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over+severe

  • 21 caerse redondo

    v.
    to collapse.
    * * *
    figurado to collapse
    * * *
    (v.) = keel over, flake out, lose + Posesivo + consciousness
    Ex. If I was running at a dead sprint going full tilt, I do not think I could make it much more than maybe one mile before I would keel over.
    Ex. After dancing his heart out for an hour or two, and drinking more beers than he should, he flaked out earlier than most.
    Ex. The bleed was so severe that she almost lost her consciousness and had to be hospitalised for 10 weeks.
    * * *
    (v.) = keel over, flake out, lose + Posesivo + consciousness

    Ex: If I was running at a dead sprint going full tilt, I do not think I could make it much more than maybe one mile before I would keel over.

    Ex: After dancing his heart out for an hour or two, and drinking more beers than he should, he flaked out earlier than most.
    Ex: The bleed was so severe that she almost lost her consciousness and had to be hospitalised for 10 weeks.

    Spanish-English dictionary > caerse redondo

  • 22 inminente

    adj.
    imminent, impending.
    * * *
    1 imminent
    * * *
    adj.
    * * *
    * * *
    adjetivo imminent, impending
    * * *
    = imminent, impending, looming, over the horizon, on the horizon.
    Ex. Faster material and lenses, more automatic cameras, finer-grained sensitive compounds to allow an extension of the minicamera idea, are all imminent.
    Ex. This expansion together with the impending amalgamation with other colleges placed ever increasing and severe restraints upon the full development of the library service.
    Ex. The automated catalogue became a spectre of looming change because the same electronic advances that made the online catalogue a reality promised even greater transformations = El catálogo automatizado se convirtió en un espectro del inminente cambio ya que los mismos avances electrónicos que hicieron realidad el catálogo en línea prometían transformaciones aún mayores.
    Ex. This article surveys the changes which have already occurred and those which are just over the horizon.
    Ex. The author concludes with descriptions of advances in the technology currently on the horizon.
    ----
    * ser inminente = be on the cards.
    * * *
    adjetivo imminent, impending
    * * *
    = imminent, impending, looming, over the horizon, on the horizon.

    Ex: Faster material and lenses, more automatic cameras, finer-grained sensitive compounds to allow an extension of the minicamera idea, are all imminent.

    Ex: This expansion together with the impending amalgamation with other colleges placed ever increasing and severe restraints upon the full development of the library service.
    Ex: The automated catalogue became a spectre of looming change because the same electronic advances that made the online catalogue a reality promised even greater transformations = El catálogo automatizado se convirtió en un espectro del inminente cambio ya que los mismos avances electrónicos que hicieron realidad el catálogo en línea prometían transformaciones aún mayores.
    Ex: This article surveys the changes which have already occurred and those which are just over the horizon.
    Ex: The author concludes with descriptions of advances in the technology currently on the horizon.
    * ser inminente = be on the cards.

    * * *
    imminent, impending
    * * *

    inminente adjetivo imminent, impending
    ' inminente' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    intensificación
    English:
    immediate
    - imminent
    - impending
    - premonition
    * * *
    imminent, impending
    * * *
    adj imminent
    * * *
    : imminent

    Spanish-English dictionary > inminente

  • 23 poner en apuros

    (v.) = cast + a shadow over, put + Nombre + in difficulties
    Ex. The country's severe economic problems have cast a shadow over the book trade, yet its vigour and diversity are astonishing.
    Ex. This situation often puts librarians in difficulties by their reacting to problems, rather than anticipating them.
    * * *
    (v.) = cast + a shadow over, put + Nombre + in difficulties

    Ex: The country's severe economic problems have cast a shadow over the book trade, yet its vigour and diversity are astonishing.

    Ex: This situation often puts librarians in difficulties by their reacting to problems, rather than anticipating them.

    Spanish-English dictionary > poner en apuros

  • 24 proyectar una sombra sobre

    (v.) = cast + a shadow over
    Ex. The country's severe economic problems have cast a shadow over the book trade, yet its vigour and diversity are astonishing.
    * * *
    (v.) = cast + a shadow over

    Ex: The country's severe economic problems have cast a shadow over the book trade, yet its vigour and diversity are astonishing.

    Spanish-English dictionary > proyectar una sombra sobre

  • 25 uso

    m.
    1 use.
    hacer uso de to make use of, to use; (utilizar) to exercise (de prerrogativa, derecho)
    fuera de uso out of use, obsolete
    tener el uso de la palabra to have the floor
    uso de razón power of reason
    2 custom (costumbre).
    al uso fashionable
    al uso andaluz in the Andalusian style
    3 usage (linguistics).
    4 wear and tear (desgaste).
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: usar.
    * * *
    * * *
    noun m.
    1) use
    2) wear
    3) custom, usage
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    SF ABR Esp
    = Unión Sindical Obrera
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    a) (de producto, medicamento) use; (de máquina, material) use

    métodos de uso extendido en... — methods widely used in...

    de uso externo — (Farm) for external use only

    b) (de idioma, expresión) use

    una expresión sancionada por el uso — (frml) an expression that has gained acceptance through usage

    c) (de facultad, derecho)

    hacer uso de la palabra — (frml) to speak

    hacer uso y abuso de algo — ( de privilegio) to abuse something

    2) ( de prenda)
    3) (utilidad, aplicación) use
    4) ( usanza) custom
    * * *
    = deployment, disposition, exercise, take-up, usage, use, utilisation [utilization, -USA], utility, consumption, employment, uptake, wear, delivery.
    Ex. In the context of this report any such policy would have to accept that speedy response to current problems requires the deployment of resources in favour of innovative information-driven programmes.
    Ex. The process provides an effective means of controlling such serials until a final decision has been made regarding their disposition.
    Ex. A poorly structured scheme requires the exercise of a good deal of initiative on the part of the indexer in order to overcome or avoid the poor structure.
    Ex. One of the reasons for the relatively slow take-up of microcomputers in libraries in the Philippines is the problem caused by the multitude of languages used in the island group.
    Ex. Changes in usage of terms over time can also present problems = Los cambios en el uso de los términos con el transcurso del tiempo también pueden presentar problemas.
    Ex. Systematic mnemonics is the use of the same notation for a given topic wherever that topic occurs.
    Ex. On occasions it is necessary to adopt an order or arrangement which leads to the efficient utilisation of space.
    Ex. Situations where subdivisions might have had some utility are served by the co-ordination of index terms at the search stage.
    Ex. The screen display formats required by cataloguing staff may be not at all suitable for public consumption.
    Ex. Through the employment of such implicitly derogatory terminology librarians virtually give themselves licence to disregard or downgrade the value of certain materials.
    Ex. The project is investigating the factors which promote or inhibit the uptake of computers in primary schools.
    Ex. When in use moulds were subject to severe wear which resulted in noticeable deterioration of the surface.
    Ex. Entry of number '21' reverses the present delivery status.
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    * alfabetización en el uso de la biblioteca = library literacy.
    * aparato para el uso de la información = information appliance.
    * aumento del uso = increased use.
    * bloque funcional para uso internacional = international use block.
    * bloque funcional para uso nacional = national use block.
    * con conocimiento básico en el uso de la biblioteca = library literate [library-literate].
    * con conocimiento en el uso de Internet = Internet-savvy.
    * condiciones de uso = terms of use.
    * condiciones legales de uso = legal boilerplate.
    * con el uso = in use, with use.
    * conocimientos básicos sobre el uso de las bibliotecas = library skills.
    * cubrir un uso = address + use.
    * cuchillo de un solo uso = disposable knife.
    * dar buen uso a Algo = put to + good use.
    * dar un uso = put to + purpose.
    * dar uso = put to + use.
    * dar uso a = make + use of.
    * de doble uso = dual-use.
    * de muchos usos = all-purpose.
    * de pago según el uso = on a pay a you use basis, on a pay as you go basis.
    * de poco uso = low-use.
    * desde el punto de vista del uso = in terms of use.
    * desgaste por el uso = wear and tear.
    * destrezas relacionadas con el uso de la información = information skills.
    * de un solo uso = disposable, single-use.
    * de uso comercial = commercially-owned.
    * de uso cutáneo = use + topically.
    * de uso externo = for external use only.
    * de uso flexible = hop-on/hop-off.
    * de uso frecuente = frequently-used.
    * de uso general = general-use.
    * de uso interno = in-house [inhouse].
    * de uso múltiple = all-purpose.
    * de uso público = publicly available.
    * de uso tópico = use + topically.
    * encuesta sobre el uso del tiempo = time-use survey.
    * en pleno uso de + Posesivo + facultades físicas y mentales = of (a) sound mind, of (a) sound and disposing mind and memory, mentally fit, physically and mentally fit.
    * en pleno uso de + Posesivo + razón = mentally fit.
    * en uso = in use.
    * estadísticas de uso = usage statistics, use statistics.
    * estudio de uso = use study.
    * facilidad de uso = usability, user-friendliness, ease of use.
    * formación en el uso de la biblioteca = library literacy.
    * frecuencia de uso = usage rate.
    * gastado por el uso = worn-out.
    * hábito de uso = usage pattern, use pattern.
    * hábito de uso, patrón de uso = usage pattern.
    * hacer buen uso de Algo = put to + good use.
    * hacer el mejor uso de = make + the best of.
    * hacer uso = put to + use.
    * hacer uso de = make + use of, draw on/upon, leverage, patronise [patronize, -USA], tap into, deploy.
    * hacer uso de influencias = pull + strings.
    * hacer uso de recursos = tap into + resources.
    * hacer uso de un conocimiento = draw on/upon + knowledge.
    * hacer uso personal = make + personal use.
    * haciendo uso de = by recourse to.
    * herramienta de uso de Internet = Internet appliance.
    * herramienta para el uso de la información = information appliance.
    * impuesto sobre artículos de uso y consumo = excise tax.
    * incremento del uso = increased use.
    * índice de uso = performance measure, output measure.
    * instrucciones de uso = use instruction.
    * licencia de uso = licence agreement.
    * mal uso = misuse, mishandling.
    * mediante el uso de los recursos = resource-based.
    * método de evaluación de un edificio en uso = post-occupancy evaluation method.
    * multiuso = multi-functional, multi-use [multiuse].
    * normas de uso = user policy.
    * ordenadores de uso público = PAWS (Public access workstations).
    * pago según el uso = pay-per-view, pay-for-use.
    * páguese por el uso hecho = pay-as-you-go.
    * para evitar su uso indebido por los niños = childproof.
    * para posteriores usos = for subsequent use.
    * para su posterior uso = for subsequent use.
    * para su uso posterior = for subsequent use.
    * para todo uso = all-purpose.
    * para uso comercial = commercially-owned.
    * para uso del profesional = professional-use.
    * para uso industrial = heavy-duty.
    * para uso personal = for personal use.
    * para usos posteriores = for subsequent use.
    * plato de un solo uso = disposable plate.
    * poner en uso = bring into + use, take in + use.
    * proteger Algo para evitar su uso indebido por los niños = childproof.
    * recurrir al uso de = resort to + the use of.
    * rentabilizar el uso = maximise + use.
    * ser de mucho uso = take + Nombre + a long way.
    * ser de un solo uso = be a one-trip pony.
    * ser de uso general = be in general use, be generally available.
    * servilleta de un solo uso = disposable napkin.
    * sistema de facturación por uso = cost billing system.
    * sistema en uso = operational system.
    * sustancia de uso reglamentado = controlled substance.
    * sustancia de uso regulado = controlled substance.
    * tenedor de un solo uso = disposable fork.
    * uso a distancia = remote use.
    * uso compartido = sharing.
    * uso compartido de la información = information sharing.
    * uso compartido de mesas de trabajo = hot desking.
    * uso compartido de recursos = resource sharing, time-sharing [timesharing].
    * uso de instrumentos = instrumentation.
    * uso de la biblioteca = library use, library usage.
    * uso de la colección = stock use.
    * uso de la letra cursiva = italicisation [italicization, -USA].
    * uso de las mayúsculas = capitalisation [capitalization, -USA].
    * uso de la tierra = land use.
    * uso de sustancias = substance use.
    * uso de un modo descuidado = bandying about.
    * uso diario = everyday use.
    * uso doméstico = domestic use.
    * uso excesivo = prodigality, overuse.
    * uso excesivo de = greed for.
    * uso inadecuado = misuse, mistreatment.
    * uso indebido = misuse.
    * uso normal = normal usage.
    * uso óptimo de los recursos = value for money.
    * uso personal = personal use.
    * uso público en la propia biblioteca = in-library use.
    * uso razonable = fair dealing, fair use.
    * uso remoto = remote use.
    * usos y costumbres = customs and habits.
    * usos y gratificaciones = uses and gratifications.
    * uso tópico = for external use only.
    * usuario que hace mucho uso del préstamo = heavy borrower.
    * usuario que hace poco uso del préstamo = light borrower.
    * usuario que hace uso del préstamo = borrower.
    * * *
    a) (de producto, medicamento) use; (de máquina, material) use

