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81 advantage
ədˈvɑ:ntɪdʒ
1. сущ.
1) преимущество (of, over - над) Our team had the advantage of experience. ≈ У нашей команды было преимущество в виде опыта. Her connections gave her an advantage over the others. ≈ Ее связи давали ей преимущество перед другими. It was an advantage to have that team as our opponent in the first round. ≈ Нам повезло, что мы играли против той команды в первом раунде.
2) выгода, польза to advantage ≈ выгодно It was to his advantage that she not participate. ≈ Ему было на руку, что она не участвовала. Syn: benefit
2. гл.;
книж. помогать, способствовать, оказывать помощьпреимущество;
превосходство;
- the *s of a good education преимущества хорошего образования;
- to gain an * of smb. добиться преимущества над кем-л, оказаться в лучшем положении, чем кто-д;
- to give no unilateral * to either side (дипломатическое) (военное) не давать преимущества ни одной из сторон;
- to take * of smb. обмануть кого-л;
эксплуатировать кого-л выгода;
польза;
выигрыш;
- * ground выгодная позиция;
выгодное стратегическое положение;
- to take * of smth. воспользоваться чем-л;
использовать что-л в своих интересах;
- to take * of the opportunity воспользоваться случаем;
злоупотреблять чем-л;
- to take * of smb.'s good nature злоупотреблять чьей-л добротой;
- to * выгодно, хорошо;
в выгодном свете;
- this is to my * это мне выгодно;
- to turn smth. to one's * обратить что-л себе на пользу;
использовать что-л в своих интересах;
- what you tell me is not to his * то, что вы мне рассказываете, характеризует его отнюдь не с лучшей стороны;
- in this light the picture shows to good * картина выигрывает при этом освещении;
- the picture is seen to more * from a distance эту картину лучше смотреть издали;
- to the best * наилучшим образом, в самом выгодном свете;
- to show smth. to the best * представить что-л в самом выгодном свете (спортивное) преимущество в счете (в теннисе после счета "поровну") - * game игра, выигранная в партии после счета по пяти;
- * in "болььше" у подающего > to take smb. at * захватить кого-л врасплох;
> you have the * of me вы меня знаете, а я вас нет;
вы знаете что-то такое, что мне неизвестно давать преимущество;
благоприятствовать;
способствовать;
приносить пользу, выгоду;
- to * agriculture способствовать развитию сельского хозяйства;
- such action will * our cause такие действия обеспечат успех нашего делаadvantage выгода, польза;
to advantage выгодно, хорошо;
в выгодном свете;
to turn (smth.) to advantage использовать (что-л.) в своих интересах advantage выгода, польза;
to advantage выгодно, хорошо;
в выгодном свете;
to turn (smth.) to advantage использовать (что-л.) в своих интересах ~ выгода ~ выигрыш ~ давать преимущество ~ польза ~ книжн. помогать ~ превосходство ~ преимущество (of, over - над) ;
благоприятное положение;
to have the advantage (of smb.) иметь преимущество (перед кем-л.) ~ преимущество~ of large-scale operations эк.произ. преимущество крупномасштабных операцийcomparative ~ сравнительное преимущество~ преимущество (of, over - над) ;
благоприятное положение;
to have the advantage (of smb.) иметь преимущество (перед кем-л.)immediate ~ прямое преимуществоinterest ~ преимущество в отношении ставки процентаto take ~ (of smb.) обмануть, перехитрить( кого-л.) ;
to take advantage of( smth.) воспользоваться (чем-л.) ;
to take (smb.) at advantage захватить (кого-л.) врасплохto take ~ (of smb.) обмануть, перехитрить (кого-л.) ;
to take advantage of (smth.) воспользоваться (чем-л.) ;
to take (smb.) at advantage захватить (кого-л.) врасплохto take ~ (of smb.) обмануть, перехитрить (кого-л.) ;
to take advantage of (smth.) воспользоваться (чем-л.) ;
to take (smb.) at advantage захватить (кого-л.) врасплохtax ~ выгода, обеспечиваемая существующей системой налогообложенияadvantage выгода, польза;
to advantage выгодно, хорошо;
в выгодном свете;
to turn (smth.) to advantage использовать (что-л.) в своих интересахunfair competitive ~ преимущество в условиях нечестной конкуренцииБольшой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > advantage
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82 plan
plæn
1. сущ.
1) а) план;
проект to concoct, devise a plan ≈ придумать, изобрести план (пренебр.) to draw up, formulate, map out a plan ≈ составлять, намечать план to make plans ≈ строить планы to outline a plan ≈ набросать план to unveil a plan ≈ открывать, раскрывать( кому-л.) план to accept a plan ≈ принимать, одобрять план to carry out, execute, implement a plan ≈ выполнять план to put a plan into operation ≈ осуществлять план to present, propose a plan ≈ предлагать план to foil, frustrate, thwart a plan ≈ расстраивать, срывать, разрушать план, мешать чьему-л. плану to reject a plan ≈ отвергать, забраковывать план to shelve a plan ≈ откладывать приведение плана в действие brilliant, ingenious plan ≈ блестящий, гениальный план complicated, elaborate plan ≈ тщательно продуманный план contingency plan ≈ план на случай непредвиденных дополнительных обстоятельств feasible plan ≈ осуществимый, выполнимый план five-year plan ≈ пятилетний план, пятилетка flight plan ≈ план полета;
полетный лист floor plan ≈ поэтажный план здания( с указанием толщины стен, расположения оконных и дверных проемов и назначения помещений) ;
мор. план палубы grandiose plan ≈ грандиозный план sweeping plan ≈ захватывающий, увлекательный план impracticable plan ≈ неосуществимый план impractical plan ≈ неосуществимый план long-term plan ≈ долгосрочный план master plan ≈ генеральный (сводный) план realistic plan ≈ реалистичный план secret plan ≈ тайный, секретный план short-term plan ≈ краткосрочный план well-laid, well-thought-out plan ≈ хорошо проработанный, продуманный план the installment plan ≈ система оплаты товаров в рассрочку on the installment plan ≈ в кредит, в рассрочку pension, retirement plan ≈ пенсионное страхование a plan calls for (smth.) ≈ план предусматривает (что-л.) plans materialize ≈ планы осуществляются, претворяются в жизнь qualified plan ≈ программа условного участия в прибылях Syn: blueprint, design, proposal, scheme, programme б) замысел, план All history is in one sense the fulfilment of a divine plan. Westcott ≈ Вся история является в некотором смысле воплощением божественного плана. Syn: intention, purpose
2) а) способ действий, образ действий Syn: procedure б) цель, намерение Syn: goal
1., aim
1.
3) а) график, диаграмма, схема б) план (местности) в) чертеж (объекта в разных проекциях) ;
спец. план (как одна из существующих проекций) Syn: graph, diagram
4) система, целостность
2. гл.
1) а) распланировать;
запланировать (очередность каких-либо дел) б) проектировать, задумывать, разрабатывать Syn: design
2.
2) строить планы;
надеяться;
намереваться;
затевать What events have you got planned for next week? ≈ Что ты запланировал на следующую неделю? plan ahead Syn: intend
3) архит., строит. делать проект, планировать;
чертить план The gardens were planned by the best landscape gardeners of the day. ≈ Сады были спроектированы (распланированы) лучшими специалистами по ландшафту нашего времени. план, программа действий - counter * встречный план - short-term * краткосрочный план - five-year * пятилетний план, пятилетка - economic * программа /план/ экономического развития - development * план развития;
план (технической) разработки - piece rate wage * (экономика) сдельная система оплаты труда - to adopt a * принять план - to carry out /to fulfill, to implement, to realize/ a * осуществить /выполнить, претворить в жизнь/ план - to put forward a * выдвинуть план - to work out the * of a speech набросать план выступления - to buy things on the installment * покупать товары в кредит /в рассрочку/ (специальное) план - * of site план общего расположения - sketch * эскизный план, кроки - street * план улицы проект - a building erected after the *s of an eminent architect здание, воздвигнутое по проекту известного архитектора чертеж;
схема;
диаграмма - working * рабочий чертеж - general * общий план - master * генеральный план - ground * (специальное) план по нулевой отметке - lines * (техническое) теоретический чертеж корабля - capacity /cargo/ * _ тех грузовой план, чертеж вместимости грузовых трюмов и цистерн горизонтальная проекция - body * корпус( проекция теоретического чертежа корабля) крупномасштабная карта, план замысел, план, намерение - to change one's * изменить свои намерения /планы/ - to form a new * составить новый план - to cripple /to defeat, to upset, to frustrate, to ruin, to thwart, to torpedo, to wreck/ one's * сорвать /расстроить, разрушить/ чьи-л. планы - to have no fixed *s не иметь определенных планов - what are your *s? каковы ваши планы /намерения/? - everything went according to * все прошло согласно намеченному плану /как было намечено/ - it is not a bad * (это) неплохо придумано;
неплохая идея способ действий - the best * would be... самое лучшее будет... - he has changed his whole * он полностью изменил свою тактику цель, задача - his * was to get a degree in medicine его целью было получить диплом врача (церковное) расписание служб на квартал( в церквях методистов) > according to * (военное) (жаргон) поневоле, "по заранее намеченному плану" > on the American * с полным пансионом составлять план, планировать - to * a piece of work спланировать какую-л. работу проектировать;
чертить план, эскизы и т. п. - the school was *ned for 500 pupils школа была запроектирована на 500 учащихся строить планы;
намереваться, затевать - to * everything ahead планировать заранее - to * for the future строить планы на будущее;
думать о будущем - to * to do smth. намереваться сделать что-л. - to * a visit собираться нанести визит /посетить/ - we had *ned an ascent of the mountain together мы собирались вместе подняться на гору - we have *ned for you to stop till tomorrow мы расчитывали, что вы останетесь (у нас) до завтра распланировать;
запланировать (обыкн. to * out) - to * out one's time распланировать свое время - he had *ned it all out он все уже распланировал - have you *ned your trip? вы уже спланировали свою поездку? action area ~ план мероприятий amended ~ исправленный план aquatic environment ~ план размещения окружающих водоемов audit ~ план ревизии bonus ~ система премирования cadastral ~ кадастровый план care ~ план мероприятий по уходу (за больным, выздоравливающим) city ~ план города comprehensive ~ комплексный план conditional sale ~ план условной продажи contingency ~ план действий в чрезвычайных обстоятельствах crisis ~ план выхода из кризиса decision ~ вчт. схема принятия решений development ~ план застройки development ~ план развития development ~ план разработки distribution ~ план распределения district ~ план округа district ~ план района economic ~ народнохозяйственный план educational ~ план образования, план переподготовки, план обучения, план переквалификации financing ~ финансовый план forestry ~ план лесничества ground ~ план местности implement a ~ осуществлять план instalment ~ график платежей при покупке в рассрочку instalment ~ система платежей в рассрочку jobs ~ план увеличения занятости land use ~ землеустроительный план land use ~ план использования земель local ~ план застройки marketing ~ план сбыта продукции marketing ~ план торговли master ~ генеральный план master ~ основной план media ~ план использования средств рекламы medical benefit ~ система пособий по болезни merger ~ план слияния national comprehensive ~ государственный комплексный план on instalment ~ в рассрочку operating ~ оперативный финансовый план operating ~ план работы operating ~ прооизводственный план organization ~ организационный план parcelling ~ план раздела pension ~ система пенсионного обеспечения personal equity ~ (PEP) программа продажи акций служащим компании perspective ~ перспективный план plan замысел, намерение, предположение ~ замысел, намерение;
предположение ~ замысел ~ намереваться, затевать ~ намереваться;
затевать ~ план, проект ~ план;
проект ~ план ~ планировать ~ программа ~ проект ~ проектировать ~ система ~ составлять план, планировать, проектировать ~ составлять план ~ способ действий ~ строить планы;
надеяться ~ схема, диаграмма, чертеж ~ схема, диаграмма, чертеж ~ схема ~ чертеж ~ of actions план действий ~ of operation план работы plot ~ план делянки plot ~ план земельного участка policy ~ план деятельности preconceived ~ заранее составленный план production ~ производственный план quality ~ план обеспечения качества redemption ~ план погашения redevelopment ~ план перепланировки и новой застройки жилого района regional development ~ план регионального развития regional ~ региональный план rehabilitation ~ план реабилитации rescue ~ план спасательных работ retirement benefit ~ система пенсионного обеспечения retirement ~ порядок выхода на пенсию sampling ~ stat. план выборочного контроля savings ~ план экономии service ~ служебный план share repurchase ~ скупка корпорацией собственных акций для поддержания их цены site ~ ориентационный план site ~ ситуационный план sketch ~ набросок плана social welfare ~ план социального обеспечения staff retirement ~ план выхода персонала на пенсию stock option ~ exc. система фондовых опционов stock purchase ~ программа покупки акций служащими корпорации structure ~ план сооружения subdivision ~ план раздела земельных участков test ~ план проведения испытаний town ~ план развития города town ~ схема города training ~ тренировочный план;
план профподготовки treatment ~ план лечения unit-linked ~ система страхования, в которой взносы идут в паевой фонд, а полученные доходы повышают стоимость полиса -
83 quality
ˈkwɔlɪtɪ
1. сущ.
