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  • 61 imagined

    представлять себе; представляемый
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. illusory (adj.) conceptual; fancied; fanciful; fantastic; illusory; imaginary; mental; notional; shadowy; subjective; unreal
    2. not real (adj.) false; fantasized; insubstantial; invented; not real; thought up; visualized
    3. saw (verb) envisaged; envisioned; fancied; fantasised; featured; imaged; imagined; pictured; projected; realized; saw; saw/seen; thought; visioned; visualised; visualized
    4. understood (verb) assumed; believed; conceived; expected; gathered; supposed; suspected; took/taken; understood

    English-Russian base dictionary > imagined

  • 62 read

    1. n разг. чтение; время, проведённое за чтением
    2. n вчт. считывание
    3. v читать

    to read, write and cipher — читать, писать и считать

    4. v читаться

    the play reads better than it acts — пьеса читается лучше, чем звучит со сцены

    to read music — играть по нотам; читать ноты

    5. v зачитывать, оглашать
    6. v гласить

    the paragraph reads to the effect that all men are equal — в этом абзаце говорится, что все люди равны

    7. v разбирать, расшифровывать; прочитать

    the first letter on the coin is so rubbed that I cannot read it — первая буква на монете так стёрлась, что я не могу разобрать её

    8. v толковать, интерпретировать

    to be read … — это надо понимать в том смысле, что …

    9. v толковаться, подаваться в той или иной интерпретации
    10. v биол. «считывать» или декодировать генетическую информацию

    read in — записывать, снимать или считывать

    11. v вчт. считывать информацию
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. seen and understood (adj.) checked over; comprehended; examined; interpreted; made out; perceived; scanned; seen and understood; understood
    2. deliver (verb) deliver; present; recite; utter
    3. interpret the written word (verb) comprehend; decipher; discern; grasp; interpret the written word; perceive; see the words; skim; understand
    4. peruse (verb) peruse; pore over; scan; study
    5. saw (verb) accept; apprehend; caught; compass; conceive; fathom; follow; make out; saw; take in
    6. show (verb) indicate; mark; record; register; say; show
    7. showed/shown or showed (verb) indicated; marked; recorded; registered; said; showed/shown or showed
    8. took (verb) construe; interpret; took

    English-Russian base dictionary > read

  • 63 unsaid

    a непроизнесённый, невысказанный
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. speechless (adj.) close-mouthed; reserved; silent; speechless; taciturn; voiceless
    2. understood (adj.) implicit; implied; inarticulate; inferred; tacit; undeclared; understood; unexpressed; unuttered; unvoiced; wordless
    3. unspoken (adj.) not expressed; not uttered; silenced; suppressed; unpronounced; unrevealed; unspoken; unstated
    4. abjured (verb) abjured; forswore/forsworn; recalled; recanted; retracted; took back/taken back; withdrew/withdrawn

    English-Russian base dictionary > unsaid

  • 64 so

    1. [səʋ] adv
    1. указывает на способ совершения действия (именно) так, таким, подобным образом

    speak so that you are understood - говори так, чтобы тебя можно было понять [см. тж. so that]

    so, and so only - так, и только так

    so and in no other way - только так (и не иначе); только таким образом /способом/

    quite so! - совершенно верно!, правильно!; именно (так)!

    why so? - почему же?, отчего же?; каким образом?

    how so? - как (же) так?, как же это?

    and so on - и так далее, и тому подобное

    I need some paper, pencils, ink, and so on - мне нужна бумага, карандаши, чернила и тому подобное

    and so on and so on, and so on and so forth - и так далее и тому подобное

    so there! - так-то вот!

    that being so I have nothing more to say - раз /поскольку/ это так, мне больше нечего добавить

    so to say, so to speak - так сказать

    1) степень качества или на количество так, до такой степени, столь; столько, так много

    why is the train so crowded today? - почему сегодня в поезде столько народу?

    I have got so much to do and so little time! - мне нужно сделать так много, а времени (у меня) так мало!

    not so much sugar, please - не (кладите) столько сахару, пожалуйста

    be so good to continue to write me letters - пишите мне, пожалуйста, и впредь

    it was so hot (that) I took my coat off - было так жарко, что я снял пиджак

    a little girl so high - девочка /девушка/ вот такого роста

    I am so tired! - я так /очень/ устал!

    so kind of you! - как это мило с вашей стороны!

    I am so pleased to meet you! - я так /очень/ рад познакомиться с вами!

    2) разг. интенсивность действия так (сильно)

    she so wants to go - ей так хочется поехать /пойти/

    why do you cry so? - почему вы так плачете?

    I'd better not go out, my head aches so! - я лучше не буду выходить, у меня так болит голова!

    so good a dinner! - такой хороший обед!

    in so distant a place as Australia - в столь отдалённом месте, как Австралия

    1) подтверждение предшествующего высказывания действительно, да, в самом деле, именно; так (это) и есть

    you look tired. - So I am - у вас усталый вид. - Да, я действительно устал

    you could have come here earlier. - So I could - вы могли бы прийти сюда пораньше. - Верно /Да, конечно/, мог бы

    I thought you were French. - So I am - я думал, что вы француз. - Так оно и есть

    you are late, (and) so am I - вы опоздали, (и) я тоже

    we were wrong, so were you - мы ошиблись, и вы также /тоже/

    3) вывод из сказанного ранее итак, значит, так

    so you are going to the North - итак, вы отправляетесь на север

    so you have come after all! - значит, вы всё-таки пришли!

    and so the work is finished at last! - ну, наконец работа закончена!

    so he said we shouldn't bother. So we didn't - потом он сказал, чтобы мы не беспокоились, ну, мы и не стали (беспокоиться)

    and so to bed - итак, (теперь) спать

    ❝say goodbye❞, and so be off - скажи(те) «до свидания» и (затем) марш /ступай(те)/
    4. указывает на соответствие тому, что было сказано так, в таком случае

    it is so - так оно и есть; это так

    so it is - действительно, правильно

    that's so - именно так; в самом деле так

    is that so? - разве?, неужели?, правда?; не может быть!

    that's /it is/ not so! - это не так!, неправда!

    so be it! - да будет так!

    so far - до сих пор, пока (ещё)

    so far as - насколько, поскольку

    so far as I know - насколько я знаю /мне известно/

    in so far as = so far as

    in so much as = insomuch as

    so far from - вместо того, чтобы

    so far from abating, the epidemic spread - эпидемия отнюдь не затихала, а напротив, распространялась

    so... as - так /настолько/... чтобы, так... что

    it is so natural as hardly to be noticeable - это так естественно, что почти незаметно

    be so good /would you be so kind/ as to send me word - не откажите в любезности известить меня

    not so... as - не так... как ( при сравнении)

    it is not so hot as yesterday - сегодня не так жарко, как вчера

    he is not so bright as his brother - он не такой способный, как его брат

    so... that - а) так /таким образом/... что; б) так... что; настолько... чтобы; he is so ill that he cannot speak - он так болен, что не может говорить

    not so... but - не настолько... чтобы

    he is not so degraded but he has a sense of shame - он не настолько опустился, чтобы потерять чувство стыда

    so much so that - настолько, что; до такой степени, что

    are you satisfied now? - So much so that words fail me - теперь вы довольны? - Так доволен, что и сказать не могу

    so many - такое-то число, такое-то количество, столько-то (штук)

    so many shillings and so many pence - столько-то шиллингов и столько-то пенсов

    they turn out so many typewriters a day - они выпускают столько-то пишущих машинок в день

    so much - а) столько-то, такое-то количество; so much and no more - столько и не больше; he allowed his son so much a month for pocket money - он давал своему сыну ежемесячно определённую сумму /столько-то/ на карманные расходы; б) так много, так, в такой степени; he is so much respected - его так уважают; в) просто, не что иное как; so much rubbish /nonsense/! - просто чепуха!; I regard it as so much lost time - я считаю это просто потерянным временем; г) тем более; so much the better [the worse] - тем лучше [тем хуже]; I agree, so much more that I have seen her - я согласен, тем более, что я видел её; д) (for) довольно, хватит; всё уже сказано или сделано; so much for that - довольно говорить об этом; so much for your childhood ideals - с твоими детскими мечтаниями покончено; so much for the history of the case - вот и всё, что можно сказать об истории этого дела

    not /never/ so much as - даже не

    not so much... as - не столько... сколько; не так... как

    he is not so much angry as upset - он скорее огорчён, чем рассержен

    oceans do not so much divide the world as unite it - океаны не столько разъединяют мир, сколько объединяют его

    just so - как нужно, как полагается

    you don't say so!, do you say so? - неужели?, не может быть!

    so help me (God)! - честное слово! (в уверениях, клятвах)

    I have never seen him, so help me (God)! - я никогда не видел его, честное слово!

    2. [səʋ] pron

    has the train gone? - I think /believe/ so - поезд уже ушёл? - Думаю, что да

    he promised to ring us up but has not yet done so - он обещал позвонить нам, но ещё не звонил

    many people would have run away. Not so he - многие бы убежали, но он не таков

    did he promise it? - Yes, he did so! - он (это) обещал? - Да, конечно!

    he is clever. - I am glad you think so - он умён. - Я рад, что вы так считаете

    he goes to the club. - So he says! - ирон. он ходит в клуб. - Как же!

    your friend is diligent, but you are not so - ваш друг прилежен, не то, что вы

    both brothers are talented, but the elder is more so - оба брата талантливы, но старший особенно

    he isn't handsome, but he thinks himself so - он некрасив, но считает себя красивым

    John. He was named so after his father - его назвали Джоном. В честь отца

    4. более менее; приблизительно

    at three o'clock or so - примерно в три часа, около трёх

    3. [səʋ] cj
    1. ( часто and so) вводит предложения, указывающие на заключение или вывод из предшествующего высказывания так что, поэтому; следовательно

    it was raining and so I did not go out - шёл дождь, и поэтому я не выходил

    it was late, so we went home - было поздно, поэтому /и/ мы пошли домой

    the train leaves in half an hour, so you had better hurry - поезд отходит через полчаса, вам нужно поторопиться

    1) придаточные предложения цели (для того) чтобы, (с тем) чтобы

    he opened the door so he could see them come - он открыл дверь, чтобы видеть, как они придут

    2) разг. придаточные предложения результата так что, поэтому; [см. тж. so that]

    so what? - ну и что?, ну так что?; подумаешь!

    so what of it? - ну и что (в этом) особенного?

    4. [səʋ] int
    так!, ладно!; хватит!, ну! (выражает удивление, одобрение, неодобрение, торжество, сомнение и т. п.)

    he went off yesterday. - So? - он уехал вчера. - Ну? /Ах, вот как!/

    НБАРС > so

  • 65 Historical Portugal

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

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  • 66 Psychoanalysis

       [Psychoanalysis] seeks to prove to the ego that it is not even master in its own house, but must content itself with scanty information of what is going on unconsciously in the mind. (Freud, 1953-1974, Vol. 16, pp. 284-285)
       Although in the interview the analyst is supposedly a "passive" auditor of the "free association" narration by the subject, in point of fact the analyst does direct the course of the narrative. This by itself does not necessarily impair the evidential worth of the outcome, for even in the most meticulously conducted laboratory experiment the experimenter intervenes to obtain the data he is after. There is nevertheless the difficulty that in the nature of the case the full extent of the analyst's intervention is not a matter that is open to public scrutiny, so that by and large one has only his own testimony as to what transpires in the consulting room. It is perhaps unnecessary to say that this is not a question about the personal integrity of psychoanalytic practitioners. The point is the fundamental one that no matter how firmly we may resolve to make explicit our biases, no human being is aware of all of them, and that objectivity in science is achieved through the criticism of publicly accessible material by a community of independent inquirers.... Moreover, unless data are obtained under carefully standardized circumstances, or under different circumstances whose dependence on known variables is nevertheless established, even an extensive collection of data is an unreliable basis for inference. To be sure, analysts apparently do attempt to institute standard conditions for the conduct of interviews. But there is not much information available on the extent to which the standardization is actually enforced, or whether it relates to more than what may be superficial matters. (E. Nagel, 1959, pp. 49-50)
       3) No Necessary Incompatibility between Psychoanalysis and Certain Religious Formulations
       here would seem to be no necessary incompatibility between psychoanalysis and those religious formulations which locate God within the self. One could, indeed, argue that Freud's Id (and even more Groddeck's It), the impersonal force within which is both the core of oneself and yet not oneself, and from which in illness one become[s] alienated, is a secular formation of the insight which makes religious people believe in an immanent God. (Ryecroft, 1966, p. 22)
       Freudian analysts emphasized that their theories were constantly verified by their "clinical observations."... It was precisely this fact-that they always fitted, that they were always confirmed-which in the eyes of their admirers constituted the strongest argument in favour of these theories. It began to dawn on me that this apparent strength was in fact their weakness.... It is easy to obtain confirmations or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmation. (Popper, 1968, pp. 3435)
       5) Psychoanalysis Is Not a Science But Rather the Interpretation of a Narrated History
       Psychoanalysis does not satisfy the standards of the sciences of observation, and the "facts" it deals with are not verifiable by multiple, independent observers.... There are no "facts" nor any observation of "facts" in psychoanalysis but rather the interpretation of a narrated history. (Ricoeur, 1974, p. 186)
       6) Some of the Qualities of a Scientific Approach Are Possessed by Psychoanalysis
       In sum: psychoanalysis is not a science, but it shares some of the qualities associated with a scientific approach-the search for truth, understanding, honesty, openness to the import of the observation and evidence, and a skeptical stance toward authority. (Breger, 1981, p. 50)
       [Attributes of Psychoanalysis:]
       1. Psychic Determinism. No item in mental life and in conduct and behavior is "accidental"; it is the outcome of antecedent conditions.
       2. Much mental activity and behavior is purposive or goal-directed in character.
       3. Much of mental activity and behavior, and its determinants, is unconscious in character. 4. The early experience of the individual, as a child, is very potent, and tends to be pre-potent over later experience. (Farrell, 1981, p. 25)
       Our sceptic may be unwise enough... to maintain that, because analytic theory is unscientific on his criterion, it is not worth discussing. This step is unwise, because it presupposes that, if a study is not scientific on his criterion, it is not a rational enterprise... an elementary and egregious mistake. The scientific and the rational are not co-extensive. Scientific work is only one form that rational inquiry can take: there are many others. (Farrell, 1981, p. 46)
       Psychoanalysts have tended to write as though the term analysis spoke for itself, as if the statement "analysis revealed" or "it was analyzed as" preceding a clinical assertion was sufficient to establish the validity of what was being reported. An outsider might easily get the impression from reading the psychoanalytic literature that some standardized, generally accepted procedure existed for both inference and evidence. Instead, exactly the opposite has been true. Clinical material in the hands of one analyst can lead to totally different "findings" in the hands of another. (Peterfreund, 1986, p. 128)
       The analytic process-the means by which we arrive at psychoanalytic understanding-has been largely neglected and is poorly understood, and there has been comparatively little interest in the issues of inference and evidence. Indeed, psychoanalysts as a group have not recognized the importance of being bound by scientific constraints. They do not seem to understand that a possibility is only that-a possibility-and that innumerable ways may exist to explain the same data. Psychoanalysts all too often do not seem to distinguish hypotheses from facts, nor do they seem to understand that hypotheses must be tested in some way, that criteria for evidence must exist, and that any given test for any hypothesis must allow for the full range of substantiation/refutation. (Peterfreund, 1986, p. 129)

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  • 67 so

    1. adv (указывает на способ совершения действия) так, таким, подобным образом

    speak so that you are understood — говори так, чтобы тебя можно было понять

    so, and so only — так, и только так

    so and in no other way — только так ; только таким образом

    quite so! — совершенно верно!, правильно!; именно !

    why so? — почему же?, отчего же?; каким образом?

    how so? — как так?, как же это?

    and so on — и так далее, и тому подобное

    I need some paper, pencils, ink, and so on — мне нужна бумага, карандаши, чернила и тому подобное

    and so on and so on, and so on and so forthи так далее и тому подобное

    do it because I say so — сделай это, потому что я так говорю

    not so very small — не такой уж маленький, довольно большой

    2. adv (степень качества или на количества) так, до такой степени, столь; столько, так много

    I have got so much to do and so little time! — мне нужно сделать так много, а времени так мало!

    not so much sugar, please — не столько сахару, пожалуйста

    be so good to continue to write me letters — пишите мне, пожалуйста, и впредь

    it was so hot I took my coat off — было так жарко, что я снял пиджак

    so many men so many minds — сколько голов, столько умов

    this is even so — это именно так; это совершенно верно

    3. adv такой

    so you say! — рассказывайте!, так я вам и поверил!