    métodos de uso extendido en... — methods widely used in...

    de uso externo — (Farm) for external use only

    b) (de idioma, expresión) use

    una expresión sancionada por el uso — (frml) an expression that has gained acceptance through usage

    c) (de facultad, derecho)

    hacer uso de la palabra — (frml) to speak

    hacer uso y abuso de algo — ( de privilegio) to abuse something

    2) ( de prenda)
    3) (utilidad, aplicación) use
    4) ( usanza) custom
    * * *
    = deployment, disposition, exercise, take-up, usage, use, utilisation [utilization, -USA], utility, consumption, employment, uptake, wear, delivery.

    Ex: In the context of this report any such policy would have to accept that speedy response to current problems requires the deployment of resources in favour of innovative information-driven programmes.

    Ex: The process provides an effective means of controlling such serials until a final decision has been made regarding their disposition.
    Ex: A poorly structured scheme requires the exercise of a good deal of initiative on the part of the indexer in order to overcome or avoid the poor structure.
    Ex: One of the reasons for the relatively slow take-up of microcomputers in libraries in the Philippines is the problem caused by the multitude of languages used in the island group.
    Ex: Changes in usage of terms over time can also present problems = Los cambios en el uso de los términos con el transcurso del tiempo también pueden presentar problemas.
    Ex: Systematic mnemonics is the use of the same notation for a given topic wherever that topic occurs.
    Ex: On occasions it is necessary to adopt an order or arrangement which leads to the efficient utilisation of space.
    Ex: Situations where subdivisions might have had some utility are served by the co-ordination of index terms at the search stage.
    Ex: The screen display formats required by cataloguing staff may be not at all suitable for public consumption.
    Ex: Through the employment of such implicitly derogatory terminology librarians virtually give themselves licence to disregard or downgrade the value of certain materials.
    Ex: The project is investigating the factors which promote or inhibit the uptake of computers in primary schools.
    Ex: When in use moulds were subject to severe wear which resulted in noticeable deterioration of the surface.
    Ex: Entry of number '21' reverses the present delivery status.
    * alfabetización en el uso de la biblioteca = library literacy.
    * aparato para el uso de la información = information appliance.
    * aumento del uso = increased use.
    * bloque funcional para uso internacional = international use block.
    * bloque funcional para uso nacional = national use block.
    * con conocimiento básico en el uso de la biblioteca = library literate [library-literate].
    * con conocimiento en el uso de Internet = Internet-savvy.
    * condiciones de uso = terms of use.
    * condiciones legales de uso = legal boilerplate.
    * con el uso = in use, with use.
    * conocimientos básicos sobre el uso de las bibliotecas = library skills.
    * cubrir un uso = address + use.
    * cuchillo de un solo uso = disposable knife.
    * dar buen uso a Algo = put to + good use.
    * dar un uso = put to + purpose.
    * dar uso = put to + use.
    * dar uso a = make + use of.
    * de doble uso = dual-use.
    * de muchos usos = all-purpose.
    * de pago según el uso = on a pay a you use basis, on a pay as you go basis.
    * de poco uso = low-use.
    * desde el punto de vista del uso = in terms of use.
    * desgaste por el uso = wear and tear.
    * destrezas relacionadas con el uso de la información = information skills.
    * de un solo uso = disposable, single-use.
    * de uso comercial = commercially-owned.
    * de uso cutáneo = use + topically.
    * de uso externo = for external use only.
    * de uso flexible = hop-on/hop-off.
    * de uso frecuente = frequently-used.
    * de uso general = general-use.
    * de uso interno = in-house [inhouse].
    * de uso múltiple = all-purpose.
    * de uso público = publicly available.
    * de uso tópico = use + topically.
    * encuesta sobre el uso del tiempo = time-use survey.
    * en pleno uso de + Posesivo + facultades físicas y mentales = of (a) sound mind, of (a) sound and disposing mind and memory, mentally fit, physically and mentally fit.
    * en pleno uso de + Posesivo + razón = mentally fit.
    * en uso = in use.
    * estadísticas de uso = usage statistics, use statistics.
    * estudio de uso = use study.
    * facilidad de uso = usability, user-friendliness, ease of use.
    * formación en el uso de la biblioteca = library literacy.
    * frecuencia de uso = usage rate.
    * gastado por el uso = worn-out.
    * hábito de uso = usage pattern, use pattern.
    * hábito de uso, patrón de uso = usage pattern.
    * hacer buen uso de Algo = put to + good use.
    * hacer el mejor uso de = make + the best of.
    * hacer uso = put to + use.
    * hacer uso de = make + use of, draw on/upon, leverage, patronise [patronize, -USA], tap into, deploy.
    * hacer uso de influencias = pull + strings.
    * hacer uso de recursos = tap into + resources.
    * hacer uso de un conocimiento = draw on/upon + knowledge.
    * hacer uso personal = make + personal use.
    * haciendo uso de = by recourse to.
    * herramienta de uso de Internet = Internet appliance.
    * herramienta para el uso de la información = information appliance.
    * impuesto sobre artículos de uso y consumo = excise tax.
    * incremento del uso = increased use.
    * índice de uso = performance measure, output measure.
    * instrucciones de uso = use instruction.
    * licencia de uso = licence agreement.
    * mal uso = misuse, mishandling.
    * mediante el uso de los recursos = resource-based.
    * método de evaluación de un edificio en uso = post-occupancy evaluation method.
    * multiuso = multi-functional, multi-use [multiuse].
    * normas de uso = user policy.
    * ordenadores de uso público = PAWS (Public access workstations).
    * pago según el uso = pay-per-view, pay-for-use.
    * páguese por el uso hecho = pay-as-you-go.
    * para evitar su uso indebido por los niños = childproof.
    * para posteriores usos = for subsequent use.
    * para su posterior uso = for subsequent use.
    * para su uso posterior = for subsequent use.
    * para todo uso = all-purpose.
    * para uso comercial = commercially-owned.
    * para uso del profesional = professional-use.
    * para uso industrial = heavy-duty.
    * para uso personal = for personal use.
    * para usos posteriores = for subsequent use.
    * plato de un solo uso = disposable plate.
    * poner en uso = bring into + use, take in + use.
    * proteger Algo para evitar su uso indebido por los niños = childproof.
    * recurrir al uso de = resort to + the use of.
    * rentabilizar el uso = maximise + use.
    * ser de mucho uso = take + Nombre + a long way.
    * ser de un solo uso = be a one-trip pony.
    * ser de uso general = be in general use, be generally available.
    * servilleta de un solo uso = disposable napkin.
    * sistema de facturación por uso = cost billing system.
    * sistema en uso = operational system.
    * sustancia de uso reglamentado = controlled substance.
    * sustancia de uso regulado = controlled substance.
    * tenedor de un solo uso = disposable fork.
    * uso a distancia = remote use.
    * uso compartido = sharing.
    * uso compartido de la información = information sharing.
    * uso compartido de mesas de trabajo = hot desking.
    * uso compartido de recursos = resource sharing, time-sharing [timesharing].
    * uso de instrumentos = instrumentation.
    * uso de la biblioteca = library use, library usage.
    * uso de la colección = stock use.
    * uso de la letra cursiva = italicisation [italicization, -USA].
    * uso de las mayúsculas = capitalisation [capitalization, -USA].
    * uso de la tierra = land use.
    * uso de sustancias = substance use.
    * uso de un modo descuidado = bandying about.
    * uso diario = everyday use.
    * uso doméstico = domestic use.
    * uso excesivo = prodigality, overuse.
    * uso excesivo de = greed for.
    * uso inadecuado = misuse, mistreatment.
    * uso indebido = misuse.
    * uso normal = normal usage.
    * uso óptimo de los recursos = value for money.
    * uso personal = personal use.
    * uso público en la propia biblioteca = in-library use.
    * uso razonable = fair dealing, fair use.
    * uso remoto = remote use.
    * usos y costumbres = customs and habits.
    * usos y gratificaciones = uses and gratifications.
    * uso tópico = for external use only.
    * usuario que hace mucho uso del préstamo = heavy borrower.
    * usuario que hace poco uso del préstamo = light borrower.
    * usuario que hace uso del préstamo = borrower.