1) а) качество тж. филос. quantity and quality ≈ количество и качество He is not interested in quality, all he cares about is making money. ≈ Его не интересует качество, только деньги. б) степень качества, добротность, кондиционность;
сорт excellent, superior quality ≈ выдающееся, превосходное качество fine, good, high quality ≈ высокое качество low, poor quality ≈ плохое качество quality of work ≈ качество работы certificate of quality ≈ свидетельство качества quality of life ≈ уровень жизни quality control ≈ контроль за качеством продукции в) высокое качество goods of quality ≈ высококачественные товары
2) свойство;
особенность;
характерная черта He has the right qualities to be a politician. ≈ Он обладает всеми качествами, необходимыми для политика. admirable quality endearing quality moral quality personal quality redeeming quality Syn: characteristic
3) тембр;
(точность воспроизведения о звуке)
4) уст. положение в обществе;
знатность lady of quality people of quality the quality
2. прил. качественный;
высококачественный, высокого качества quality cars ≈ автомобили высокого качества That's a real quality job you've done. ≈ Ты сделал работу очень качественно. качество, сорт;
свойство - adequate * доброкачественность - bottom * низкое качество - premium /prime/ * высшее качество - milk * удойность( коровы) - cutting * режущая способность - goods of high * товары высокого качества - the better * of cloth is more expensive материя высшего качества дороже - to manufacture /to make/ goods in various qualities производить /выпускать/ товары различного качества - to aim at * rather than quantity предпочитать качество количеству - transition from quantity to * (философское) переход количества в качество уровень качества, класс, калибр - to upgrade the * of incoming students повышать требования к отбору студентов высокое качество;
достоинство, ценность - goods of * высококачественные товары - wine of * отборное /высокосортное/ вино - to admire the * of smth. восхищаться( превосходным) качеством чего-л. - to be up to * соответствовать требованиям часто pl качество, свойство, признак;
характерная особенность - moral * моральные качества - * of leadership качества руководителя - a person of excellent qualities человек, обладающий прекрасными качествами - to be distinguished by noble qualities отличаться душевным благородством - to be possessed of rare qualities обладать редкими качествами - to possess healing qualities обладать целебными свойствами - qualities of the pine-wood отличительные свойства сосны - to give a taste of /to show/ one's * показать /проявить/ себя;
обнаружить черты своего характера - to test another's qualities испытывать чей-л. характер - primary * (философское) первичное качество (физическое) тембр - the * of a voice тембр голоса (устаревшее) знатность;
положение в обществе - people of * высшее общество, аристократия, знать, господа - a lady of * знатная дама (the *) знать высококачественный, высокого качества art ~ художественное качество average ~ среднее качество bad ~ низкое качество best ~ высшего качества best ~ высшее качество choice ~ высокое качество draft ~ грубое качество extra ~ высшее качество ~ свойство;
особенность;
характерная черта;
to give a taste of one's quality показать себя, свои способности good commercial ~ хорошее коммерческое качество good merchantable ~ хорошее коммерческое качество good ~ высокое качество image ~ вчт. качество изображения inferior ~ низкое качество ~ уст. положение в обществе;
people of quality, the quality высшие классы общества, знать, господа ( противоп. the common people) ;
a lady of quality знатная дама low ~ низкое качество medium ~ среднее качество medium ~ средний сорт merchantable ~ качество, пригодное для торговли merchantable ~ коммерческое качество ~ качество (тж. филос.) ;
сорт;
of good quality высокосортный ordinary ~ обычное качество ~ уст. положение в обществе;
people of quality, the quality высшие классы общества, знать, господа (противоп. the common people) ;
a lady of quality знатная дама photographic ~ фотографическое качество picture ~ качество изображения poor ~ низкое качество prime ~ высшее качество prime ~ первый сорт print ~ вчт. качество печати quality уст. актерская профессия;
собир. актеры ~ высокое качество, достоинство ~ высокое качество ~ достоинство ~ качество (тж. филос.) ;
сорт;
of good quality высокосортный ~ качество, сорт ~ качество ~ уст. положение в обществе;
people of quality, the quality высшие классы общества, знать, господа (противоп. the common people) ;
a lady of quality знатная дама ~ уст. положение в обществе;
people of quality, the quality высшие классы общества, знать, господа (противоп. the common people) ;
a lady of quality знатная дама ~ признак ~ свойство;
особенность;
характерная черта;
to give a taste of one's quality показать себя, свои способности ~ свойство, особенность, характерная черта ~ свойство ~ сорт ~ тембр;
the quality of a voice тембр голоса ~ характерная особенность ~ тембр;
the quality of a voice тембр голоса ~ of life качество жизни recipient ~ planning планирование входного качества second ~ второй сорт second-rate ~ второй сорт selected ~ выборочное качество slide ~ качество на уровне слайда standard ~ стандартное качество top ~ высшее качество typeset ~ полиграфическое качество uniform ~ однородное качество warranted ~ гарантированное качество -
84 experience
1. nounhave experience of something/somebody — Erfahrung in etwas (Dat.) /mit jemandem haben
have experience of doing something — Erfahrung darin haben, etwas zu tun
learn from experience — durch eigene od. aus eigener Erfahrung lernen
2. transitive verbin/from my [own] [previous] experience — nach meiner/aus eigener Erfahrung
erleben; stoßen auf (+ Akk.) [Schwierigkeiten]; kennen lernen [Lebensweise]; empfinden [Hunger, Kälte, Schmerz]* * *[ik'spiəriəns] 1. noun1) ((knowledge, skill or wisdom gained through) practice in some activity, or the doing of something: Learn by experience - don't make the same mistake again; Has she had experience in teaching?)2) (an event that affects or involves a person etc: The earthquake was a terrible experience.) das Erlebnis2. verb- academic.ru/25757/experienced">experienced* * *ex·peri·ence[ɪkˈspɪəriən(t)s, ek-, AM -ˈspɪr-]I. n\experience of life Lebenserfahrung fdriving \experience Fahrpraxis fprofessional \experience Berufserfahrung fto learn by \experience durch Erfahrung lernenthe best way to learn is by \experience aus Erfahrung wird man klugfrom my own \experience aus eigener Erfahrungto know sth from \experience etw aus Erfahrung wissenenjoy the real coffee \experience erleben Sie den wahren Kaffeegenuss!that can be a painful \experience das kann ganz schön weh tun\experience of pain Schmerzempfinden ntto have an \experience eine Erfahrung machen3.▶ to put sth down to \experience etw als Erfahrung abbuchen [o betrachtenII. vt▪ to \experience sth1. (undergo) etw erleben; (endure) etw kennenlernen, etw erfahren; hard times etw durchmachen [o fam mitmachen]to \experience difficulties auf Schwierigkeiten stoßen2. (feel) etw empfinden [o fühlen]to \experience a loss einen Verlust erleiden* * *[Ik'spIərɪəns]1. n1) (= knowledge, wisdom acquired) Erfahrung fexperience shows or proves that... — die Erfahrung lehrt, dass...
