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  • 41 natural

    kb. kelaziman, kebiasaan. -ks. 1 alam. 2 alamiah. 3 dasar. 4 wajar (death, right). n. manner tingkah laku yang tidak dibuat-buat. natural-born ks. dilahirkan dengan bakat. -naturally kk. 1 tentu saja. 2 asli. n. curly lahir keriting rambut yang asli.

    English-Malay dictionary > natural

  • 42 right-hand man

    English-Russian base dictionary > right-hand man

  • 43 right to reclaim (one's) natural resources

    Дипломатический термин: право на возвращение своих природных ресурсов

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > right to reclaim (one's) natural resources

  • 44 right to reclaim natural resources

    Дипломатический термин: (one's) право на возвращение своих природных ресурсов

    Универсальный англо-русский словарь > right to reclaim natural resources

  • 45 right to reclaim (one's) natural resources

    Англо-русский дипломатический словарь > right to reclaim (one's) natural resources

  • 46 right of every state to dispose of its wealth and its natural resources

    право каждого государства распоряжаться своими богатствами и природными ресурсами

    English-russian dctionary of diplomacy > right of every state to dispose of its wealth and its natural resources

  • 47 right of nations to sovereignty over their natural resources

    English-russian dctionary of diplomacy > right of nations to sovereignty over their natural resources

  • 48 right to reclaim one's natural resources

    English-russian dctionary of diplomacy > right to reclaim one's natural resources

  • 49 right to restitution and full compensation for the exploitation and depletion of, and damages to the natural and all other resources

    право на возмещение и полную компенсацию за эксплуатацию и истощение природных и всех других ресурсов и за причинённый им ущерб

    English-russian dctionary of diplomacy > right to restitution and full compensation for the exploitation and depletion of, and damages to the natural and all other resources

  • 50 inalienable right

    юр. неотчуждаемое [неотъемлемое\] право (право, которое не может перестать действовать без согласия обладателя)

    The right to life is an inalienable right. — Право на жизнь является неотъемлемым правом.

    From the standpoint of inalienable natural right, the argument is unavoidably problematic. — С точки зрения неотчуждаемых естественных прав, этот аргумент неизбежно является противоречивым.

    Greece maintains that it is her inalienable sovereign right to extend unilaterally its territorial sea from its present 6 nautical miles to 12 nautical miles. — Греция настаивает на том, что односторонее расширение ее морских границ с текущих шести до двенадцати морских миль является ее неотчуждаемым суверенным правом.

    Syn:
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    Англо-русский экономический словарь > inalienable right

  • 51 individual right

    s.
    derecho individual, derecho, facultad natural de cada individuo de obtener y gozar de lo que la ley le concede.

    Nuevo Diccionario Inglés-Español > individual right

  • 52 theory

    Patent terms dictionary > theory

  • 53 correct posture

    right posture, correct posture, natural posture

    English-Russian dictionary of medicine > correct posture

  • 54 reserve

    rə'zə:v
    1. verb
    1) (to ask for or order to be kept for the use of a particular person, often oneself: The restaurant is busy on Saturdays, so I'll phone up today and reserve a table.) reservar
    2) (to keep for the use of a particular person or group of people, or for a particular use: These seats are reserved for the committee members.) reservar

    2. noun
    1) (something which is kept for later use or for use when needed: The farmer kept a reserve of food in case he was cut off by floods.) reserva
    2) (a piece of land used for a special purpose eg for the protection of animals: a wild-life reserve; a nature reserve.) reserva
    3) (the habit of not saying very much, not showing what one is feeling, thinking etc; shyness.) reserva
    4) ((often in plural) soldiers, sailors etc who do not belong to the regular full-time army, navy etc but who are called into action when needed eg during a war.) reservistas
    - reserved
    - have
    - keep in reserve

    1. reserva
    2. reserva natural
    reserve2 vb reservar
    tr[rɪ'zɜːv]
    1 (gen) reserva
    1 reservar
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    to reserve the right to do something reservarse el derecho de hacer algo
    reserve currency divisa de reserva
    reserve price precio mínimo
    reserve team equipo de reserva
    reserve [ri'zərv] vt, - served ; - serving : reservar
    1) stock: reserva f
    to keep in reserve: guardar en reserva
    2) restraint: reserva f, moderación f
    3) reserves npl
    : reservas fpl (militares)
    adj.
    reservista adj.
    n.
    reemplazo s.m.
    reserva s.f.
    retraimiento s.m.
    retén s.m.
    sigilo s.m.
    v.
    reservar v.
    separar v.

    I rɪ'zɜːrv, rɪ'zɜːv
    1) c ( stock) reserva f
    2) c
    a)

    the Reserve — ( Mil) la reserva

    b) ( Sport) ( substitute player) reserva mf, suplente mf; (before n) < goalkeeper> de reserva
    3) reserves pl ( Mil) reservas fpl; (BrE Sport) reserva f
    4) c ( land) coto m, reserva f; ( game reserve) coto m de caza; ( nature reserve) reserva f natural
    5) u
    a) ( self-restraint) reserva f, cautela f

    II
    a) ( book) \<\<room/seat/table\>\> reservar
    b) (keep, save)

    to reserve something (FOR something)reservar or guardar algo (para algo)

    the company reserves the right to change... — la compañía se reserva el derecho de cambiar...

    [rɪ'zɜːv]
    1. N
    1) [of money, fuel, minerals] reserva f
    2) (Mil)
    3) (esp Brit) (Sport) reserva mf, suplente mf

    to play in or with the reserves — jugar en el segundo equipo

    4) (=land) reserva f ; (also: game reserve) coto m (de caza); (also: nature reserve) reserva f natural
    5) (=restriction)
    6) (=hiding one's feelings) reserva f
    2. VT
    1) (=book, set aside) reservar

    did you reserve the tickets? — ¿has reservado los billetes?

    2) (Jur) aplazar
    3.
    CPD

    reserve bank N(US) banco m de reserva

    reserve currency Ndivisa f de reserva

    reserve fund Nfondo m de reserva

    reserve petrol tank (Brit), reserve gas tank (US) Ndepósito m de gasolina de reserva

    reserve price N(Brit) precio m mínimo (fijado en una subasta)

    reserve team N(Brit) (Sport) equipo m de reserva

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    I [rɪ'zɜːrv, rɪ'zɜːv]
    1) c ( stock) reserva f
    2) c
    a)

    the Reserve — ( Mil) la reserva

    b) ( Sport) ( substitute player) reserva mf, suplente mf; (before n) < goalkeeper> de reserva
    3) reserves pl ( Mil) reservas fpl; (BrE Sport) reserva f
    4) c ( land) coto m, reserva f; ( game reserve) coto m de caza; ( nature reserve) reserva f natural
    5) u
    a) ( self-restraint) reserva f, cautela f

    II
    a) ( book) \<\<room/seat/table\>\> reservar
    b) (keep, save)

    to reserve something (FOR something)reservar or guardar algo (para algo)

    the company reserves the right to change... — la compañía se reserva el derecho de cambiar...