    * * *
    /ˈuso/
    (en Esp) = Unión Sindical Obrera
    * * *

     

    Del verbo usar: ( conjugate usar)

    uso es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    usó es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    usar    
    uso
    usar ( conjugate usar) verbo transitivo

    ◊ ¿qué champú usas? what shampoo do you use?;

    uso algo/a algn de or como algo to use sth/sb as sth
    b) ( llevar) ‹alhajas/ropa/perfume› to wear;


    usarse verbo pronominal (en 3a pers) (esp AmL) ( estar de moda) [color/ropa] to be in fashion, to be popular;

    uso sustantivo masculino
    a) (de producto, medicamento, máquina) use;


    hacer uso de algo to use sth
    b) (de facultad, derecho):


    hacer uso de un derecho to exercise a right;
    desde que tengo uso de razón ever since I can remember;
    hacer uso de la palabra (frml) to speak
    c) ( de prenda):


    los zapatos ceden con el uso shoes give with wear
    usar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (hacer uso, emplear) to use: no uses mi maquinilla, don't use my razor
    siempre usa el mismo método, she uses always the same method
    2 (llevar ropa, perfume, etc) to wear
    II vi (utilizar) to use
    uso sustantivo masculino
    1 use
    (aplicación) se compró el ordenador, pero no le da ningún uso, he bought the computer, but he never makes use of it
    (modo de aplicación) instrucciones de uso, instructions for use
    uso externo/tópico, external/local application
    2 (costumbre) custom
    ' uso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    billón
    - cada
    - casarse
    - como
    - crema
    - cuchara
    - destartalar
    - destino
    - deterioro
    - doméstica
    - doméstico
    - escayola
    - espantosa
    - espantoso
    - estar
    - extendida
    - extendido
    - externa
    - externo
    - gasto
    - lindeza
    - misma
    - mismo
    - mortal
    - muerta
    - muerto
    - parecer
    - permitirse
    - poder
    - prerrogativa
    - pues
    - pura
    - puro
    - que
    - rozar
    - rozarse
    - sala
    - si
    - tal
    - tópica
    - tópico
    - universal
    - usar
    - utensilio
    - vaya
    - ver
    - verdadera
    - verdadero
    - vulgarización
    - vulgarizar
    English:
    abuse
    - afford
    - agree
    - antiallergenic
    - balloon
    - bed
    - blind
    - cease
    - continue
    - current
    - disposable
    - do
    - dog-eared
    - enjoy
    - ever
    - exclusively
    - feel
    - floor
    - fluoride
    - for
    - fuck
    - good
    - have
    - hear of
    - herself
    - himself
    - indeed
    - intend
    - internal
    - it
    - itself
    - just
    - lend
    - lie
    - listen
    - literally
    - misuse
    - myself
    - never
    - next
    - nice
    - not
    - oneself
    - only
    - ourselves
    - practice
    - practise
    - public
    - quite
    - ridesharing
    * * *
    USO ['uso] nf (abrev de Unión Sindical Obrera)
    = centre-right Spanish union
    * * *
    f abr (= Unión Sindical Obrera) Spanish trade union
    * * *
    uso nm
    1) empleo, utilización: use
    de uso personal: for personal use
    hacer uso de: to make use of
    2) : wear
    uso y desgaste: wear and tear
    3) usanza: custom, usage, habit
    al uso de: in the manner of, in the style of
    * * *
    uso n
    2. (ropa, etc) wearing

    Spanish-English dictionary > uso

  • 26 streng

    gut, hard, harsh, rigid, rigour, severe, sharp, stern, stiff, strict, string, stringent
    * * *
    I. (en -e)
    ( violinstreng, klaverstreng, buestreng etc) string;
    ( klokkestreng) bellpull;
    ( i snor) strand;
    [ anslå en streng] touch a string,
    (fig) strike a chord;
    [ anslå de velkendte strenge] strike a familiar chord;
    [ have flere strenge på sin bue] have two strings to one's bow;
    [ spille på de patriotiske strenge] touch patriotic chords.
    II. adj
    ( ubøjelig, ufravigelig) strict ( fx justice, orders, rules, discipline, schoolmaster, neutrality),
    ( stærkere, F) stringent ( fx controls, laws);
    ( hård, ublid) hard ( fx discipline, father, master, life, times, work),
    ( stærkere, især om handling) severe ( fx criticism, father, judge, laws, look, measures, punishment, test),
    F rigorous ( fx discipline, peace terms, punishment);
    (T: anstrengende etc) stiff ( fx climb, examination; it's a bit stiff!);
    ( barsk af væsen, udseende) stern ( fx man, look);
    ( om levevis, F) austere ( fx Puritan, life, morals);
    ( om vejrlig) hard ( fx frost, winter),
    ( stærkere) severe ( fx cold);
    F austere;
    [ streng faste] a strict (el. rigid) fast;
    [ i strengeste forstand] in the strictest sense of the word;
    (se også bevogtning, diæt);
    [ streng over for] strict with, severe with, hard on;
    (se også strengt).

    Danish-English dictionary > streng

  • 27 gracia

    f.
    1 humor.
    ¡qué gracia! how funny!
    su voz me hace mucha gracia I think he's got a really funny voice, his voice makes me laugh (me divierte)
    no me hizo gracia I didn't find it funny
    tener gracia to be funny (ser divertido, curioso)
    2 skill, natural ability.
    3 grace, elegance (encanto).
    no consigo verle la gracia a este cuadro I just don't know what people see in this painting
    la gracia del plato está en la salsa the secret of the dish is (in) the sauce
    4 nuisance (incordio).
    vaya gracia tener que salir a mitad de la noche it's a real nuisance having to go out in the middle of the night
    ¡maldita la gracia que me hace tener que volverlo a hacer! (informal) it's a real pain having to do it all over again!
    5 favor.
    caer en gracia to be liked
    6 wit, wittiness, funniness.
    7 Gracia.
    * * *
    1 RELIGIÓN grace
    2 (favor) favour (US favor)
    3 (clemencia) pardon
    4 (buen trato) graciousness
    5 (atractivo) grace, charm
    6 (garbo) grace
    7 (chiste) joke
    8 irónico (algo molesto) nuisance, pain
    ■ ¡vaya gracia tener que esperar tanto! what a nuisance to have to wait so long!
    1 thank you, thanks
    \
    caer en gracia a alguien to make a hit with somebody
    dar gracias a alguien to thank somebody
    estar en gracia to be in a state of grace
    gracias a thanks to
    gracias a Dios thank God, thank goodness
    hacer gracia, tener gracia (diversión) to be funny 2 (desprecio) to be ridiculous
    ■ me hace gracia, se cree que lo invitaré isn't it funny, he thinks I'm inviting him!
    por la gracia de Dios by the grace of God
    ¡qué gracia! how funny!
    reírle las gracias a alguien to laugh at somebody's jokes
    ¡vaya gracia! / ¡vaya una gracia! well, that's great that is!, that's just great!
    y gracias irónico you should be so lucky
    ■ nada de comida fina, te darán un bocadillo y gracias there'll be no posh food, with a bit of luck you'll get a sandwich
    * * *
    noun f.
    2) humor, wit
    •
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=diversión)
    a) [de chiste, persona]

    • coger o pescar la gracia — to see the point ( of a joke)

    b)

    • hacer gracia a algn, a mí no me hace gracia ese humorista — I don't find that comedian funny

    c)

    • tener gracia — [broma, chiste] to be funny; [persona] (=ser ingenioso) to be witty; (=ser divertido) to be funny, be amusing

    ¡tiene gracia la cosa! — iró isn't that (just) great! iró

    tendría gracia que se estropeara el despertador justamente hoy — iró wouldn't it be just great if the alarm didn't go off today of all days? iró

    tiene mucha gracia hablando — he's very witty, he's very funny o amusing

    d)

    • ¡ qué gracia! — [gen] how funny!; iró it's great, isn't it?

    ¿así que tu hermano y mi hermano se conocen? ¡qué gracia! — so your brother and mine know each other - how funny!

    y, ¡qué gracia!, me dice el profesor: -señorita, compórtese — and the teacher said to me, it was so funny, "behave yourself, young lady"

    ¡qué gracia! ¿no? tú de vacaciones y yo aquí estudiando — iró it's great, isn't it? you are on holiday while I am here studying iró

    e)

    • dar en la gracia de hacer algo — to take to doing sth

    2) (=encanto)
    a) [al moverse] gracefulness, grace

    sin gracia — ungraceful, lacking in gracefulness o grace

    b) [en la personalidad] charm

    tener gracia — [persona] to have charm; [objeto] to be nice

    no es guapo, pero tiene cierta gracia — he's not good-looking but he has a certain charm

    3) (=chiste) joke

    • hacer una gracia a algn — to play a prank on sb

    • reírle las gracias a algn — to laugh along with sb

    4) pl gracias
    a) [para expresar agradecimiento] thanks

    ¡gracias! — thank you!

    ¡muchas gracias! — thank you very much!, thanks a lot!, many thanks! más frm

    • dar las gracias a algn — to thank sb ( por for)

    no nos dio ni las gracias — he didn't even say thank you, he didn't even thank us

    • toma eso, ¡y gracias! — take that and be thankful!

    y gracias que no llegó a más — and we etc were lucky to get off so lightly

    b)

    • gracias a — thanks to

    la familia se mantiene gracias a que el padre y la madre trabajan — the family manages to support itself thanks to the fact that both parents work

    • gracias a Dios — thank heaven(s)

    5) (Rel) grace
    obra 1)
    6) (Jur) mercy, pardon
    tiro 1)
    7) (=favor) favour, favor (EEUU)

    caer de la gracia de algn — † fall out of favour with sb

    • de gracia — † free, gratis

    me cayó en gracia enseguida — I warmed to him immediately, I took an immediate liking to him

    8) (=benevolencia) graciousness
    9) (Mit)
    10)

    en gracia a — † on account of

    11) † (=nombre) name

    ¿cuál es su gracia? — what is your name?

    * * *
    1) ( comicidad)

    pues sí que tiene gracia (la cosa)! — (iró & fam) well, that's great, isn't it! (iro & colloq)

    hacer gracia — (+ me/te/le etc)

    me hizo una gracia...! — it was so funny...!

    2)
    a) ( chiste) joke; ( broma) joke, trick

    reírle las gracias a alguien — to humor* somebody

    b) ( de niño) party piece
    3)
    a) (encanto, donaire)
    4) (ant) ( nombre) name
    5)
    a) (favor, merced) grace

    caer en gracia: le has caído en gracia — he has taken a liking o (colloq) a shine to you

    c) ( clemencia) clemency
    6) (Relig) grace
    7) (Mit)
    8) gracias femenino plural
    b) (como interj) thank you, thanks (colloq)

    muchas gracias — thank you very much, thanks a lot (colloq)

    c)

    llegamos bien, pero gracias a que... — we arrived on time, but only because...

