've seen for some time c'est le meilleur film que j'aie vu depuis un moment;
    ∎ it will take (quite) some time to repair il va falloir pas mal de temps pour le réparer;
    ∎ all this time pendant tout ce temps
    ∎ the flying time to Madrid is two hours la durée du vol pour Madrid est de deux heures;
    ∎ the cooking time is two hours le temps de cuisson est de deux heures;
    ∎ the winner's time was under four minutes le gagnant a fait un temps de moins de quatre minutes;
    ∎ 1 minute 34 seconds is her best/a good time 1 minute 34 secondes, c'est son meilleur temps/un bon temps;
    ∎ it takes time cela prend du temps;
    ∎ how much time will it take? combien de temps cela prendra-t-il?;
    ∎ she finished in half the time it took me to finish elle a mis deux fois moins de temps que moi pour finir
    (f) (by clock) heure f;
    ∎ what time is it?, what's the time? quelle heure est-il?;
    ∎ what time do you make it? quelle heure avez-vous?;
    ∎ do you have the time? vous avez l'heure?;
    ∎ have you got the right time on you? avez-vous l'heure juste?;
    ∎ the time is twenty past three il est trois heures vingt;
    ∎ what time are we leaving? à quelle heure partons-nous?;
    ∎ do you know how to tell the time? est-ce que tu sais lire l'heure?;
    ∎ could you tell me the time? pourriez-vous me dire l'heure (qu'il est)?;
    ∎ have you seen the time? avez-vous vu l'heure?;
    ∎ I looked at the time j'ai regardé l'heure;
    ∎ this old watch still keeps good time cette vieille montre est toujours à l'heure ou exacte;
    ∎ at this time of day à cette heure de la journée;
    ∎ we'll have to keep an eye on the time il faudra surveiller l'heure;
    ∎ it is almost time to leave/for my bus il est presque l'heure de partir/de mon bus;
    ∎ it's time I was going il est temps que je parte;
    ∎ it's dinner time, it's time for dinner c'est l'heure de dîner;
    ∎ there you are, it's about time! te voilà, ce n'est pas trop tôt!;
    ∎ I wouldn't give him the time of day je ne lui dirais même pas bonjour;
    ∎ to pass the time of day with sb échanger quelques mots avec qn
    ∎ local time heure f locale;
    ∎ it's 5 o'clock Tokyo time il est 5 heures, heure de Tokyo
    ∎ is the bus running to time? est-ce que le bus est à l'heure?;
    ∎ within the required time dans les délais requis
    ∎ at that time I was in Madrid à ce moment-là, j'étais à Madrid ou j'étais alors à Madrid;
    ∎ I worked for her at one time à un moment donné j'ai travaillé pour elle;
    ∎ at the present time en ce moment, à présent;
    ∎ he is president at the present time il est actuellement président;
    ∎ at the time of delivery au moment de la livraison;
    ∎ at a later time plus tard;
    ∎ at a given time à un moment donné;
    ∎ at any one time à la fois;
    ∎ there's room for 15 people at any one time il y a de la place pour 15 personnes à la fois;
    ∎ an inconvenient time un moment inopportun;
    ∎ you called at a most inconvenient time vous avez appelé à un très mauvais moment;
    ∎ there are times when I could scream il y a des moments où j'ai envie de hurler;
    ∎ at the best of times même quand tout va bien;
    ∎ even at the best of times he is not that patient même dans ses bons moments il n'est pas particulièrement patient;
    ∎ at no time did I agree to that je n'ai jamais donné mon accord pour cela;
    ∎ by the time you get this… le temps que tu reçoives ceci…, quand tu auras reçu ceci…;
    ∎ by that time it will be too late à ce moment-là il sera trop tard;