    English-spanish dictionary > reserve

  • 55 to

    {tu}
    I. 1. nред гласна, пред съгласна, под ударение, prep движение, посока в, до, на, към, за, при
    to come TO the surface излизам на повърхността
    TO the right/left/south, etc. надясно, наляво, на юг и пр
    2. място до, на
    to apply polish TO the table слагам лак на/лакирам масата
    with one's hands TO one's eyes с ръце на очи
    ready TO (one's) hand подръка, наръки, наблизо
    next door TO us до нас, до нашата къща
    3. със знач. на дателен падеж с глаголи като give, send, lend, etc. на
    give it TO her дай и го, дай го на нея
    4. въвежда предложно допълнение с глаголи като apply, object, refer, be/get accustomed, etc. на, към, с
    5. лично отношение на, към, за
    pleasant/revolting TO приятен/противен на/за
    lost/blind/dead/favourable TO изгубен/сляп/мъртъв/благоприятен за
    kind/cruel TO мил/жесток към/с
    in regard TO, as TO що се отнася/касае до
    what is that TO you? теб какво ти става? какво те засяга
    6. граница, степен, предел до, на
    TO perfection/death/tears до съвършенство/смърт/сълзи
    TO the last breath до последния си дъх
    TO all eternity навеки
    TO a man до последния човек, до един, до крак
    TO the best of my knowledge/ability доколкото знам/мога
    generous TO a fault прекомерно щедър
    7. начин по
    made TO order/measure направен по поръчка/мярка
    drawn TO scale рисуван/начертан по мащаб
    8. резултат за
    TO my surprise/joy/disappointment, etc. за моя изненада/радост/разочарование
    9. спрямо, към, по отношение на, в сравнение с
    ten TO one десет към/на едно
    to prefer one thing TO another предпочитам едно нещо пред друго
    it's nothing TO what I expected това не e нищо в сравнение с онова, което очаквах
    perpendicular/parallel TO перпендикулярен/успореден на
    superior/inferior TO по-добър/по-лош по качество и пр. от
    10. съотношение по количество, брой по
    ten apples TO the kilo (по) десет ябълки в килограм
    twenty cigarettes TO the box по 20 цигари на/в кутия
    11. цел на, за, в чест на
    to sit down TO dinner сядам на обед/да обядвам
    TO this end за тази цел
    to come TO someone's aid/help притичам се на помощ на някого
    a hymn TO the sun химн/възхвала на слънцето
    a monument TO паметник на/за/в чест на
    12. прибавяне към, на
    to add TO прибавям към
    13. притежание, принадлежност на, от
    brother/secretary/heir TO брат/секретар/наследник на
    an exception TO a rule изключение от правило
    common/natural/peculiar TO общ/естествен/характерен за
    to have a right/title TO имам право на
    to have a flat TO oneself живея сам в апартамент, имам апартамент на свое разположение
    that's all there is TO it това e то/всичко, и толкоз
    there is more TO it than that има и нещо друго, това не е всичко
    there is no index TO the book към книгата няма азбучен показалец
    a box with a lid TO it кутия с капак
    a story with a moral TO it поучителна история
    14. със съпровод на, с, по, под
    to sing TO the piano пея със съпровод на пиано
    to dance TO a tune танцувам под звуците на мелодия
    to write TO dictation пиша по/под диктовка
    15. време до
    from... to... от... до...
    five minutes TO ten десет часа без пет минути
    to come TO someone's call идвам, когато някой ме повика
    to fall TO someone blows падам под/от ударите на
    there's nothing TO it това не представлява трудност, не е мъчно, много е лесно
    II. 1. пред inf за да, за
    never TO return за да не се върне никога
    good TO drink добър/хубав за пиене
    something TO eat нещо за ядене
    he is not a man TO be trusted не е човек, на когото може да се вярва
    2. замества инфинитива на споменат вече глагол
    you may go if you want TO може да си отидете, ако искате
    I didn't want to ask but I had TO не исках да питам, но трябваше
    III. adv в нормалното/исканото положение, до спиране
    to shut/bang the door TO затварям/затръшвам вратата
    to come TO свестявам се, идвам на себе си
    to bring someone TO свестявам някого
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    {tu} nред гласна, пред сьгласна {tъ}, под ударение {tu:}) prep(2) {tu} part 1. пред inf за да, за; never to return за да не се въ{3} {tu:} adv в нормалното/исканото положение; до спиране; to shut
    * * *
    с, със; при; пред; да; за; за да; към; на;
    * * *
    1. 1 време до 2. 1 прибавяне към, на 3. 1 притежание, принадлежност на, от 4. 1 със съпровод на, с, по, под 5. 1 цел на, за, в чест на 6. a box with a lid to it кутия с капак 7. a hymn to the sun химн/възхвала на слънцето 8. a monument to паметник на/за/в чест на 9. a story with a moral to it поучителна история 10. an exception to a rule изключение от правило 11. brother/secretary/heir to брат/секретар/наследник на 12. common/natural/peculiar to общ/естествен/характерен за 13. drawn to scale рисуван/начертан по мащаб 14. five minutes to ten десет часа без пет минути 15. from... to... от... до.. 16. generous to a fault прекомерно щедър 17. give it to her дай и го, дай го на нея 18. good to drink добър/хубав за пиене 19. he is not a man to be trusted не е човек, на когото може да се вярва 20. i didn't want to ask but i had to не исках да питам, но трябваше 21. i. nред гласна, пред съгласна, под ударение, prep движение, посока в, до, на, към, за, при 22. ii. пред inf за да, за 23. iii. adv в нормалното/исканото положение, до спиране 24. in regard to, as to що се отнася/касае до 25. it's nothing to what i expected това не e нищо в сравнение с онова, което очаквах 26. kind/cruel to мил/жесток към/с 27. lost/blind/dead/favourable to изгубен/сляп/мъртъв/благоприятен за 28. made to order/measure направен по поръчка/мярка 29. never to return за да не се върне никога 30. next door to us до нас, до нашата къща 31. perpendicular/parallel to перпендикулярен/успореден на 32. pleasant/revolting to приятен/противен на/за 33. ready to (one's) hand подръка, наръки, наблизо 34. something to eat нещо за ядене 35. superior/inferior to по-добър/по-лош по качество и пр. от 36. ten apples to the kilo (по) десет ябълки в килограм 37. ten to one десет към/на едно 38. that's all there is to it това e то/всичко, и толкоз 39. there is more to it than that има и нещо друго, това не е всичко 40. there is no index to the book към книгата няма азбучен показалец 41. there's nothing to it това не представлява трудност, не е мъчно, много е лесно 42. to a man до последния човек, до един, до крак 43. to add to прибавям към 44. to all eternity навеки 45. to apply polish to the table слагам лак на/лакирам масата 46. to bring someone to свестявам някого 47. to come to someone's aid/help притичам се на помощ на някого 48. to come to someone's call идвам, когато някой ме повика 49. to come to the surface излизам на повърхността 50. to come to свестявам се, идвам на себе си 51. to dance to a tune танцувам под звуците на мелодия 52. to fall to someone blows падам под/от ударите на 53. to have a flat to oneself живея сам в апартамент, имам апартамент на свое разположение 54. to have a right/title to имам право на 55. to my surprise/joy/disappointment, etc. за моя изненада/радост/разочарование 56. to perfection/death/tears до съвършенство/смърт/сълзи 57. to prefer one thing to another предпочитам едно нещо пред друго 58. to shut/bang the door to затварям/затръшвам вратата 59. to sing to the piano пея със съпровод на пиано 60. to sit down to dinner сядам на обед/да обядвам 61. to the best of my knowledge/ability доколкото знам/мога 62. to the last breath до последния си дъх 63. to the right/left/south, etc. надясно, наляво, на юг и пр 64. to this end за тази цел 65. to write to dictation пиша по/под диктовка 66. twenty cigarettes to the box по 20 цигари на/в кутия 67. what is that to you? теб какво ти става? какво те засяга 68. with one's hands to one's eyes с ръце на очи 69. you may go if you want to може да си отидете, ако искате 70. въвежда предложно допълнение с глаголи като apply, object, refer, be/get accustomed, etc. на, към, с 71. граница, степен, предел до, на 72. замества инфинитива на споменат вече глагол 73. лично отношение на, към, за 74. място до, на 75. начин по 76. резултат за 77. спрямо, към, по отношение на, в сравнение с 78. съотношение по количество, брой по 79. със знач. на дателен падеж с глаголи като give, send, lend, etc. на
    * * *
    to (под ударение [tu:], без ударение [tu] пред гласна, [tə] пред съгласна) I. prep 1. за движение, посока в; до; на; към; за; при; a journey ( visit) \to Italy пътуване до (визита в) Италия; a tendency \to тенденция, в посока към; \to horse! на конете! \to arms! на оръжие! \to the right ( left, south, etc.) надясно (наляво, на юг и пр.); 2. със значение на дателен падеж на; to give ( send, lend, etc.) \to давам (изпращам, давам на заем и пр.) на; give it \to me дай ми го; 3. за изразяване на лично отношение на, към, за; lost ( blind, sympathetic, favourable) \to изгубен (сляп, състрадателен, благоприятен) за; loyal ( unfaithful) \to верен (неверен) на; subject \to подлежащ на; in regard \to, as \to що се отнася до; what's it \to you? теб какво те засяга? 4. за граница, предел до, на; starved \to death изгладнял до смърт, умрял от глад; \to a large ( great) extent до голяма степен; \to the last breath до последния си дъх; \to the core ( the marrow) до мозъка на костите, до краен предел, всецяло; \to all eternity навеки; \to the best of my knowledge ( ability) доколкото знам (мога), доколкото ми е известно; generous \to a fault прекомерно щедър; 5. за място до, на; shoulder \to shoulder рамо до рамо, един до друг; 6. за начин по; made \to order ( measure) направен по поръчка (мярка); drawn \to scale рисуван (начертан) по мащаб; 7. за резултат за; \to my relief ( amazement) за мое облекчение (удивление); 8. спрямо, към, пред, в сравнение с; ten \to one десет към (на) едно; to prefer s.th. \to s.th. else предпочитам едно нещо пред друго; it's nothing \to what I expected нищо не е пред сравнение с) това, което очаквах; 9. за цел на, за; в чест на; \to this end за тази цел; with a view \to с оглед на; to drink \to пия за чест на); a monument \to паметник за памет на, в чест на); 10. за прибавяне към, на; to add \to прибавям към; 11. за притежание на, за; brother ( secretary, heir) \to брат (секретар, наследник) на; exception \to a rule изключение на правило; common ( natural, peculiar) \to общ (естествен, характерен) за; key \to the door ключ от (за) вратата; to have a right ( title) \to имам право на; to have \to o.s. имам на свое разположение; that's all there is \to it това е всичко; there is nothing \to it нищо не представлява; 12. с акомпанимент на, с, по; to sing \to the piano пея с (акомпанимент) на пиано; to dance \to a tune танцувам под такта на мелодия; to write \to ( from) dictation пиша под диктовка, по нареждане на; 13. за време до; from... \to от ... до; ten minutes \to six шест без десет; II. частица пред инф. 1. да; за да; за (цел, предназначение); programs set up \to save animals програми, направени с цел спасяването на животните; good \to eat добър за ядене; s.th. \to drink нещо за пиене; he is not the man \to forget his duties той не е човек, който би забравил задълженията си; in years \to come в бъдеще, в идните години; take it if you want \to вземи го, ако искаш; 2. във възклицания; oh, \to think of it! само като си помисля! but then \to be let down like that! но да те разочароват по този начин! така да те разочароват!; III. [tu:] adv 1. в нормалното или исканото положение; до спиране; to shut ( bang) the door \to затварям (затръшвам) вратата; to come \to свестявам се; to bring \to свестявам; 2.: \to and fro назад-напред, нагоре-надолу.