    * * *
    = amnesty, grace, wit.
    Ex. Security at the library has been improved and recommendations for the future include: amnesty weeks for the return of books and severe penalties for offenders, e.g. expulsion for a student, dismissal for a member of staff.
    Ex. God offers penitents redemption but also bestows His 'common grace' on all.
    Ex. The tone of voice should suggest that the inquirer's interest demonstrates something positive about the person -- if not charm, wit, or intelligence, then perhaps earnestness.
    ----
    * asestar el golpe de gracia = administer + the coup de grace, deliver + the coup de grace.
    * caer en gracia = take + a fancy to, take + a shine to, take + a liking to.
    * con gracia = wittily, funnily.
    * dar el golpe de gracia = administer + the coup de grace, deliver + the coup de grace.
    * golpe de gracia = coup de grace, kiss of death, killer blow, death blow.
    * hacer gracia = tickle + Posesivo + fancy.
    * lleno de gracia = graceful.
    * no hacer ninguna gracia = not take + kindly to.
    * periodo de gracia = grace period, time of grace.
    * sin gracia = dowdy [dowdier -comp., dowdiest -sup.].
    * sin nada de gracia = unfunny.
    * * *
    1) ( comicidad)

    pues sí que tiene gracia (la cosa)! — (iró & fam) well, that's great, isn't it! (iro & colloq)

    hacer gracia — (+ me/te/le etc)

    me hizo una gracia...! — it was so funny...!

    2)
    a) ( chiste) joke; ( broma) joke, trick

    reírle las gracias a alguien — to humor* somebody

    b) ( de niño) party piece
    3)
    a) (encanto, donaire)
    4) (ant) ( nombre) name
    5)
    a) (favor, merced) grace

    caer en gracia: le has caído en gracia — he has taken a liking o (colloq) a shine to you

    c) ( clemencia) clemency
    6) (Relig) grace
    7) (Mit)
    8) gracias femenino plural
    b) (como interj) thank you, thanks (colloq)

    muchas gracias — thank you very much, thanks a lot (colloq)

    c)

    llegamos bien, pero gracias a que... — we arrived on time, but only because...

    * * *
    = amnesty, grace, wit.

    Ex: Security at the library has been improved and recommendations for the future include: amnesty weeks for the return of books and severe penalties for offenders, e.g. expulsion for a student, dismissal for a member of staff.

    Ex: God offers penitents redemption but also bestows His 'common grace' on all.
    Ex: The tone of voice should suggest that the inquirer's interest demonstrates something positive about the person -- if not charm, wit, or intelligence, then perhaps earnestness.
    * asestar el golpe de gracia = administer + the coup de grace, deliver + the coup de grace.
    * caer en gracia = take + a fancy to, take + a shine to, take + a liking to.
    * con gracia = wittily, funnily.
    * dar el golpe de gracia = administer + the coup de grace, deliver + the coup de grace.
    * golpe de gracia = coup de grace, kiss of death, killer blow, death blow.
    * hacer gracia = tickle + Posesivo + fancy.
    * lleno de gracia = graceful.
    * no hacer ninguna gracia = not take + kindly to.
    * periodo de gracia = grace period, time of grace.
    * sin gracia = dowdy [dowdier -comp., dowdiest -sup.].
    * sin nada de gracia = unfunny.

    * * *
    A
    (comicidad): yo no le veo la gracia I don't think it's funny, I don't see what's so funny about it
    sus chistes no tienen gracia ninguna her jokes aren't at all funny
    cuenta las cosas con mucha gracia he's very funny the way he tells things
    tiene gracia, mi hermano vive en la misma calle isn't that funny, my brother lives in the same street
    ¡mira qué gracia! ¡encima tengo que pagar yo! ( iró); well that's just great isn't it! on top of everything else, it's me who ends up paying!
    hacer gracia (+ me/te/le etc): ¡me hizo una gracia cuando lo vi sin barba! it was so funny seeing him without his beard!
    me hace gracia que digas eso, estaba pensando lo mismo it's funny you should say that, I was just thinking the same thing
    parece que le ha hecho gracia el chiste he seems to have found the joke funny
    no me hace ninguna gracia tener que ir a verlo I don't relish the idea of having to go and see him
    maldita la gracia que me hace tener que asistir a estas reuniones it's no fun having to go to these meetings, it's a real drag having to go to these meetings ( colloq)
    B
    1 (chiste) joke; (broma) joke, trick, prank
    2 (de un niño) party piece
    C
    1
    (encanto, donaire): baila con mucha gracia she's a very graceful dancer
    un vestido muy sin gracia a very plain dress
    2
    (habilidad especial): tiene mucha gracia para arreglar flores she has a real gift o flair for flower arranging
    la comida es buena, pero la presentan sin ninguna gracia the food is good but they don't go to any trouble over the presentation
    D ( ant) (nombre) name
    E
    1 (favor, merced) grace
    por la gracia de Dios by the grace of God
    le concedieron tres meses de gracia they gave him three months' grace
    … gracia que espera merecer de su Ilustrísima ( frml) ( Corresp) … in the hope that you will grant this request ( frml)
    caer en gracia: parece que le has caído en gracia he seems to have taken a liking o ( colloq) a shine to you
    3 (clemencia) clemency
    F ( Relig) grace
    estar en estado de gracia to be in a state of grace
    perder la gracia to fall from grace
    G ( Mit):
    las tres gracias the (three) Graces
    A
    (expresión de agradecimiento): sólo quería darle las gracias I just wanted to thank you
    no le dieron ni las gracias they didn't even thank her o say thank you
    demos gracias a Dios let us give thanks to God
    B ( como interj) thank you, thanks ( colloq)
    muchas gracias thank you very much, many thanks, thanks a lot ( colloq)
    un millón de/mil gracias por tu ayuda I can't thank you enough for your help, thank you very much for your help
    … y gracias: ¿pagarte? ¡estás loca! te dan la comida y gracias pay you? you're joking! they give you your food and that's it o ( BrE colloq) that's your lot
    C
    gracias a thanks to
    se salvaron gracias a él thanks to him they escaped
    gracias a Dios, no fue nada serio it was nothing serious, thank heavens o God
    llegamos bien, pero gracias a que salimos a las nueve we arrived on time, but only because we left at nine
    * * *

    gracia sustantivo femenino
    1 ( comicidad):

    tener gracia [chiste/broma] to be funny;
    me hace gracia que digas eso it's funny you should say that;
    no me hace ninguna gracia tener que ir I don't relish the idea of having to go
    2
    a) ( chiste) joke;

    ( broma) joke, trick

    3 (encanto, elegancia) grace;
    ◊ con gracia ‹moverse/bailar› gracefully;

    un vestido sin gracia a very plain dress;
    tiene mucha gracia para arreglar flores she has a real flair for flower arranging
    ◊ gracias sustantivo femenino plural



    no dieron ni las gracias they didn't even say thank you
    b) ( como interj) thank you, thanks (colloq);


    un millón de gracias por ayudarme/tu ayuda thank you very much for helping me/your help
    c)


    gracias a Dios thank God
    gracia sustantivo femenino
    1 (encanto) grace
    2 (ocurrencia, chispa) joke: no tiene ninguna gracia, it isn't at all funny
    ¡qué gracia!, how funny!: ¡qué gracia!, y yo que pensaba que era español, how funny! and I thought that he was Spanish
    3 (suceso fastidioso) pain: ¡vaya una gracia tener que salir con esta lluvia!, what a pain to have to go out in this rain!
    4 (indulto) pardon
    5 Mit grace
    las tres Gracias, the Three Graces
    ' gracia' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    ápice
    - caer
    - chispa
    - duende
    - gancho
    - garbosa
    - garboso
    - ñoña
    - ñoñería
    - ñoñez
    - ñoño
    - novatada
    - pizca
    - roma
    - romo
    - soltura
    - sosa
    - soso
    - Tiro
    - chiste
    - consistir
    - garbo
    - hacer
    - humor
    - lisura
    - reír
    - salero
    - ver
    English:
    funny
    - grace
    - gracefully
    - joke
    - misfire
    - punch line
    - quip
    - amused
    - dowdy
    - drab
    - fancy
    - flat
    - graceful
    - kindly
    - none
    - relish
    - wear
    * * *
    ♦ nf
    1. [humor, comicidad]
    ¡qué gracia! how funny!;
    su voz me hace mucha gracia [me divierte] I think he's got a really funny voice, his voice makes me laugh;
    me hizo gracia verlo con traje y corbata it was funny seeing him in a suit and tie;
    mi sombrero le hizo gracia a Ana [le gustó] Ana liked my hat;
    no me hizo gracia I didn't find it funny;
    yo no le veo la gracia I don't see what's so funny about it;
    tener gracia [ser divertido, curioso] to be funny
    2. [arte, habilidad] skill, natural ability;
    tiene una gracia especial she has a special talent;
    Esp
    todavía no le he pillado o [m5] cogido la gracia a esta cámara I still haven't got the hang of using this camera
    3. [encanto] grace, elegance;
    baila con mucha gracia she's a very graceful dancer;
    no consigo verle la gracia a este cuadro I just don't know what people see in this painting;
    la gracia del plato está en la salsa the secret of the dish is (in) the sauce;
    tiene mucha gracia contando chistes she's really good at telling jokes
    4. [ocurrencia]
    estuvo toda la tarde soltando gracias he spent all afternoon making funny remarks;
    no le rías las gracias al niño don't laugh when the child does/says something silly
    5. [incordio] nuisance;
    vaya gracia tener que salir a mitad de la noche it's a real nuisance having to go out in the middle of the night;
    Fam
    ¡maldita la gracia que me hace tener que volverlo a hacer! it's a real pain having to do it all over again!
    6. [favor] favour;
    procura caer en gracia al director para que te dé el puesto try and get in the manager's good books so he gives you the job;
    por la gracia de Dios by the grace of God
    7. [indulto] pardon;
    esperan una medida de gracia del gobierno they are hoping to be pardoned by the government
    8. Rel grace;
    en estado de gracia in a state of grace
    9. Mitol
    las tres gracias the three Graces
    ♦ gracias nfpl
    se marchó sin ni siquiera dar las gracias she left without even saying thank you;
    Fam
    a ese amigo tuyo yo no le doy ni las gracias I've no time at all for that friend of yours;
    lo he conseguido gracias a ti I managed it thanks to you;
    pudimos ir gracias a que no llovió we were able to go thanks to the fact that it didn't rain;
    salvó la vida gracias a que llevaba casco the fact that he was wearing a crash helmet saved his life;
    gracias a Dios ya estamos en casa thank God we're home
    ♦ interj
    gracias thank you, thanks;
    muchas gracias thank you very much, thanks very much;
    mil gracias por tu ayuda thank you so much for your help, esp Br thanks ever so much for your help;
    te pagarán el viaje, y gracias you should be thankful o you're lucky they're paying your travel expenses
    * * *
    f
    1 ( humor)
    :
    tener gracia be funny;
    me hace gracia I think it’s funny, it makes me laugh;
    no le veo la gracia I don’t think it’s funny, I don’t see the joke;
    tiene gracia que … it’s funny that …;
    eso no tiene la menor gracia that isn’t the least o slightest bit funny;
    ¡qué gracia! irón well that’s just great!
    2
    :
    dar las gracias a alguien thank s.o., say thank you to s.o.;
    gracias thank you;
    ¡muchas gracias! thank you very much, thanks very much;
    gracias a thanks to;
    ¡gracias a Dios! thank God, thank goodness;
    con la entrada tienes derecho a una bebida, y gracias fam the ticket entitles you to one drink, and that’s it
    :
    le has caído en gracia he’s taken a liking to you
    4
    :
    en estado de gracia REL in a state of grace
    5 de movimientos gracefulness;
    tener gracia be graceful
    * * *
    gracia nf
    1) : grace
    2) : favor, kindness
    3) : humor, wit
    su comentario no me hizo gracia: I wasn't amused by his remark
    4) gracias nfpl
    : thanks
    ¡gracias!: thank you!
    dar gracias: to give thanks
    * * *
    1. (encanto) charm
    2. (dicho divertido) witty remark / joke
    hacer gracia to make... laugh / to find... funny