    ∎ by that time we'll all be dead d'ici là nous serons tous morts;
    ∎ by this time next week d'ici une semaine, dans une semaine;
    ∎ this time next week la semaine prochaine à cette heure-ci;
    ∎ this time last week il y a exactement une semaine;
    ∎ from that time on we had nothing to do with them à partir de ce moment-là, nous avons refusé d'avoir affaire à eux;
    ∎ in between times entre-temps;
    ∎ some time or other un jour ou l'autre;
    ∎ some time next month dans le courant du mois prochain;
    ∎ until such time as I hear from them jusqu'à ce que ou en attendant que j'aie de leurs nouvelles
    ∎ she chose her time badly elle a mal choisi son moment;
    ∎ this is no time for you to leave ce n'est pas le moment de partir;
    ∎ now's our time to tell her c'est maintenant que nous devrions ou voici venu le moment de le lui dire;
    ∎ now is the time to invest c'est maintenant qu'il faut investir;
    ∎ when the time comes le moment venu, quand le moment sera venu;
    ∎ we'll talk about that when the time comes nous en parlerons en temps utile;
    ∎ the time has come to make a stand c'est le moment d'avoir le courage de ses opinions;
    ∎ the time for talking is past ce n'est plus le moment de parler;
    ∎ it's about time we taught her a lesson il est grand temps que nous lui donnions une bonne leçon;
    ∎ there's a time and a place for everything il y a un temps et un lieu pour ou à tout
    (k) (occasion, instance) fois f;
    ∎ I'll forgive you this time je vous pardonne cette fois-ci ou pour cette fois;
    ∎ each or every time chaque fois;
    ∎ she succeeds every time elle réussit à chaque fois;
    ∎ the last time he came la dernière fois qu'il est venu;
    ∎ the time before la fois précédente ou d'avant;
    ∎ another or some other time une autre fois;
    ∎ I called her three times je l'ai appelée trois fois;
    ∎ many times bien des fois, très souvent;
    ∎ many a time I've wondered… je me suis demandé plus d'une ou bien des fois…;
    ∎ several times plusieurs fois;
    ∎ several times in the past plusieurs fois déjà;
    ∎ he asked me several times if… il m'a demandé plusieurs fois si…;
    ∎ it costs 15 cents a time ça coûte 15 cents à chaque fois;
    ∎ the one time I'm winning, he wants to stop playing pour une fois que je gagne, il veut arrêter de jouer;
    ∎ nine times out of ten the machine doesn't work neuf fois sur dix la machine ne marche pas;
    ∎ we'll have to decide some time or other tôt ou tard ou un jour ou l'autre il va falloir nous décider;
    ∎ do you remember that time we went to Germany? tu te rappelles la fois où nous sommes allés en Allemagne?;
    ∎ there's always a first time il y a un début à tout;
    ∎ I've told you a hundred times! je te l'ai dit vingt ou cent fois!;
    ∎ give me a good detective story every time! rien ne vaut un bon roman policier!
    ∎ to have a good time bien s'amuser;
    ∎ she's had a terrible time of it elle a beaucoup souffert;
    ∎ I had the time of my life jamais je ne me suis si bien ou autant amusé;
    ∎ we had an awful time at the picnic nous nous sommes ennuyés à mourir au pique-nique;
    ∎ it was a difficult time for all of us c'était une période difficile pour nous tous;
    ∎ she had a hard time bringing up five children alone ça a été difficile pour elle d'élever cinq enfants seule;
    ∎ to give sb a hard or rough or tough time en faire voir de dures à qn, en faire voir de toutes les couleurs à qn;
    ∎ what a time I had with him! (fun) qu'est-ce que j'ai pu m'amuser avec lui!; (trouble) qu'est-ce qu'il m'en a fait voir!