to learn/speak from experience — aus eigener Erfahrung lernen/sprechen
he has no experience of grief — er hat nie Kummer erfahren or erlebt
2) (= practice, skill) Erfahrung fhe has had no practical experience — ihm fehlt die Praxis, er hat keine praktischen Kenntnisse or keine praktische Erfahrung
experience in a job/in business — Berufs-/Geschäftserfahrung f
he is working in a factory to gain experience — er arbeitet in einer Fabrik, um praktische Erfahrungen zu sammeln
3) (= event experienced) Erlebnis ntI had a nasty experience —
the trial was a very nasty experience — der Prozess war eine sehr unangenehme Sache
it was a painful experience — es war schmerzlich (geh)
2. vt1) (= suffer, undergo) pain, grief, hunger erfahren, erleben; difficult times, recession durchmachen; problems, symptoms habento experience difficulties — auf Schwierigkeiten stoßen, Schwierigkeiten haben
2) (= feel) fühlen, spüren, empfinden* * *experience [ıkˈspıərıəns]A s1. Erfahrung f, (Lebens)Praxis f:speak from (bitter) experience aus (bitterer) Erfahrung sprechen;based on experience auf Erfahrung begründet;I know (it) by experience ich weiß (es) aus Erfahrung;in my experience nach meinen Erfahrungen, meines Wissens2. Erlebnis n:I had a strange experience ich hatte ein seltsames Erlebnis, ich habe etwas Seltsames erlebt;he had an unpleasant experience er machte eine unangenehme Erfahrung;emotional experience of success Erfolgserlebnis3. Erfahrenheit f, (praktische) Erfahrung, Fach-, Sachkenntnis f, Routine f:have a lot of experience doing sth viel Erfahrung darin haben, etwas zu tun;experience is the best teacher (Sprichwort) Erfahrung ist die beste Lehrmeisterin4. RELa) Erfahrungsreligion fb) US religiöse Erweckung:experience meeting Erweckungsversammlung fB v/t erfahren:a) kennenlernenb) erleben:experience sth personally etwas am eigenen Leibe erfahren;experience difficulties auf Schwierigkeiten stoßenexperience an advance WIRTSCH eine Kurssteigerung erfahren;* * *1. noun1) no pl., no indef. art. Erfahrung, diehave experience of something/somebody — Erfahrung in etwas (Dat.) /mit jemandem haben
have experience of doing something — Erfahrung darin haben, etwas zu tun
learn from experience — durch eigene od. aus eigener Erfahrung lernen
2. transitive verbin/from my [own] [previous] experience — nach meiner/aus eigener Erfahrung
erleben; stoßen auf (+ Akk.) [Schwierigkeiten]; kennen lernen [Lebensweise]; empfinden [Hunger, Kälte, Schmerz]* * *n.Erfahrenheit f.Erfahrung f.Erlebnis -se n.Routine -n f. -
85 own
əun 1. verb1) (to have as a possession: I own a car.) eie2) (to admit that something is true: I own that I have not been working very hard.) innrømme, vedgå2. adjective, pronoun(belonging to (the person stated): The house is my own; I saw it with my own eyes.) egen- owner- ownership
- get one's own back
- own upeieIverb \/əʊn\/1) eie, ha2) erkjenne, innrømme, stå ved, vedgå3) kjennes ved, erkjenne, vedkjenne segbe owned by somebody tilhøre noen, være eiet av noenown oneself in the wrong erkjenne at man tar feilown (up) to having done something innrømme å ha gjort noe, tilstå å ha gjort noeown (up) to something innrømme noe, tilstå noe, erkjenne noe, vedgå noe, bekjenne noejeg må tilstå at jeg kjenner\/kjente meg forargetown up tilstå, si det som det erIIadj. \/əʊn\/1) ( vanligvis etter determinativer eller genitiv) egen, eget, egnehun lot henne få sitt eget \/ sin egen• my ownjeg er min egen herre\/jeg er uavhengighun har (sin) egen vilje\/hun vet hva hun vildet har sin (egen) skjønnhet \/ det har en særpreget skjønnhet2) forklaring: som blir gjort egenhendig eller av en selvat one's own expense på egen bekostning, for egen regningat\/in one's own (good) time ved leilighet, når det passer en bestby one's own efforts ved egne anstrengelsercome\/enter into one's own få det som tilkommer en komme til sin rett, få vise hva man duger tileach in his own way hver og én på sin måteget one's own back se ➢ gethold one's own se ➢ hold, 3in one's own mind i sitt stille sinn, innerst innemake something one's own gjøre noe til sitt, tilegne seg noebe one's own man\/woman være sin egen herreon one's own alene, for seg selv, selv, selvstendig, på egen håndhun er sin egen sjef \/ hun er selvstendig næringsdrivendei særklasse• for craftsmanship, he is on his own -
86 thing
[aiç]n1) річ; предметa thing in itself — фiлoc. річ у собі; pl атрибути
yce, — що має відношення до Японії
2) pl майноthings personal treal — юp. нерухоме майно
things in action — юp. право вимоги; майно, що полягає у вимогах; речі, багаж
3) часто pl одяг, предмети одягуbathing /swimming/ things — купальний костюм
to put on [to take off]one's things — одягтися [роздягнутися]
4) їжа; питвоsweet things — солодке, ласощі
5) pl звичн. пристосування; начиння; предмети побуту6) твір мистецтва, літератури; творінняan excellent thing — чудова річ; розповідь; анекдот
7) річ, явищеto look at things (from one's own point of view) — дивитися на речі /на справу/ ( зі своєї власної точки зору)
to take things too seriously — приймати всі надто серйозно, занадто серйозно до всього ставитися
8) звичн. pl обставини, станthe state of things — стан речей /справ/
tell me how things go /stand/ — є розповідайте мені, як ідуть справиє
things might go wrong — все може зірватися /провалитися/
that things should have come to thisl — подумати тільки, до чого дійшла справа /як змінилися обставини/!
we hope for better thing s — ми сподіваємося на краще /що обставини зміняться на краще
9) справаI have several- s to attend to — мені (ще) потрібно дещо зробити; у мене ще є справи
10) щось, дещоthe best thing is... — найкраще...
to say the right thing — сказати те, що треба
11) деталь, особливість12) щось дуже потрібне, важливе, підходящеthat's the thing — в тому то е справа, це саме головне
the thing is... — справа в тім...; суть справи полягає в тому...
the only thing now is to take a taxi — єдине, що можна зараз зробити, це взяти таксі
that's the very /just the/ thing — це саме те, що потрібно модний
13) дія, вчинокI did no such thing — я не робив нічого подібного; я е не думав робити цього [порівн. тж. О]
to do the handsome thing by smb — зробити послугу \ комусь
that's not at all the thing to do — це дуже недобре; це неприйнятно ( робити), так не чинять
what a thing to do! — хіба так можна!, хіба так чинять!, як можна було зробити таке!; подію
14) імен. створенняno living thing has ever done it — нікому ще не вдавалося цього зробити; людина
you silly thing! — дурень!; ну е дурень же ти!
15) у сполученні із iм., що йде попереду. презир. потворна, жахлива річ••spiritual things, thing s of the mind — духовні цінності
in all things — у всіх відношеннях, у всьому
and thing s — та інше, тощо
and another thing, — ще одне
sure thing — aмep. напевно, звичайно
no such thing — нічого подібного; ніщо не може бути далі від істини [порівн. тж. 13, 1]
no great things — нічого особливого, так собі; хто зна що
first thing — насампередnext thing — потімlast thing — в останню чергу, наостанок; нарешті; найбільш несподіване; те, чого найменше можна чекатиthe same thing — те ж саме
for one thing — насамперед; почати з того, що; для початку
for another thing — крім того; по-друге
of all things — от тобі е на!, це ж треба!; подумати тільки!
above all things — насамперед; найбільше, головним чином
as a general /as a usual/ thing — звичайно, як правило
it's one of those things — = у житті всяке буває нічого не поробиш, доводиться миритися
to have a thing about smth — мати упередження проти чогось; не терпіти чогось бути жертвою настирливої ідеї, збожеволіти через щось
to have a thing about smb — боготворити когось; не терпіти когось
to make a thing (out) of smth — надавати ( занадто) велике значення
to know a thing or two — знати дещо; розуміти /тямити/ що до чого
to learn a thing or two — довідатися /пронюхати/ дещо
to be up to a thing or two — в чомусь розбиратися, дещо знати
not to be /to feel/ the thing — погано себе почувати
to go the way of all things — померти, пройти земний шлях до кінця
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87 quality
1 თვისებაrare / remarkable / particular quality იშვიათი / ღირსშესანიშნავი / განსაკუთრებული თვისება2 ხარისხიof the highest / best / high / good / poor / law quality უმაღლესი / საუკეთესო / მაღალი / კარგი / დაბალი ხარისხისა3 ღირსებაthe qualities of a novel / play რომანის / პიესის ღირსებანიof poor quality ცუდი, დაბალი ხარისხისა●●kindness is the supreme quality in man სიკეთე ადამიანის საუკეთესო თვისებააhe embodies the best qualities of man მას ადამიანის საუკეთესო თვისებები გააჩნია / ახასიათებს -
88 make
1.[meɪk]transitive verb, made [meɪd]1) (construct) machen, anfertigen (of aus); bauen [Damm, Straße, Flugzeug, Geige]; anlegen [See, Teich, Weg usw.]; zimmern [Tisch, Regal]; basteln [Spielzeug, Vogelhäuschen, Dekoration usw.]; nähen [Kleider]; durchbrechen [Türöffnung]; (manufacture) herstellen; (create) [er]schaffen [Welt]; (prepare) zubereiten [Mahlzeit]; machen [Frühstück, Grog]; machen, kochen [Kaffee, Tee, Marmelade]; backen [Brot, Kuchen]; (compose, write) schreiben, verfassen [Buch, Gedicht, Lied, Bericht]; machen [Eintrag, Zeichen, Kopie, Zusammenfassung, Testament]; anfertigen [Entwurf]; aufsetzen [Bewerbung, Schreiben, Urkunde]make a dress out of the material, make the material into a dress — aus dem Stoff ein Kleid machen
a table made of wood/of the finest wood — ein Holztisch/ein Tisch aus feinstem Holz
made in Germany — in Deutschland hergestellt
show what one is made of — zeigen, was in einem steckt (ugs.)
be [simply] 'made of money — (coll.) im Geld [nur so] schwimmen (ugs.)
be 'made for something/somebody — (fig.): (ideally suited) wie geschaffen für etwas/jemanden sein
make a bed — (for sleeping) ein Bett bauen (ugs.)
make the bed — (arrange after sleeping) das Bett machen
have it made — (coll.) ausgesorgt haben (ugs.)
2) (combine into) sich verbinden zu; bilden3) (cause to exist) machen [Ärger, Schwierigkeiten, Lärm, Aufhebens]make enemies — sich (Dat.) Feinde machen od. schaffen
make time for doing or to do something — sich (Dat.) die Zeit dazu nehmen, etwas zu tun
two and two make four — zwei und zwei ist od. macht od. sind vier
qualities that make a man — Eigenschaften, die einen Mann ausmachen
5) (establish, enact) bilden [Gegensatz]; treffen [Unterscheidung, Übereinkommen]; ziehen [Vergleich, Parallele]; erlassen [Gesetz, Haftbefehl]; aufstellen [Regeln, Behauptung]; stellen [Forderung]; geben [Bericht]; schließen [Vertrag]; vornehmen [Zahlung]; machen [Geschäft, Vorschlag, Geständnis]; erheben [Anschuldigung, Protest, Beschwerde]make angry/happy/known — etc. wütend/glücklich/bekannt usw. machen
make a friend of somebody — sich mit jemandem anfreunden
make oneself heard/respected — sich (Dat.) Gehör/Respekt verschaffen
shall we make it Tuesday then? — sagen wir also Dienstag?
make it a shorter journey by doing something — die Reise abkürzen, indem man etwas tut
7)make somebody do something — (cause) jemanden dazu bringen, etwas zu tun; (compel) jemanden zwingen, etwas zu tun
make somebody repeat the sentence — jemanden den Satz wiederholen lassen
be made to do something — etwas tun müssen; (be compelled) gezwungen werden, etwas zu tun
make oneself do something — sich überwinden, etwas zu tun
what makes you think that? — wie kommst du darauf?