    Spanish-English dictionary > gracia

  • 28 още

    го държи he's still got a fever, the fever still has him in its grip
    краката ми не ме ощет my legs don't hold me. I am dead beat
    държи ми влага it keeps me going; I have s.th. to remember
    държи ми (мога) can, be able to, ( имам смелост) have it in one to; have the pluck to
    още се
    1. hold (за onto), cling (to)
    дръж се здраво! hold (on) tight! още се здраво hold firm to s.th., cling to s.th.
    2. (крепя се) be supported/carried (by)
    мостът се държи на подпори the bridge is carried/supported by piers
    3. прен. (имам сили) be active/fit/in good trim
    още се здраво на краката си keep o.'s legs; stand firm/fast
    едва се още на краката си my legs won't hold me, I am ready to drop. I can't keep upright, I am not steady on my legs
    стар е, но се държи there is life in the old dog yet; he is old but is keeping well
    4. (съпротивлявам се) be firm, stand/hold/keep/maintain o.'s ground
    (финансово и пр.) keep o.'s head above water; stand fast/firm, resist, hold o.'s own
    още се още, не лягам I am not well, but I keep going
    5. (имам обноски) behave, deport o.s., demean o.s.
    още се прилично behave (well), have good manners, be well-mannered
    (за деца) behave o.s.
    дръж се прилично! be good! don't let yourself down! ( за деца) behave yourself! не знае как да се държи he doesn't know how to behave, he has no manners
    още се зле/нечестно/непорядъчно misbehave
    още се глупаво behave foolishly; play the fool. act/play the ape
    дръж се сериозно! stop fooling! още се с чест/доблестно demean o.s./behave honourably
    още се като мъж act like a man, demean o.s. like a man
    още се тежко/горделиво be stand-offish
    още се строго be strict/severe (с with)
    още се приятелски/недружелюбно be friendly/unfriendly (с to)
    още се грубо be rude (to)
    още се далеч от keep clear of, avoid, steer clear of
    още се настрана/на разстояние keep away; keep in the background
    hold o.s. aloof (от from)
    още се на положение stand on o.'s dignity
    много се държи на/за great attention is paid to, they are very strict/particular about
    дръж се! hold on! ( не се отчайвай) chin up! never say die! keep smiling! ( не отстъпвай!) don't give in! stick to your guns!
    (друг) another, a further
    още малко хляб some more bread
    още едни чай another cup of tea
    още малко a little more
    искате ли още малко? will you have some more?
    още 7 километра a further 7 kilometres
    оставам за още една седмица stay another week
    ще излезе още един том there is another volume to come
    още един/една/едно (just) one more
    още веднаж once more/again; over again
    има ли още да идват? are any more coming?
    още и още more and yet more
    още повече, че the more so as
    какво искаш още? what else/more do you want?
    още по-добре still better, better still
    още по-зле still worse, worse still
    още по-късно still later
    намалявам още повече reduce still further
    още толкова (за количество) as much again, ( за брой) as many again
    ще чакаш ли още? will you wait any longer?
    7. (все още, досега) still, yet
    има още време there is still/yet time
    той още спи he is still asleep
    още приживе in o.'s lifetime
    още жив/млад still alive/yoing
    още съществувам linger
    още съм в сила still stand
    още в сила standing
    не още not yet
    още няма 12 години he's not yet twenty
    още не е време the time is not ripe, the time has rot come yet
    още не му се вижда краят the end is not yet in sight
    редът ми още не е дошъл my turn hasn't come yet/is. still to come
    тая история още не е написана that history has yet to be written
    8. още сег a right away/off, right now, immediately, at once
    още след пет минути/два часа no more than five minutes/two hours later
    още Х. казваше, че Х. used to say. that, X. said in his day
    още тогава then and there, there and then, already at the time
    още там way back there; then and there, on the spot
    още тоя момент at this very moment
    още днес this. very day
    и днес още even to this day
    още утре as early as tomorrow, not later than tomorrow, tomorrow at latest, first thing tomorrow
    още тая вечер this very evening
    още на другия ден след смъртта на on the very morrow of s.o.'s death
    още на 10-и even as early as the tenth
    още преди even before
    още преди войната already before the war
    още миналата година as long ago as last year
    още преди две години as far back as two years ago
    още през already during/in, as early as, as far back as; as long ago as
    още през май even in May
    още през средните векове as early as the Middle Ages, already in the Middle Ages
    още като дете even as a small child, even when a child
    още на десет години at the early age of ten
    още от ever since
    още отначало right at the beginning/from the start
    още от пристигането си ever since his arrival/he arrived
    още от зори ever since dawn
    още от сутринта since early morning
    още от детинство from childhood on
    още от ранна възраст from an early age
    още в Софи while still in Sofia
    още на път за while on o.'s way to
    още след нашето пристигане on our arrival
    още отдалеч even at a distance
    и още как I should think/say so, ам, and how
    * * *
    о̀ще,
    нареч.
    1. ( повече) (some) more; ( друг) another, a further; намалявам \още повече reduce still further; оставам за \още една седмица stay another week; \още веднъж once more/again; over again; \още и \още more and yet more; \още колко време ще останем тук how much longer are we going to stay here? \още малко a little more; \още 5 километра a further 5 kilometres; \още повече, че the more so as; \още по-добре still better, better still; \още толкова (за количество) as much again, (за брой) as many again; ще чакаш ли \още? will you wait any longer?;
    2. ( все още, досега) still, yet; има \още време there is still/yet time; не \още not yet; \още в сила standing; \още жив/млад still alive/young; \още не е време the time is not ripe, the time has not come yet; \още не му се вижда краят the end is not yet in sight; \още приживе in o.’s lifetime; \още съществувам linger; \още съществуващ still existing/in being;
    3.: и днес \още even to this day; \още като дете even as a small child, even when a child; \още миналата година as long ago as last year; \още на десет години at the early age of ten; \още от ever since; \още на 10-и even as early as the tenth; \още на другия ден след смъртта на on the very morrow of s.o.’s death; \още на път за while on o.’s way to; \още от детинство from childhood on; \още от зори ever since dawn; \още от пристигането си ever since his arrival/he arrived; \още от ранна възраст from an early age; \още отначало right at the beginning/from the start; \още преди even before; \още преди войната already before the war; \още преди две години as far back as two years ago; \още през already during/in, as early as, as far back as; as long ago as; way back in; \още сега right away/off, right now, immediately, at once; \още след нашето пристигане on our arrival; \още отдалеч even at a distance; \още след пет минути/два часа no more than five minutes/two hours later; \още там way back there; then and there, on the spot; \още тогава then and there, there and then, already at the time; \още тоя момент at this very moment; \още утре as early as tomorrow, not later than tomorrow, tomorrow at latest, first thing tomorrow; \още Х. казваше, че X. used to say, that, X. said in his day; • и \още как I should think/say so, амер. and how; разг. will a duck swim? not half.
    * * *
    else: Do you want to tell me something още? - Искаш ли да ми кажеш още нещо?; even: I know him още as a baby. -Помня го още от бебе.; ever since: Give me some още time. - Дай ми още малко време; still (за положителни изречения): He is още at home. - Той още е вкъщи, That way is още better. - Така е още по-добре.; yet (за отрицателни и въпросителни изречения): I am not ready още. - Още не съм готов.
    * * *
    1. (все още, досега) still, yet 2. (друг) another, a further 3. (за деца) behave o. s. 4. (имам обноски) behave, deport o. s., demean o. s. 5. (крепя се) be supported/carried (by) 6. (повече) (some) more 7. (съпротивлявам се) be firm, stand/hold/keep/maintain o.'s ground 8. (финансово и пр.) keep o.'s head above water;stand fast/firm, resist, hold o. 's own 9. 10 години he's not yet twenty 10. 12-и even as early as the tenth 11. 1: ОЩЕ ceгa right away/off, right now, immediately, at once 12. 7 километра a further 13. 8 kilometres 14. hold o. s. aloof (от from) 15. ОЩЕ 16. ОЩЕ X. казваше, че Х. used to say. that, X. said in his day 17. ОЩЕ ce грубо be rude (to) 18. ОЩЕ no-зле still worse, worse still 19. ОЩЕ no-късно still later 20. ОЩЕ в Софи while still in Sofia 21. ОЩЕ в сила standing 22. ОЩЕ веднаж once more/again;over again 23. ОЩЕ днес this. very day 24. ОЩЕ един/ една/едно (just) one more 25. ОЩЕ едни чай another cup of tea 26. ОЩЕ жив/млад still alive/yoing 27. ОЩЕ и ОЩЕ more and yet more 28. ОЩЕ като дете even as a small child, even when a child 29. ОЩЕ малко a little more 30. ОЩЕ малко хляб some more bread 31. ОЩЕ миналата година as long ago as last year 32. ОЩЕ на 33. ОЩЕ на десет години at the early age of ten 34. ОЩЕ на другия ден след смъртта на on the very morrow of s. o.'s death 35. ОЩЕ на път за while on o.'s way to 36. ОЩЕ не е време the time is not ripe, the time has rot come yet 37. ОЩЕ не му се вижда краят the end is not yet in sight 38. ОЩЕ няма 39. ОЩЕ от ever since 40. ОЩЕ от детинство from childhood on 41. ОЩЕ от пристигането си ever since his arrival/he arrived: ОЩЕ от зори ever since dawn 42. ОЩЕ от ранна възраст from an early age 43. ОЩЕ от сутринта since early morning 44. ОЩЕ отдалеч even at a distance 45. ОЩЕ отначало right at the beginning/from the start 46. ОЩЕ по-добре still better, better still 47. ОЩЕ повече, че the more so as 48. ОЩЕ преди even before 49. ОЩЕ преди войната already before the war 50. ОЩЕ преди две години as far back as two years ago 51. ОЩЕ през already during/in, as early as, as far back as;as long ago as 52. ОЩЕ през май even in May 53. ОЩЕ през средните векове as early as the Middle Ages, already in the Middle Ages 54. ОЩЕ приживе in o.'s lifetime 55. ОЩЕ се hold (за onto), cling (to) 56. ОЩЕ се глупаво behave foolishly;play the fool. act/play the ape 57. ОЩЕ се далеч от keep clear of, avoid, steer clear of 58. ОЩЕ се здраво на краката си keep o.'s legs;stand firm/fast 59. ОЩЕ се зле/нечестно/ непорядъчно misbehave 60. ОЩЕ се като мъж act like a man, demean o. s. like a man 61. ОЩЕ се на положение stand on o.'s dignity 62. ОЩЕ се настрана/ на разстояние keep away;keep in the background 63. ОЩЕ се още, не лягам I am not well, but I keep going 64. ОЩЕ се прилично behave (well), have good manners, be well-mannered 65. ОЩЕ се приятелски/недружелюбно be friendly/unfriendly (c to) 66. ОЩЕ се строго be strict/severe (c with) 67. ОЩЕ се тежко/горделиво be stand-offish 68. ОЩЕ след нашето пристигане on our arrival 69. ОЩЕ след пет минути/два часа no more than five minutes/two hours later 70. ОЩЕ съм в сила still stand 71. ОЩЕ съществувам linger 72. ОЩЕ там way back there;then and there, on the spot 73. ОЩЕ тая вечер this very evening 74. ОЩЕ тогава then and there, there and then, already at the time 75. ОЩЕ толкова (за количество) as much again, (за брой) as many again 76. ОЩЕ тоя момент at this very moment 77. ОЩЕ утре as early as tomorrow, not later than tomorrow, tomorrow at latest, first thing tomorrow 78. го държи he's still got a fever, the fever still has him in its grip 79. дръж се здраво! hold (on) tight! ОЩЕ се здраво hold firm to s.th., cling to s.th. 80. дръж се прилично! be good! don't let yourself down! (за деца) behave yourself! не знае как да се държи he doesn't know how to behave, he has no manners 81. дръж се сериозно! stop fooling! ОЩЕ се с чест/доблестно demean o. s./behave honourably 82. дръж се! hold on! (не се отчайвай) chin up! never say die! keep smiling! (не отстъпвай!) don't give in! stick to your guns! 83. държи ми (мога) can, be able to, (имам смелост) have it in one to;have the pluck to 84. държи ми влага it keeps me going;I have s.th. to remember 85. едва се ОЩЕ на краката си my legs won't hold me, I am ready to drop. I can't keep upright, I am not steady on my legs 86. и ОЩЕ как I should think/say so, ам, and how 87. и днес ОЩЕ even to this day 88. има ОЩЕ време there is still/yet time 89. има ли ОЩЕ да идват? are any more coming? 90. искате ли ОЩЕ малко? will you have some more? 91. какво искаш ОЩЕ? what else/more do you want? 92. копчето се държи само на един конец the button is hanging by a thread 93. краката ми не ме ОЩЕт my legs don't hold me. I am dead beat 94. много се държи на/за great attention is paid to, they are very strict/particular about 95. мостът се държи на подпори the bridge is carried/ supported by piers 96. намалявам ОЩЕ пoвeчe reduce still further 97. не ОЩЕ not yet 98. оставам за ОЩЕ една седмица stay another week 99. прен. (имам сили) be active/fit/in good trim 100. редът ми ОЩЕ не е дошъл my turn hasn't come yet/is. still to come 101. стар е, но се държи there is life in the old dog yet;he is old but is keeping well 102. тая история ОЩЕ не е написана that history has yet to be written 103. той ОЩЕ спи he is still asleep 104. ще излезе ОЩЕ един том there is another volume to come 105. ще чакаш ли ОЩЕ? will yоu wait any longer?