    I believe so — думаю, что так; правильно, верно

    4. adv (подтверждение предшествующего высказывания) действительно, да, в самом деле, именно; так и есть

    you lookSo I am — у вас усталый — Да, я действительно устал

    I myself said so, I said so myselfя сам сказал это

    5. adv тоже, также

    you are late, so am I — вы опоздали, я тоже

    so much so — до такой степени; так

    6. adv итак, значит, так

    so you are going to the North — итак, вы отправляетесь на север

    not so hot — так себе, не ахти какой

    7. adv арх. (последовательность действия) затем, потом

    and so to bed — итак, спать

    the more so, as … — тем более, что; тем паче, что …

    so as — чтобы, для того чтобы, с тем чтобы

    8. adv (указывает на соответствие тому, что было сказано) так, в таком случае

    it is so — так оно и есть; это так

    so it is — действительно, правильно

    has the train gone?I think so — поезд уже ушёл? — Думаю, что да

    he promised to ring us up but has not yet done so — он обещал позвонить нам, но ещё не звонил

    many people would have run Not so he — многие бы убежали, но он не таков

    did he promise it? — Yes, he did so! — он обещал? — Да, конечно!

    your friend is diligent, but you are not so — ваш друг прилежен, не то, что вы

    11. pron более менее; приблизительно
    12. cj так что, поэтому; следовательно

    it was raining and so I did not go out — шёл дождь, и поэтому я не выходил

    except in so far as — за исключением того; что

    so long as — если только, при условии, что

    so much as — нечто; вроде; даже

    13. cj чтобы

    he opened the door so he could see them come — он открыл дверь, чтобы видеть, как они придут

    so that — с тем; чтобы

    14. int так!, ладно!; хватит!

    he went offSo? — он уехал — Ну?

    Синонимический ряд:
    1. consequently (adj.) consequently; for that reason; from this cause; hence; on that account; therefore
    2. also (other) also; correspondingly; likewise; similarly
    3. so that (other) in order that; in order to; so that; to
    4. therefore (other) accordingly; consequently; ergo; hence; then; therefore; thereupon; thus; thus and so; thus and thus; thusly
    5. very (other) awfully; damned; dreadfully; eminently; exceedingly; exceptionally; extremely; greatly; highly; hugely; insatiably; mightily; mighty; mortally; most; much; notably; parlous; pesky; rattling; remarkably; right; snapping; spanking; staving; strikingly; super; surpassingly; terribly; very

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  • 68 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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  • 69 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)

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  • 70 Philosophy

       And what I believe to be more important here is that I find in myself an infinity of ideas of certain things which cannot be assumed to be pure nothingness, even though they may have perhaps no existence outside of my thought. These things are not figments of my imagination, even though it is within my power to think of them or not to think of them; on the contrary, they have their own true and immutable natures. Thus, for example, when I imagine a triangle, even though there may perhaps be no such figure anywhere in the world outside of my thought, nor ever have been, nevertheless the figure cannot help having a certain determinate nature... or essence, which is immutable and eternal, which I have not invented and which does not in any way depend upon my mind. (Descartes, 1951, p. 61)
       Let us console ourselves for not knowing the possible connections between a spider and the rings of Saturn, and continue to examine what is within our reach. (Voltaire, 1961, p. 144)
       As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the splitting up of the world into the realms of matter and mind, and the identification of "mind" with conscious thinking. The result of this identification was the shallow rationalism of l'esprit Cartesien, and an impoverishment of psychology which it took three centuries to remedy even in part. (Koestler, 1964, p. 148)
       It has been made of late a reproach against natural philosophy that it has struck out on a path of its own, and has separated itself more and more widely from the other sciences which are united by common philological and historical studies. The opposition has, in fact, been long apparent, and seems to me to have grown up mainly under the influence of the Hegelian philosophy, or, at any rate, to have been brought out into more distinct relief by that philosophy.... The sole object of Kant's "Critical Philosophy" was to test the sources and the authority of our knowledge, and to fix a definite scope and standard for the researches of philosophy, as compared with other sciences.... [But Hegel's] "Philosophy of Identity" was bolder. It started with the hypothesis that not only spiritual phenomena, but even the actual world-nature, that is, and man-were the result of an act of thought on the part of a creative mind, similar, it was supposed, in kind to the human mind.... The philosophers accused the scientific men of narrowness; the scientific men retorted that the philosophers were crazy. And so it came about that men of science began to lay some stress on the banishment of all philosophic influences from their work; while some of them, including men of the greatest acuteness, went so far as to condemn philosophy altogether, not merely as useless, but as mischievous dreaming. Thus, it must be confessed, not only were the illegitimate pretensions of the Hegelian system to subordinate to itself all other studies rejected, but no regard was paid to the rightful claims of philosophy, that is, the criticism of the sources of cognition, and the definition of the functions of the intellect. (Helmholz, quoted in Dampier, 1966, pp. 291-292)
       Philosophy remains true to its classical tradition by renouncing it. (Habermas, 1972, p. 317)
       I have not attempted... to put forward any grand view of the nature of philosophy; nor do I have any such grand view to put forth if I would. It will be obvious that I do not agree with those who see philosophy as the history of "howlers" and progress in philosophy as the debunking of howlers. It will also be obvious that I do not agree with those who see philosophy as the enterprise of putting forward a priori truths about the world.... I see philosophy as a field which has certain central questions, for example, the relation between thought and reality.... It seems obvious that in dealing with these questions philosophers have formulated rival research programs, that they have put forward general hypotheses, and that philosophers within each major research program have modified their hypotheses by trial and error, even if they sometimes refuse to admit that that is what they are doing. To that extent philosophy is a "science." To argue about whether philosophy is a science in any more serious sense seems to me to be hardly a useful occupation.... It does not seem to me important to decide whether science is philosophy or philosophy is science as long as one has a conception of both that makes both essential to a responsible view of the world and of man's place in it. (Putnam, 1975, p. xvii)
       What can philosophy contribute to solving the problem of the relation [of] mind to body? Twenty years ago, many English-speaking philosophers would have answered: "Nothing beyond an analysis of the various mental concepts." If we seek knowledge of things, they thought, it is to science that we must turn. Philosophy can only cast light upon our concepts of those things.
       This retreat from things to concepts was not undertaken lightly. Ever since the seventeenth century, the great intellectual fact of our culture has been the incredible expansion of knowledge both in the natural and in the rational sciences (mathematics, logic).
       The success of science created a crisis in philosophy. What was there for philosophy to do? Hume had already perceived the problem in some degree, and so surely did Kant, but it was not until the twentieth century, with the Vienna Circle and with Wittgenstein, that the difficulty began to weigh heavily. Wittgenstein took the view that philosophy could do no more than strive to undo the intellectual knots it itself had tied, so achieving intellectual release, and even a certain illumination, but no knowledge. A little later, and more optimistically, Ryle saw a positive, if reduced role, for philosophy in mapping the "logical geography" of our concepts: how they stood to each other and how they were to be analyzed....
       Since that time, however, philosophers in the "analytic" tradition have swung back from Wittgensteinian and even Rylean pessimism to a more traditional conception of the proper role and tasks of philosophy. Many analytic philosophers now would accept the view that the central task of philosophy is to give an account, or at least play a part in giving an account, of the most general nature of things and of man. (Armstrong, 1990, pp. 37-38)
       8) Philosophy's Evolving Engagement with Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
       In the beginning, the nature of philosophy's engagement with artificial intelligence and cognitive science was clear enough. The new sciences of the mind were to provide the long-awaited vindication of the most potent dreams of naturalism and materialism. Mind would at last be located firmly within the natural order. We would see in detail how the most perplexing features of the mental realm could be supported by the operations of solely physical laws upon solely physical stuff. Mental causation (the power of, e.g., a belief to cause an action) would emerge as just another species of physical causation. Reasoning would be understood as a kind of automated theorem proving. And the key to both was to be the depiction of the brain as the implementation of multiple higher level programs whose task was to manipulate and transform symbols or representations: inner items with one foot in the physical (they were realized as brain states) and one in the mental (they were bearers of contents, and their physical gymnastics were cleverly designed to respect semantic relationships such as truth preservation). (A. Clark, 1996, p. 1)
       Socrates of Athens famously declared that "the unexamined life is not worth living," and his motto aptly explains the impulse to philosophize. Taking nothing for granted, philosophy probes and questions the fundamental presuppositions of every area of human inquiry.... [P]art of the job of the philosopher is to keep at a certain critical distance from current doctrines, whether in the sciences or the arts, and to examine instead how the various elements in our world-view clash, or fit together. Some philosophers have tried to incorporate the results of these inquiries into a grand synoptic view of the nature of reality and our human relationship to it. Others have mistrusted system-building, and seen their primary role as one of clarifications, or the removal of obstacles along the road to truth. But all have shared the Socratic vision of using the human intellect to challenge comfortable preconceptions, insisting that every aspect of human theory and practice be subjected to continuing critical scrutiny....
       Philosophy is, of course, part of a continuing tradition, and there is much to be gained from seeing how that tradition originated and developed. But the principal object of studying the materials in this book is not to pay homage to past genius, but to enrich one's understanding of central problems that are as pressing today as they have always been-problems about knowledge, truth and reality, the nature of the mind, the basis of right action, and the best way to live. These questions help to mark out the territory of philosophy as an academic discipline, but in a wider sense they define the human predicament itself; they will surely continue to be with us for as long as humanity endures. (Cottingham, 1996, pp. xxi-xxii)
       In his study of ancient Greek culture, The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche drew what would become a famous distinction, between the Dionysian spirit, the untamed spirit of art and creativity, and the Apollonian, that of reason and self-control. The story of Greek civilization, and all civilizations, Nietzsche implied, was the gradual victory of Apollonian man, with his desire for control over nature and himself, over Dionysian man, who survives only in myth, poetry, music, and drama. Socrates and Plato had attacked the illusions of art as unreal, and had overturned the delicate cultural balance by valuing only man's critical, rational, and controlling consciousness while denigrating his vital life instincts as irrational and base. The result of this division is "Alexandrian man," the civilized and accomplished Greek citizen of the later ancient world, who is "equipped with the greatest forces of knowledge" but in whom the wellsprings of creativity have dried up. (Herman, 1997, pp. 95-96)