8) (form, be counted as)this makes the tenth time you've failed — das ist nun [schon] das zehnte Mal, dass du versagt hast
will you make one of the party? — wirst du dabei od. (ugs.) mit von der Partie sein?
9) (serve for) abgeben11) (gain, acquire, procure) machen [Vermögen, Profit, Verlust]; machen (ugs.) [Geld]; verdienen [Lebensunterhalt]; sich (Dat.) erwerben [Ruf]; (obtain as result) kommen zu od. auf, herausbekommen [Ergebnis, Endsumme]how much did you make? — wieviel hast du verdient?
12) machen [Geste, Bewegung, Verbeugung]; machen [Reise, Besuch, Ausnahme, Fehler, Angebot, Entdeckung, Witz, Bemerkung]; begehen [Irrtum]; vornehmen [Änderung, Stornierung]; vorbringen [Beschwerde]; tätigen, machen [Einkäufe]; geben [Versprechen, Kommentar]; halten [Rede]; ziehen [Vergleich]; durchführen, machen [Experiment, Analyse, Inspektion]; (wage) führen [Krieg]; (accomplish) schaffen [Strecke pro Zeiteinheit]13)make little of something — (play something down) etwas herunterspielen
they could make little of his letter — (understand) sie konnten mit seinem Brief nicht viel anfangen
I don't know what to make of him/it — ich werde aus ihm/daraus nicht schlau od. klug
what do you make of him? — was hältst du von ihm?; wie schätzt du ihn ein?
15)something makes or breaks or mars somebody — etwas entscheidet über jmds. Glück oder Verderben (Akk.)
16) (consider to be)What do you make the time? - I make it five past eight — Wie spät hast du es od. ist es bei dir? - Auf meiner Uhr ist es fünf nach acht
17)2. intransitive verb,make 'do with/without something — mit/ohne etwas auskommen
1) (proceed)make toward something/somebody — auf etwas/jemanden zusteuern
2) (act as if with intention)make to do something — Anstalten machen, etwas zu tun
3. nounmake as if or as though to do something — so tun, als wolle man etwas tun
make of car — Automarke, die
3)on the make — (coll.): (intent on gain) hinter dem Geld her (abwertend)
Phrasal Verbs:- academic.ru/44737/make_for">make for- make off- make off with- make out- make over- make up- make up for- make up to* * *[meik] 1. past tense, past participle - made; verb1) (to create, form or produce: God made the Earth; She makes all her own clothes; He made it out of paper; to make a muddle/mess of the job; to make lunch/coffee; We made an arrangement/agreement/deal/bargain.) machen2) (to compel, force or cause (a person or thing to do something): They made her do it; He made me laugh.) bringen zu3) (to cause to be: I made it clear; You've made me very unhappy.) machen6) (to become, turn into, or be: He'll make an excellent teacher.) sich erweisen als7) (to estimate as: I make the total 483.) schätzen8) (to appoint, or choose, as: He was made manager.) machen zu9) (used with many nouns to give a similar meaning to that of the verb from which the noun is formed: He made several attempts (= attempted several times); They made a left turn (= turned left); He made (= offered) a suggestion/proposal; Have you any comments to make?) machen2. noun- maker- making
- make-believe
- make-over
- makeshift
- make-up
- have the makings of
- in the making
- make a/one's bed
- make believe
- make do
- make for
- make it
- make it up
- make something of something
- make of something
- make something of
- make of
- make out
- make over
- make up
- make up for
- make up one's mind
- make up to* * *[meɪk]I. NOUNthe newer \makes of computer are much faster die neuen Computergenerationen sind viel schnellerit's jam of my own \make das ist selbst gemachte Marmelade\make of car Automarke f2. (of a person)people of her \make are rare Leute wie sie [o fam ihrer Machart] sind seltento be on the \make (for sex) auf sexuelle Abenteuer aus sein; (for money) geldgierig sein; (for power) machthungrig sein; (for profit) profitgierig sein; (for career) karrieresüchtig seinII. TRANSITIVE VERB<made, made>1. (produce)▪ to \make sth etw machen; company, factory etw herstellenthe pot is made to withstand high temperatures der Topf ist so beschaffen, dass er hohe Temperaturen aushält‘made in Taiwan’ ‚hergestellt in Taiwan‘this sweater is made of wool dieser Pullover ist aus WolleGod made the world in 7 days Gott erschuf die Erde in 7 Tagento \make bread Brot backento \make clothes Kleider nähento \make coffee/soup/supper Kaffee/Suppe/das Abendessen kochento \make a copy of sth etw kopierento \make a movie [or film] einen Film drehento \make peace Frieden schließento \make a picture ( fam) ein Foto machento \make a recording of sth etw aufnehmento \make a snowman einen Schneemann bauento \make steel/a pot Stahl/einen Topf herstellento \make time sich dat [die] Zeit nehmento show what one's [really] made of zeigen, was in einem steckt▪ to \make sb sth [or sth for sb] etw für jdn machenhe made us some coffee er machte uns Kaffeethe doll wasn't made for banging around die Puppe ist nicht dazu gedacht, herumgeschleudert zu werdenthese two were made for each other die zwei sind wie geschaffen füreinander2. (become)I don't think he will ever \make a good lawyer ich glaube, aus ihm wird nie ein guter Rechtsanwalt [werden]she'll \make a great mother sie wird eine tolle Mutter abgebenlet's \make a circle lasst uns einen Kreis bildenchampagne and caviar \make a wonderful combination Champagner und Kaviar sind eine wunderbare Kombinationto \make a good answer/excuse eine gute Antwort/Entschuldigung seinto \make a match gut zusammenpassento \make fascinating reading faszinierend zu lesen sein3. (cause) machento \make noise/a scene/trouble Lärm/eine Szene/Ärger machento \make sb one's wife jdn zu seiner Frau machen▪ to \make sth do sth:the wind is making my eyes water durch den Wind fangen meine Augen an zu tränenyou \make things sound so bad du machst alles so schlechtthe dark colours \make the room look smaller die dunklen Farben lassen das Zimmer kleiner wirkenwhat made you move here? was brachte dich dazu, hierher zu ziehen?what made you change your mind? wodurch hast du deine Meinung geändert?stories like that \make you think again Geschichten wie diese bringen dich zum Nachdenkento \make sb laugh jdn zum Lachen bringento \make oneself look ridiculous sich akk lächerlich machento \make sb suffer jdn leiden lassen4. (force)▪ to \make sb do sth jdn zwingen, etw zu tungo to your room! — no, and you can't \make me! geh auf dein Zimmer! — nein, und es kann mich auch keiner dazu zwingen!the good weather made Spain so popular das schöne Wetter hat Spanien so beliebt gemachtto \make the best of a situation das Beste aus einer Situation machento \make sb angry/happy jdn wütend/glücklich machento \make sth easy etw leicht machento \make oneself heard sich dat Gehör verschaffento \make sth public etw veröffentlichento \make oneself understood sich akk verständlich machen6. (transform to)▪ to \make sb/sth into sth:the recycled paper will be made into cardboard das Recyclingpapier wird zu Karton weiterverarbeitetthis experience will \make you into a better person diese Erfahrung wird aus dir einen besseren Menschen machenwe've made the attic into a spare room wir haben den Speicher zu einem Gästezimmer ausgebaut7. (perform)▪ to \make sth mistake, progress, offer, suggestion etw machenhe made a plausible case for returning home early er überzeugte uns, dass es sinnvoll sei, früh nach Hause zu gehenthey made about 20 miles a day on foot sie legten etwa 20 Meilen am Tag zu Fuß zurückI'll have a steak — no, \make that chicken ich nehme ein Steak — ach nein, bringen Sie doch lieber das Hühnchento \make an appointment einen Termin vereinbarento \make a bargain ein Schnäppchen machento \make a book STOCKEX eine Aufstellung von Aktien machen, für die Kauf- oder Verkaufsaufträge entgegengenommen werdento \make a call anrufento \make a deal einen Handel schließento \make a decision eine Entscheidung fällen [o treffen]to \make a deposit eine Anzahlung leistento \make a donation eine Spende vornehmento \make an effort sich akk anstrengento \make a face ein Gesicht ziehento \make a good job of sth bei etw dat gute Arbeit leistento \make a move (in game) einen Zug machen; (in business, personal life) etwas unternehmen; body sich akk bewegento \make a payment eine Zahlung leistento \make a promise ein Versprechen geben, etw versprechento \make reservations reservierento \make small talk Konversation betreibento \make a speech/presentation eine Rede/Präsentation haltento \make a start anfangento \make good time doing sth bei etw dat schnell vorankommento \make a withdrawal from a bank Geld bei einer Bank abheben8. (amount to)five plus five \makes ten fünf und fünf ist zehntoday's earthquake \makes five since January mit dem heutigen Erdbeben sind es fünf seit Januarthis \makes the third time my car has broken down das ist nun das dritte Mal, dass mein Auto eine Panne hat▪ to \make sth:he \makes £50,000 a year er verdient [o fam macht] 50.000 Pfund im Jahrto \make enemies sich dat Feinde machento \make a fortune sein Glück machento \make friends Freundschaften schließento \make a killing einen Riesengewinn machento \make a living seinen Lebensunterhalt verdienento \make profits/losses Gewinn/Verlust machen10. (appoint)▪ to \make sb president/advisor/ambassador jdn zum Präsidenten/Berater/Botschafter ernennen11. (consider important)▪ to \make sth of sth:she \makes a lot of politeness sie legt viel Wert auf Höflichkeitdon't \make too much of his grumpiness gib nicht zu viel auf seine mürrische Art12. (estimate)how much do you \make the total? was hast du als Summe errechnet?I \make the answer [to be] 105.6 ich habe als Lösung 105,6 herausbekommenwhat do you \make the time? was meinst du, wie viel Uhr ist es wohl?