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  • 29 volcar

    v.
    1 to knock over.
    2 to empty out.
    3 to overturn.
    La explosión volcó los coches The explosion overturned the cars.
    4 to transpose, to translate.
    5 to dump.
    El sistema volcó los datos The system dumped the data.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ TROCAR], like link=trocar trocar
    1 (coche etc) to turn over, overturn
    2 MARÍTIMO to capsize
    1 (gen) to turn over, knock over, upset
    2 (vaciar) to empty out, pour out
    3 figurado (hacer cambiar de parecer) to make change one's mind
    4 figurado (molestar) to annoy, irritate, upset
    5 figurado (turbar la cabeza) to make feel dizzy
    1 (objeto) to fall over, tip over; (coche) to turn over, overturn; (barco) to capsize
    2 figurado (entregarse) to do one's utmost
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=tirar) [+ vaso] to upset, knock over; [+ contenido] to empty out, tip out; [+ carga] to dump; [+ coche, camión] to overturn; [+ barco] to overturn, capsize
    2)
    3)

    volcar a algn † — (=marear) to make sb dizzy, make sb's head swim; (=convencer) to force sb to change his mind

    4) † (=irritar) to irritate, exasperate; (=desconcertar) to upset; (=embromar) to tease
    2.
    VI [coche, camión] to overturn
    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( tumbar) to knock over
    b) < carga> to tip, dump
    c) < molde> to turn over
    d) ( vaciar) to empty (out)
    e) (Inf) to dump
    2) (poner, depositar)

    volcar algo en alguien/algo: volcó todas sus esperanzas en él she pinned all her hopes on him; vuelca toda su energía en el trabajo — she puts all her energy into her work

    2.
    volcar vi automóvil/camión to overturn, turn over; embarcación to capsize
    3.
    volcarse v pron
    1)
    a) vaso/botella to get knocked o tipped over
    b) volcar verbo intransitivo
    2)
    a) (entregarse, dedicarse)

    volcarse en/a algo — to throw oneself into something

    b) ( lanzarse)

    volcarse para or por + inf — to go out of one's way to + inf

    volcarse con alguien: se volcaron conmigo — they bent over backwards to make me feel welcome

    * * *
    = dump, upset, overturn, capsize, tip over.
    Ex. A very basic point will be to ensure that, if graphs, charts, etc. are needed in printed form, they can be passed easily (' dumped') from the screen to the printer.
    Ex. As he stepped onto the porch on his way to the garage, he stumbled over a chair, upsetting a vase of flowers and soaking his trousers.
    Ex. The library was badly vandalised and the intruders overturned 10 large bookcases, tore paintings down, emptied catalogues, and smashed intercoms, chairs, tables and windows.
    Ex. In March 1987, a car ferry capsized killing 193 passengers.
    Ex. These five photographs show houses tipped over or destroyed by the 1913 flood.
    ----
    * volcarse = topple over, go out of + Posesivo + way to + Infinitivo, keel over.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( tumbar) to knock over
    b) < carga> to tip, dump
    c) < molde> to turn over
    d) ( vaciar) to empty (out)
    e) (Inf) to dump
    2) (poner, depositar)

    volcar algo en alguien/algo: volcó todas sus esperanzas en él she pinned all her hopes on him; vuelca toda su energía en el trabajo — she puts all her energy into her work

    2.
    volcar vi automóvil/camión to overturn, turn over; embarcación to capsize
    3.
    volcarse v pron
    1)
    a) vaso/botella to get knocked o tipped over
    b) volcar verbo intransitivo
    2)
    a) (entregarse, dedicarse)

    volcarse en/a algo — to throw oneself into something

    b) ( lanzarse)

    volcarse para or por + inf — to go out of one's way to + inf

    volcarse con alguien: se volcaron conmigo — they bent over backwards to make me feel welcome

    * * *
    = dump, upset, overturn, capsize, tip over.

    Ex: A very basic point will be to ensure that, if graphs, charts, etc. are needed in printed form, they can be passed easily (' dumped') from the screen to the printer.

    Ex: As he stepped onto the porch on his way to the garage, he stumbled over a chair, upsetting a vase of flowers and soaking his trousers.
    Ex: The library was badly vandalised and the intruders overturned 10 large bookcases, tore paintings down, emptied catalogues, and smashed intercoms, chairs, tables and windows.
    Ex: In March 1987, a car ferry capsized killing 193 passengers.
    Ex: These five photographs show houses tipped over or destroyed by the 1913 flood.
    * volcarse = topple over, go out of + Posesivo + way to + Infinitivo, keel over.

    * * *
    volcar [A9 ]
    vt
    A
    1 (tumbar) ‹botella/vaso› to knock over; ‹leche/tinta› to spill, knock over
    2 ‹carga› to tip, dump
    3 ‹molde› to turn over, tip over
    4 (vaciar) to empty, empty out
    volcó el contenido de la caja sobre la mesa he emptied (out) the contents of the box onto the table, he tipped the contents of the box out onto the table
    5 ( Inf) to dump
    B (poner, depositar) volcar algo EN algn/algo:
    había volcado todas sus esperanzas en su hijo she had pinned all her hopes on her son
    volcó toda su energía en su trabajo she threw herself wholeheartedly into her work, she put all her energy into her work
    volcó todo su capital en el proyecto he poured all his capital into the project
    ■ volcar
    vi
    «automóvil/camión» to overturn, turn over; «embarcación» to capsize
    A
    1 «vaso/botella» to get knocked o tipped over
    2 «camión» to overturn, turn over
    B «persona» (entregarse, dedicarse) volcarse EN/ A algo; to throw oneself INTO sth
    se volcaron a la tarea de la reconstrucción del país they threw themselves into o devoted themselves to the task of rebuilding the country
    el pueblo se volcó a las calles the people took to the streets
    la prensa se volcó en duras críticas contra ellos the press piled o heaped severe criticism on them
    C (esforzarse, desvivirse) volcarse PARAor POR + INF to go out of one's way to + INF, do one's utmost to + INF
    se volcó para conseguírnoslo he did his utmost o went out of his way to get it for us
    se vuelca por hacer que te sientas cómodo she goes out of her way to make you feel at home
    volcarse CON algn:
    se volcaron conmigo they leaned over backwards o went out of their way to make me feel welcome, they were extremely kind to me
    * * *