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  • 71 right

    ̈ɪraɪt I
    1. сущ.
    1) право;
    справедливое требование( to - на что-л.) ;
    привилегия to abdicate, relinquish, renounce, sign away, waive a right ≈ отказываться от права to achieve, gain a right ≈ приобретать право to achieve full civil rightsполучать все права гражданина to assert, claim a rightотстаивать, защищать право to deny (smb.) a right ≈ отнимать( у кого-л.) право, отказать кому-л. в праве to enjoy, exercise a rightпользоваться правом to have a right ≈ иметь право to protect, safeguard smb.'s rights ≈ защищать чьи-л. права patients' rights ≈ права пациента political rights ≈ политические права property rightsправа собственности intellectual property rights ≈ авторские права veterans' rights ≈ права ветеранов voting rightsправо голоса women's rights ≈ права женщин the right of a free pressсвобода прессы the right of free speechсвобода слова the right to privacy ≈ право на уединение, на частную жизнь divine right exclusive right grazing right inalienable right inherent right legal right natural right second serial right sole right vested right civil rights conjugal rights consumers' rights film rights human rights individual rights mineral rights Syn: prerogative
    1., privilege
    1., freedom
    2) правота;
    справедливость;
    правильность;
    (часто во фразе:) do smb. rightотдавать кому-л. должное, справедливость Syn: justice, correctness
    3) мн. права (на использование чего-л.)
    4) обыкн. мн. действительность, истинное положение вещей
    5) мн. порядокby right or wrong
    2. прил.
    1) правый, правильный, справедливый, верный а) (о поведении, поступках, высказываниях и т. п.) You were right to refuse. ≈ Вы правильно сделали, что отказались. Always do what is right and honourable. ≈ Всегда совершай только правильные и честные поступки. right you are! б) (о положении дел) What is the right time? ≈ Каково точное время? put right ∙ Syn: true
    1., correct
    1., accurate Ant: wrong
    2.
    2) подходящий, надлежащий;
    уместный;
    именно тот, который нужен Are we on the right road? ≈ Мы по той дороге едем? He is the right man for the job. ≈ Для этой работы он подходящая кандидатура. Syn: suitable, fitting
    2., proper
    1., appropriate
    1.
    3) в хорошем или нормальном состоянии;
    здоровый Do you fell all right? ≈ Вы нормально себя чувствуете. not right in the head right as rain Syn: sound II
    1., sane
    4) прямой (градусная мера которого 90 градусов - об угле) at the right angle at a right angle to
    3. нареч.
    1) правильно, верно;
    справедливо Have I guess right or wrong? ≈ Я угадал или нет? if I remember right ≈ если память мне не изменяет Syn: justly, correctly Ant: wrong
    3.
    2) надлежащим образом;
    как следует Nothing seems to go right with him. ≈ Он никогда ничего не может нормально сделать. Syn: properly
    3) прямо, по прямой линии Syn: straight
    2., directly
    1.
    4) точно, как раз The wind was right in our faces. ≈ Ветер дул прямо нам в лицо. right here right now right away right off
    5) полностью, совершенно The pear was rotten right through. ≈ Груша была целиком сгнившей. Syn: completely
    6) очень we were right glad to hear that... ≈ мы были очень рады услышать, что... Syn: very
    2. ∙ right off the bat come right in
    4. гл.
    1) выпрямлять(ся) ;
    исправлять(ся) right oneself right a wrong
    2) защищать права II
    1. сущ.
    1) правая сторона
    2) (the Rights) мн.;
    коллект. полит. правые the extreme, far rights ≈ крайне правые
    2. прил.
    1) правый right hand ≈ правая рука Ant: left I
    1.
    2) полит. правый, реакционный Ant: left I
    1.
    3) лицевой, правый ( о стороне материала) Syn: wrong
    2.
    3. нареч. направо right and left right turn! right face! правильность, правота, справедливость - by * or wrong всеми правдами и неправдами - to be in the * быть правым - to defend the * защищать справедливость /правое дело/ - to know the difference between * and wrong знать, что правильно и что неправильно;
    отличать белое от черного - to do smb. * отдавать кому-л. должное;
    поступать с кем-л. справедливо право;
    привилегия - civil *s гражданские права - fundamental *s основные права - human *s права человека - natural *s of man естественные права человека - treaty *s договорные права - * of action (юридическое) право на иск - * to work право на труд - *s and duties права и обязанности - * of legation( дипломатическое) право посольства;
    право посылать дипломатическое представительство - * of passage право проезда, прохода и т. п. - * of common право на совместное /общее/ пользование( чем-л.) ;
    общее /совместное/ право (на что-л.) - * of war (юридическое) право войны, право обращения к войне - to claim a /one's/ * предъявить претензию( на что-л.) ;
    требовать своего, требовать причитающегося по праву - as of * как полагающийся по праву;
    как само собой разумеющийся - to be member as of * быть автоматически членом (организации) - pensions should be given as of * пенсии должны назначаться как нечто полагающееся по праву - in one's own * (юридическое) в своем праве;
    по себе;
    сам по себе, независимо от других людей или обстоятельств - a peeress in her own * пэресса в своем праве;
    женщина-пэр - a queen in her own * царствующая королева, королева по себе (в отличие от жены короля) - Marie Curie was a great scientist in her own * Мария Кюри и сама была выдающимся ученым - by * of по праву (чего-л.) - by *(s) по праву, справедливо - the property is not mine by * это имущество не принадлежит мне по праву pl право на разработку или эксплуатацию чего-л. - mineral *s право на разработку недр - fishing *s право на рыбную ловлю право на использование произведения искусства - film *s of the novel право на экранизацию романа - stage * право на постановку пьесы обыкн. pl действительные факты, истинное положение вещей - the *s (and wrongs) of a case состояние дела pl порядок - to bring /to set, to put/ to *s приводить в порядок /в должное состояние/;
    наводить порядок;
    восстановить силы, вылечить - he set the boy to *s and showed him where his duty lay он разъяснил юноше его заблуждения и указал ему на его истинные обязанности - to be to *s быть в порядке правый, справедливый - to be * быть правым - to do the * thing by smb. справедливо поступить с кем-л. - to do what is * правильно поступить;
    сделать то, что следует - it would be only * to tell you было бы только справедливо сказать вам - it is not * to tell lies лгать нехорошо верный, правильный - the * answer верный /правильный/ ответ - * use of words правильное употребление слов - * account of the matter правильное изложение дела - to get smth. * прекрасно понять что-л., быть /стать/ совершенно ясным (для кого-л.) - to get it * понять правильно - that's * верно, совершенно справедливо, правильно - * you are! верно!, ваша правда!;
    идет!, есть такое дело! - is that the * address? это правильный адрес? - can you tell me the * time? скажите, пожалуйста, точно, который сейчас час? надлежащий;
    подходящий, уместный - the * size нужный размер - just the * colour как раз подходящий цвет - the * man in the * place человек на своем месте, подходящий для данного дела человек - the * house тот самый дом( который нужен) - not the * Mr. Smith не тот г-н Смит (а другой) - he will always find the * thing to say он всегда говорит подходящие слова /кстати;
    то, что следует/ - he understood that it was not the * thing to do он понял, что этого не следовало делать здоровый, в хорошем состоянии;
    исправный - to feel all * хорошо себя чувствовать - to be all * быть в порядке;
    чувствовать себя хорошо - not * in the head ненормальный, безумный - in one's * mind в здравом уме;
    нормальный - to put /to set/ smth. * исправить /поправить/ что-л. - to set things * уладить дела - to set oneself * with smb. оправдать себя в чьих-л. глазах - this medicine will soon put you * от этого лекарства вы скоро поправитесь - a good night's rest will set you * за ночь вы отдохнете как следует и снова будете чувствовать себя хорошо (часто with) наиболее удобный, предпочтительный - if it is all * with you если это вас устраивает - are you all * now? удобно ли вам теперь? - is it all * for me to come this evening? вы не возражаете, если я приду сегодня вечером? - it is all * with him он согласен, он не против этого прямой (о линии, угле) лицевой, правый (о стороне материи) - to iron the * side гладить с лица - * side up налицо, лицевой стороной /лицом/ кверху( редкое) праведный часто (ироничное) занимающий положение в обществе - he knows all the * people он знает всех нужных людей > Miss R. будущая жена;
    суженая > Mr. R. будущий муж;
    суженый > on the * side of 40 моложе 40 лет > * as rain /as a trivet/ в хорошем состоянии, в полном порядке;
    совершенно здоров;
    в добром здравии, цел и невредим справедливо - to act * действовать /поступать/ справедливо - to live * жить честно - it serves him * поделом ему, так ему и надо верно, правильно - about * более или менее правильно /достаточно/ - to guess * догадаться, отгадать - to get /to do/ a sum * правильно решить пример надлежащим образом - to do a thing * делать что-л. как следует - do it * or not at all делайте это как следует или не беритесь вовсе - nothing goes * with him у него все идет не так точно, как раз - * in the middle как раз /точно/ в середине - * at the moment как раз в тот самый момент прямо - * opposite прямо напротив - * after lunch сразу после завтрака - to go * ahead идти прямо вперед - the wind was * behind us ветер дул нам прямо в спину - curtains * to the floor шторы до самого пола - come * in! (американизм) входите (пожалуйста) ! (эмоционально-усилительно) совершенно, полностью - * to the end до самого конца - rotten * through прогнивший насквозь - to turn * round повернуться кругом, сделать полный поворот - to sink * to the bottom погрузиться на самое дно - veranda * round the house веранда вокруг всего дома - he felt * at home он чувствовал себя совсем как дома (устаревшее) очень - a * pleasant day прекрасный /очень приятный/ день - to know * well очень хорошо знать (что-л.) - a * cunning worker очень искусный работник - to feast * royally пировать совсем по-царски - I was * glad to hear it я был искренне рад услышать это > * here как раз здесь;
    в эту минуту > * now в этот момент, сейчас, сегодня же, сразу > * away, (американизм) * off сразу, немедленно > let's go * away or we'll be late пойдем сейчас же, иначе мы опоздаем > I'll do it * я сразу же сделаю это > to put /to set/ oneself * with smb. снискать чью-л. благосклонность;
    оправдать себя в чьих-л. глазах;
    помириться с кем-л. > to put smb. * with smb. оправдать кого-л. в чьих-л. глазах > * off the boat (американизм) с места в карьер, сразу же > R. Reverend Его преосвященство;
    епископ > R. Honourable достопочтенный( титулование пэров, министров и т. п.) исправлять;
    восстанавливать справедливость - to * injustice устранять несправедливость - to * an error исправить ошибку - to * a wrong восстановить справедливость защищать права - to * the oppressed защищать права угнетенных исправлять (ошибки и т. п.) - that is a fault that will * itself это само собой исправится выпрямлять - to * a boat выравнивать лодку - to * the helm (морское) поставить руль прямо - to * oneself выпрямляться;
    реабилитировать себя - the driver quickly *ed the car after it skidded водитель быстро справился с машиной, когда ее занесло выпрямляться приводить в порядок - to * a room убирать комнату, наводить порядок в комнате компенсировать( что-л.), возмещать (убытки) правая сторона - to turn to the * повернуть направо - to keep to the * держаться правой стороны - to sit on the * of the host сидеть направо /по правую руку/ от хозяина (военное) правый фланг - our troops attacked the enemy's * наши войска атаковали правый фланг противника (the R.) (собирательнле) (политика) правая партия, правые консерваторы удар правой рукой;
    правая рука (бокс) - he got in one with his * он нанес удар правой (рукой) - he gave him a hard * on the jaw правой рукой он нанес ему сильный удар в челюсть правая перчатка, правый ботинок и т. п. правый - * hand правая рука - to the * hand направо - on the * hand справа - * turn правый поворот;
    поворот направо - * driving езда по правой стороне;
    правостороннее движение - * back правый защитник (футбол) - * forward( спортивное) правый нападающий - * man (военное) правофланговый( часто R.) (политика) правый, реакционный - the * wing of a party правое крыло партии > to put one's * hand to the work работать энергично направо - he looked neither * nor left он не посмотрел ни вправо, ни влево - * step! шаг вправо! (команда) - * face /turn/! направо!( команда) - * about face! (через правое плечо) кругом! (команда) - eyes *! равнение направо! (команда) > * and left справа и слева;
    везде, где попало > he owes money * and left он кругом в долгу acknowledge a ~ признавать право acquire a ~ получать право acquired ~ юр. полученное право acquired ~ юр. приобретенное право adverse ~ противоположное право all ~ в порядке;
    вполне удовлетворительный;
    he is all right он чувствует себя хорошо;
    everything is all right with your plan с вашим планом все в порядке all ~ вполне удовлетворительно, приемлемо;
    как нужно all ~ подходящий, устраивающий (кого-л.) ;
    is it all right with you? вас это устраивает? all ~ хорошо!, ладно!, согласен! appendant ~ дополнительное право ~ здоровый, в хорошем состоянии;
    исправный;
    to put right исправить;
    are you right now? удобно ли вам теперь?;
    I feel all right я чувствую себя хорошо artist's ~ право на художественную собственность asylum ~ право убежища ~ прямой (о линии, об угле) ;
    at the right angle под прямым углом bargaining ~ право ведения переговоров to be all ~ быть в порядке to be all ~ чувствовать себя хорошо;
    if it's all right with you если это вас устраивает, если вы согласны;
    on the right side of thirty моложе 30 лет ~ справедливость;
    правильность;
    to do (smb.) right отдавать (кому-л.) должное, справедливость;
    to be in the right быть правым ~ правый, справедливый;
    to be right быть правым be sure you bring the ~ book смотрите, принесите ту книгу, которую нужно;
    the right size нужный размер ~ pl порядок;
    to set (или to put) to rights навести порядок;
    привести в порядок;
    to be to rights быть в порядке;
    by right or wrong всеми правдами и неправдами beneficial ~ право получения доходов с доверительной собственности beneficial ~ право пользования собственностью для извлечения выгоды birth ~ право первородства birth ~ право по рождению bonus ~ право на получение льгот ~ право;
    справедливое требование (to) ;
    привилегия;
    right to work право на труд;
    rights and duties права и обязанности;
    by right of по праву (чего-л.) ~ pl порядок;
    to set (или to put) to rights навести порядок;
    привести в порядок;
    to be to rights быть в порядке;
    by right or wrong всеми правдами и неправдами civil ~ гражданское право ~ here в эту минуту;
    right now в этот момент;
    come right in амер. входите consequential ~ право, вытекающее из другого права constitutional ~ конституционное право contractual ~ право, вытекающее из контракта conversion ~ право конверсии corporeal ~ вещное право create a ~ создавать право diffusion ~ право распространения ~ справедливость;
    правильность;
    to do (smb.) right отдавать (кому-л.) должное, справедливость;
    to be in the right быть правым ~ верный, правильный;
    right use of words правильное употребление слов;
    to do what is right делать то, что правильно;
    he is always right он всегда прав drawing ~ право жеребьевки drawing ~ право заимствования equal ~ равноправный all ~ в порядке;
    вполне удовлетворительный;
    he is all right он чувствует себя хорошо;
    everything is all right with your plan с вашим планом все в порядке exclusive ~ исключительное право extinguishing a ~ аннулирование права first mortgage ~ право первой закладной flush ~ вчт. выровненное правое поле full legal ~ законное право собственности, соединенное с фактическим владением fundamental ~ основное право ~ правильно, верно;
    справедливо;
    to get it right понять правильно;
    to get (или to do) a sum right верно решить задачу;
    to guess right правильно угадать ~ прямо;
    go right ahead идите прямо вперед ~ правильно, верно;
    справедливо;
    to get it right понять правильно;
    to get (или to do) a sum right верно решить задачу;
    to guess right правильно угадать all ~ в порядке;
    вполне удовлетворительный;
    he is all right он чувствует себя хорошо;
    everything is all right with your plan с вашим планом все в порядке ~ верный, правильный;
    right use of words правильное употребление слов;
    to do what is right делать то, что правильно;
    he is always right он всегда прав honorary ~ почетное право human ~ права человека human ~ право человека ~ здоровый, в хорошем состоянии;
    исправный;
    to put right исправить;
    are you right now? удобно ли вам теперь?;
    I feel all right я чувствую себя хорошо ~ очень;
    I know right well я очень хорошо знаю;
    right away, right off сразу;
    немедленно;
    right off the bat амер. = с места в карьер;
    сразу же to be all ~ чувствовать себя хорошо;
    if it's all right with you если это вас устраивает, если вы согласны;
    on the right side of thirty моложе 30 лет in one's own ~ по праву (благодаря титулу, образованию и т. п.) ;
    to reserve the right оставлять за собой право inalienable ~ неотъемлемое право incorporeal ~ право требования;
    право, могущее быть основанием для иска indefeasible ~ неотъемлемое право indisputable ~ неоспоримое право individual ~ частное право all ~ подходящий, устраивающий (кого-л.) ;
    is it all right with you? вас это устраивает? landing ~ право на высадку legal ~ субъективное право, основанное на нормах общего права licensing ~ лицензионное право licensing ~ разрешительное право maintenance of acquired ~s сохранение приобретенных прав (на пению, другие виды социального обеспечения) managerial ~ право руководителя marital ~ супружеское право;
    право, возникающее в связи с вступлением в брак marketing ~s права на продажу membership ~ право членства minority ~ право меньшинства moral ~ моральное право natural ~ естественное право the ~ man in the ~ place человек на своем месте, человек, подходящий для данного дела;
    not the right Mr Jones не тот мр Джоунз notification ~ право уведомления to be all ~ чувствовать себя хорошо;
    if it's all right with you если это вас устраивает, если вы согласны;
    on the right side of thirty моложе 30 лет ore mining ~ право на горнорудные разработки partial ~ неполное право participation ~ право на участие в прибылях partnership ~ право на участие pension ~ право на получение пенсии personal ~ личное право political ~ политическое право possessory ~ право собственности preemption ~ преимущественное право на покупку preemptive ~ преимущественное право на покупку preemptive subscription ~ преимущественное право на покупку акций по подписке preferential subscription ~ преимущественное право подписки на акции prescriptive ~ право, основанное на давности prior ~ преимущественное право priority ~ преимущественное право proprietary ~ вещное право proprietary ~ право собственности protective ~ защитительное право prove one's ~ доказывать право publishing ~ право на издание ~ здоровый, в хорошем состоянии;
    исправный;
    to put right исправить;
    are you right now? удобно ли вам теперь?;
    I feel all right я чувствую себя хорошо reemployment ~ право на получение нового места работы в случае увольнения reporting ~ право представления отчета restricted voting ~ ограниченное право голоса reversionary ~ возвратное право reversionary ~ право на обратный переход имущества right в хорошем состоянии ~ верный, правильный;
    right use of words правильное употребление слов;
    to do what is right делать то, что правильно;
    he is always right он всегда прав ~ выпрямлять(ся) ;
    исправлять(ся) ~ защищать права;
    to right the oppressed заступаться за угнетенных ~ здоровый, в хорошем состоянии;
    исправный;
    to put right исправить;
    are you right now? удобно ли вам теперь?;
    I feel all right я чувствую себя хорошо ~ именно тот, который нужен (или имеется в виду) ;
    подходящий, надлежащий;
    уместный ~ исправный ~ (обыкн. pl) истинное положение вещей, действительность;
    the rights of the case положение дела ~ лицевой, правый (о стороне материала) ~ надлежащий ~ надлежащим или должным образом ~ направо ~ нужный ~ очень;
    I know right well я очень хорошо знаю;
    right away, right off сразу;
    немедленно;
    right off the bat амер. = с места в карьер;
    сразу же ~ подходящий ~ pl порядок;
    to set (или to put) to rights навести порядок;
    привести в порядок;
    to be to rights быть в порядке;
    by right or wrong всеми правдами и неправдами ~ правая сторона;
    on the right справа (где) ;
    to the right направо (куда) ~ правильно, верно;
    справедливо;
    to get it right понять правильно;
    to get (или to do) a sum right верно решить задачу;
    to guess right правильно угадать ~ правильный ~ право;
    справедливое требование (to) ;
    привилегия;
    right to work право на труд;
    rights and duties права и обязанности;
    by right of по праву (чего-л.) ~ право (обычно в субъективном смысле) ~ право ~ правомерный, правый, справедливый, правильный, надлежащий ~ правомерный ~ правопритязание ~ (the Rights) pl собир. полит. правые ~ полит. правый, реакционный ~ правый ~ правый, справедливый;
    to be right быть правым ~ правый ~ привилегия ~ прямо;
    go right ahead идите прямо вперед ~ прямой (о линии, об угле) ;
    at the right angle под прямым углом ~ совершенно, полностью;
    right to the end до самого конца ~ справедливость;
    правильность;
    to do (smb.) right отдавать (кому-л.) должное, справедливость;
    to be in the right быть правым ~ справедливость ~ справедливый ~ точно, как раз;
    right in the middle как раз в середине to ~ oneself реабилитировать себя;
    to right a wrong исправить несправедливость;
    загладить обиду ~ after сразу после ~ and left во все стороны;
    right turn( или face) ! воен. направо! (команда) ~ and left направо и налево ~ here в эту минуту;
    right now в этот момент;
    come right in амер. входите ~ here как раз здесь ~ in personam обязательственное право ~ in personam относительное право ~ in personam право обязательственного характера ~ in rem абсолютное право ~ in rem вещное право ~ точно, как раз;
    right in the middle как раз в середине the ~ man in the ~ place человек на своем месте, человек, подходящий для данного дела;
    not the right Mr Jones не тот мр Джоунз ~ of abandonment право отказа ~ of abode право на жилище ~ of accrual право увеличения доли ~ of action право на иск ~ of action право предъявления иска ~ of administration and disposal of property право распоряжения и передачи имущества ~ of all workers to a fair remuneration право всех рабочих на справедливое вознаграждение за труд;
    это понятие шире, чем концепция заработной платы и включает основную или минимальную зарплату (и любые другие прямые или косвенные выплаты деньгами и ~ of appointment право назначения ~ of assembly право собраний ~ of audience право аудиенции ~ of cancellation право аннулирования ~ of cancellation право отмены ~ of cancellation право расторжения контракта ~ of challenge право отвода присяжного заседателя ~ of chastisement право наказания ~ of claim право заявлять претензию ~ of complaint право подавать иск ~ of consultation право давать консультацию ~ of deduction право удержания ~ of deposit право депонирования ~ of detention право задержания ~ of disposal право передачи ~ of disposal право распоряжения ~ of exchange право обмена ~ of execution право оформления ~ of execution право приведения в исполнение ~ of exploitation пат. право использования ~ of first refusal право преимущественной покупки ~ of free lodging право бесплатного хранения ~ of inheritance право наследования ~ of intervention право вступления в процесс ~ of intervention право на вмешательство ~ of litigant to be present in court право тяжущейся стороны присутствовать в суде ~ of notification право уведомления ~ of occupation право владения ~ of occupation право завладения ~ of occupation of the matrimonial home право завладения домом супруга ~ of option бирж. право опциона ~ of option бирж. право сделки с премией ~ of ownership право собственности ~ of passage право проезда, прохода ~ of passage право прохода судов ~ of pledge право отдавать в залог ~ of possession право владения ~ of preemption преимущественное право покупки ~ of primogeniture насл. право первородства ~ of priority преимущественное право ~ of property право собственности ~ of recourse право оборота ~ of recourse право регресса ~ of redemption право возвращения ~ of redemption право выкупа заложенного имущества ~ of redemption право изъятия из обращения ~ of redemption право погашения ~ of regress право регресса ~ of removal орг.бизн. право отстранения от должности ~ of reply право ответа истца на возражения по иску ~ of reproduction право воспроизведения ~ of repurchase право выкупа ~ of repurchase право перекупки ~ of rescission право аннулирования ~ of rescission право расторжения ~ of residence право пребывания ~ of residence право проживания ~ of retainer право удержания ~ of retention право сохранения ~ of retention право удержания ~ of review право пересмотра ~ of review право проверки ~ of search право обыска search: ~ обыск;
    right of search юр. право обыска судов ~ of setoff право судебного зачета ~ of stoppage in transit право задержания в пути ~ of stoppage in transit право остановки в пути ~ of subscription право подписки ~ of succession право наследования ~ of surrender право отказа ~ of surrender право признания себя несостоятельным должником ~ of surrender право уступки ~ of survivorship право наследования, возникшее в результате смерти одного или нескольких наследников ~ of termination право прекращения действия ~ of testation право представлять доказательства ~ of use право использования ~ of use право пользования ~ of use право применения ~ of use and consumption право пользования и потребления ~ of veto право вето ~ of voting право голосования ~ of way полоса отчуждения ~ of way право проезда ~ of way право прохода, проезда ~ of way право прохода ~ очень;
    I know right well я очень хорошо знаю;
    right away, right off сразу;
    немедленно;
    right off the bat амер. = с места в карьер;
    сразу же ~ очень;
    I know right well я очень хорошо знаю;
    right away, right off сразу;
    немедленно;
    right off the bat амер. = с места в карьер;
    сразу же to ~ oneself выпрямляться to ~ oneself реабилитировать себя;
    to right a wrong исправить несправедливость;
    загладить обиду be sure you bring the ~ book смотрите, принесите ту книгу, которую нужно;
    the right size нужный размер ~ защищать права;
    to right the oppressed заступаться за угнетенных ~ to annul an agreement право аннулировать договор ~ to annul an agreement право аннулировать соглашение ~ to be consulted право на получение консультации ~ to be informed право на получение информации ~ to begin восстанавливать исходное юридическое положение ~ to benefits право на льготы ~ to bind the company право связать компанию договором ~ to call for repayment право требовать возмещения ~ to claim for damages право предъявлять иск за нанесенный ущерб ~ to collect firewood право заготавливать дрова ~ to compensation право на возмещение ~ to compensation право на компенсацию ~ to cut turf право резать торф ~ to decide право принимать решения ~ to dispose of shares право изымать акции ~ to dividend право на получение дивиденда ~ to know право быть в курсе дел ~ to know право на информацию ~ to negotiate право вести переговоры ~ to obtain satisfaction право получать встречное удовлетворение ~ to organize право создавать организацию ~ to pay off a creditor право полностью расплатиться с кредитором ~ to petition the Community institutions право обращаться с заявлениями в учреждения Европейского экономического сообщества ~ to purchase shares право приобретать акции ~ to put questions право обращаться с вопросами ~ to put questions to minister право обращаться с вопросами к министру ~ to recovery of property право на возвращение имущества ~ to restitution право реституции ~ to retain the necessaries of life право сохранять личное имущество ~ to return право возврата ~ to share in any winding up surplus право на долю прибыли при ликвидации фирмы ~ to speak право на высказывание speak: right to ~ право говорить ~ to stand for election право выдвигать кандидатуру для избрания ~ to strike право на забастовку ~ to take industrial action право на проведение производственных мероприятий ~ to take proceedings право вести судебное разбирательство ~ совершенно, полностью;
    right to the end до самого конца ~ to unionize право объединяться в профсоюз ~ to unobstructed view право на свободный осмотр места преступления ~ to use beach право выхода на берег ~ to vote право на голосование ~ право;
    справедливое требование (to) ;
    привилегия;
    right to work право на труд;
    rights and duties права и обязанности;
    by right of по праву (чего-л.) ~ and left во все стороны;
    right turn (или face) ! воен. направо! (команда) ~ верный, правильный;
    right use of words правильное употребление слов;
    to do what is right делать то, что правильно;
    he is always right он всегда прав ~ you are! разг. верно!, ваша правда ~ you are! разг. идет!, есть такое дело! ~ право;
    справедливое требование (to) ;
    привилегия;
    right to work право на труд;
    rights and duties права и обязанности;
    by right of по праву (чего-л.) ~ (обыкн. pl) истинное положение вещей, действительность;
    the rights of the case положение дела sales ~ право продажи secondary ~ дополнительное право selling ~ право продажи to set (или to put) oneself ~ (with smb.) помириться (с кем-л.) to set (или to put) oneself ~ (with smb.) снискать (чью-л.) благосклонность ~ pl порядок;
    to set (или to put) to rights навести порядок;
    привести в порядок;
    to be to rights быть в порядке;
    by right or wrong всеми правдами и неправдами share ~ право на акции social ~s социальные права sole ~ исключительное право;
    монопольное право sole selling ~ исключительное право на продажу;
    монопольное право на продажу sovereign ~ суверенное право special ~ специальное право stage ~ исключительное право театра на постановку пьесы stock ~ право на покупку некоторого числа акций компании по фиксированной цене stockholders' preemptive ~ преимущественное право акционера subscription ~ право подписки на акции succession ~ право наследования supervisory ~ право контроля taxation ~ право взимания налогов ~ правая сторона;
    on the right справа (где) ;
    to the right направо (куда) transfer a ~ передавать право under a ~ in international law в соответствии с нормами международного права union ~ право на создание профессионального союза user ~ право пользователя usufructuary ~ право на узуфрукт veto ~ право вето visiting ~s право посещения (ребенка) voting ~ право голоса voting ~ право участия в голосовании;
    право голоса