▪ to \make sth etw schaffencould you \make a meeting at 8 a.m.? schaffst du ein Treffen um 8 Uhr morgens?I barely made it to the meeting ich habe es gerade noch zur Versammlung geschafftthe fire made the front page das Feuer kam auf die Titelseitehe made captain/sergeant/manager AM er hat es bis zum Kapitän/Feldwebel/Manager gebrachtto \make the bus/one's train/one's plane den Bus/seinen Zug/sein Flugzeug kriegento \make the deadline den Termin einhalten [können]to \make the grade sich akk qualifizieren, es schaffento \make it to the top Karriere machento \make it es schaffenthe patient may not \make it through the night der Patient wird wahrscheinlich die Nacht nicht überstehen14. (render perfect)those curtains really \make the living room diese Vorhänge heben das Wohnzimmer ungemeinthis film has made his career der Film machte ihn berühmtthat made my day! das hat mir den Tag gerettet!you've got it made! du hast ausgesorgt!15. (have sex)to \make love sich akk lieben, miteinander schlafenhe tried to \make her er hat versucht, sie ins Bett zu kriegen fam16. NAUTto \make port Meldung an den Hafenmeister machento \make sail in See stechento \make way vorankommen17. ELECto \make contact den Stromkreis schließen18.▶ to \make a beeline [or dash] for sth/sb schnurstracks auf etw/jdn zugehen▶ to \make or break sth/sb das Schicksal von etw/jdm in der Hand haben▶ to \make a day/an evening of it den ganzen Tag/die ganze Nacht bleibenlet's \make a night of it die Nacht ist noch jung▶ made in heaven perfekt▶ to be made of money Geld wie Heu haben▶ to \make sense Sinn ergeben [o machenIII. INTRANSITIVE VERB<made, made>1. (be about to)to \make to leave/eat dinner/start a fight sich akk anschicken, zu gehen/Abend zu essen/einen Streit anzufangenjust as we made to leave the phone rang gerade als wir gehen wollten, klingelte das Telefon2. (pretend)▪ to \make as if to do sth aussehen, als ob man etw tun wollehe made as if to leave the room er machte Anstalten, das Zimmer zu verlassenstop making like you know everything! hör auf so zu tun, als wüsstest du alles!the boy made like he was sick so he wouldn't have to go to school der Junge stellte sich krank, damit er nicht zur Schule musste▪ to \make with the money/jewels Geld/Juwelen [über]geben4.can you \make do with a fiver? reicht dir ein Fünfpfundschein?▶ to \make do and mend ( prov) flicken und wiederverwerten, was man hat, sich akk mit etw dat zufriedengeben* * *make [meık]A s1. a) Machart f, Ausführung fb) Erzeugnis n, Produkt n, Fabrikat n:our own make (unser) eigenes Fabrikat;of best English make beste englische Qualität;I like the make of this car mir gefällt die Ausführung oder Form dieses Wagens;is this your own make? haben Sie das (selbst) gemacht?3. WIRTSCH (Fabrik)Marke f4. TECH Typ m, Bau(art) m(f)5. Beschaffenheit f, Zustand m6. Anfertigung f, Herstellung f, Produktion f7. Produktion(smenge) f, Ausstoß m8. a) (Körper)Bau mb) Veranlagung f, Natur f, Art f9. Bau m, Gefüge nbe at make geschlossen sein12. Kartenspiel:a) Trumpfbestimmung fb) Bridge: endgültiges Trumpfgebotc) Mischen n (der Karten)a) schwer dahinter her sein, auf Geld oder auf seinen Vorteil aus sein,b) auf ein (sexuelles) Abenteuer aus sein,c) (gesellschaftlich) nach oben drängen,d) im Kommen oder Werden seinB v/t prät und pperf made [meıd]1. allg z. B. Anstrengungen, Einkäufe, Einwände, eine Reise, sein Testament, eine Verbeugung, einen Versuch machen:make a fire Feuer machen;make a price einen Preis festsetzen oder machen;make a speech eine Rede halten;make it 2-1 SPORT auf 2:1 stellen;he’s (as) stupid as they make them umg er ist so dumm wie sonst was; (siehe die Verbindungen mit den entsprechenden Stichwörtern)2. machen:a) anfertigen, herstellen, erzeugen ( alle:from, of, out of aus)b) verarbeiten, bilden, formen ( alle:to, into in akk, zu):make a man of sb einen Mann aus jemandem machenc) Tee etc (zu)bereiten:he made himself a cup of coffee er machte sich eine Tasse Kaffeed) ein Gedicht etc verfassen, schreiben3. errichten, bauen, einen Park, Weg etc anlegen4. (er)schaffen:God made man Gott schuf den Menschen;you are made for this job du bist für diese Arbeit wie geschaffen5. fig machen zu:make a doctor of sb jemanden Arzt werden lassen6. ergeben, bilden, entstehen lassen:oxygen and hydrogen make water Wasserstoff und Sauerstoff bilden Wasser7. verursachen:a) ein Geräusch, Lärm, Mühe, Schwierigkeiten etc machenb) bewirken, (mit sich) bringen:8. (er)geben, den Stoff abgeben zu, dienen als (Sache):this makes a good article das gibt einen guten Artikel;this cloth will make a suit dieses Tuch wird für einen Anzug reichen9. sich erweisen als (Personen):he would make a good salesman er würde einen guten Verkäufer abgeben;she made him a good wife sie war ihm eine gute Frau10. bilden, (aus)machen:this makes the tenth time das ist das zehnte Mal11. (mit adj, pperf etc)machen:12. (mit folgendem Substantiv) machen zu, ernennen zu:they made him (a) general, he was made a general er wurde zum General ernannt;he made himself a martyr er machte sich zum Märtyrer13. mit inf ( aktivisch ohne to, passiv mit to) jemanden lassen, veranlassen oder bringen oder zwingen oder nötigen zu:make sb wait jemanden warten lassen;he was made to wait for an hour man ließ ihn eine Stunde warten;we made him talk wir brachten ihn zum Sprechen;they made him repeat it, he was made to repeat it man ließ es ihn wiederholen;make sth do, make do with sth mit etwas auskommen, sich mit etwas begnügen oder behelfen;14. fig machen:a) viel Wesens um etwas od jemanden machen,b) viel halten von, eine hohe Meinung haben von, große Stücke halten auf (akk)what do you make of it? was halten Sie davon?16. umg jemanden halten für:17. schätzen auf (akk):how old do you make him? wie alt schätzen Sie ihn?18. feststellen:I make it a quarter to five nach meiner Uhr ist es Viertel vor fünfI can make and break you ich kann aus Ihnen etwas machen und ich kann Sie auch erledigen21. sich ein Vermögen etc erwerben, verdienen, Geld, einen Profit machen, einen Gewinn erzielen: → name Bes Redew22. schaffen:a) eine Strecke zurücklegen:he didn’t make it to the emergency exit er schaffte es nicht bis zum Notausgang;sorry, I couldn’t make it any earlier ich konnte leider nicht früher kommenb) eine Geschwindigkeit erreichen, machen:23. umg etwas erreichen, schaffen, einen akademischen Grad erlangen, SPORT etc Punkte, auch eine Schulnote erzielen, einen Zug erwischen:make it es schaffen ( → B 22);he made it to general er brachte es bis zum General;25. ankommen in (dat), erreichen:make port SCHIFF in den Hafen einlaufen26. SCHIFF Land etc sichten, ausmachen27. Br eine Mahlzeit einnehmen28. ein Fest etc veranstalten29. Kartenspiel:a) Karten mischenb) einen Stich machen31. LING den Plural etc bilden, werden zu32. sich belaufen auf (akk), ergeben, machen:two and two make four 2 und 2 macht oder ist 433. besonders Br ein Tier abrichten, dressieren35. US sl jemanden identifizierenC v/i1. sich anschicken, den Versuch machen ( beide:to do zu tun):he made to go er wollte gehen2. (to nach)a) sich begeben oder wendenb) führen, gehen (Weg etc), sich erstreckenc) fließen3. einsetzen (Ebbe, Flut), (an)steigen (Flut etc)5. Kartenspiel: einen Stich machen* * *1.[meɪk]transitive verb, made [meɪd]1) (construct) machen, anfertigen (of aus); bauen [Damm, Straße, Flugzeug, Geige]; anlegen [See, Teich, Weg usw.]; zimmern [Tisch, Regal]; basteln [Spielzeug, Vogelhäuschen, Dekoration usw.]; nähen [Kleider]; durchbrechen [Türöffnung]; (manufacture) herstellen; (create) [er]schaffen [Welt]; (prepare) zubereiten [Mahlzeit]; machen [Frühstück, Grog]; machen, kochen [Kaffee, Tee, Marmelade]; backen [Brot, Kuchen]; (compose, write) schreiben, verfassen [Buch, Gedicht, Lied, Bericht]; machen [Eintrag, Zeichen, Kopie, Zusammenfassung, Testament]; anfertigen [Entwurf]; aufsetzen [Bewerbung, Schreiben, Urkunde]make a dress out of the material, make the material into a dress — aus dem Stoff ein Kleid machen
a table made of wood/of the finest wood — ein Holztisch/ein Tisch aus feinstem Holz
show what one is made of — zeigen, was in einem steckt (ugs.)
be [simply] 'made of money — (coll.) im Geld [nur so] schwimmen (ugs.)
be 'made for something/somebody — (fig.): (ideally suited) wie geschaffen für etwas/jemanden sein
make a bed — (for sleeping) ein Bett bauen (ugs.)
make the bed — (arrange after sleeping) das Bett machen
have it made — (coll.) ausgesorgt haben (ugs.)
2) (combine into) sich verbinden zu; bilden3) (cause to exist) machen [Ärger, Schwierigkeiten, Lärm, Aufhebens]make enemies — sich (Dat.) Feinde machen od. schaffen
make time for doing or to do something — sich (Dat.) die Zeit dazu nehmen, etwas zu tun
4) (result in, amount to) machen [Unterschied, Summe]; ergeben [Resultat]two and two make four — zwei und zwei ist od. macht od. sind vier
qualities that make a man — Eigenschaften, die einen Mann ausmachen
5) (establish, enact) bilden [Gegensatz]; treffen [Unterscheidung, Übereinkommen]; ziehen [Vergleich, Parallele]; erlassen [Gesetz, Haftbefehl]; aufstellen [Regeln, Behauptung]; stellen [Forderung]; geben [Bericht]; schließen [Vertrag]; vornehmen [Zahlung]; machen [Geschäft, Vorschlag, Geständnis]; erheben [Anschuldigung, Protest, Beschwerde]make angry/happy/known — etc. wütend/glücklich/bekannt usw. machen
make oneself heard/respected — sich (Dat.) Gehör/Respekt verschaffen
make it a shorter journey by doing something — die Reise abkürzen, indem man etwas tut
7)make somebody do something — (cause) jemanden dazu bringen, etwas zu tun; (compel) jemanden zwingen, etwas zu tun
be made to do something — etwas tun müssen; (be compelled) gezwungen werden, etwas zu tun
make oneself do something — sich überwinden, etwas zu tun
8) (form, be counted as)this makes the tenth time you've failed — das ist nun [schon] das zehnte Mal, dass du versagt hast
will you make one of the party? — wirst du dabei od. (ugs.) mit von der Partie sein?