    English-Bulgarian dictionary > to

  • 56 Artificial Intelligence

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

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  • 57 Historical Portugal

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

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 58 father

    ˈfɑ:ðə
    1. сущ.
    1) отец proud father ≈ счастливый отец He was like a father to them. ≈ Он был для них как отец. adoptive father, foster fatherприемный отец, усыновитель expectant fatherбудущий родитель natural father ≈ отец внебрачного ребенка Syn: sire
    1.
    2) прародитель to be gathered to one's fathersотправиться к праотцам Syn: forefather, ancestor
    3) а) защитник, заступник б) духовный отец
    4) а) (Father) бог, создатель, творец the Father of LightsГосподь, Бог-отец the father of faith, the father of the faithfulАвраам the father of lies ≈ дьявол Syn: god
    1. б) создатель, основатель the father of modern science ≈ создатель современной науки Syn: constructor, designer, framer, originator в) первопричина, источник the sun, the father of warmth and lightсолнце - источник тепла и света
    5) церк. а) священник Father William ≈ Отец Уильям the Holy Father ≈ Папа Римский б) епископ Right Reverend Father in God ≈ Его Преосвященство (титулование епископа) Most Reverend Father in God ≈ Его Высокопреосвященство (титулование архиепископа)
    6) старейший член;
    мн. старейшины the city fathers ≈ отцы города
    2. гл.
    1) а) быть отцом, производить на свет Syn: beget б) быть автором, порождать He fathered the improvement plan. ≈ Он разработал улучшенный план.
    2) усыновлять Syn: adopt
    3) отечески заботиться
    4) а) устанавливать отцовство, приписывать отцовство He advised her to father her child. ≈ Он посоветовал ей не скрывать, кто отец ребенка. Syn: affiliate б) приписывать авторство (on, upon) These well-known words have been fathered on many writers, but no one knows who really said them. ≈ Эти знаменитые слова приписывались многим писателям, но на самом деле никто не знает, кто их сказал. Syn: foist, affiliate в) возлагать ответственность, приписывать (on, upon) some attempt to father on the Christian Church the limitations and orders of the Jewish priesthoodнекоторые попытки приписать ограничения и порядки иудейского духовенства христианской церкви Syn: put upon, impose, attach отец - adoptive * приемный отец - natural * отец внебрачного ребенка заступник, защитник, отец (родной) - to be a * to smb. проявлять отеческую заботу о ком-л. создатель, творец - the Fathers (of the Constitution) (американизм) (историческое) авторы /творцы/ конституции США - F. of the Constitution "отец конституции" (прозвище президента Медисона) - F. of his country отец отечества (прозвище Дж. Вашингтона) родоначальник, предок, прародитель - the F. of English printing родоначальник книгопечатания в Англии предшественник;
    предвестник;
    прототип старейший член - city *s отцы города, члены городского управления, городские советники, олдермены - * of the chapel( историческое) старшина типографских рабочих - F. of the House (парламентское) старейший член палаты общин;
    (американизм) "отец палаты", старейший член палаты представителей (по сроку пребывания в палате) - F. of the Senate( американизм) "отец сената", старейший сенатор( по сроку непрерывного пребывания в сенате) - * of the bar (юридическое) старший барристер - Conscript Fathers( историческое) отцы-сенаторы (обращение к римским сенаторам) (F.) Бог - God the F. Бог-отец - our F. отче наш (молитва) духовный отец;
    священник;
    епископ - * confessor, ghostly * (устаревшее) духовник, исповедник - the Holy F. его святейшество( титул римского папы) - Most Reverend F. in God его высокопреосвященство( титул архиепископа) - Right Reverend F. in God его преосвященство (титул епископа) отец (обращение к католическому священнику) - F. Brown отец Браун > * Abraham отец Авраам (прозвище Авраама Линкольна) > the F. of Waters Нил, отец вод;
    (американизм) матушка Миссисипи (тж. the Great F.) > * Knickerbocker( американизм) папаша Никербокер (шутл. прозвище города Нью-Йорка) > F. Time седое время > the F. of lies лукавый, сатана > the F. of Lights создатель, Бог > to be gathered to one's *s отправиться к праотцам, скончаться > to lie /to sleep/ with one's *s быть похороненным (в родном краю) > Fathers of the Church отцы церкви;
    первоотцы (христианские писатели I - V вв.;
    тж. early Fathers) > writings of the early Fathers патристика, первоотеческие книги > the wish is * to the thought мы склонны принимать желаемое за действительное;
    верят потому6 что хотят верить > like *, like son (пословица) каков отец, таков и сын;
    яблоко от яблони недалеко падает > many a good * hath but a bad son (пословица) в семье не без урода > a misery * makes a prodigal son у отца-скряги сын - мот > * and mother (of) (сленг) потрясающий, невиданный > * and mother of a row скандал, каких свет не видывал порождать, производить - cowardice *s cowardice одна трусость порождает другую быть, считаться отцом, автором, создателем, творцом (on, upon) устанавливать, приписывать отцовство (кому-л.) ;
    приписывать авторство - to * an invention on smb. приписывать кому-л. изобретение (on, upon) (сленг) сваливать на (кого-л. вину и т. п.) ;
    "пришить" (кому-л. дело) - to * the responsibility on /upon/ smb. сваливать ответственность на кого-л. отечески заботиться - he would * small boys who first come to school он всегда отечески заботился о малышах, только что пришедших в школу > to * a thing upon smth. проследить что-л. до истоков /до источника/ ~ отец, родитель;
    natural father отец внебрачного ребенка;
    adoptive father приемный отец, усыновитель adoptive ~ приемный отец adoptive ~ усыновитель to be gathered to one's ~s отправиться к праотцам;
    Father of Waters амер. река Миссисипи father быть отцом;
    производить, порождать, быть автором, творцом ~ духовный отец, епископ;
    the Holy Father папа римский;
    the wish is father to the thought желание порождает мысль;
    = люди склонны верить тому, чему хотят верить;
    Father Thames = матушка Темза;
    Father of lies сатана ~ отец, родитель;
    natural father отец внебрачного ребенка;
    adoptive father приемный отец, усыновитель ~ отец ~ покровитель;
    заступник, "отец родной" ~ предок, родоначальник, прародитель ~ приписывать отцовство;
    приписывать авторство;
    возлагать ответственность (за авторство) (on, upon - на) ~ вчт. родительский ~ создатель, творец;
    вдохновитель ~ старейший член;
    pl старейшины ~ усыновлять;
    отечески заботиться ~ image =father-figure ~ духовный отец, епископ;
    the Holy Father папа римский;
    the wish is father to the thought желание порождает мысль;
    = люди склонны верить тому, чему хотят верить;
    Father Thames = матушка Темза;
    Father of lies сатана Father of the House старейший (по годам непрерывности депутатского звания) член палаты общин Father of the House амер. старейшина палаты представителей to be gathered to one's ~s отправиться к праотцам;
    Father of Waters амер. река Миссисипи ~ духовный отец, епископ;
    the Holy Father папа римский;
    the wish is father to the thought желание порождает мысль;
    = люди склонны верить тому, чему хотят верить;
    Father Thames = матушка Темза;
    Father of lies сатана ~ image =father-figure father-figure: father-figure человек, которого ребенок любит и уважает как родного отца foster ~ приемный отец ~ духовный отец, епископ;
    the Holy Father папа римский;
    the wish is father to the thought желание порождает мысль;
    = люди склонны верить тому, чему хотят верить;
    Father Thames = матушка Темза;
    Father of lies сатана ~ отец, родитель;
    natural father отец внебрачного ребенка;
    adoptive father приемный отец, усыновитель natural ~ биологический отец putative ~ предполагаемый отец unmarried ~ неженатый отец ~ духовный отец, епископ;
    the Holy Father папа римский;
    the wish is father to the thought желание порождает мысль;
    = люди склонны верить тому, чему хотят верить;
    Father Thames = матушка Темза;
    Father of lies сатана