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > right

  • 72 popular

    'popjulə
    1) (liked by most people: a popular holiday resort; a popular person; She is very popular with children.) popular, persona que tiene éxito
    2) (believed by most people: a popular theory.) generalizado, extendido
    3) (of the people in general: popular rejoicing.) popular
    4) (easily read, understood etc by most people: a popular history of Britain.) de vulgarización
    - popularity
    - popularize
    - popularise

    popular adj
    1. popular
    2. muy frecuentado / de moda

    popular adjetivo 1 canción/baile/costumbres traditional
    b) (Pol) ‹movimiento/rebelión popular ( before n)
    2 ( que gusta) ‹actor/programa/deporte popular
    popular adjetivo
    1 (folclórico) folk
    2 (humilde) las clases populares, the people, the working class
    3 (bien aceptado) popular
    4 (conocido, famoso) well-known ' popular' also found in these entries: Spanish: aceptación - cabezudo - cancionero - cómic - conocida - conocido - constancia - divulgación - infarto - interpretar - legitimar - pueblo - romería - seguidilla - solicitada - solicitado - atracción - concurrido - conjunto - copla - cultura - curandero - feria - jalador - palenque - pegar - petición - popularizar - usar - verbena - vulgar English: alike - bandwagon - belief - big - down-market - folk - folk song - immensely - itself - lore - outcry - pander - popular - request - throughout - by - catch - demand - downmarket - hot - pop - popularize - tabloid
    tr['pɒpjʊləSMALLr/SMALL]
    1 (well-liked - gen) popular; (- person) estimado,-a; (- resort, restaurant) muy frecuentado,-a; (fashionable) de moda; (name) común,-una
    2 (of or for general public) popular; (belief, notion) generalizado,-a; (prices) popular, económico,-a
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    by popular demand / by popular request a petición del público
    the popular press la prensa popular
    popular ['pɑpjələr] adj
    1) : popular
    the popular vote: el voto popular
    2) common: generalizado, común
    popular beliefs: creencias generalizadas
    3) : popular, de gran popularidad
    a popular singer: un cantante popular
    adj.
    cotizado, -a adj.
    exitoso, -a adj.
    popular adj.
    'pɑːpjʊlər, 'pɒpjʊlə(r)
    1)

    to be popular WITH somebody: she is popular with her students goza de popularidad entre sus alumnos; I'm not very popular with her at the moment — (colloq) últimamente no soy santo de su devoción (fam)

    b) <resort/restaurant> muy frecuentado; <brand/product> popular
    2)
    a) (not highbrow, specialist) <music/literature> popular
    b) ( of populace) < feeling> popular; < rebellion> del pueblo, popular

    by popular demand/request — a petición or (AmL tb) a pedido del público

    c) ( widespread) <belief/notion> generalizado
    ['pɒpjʊlǝ(r)]
    1. ADJ
    1) (=well-liked)

    this is one of our most popular lines — (Comm) esta es una de nuestras líneas más vendidas

    to be popular with sb, he's popular with the girls — tiene éxito con las chicas

    2) (=fashionable) de moda
    3) (=widespread) [image, belief] generalizado

    contrary to popular belief or opinion — en contra de or contrario a lo que comúnmente se cree

    by popular demand or request — a petición del público, respondiendo a la demanda general

    it's a popular misconception that... — mucha gente piensa equivocadamente que...