9) (serve for) abgeben11) (gain, acquire, procure) machen [Vermögen, Profit, Verlust]; machen (ugs.) [Geld]; verdienen [Lebensunterhalt]; sich (Dat.) erwerben [Ruf]; (obtain as result) kommen zu od. auf, herausbekommen [Ergebnis, Endsumme]12) machen [Geste, Bewegung, Verbeugung]; machen [Reise, Besuch, Ausnahme, Fehler, Angebot, Entdeckung, Witz, Bemerkung]; begehen [Irrtum]; vornehmen [Änderung, Stornierung]; vorbringen [Beschwerde]; tätigen, machen [Einkäufe]; geben [Versprechen, Kommentar]; halten [Rede]; ziehen [Vergleich]; durchführen, machen [Experiment, Analyse, Inspektion]; (wage) führen [Krieg]; (accomplish) schaffen [Strecke pro Zeiteinheit]13)make little of something — (play something down) etwas herunterspielen
they could make little of his letter — (understand) sie konnten mit seinem Brief nicht viel anfangen
I don't know what to make of him/it — ich werde aus ihm/daraus nicht schlau od. klug
what do you make of him? — was hältst du von ihm?; wie schätzt du ihn ein?
make it — (succeed in arriving) es schaffen
15)something makes or breaks or mars somebody — etwas entscheidet über jmds. Glück oder Verderben (Akk.)
16) (consider to be)What do you make the time? - I make it five past eight — Wie spät hast du es od. ist es bei dir? - Auf meiner Uhr ist es fünf nach acht
17)2. intransitive verb,make 'do with/without something — mit/ohne etwas auskommen
1) (proceed)make toward something/somebody — auf etwas/jemanden zusteuern
make to do something — Anstalten machen, etwas zu tun
3. nounmake as if or as though to do something — so tun, als wolle man etwas tun
make of car — Automarke, die
3)on the make — (coll.): (intent on gain) hinter dem Geld her (abwertend)
Phrasal Verbs:- make for- make off- make out- make up* * *n.Fabrikat -e n.Herstellung f.Marke -n f. v.(§ p.,p.p.: made)= knüpfen v.machen v.vornehmen v. -
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1. noun1) (material) Papier, dasput something down on paper — etwas schriftlich festhalten od. niederlegen
it looks all right on paper — (in theory) auf dem Papier sieht es ganz gut aus
the treaty etc. isn't worth the paper it's written on — (coll.) der Vertrag usw. ist nicht das Papier wert, auf dem er geschrieben steht
4) (newspaper) Zeitung, diedaily/weekly paper — Tages-/Wochenzeitung, die
5) (wallpaper) Tapete, die6) (wrapper) Stück Papier2. adjective1) (made of paper) aus Papier nachgestellt; Papier[mütze, -taschentuch]2) (theoretical) nominell [zahlenmäßige Stärke, Profit]3. transitive verbPhrasal Verbs:- academic.ru/89799/paper_over">paper over* * *['peipə] 1. noun1) (the material on which these words are written, made from wood, rags etc and used for writing, printing, wrapping parcels etc: I need paper and a pen to write a letter; ( also adjective) a paper bag.) das Papier, Papier-...2) (a single (often printed or typed) piece of this: There were papers all over his desk.) das Papier3) (a newspaper: Have you read the paper?) die Zeitung4) (a group of questions for a written examination: The Latin paper was very difficult.) die Prüfungsarbeit5) ((in plural) documents proving one's identity, nationality etc: The policeman demanded my papers.) die Papiere (pl.)•- papery- paperback 2. adjectivepaperback novels.) Paperback-...- paper-clip- paper-knife
- paper sculpture
- paperweight
- paperwork* * *pa·per[ˈpeɪpəʳ, AM -ɚ]I. nrecycled \paper Altpapier ntto commit sth to \paper etw zu Papier bringento look good on \paper auf dem Papier gut aussehenseveral candidates looked good on \paper einige Kandidaten machten in ihrer schriftlichen Bewerbung einen guten Eindruckdaily \paper Tageszeitung f5. (government report) [offizieller] Bericht6. (credentials)▪ \papers pl [Ausweis]papiere plto sit a \paper eine Klausur schreiben11.III. vt1.to \paper walls die Wände tapezieren2. THEAT* * *['peɪpə(r)]1. n1) (= material) Papier nta piece of paper — ein Stück nt Papier
a sheet of paper — ein Blatt nt Papier
a writer who finds it hard to commit himself to paper — ein Schriftsteller, der nur zögernd etwas zu Papier bringt
it's not worth the paper it's written on — das ist schade ums Papier, auf dem es steht
2) (= newspaper) Zeitung fto write to the papers about sth — Leserbriefe/einen Leserbrief über etw (acc) schreiben
he's/his name is always in the papers — er/sein Name steht ständig in der Zeitung
3) pl (= identity papers) Papiere plprivate papers — private Unterlagen pl
to do a good paper in maths — eine gute Mathematikklausur/-arbeit schreiben
7) (= wallpaper) Tapete f8) (PARL)9)(= packet)
a paper of pins — ein Päckchen nt Stecknadeln2. vtwall, room tapezieren* * *paper [ˈpeıpə(r)]A s1. TECHa) Papier nb) Pappe fc) Tapete f2. Papier n (als Schreibmaterial):paper does not blush Papier ist geduldig;on paper fig auf dem Paier:a) theoretischb) noch im Planungsstadiumc) SPORT der Papierform nach;it is not worth the paper it is written on es ist schade um das Papier, das dafür verschwendet wurde; → commit 23. Blatt n Papier4. pla) (Personal-, Ausweis)Papiere pl, Beglaubigungs-, Legitimationspapiere plb) Urkunden pl, Dokumente pl:(ship’s) papers Schiffspapiere;send in one’s papers seinen Abschied nehmenc) Schriftstücke pl, Akten pl, (amtliche) Unterlagen pl:5. WIRTSCHa) (Wert)Papier nb) Wechsel m:best papers erstklassige Wechsel;paper credit Wechselkredit mc) Papiergeld n:convertible paper (in Gold) einlösbares Papiergeld;6. a) schriftliche Prüfungb) Prüfungsarbeit f7. (on über akk)a) Aufsatz m, (wissenschaftliche) Abhandlung, Papier nb) Vortrag m, Vorlesung f, Referat n:read a paper einen Vortrag halten, referieren8. Zeitung f, Blatt n:be in the paper(s) in der Zeitung stehen;it was in all the papers es stand in allen Zeitungen10. THEAT umg Freikarte fB adj1. aus Papier oder Pappe (gemacht), papieren, Papier…, Papp…:paper cup Pappbecher m2. papierähnlich, (hauch)dünn (Wände etc)3. nur auf dem Papier vorhanden (Stadt etc)C v/t1. in Papier einwickeln2. mit Papier ausschlagen3. tapezieren4. mit Papier versehen6. mit Sandpapier polieren7. paper overa) überkleben,8. THEAT umg das Haus durch Verteilung von Freikarten füllenpr abk1. pair2. paper3. power* * *1. noun1) (material) Papier, dasput something down on paper — etwas schriftlich festhalten od. niederlegen
it looks all right on paper — (in theory) auf dem Papier sieht es ganz gut aus
the treaty etc. isn't worth the paper it's written on — (coll.) der Vertrag usw. ist nicht das Papier wert, auf dem er geschrieben steht
4) (newspaper) Zeitung, diedaily/weekly paper — Tages-/Wochenzeitung, die
5) (wallpaper) Tapete, die6) (wrapper) Stück Papier2. adjective1) (made of paper) aus Papier nachgestellt; Papier[mütze, -taschentuch]2) (theoretical) nominell [zahlenmäßige Stärke, Profit]3. transitive verbPhrasal Verbs:* * *(University) n.Hausarbeit (Universität) f. adj.broschiert adj. n.Papier -e n. -
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1. noun1) (tiny mark, dot) Punkt, der2) (sharp end of tool, weapon, pencil, etc.) Spitze, diecome to a [sharp] point — spitz zulaufen
at gun-point/knife-point — mit vorgehaltener [Schuss]waffe/vorgehaltenem Messer
not to put too fine a point on it — (fig.) um nichts zu beschönigen
3) (single item) Punkt, deragree on a point — in einem Punkt od. einer Frage übereinstimmen
be a point of honour with somebody — für jemanden [eine] Ehrensache sein
4) (unit of scoring) Punkt, derscore points off somebody — (fig.) jemanden an die Wand spielen
things have reached a point where or come to such a point that... — die Sache ist dahin od. so weit gediehen, dass...; (negatively) es ist so weit gekommen, dass...
up to a point — bis zu einem gewissen Grad
she was abrupt to the point of rudeness — sie war in einer Weise barsch, die schon an Unverschämtheit grenzte
6) (moment) Zeitpunkt, derbe at/on the point of something — kurz vor etwas (Dat.) sein; einer Sache (Dat.) nahe sein
be on the point of doing something — im Begriff sein, etwas zu tun; etwas gerade tun wollen
7) (distinctive trait) Seite, diebest/strong point — starke Seite; Stärke, die
getting up early has its points — frühes Aufstehen hat auch seine Vorzüge
8) (thing to be discussed)that is just the point or the whole point — das ist genau der springende Punkt
come to or get to the point — zur Sache od. zum Thema kommen
keep or stick to the point — beim Thema bleiben
be beside the point — unerheblich sein; keine Rolle spielen
carry or make one's point — sich durchsetzen
make a point of doing something — [großen] Wert darauf legen, etwas zu tun
make or prove a point — etwas beweisen
you have a point there — da hast du recht; da ist [et]was dran (ugs.)
10) (of story, joke, remark) Pointe, die; (pungency, effect) (of literary work) Eindringlichkeit, die; (of remark) Durchschlagskraft, diethere's no point in protesting — es hat keinen Sinn od. Zweck zu protestieren
point of contact — Berührungspunkt, der
point of no return — Punkt, an dem es kein Zurück mehr gibt
point of view — (fig.) Standpunkt, der
13) (Brit.)[power or electric] point — Steckdose, die
2. intransitive verbprices/the cost of living went up three points — die Preise/Lebenshaltungskosten sind um drei [Prozent]punkte gestiegen
1) zeigen, weisen, [Person auch:] deuten (to, at auf + Akk.)she pointed through the window — sie zeigte aus dem Fenster
the compass needle pointed to the north — die Kompassnadel zeigte od. wies nach Norden
2)3. transitive verbpoint towards or to — (fig.) [hin]deuten od. hinweisen auf (+ Akk.)