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > father

  • 59 come

    kʌm гл.
    1) а) подходить, приходить;
    представать, представляться Yonder comes a knight. ≈ Вон подходит рыцарь. Godfather, come and see your boy. ≈ Крестный отец, подойдите же и посмотрите на вашего мальчика. come before the Court Syn: arrive, gain, reach, approach Ant: go, leave б) прибывать, приезжать;
    преодолевать( какое-л. расстояние) We have come many miles by train. ≈ Мы приехали на поезде издалека. Syn: arrive, gain, reach Ant: leave ∙ come one's way come one's ways come into the world come day go day let'em all come! ≈ будь что будет! мы не боимся! (формула, выражающая бесстрашие перед лицом противных обстоятельств)
    2) достигать какой-л. конечной, предельной точки а) делаться, становиться - come short б) доходить, достигать ( какого-л. значения какой-л. величины), равняться, составлять;
    простираться( до какого-л. предела, границы) The bill comes to 357 pounds. ≈ Счет составляет 357 фунтов. Does the railway come near the town? ≈ Насколько близко к городу железная дорога? Syn: reach в) приходить в соприкосновение с чем-л., вступать в связь с чем-л., (обычно с указанием, с чем именно) The carbines will come into play. ≈ В игру вступят карабины. She came into collision with a steamer. ≈ Она столкнулась с пароходом. г) наступать, случаться, происходить (может прямо не переводиться) A compromise was come to. ≈ Был достигнут компромисс. All her masts came immediately by the board. ≈ Мгновенно все мачты оказались за бортом. come to an end Syn: happen, occur come what may ≈ будь, что будет д) появляться, проявляться( о различных объектах) ;
    прорастать( о семенах вообще, но в частности о зерне в процессе пивоварения) This word comes on the page
    200. ≈ Это слово встречается на странице
    200. He sowed turnips, but none of them came. ≈ Он посадил репу, но она не выросла. е) сл. испытывать оргазм, "кончать" (иногда в сочетании с off) ж) выпадать, доставаться кому-л. (о вещи, доле и т.п.) ;
    передаваться по наследству, по договору и т.п. Stanbury belongs to us. It came through my mother. ≈ Стенбери принадлежит нам. Мы получили его в наследство от моей матери. have it coming to one з) получаться, выходить;
    подходить, достигать состояния готовности (о сыре, масле и т.д.) He repainted the figure, but it wouldn't come well. ≈ Он заново нарисовал фигуру, но она никак не хотела выйти хорошо.
    3) происходить, истекать ((из какого-л. источника;
    также о роде)) ;
    следовать, вытекать( как следствие из причины) Words which come originally from the Latin. ≈ Слова, изначально пришедшие из латыни. I came from a race of fishers. ≈ Я из рыбацкого рода. No good could come of it. ≈ Из этого не выйдет ничего хорошего.
    4) поставляться (обычно в каком-л. виде, о товарах) The car comes with or without the rear wing. ≈ Машина поставляется в двух модификациях - с задним антикрылом и без заднего антикрыла.
    5) в повелительном наклонении: восклицание, означающее а) приглашение, побуждение или легкий упрек, т.е. ну, давай, вперед и т.д. б) просьбу быть аккуратнее, осторожнее, т.е. стой, погоди и т.п.
    6) в сочетании с причастием настоящего времени: появляться, происходить, начинать происходить, сопровождаясь действием или характеристикой, выраженной указанным причастием The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole. ≈ Изо всех щелей и замочных скважин полился туман. ∙ come about come across come across as come after come again come along come amiss come apart come around come around to come asunder come at come away come away with come back come back to come before come between come by come clean come close to come down come down on come down to come down to brass tacks come down to brass nails come down with come first come for come forward come from come home come home to come in come in for come in on come into come near come next come of come off come on come out come out against come out at come out for come out from come out in come out of come over come round come short of come through come to come together come under come up come up against come up for come up to come up with come upon come within come on! ≈ живей!;
    продолжайте!;
    идем (тж. как формула вызова) to come out with one's life ≈ остаться в живых, уцелеть (после боя и т. п.) (which is) to come ≈ грядущий;
    будущий pleasure to come ≈ предвкушаемое удовольствие light come light go ≈ что досталось легко, быстро исчезает to come down to brass tacks ≈ говорить о фактах to come down to earthспуститься с небес на землю to come when one's ship comes ≈ когда кто-л. станет богатым to come in on the ground floorначать дело с нуля to come out of the blueнеожиданно появляться, наступать to come out of one's shell ≈ выйти из своей скорлупы to come easy toне представлять трудностей для( кого-л.) to come to harmпострадать to come in usefulприйтись кстати to come natural ≈ быть естественным things to comeгрядущее in days to come ≈ в будущем to come to the bookприносить присягу перед исполнением обязанностей судьи to come it strongдействовать энергично to come it too strongперестараться to come apart at the seamsпотерять самообладание, выдержку to come of ageдостигать совершеннолетия - come to bat - come to pass to come to stay приходить;
    идти;
    - to * to the office приходить на службу;
    - to * home приходить домой;
    - to * down спускаться, опускаться;
    - please ask him to * down пожалуйста, попросите его сойти вниз;
    - the curtain came down занавес опустился;
    - to * up подниматься, идти вверх;
    - I saw him coming up the hill я видел, как он поднимался в гору;
    - the diver came up at last наконец водолаз появился на поверхности;
    - the curtain came up занавес поднялся;
    - to * along the street идти по улице;
    - I saw him coming along the road я видел, как он шел по дороге;
    - to * by проходить мимо;
    - I will wait here until he *s by я буду ждать здесь, пока он не пройдет (мимо) ;
    - to * forward выходить вперед, выступить( из рядов) ;
    - volunteers, * forward добровольцы, вперед!;
    - to * in входить;
    - ask him to * in попросите его войти;
    - to * into a room входить в комнату;
    - to * out выходить;
    - when he came out it was dark когда он вышел( из дома), было уже темно;
    - the moon has * out взошла луна;
    - to * out of one's shell выйти из своей скорлупы;
    - to * back вернуться, прийти назад;
    - he will * back он возвратится;
    - to * late приходить поздно;
    - to * to smb. for advice прийти к кому-л за советом;
    - he often *s to see me он часто навещает меня;
    - * and see what I have found приходите посмотреть, что я нашел приезжать, прибывать;
    - the train *s at three o'clock поезд прибывает в три часа;
    - he came to London last night он приехал в Лондон вчера вечером;
    - he has * a long way он приехал издалека идти;
    ехать;
    - I'm coming with you я иду с вами;
    - *! пошли!, идем!;
    - coming! иду!, сечас!;
    - are you coming my way? вам со мной по пути? - to * past проходить мимо;
    - a number of people came past мимо прошло много народу;
    - the soldier had orders not to let anybody * past солдат получил приказ никого не пропускать;
    - to * and go ходить взад и вперед;
    - we have * many miles мы проехали много миль проходить, приближаться;
    - the girl started when he came hear девочка вздрогнула, когда он приблизился;