    4) (=of the people) [unrest, support] popular; [uprising] popular, del pueblo

    he has great popular appealgoza del favor del público

    popular feeling is against him — el sentir popular or del pueblo está en su contra

    5) (=appealing to the layman) [culture, music, art, version] popular
    2.
    CPD

    popular culture Ncultura f popular

    popular front Nfrente m popular

    popular music Nmúsica f pop

    * * *
    ['pɑːpjʊlər, 'pɒpjʊlə(r)]
    1)

    to be popular WITH somebody: she is popular with her students goza de popularidad entre sus alumnos; I'm not very popular with her at the moment — (colloq) últimamente no soy santo de su devoción (fam)

    b) <resort/restaurant> muy frecuentado; <brand/product> popular
    2)
    a) (not highbrow, specialist) <music/literature> popular
    b) ( of populace) < feeling> popular; < rebellion> del pueblo, popular

    by popular demand/request — a petición or (AmL tb) a pedido del público

    c) ( widespread) <belief/notion> generalizado

    English-spanish dictionary > popular

  • 73 else

    adverb
    1) (besides, in addition) sonst [noch]

    anybody/anything else? — sonst noch jemand/etwas?

    don't mention it to anybody elseerwähnen Sie es gegenüber niemandem sonst

    somebody/something else — [noch] jemand anders/noch etwas

    everybody/everything else — alle anderen/alles andere

    nobody else — niemand sonst; sonst niemand

    nothing elsesonst od. weiter nichts

    anywhere else?anderswo? (ugs.); woanders?

    somewhere elseanderswo (ugs.); woanders

    go somewhere elseanderswohin (ugs.) od. woandershin gehen

    little else — kaum noch etwas; nur noch wenig

    much else — [noch] vieles andere od. mehr

    not much elsenicht mehr viel; nur noch wenig

    who/what/when/how else? — wer/was/wann/wie sonst noch?

    where else? — wo/wohin sonst noch?

    2) (instead) ander...

    somebody else's hatder Hut von jemand anders od. jemand anderem (ugs.)

    anybody/anything else? — [irgend] jemand anders/etwas anderes?

    anyone else but Joe would have realized that — jeder [andere] außer Joe hätte das bemerkt

    somebody/something else — jemand anders/etwas anderes

    everybody/everything else — alle anderen/alles andere

    nobody/nothing else — niemand anders/nichts anderes

    anywhere else?anderswo? (ugs.); woanders?

    somewhere elseanderswo (ugs.); woanders

    his mind was/his thoughts were somewhere else — im Geist/mit seinen Gedanken war er woanders

    everywhere else — überall anders; überall sonst

    there's not much else we can do but... — wir können kaum etwas anderes tun, als...

    who else [but]? — wer anders [als]?

    what else can I do?was kann ich anderes machen?

    3) (otherwise) sonst; anderenfalls

    do it or else...! — tun Sie es, sonst...!

    do it or else!(coll.) tu es gefälligst!

    * * *
    [els]
    adjective, adverb
    (besides; other than that already mentioned: What else can I do? Can we go anywhere else?; He took someone else's pencil.) andere (-r/-s)
    - academic.ru/23825/elsewhere">elsewhere
    - or else
    * * *
    [els]
    adv inv
    why \else would he come? warum sollte er denn sonst kommen?
    if all \else fails... wenn alle Stricke reißen...
    someone [or somebody] \else jemand anders
    this must be someone \else's bag die Tasche muss jemand anderem [o jemand anders] gehören
    I didn't tell anybody \else ich habe es niemand anders [o niemand anderem] erzählt
    anyone \else but her would have left jede andere wäre gegangen
    something \else etwas anderes
    anything \else would be fine alles andere wäre toll fam
    somewhere \else woanders
    she doesn't want to live anywhere \else sie will nirgendwo [o nirgends] anders leben
    does this exist anywhere \else? gibt es das noch irgendwo anders?
    everybody [or everyone] \else alle anderen
    everything \else alles andere
    everywhere \else überall sonst
    nobody [or no one] /nothing \else niemand/nichts anders
    nothing \else would do alles andere wäre inakzeptabel
    how/what/where/who \else...? wie/was/wo/wer sonst...?
    who \else but her could do such a thing? wer außer ihr würde so was machen?
    2. (additional) sonst noch
    why \else should I stay? warum sollte ich denn sonst noch bleiben?
    there's not much \else you could do viel mehr kannst du nicht machen
    someone [or somebody] \else sonst noch jemand
    I don't want anyone \else but you to come ich will, dass außer dir [sonst] keiner kommt
    something \else sonst noch etwas
    the police could not detect anything \else die Polizei konnte nichts mehr herausfinden
    anything \else, madam? darf es sonst noch etwas sein?
    somewhere \else noch woanders
    should I look somewhere \else? soll ich noch woanders suchen?
    nobody [or no one] /nothing \else sonst niemand [o keiner] /nichts
    no, thank you, nothing \else nein danke, das ist alles
    there's nothing \else for me to do here es gibt hier nichts mehr für mich zu tun
    he just hates me and nothing \else er hasst mich einfach!
    if nothing \else, you'll earn a lot of money auf jeden Fall wirst du viel Geld verdienen
    what/where/who \else...? was/wo/wer... sonst noch...?
    what \else can I do? was kann ich sonst noch tun?
    3. (otherwise) sonst, andernfalls
    you'd better go now, [or] \else you'll miss the bus du solltest besser gehen, sonst verpasst du noch den Bus
    be quiet, or \else! ( fam) sei still, sonst gibt's was!
    she's either... or \else... entweder sie ist... oder...
    * * *
    [els]
    adv
    1) (after pron) andere(r, s)

    since John doesn't want it, does anybody else want it? — da John es nicht will, will jemand anders es haben?

    somebody else —

    is there somebody else?, she asked — ist da jemand anders?, fragte sie

    do you find this species anywhere else?findet man die Gattung sonst wo or auch anderswo?

    something else — etwas anderes, sonst etwas

    will there be anything else, sir? (in shop) — darf es sonst noch etwas sein?; (butler) haben Sie sonst noch Wünsche?

    everyone/everything else — alle anderen/alles andere

    2)

    else — woanders, anderswo; (with motion) woandershin, anderswohin

    from somewhere else — anderswoher, woandersher, von woanders

    3)

    (after pron, neg) nobody else, no one else —

    nobody else understood — sonst hat es niemand verstanden, niemand anders hat es verstanden

    nothing else — sonst nichts, nichts anderes

    what do you want? – nothing else, thank you —

    that this is a result of the cold and nothing elsedass dies allein auf die Kälte zurückzuführen ist

    if nothing else, you'll enjoy it — auf jeden Fall wird es dir Spaß machen

    there's nothing else for it but to... — da gibt es keinen anderen Ausweg, als zu...

    nowhere else — sonst nirgends or nirgendwo, nirgendwo anders; (with motion) sonst nirgendwohin, nirgendwo anders hin

    I can think of little elseich kann fast an nichts anderes mehr denken

    4)

    (after interrog) where else? — wo sonst?, wo anders?

    5)

    (adv of quantity) they sell books and toys and much else (Brit) — sie führen Bücher, Spielzeug und vieles andere

    6) (= otherwise, if not) sonst, andernfalls

    do it now (or) else you'll be punishedtu es jetzt, sonst setzt es Strafe or oder es setzt Strafe

    do it or else...! — mach das, sonst or oder...!

    * * *
    else [els] adv
    1. (in Fragen und Verneinungen) sonst, weiter, außerdem:
    anything else? sonst noch etwas?;
    what else can we do? was können wir sonst noch tun?;
    no one else, nobody else niemand sonst oder anders;
    nothing else sonst nichts;
    it is nobody else’s business es geht sonst niemanden etwas an;
    where else? wo anders?, wo sonst (noch);
    nowhere else sonst nirgends
    2. ander(e, e, es):
    that’s something else das ist etwas anderes;
    everybody else alle anderen oder Übrigen;
    somebody ( oder sb) else jemand anderes;
    somebody else’s seat der (Sitz)Platz eines anderen
    3. meist or else oder, sonst, andernfalls:
    hurry, (or) else you will be late beeile dich, oder du kommst zu spät oder sonst kommst du zu spät;
    or else! (drohend) oder (es passiert was)!, sonst (passiert was)!
    * * *
    adverb
    1) (besides, in addition) sonst [noch]

    anybody/anything else? — sonst noch jemand/etwas?

    somebody/something else — [noch] jemand anders/noch etwas

    everybody/everything else — alle anderen/alles andere

    nobody else — niemand sonst; sonst niemand

    nothing elsesonst od. weiter nichts

    anywhere else?anderswo? (ugs.); woanders?

    somewhere elseanderswo (ugs.); woanders

    go somewhere elseanderswohin (ugs.) od. woandershin gehen

    little else — kaum noch etwas; nur noch wenig

    much else — [noch] vieles andere od. mehr

    not much else — nicht mehr viel; nur noch wenig

    who/what/when/how else? — wer/was/wann/wie sonst noch?

    where else? — wo/wohin sonst noch?

    2) (instead) ander...

    somebody else's hatder Hut von jemand anders od. jemand anderem (ugs.)

    anybody/anything else? — [irgend] jemand anders/etwas anderes?

    anyone else but Joe would have realized that — jeder [andere] außer Joe hätte das bemerkt

    somebody/something else — jemand anders/etwas anderes

    everybody/everything else — alle anderen/alles andere

    nobody/nothing else — niemand anders/nichts anderes

    anywhere else?anderswo? (ugs.); woanders?

    somewhere elseanderswo (ugs.); woanders

    his mind was/his thoughts were somewhere else — im Geist/mit seinen Gedanken war er woanders

    everywhere else — überall anders; überall sonst

    there's not much else we can do but... — wir können kaum etwas anderes tun, als...

    who else [but]? — wer anders [als]?

    3) (otherwise) sonst; anderenfalls

    do it or else...! — tun Sie es, sonst...!

    do it or else!(coll.) tu es gefälligst!

    * * *
    adv.
    anderenfalls adv.
    andernfalls adv.
    anders adv.
    sonst adv.
    sonst noch adv.

    English-german dictionary > else

  • 74 so

    so [səʊ]
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
       a. (degree = to such an extent) si
    so easy/quickly si facile/rapidement
    is it really so tiring? est-ce vraiment si fatigant ?
    do you really need so long? vous faut-il vraiment autant de temps ?
    so... (that) si... que
       b. ( = very, to a great extent) tellement
    Elizabeth, who so loved France Elizabeth, qui aimait tant la France
       c. (unspecified amount) how tall is he? -- oh, about so tall (accompanied by gesture) quelle taille fait-il ? -- oh, à peu près comme ça
       d. ( = thus, in this way) ainsi
    so it was that... c'est ainsi que...
    it so happened that... il s'est trouvé que...
    how long will it take? -- a week or so combien de temps cela va-t-il prendre ? -- une semaine environ
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
    ► Note that pour que is followed by the subjunctive.
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
       f. (used as substitute for phrase, word) so I believe c'est ce que je crois
    is that so? ah bon !
    if that is so... s'il en est ainsi...
    I told you so! je te l'avais bien dit !
    so it seems! apparemment !
    he said they would be there and so they were il a dit qu'ils seraient là, et en effet ils y étaient
    so do I!
    so have I!
    so am I! moi aussi !
    if you do that so will I si tu fais ça, j'en ferai autant
    it's raining -- so it is! il pleut -- en effet !
    I didn't say that! -- you did so! (inf) je n'ai pas dit ça ! -- mais si, tu l'as dit !
    so long! (inf) salut ! (inf)
    I'm not going, so there! je n'y vais pas, là !
       a. ( = therefore) donc
    he was late, so he missed the train il est arrivé en retard et a donc manqué le train
    the roads are busy so be careful il y a beaucoup de circulation, alors fais bien attention
       b. (exclamatory) so there he is! le voilà donc !
    so you're selling it? alors vous le vendez ?
    so he's come at last! il est donc enfin arrivé !
    and so you see... alors comme vous voyez...
    so what? (inf) et alors ? (inf)
    (plural so-and-sos)
    Mr/Mrs So-and-so Monsieur/Madame Untel
    * * *
    [səʊ] 1.
    1) ( so very) si, tellement

    not so (colloq) thin as — pas aussi maigre que

    I'm not feeling so good — (colloq) je ne me sens pas très bien

    just as in the 19th century, so today — tout comme au XIXe siècle, aujourd'hui

    5) ( true)
    6) ( also) aussi

    if they accept so do I — s'ils acceptent, j'accepte aussi

    7) (colloq) ( thereabouts) environ

    he's conscientious, perhaps too much so — il est consciencieux, peut-être même trop

    he dived and as he did so... — il a plongé et en le faisant...

    if you so wish you may... — si vous le souhaitez, vous pouvez...

    ‘I thought you liked it?’ - ‘so I do’ — ‘je croyais que ça te plaisait’ - ‘mais ça me plaît’

    ‘it's broken’ - ‘so it is’ — ‘c'est cassé’ - ‘je le vois bien!’

    ‘I'm sorry’ - ‘so you should be’ — ‘je suis désolé’ - ‘j'espère bien’

    12) (colloq) ( refuting a statement)

    ‘he didn't hit you’ - ‘he did so!’ — ‘il ne t'a pas frappé?’ - ‘si, il m'a frappé’

    I can so make waffles — si, je sais faire les gaufres

    13) (colloq) ( as casual response) et alors

    ‘I'm leaving’ - ‘so?’ — ‘je m'en vais’ - ‘et alors?’

    so why worry! — et alors, il n'y pas de quoi t'en faire!