1) (direct) richten [Waffe, Kamera] (at auf + Akk.)point one's finger at something/somebody — mit dem Finger auf etwas/jemanden deuten od. zeigen od. weisen
2) (Building) aus-, verfugen [Mauer, Steine]Phrasal Verbs:- academic.ru/108004/point_out">point out* * *[point] 1. noun1) (the sharp end of anything: the point of a pin; a sword point; at gunpoint (= threatened by a gun).) die Spitze2) (a piece of land that projects into the sea etc: The ship came round Lizard Point.) die Landspitze3) (a small round dot or mark (.): a decimal point; five point three six (= 5.36); In punctuation, a point is another name for a full stop.) der Punkt4) (an exact place or spot: When we reached this point of the journey we stopped to rest.) der Punkt5) (an exact moment: Her husband walked in at that point.) der Punkt6) (a place on a scale especially of temperature: the boiling-point of water.) der Punkt7) (a division on a compass eg north, south-west etc.) der Kompaßstrich8) (a mark in scoring a competition, game, test etc: He has won by five points to two.) der Punkt9) (a particular matter for consideration or action: The first point we must decide is, where to meet; That's a good point; You've missed the point; That's the whole point; We're wandering away from the point.) der Punkt11) (a personal characteristic or quality: We all have our good points and our bad ones.) die Eigenschaft12) (an electrical socket in a wall etc into which a plug can be put: Is there only one electrical point in this room?) der Kontakt2. verb1) (to aim in a particular direction: He pointed the gun at her.) richten2) (to call attention to something especially by stretching the index finger in its direction: He pointed (his finger) at the door; He pointed to a sign.) zeigen•- pointed- pointer
- pointless
- pointlessly
- points
- be on the point of
- come to the point
- make a point of
- make one's point
- point out
- point one's toes* * *[pɔɪnt]I. NOUNthe \point of the chin die Kinnspitzeknife/pencil \point Messer-/Bleistiftspitze fto hold sb at gun\point/knife \point jdn mit vorgehaltener Pistole/vorgehaltenem Messer bedrohen\point of light Lichtpunkt m4. (decimal point) Kommadecimal \point Dezimalpunkt m... at London and all \points west... in London und allen Orten westlich davon\point of contact Berührungspunkt m\point of departure [or starting \point] Ausgangspunkt m a. figto reach the \point of no return den Punkt erreichen, an dem man nicht mehr zurück kannat this \point an dieser Stellethis seems like a good \point dies scheint ein günstiger Zeitpunkt zu seinshe was on the \point of collapse sie stand kurz vor dem ZusammenbruchI was completely lost at one \point an einer Stelle hatte ich mich komplett verlaufenwhen it comes to the \point that... wenn es einmal so weit kommt, dass...they tickled him to the \point of torture sie kitzelten ihn so sehr, dass es fast zur Folter wurdeat no \point did I think our relationship wouldn't work out zu keinem Zeitpunkt hatte ich daran gezweifelt, dass es zwischen uns nicht klappen würdeat this/that \point in time zu dieser/jener Zeitat that \point zu diesem Zeitpunkt; (then) in diesem Augenblickfrom that \point on... von da an...7. (about to do)to be on the \point of doing sth [gerade] im Begriff sein, etw zu tunI was on the \point of ringing you myself actually ich wollte dich auch gerade anrufen!she was on the \point of telling him the truth when... sie wollte ihm gerade die Wahrheit sagen, als...I was on the \point of handing in my resignation beinahe hätte ich gekündigtI was on the \point of leaving him ich war kurz davor, ihn zu verlassenok ok, you've made your \point! ja, ich hab's jetzt verstanden! famyou made some interesting \points in your speech Sie haben in Ihrer Rede einige interessante Punkte angesprochenwhat \point are you trying to make? worauf wollen Sie hinaus?you have a \point there da ist was dran famshe does have a \point though so ganz Unrecht hat sie nichtshe made the \point that... sie wies darauf hin, dass...; (stress) sie betonte, dass...my \point was that... ich wollte sagen, dass...my \point exactly das sag ich ja famok, \point taken o.k., ich hab schon begriffen famthat's a \point das ist ein Argument slI take your \point einverstandenI can see your \point ich weiß, was du sagen willstthe \point under dispute der strittige Punkt\point of detail Detailfrage fto make [or raise] a \point in favour of/against sth ein Argument für etw akk /gegen etw akk einbringento drive home the \point seinen Standpunkt klarmachen\point of honour Ehrensache f\point of law Rechtsfrage fa 5-\point plan ein Fünfpunkteplan mto make/prove one's \point seinen Standpunkt deutlich machen\point by \point Punkt für Punkt▪ the \point der springende Punktthe \point is... der Punkt ist nämlich der,...more to the \point, however,... wichtiger jedoch ist...your arguments were very much to the \point deine Argumente waren wirklich sehr sachbezogenthat's beside the \point [or not the \point]! darum geht es doch gar nicht!to get the \point of sth etw verstehento make a \point of doing sth [großen] Wert darauf legen, etw zu tunto miss the \point of sth nicht verstehen [o begreifen], worum es gehtbut that's the whole \point! aber das ist doch genau der Punkt!what's the \point of waiting for them? warum sollten wir auf sie warten?there's no \point of talking about it any longer es hat keinen Zweck, sich noch länger darüber zu unterhaltenI really don't see the \point of going to this meeting ich weiß wirklich nicht, warum ich zu dieser Besprechung gehen solltebut that's the whole \point of doing it! aber deswegen machen wir es ja gerade!what's the \point anyway? was soll's?from that \point on... von diesem Moment an...the high \point of the evening... der Höhepunkt des Abends...things have reached a \point where I just can't bear it any longer ich bin an einen Punkt angelangt, wo ich es einfach nicht mehr aushalten kannit got to the \point where no one knew what was going on irgendwann wusste dann keiner mehr, was Sache war... when it came to the \point...... als es soweit war,...we'll start again tomorrow from the \point where we left off today wir werden morgen da weitermachen, wo wir heute aufgehört habenup to a \point bis zu einem gewissen Grad [o Maßebeing single does have its \points single zu sein hat auch seine Vorteilebad/good \points schlechte/gute Seitenthe book has its \points das Buch hat auch seine guten Seitensb's strong \points jds Stärkensb's weak \points jds SchwächenSan Francisco has scored 31 \points San Francisco hat 31 Punkte erzielta win on \points ein Sieg m nach Punktento win on \points nach Punkten siegento have risen seven \points sieben Punkte gestiegen sein15. (for diamonds) 0,01 Karatto dance on \points auf Spitzen tanzen21. AUTO▪ \points pl Unterbrecherkontakte pl22. BRIT RAIL▪ \points pl Weichen plthe small letters are in 6 \point die kleinen Buchstaben haben Schriftgröße 6 Punkt25. (cricket) Position in der Nähe des Schlagmannes26. (extremities)▪ \points pl of horse, dog Extremitäten pl28.▶ sb makes a \point of doing sth für jdn ist es wichtig, etw zu tunI know the door was locked because I made a point of checking it ich weiß, dass die Tür abgeschlossen war, weil ich extra nochmal nachgesehen habenot to put too fine a \point on it,... ehrlich gesagt...1. (with finger) deuten, zeigen▪ to \point at [or to] sth/sb [mit dem Finger] auf etw/jdn zeigenit's rude to \point at people man zeigt nicht mit dem Finger auf Leute2. (be directed) weisenthere was an arrow \pointing to the door ein Pfeil wies den Weg zur Türthe needle was \pointing to ‘empty’ die Nadel zeigte auf ‚leer‘to \point east/west nach Osten/Westen weisen [o zeigen3. (indicate)all the signs \point to his reinstatement alles deutet darauf hin, dass er wieder eingestellt wird4. (use as evidence)III. TRANSITIVE VERB1. (aim)▪ to \point sth at sb/sth weapon etw [auf jdn/etw] richten; stick, one's finger mit etw dat auf jdn/etw zeigen2. (direct)could you \point me in the direction of the bus station, please? könnten Sie mir bitte sagen, wie ich zum Busbahnhof komme?3. (extend)to \point one's toes die Zehen strecken4. (building)▪ to \point sth etw verfugen [o ausfugen5. HUNT6. (punctuate)to \point a psalm einen Psalm mit Deklamationszeichen versehen* * *point [pɔınt]A s1. (Nadel-, Messer-, Schwert-, Bleistift- etc) Spitze f:not put too fine a point upon sth etwas nicht gerade gewählt ausdrücken;at the point of the pistol mit vorgehaltener Pistole oder Waffe, mit Waffengewalt;at the point of the sword fig unter Zwang, mit Gewalt2. obsa) Dolch mb) Schwert na) Stecheisen nb) Grabstichel m, Griffel mc) Radier-, Ätznadel fd) Ahle f4. GEOGa) Landspitze fb) Bergspitze f5. JAGD (Geweih)Ende n, Sprosse f6. pl Gliedmaßen pl (besonders von Pferden)8. TYPOa) Punktur fb) (typografischer) Punkt (= 0,376 mm)c) Punkt m (Blindenschrift)9 points fig 90%, fast das Ganze;possession is nine points of the law (Sprichwort) der Besitzende hat fast immer das Gesetz auf seiner Seite12. Punkt m:a) bestimmte Stelle4 points below zero 4 Grad unter null;point of contact Berührungspunkt;point of impact MIL Aufschlag-, Auftreffpunkt;a) FLUG Gefahrenmitte f, Umkehrgrenzpunkt m,b) fig Punkt, von dem es kein Zurück mehr gibt;13. GEOG Himmelsrichtung f14. Punkt m, Stelle f, Ort m:point of destination Bestimmungsort;15. Anschluss-, Verbindungspunkt m, besondersa) ELEK Kontakt(punkt) mb) ELEK Br Steckdose f16. Grenz-, Höhe-, Gipfelpunkt m, Grenze f:point of culmination Kulminations-, Höhepunkt;frankness to the point of insult Offenheit, die schon an Beleidigung grenzt;it gave a point to their day das setzte ihrem Tag ein Glanzlicht