    - I now * to the third point теперь я перехожу к третьему вопросу доходить, достигать;
    - the forest came to the very bank лес доходил до самого берега;
    - does the railway * right to the town? подходит ли железнодорожная линия к самому городу?;
    - his voice came to me through the mist его голос доносился до меня сквозь туман;
    - through the open window came the sounds of a piano из открытого окна раздавались звуки рояля;
    - it came to me that... до меня дошло, что..., мне стало известно, что...;
    - it came to me at last that... наконец до моего сознания дошло, что... равняться, достигать;
    - your bill *s to $10 ваш счет равняется десяти долларам;
    - his earnings * to $1,000 a year его заработок составляет тысячу долларов в год;
    - let us put it all together and see what it will * to давайте сложим все это и посмотрим, что получится сводиться( к чему-л) ;
    - it all *s to the same thing все это сводится к одному и тому же;
    - what he knows does not * to much его знания невелики;
    - to * to nothing окончиться ничем, свестись к нулю;
    сойти на нет прийти (к чему-л) ;
    достичь( чего-л) ;
    - to * to an understanding прийти к соглашению, договориться;
    - to * to a decision принять решение;
    - to * to an end прийти к концу, окончиться наступать, приходить;
    - spring came пришла весна;
    - a crisis is coming приближается кризис;
    - his turn came наступила его очередь, настал его черед;
    - ill luck came to me меня постигла неудача;
    - dinner came at last наконец подали обед;
    - success is yet to * успех еще впереди ожидаться, предстоять;
    - the time to * будущее;
    - the years to * грядущие годы;
    - the life to * будущая жизнь;
    - orders to * предстоящие заказы;
    - for three months to * в течение трех следующих месяцев появляться, возникать;
    - an idea came into his head ему пришла в голову мысль, у него возникла идея;
    - inspiration came to him на него нашло вдохновение;
    - it came to me у меня появилась мысль;
    я припомнил;
    - it *s to me that I owe you money я припоминаю, что я вам должен;
    - his colour came and went он то краснел, то бледнел - he tried to speak but no word would * from his mouth он хотел что-то сказать, но не мог вымолвить ни слова находиться;
    - on what page does it *? на какой это странице? случаться;
    происходить;
    проистекать;
    - this *s from disobedience это происходит от непослушания;
    - how did it * that you quarrelled? как это вы поссорились? - no harm will * to you с тобой ничего не случится;
    тебе ничего не грозит;
    - be ready for whatever *s будь готов ко всему;
    - * what may будь что будет выходить, получаться, приводить;
    - to * to good дать хороший результат;
    - to * to no good плохо кончить;
    - to * to harm пострадать;
    попасть в беду, неприятность;
    - it will * all right in the end в конце концов все будет в порядке;
    - nothing came of the matter из этого дела ничего не вышло;
    no good will * of it ничего хорошего из этого не получиться, это до добра не доведет;
    - a dream that came true сбывшаяся мечна;
    - the dress would not * as she wanted платье получилось не таким, как ей хотелось;
    - her jelly won't * желе у нее не застывало;
    - the butter came very quickly todey сегодня масло сбилось очень быстро происходить, иметь происхождение;
    - this word *s from Latin это слово латинского происхождения;
    - this book *s from his library эта книга из его библиотеки;
    - he *s from London он родом из Лондона;
    - she *s from a well-known family она происходит из известной семьи доставаться;
    - the house is coming to his son after his death после его смерти дом достанется сыну прорастать, всходить, расти;
    - the corn *s пшеница всходит;
    - the barley had * remarkably well ячмень дал отличные всходы (американизм) (разговорное) устроить, сделать( что-л) ;
    - to * a trick over one's pal сыграть плохую шутку со своим другом( разговорное) испытать оргазм, кончить (тж. * on, * now) в грам. знач. междометия выражает: побуждение к совершению какого-л. действия: ну!, живо!, давай!;
    - * out with it, boy ну, парень, выкладывай упрек, протест: ну что вы!;
    - what? He here! Oh! *, *! как? Он здесь?! Да оставьте вы! увещевание: полно!, ну, ну!;
    - *, *, you shouldn't speak like that! ну полно, вы не должны так говорить!;
    - now *! be patient! ну потерпите;
    имей термение;
    - *, *, don't be so foolish! ну, ну, не дури! в грам. знач. предлога: (если) считать, считая с (такого-то дня) ;
    - a fortnight * Sunday через две недели (считая) со следующего воскресенья;
    - it'll be a year * Monday since he left в будущий понедельник год, как он уехал становиться (известным) ;
    приобретать (положение) ;
    - to * into notice привлечь внимание;
    - author who is beginning to * into notice автор, который начинает завоевывать известность;
    - to * into the public eye привлечь к себе внимание общественности;
    - to * into prominence стать известным вступать (во владение) ;
    получить( в наследство) ;
    - he came into some money он получил в наследство немного денег;
    - he came into an inheritance он получил наследство вступать (в должность) ;
    - to * into office вступить в должность;
    прийти к власти;
    - he came into power он пришел к власти вступать (в конфликт, в сговор) ;
    - to * into conflict вступить в конфликт;
    - to * into collision столкнуться, войти в противоречие переходитьдругую фазу) - to * into flower расцвести, выходить в цветок;
    вступать в пору цветения;
    - to * into ear колоситься, выходить в колос войти (в употребление, обиход) ;
    - to * into use войти в употребление;
    - to * into disuse выйти из употребления вступить (в силу) ;
    - to * into effect вступать в силу;
    - to * into operation начать действовать или применяться;
    вступать в силу входить (в компетенцию, обязанности) ;
    - to * within the terms of reference относиться к ведению;
    - that doesn't * within my duties это не входит в мои обязанности быть, являться - to * natural быть естественным;
    - to * easy не представлять трудностей;
    - it came as a surprise это явилось полной неожиданностью;
    - it will * very cheap to you это обойдется вам очень дешево выпускаться;
    продаваться - they * in all shapes они бывают всех видов, они бывают разные;
    - the dress *s in three sizes имеются три размера этого платься;
    - this soup comes in a can этот суп продается в жестяных банках в сочетании с последующим причастием настоящего времени называет действие, выраженное причастием;
    - he came riding он приехал верхом;
    - he came galloping он прискакал галопом;
    - he came running он прибежал;
    - the rain came pouring полил дождь > to * home попасть в цель;
    попасть не в бровь, а в глаз;
    задеть за живое;
    > to * home to smb. доходить до чьего-л сознания;
    растрогать кого-л до глубины души, найти отклик в чьей-л душе;
    > to * short of smth. испытывать недостаток в чем-л;
    не хватать;
    не соответствовать;
    не опревдать ожиданий, надежд > her money came short of her expenditure ей не хватило денег на расходы;
    > this *s short of accepted standards это не соответствует принятым нормам;
    > to * to a head созреть( о нарыве) ;
    назреть, перейти в решающую стадию;
    > to * to light обнаружиться, стать известным;
    > to * in sight появиться, показаться;