     

    volcar ( conjugate volcar) verbo transitivo

    b) ‹ carga› to tip, dump


    d) (Inf) to dump

    verbo intransitivo [automóvil/camión] to overturn, turn over;
    [ embarcación] to capsize
    volcarse verbo pronominal
    1
    a) [vaso/botella] to get knocked o tipped over

    b) See Also→

    ◊ volcar verbo intransitivo

    2 (entregarse, dedicarse) volcarse a algo ‹ a tarea› to throw oneself into sth
    3 ( desvivirse) volcarse para or por hacer algo to go out of one's way to do sth;
    volcarse con algn:

    volcar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 to knock over: el perro volcó el tiesto, the dog knocked the flowerpot over
    2 (vaciar) to empty (out)
    3 (descargar) to dump
    4 Inform to dump
    II vi (un automóvil, remolque, etc) to turn over, overturn
    (un barco) to capsize
    ' volcar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    zozobrar
    English:
    capsize
    - dump
    - keel over
    - knock over
    - overturn
    - tip over
    - topple
    - upset
    - keel
    - over
    - spill
    - tip
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [tirar] [botella, jarrón] to knock over;
    [carretilla] to tip (up); [leche, vino] to spill
    2. [vaciar] [bolso, recipiente] to empty (out);
    [contenido] to empty out
    ♦ vi
    [coche, camión] to overturn; [barco] to capsize
    * * *
    I v/t
    1 knock over
    2 ( vaciar) empty
    3 barco, coche overturn
    II v/i de coche, barco overturn
    * * *
    volcar {82} vt, pl volcanes
    1) : to upset, to knock over, to turn over
    2) : to empty out
    3) : to make dizzy
    4) : to cause a change of mind in
    5) : to irritate
    volcar vi
    1) : to overturn, to tip over
    2) : to capsize
    * * *
    volcar vb
    1. (tirar) to knock over
    2. (vaciar) to empty [pt. & pp. emptied]
    3. (dar una vuelta) to overturn

    Spanish-English dictionary > volcar

  • 30 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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  • 31 embriagado

    adj.
    intoxicated, in liquor, half seas over, drunk.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: embriagar.
    * * *
    1→ link=embriagar embriagar
    1 intoxicated, drunk
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=borracho) drunk, inebriated frm
    2) (fig)
    * * *
    - da adjetivo
    a) (frml) ( borracho) inebriated (frml)
    b) (liter) ( extasiado)
    * * *
    Ex. A few days ago, our library director was hit by a car driven by an intoxicated driver and suffered severe injuries.
    * * *
    - da adjetivo
    a) (frml) ( borracho) inebriated (frml)
    b) (liter) ( extasiado)
    * * *

    Ex: A few days ago, our library director was hit by a car driven by an intoxicated driver and suffered severe injuries.

    * * *
    1 ( frml) (borracho) inebriated ( frml)
    2 ( liter)
    (de felicidad, placer): embriagado de felicidad drunk with happiness
    embriagado de placer intoxicated with pleasure
    * * *

    Del verbo embriagar: ( conjugate embriagar)

    embriagado es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    embriagado    
    embriagar
    embriagado
    ◊ -da adjetivo (frml) ( borracho) inebriated (frml)

    embriagar verbo transitivo
    1 (emborrachar, achispar) to intoxicate
    2 (causar placer) to enrapture: la música nos embriagaba, we went into raptures over the music

    * * *
    embriagado, -a adj
    Formal [borracho] intoxicated
    * * *
    embriagado, -da adj
    : inebriated, drunk

    Spanish-English dictionary > embriagado

  • 32 en líneas generales

    in general
    * * *
    = broadly speaking, generally, loosely, on the whole, in outline, in basic outline, roughly speaking, as a rough guide
    Ex. Broadly speaking, the former are framework regulations, such as the basic regulations for the common organization of markets and the annual CAP fixing, within which the Commission exercises delegated powers.
    Ex. Specific entry is generally recommended.
    Ex. The term category has been at times used somewhat loosely in the literature of indexing and, for this reason, it can cause confusion.
    Ex. I have myself a well-known dislike for historical fiction; it is a genre that on the whole gives me little pleasure.
    Ex. The easiest means of illustrating some of the foregoing points is to introduce in outline some special classification schemes.
    Ex. In basic outline school libraries the world over share similar philosophy and objectives.
    Ex. Roughly speaking one-third of book publishers publish only one new book each every six months.
    Ex. As a rough guide, if you've had severe period pain (known as dysmenorrhoea) since around the time your periods first started, it's less likely a particular cause will be found.
    * * *
    = broadly speaking, generally, loosely, on the whole, in outline, in basic outline, roughly speaking, as a rough guide

    Ex: Broadly speaking, the former are framework regulations, such as the basic regulations for the common organization of markets and the annual CAP fixing, within which the Commission exercises delegated powers.

    Ex: Specific entry is generally recommended.
    Ex: The term category has been at times used somewhat loosely in the literature of indexing and, for this reason, it can cause confusion.
    Ex: I have myself a well-known dislike for historical fiction; it is a genre that on the whole gives me little pleasure.
    Ex: The easiest means of illustrating some of the foregoing points is to introduce in outline some special classification schemes.
    Ex: In basic outline school libraries the world over share similar philosophy and objectives.
    Ex: Roughly speaking one-third of book publishers publish only one new book each every six months.
    Ex: As a rough guide, if you've had severe period pain (known as dysmenorrhoea) since around the time your periods first started, it's less likely a particular cause will be found.

    Spanish-English dictionary > en líneas generales

  • 33 equipo de rescate

    rescue team
    * * *
    (n.) = rescue team
    Ex. When the area was jolted by a severe earthquake rescue teams rushed in from all over the country.
    * * *

    Ex: When the area was jolted by a severe earthquake rescue teams rushed in from all over the country.

    Spanish-English dictionary > equipo de rescate

  • 34 equipo de salvamento

    rescue team
    * * *
    (n.) = rescue team
    Ex. When the area was jolted by a severe earthquake rescue teams rushed in from all over the country.
    * * *

    Ex: When the area was jolted by a severe earthquake rescue teams rushed in from all over the country.

    Spanish-English dictionary > equipo de salvamento

  • 35 escala de valores

    scale of values
    * * *
    * * *
    (n.) = graded range, set of values
    Ex. Second, the attribute values in Table 1 may vary over a graded range (e.g., from pain = 'none' to pain = 'severe').
    Ex. The library and information profession is built not only on a body of skills and knowledge but on a set of values inherent in the services it provides.
    * * *
    * * *
    (n.) = graded range, set of values

    Ex: Second, the attribute values in Table 1 may vary over a graded range (e.g., from pain = 'none' to pain = 'severe').

    Ex: The library and information profession is built not only on a body of skills and knowledge but on a set of values inherent in the services it provides.

    * * *
    scale of values

    Spanish-English dictionary > escala de valores

  • 36 problema económico

    (n.) = economic problem, financial problem
    Ex. The country's severe economic problems have cast a shadow over the book trade, yet its vigour and diversity are astonishing.
    Ex. When loss of physical and mental rigor is accompanied by financial problems, the retiree may reject himself and fall victim to the con man and shyster.
    * * *
    (n.) = economic problem, financial problem

    Ex: The country's severe economic problems have cast a shadow over the book trade, yet its vigour and diversity are astonishing.

    Ex: When loss of physical and mental rigor is accompanied by financial problems, the retiree may reject himself and fall victim to the con man and shyster.

    Spanish-English dictionary > problema económico

  • 37 sacudir

    v.
    1 to shake.
    El temblor sacude la tierra The quake shakes up the ground.
    3 to shake, to shock.
    4 to do the dusting.
    María sacude en las tardes Mary does the dusting in the afternoons.
    5 to dust.
    María sacude el mueble Mary dusts the furniture.
    * * *
    1 (gen) to shake
    2 (alfombra etc) to shake out; (polvo, arena) to shake off
    3 (golpear) to beat
    4 (cabeza) to shake
    5 (dar una paliza) to beat up
    6 (moscas, mosquitos, etc) to flick away, flick off
    7 figurado (emocionar, alterar) to shake
    1 (quitarse) to shake off
    2 (moscas, mosquitos, etc) to flick away, flick off
    3 familiar figurado (desembarazarse) to get rid of, shake off
    * * *
    verb
    2) jerk
    •
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=agitar) [+ árbol, edificio, cabeza] to shake; [+ ala] to flap; [+ alfombra] to beat; [+ colchón] to shake, shake the dust out of
    2) (=quitar) [+ tierra] to shake off; [+ cuerda] to jerk, tug
    3) (=conmover) to shake
    4) * (=pegar)
    5)

    sacudir dinero a algn — * to screw money out of sb *

    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( agitar) <toalla/alfombra> to shake; ( golpear) <alfombra/colchón> to beat
    b) (fam) < niño> to clobber (colloq)

    sacudir la cabeza — ( para negar) to shake one's head; ( para afirmar) to nod (one's head)

    c) ( hacer temblar) to shake
    d) (CS, Méx) ( limpiar) to dust, do the dusting
    2) (conmover, afectar) to shake
    2.
    sacudir vi (CS, Méx) to dust
    3.
    sacudirse v pron (refl)
    a) ( apartar de sí) < problema> to shrug off; <sueño/modorra> to shake off
    b) ( quitarse) <arena/polvo> to shake off

    sacúdete los pelos del perro — (CS) brush the dog hairs off you

    * * *
    = shake up, jar, jolt, flail, thrash, wallop, rock, swish.
    Ex. This will shake up library managers no end.
    Ex. She analyzes how her memory was jarred by this massacre.
    Ex. When the area was jolted by a severe earthquake rescue teams rushed in from all over the country.
    Ex. The crab's mouth has elongated setae, notably on the maxilla, which it repeatedly flails through the seawater to feed on suspended material.
    Ex. Later footage shows the killer whales with the pups in their mouths, thrashing them about.
    Ex. He walloped Bud, tore his shirt, and made him eat dirt.
    Ex. The earth tremor that rocked the centre of Melbourne was one of three quakes that hit Australia in the one day.
    Ex. Swishing wine in the mouth helps you taste all the flavors in a wine.
    ----
    * sacudir de lo lindo = knock + the living daylights out of, knock + the hell out out of, beat + Nombre + (all) hollow.
    * sacudir el polvo = dust.
    * sacudir las telarañas = blow + the cobwebs away/off/out.
    * sacudirse de encima = shake off.
    * sacudirse las telarañas = blow + the cobwebs away/off/out.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( agitar) <toalla/alfombra> to shake; ( golpear) <alfombra/colchón> to beat
    b) (fam) < niño> to clobber (colloq)

    sacudir la cabeza — ( para negar) to shake one's head; ( para afirmar) to nod (one's head)

    c) ( hacer temblar) to shake
    d) (CS, Méx) ( limpiar) to dust, do the dusting
    2) (conmover, afectar) to shake
    2.
    sacudir vi (CS, Méx) to dust
    3.
    sacudirse v pron (refl)
    a) ( apartar de sí) < problema> to shrug off; <sueño/modorra> to shake off
    b) ( quitarse) <arena/polvo> to shake off

    sacúdete los pelos del perro — (CS) brush the dog hairs off you

    * * *
    = shake up, jar, jolt, flail, thrash, wallop, rock, swish.