    2.
    so (that) conjunctional phrase
    1) ( in such a way that) de façon à ce que

    she wrote the instructions so that they'd be easily understood — elle a rédigé les instructions de façon à ce qu'elles soient faciles à comprendre

    2) ( in order that) pour que
    3.
    so as conjunctional phrase pour
    4.
    so much adverbial phrase, pronominal phrase
    1) (also so many) ( such large quantity) tant de
    2) (also so many) ( limited amount)
    3) ( to such an extent) tellement
    5.
    so much as adverbial phrase ( even) même
    6.
    so much for prepositional phrase

    so much for that problem, now for... — assez parlé de ce problème, parlons maintenant de...

    2) (colloq) ( used disparagingly)
    7.
    so long as (colloq) conjunctional phrase long
    ••

    so long! — (colloq) à bientôt!

    English-French dictionary > so

  • 75 Cognitive Psychology

       The basic reason for studying cognitive processes has become as clear as the reason for studying anything else: because they are there. Our knowledge of the world must be somehow developed from stimulus input.... Cognitive processes surely exist, so it can hardly be unscientific to study them. (Neisser, 1967, p. 5).
       The task of the cognitive psychologist is a highly inferential one. The cognitive psychologist must proceed from observations of the behavior of humans performing intellectual tasks to conclusions about the abstract mechanisms underlying the behavior. Developing a theory in cognitive psychology is much like developing a model for the working of the engine of a strange new vehicle by driving the vehicle, being unable to open it up to inspect the engine itself....
       It is well understood from the automata theory... that many different mechanisms can generate the same external behavior. (Anderson, 1980, pp. 12, 17)
       [Cognitive psychology does not] deal with whole people but with a very special and bizarre-almost Frankensteinian-preparation, which consists of a brain attached to two eyes, two ears, and two index fingers. This preparation is only to be found inside small, gloomy cubicles, outside which red lights burn to warn ordinary people away.... It does not feel hungry or tired or inquisitive; it does not think extraneous thoughts or try to understand what is going on. It is, in short, a computer, made in the image of the larger electronic organism that sends it stimuli and records its responses. (Claxton, 1980, p. 13)
       4) Cognitive Psychology Has Not Succeeded in Making a Significant Contribution to the Understanding of the Human Mind
       Cognitive psychology is not getting anywhere; that in spite of our sophisticated methodology, we have not succeeded in making a substantial contribution toward the understanding of the human mind.... A short time ago, the information processing approach to cognition was just beginning. Hopes were high that the analysis of information processing into a series of discrete stages would offer profound insights into human cognition. But in only a few short years the vigor of this approach was spent. It was only natural that hopes that had been so high should sink low. (Glass, Holyoak & Santa, 1979, p. ix)
       Cognitive psychology attempts to understand the nature of human intelligence and how people think. (Anderson, 1980, p. 3)
       The past few years have witnessed a noticeable increase in interest in an investigation of the cognitive processes.... It has resulted from a recognition of the complex processes that mediate between the classical "stimuli" and "responses" out of which stimulus-response learning theories hoped to fashion a psychology that would by-pass anything smacking of the "mental." The impeccable peripheralism of such theories could not last. One might do well to have a closer look at these intervening "cognitive maps." (Bruner, Goodnow & Austin, 1956, p. vii)

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  • 76 Creativity

       Put in this bald way, these aims sound utopian. How utopian they areor rather, how imminent their realization-depends on how broadly or narrowly we interpret the term "creative." If we are willing to regard all human complex problem solving as creative, then-as we will point out-successful programs for problem solving mechanisms that simulate human problem solvers already exist, and a number of their general characteristics are known. If we reserve the term "creative" for activities like discovery of the special theory of relativity or the composition of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, then no example of a creative mechanism exists at the present time. (Simon, 1979, pp. 144-145)
       Among the questions that can now be given preliminary answers in computational terms are the following: how can ideas from very different sources be spontaneously thought of together? how can two ideas be merged to produce a new structure, which shows the influence of both ancestor ideas without being a mere "cut-and-paste" combination? how can the mind be "primed," so that one will more easily notice serendipitous ideas? why may someone notice-and remember-something fairly uninteresting, if it occurs in an interesting context? how can a brief phrase conjure up an entire melody from memory? and how can we accept two ideas as similar ("love" and "prove" as rhyming, for instance) in respect of a feature not identical in both? The features of connectionist AI models that suggest answers to these questions are their powers of pattern completion, graceful degradation, sensitization, multiple constraint satisfaction, and "best-fit" equilibration.... Here, the important point is that the unconscious, "insightful," associative aspects of creativity can be explained-in outline, at least-by AI methods. (Boden, 1996, p. 273)
       There thus appears to be an underlying similarity in the process involved in creative innovation and social independence, with common traits and postures required for expression of both behaviors. The difference is one of product-literary, musical, artistic, theoretical products on the one hand, opinions on the other-rather than one of process. In both instances the individual must believe that his perceptions are meaningful and valid and be willing to rely upon his own interpretations. He must trust himself sufficiently that even when persons express opinions counter to his own he can proceed on the basis of his own perceptions and convictions. (Coopersmith, 1967, p. 58)
       he average level of ego strength and emotional stability is noticeably higher among creative geniuses than among the general population, though it is possibly lower than among men of comparable intelligence and education who go into administrative and similar positions. High anxiety and excitability appear common (e.g. Priestley, Darwin, Kepler) but full-blown neurosis is quite rare. (Cattell & Butcher, 1970, p. 315)
       he insight that is supposed to be required for such work as discovery turns out to be synonymous with the familiar process of recognition; and other terms commonly used in the discussion of creative work-such terms as "judgment," "creativity," or even "genius"-appear to be wholly dispensable or to be definable, as insight is, in terms of mundane and well-understood concepts. (Simon, 1989, p. 376)
       From the sketch material still in existence, from the condition of the fragments, and from the autographs themselves we can draw definite conclusions about Mozart's creative process. To invent musical ideas he did not need any stimulation; they came to his mind "ready-made" and in polished form. In contrast to Beethoven, who made numerous attempts at shaping his musical ideas until he found the definitive formulation of a theme, Mozart's first inspiration has the stamp of finality. Any Mozart theme has completeness and unity; as a phenomenon it is a Gestalt. (Herzmann, 1964, p. 28)
       Great artists enlarge the limits of one's perception. Looking at the world through the eyes of Rembrandt or Tolstoy makes one able to perceive aspects of truth about the world which one could not have achieved without their aid. Freud believed that science was adaptive because it facilitated mastery of the external world; but was it not the case that many scientific theories, like works of art, also originated in phantasy? Certainly, reading accounts of scientific discovery by men of the calibre of Einstein compelled me to conclude that phantasy was not merely escapist, but a way of reaching new insights concerning the nature of reality. Scientific hypotheses require proof; works of art do not. Both are concerned with creating order, with making sense out of the world and our experience of it. (Storr, 1993, p. xii)
       The importance of self-esteem for creative expression appears to be almost beyond disproof. Without a high regard for himself the individual who is working in the frontiers of his field cannot trust himself to discriminate between the trivial and the significant. Without trust in his own powers the person seeking improved solutions or alternative theories has no basis for distinguishing the significant and profound innovation from the one that is merely different.... An essential component of the creative process, whether it be analysis, synthesis, or the development of a new perspective or more comprehensive theory, is the conviction that one's judgment in interpreting the events is to be trusted. (Coopersmith, 1967, p. 59)
       In the daily stream of thought these four different stages [preparation; incubation; illumination or inspiration; and verification] constantly overlap each other as we explore different problems. An economist reading a Blue Book, a physiologist watching an experiment, or a business man going through his morning's letters, may at the same time be "incubating" on a problem which he proposed to himself a few days ago, be accumulating knowledge in "preparation" for a second problem, and be "verifying" his conclusions to a third problem. Even in exploring the same problem, the mind may be unconsciously incubating on one aspect of it, while it is consciously employed in preparing for or verifying another aspect. (Wallas, 1926, p. 81)
       he basic, bisociative pattern of the creative synthesis [is] the sudden interlocking of two previously unrelated skills, or matrices of thought. (Koestler, 1964, p. 121)
        11) The Earliest Stages in the Creative Process Involve a Commerce with Disorder
       Even to the creator himself, the earliest effort may seem to involve a commerce with disorder. For the creative order, which is an extension of life, is not an elaboration of the established, but a movement beyond the established, or at least a reorganization of it and often of elements not included in it. The first need is therefore to transcend the old order. Before any new order can be defined, the absolute power of the established, the hold upon us of what we know and are, must be broken. New life comes always from outside our world, as we commonly conceive that world. This is the reason why, in order to invent, one must yield to the indeterminate within him, or, more precisely, to certain illdefined impulses which seem to be of the very texture of the ungoverned fullness which John Livingston Lowes calls "the surging chaos of the unexpressed." (Ghiselin, 1985, p. 4)
       New life comes always from outside our world, as we commonly conceive our world. This is the reason why, in order to invent, one must yield to the indeterminate within him, or, more precisely, to certain illdefined impulses which seem to be of the very texture of the ungoverned fullness which John Livingston Lowes calls "the surging chaos of the unexpressed." Chaos and disorder are perhaps the wrong terms for that indeterminate fullness and activity of the inner life. For it is organic, dynamic, full of tension and tendency. What is absent from it, except in the decisive act of creation, is determination, fixity, and commitment to one resolution or another of the whole complex of its tensions. (Ghiselin, 1952, p. 13)
       [P]sychoanalysts have principally been concerned with the content of creative products, and with explaining content in terms of the artist's infantile past. They have paid less attention to examining why the artist chooses his particular activity to express, abreact or sublimate his emotions. In short, they have not made much distinction between art and neurosis; and, since the former is one of the blessings of mankind, whereas the latter is one of the curses, it seems a pity that they should not be better differentiated....
       Psychoanalysis, being fundamentally concerned with drive and motive, might have been expected to throw more light upon what impels the creative person that in fact it has. (Storr, 1993, pp. xvii, 3)
       A number of theoretical approaches were considered. Associative theory, as developed by Mednick (1962), gained some empirical support from the apparent validity of the Remote Associates Test, which was constructed on the basis of the theory.... Koestler's (1964) bisociative theory allows more complexity to mental organization than Mednick's associative theory, and postulates "associative contexts" or "frames of reference." He proposed that normal, non-creative, thought proceeds within particular contexts or frames and that the creative act involves linking together previously unconnected frames.... Simonton (1988) has developed associative notions further and explored the mathematical consequences of chance permutation of ideas....
       Like Koestler, Gruber (1980; Gruber and Davis, 1988) has based his analysis on case studies. He has focused especially on Darwin's development of the theory of evolution. Using piagetian notions, such as assimilation and accommodation, Gruber shows how Darwin's system of ideas changed very slowly over a period of many years. "Moments of insight," in Gruber's analysis, were the culminations of slow long-term processes.... Finally, the information-processing approach, as represented by Simon (1966) and Langley et al. (1987), was considered.... [Simon] points out the importance of good problem representations, both to ensure search is in an appropriate problem space and to aid in developing heuristic evaluations of possible research directions.... The work of Langley et al. (1987) demonstrates how such search processes, realized in computer programs, can indeed discover many basic laws of science from tables of raw data.... Boden (1990a, 1994) has stressed the importance of restructuring the problem space in creative work to develop new genres and paradigms in the arts and sciences. (Gilhooly, 1996, pp. 243-244; emphasis in original)

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  • 77 taste

    1. transitive verb
    1) schmecken; (try a little) probieren; kosten
    2) (recognize flavour of) [heraus]schmecken
    3) (fig.): (experience) kosten (geh.) [Macht, Freiheit, [Miss]erfolg, Glück, Niederlage]
    2. intransitive verb
    1) (have sense of flavour) schmecken
    2) (have certain flavour) schmecken (of nach)
    3. noun
    1) (flavour) Geschmack, der

    to tastenach Geschmack [verdünnen]

    this dish has no tastedieses Gericht schmeckt nach nichts

    leave a nasty/bad etc. taste in the mouth — (lit. or fig.) einen unangenehmen/üblen usw. Nachgeschmack hinterlassen

    [sense of] taste — Geschmack[ssinn], der

    3) (discernment) Geschmack, der

    taste in art/music — Kunst-/Musikgeschmack, der

    it would be bad taste to do thates wäre geschmacklos, das zu tun

    in good/bad taste — geschmackvoll/geschmacklos

    4) (sample, lit. or fig.) Kostprobe, die

    have a taste ofprobieren [Speise, Getränk]; kennen lernen [Freiheit, jemandes Jähzorn, Arroganz]

    give somebody a taste of something(lit. or fig.) jemandem eine Kostprobe einer Sache (Gen.) geben