    > oh, * off it! (американизм) (грубое) заткнись!, перестань трепаться!;
    перестань!, хватит!, прекрати!;
    > off your perch /your high horse/! не зазнавайтесь!, не задирайте нос!;
    > * off the grass! не вмешивайтесь не в свои дела!;
    брось задаваться!;
    брось преувеличивать!;
    не ври!;
    > to * out of action( военное) выйти из боя;
    выйти из строя;
    > * out of that! перестань вмешиваться!, не суйся!, не лезь!;
    > to * a long way преуспеть > to * the old soldier over smb. поучать кого-л, командовать кем-л;
    обманывать, надувать кого-л;
    > * quick! (радиотехника) сигнал общего вызова;
    > to * one's way выпасть на чью-л долю;
    > to * to the point говорить по существу дела;
    делать стойку (о собаке) ;
    > to * into play начать действовать;
    быть полезным, пригодиться;
    > to * it strong (сленг) зайти слишком далеко;
    хватить через край;
    действовать решительно, быть напористым;
    > that is coming it a little too strong это уж слишком!;
    > not to know whether one is coming or going растеряться, потерять голову;
    не знать, на каком ты свете;
    > * day, go day день да ночь - сутки прочь;
    > it's * day, go day with him ему ни до чего нет дела;
    день прожил - и ладно;
    > everything *s him who waits кто ждет, тот дождется;
    терпение и труд все перетрут;
    > after dinner *s the reckoning поел - плати!;
    любишь кататься - люби и саночки возить;
    > he who *s uncalled, sits unserved пришел без приглашения - не жди угощения ~ off иметь успех;
    удаваться, проходить с успехом;
    all came off satisfactorily все сошло благополучно;
    to come off with honour выйти с честью ~, ~, be not so hasty! подождите, подождите, не торопитесь! ~ доходить, достигать;
    равняться;
    the bill comes to 500 roubles счет составляет 500 рублей ~ в сочетании с причастием настоящего времени передает возникновение действия, выраженного причастием: the boy came running into the room мальчик вбежал в комнату ~ делаться, становиться;
    things will come right все обойдется, все будет хорошо;
    my dreams came true мои мечты сбылись;
    butter will not come масло никак не сбивается come в повелительном наклонении восклицание, означающее приглашение, побуждение или легкий упрек: come, tell me all you know about it ну, расскажите же все, что вы об этом знаете come в повелительном наклонении восклицание, означающее приглашение, побуждение или легкий упрек: come, tell me all you know about it ну, расскажите же все, что вы об этом знаете ~ в сочетании с причастием настоящего времени передает возникновение действия, выраженного причастием: the boy came running into the room мальчик вбежал в комнату ~ вести свое происхождение;
    происходить;
    he comes from London он уроженец Лондона;
    he comes of a working family он из рабочей семьи;
    that comes from your carelessness все это от твоей небрежности ~ выпадать (на чью-л. долю) ;
    доставаться (кому-л.) ;
    it came on my head это свалилось мне на голову;
    ill luck came to me меня постигла неудача ~ делаться, становиться;
    things will come right все обойдется, все будет хорошо;
    my dreams came true мои мечты сбылись;
    butter will not come масло никак не сбивается ~ доходить, достигать;
    равняться;
    the bill comes to 500 roubles счет составляет 500 рублей ~, ~, be not so hasty! подождите, подождите, не торопитесь! ~, ~, be not so hasty! подождите, подождите, не торопитесь! ~ прибывать;
    приезжать;
    she has just come from London она только что приехала из Лондона ~ (came;
    ~) приходить, подходить;
    help came in the middle of the battle в разгар боя подошла помощь;
    one shot came after another выстрелы следовали один за другим ~ случаться, происходить, бывать;
    how did it come that..? как это случилось, что..? how comes it? почему это получается?, как это выходит?;
    come what may будь, что будет ~ down разг. come раскошелиться;
    come down with your money! раскошеливайтесь! ~ about менять направление( о ветре) ;
    come across (случайно) встретиться (с кем-л.) ;
    натолкнуться( на что-л.) ~ about происходить, случаться ~ about менять направление( о ветре) ;
    come across (случайно) встретиться (с кем-л.) ;
    натолкнуться (на что-л.) ~ across! разг. признавайся! ~ across! разг. раскошеливайся! ~ after искать, домогаться ~ after наследовать;
    come again возвращаться ~ after следовать ~ after наследовать;
    come again возвращаться ~ apart, ~ asunder распадаться на части ~ apart, ~ asunder распадаться на части ~ at нападать, набрасываться;
    добраться( до кого-л.) ;
    just let me come at him дайте мне только добраться до него ~ at получить доступ( к чему-л.), добиться( чего-л.) ;
    how did you come at the information? как вы это узнали? ~ away отламываться;
    the handle came away in my hand ручка отломилась и осталась у меня в руках ~ away уходить ~ back возвращаться ~ back вспоминаться ~ back спорт. обрести прежнюю форму ~ back отвечать тем же самым, отплатить той же монетой ~ back спорт. отставать ~ back очнуться, прийти в себя ~ before превосходить ~ before предшествовать to ~ before the Court предстать перед судом ~ by доставать, достигать ~ by амер. заходить ~ by проходить мимо ~ down быть поваленным (о дереве) ~ down быть разрушенным (о постройке) ~ down деградировать;
    to come down in the world потерять состояние, положение;
    опуститься ~ down амер, разг. заболеть( with - чем-л.) ~ down набрасываться (upon, on - на) ;
    бранить, наказывать( upon, on - кого-л.) ~ down падать (о снеге, дожде) ~ down переходить по традиции ~ down приходить, приезжать ~ down разг. come раскошелиться;
    come down with your money! раскошеливайтесь! ~ down спадать, ниспадать ~ down спускаться;
    опускаться down: ~ вниз;
    to climb down слезать;
    to come down спускаться;
    to flow down стекать to come (или to drop) ~ (on smb.) набрасываться (на кого-л.), бранить (кого-л.) ~ down деградировать;
    to come down in the world потерять состояние, положение;
    опуститься world: so goes (или wags) the ~ такова жизнь;
    to come down in the world опуститься, утратить былое положение ~ down разг. come раскошелиться;
    come down with your money! раскошеливайтесь! ~ for заходить за ~ for нападать на ~ forward выходить вперед;
    выдвигаться ~ forward откликаться ~ forward предлагать свои услуги ~ in вступать (в должность) ;
    приходить к власти ~ in входить ~ in входить в моду ~ in амер. жеребиться, телиться ~ in оказаться полезным, пригодиться (тж. come in useful) ;
    where do I come in? разг. чем я могу быть полезен?;
    какое это имеет ко мне отношение? ~ in прибывать (о поезде, пароходе) ~ in спорт. прийти к финишу;
    to come in first победить, прийти первым;
    come in for получить (что-л.) (напр., свою долю и т. п.) ~ in созревать ~ in спорт. прийти к финишу;
    to come in first победить, прийти первым;
    come in for получить (что-л.) (напр., свою долю и т. п.) ~ in спорт. прийти к финишу;
    to come in first победить, прийти первым;
    come in for получить (что-л.) (напр., свою долю и т. п.) ~ into вступать в ~ into получать в наследство to ~ into being( или existence) возникать;
    to come into the world родиться;
    to come into force вступать в силу;
    to come into notice привлечь внимание to ~ into being (или existence) возникать;
    to come into the world родиться;
    to come into force вступать в силу;