    ∎ to put in time faire des heures (de travail);
    ∎ to work part/full time travailler à temps partiel/à plein temps;
    ∎ British in company time, American on company time pendant les heures de travail;
    ∎ British in your own time, American on your own time pendant votre temps libre, en dehors des heures de travail
    ∎ we pay time and a half on weekends nous payons les heures du week-end une fois et demie le tarif normal;
    ∎ overtime is paid at double time les heures supplémentaires sont payées ou comptées double
    (o) (usu plural) (era) époque f, temps m;
    ∎ in Victorian times à l'époque victorienne;
    ∎ in the time of Henry IV à l'époque d'Henri IV, du temps d'Henri IV;
    ∎ in times past, in former times autrefois, jadis;
    ∎ in times to come à l'avenir;
    ∎ at one time, things were different autrefois ou dans le temps les choses étaient différentes;
    ∎ the house has seen better times la maison a connu des jours meilleurs;
    ∎ in happier times en un ou des temps plus heureux;
    ∎ in time or times of need/war en temps de pénurie/de guerre;
    ∎ time was when doctors made house calls il fut un temps où les médecins faisaient des visites à domicile;
    ∎ those were happy times! c'était le bon (vieux) temps!;
    ∎ times are hard les temps sont durs;
    ∎ in our time de nos jours;
    ∎ the times we live in l'époque f où nous vivons;
    ∎ in my time children didn't talk back de mon temps, les enfants ne répondaient pas;
    ∎ she was probably a good singer in her time en son temps, c'était sûrement une bonne chanteuse;
    ∎ it was a very popular car in its time c'était une voiture très populaire à l'époque (où elle est sortie);
    ∎ very advanced for its time très en avance sur son temps ou sur l'époque;
    ∎ to be ahead of or before one's time être en avance sur son époque ou sur son temps;
    ∎ to be behind the times être en retard sur son époque ou sur son temps;
    ∎ to keep up with the times vivre avec son temps;
    ∎ to move with the times évoluer avec son temps;
    ∎ times have changed autres temps, autres mœurs
    ∎ I've heard some odd things in my time! j'en ai entendu, des choses, dans ma vie!;
    ∎ it won't happen in our time nous ne serons pas là pour voir ça;
    ∎ if I had my time over again si j'avais à recommencer (ma vie);
    ∎ at my time of life à mon âge;
    ∎ that was before your time (birth) vous n'étiez pas encore né; (arrival) vous n'étiez pas encore là;
    ∎ her time has come (childbirth) elle arrive à son terme; (death) son heure est venue ou a sonné; (success) son heure est venue;
    ∎ he died before his time il est mort avant l'âge
    ∎ it's hot for the time of year il fait chaud pour la saison
    ∎ time's up (on exam, visit) c'est l'heure; (on meter, telephone) le temps est écoulé;
    ∎ British time (gentlemen), please! (in pub) on ferme!;
    ∎ Sport the referee called time l'arbitre a sifflé la fin du match
    ∎ to buy sth on time acheter qch à tempérament ou à terme ou à crédit
    ∎ to do time faire de la taule;
    ∎ he's serving time for murder il est en taule pour meurtre
    (u) Music (tempo) mesure f; (note value) valeur f (d'une note);
    ∎ to keep time, to be in time être en mesure;
    ∎ he beat time with his foot il battait ou marquait la mesure du pied;
    ∎ in triple or three-part time à trois temps
    (v) Radio & Television espace m;
    ∎ to buy/to sell time on television acheter/vendre de l'espace publicitaire à la télévision
    ∎ to make time with sb (pursue) draguer qn; (be with) être avec qn□ (en couple) ; (have sex with) s'envoyer en l'air avec qn
    (a) (on clock → runner, worker, race) chronométrer;
    ∎ they timed her at four minutes a mile ils l'ont chronométrée ou ils ont chronométré son temps à quatre minutes au mille;
    ∎ time how long she takes to finish regardez combien de temps elle met pour finir;
    ∎ he timed his speech to last twenty minutes il a fait en sorte que son discours dure vingt minutes;
    ∎ to time an egg minuter le temps de cuisson d'un œuf
    (b) (schedule) fixer ou prévoir (l'heure de); Photography (exposure) calculer;