    5) (liking) Geschmack, der (in für)

    have a/no taste for something — an etwas (Dat.) Geschmack/keinen Geschmack finden

    have expensive tastes in clothesetc. eine Vorliebe für teure Kleidung usw. haben

    be/not be to somebody's taste — nach jemandes/nicht nach jemandes Geschmack sein

    * * *
    [teist] 1. verb
    1) (to be aware of, or recognize, the flavour of something: I can taste ginger in this cake.) schmecken
    2) (to test or find out the flavour or quality of (food etc) by eating or drinking a little of it: Please taste this and tell me if it is too sweet.) probieren
    3) (to have a particular flavour or other quality that is noticed through the act of tasting: This milk tastes sour; The sauce tastes of garlic.) schmecken
    4) (to eat (food) especially with enjoyment: I haven't tasted such a beautiful curry for ages.) kosten
    5) (to experience: He tasted the delights of country life.) erleben
    2. noun
    1) (one of the five senses, the sense by which we are aware of flavour: one's sense of taste; bitter to the taste.) der Geschmackssinn
    2) (the quality or flavour of anything that is known through this sense: This wine has an unusual taste.) der Geschmack
    3) (an act of tasting or a small quantity of food etc for tasting: Do have a taste of this cake!) die Kostprobe
    4) (a liking or preference: a taste for music; a queer taste in books; expensive tastes.) der Geschmack
    5) (the ability to judge what is suitable in behaviour, dress etc or what is fine and beautiful: She shows good taste in clothes; a man of taste; That joke was in good/bad taste.) der Geschmack
    - academic.ru/73500/tasteful">tasteful
    - tastefully
    - tastefulness
    - tasteless
    - tastelessly
    - tastelessness
    - -tasting
    - tasty
    - tastiness
    * * *
    [teɪst]
    I. n
    1. no pl (flavour) Geschmack m
    she still had the \taste of onions in her mouth sie hatte immer noch den Zwiebelgeschmack im Mund
    sense of \taste Geschmackssinn m
    to leave a bad \taste in the mouth ( fig) einen üblen Nachgeschmack hinterlassen
    2. (small portion/mouthful of food) [kleiner] Bissen
    just a \taste of cake for me, please für mich bitte nur ein kleines Stückchen Kuchen
    3. (liking, fondness) Vorliebe f
    I've never understood Liz's \taste in men ich habe Liz' Geschmack, was Männer anbelangt, nie verstanden
    these olives are an acquired \taste diese Oliven sind gewöhnungsbedürftig
    to be a question of \taste Geschmackssache sein
    to have different \tastes verschiedene Geschmäcker haben
    to have an expensive \taste einen teuren Geschmack haben
    to acquire a \taste for sth an etw dat Geschmack finden
    to get a \taste for sth Gefallen an etw dat finden
    to lose the \taste for sth den Gefallen an etw dat verlieren
    4. no pl (aesthetic quality/discernment) Geschmack m
    jokes about death are rather in poor \taste Witze über den Tod sind ziemlich geschmacklos
    to be a matter of [personal] \taste Geschmackssache sein
    bad \taste schlechter Geschmack
    to be in excellent \taste von exzellentem Geschmack zeugen
    to be in terrible \taste äußerst geschmacklos sein
    to have [good] \taste [einen guten] Geschmack haben
    5. no pl ( fig: short encounter) Kostprobe f fig
    to give sb a \taste of the whip jdn die Peitsche spüren lassen
    to have a \taste of sth einen Vorgeschmack von etw dat bekommen
    II. vt
    1. (perceive flavour)
    to \taste sth etw schmecken; (test) etw probieren [o geh kosten]
    I can't \taste anything ich schmecke gar nichts
    2. (experience briefly)
    to \taste sth luxury, success [einmal] etw erleben
    III. vi schmecken
    to \taste of sth nach etw dat schmecken
    to \taste bitter/salty/sweet bitter/salzig/süß schmecken
    to \taste like sth wie etw schmecken
    * * *
    [teɪst]
    1. n
    1) (= sense) Geschmack(sinn) m

    to be sweet to the taste — süß schmecken, einen süßen Geschmack haben

    2) (= flavour) Geschmack m
    3) (= small amount) Kostprobe f, Versucherchen nt (inf); (fig, as an example) Kostprobe f; (of sth in the future) Vorgeschmack m

    would you like some? – just a taste — möchten Sie etwas? – nur eine Idee

    to have a taste (of sth) (lit) — (etw) probieren or kosten; (fig) eine Kostprobe (von etw) bekommen; (of sth to come) einen Vorgeschmack (von etw) haben

    two years in the army will give him a taste of discipline —

    to give sb a taste of the whip he gave them a taste of his bad temper a taste of what was to come — jdn die Peitsche or Knute spüren lassen er gab ihnen eine (Kost)probe seiner schlechten Laune ein Vorgeschmack dessen, was noch kommen sollte

    4) (= liking) Geschmack m no pl

    she has expensive tastes in hats — was Hüte anbelangt, hat sie einen teuren Geschmack

    5) (= discernment) Geschmack m

    she has very good taste in furniture — was Möbel anbelangt, hat sie einen sehr guten Geschmack

    to be in doubtful taste —

    the house is furnished in impeccable taste — das Haus ist, was Geschmack betrifft, tadellos eingerichtet

    2. vt
    1) (= perceive flavour of) schmecken; blood lecken

    I can't taste anything —

    2) (= take a little) versuchen, probieren, kosten
    3) (= test) wine verkosten; food products probieren; (official) prüfen
    4) (fig) power, freedom, success, victory erfahren, erleben

    once the canary had tasted freedom... — als der Kanarienvogel erst einmal Geschmack an der Freiheit gefunden hatte...

    3. vi
    1) (food, drink) schmecken

    to taste good or nice — (gut) schmecken

    2)

    those who have tasted of the knowledge of Zen — diejenigen, denen die Weisheit des Zen zuteilgeworden ist (geh)

    * * *
    taste [teıst]
    A v/t
    1. Speisen etc kosten, (ab)schmecken, probieren (auch fig): blood A 1
    2. essen, trinken:
    he had not tasted food for days er hatte seit Tagen keinen Bissen gegessen
    3. a) (in) etwas herausschmecken (aus), etwas schmecken (in dat)
    b) etwas schmecken:
    I’ve got a cold, I can’t taste anything
    4. fig kosten, kennenlernen, erleben, erfahren
    5. fig genießen
    B v/i
    1. schmecken (of nach):
    the soup didn’t taste of anything
    2. taste of fig riechen oder schmecken nach
    3. kosten, versuchen, probieren ( alle:
    of von oder akk)
    4. taste of fig A 4
    C s
    1. Geschmack m, pl auch Geschmacksrichtungen pl:
    there was a sour taste in his mouth er hatte einen sauren Geschmack im Mund;
    have no (a funny) taste nach nichts (komisch) schmecken;
    I have no taste for … … schmeckt oder schmecken mir nicht;
    improve the taste of etwas geschmacklich verfeinern;
    leave a bad ( oder nasty) taste in one’s mouth bes fig bei jemandem einen üblen Nachgeschmack hinterlassen
    2. Geschmack(ssinn) m
    3. (Kost) Probe f (of von oder gen):
    a) kleiner Bissen, Happen m
    b) Schlückchen n:
    have a taste of sth etwas kosten oder probieren
    4. fig (of) (Kost)Probe f (gen), Vorgeschmack m (von):
    5. fig Beigeschmack m, Anflug m ( beide:
    of von)
    6. fig (künstlerischer oder guter) Geschmack:
    be a man of taste Geschmack haben;
    have expensive tastes einen teuren Geschmack haben;
    what are your tastes in music? welche Musik mögen Sie?;
    each to their taste jeder nach seinem Geschmack;
    a) geschmacklos,
    b) weitS. taktlos;
    a) geschmackvoll,
    b) weitS. taktvoll; account B 3, matter A 3
    7. fig Geschmacksrichtung f, Mode f:
    today’s tastes pl der Geschmack von heute
    8. fig (for)
    a) Neigung f (zu), Vorliebe f, Sinn m (für):
    b) Geschmack m, Gefallen n (an dat):
    that’s not to my taste das ist nicht nach meinem Geschmack;
    that’s not to everybody’s taste das ist nicht jedermanns Sache;
    have a (no) taste for (keinen) Geschmack finden an
    * * *
    1. transitive verb
    1) schmecken; (try a little) probieren; kosten
    2) (recognize flavour of) [heraus]schmecken
    3) (fig.): (experience) kosten (geh.) [Macht, Freiheit, [Miss]erfolg, Glück, Niederlage]
    2. intransitive verb
    2) (have certain flavour) schmecken (of nach)
    3. noun
    1) (flavour) Geschmack, der

    to tastenach Geschmack [verdünnen]

    leave a nasty/bad etc. taste in the mouth — (lit. or fig.) einen unangenehmen/üblen usw. Nachgeschmack hinterlassen

    [sense of] taste — Geschmack[ssinn], der

    3) (discernment) Geschmack, der

    taste in art/music — Kunst-/Musikgeschmack, der

    it would be bad taste to do that — es wäre geschmacklos, das zu tun

    in good/bad taste — geschmackvoll/geschmacklos

    4) (sample, lit. or fig.) Kostprobe, die

    have a taste ofprobieren [Speise, Getränk]; kennen lernen [Freiheit, jemandes Jähzorn, Arroganz]

    give somebody a taste of something(lit. or fig.) jemandem eine Kostprobe einer Sache (Gen.) geben

    5) (liking) Geschmack, der (in für)

    have a/no taste for something — an etwas (Dat.) Geschmack/keinen Geschmack finden

    have expensive tastes in clothesetc. eine Vorliebe für teure Kleidung usw. haben

    be/not be to somebody's taste — nach jemandes/nicht nach jemandes Geschmack sein

    * * *
    n.
    Geschmack m.
    Kostprobe f. (of) v.
    kosten v.
    schmecken (nach) v. v.
    kosten (Essen) v.
    schmecken v.

    English-german dictionary > taste

  • 78 say

    1. I
    do you mean what you say? вы в самом деле думаете так, как говорите?; that's just what I was about to say это как раз то, что я собирался сказать; what have you to say? что вы можете или хотите сказать?; a writer with smth. to say писатель, у которого есть, что поведать /сказать/; I have nothing to say мне нечего сказать; it is not for me to say не мне об этом судить; as our friend used to say как говаривал наш друг; I say! coll. а) послушай!; б) подумать только!; you don't say! coll. что вы говорите!, не может быть!; I dare say coll. вполне возможно
    2. II
    say in some manner if I may say so если мне позволительно будет заметить; I should say so! еще бы!; what right have you to say so? какое право вы имеете так говорить?; I came very near to saying so я почти так и сказал; do it because I said so сделайте это, потому что я так сказал /велел, приказал/; why didn't you say so at the outset? почему вы этого не сказали с самого начала? id you may well say so coll. совершенно верно; so you say! и вы так думаете!; I should say not coll. еще бы, конечно же нет!
    3. III
    say smth.
    1) say "please" and "thank you" ("hellos", something, this, that, nothing, a few words, no more, enough, etc.) говорить "пожалуйста" и "спасибо" и т.д.; what is he saying? что он говорит?; it is better to say too little than too much лучше сказать слишком мало, чем слишком много; he says little он не болтлив, он неразговорчив; he didn't say a word он не сказал /не вымолвил/ ни слова; say no more! coll. все ясно!, понятно!
    2) say poems (a piece of poetry. a prayer /grace/, etc.) говорить /читать/ стихи и т.д.; say mass служить обедню; say one's lessons отвечать урок; the signpost says London указатель показывает в сторону Лондона; the clock says ten o'clock часы показывают десять
    3) say no (yes) отказываться (соглашаться); you say yes one moment and no the next вы то, соглашаетесь, то отказываетесь; that is not saying very much этим не так уж много сказано; it is saying a great deal этим уже много сказано; he said as much он примерно так и сказал; what 1 say is no по-моему /мое мнение/, нужно отказаться; if it is too much. shall we say l 10? если это слишком много /дорого/, то пусть будет десять фунтов!
    4. IV
    say smth. in some manner say smth. clearly (impressively, well, aloud, peremptorily, reproachfully, apologetically, bluntly, frankly, repeatedly, etc.) говорить /сказать/ что-л. четко и т.д.; say it. again (a thing over and over again) повторять что-л. (снова и снова); say that again coll. и не говори!
    5. XI
    be said somewhere it isn't said in good company в приличном обществе об этом не принято говорить; be said on smth. the last word has not yet been said on this subject по этому вопросу последнее слово еще не сказано; be said in some manner all that can be said in a couple of words все, что можно сказать в нескольких словах; it is well said это хорошо сказано; be said to smb. he never hears what is said to him он никогда не слышит, что ему говорят; be said to be smth. he is said to be a good singer говорят, [что] он хороший певец; the furniture is said not to be worth much говорят, что эта мебель не очень ценная; be said to do smth. nobody call be said to have understood him говорят, что его никто не понимал; be said, that... it is [generally] (commonly, etc.) said that health is the most important thing [обычно и т.д.] говорят, что здоровье - самое важное; it is said that there has been an earthquake in Italy (that we're going to have a cold winter, etc.) говорят, что в Италии было землетрясение и т.д.; be said smth. against (for) smth., smb. not one word was said against it (against his plan, against her nomination, against the man, etc.) против этого и т.д. не было сказано ни слева; nothing was said for this plan никто не поддержал этот план || there is much to be said for smth. это заслуживает одобрения; there is much to be said for this invention можно многое сказать в пользу этого изобретения
    6. XXI1
    1) say smth. to smb. say "good morning" to each other (smth. to the children, this to herself. etc.) говорить друг другу "доброе утро" и т.д.; I am saying to you what I wouldn't say to everyone я говорю вам то, что не стал бы говорить всем и каждому; say smth. to oneself говорить что-л. про себя; say smth. with (without) smth. say smth. with joy (with envy, with a heavy heart, without vanity, etc.) с радостью и т.д. говорить что-л.; smth. in smth. say smth. in anger (in fury, etc.) говорить что-л. в раздражении и т.д.; say smth. in jest сказать что-л. в шутку; say smth. in smb.'s defence (in smb.'s praise) говорить что-л. в чью-л. защиту (с похвалой о ком-л.) || say smth. from one's heart говорить что-л. от всего сердца; say smth. in a loud (soft, hoarse, etc.) voice говорить или сказать что-л. громким и т.д. голосом /громко и т.д./; say smth. under one's breath сказать что-л. шепотом; say smth. to smb.'s face говорить /сказать/ что-л. кому-л. в лицо; say smth. in some language сказать что-л. на каком-л. языке; how do you say this in English? как это сказать по-английски?
    2) say smth. about /of/ smb., smth. say unkind things about one's playmates (nothing about it, much about this style, etc.) плохо говорить /отзываться/ о своих товарищах и т.д.; have you said anything about it to him? вы что-нибудь ему говорили об этом?; what do people say of me? что говорят обо мне [люди]?; to say nothing of the rest не говоря уже об остальных; say smth. for smth., smb. say much for his style высказать одобрение по поводу его стиля; there is not much to say for his work похвалить его работу не за что; I can't say much for his mathematics я ничего хорошего о его успехах по математике сказать не могу; that doesn't say much for his intelligence это не говорит в пользу его ума; say a good word for smb. замолвить за кого-л. словечко, похвалить кого-л.; he had nothing to say for himself ему нечего было сказать в свое оправдание; say smth. in smth. say smth. in fun (in good earnest, etc.) утверждать что-л. в шутку и т.д.; say smth. with (without) smth. say smth. with good reason (without the slightest foundation, etc.) утверждать что-л. с полным основанием и т.д.; say smth. to smth. coll. say yes to an invitation принять приглашение; say no to a request (to a question, etc.) дать отрицательный ответ на просьбу и т.д.; I wouldn't say по to a glass of beer я бы не отказался от стаканчика пива; what do you say to a short walk (to a trip to London, to a meal, to a bath, to a theatre, etc.)? что вы скажете относительно /как насчет/ того, чтобы пойти погулять и т.д.?
    7. XXV
    say [that]... say that he is busy (he is very ill, that the harvest will be good, etc.) говорить /сказать/, что он занят и т.д.; I am glad /happy/ (sorry, etc.) to say that he is here я рад и т.д. сказать, что он здесь; people say that he is intelligent говорят, что он умный; everybody says that... все говорят, что...; it goes without saying that... coll. само собой разумеется, что...; the book (the letter, the article, etc.) says that... в письме и т.д. говорится, что...; the text (the law) says... текст (закон) гласят...; say what... (who..., how..., when..., etc.) say what I feel (what you think, what is wrong, who it was, why he does it, if he knows it, how this can be done, etc.) сказать, что я чувствую /ощущаю/ и т.д.; it is hard to say when he'll be back трудно сказать, когда он вернется; there's no saying why he does these things нельзя сказать /объяснить/, почему он делает такие вещи /так ведет себя/; abs "Yes", he said "Да",сказал он; let's meet, say, on Wednesday coll. встретимся, ну скажем, хотя бы в среду
    8. XXVII2
    say of smb. that... they say of him that he is mad (of her that she has seen the world, etc.) о нем говорят, что он не в своем уме и т.д.