    to come into notice привлечь внимание force: ~ сила, действие ( закона, постановления и т. п.) ;
    to come into force вступать в силу force: come into ~ вступать в силу to ~ into being (или existence) возникать;
    to come into the world родиться;
    to come into force вступать в силу;
    to come into notice привлечь внимание notice: to bring( или to call) to (smb.'s) ~ доводить до сведения( кого-л.) ;
    to come to (smb.'s) notice стать известным (кому-л.) ;
    to come into notice привлечь внимание to ~ into play начать действовать;
    to come into position воен. занять позицию;
    to come into sight появиться play: to come into ~ начать действовать;
    in full play в действии, в разгаре to ~ into play начать действовать;
    to come into position воен. занять позицию;
    to come into sight появиться to ~ into play начать действовать;
    to come into position воен. занять позицию;
    to come into sight появиться to ~ into being (или existence) возникать;
    to come into the world родиться;
    to come into force вступать в силу;
    to come into notice привлечь внимание ~ off амер. замолчать;
    oh, come off it! да перестань же! ~ off иметь успех;
    удаваться, проходить с успехом;
    all came off satisfactorily все сошло благополучно;
    to come off with honour выйти с честью ~ off отделываться;
    he came off a loser он остался в проигрыше;
    he came off clear он вышел сухим из воды ~ off отрываться( напр., о пуговице) ~ off происходить, иметь место ~ off сходить, слезать ~ off удаляться ~ off амер. замолчать;
    oh, come off it! да перестань же! ~ off иметь успех;
    удаваться, проходить с успехом;
    all came off satisfactorily все сошло благополучно;
    to come off with honour выйти с честью ~ on возникать (о вопросе) ~ on! живей!;
    продолжайте!;
    идем (тж. как формула вызова) ~ on наступать, нападать ~ on натыкаться, наскакивать;
    поражать( о болезни) ~ on появляться (на сцене) ~ on преуспевать;
    делать успехи ~ on приближаться;
    налететь, разразиться( о ветре, шквале) ;
    a storm is coming on приближается гроза ~ on рассматриваться (в суде) ~ on расти ~ out выходить;
    to come out of oneself стать менее замкнутым ~ out выходить ~ out дебютировать( на сцене, в обществе) ~ out обнаруживаться;
    проявляться ~ out обнаруживаться ~ out объявлять забастовку ~ out появляться (в печати) ~ out выходить;
    to come out of oneself стать менее замкнутым ~ out on strike объявлять забастовку to ~ short не достигнуть цели to ~ short не оправдать ожиданий to ~ short не хватить short: to come (или to fall) ~ (of smth.) не достигнуть цели to come (или to fall) ~ (of smth.) не оправдать ожиданий to come (или to fall) ~ (of smth.) не хватать, иметь недостаток( в чем-л.) to come (или to fall) ~ (of smth.) уступать( в чем-л.) ;
    this book comes short of satisfactory эта книга оставляет желать много лучшего ~ to приходить ~ to равняться ~ to составлять to: ~ bring ~ привести в сознание;
    to come to прийти в сознание;
    to and fro взад и вперед ~ to a decision приходить к решению ~ to a halt останавливаться ~ to a standstill оказываться в тупике standstill: ~ остановка, бездействие, застой;
    to come to a standstill оказаться в тупике;
    work was at a standstill работа совсем остановилась ~ to an end заканчивать ~ to prevail приобретать по праву давности ~ to terms договариваться ~ to terms приходить к соглашению term: ~ pl условия соглашения;
    договор;
    to come to terms( или to make terms) (with smb.) прийти к соглашению (с кем-л.) ~ to the rescue приходить на помощь rescue: ~ спасение;
    освобождение, избавление;
    to come (или to go) to the rescue помогать, приходить на помощь ~ случаться, происходить, бывать;
    how did it come that..? как это случилось, что..? how comes it? почему это получается?, как это выходит?;
    come what may будь, что будет what: ~ the hell? ну и что?, подумаешь!;
    come what may будь, что будет;
    what on earth( или in the blazes, in the world)...? черт возьми, бога ради... ~ away отламываться;
    the handle came away in my hand ручка отломилась и осталась у меня в руках he came in for a lot of trouble ему здорово досталось ~ off отделываться;
    he came off a loser он остался в проигрыше;
    he came off clear он вышел сухим из воды ~ off отделываться;
    he came off a loser он остался в проигрыше;
    he came off clear он вышел сухим из воды ~ вести свое происхождение;
    происходить;
    he comes from London он уроженец Лондона;
    he comes of a working family он из рабочей семьи;
    that comes from your carelessness все это от твоей небрежности ~ вести свое происхождение;
    происходить;
    he comes from London он уроженец Лондона;
    he comes of a working family он из рабочей семьи;
    that comes from your carelessness все это от твоей небрежности ~ (came;
    ~) приходить, подходить;
    help came in the middle of the battle в разгар боя подошла помощь;
    one shot came after another выстрелы следовали один за другим ~ случаться, происходить, бывать;
    how did it come that..? как это случилось, что..? how comes it? почему это получается?, как это выходит?;
    come what may будь, что будет how: ~ comes it?, ~ is it? разг. как это получается?, почему так выходит?;
    how so? как так? ~ случаться, происходить, бывать;
    how did it come that..? как это случилось, что..? how comes it? почему это получается?, как это выходит?;
    come what may будь, что будет ~ at получить доступ( к чему-л.), добиться (чего-л.) ;
    how did you come at the information? как вы это узнали? ~ выпадать (на чью-л. долю) ;
    доставаться (кому-л.) ;
    it came on my head это свалилось мне на голову;
    ill luck came to me меня постигла неудача ~ выпадать (на чью-л. долю) ;
    доставаться (кому-л.) ;
    it came on my head это свалилось мне на голову;
    ill luck came to me меня постигла неудача ~ at нападать, набрасываться;
    добраться (до кого-л.) ;
    just let me come at him дайте мне только добраться до него the knot has ~ undone узел развязался the moonshine came streaming in through the open window в открытое окно лился лунный свет ~ делаться, становиться;
    things will come right все обойдется, все будет хорошо;
    my dreams came true мои мечты сбылись;
    butter will not come масло никак не сбивается ~ (came;
    ~) приходить, подходить;
    help came in the middle of the battle в разгар боя подошла помощь;
    one shot came after another выстрелы следовали один за другим ~ прибывать;
    приезжать;
    she has just come from London она только что приехала из Лондона ~ on приближаться;
    налететь, разразиться (о ветре, шквале) ;
    a storm is coming on приближается гроза come в повелительном наклонении восклицание, означающее приглашение, побуждение или легкий упрек: come, tell me all you know about it ну, расскажите же все, что вы об этом знаете ~ вести свое происхождение;
    происходить;
    he comes from London он уроженец Лондона;
    he comes of a working family он из рабочей семьи;
    that comes from your carelessness все это от твоей небрежности ~ делаться, становиться;
    things will come right все обойдется, все будет хорошо;
    my dreams came true мои мечты сбылись;
    butter will not come масло никак не сбивается this work comes to me эта работа приходится на мою долю ~ in оказаться полезным, пригодиться (тж. come in useful) ;
    where do I come in? разг. чем я могу быть полезен?;
    какое это имеет ко мне отношение?