    ∎ they timed the attack for 6 o'clock l'attaque était prévue pour 6 heures
    (c) (choose right moment for) choisir ou calculer le moment de;
    ∎ she timed her entrance well elle a bien choisi le moment pour faire son entrée;
    ∎ he timed the blow perfectly il a frappé au bon moment;
    ∎ your remark was perfectly/badly timed votre observation est venue au bon/au mauvais moment
    (d) (synchronize) régler, ajuster;
    ∎ she tried to time her steps to the music elle essayait de régler ses pas sur la musique
    ∎ she's ten times cleverer than or as clever as he is elle est dix fois plus intelligente que lui;
    ∎ he ate four times as much cake as I did il a mangé quatre fois plus de gâteau que moi
    ∎ Mathematics 3 times 2 is 6 3 fois 2 font ou égalent 6;
    ∎ 1 times 6 is 6 une fois six fait ou égale six
    en avance;
    ∎ I'm ten minutes ahead of time j'ai dix minutes d'avance
    ∎ he talked all the time we were at lunch il a parlé pendant tout le déjeuner;
    ∎ he's been watching us all the time il n'a pas cessé de nous regarder;
    ∎ I knew it all the time je le savais depuis le début
    n'importe quand;
    ∎ come over any time venez quand vous voulez;
    ∎ you're welcome any time vous serez toujours le bienvenu;
    ∎ thanks for all your help - any time merci de votre aide - de rien
    ∎ for days at a time pendant des journées entières, des journées durant;
    ∎ to do two things at a time faire deux choses à la fois;
    ∎ take one book at a time prenez les livres un par un ou un (seul) livre à la fois;
    ∎ she ran up the stairs two at a time elle a monté les marches quatre à quatre
    à tous moments
    à toute heure;
    ∎ hot meals at any time repas chauds à toute heure;
    ∎ at any time of day or night à n'importe quelle heure du jour ou de la nuit;
    ∎ at any time during office hours n'importe quand pendant les heures de bureau;
    ∎ he could die at any time il peut mourir d'un moment à l'autre;
    ∎ if at any time… si à l'occasion…
    (a) (simultaneously) en même temps;
    ∎ they all spoke at the same time ils se sont mis à parler tous en même temps;
    ∎ they arrived at the same time (as) he did ils sont arrivés en même temps que lui
    (b) (yet) en même temps;
    ∎ she was pleased but at the same time a bit concerned elle était contente mais en même temps un peu inquiète
    (c) (nevertheless) pourtant, cependant;
    ∎ at the same time, we must not forget… pourtant ou cependant, il ne faut pas oublier…
    ∎ at the time of their wedding au moment de leur mariage;
    ∎ I didn't pay much attention at the time sur le moment, je n'ai pas fait vraiment attention
    parfois, par moments
    en retard;
    ∎ we're a bit behind time nous sommes légèrement en retard;
    ∎ the project was running behind time le projet avait du retard
    pendant un (certain) temps;
    ∎ for a time, he was unable to walk pendant un certain temps, il n'a pas pu marcher
    pour toujours
    pour le moment
    de temps en temps, de temps à autre
    ∎ she'll come to her senses in time elle finira par revenir à la raison;
    ∎ he'll forget about it in (the course of) time il finira par l'oublier (avec le temps)
    ∎ let me know in (good) time prévenez-moi (bien) à l'avance;
    ∎ she arrived in time for the play elle est arrivée à l'heure pour la pièce;
    ∎ you're just in time to greet our guests tu arrives juste à temps pour accueillir nos invités;
    ∎ I'll be back in time for the film je serai de retour à temps pour le film
    (c) Music en mesure;
    ∎ to be or keep in time (with the music) être en mesure (avec la musique)
    en un rien de temps
    de tous les temps
    ∎ why now of all times? pourquoi faut-il que ce soit juste maintenant?
    à l'heure;
    ∎ to run on time (trains etc) être à l'heure;
    ∎ she arrived right on time elle est arrivée juste à l'heure;
    ∎ is the bus on time? est-ce que le bus est à l'heure?
    ∎ Music he got out of time il a perdu la mesure
    maintes et maintes fois
    temps m libre;
    ∎ what do you do in your time off? qu'est-ce que vous faites de votre temps libre?