    Ex: This will shake up library managers no end.

    Ex: She analyzes how her memory was jarred by this massacre.
    Ex: When the area was jolted by a severe earthquake rescue teams rushed in from all over the country.
    Ex: The crab's mouth has elongated setae, notably on the maxilla, which it repeatedly flails through the seawater to feed on suspended material.
    Ex: Later footage shows the killer whales with the pups in their mouths, thrashing them about.
    Ex: He walloped Bud, tore his shirt, and made him eat dirt.
    Ex: The earth tremor that rocked the centre of Melbourne was one of three quakes that hit Australia in the one day.
    Ex: Swishing wine in the mouth helps you taste all the flavors in a wine.
    * sacudir de lo lindo = knock + the living daylights out of, knock + the hell out out of, beat + Nombre + (all) hollow.
    * sacudir el polvo = dust.
    * sacudir las telarañas = blow + the cobwebs away/off/out.
    * sacudirse de encima = shake off.
    * sacudirse las telarañas = blow + the cobwebs away/off/out.

    * * *
    sacudir [I1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 (agitar) ‹toalla/alfombra› to shake; (golpear) ‹alfombra/colchón› to beat
    sacudió la arena de la toalla he shook the sand out of the towel
    2 ( fam); ‹niño› to clobber ( colloq)
    3
    sacudir la cabeza (para negar) to shake one's head; (para afirmar) to nod, nod one's head
    sacudió la cabeza en señal de afirmación he nodded (his head) in agreement
    4 (hacer temblar) to shake
    el terremoto sacudió toda la ciudad the earthquake shook the entire city
    un escalofrío la sacudió de pies a cabeza a shiver went right through her
    5 (CS, Méx) (limpiar) to dust
    tengo que sacudir el polvo I have to dust o do the dusting
    B (conmover, afectar) to shake
    su trágica muerte sacudió a la población his tragic death sent shock waves through o shook the population
    una revolución que sacudió los cimientos de la sociedad a revolution which shook society to its foundations o which rocked the foundations of society
    ■ sacudir
    vi
    (CS, Méx) to dust
    ( refl)
    1 (apartar de sí) ‹problema› to shrug off; ‹sueño/modorra› to shake off
    no sé cómo sacudirme a este tipo I don't know how to get rid of this guy ( colloq), I don't know how to shake this guy off o get this guy off my back ( colloq)
    la vaca se sacudía las moscas con el rabo the cow was flicking the flies off with its tail
    2 (quitarse) ‹arena/polvo› to shake off
    sacúdete los pelos del perro (CS); brush the dog hairs off you
    * * *

     

    sacudir ( conjugate sacudir) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) ( agitar) ‹toalla/alfombra› to shake;

    ( golpear) ‹alfombra/colchón› to beat;

    b) (fam) ‹ niño› to clobber (colloq);



    ( para afirmar) to nod (one's head)

    d) (CS, Méx) ( limpiar) to dust, do the dusting

    2 (conmover, afectar) to shake
    verbo intransitivo (CS, Méx) to dust
    sacudirse verbo pronominal ( refl) ( quitarse) ‹arena/polvo› to shake off
    sacudir verbo transitivo
    1 (de un lado a otro) to shake
    2 (para limpiar) to shake off
    (una alfombra) to beat
    3 (algo molesto) to brush off
    4 fam (pegar a alguien) to wallop, beat sb up
    5 (con una emoción intensa) to shock, shake
    6 fig (impresionar) la muerte del poeta sacudió a todo el país, the death of the poet affected all the country
    ' sacudir' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    trapo
    English:
    agitate
    - beat
    - flail
    - fluff
    - jerk
    - jolt
    - shake
    - shake down
    - swish
    - toss
    - buffet
    - dust
    - flutter
    - jar
    - jiggle
    - rock
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [agitar] to shake;
    el terremoto sacudió la ciudad the earthquake shook the city
    2. [quitar] [agitando] to shake off;
    [frotando] to brush off;
    3. [golpear] [alfombra] to beat;
    [mantel, chaqueta] to shake out; Fam [persona] to whack;
    sacude bien las migas del mantel shake all the crumbs off the tablecloth;
    le sacudió una bofetada she slapped him
    4. [conmover] to shake, to shock;
    su asesinato sacudió a la población people were shaken by his assassination
    ♦ vi
    RP to shake oneself, to give oneself a shake;
    hay que sacudir bien, si no queda todo el polvo you have to give yourself a good shake, or you stay covered in dust
    * * *
    I v/t
    1 tb fig
    shake
    2 fam
    niño beat, wallop fam
    * * *
    1) : to shake, to beat
    2) : to jerk, to jolt
    3) : to dust off
    4) conmover: to shake up, to shock
    * * *
    1. (en general) to shake [pt. shook; pp. shaken]
    2. (golpear) to beat [pt. beat; pp. beaten]

    Spanish-English dictionary > sacudir

  • 38 sobresaltar

    v.
    to startle.
    * * *
    1 to startle
    1 to be startled
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1.
    VT to startle, frighten
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo to startle, make... jump
    2.
    sobresaltarse v pron to jump, be startled
    * * *
    = startle, jolt.
    Ex. I was a little startled in some ways by a statement that other decisions have been directed towards achieving a consistent form of heading.
    Ex. When the area was jolted by a severe earthquake rescue teams rushed in from all over the country.
    ----
    * sobresaltarse = wince.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo to startle, make... jump
    2.
    sobresaltarse v pron to jump, be startled
    * * *
    = startle, jolt.

    Ex: I was a little startled in some ways by a statement that other decisions have been directed towards achieving a consistent form of heading.

    Ex: When the area was jolted by a severe earthquake rescue teams rushed in from all over the country.
    * sobresaltarse = wince.

    * * *
    vt
    to startle, give … a start, make … jump
    to jump, be startled
    * * *

    sobresaltar ( conjugate sobresaltar) verbo transitivo
    to startle, make … jump
    sobresaltarse verbo pronominal
    to jump, be startled
    sobresaltar verbo transitivo to startle
    ' sobresaltar' also found in these entries:
    English:
    boggle
    - shock
    - startle
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    to startle
    * * *
    v/t startle
    * * *
    : to startle, to frighten
    * * *
    sobresaltar vb to startle

    Spanish-English dictionary > sobresaltar

  • 39 traquetear

    v.
    1 to shake.
    2 to rattle (hacer ruido).
    3 to jolt.
    * * *
    1 (hacer ruido) to clatter, rattle
    1 (agitar) to shake, bang about
    * * *
    1.
    VT [+ recipiente] to shake; [+ sillas etc] to rattle, bang about, make a lot of noise with, muck about with
    2. VI
    1) [con ruido] [vehículo] to rattle, jolt; [cohete] to crackle, bang; [ametralladora] to rattle, clatter
    2) Cono Sur, Méx (=apresurarse) to bustle about, go to and fro a lot; Cono Sur (=cansarse) to tire o.s. out at work
    * * *
    verbo intransitivo
    1) tren/coche to clatter, jolt
    2) (fam) persona ( ir de un sitio a otro) to rush around
    * * *
    = jolt, chug, slosh around.
    Ex. When the area was jolted by a severe earthquake rescue teams rushed in from all over the country.
    Ex. Many music theorists claim that passages in music refer to objects, such as babbling brooks, chirping birds, rustling leaves, and chugging trains, by imitating them.
    Ex. In summary, the fluid in your ears still sloshing around causes you to feel dizzy when you stop spinning in one direction.
    * * *
    verbo intransitivo
    1) tren/coche to clatter, jolt
    2) (fam) persona ( ir de un sitio a otro) to rush around
    * * *
    = jolt, chug, slosh around.

    Ex: When the area was jolted by a severe earthquake rescue teams rushed in from all over the country.

    Ex: Many music theorists claim that passages in music refer to objects, such as babbling brooks, chirping birds, rustling leaves, and chugging trains, by imitating them.
    Ex: In summary, the fluid in your ears still sloshing around causes you to feel dizzy when you stop spinning in one direction.

    * * *
    traquetear [A1 ]
    vi
    A «tren/coche» to clatter, jolt
    B ( fam); «persona» (ir de un sitio a otro) to rush around
    * * *

    traquetear ( conjugate traquetear) verbo intransitivo [tren/carreta] ( hacer ruido) to clatter;
    ( moverse) to jolt
    traquetear
    I verbo intransitivo to crack, make a loud noise
    II verbo transitivo to shake, jolt
    ' traquetear' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    traquear
    English:
    jolt
    - rattle
    * * *
    ♦ vi
    1. [tren, carro] to rattle
    2. [persona] to bustle (around)
    ♦ vt
    to shake
    * * *
    v/i rattle, clatter
    * * *
    : to clatter, to jolt

    Spanish-English dictionary > traquetear

  • 40 DJÚPR

    a.
    1) deep (djúpr sær, djúp tjörn, djúpt vatn); djúpr höttr, a deep hat (coming down over the eyes);
    2) heavy, severe (djúp laun ok ill); neut., djúpt, as adv., deep, deeply; leggjast djúpt, to dive deep.
    * * *
    adj., compar. djúpari, superl. djúpastr; djúpust, Greg. 62; djúpari (fem.), Eg. 99; djúpara, Ld. 78; djúpastan, Edda 34; djúpasti, Hom. 144; but in mod. use more freq. dýpri, dýpstr: [Goth. djûps; A. S. and Hel. diôp; Engl. deep; Germ. tief; Swed. djup; Dan. dyb]:—deep, of water; d. vatn, Grág. ii. 131; d. tjörn, Greg. 62; í hinn djúpa sæ, Edda 18, Sturl. ii. 202; djúp á, Eg. 99: of other things, a dale, pit, etc., djúpr dalr, Fms. i. 210, Edda 34; dökkva dala ok djúpa, 38; djúpar grafir (pits), Sks. 426; d. pyttr, Hom. 144: of a vessel (the ark), 625. 7; djúpt sár, a deep sore, i. e. wound, Dropl. 29; d. höttr, a deep hat, coming down over the eyes, Fms. viii. 368; d. hver, a deep kettle, Hým. 5.
    β. neut. as adv. deep, deeply; bitu hvelin djúpt í jörðina, Al. 140.
    2. metaph., d, tákn, Hom. 134: heavy, severe, d. laun, 100: the phrase, leggjask djúpt, to dive deep, Nj. 102: in mod. usage freq. in a metaph. sense, deep, profound.

    Íslensk-ensk orðabók > DJÚPR

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