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > come

  • 60 Computers

       The brain has been compared to a digital computer because the neuron, like a switch or valve, either does or does not complete a circuit. But at that point the similarity ends. The switch in the digital computer is constant in its effect, and its effect is large in proportion to the total output of the machine. The effect produced by the neuron varies with its recovery from [the] refractory phase and with its metabolic state. The number of neurons involved in any action runs into millions so that the influence of any one is negligible.... Any cell in the system can be dispensed with.... The brain is an analogical machine, not digital. Analysis of the integrative activities will probably have to be in statistical terms. (Lashley, quoted in Beach, Hebb, Morgan & Nissen, 1960, p. 539)
       It is essential to realize that a computer is not a mere "number cruncher," or supercalculating arithmetic machine, although this is how computers are commonly regarded by people having no familiarity with artificial intelligence. Computers do not crunch numbers; they manipulate symbols.... Digital computers originally developed with mathematical problems in mind, are in fact general purpose symbol manipulating machines....
       The terms "computer" and "computation" are themselves unfortunate, in view of their misleading arithmetical connotations. The definition of artificial intelligence previously cited-"the study of intelligence as computation"-does not imply that intelligence is really counting. Intelligence may be defined as the ability creatively to manipulate symbols, or process information, given the requirements of the task in hand. (Boden, 1981, pp. 15, 16-17)
       The task is to get computers to explain things to themselves, to ask questions about their experiences so as to cause those explanations to be forthcoming, and to be creative in coming up with explanations that have not been previously available. (Schank, 1986, p. 19)
       In What Computers Can't Do, written in 1969 (2nd edition, 1972), the main objection to AI was the impossibility of using rules to select only those facts about the real world that were relevant in a given situation. The "Introduction" to the paperback edition of the book, published by Harper & Row in 1979, pointed out further that no one had the slightest idea how to represent the common sense understanding possessed even by a four-year-old. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 102)
       A popular myth says that the invention of the computer diminishes our sense of ourselves, because it shows that rational thought is not special to human beings, but can be carried on by a mere machine. It is a short stop from there to the conclusion that intelligence is mechanical, which many people find to be an affront to all that is most precious and singular about their humanness.
       In fact, the computer, early in its career, was not an instrument of the philistines, but a humanizing influence. It helped to revive an idea that had fallen into disrepute: the idea that the mind is real, that it has an inner structure and a complex organization, and can be understood in scientific terms. For some three decades, until the 1940s, American psychology had lain in the grip of the ice age of behaviorism, which was antimental through and through. During these years, extreme behaviorists banished the study of thought from their agenda. Mind and consciousness, thinking, imagining, planning, solving problems, were dismissed as worthless for anything except speculation. Only the external aspects of behavior, the surface manifestations, were grist for the scientist's mill, because only they could be observed and measured....
       It is one of the surprising gifts of the computer in the history of ideas that it played a part in giving back to psychology what it had lost, which was nothing less than the mind itself. In particular, there was a revival of interest in how the mind represents the world internally to itself, by means of knowledge structures such as ideas, symbols, images, and inner narratives, all of which had been consigned to the realm of mysticism. (Campbell, 1989, p. 10)
       [Our artifacts] only have meaning because we give it to them; their intentionality, like that of smoke signals and writing, is essentially borrowed, hence derivative. To put it bluntly: computers themselves don't mean anything by their tokens (any more than books do)-they only mean what we say they do. Genuine understanding, on the other hand, is intentional "in its own right" and not derivatively from something else. (Haugeland, 1981a, pp. 32-33)
       he debate over the possibility of computer thought will never be won or lost; it will simply cease to be of interest, like the previous debate over man as a clockwork mechanism. (Bolter, 1984, p. 190)
       t takes us a long time to emotionally digest a new idea. The computer is too big a step, and too recently made, for us to quickly recover our balance and gauge its potential. It's an enormous accelerator, perhaps the greatest one since the plow, twelve thousand years ago. As an intelligence amplifier, it speeds up everything-including itself-and it continually improves because its heart is information or, more plainly, ideas. We can no more calculate its consequences than Babbage could have foreseen antibiotics, the Pill, or space stations.
       Further, the effects of those ideas are rapidly compounding, because a computer design is itself just a set of ideas. As we get better at manipulating ideas by building ever better computers, we get better at building even better computers-it's an ever-escalating upward spiral. The early nineteenth century, when the computer's story began, is already so far back that it may as well be the Stone Age. (Rawlins, 1997, p. 19)
       According to weak AI, the principle value of the computer in the study of the mind is that it gives us a very powerful tool. For example, it enables us to formulate and test hypotheses in a more rigorous and precise fashion than before. But according to strong AI the computer is not merely a tool in the study of the mind; rather the appropriately programmed computer really is a mind in the sense that computers given the right programs can be literally said to understand and have other cognitive states. And according to strong AI, because the programmed computer has cognitive states, the programs are not mere tools that enable us to test psychological explanations; rather, the programs are themselves the explanations. (Searle, 1981b, p. 353)
       What makes people smarter than machines? They certainly are not quicker or more precise. Yet people are far better at perceiving objects in natural scenes and noting their relations, at understanding language and retrieving contextually appropriate information from memory, at making plans and carrying out contextually appropriate actions, and at a wide range of other natural cognitive tasks. People are also far better at learning to do these things more accurately and fluently through processing experience.
       What is the basis for these differences? One answer, perhaps the classic one we might expect from artificial intelligence, is "software." If we only had the right computer program, the argument goes, we might be able to capture the fluidity and adaptability of human information processing. Certainly this answer is partially correct. There have been great breakthroughs in our understanding of cognition as a result of the development of expressive high-level computer languages and powerful algorithms. However, we do not think that software is the whole story.
       In our view, people are smarter than today's computers because the brain employs a basic computational architecture that is more suited to deal with a central aspect of the natural information processing tasks that people are so good at.... hese tasks generally require the simultaneous consideration of many pieces of information or constraints. Each constraint may be imperfectly specified and ambiguous, yet each can play a potentially decisive role in determining the outcome of processing. (McClelland, Rumelhart & Hinton, 1986, pp. 3-4)

    Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Computers

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