    (a) Sport temps m mort; (in chess match) temps m de repos;
    ∎ Sport to take time out faire un temps mort
    ∎ I took time out to travel (from work) je me suis mis en congé pour voyager; (from studies) j'ai interrompu mes études pour voyager;
    ∎ she took time out to read the report elle a pris le temps de lire le rapport
    ►► time of arrival heure f d'arrivée;
    Stock Exchange time bargain marché m à terme;
    Finance time bill traite f à terme; also figurative time bomb bombe f à retardement;
    ∎ figurative a demographic time bomb une situation démographique qui menace d'exploser;
    ∎ the situation is like a time bomb ticking away la situation est explosive;
    ∎ figurative they're sitting on a time bomb ils sont assis sur un volcan;
    time capsule capsule f témoin (qui doit servir de témoignage historique aux générations futures);
    Industry time card carte f ou fiche f de pointage;
    time chart (showing time zones) carte f des fuseaux horaires; (showing events) table f d'événements historiques; (showing planning) calendrier m, planning m;
    time check (on radio) rappel m de l'heure; (in cycling, skiing, motor racing) contrôle m du temps intermédiaire;
    Grammar time clause proposition f temporelle;
    Industry time clock pointeuse f;
    time code code m temporel;
    time of departure heure f de départ;
    American Finance time deposit dépôt m à terme;
    time difference décalage m horaire;
    Finance time draft traite f à terme;
    time exposure (of film) (temps m de) pose f; (photograph) photo f prise en pose;
    time frame délai m;
    ∎ what's our time frame? de combien de temps disposons-nous?;
    time fuse détonateur m ou fusée f à retardement;
    time lag (delay) décalage m dans le temps; (in time zones) décalage m horaire;
    time lapse intervalle m, laps m de temps;
    time limit (gen) délai m, date f limite; Law délai m de forclusion;
    ∎ there is a strict time limit for applications il y a un délai impératif ou de rigueur pour la remise des dossiers de candidature;
    ∎ we'll have to set ourselves a time limit for the work il va falloir nous imposer un délai pour finir ce travail;
    ∎ the work must be completed within the time limit le travail doit être terminé avant la date limite;
    Finance time loan emprunt m à terme;
    time machine machine f à voyager dans le temps;
    time management gestion f du temps de travail;
    Marketing time pricing fixation f des prix en fonction du moment;
    time sheet feuille f de présence;
    Radio time signal signal m ou top m horaire;
    Music time signature indication f de la mesure;
    Computing time slice tranche f de temps;
    Computing time slicing temps m partagé;
    time slot créneau m ou tranche f horaire;
    time switch (for oven, heating) minuteur m; (for lighting) minuterie f;
    time travel voyage m dans le temps;
    time traveller personne f qui voyage dans le temps;
    Sport time trial course f contre la montre, contre-la-montre m inv;
    Telecommunications time unit unité f;
    time value Music valeur f (d'une note); Finance valeur f temporelle;
    time warp (in science fiction) faille f spatio-temporelle;
    ∎ it's like living in a time warp c'est comme si on vivait hors du temps;
    ∎ the country seems to have entered a time warp le temps semble s'être arrêté dans le pays;
    ∎ the house/company seems to be caught in a 19th century time warp la maison/la société semble ne pas avoir changé depuis le XIXème siècle;
    time zone fuseau m horaire
    ✾ Book 'The Time Machine' Wells 'La Machine à explorer le temps'
    ⓘ I may be some time Ce sont les mots ("je risque d'en avoir pour un certain temps") qu'aurait prononcés le capitaine Oates lorsqu'il sortit de la tente qu'il occupait avec le capitaine Scott au cours de leur expédition de 1912 au pôle sud. Oates souffrait de gelures multiples et afin de ne pas ralentir la progression de ses camarades, il décida de se sacrifier en disparaissant dans la tourmente. Cet épisode est censé symboliser les qualités d'héroïsme et d'abnégation associées au caractère britannique. Aujourd'hui, on emploie cette formule par allusion à Oates sur le mode humoristique lorsque l'on sort d'une pièce ou bien lorsqu'on va aux toilettes.

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  • 4 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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