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > say

  • 79 so

    so
    A adv
    1 ( so very) si, tellement ; so stupid/quickly si or tellement stupide/vite ; he's so fat he can't get in il est tellement or si gros qu'il ne peut pas rentrer ; so thin/tall etc that si or tellement maigre/grand etc que ; what's so funny? qu'est-ce qu'il y a de si drôle? ; not so thin/tall as pas aussi maigre/grand que [person] ; he's not so stern a father as yours ce n'est pas un père aussi sévère que le tien ; not so good a plumber pas un aussi bon plombier ; not nearly so expensive as your pen pas du tout aussi cher que ton stylo ; I'm not feeling so good je ne me sens pas très bien ; ⇒ as ;
    2 littér ( also so much) tellement ; she loved him/worries so elle l'aimait/s'inquiète tellement ;
    3 ( to limited extent) we can only work so fast and no faster nous ne pouvons vraiment pas travailler plus vite ; you can only do so much (and no more) tu ne peux rien faire de plus ;
    4 ( in such a way) so arranged/worded that organisé/rédigé d'une telle façon que ; walk so marchez comme ça ; and so on and so forth et ainsi de suite ; just as X is equal to Y, so A is equal to B soit X égale Y, A égale B ; just as you need him, so he needs you tout comme tu as besoin de lui, il a besoin de toi ; just as in the 19th century, so today tout comme au XIXe siècle, aujourd'hui ; so be it! soit! ; she likes everything to be just so elle aime que les choses soient parfaitement en ordre ;
    5 ( for that reason) so it was that c'est ainsi que ; she was young and so lacked experience elle était jeune et donc sans expérience ; she was tired and so went to bed elle était fatiguée donc elle est allée se coucher ;
    6 ( true) is that so? c'est vrai? ; if (that's) so si c'est vrai or le cas ;
    7 ( also) aussi ; so is she/do I etc elle/moi etc aussi ; if they accept so do I s'ils acceptent, j'accepte aussi ;
    8 ( thereabouts) environ ; 20 or so environ 20 ; a year or so ago il y a environ un an ;
    9 ( as introductory remark) so there you are te voilà donc ; so that's the reason voilà donc pourquoi ; so you're going are you? alors tu y vas? ;
    10 ( avoiding repetition) he's conscientious, perhaps too much so il est consciencieux, peut-être même trop ; he's the owner or so he claims c'est le propriétaire du moins c'est ce qu'il prétend ; he dived and as he did so… il a plongé et en le faisant… ; he opened the drawer and while he was so occupied… il a ouvert le tiroir et pendant qu'il était en train de le faire… ; perhaps so c'est possible ; I believe so je crois ; so I believe c'est ce que je crois ; I'm afraid so j'ai bien peur que oui or si ; so it would appear c'est ce qu'il semble ; so to speak si je puis dire ; I told you so je te l'avais bien dit ; so I see je le vois bien ; I think/don't think so je pense/ne pense pas ; who says so? qui dit ça? ; he said so c'est ce qu'il a dit ; we hope so nous espérons bien ; only more so mais encore plus ; the question is unsettled and will remain so la question n'est pas résolue et ne le sera pas ;
    11 sout ( referring forward or back) yes if you so wish oui si vous le voulez ; if you so wish you may… si vous le souhaitez, vous pouvez… ;
    12 ( reinforcing a statement) ‘I thought you liked it?’-‘so I do’ ‘je croyais que ça te plaisait’-‘mais ça me plaît’ ; ‘it's broken’-‘so it is’ ‘c'est cassé’-‘je le vois bien!’ ; ‘I'd like to go to the ball’-‘so you shall’ ‘j'aimerais aller au bal’-‘tu iras’ ; ‘I'm sorry’-‘so you should be’ ‘je suis désolé’-‘j'espère bien’ ; it just so happens that il se trouve justement que ;
    13 ( refuting a statement) ‘he didn't hit you’-‘he did so!’ ‘il ne t'a pas frappé?’-‘si, il m'a frappé’ ; I can so make waffles si, je sais faire les gaufres ;
    14 ( as casual response) et alors ; ‘I'm leaving’-‘so?’ ‘je m'en vais’-‘et alors?’ ; so why worry! et alors, il n'y pas de quoi t'en faire!
    1 ( in such a way that) de façon à ce que (+ subj) ; she wrote the instructions so that they'd be easily understood elle a rédigé les instructions de façon à ce qu'elles soient faciles à comprendre ;
    2 ( in order that) pour que ; she fixed the party for 8 so that he could come elle a prévu la soirée pour 8 heures pour qu'il puisse venir ; be quiet so I can work tais-toi que je puisse travailler.
    C so as conj phr pour ; so as to attract attention/not to disturb people pour attirer l'attention/ne pas déranger les gens.
    1 ( also so many) ( such large quantity) tant de [sugar, friends] ; so much of her life une si grande partie de sa vie ; so many of her friends un si grand nombre de ses amis ; so much of the information une large partie des renseignements ; ⇒ ever ;
    2 ( also so many) ( in comparisons) to behave like so many schoolgirls se conduire comme des écolières ; tossed like so much flotsam balloté comme des épaves flottantes ;
    3 ( also so many) ( limited amount) I can only make so much bread ou so many loaves je ne peux pas faire plus de pains ; I can pay so much je peux payer tant ; there's only so much you can take il y a des limites à ce qu'on peut supporter ;
    4 ( to such an extent) tellement ; so much worse tellement pire ; to like/hate sth so much that aimer/détester qch tellement que ; she worries so much elle s'inquiète tellement ; he was so much like his sister il ressemblait tellement à sa sœur ; so much so that à un tel point que ; thank you so much merci beaucoup ;
    5 ( in contrasts) not so much X as Y moins X que Y ; it wasn't so much shocking as depressing c'était moins choquant que déprimant ; it doesn't annoy me so much as surprise me ça m'agace moins que ça ne me surprend ; ⇒ much.
    E so much as adv phr ( even) même ; he never so much as apologized il ne s'est même pas excusé ; ⇒ without.
    1 ( having finished with) so much for that problem, now for… assez parlé de ce problème, parlons maintenant de… ;
    2 ( used disparagingly) so much for equality/liberalism bonjour l'égalité/le libéralisme ; so much for saying you'd help c'était bien la peine de dire que tu aiderais.
    so long ! ( goodbye) à bientôt! ; so much the better/the worse tant mieux/pis ; so so comme ci comme ça ; so there! d'abord! ; I did it first, so there! c'est moi qui l'ai fait le premier, d'abord!

    Big English-French dictionary > so

  • 80 right

    I
    1. [raıt] n
    1. правильность, правота, справедливость

    to defend the right - защищать справедливость /правое дело/

    to know the difference between right and wrong - знать, что правильно и что неправильно; ≅ отличать белое от чёрного

    to do smb. right - отдавать кому-л. должное; поступать с кем-л. справедливо

    2. право; привилегия

    right of action - юр. право на иск

    right to work [to rest] - право на труд [на отдых]

    right of legation - дип. право посольства; право посылать дипломатическое представительство

    right of passage - право проезда, прохода и т. п.

    right of common - право на совместное /общее/ пользование (чем-л.); общее /совместное/ право (на что-л.)

    right of war - юр. право войны, право обращения к войне

    to claim a /one's/ right - предъявить претензию (на что-л.); требовать своего, требовать причитающегося по праву

    as of right - как полагающийся по праву; как само собой разумеющийся

    pensions should be given as of right - пенсии должны назначаться как нечто полагающееся по праву

    in one's own right - а) юр. в своём праве; по себе; a peeress in her own right - пэресса в своём праве; женщина-пэр; a queen in her own right - царствующая королева, королева по себе ( в отличие от жены короля); б) сам по себе, независимо от других людей или обстоятельств

    Marie Curie was a great scientist in her own right - Мария Кюри и сама была выдающимся учёным

    by right(s) - по праву, справедливо

    the property is not mine by right(s) - это имущество не принадлежит мне по праву

    3. pl
    1) право на разработку или эксплуатацию чего-л.
    2) право на использование произведения искусства
    4. обыкн. pl действительные факты, истинное положение вещей
    5. pl порядок

    to bring /to set, to put/ to rights - а) приводить в порядок /в должное состояние/; наводить порядок; he set the boy to rights and showed him where his duty lay - он разъяснил юноше его заблуждения и указал ему на его истинные обязанности; б) восстановить силы, вылечить

    2. [raıt] a
    1. правый, справедливый

    to do the right thing by smb. - справедливо поступить с кем-л.

    to do what is right - правильно поступать; сделать то, что следует

    it would be only right to tell you - было бы только справедливо сказать вам

    2. верный, правильный

    the right answer - верный /правильный/ ответ

    to get smth. right - прекрасно понять что-л., быть /стать/ совершенно ясным (для кого-л.)

    that's right - верно, совершенно справедливо, правильно

    right you are! - а) верно!, ваша правда!; б) идёт!, есть такое дело!

    is that the right address? - это правильный адрес?

    can you tell me the right time? - скажите, пожалуйста, точно, который сейчас час?

    3. надлежащий; подходящий, уместный

    the right man in the right place - человек на своём месте, подходящий для данного дела человек

    not the right Mr. Smith - не тот г-н Смит (а другой)

    he will always find the right thing to say - он всегда говорит подходящие слова /кстати, то, что следует/

    he understood that it was not the right thing to do - он понял, что этого не следовало делать

    4. здоровый, в хорошем состоянии; исправный

    to be all right - а) быть в порядке; б) чувствовать себя хорошо

    not right in the head - ненормальный, безумный

    in one's right mind - в здравом уме; нормальный

    to put /to set/ smth. right - исправить /поправить/ что-л.

    to set oneself right with smb. - оправдать себя в чьих-л. глазах

    this medicine will soon put you right - от этого лекарства вы скоро поправитесь

    a good night's rest will set you right - за ночь вы отдохнёте как следует и снова будете чувствовать себя хорошо

    5. ( часто with) наиболее удобный, предпочтительный

    are you all right now? - удобно ли вам теперь?

    is it all right for me to come this evening? - вы не возражаете, если я приду сегодня вечером?

    it is all right with him - он согласен, он не против этого

    6. прямой (о линии, угле)
    7. лицевой, правый ( о стороне материи)

    right side up - налицо, лицевой стороной /лицом/ кверху

    8. редк. праведный
    9. часто ирон. занимающий положение в обществе

    Miss Right - будущая жена; суженая

    Mr. Right - будущий муж; суженый

    right as rain /as a trivet/ - а) в хорошем состоянии, в полном порядке; б) совершенно здоров; в добром здравии, цел и невредим

    3. [raıt] adv
    1. справедливо

    to act right - действовать /поступать/ справедливо

    it serves him right - поделом ему, так ему и надо

    2. верно, правильно

    about right - более или менее правильно /достаточно/

    to guess right - догадаться, отгадать

    to get /to do/ a sum right - правильно решить пример

    3. надлежащим образом

    to do a thing right - делать что-л. как следует

    4. точно, как раз

    right in the middle - как раз /точно/ в середине

    5. прямо

    come right in! - амер. входите (пожалуйста)!

    6. эмоц.-усил.
    1) совершенно, полностью

    to turn right round - повернуться кругом, сделать полный поворот

    2) арх. очень

    a right pleasant day - прекрасный /очень приятный/ день

    right here - а) как раз здесь; б) в эту минуту

    right now - в этот момент; сейчас, сегодня же, сразу

    right away, амер. right off - сразу, немедленно

    let's go right away or we'll be late - пойдём сейчас же, иначе мы опоздаем

    to put /to set/ oneself right with smb. - а) снискать чью-л. благосклонность; б) оправдать себя в чьих-л. глазах; в) помириться с кем-л.

    to put smb. right with smb. - оправдать кого-л. в чьих-л. глазах

    right off the bat - амер. с места в карьер, сразу же

    Right Reverend см. reverend

    Right Honourable - достопочтенный (титулование пэров, министров и т. п.)

    4. [raıt] v
    1. исправлять; восстанавливать справедливость
    2. защищать права
    3. исправлять (ошибки и т. п.)
    4. 1) выпрямлять

    to right the helm - мор. поставить руль прямо

    to right oneself - а) выпрямляться; б) реабилитировать себя

    the driver quickly righted the car after it skidded - водитель быстро справился с машиной, когда её занесло

    2) выпрямляться
    5. приводить в порядок

    to right a room - убирать комнату, наводить порядок в комнате

    6. компенсировать (что-л.), возмещать ( убытки)
    II
    1. [raıt] n
    1. правая сторона

    to turn [to look] to the right - повернуть [взглянуть] направо

    to sit on the right of the host - сидеть направо /по правую руку/ от хозяина

    2. воен. правый фланг

    our troops attacked the enemy's right - наши войска атаковали правый фланг противника

    3. (the Right) собир. полит. правая партия, правые, консерваторы
    4. удар правой рукой; правая рука ( бокс)

    he gave him a hard right on the jaw - правой рукой он нанёс ему сильный удар в челюсть

    5. правая перчатка, правый ботинок и т. п.
    2. [raıt] a
    1. правый

    right hand [side of the body, foot] - правая рука [сторона тела, нога]

    right turn - правый поворот; поворот направо

    right driving - езда по правой стороне; правостороннее движение

    right forward - спорт. правый нападающий

    right man - воен. правофланговый

    2. ( часто Right) полит. правый; реакционный

    to put one's right hand to the work - работать энергично

    3. [raıt] adv
    направо

    right face /turn/! - направо! ( команда)

    right and left - а) справа и слева; б) везде; где попало

    НБАРС > right

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