aufb) kritischer Punkt, entscheidendes Stadium:when it came to the point als es so weit war, als es darauf ankam;at the point of death im Sterben, im Augenblick des Todes;be on the point of doing sth im Begriff oder auf dem Sprung sein, etwas zu tun;at that point in time US damals;at this point in time US jetzt18. Punkt m (einer Tagesordnung etc), (Einzel-, Teil)Frage f:a case in point ein einschlägiger Fall, ein (typisches) Beispiel;at all points in allen Punkten, in jeder Hinsicht;differ on several points in etlichen Punkten nicht übereinstimmen;point of comparison Vergleichspunkt;a point of interest eine interessante Einzelheit;come (speak) to the point zur Sache kommen (sprechen);a) nicht zur Sache gehörig, abwegig,b) unwichtig, unerheblich;be beside the point auch nichts zur Sache tun;to the point zur Sache (gehörig), sachdienlich, sachlich, (zu-)treffend;make a point ein Argument anbringen, seine Ansicht durchsetzen;the point I’m trying to make is that … was ich sagen will, ist, dass …;b) sich etwas zum Prinzip machen;make the point that … bemerken, dass …;that is the point das ist die Frage oder der springende Punkt;that’s not the point darum geht es nicht;the point is that … die Sache ist die, dass …;that’s the point I wanted to make darauf wollte ich hinaus;you have a point there es ist etwas dran an dem, was Sie sagen;I take your point ich verstehe, was Sie meinen;it hasn’t got much point es ist nicht sehr wichtig20. Pointe f (eines Witzes etc)from a political point of view vom politischen Standpunkt aus (gesehen), politisch gesehen;make sth a point of hono(u)r etwas als Ehrensache betrachten;it’s a point of hono(u)r to him das ist Ehrensache für ihn;in point of hinsichtlich (gen);22. Ziel n, Zweck m, Absicht f:what’s the point of doing that? was für einen Sinn oder Zweck hat es, das zu tun?;what’s your point in doing that? was bezweckst du damit?;there is no point in going there es hat keinen Zweck oder es ist sinnlos hinzugehen23. Nachdruck m:give point to one’s words seinen Worten Gewicht oder Nachdruck verleihen24. (hervorstechende) Eigenschaft, (Charakter)Zug m:good (bad) points gute (schlechte) Eigenschaften;a noble point in her ein edler Zug an ihr;strong point starke Seite, Stärke f;weak point wunder Punkt, schwache Seite;it has its points es hat so seine Vorzüge25. Tierzucht: besonderes Rassenmerkmal26. Punkt m (eines Bewertungs- oder Rationierungssystems):point rationing Punktrationierung f28. SPORT Punkt m:three points from three games drei Punkte aus drei Spielen;be on five points bei fünf Punkten liegen;win (lose) on points nach Punkten gewinnen (verlieren);points defeat Punktniederlage f;winner on points, points winner Punktsieger(in);beat sb on points jemanden nach Punkten schlagen;be in the points auf einem Punkterang liegen;finish out of the points außerhalb der Punkteränge enden;a) jemandem vorgeben,b) fig jemandem überlegen sein;30. Würfel-, Kartenspiel: Auge n, Punkt m31. Handarbeit:a) Näh-, Nadelspitze f (Ggs Klöppelspitze)b) Handarbeitsspitze fd) Stickstich m32. MUSa) Stakkatopunkt mb) Wiederholungszeichen nc) charakteristisches Motivd) Imitationsmotiv n33. MILa) Spitze f (einer Vorhut)b) Ende n (einer Nachhut)34. JAGD Stehen n (des Hundes):35. BAHNa) Weiche fb) Br Weichenschiene fB v/t1. einen Bleistift etc (an-, zu)spitzen2. fig seine Worte etc pointieren, betonen3. eine Waffe etc richten (at auf akk):point one’s finger at sba) (mit dem Finger) auf jemanden deuten oder zeigen,4. zeigen:point the way den Weg weisen (a. fig);a) zeigen,d) fig ausführen, darlegen;point out to sb that … jemanden darauf aufmerksam machen, dass …with mit)point off places Stellen abstreichen7. point upa) ARCH verfugen,C v/i1. (mit dem Finger) deuten, weisen ( beide:at, to auf akk)a) hinweisen, -deuten auf (akk):b) ab-, hinzielen auf (akk)4. SCHIFF hart am Wind segeln6. MED reifen (Abszess etc)pt abk1. part T.2. payment4. point5. port* * *1. noun1) (tiny mark, dot) Punkt, der2) (sharp end of tool, weapon, pencil, etc.) Spitze, diecome to a [sharp] point — spitz zulaufen
at gun-point/knife-point — mit vorgehaltener [Schuss]waffe/vorgehaltenem Messer
not to put too fine a point on it — (fig.) um nichts zu beschönigen
3) (single item) Punkt, deragree on a point — in einem Punkt od. einer Frage übereinstimmen
be a point of honour with somebody — für jemanden [eine] Ehrensache sein
4) (unit of scoring) Punkt, derscore points off somebody — (fig.) jemanden an die Wand spielen
5) (stage, degree)things have reached a point where or come to such a point that... — die Sache ist dahin od. so weit gediehen, dass...; (negatively) es ist so weit gekommen, dass...
she was abrupt to the point of rudeness — sie war in einer Weise barsch, die schon an Unverschämtheit grenzte
6) (moment) Zeitpunkt, derbe at/on the point of something — kurz vor etwas (Dat.) sein; einer Sache (Dat.) nahe sein
be on the point of doing something — im Begriff sein, etwas zu tun; etwas gerade tun wollen
7) (distinctive trait) Seite, diebest/strong point — starke Seite; Stärke, die
the point — (essential thing) das Entscheidende
that is just the point or the whole point — das ist genau der springende Punkt
come to or get to the point — zur Sache od. zum Thema kommen
keep or stick to the point — beim Thema bleiben
be beside the point — unerheblich sein; keine Rolle spielen
carry or make one's point — sich durchsetzen
make a point of doing something — [großen] Wert darauf legen, etwas zu tun
make or prove a point — etwas beweisen
you have a point there — da hast du recht; da ist [et]was dran (ugs.)
10) (of story, joke, remark) Pointe, die; (pungency, effect) (of literary work) Eindringlichkeit, die; (of remark) Durchschlagskraft, die11) (purpose, value) Zweck, der; Sinn, derthere's no point in protesting — es hat keinen Sinn od. Zweck zu protestieren
12) (precise place, spot) Punkt, der; Stelle, die; (Geom.) Punkt, derpoint of contact — Berührungspunkt, der
point of no return — Punkt, an dem es kein Zurück mehr gibt
point of view — (fig.) Standpunkt, der
13) (Brit.)[power or electric] point — Steckdose, die
16) (unit in competition, rationing, stocks, shares, etc.) Punkt, derprices/the cost of living went up three points — die Preise/Lebenshaltungskosten sind um drei [Prozent]punkte gestiegen
17) (on compass) Strich, der2. intransitive verb1) zeigen, weisen, [Person auch:] deuten (to, at auf + Akk.)the compass needle pointed to the north — die Kompassnadel zeigte od. wies nach Norden
2)3. transitive verbpoint towards or to — (fig.) [hin]deuten od. hinweisen auf (+ Akk.)
1) (direct) richten [Waffe, Kamera] (at auf + Akk.)point one's finger at something/somebody — mit dem Finger auf etwas/jemanden deuten od. zeigen od. weisen
2) (Building) aus-, verfugen [Mauer, Steine]Phrasal Verbs:* * *(Typography) n.typographischer Punkt (Schriftgrößenskala) m. n.Einzelheit f.Punkt -e m.Spitze -n (Kinn-, Messer-) f.Standpunkt m. v.zeigen v. -
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1. noun1) Stolz, der; (arrogance) Hochmut, dertake or have pride of place — die Spitzenstellung einnehmen; (in collection etc.) das Glanzstück sein
take [a] pride in somebody/something — auf jemanden/etwas stolz sein
2) (object, best one) Stolz, der3) (of lions) Rudel, das2. reflexive verbpride oneself [up]on something — (congratulate oneself) auf etwas (Akk.) stolz sein
* * *1) (a feeling of pleasure and satisfaction at one's achievements, possessions, family etc: She looked with pride at her handsome sons.) der Stolz2) (personal dignity: His pride was hurt by her criticism.) der Stolz3) (a group (of lions or of peacocks): a pride of lions.) das Rudel•- academic.ru/115356/be_the_pride_and_joy_of">be the pride and joy of- the pride of
- pride of place
- pride oneself on
- take pride in* * *[praɪd]I. nto feel great \pride besonders stolz seinto take \pride in sb/sth stolz auf jdn/etw seinto have too much \pride to do sth zu stolz sein, um etw zu tun, sich dat zu schade sein, [um] etw zu tun pejthe \pride of one's/sb's collection das Glanzstück in der eigenen/jds Sammlungto be sb's \pride and joy jds ganzer Stolz seina \pride of lions ein Rudel nt Löwen4.▶ to swallow one's \pride seinen Stolz überwindenII. vt▪ to \pride oneself on [or upon] sth auf etw akk [besonders] stolz sein, sich akk mit etw dat rühmenhe \prides himself that he's never... er kann von sich mit Stolz behaupten, dass er noch nie im Leben...* * *[praɪd]1. n1) Stolz m; (= arrogance) Hochmut mto have too much pride to do sth — zu stolz sein, um etw zu tun
to take (a) pride in sth — auf etw (acc) stolz sein
her pride and joy —
to have or take pride of place — den Ehrenplatz einnehmen
pride comes before a fall (prov) — Hochmut kommt vor dem Fall (Prov)
2) (of lions) Rudel nt2. vrto pride oneself on sth — sich einer Sache (gen) rühmen
I pride myself on being an expert in this field —
he prides himself on the succinctness of his prose — er rühmt sich des knappen Stils seiner Prosa
* * *pride [praıd]A s1. Stolz m, Hochmut m:pride goes before a fall (Sprichwort) Hochmut kommt vor dem Fall2. Stolz m, Selbstgefühl n:a) Ehrenplatz m,b) fig Vorrang m,c) pej Standesdünkel m;take pride of place fig den Vorrang haben, die erste Stelle einnehmen;take (a) pride in stolz sein auf (akk);a smile of pride ein stolzes Lächeln3. Stolz m (Gegenstand des Stolzes):the pride of a collection das Glanzstück einer Sammlung;be sb’s pride and joy jemandes ganzer Stolz sein4. Höhe f, Blüte f:in the pride of his years in seinen besten Jahren;in the pride of manhood im besten Mannesalter;in the pride of the season in der besten Jahreszeit5. obs oder poet Pracht f, Zierde f, Schmuck m6. Schar f, Rudel n (besonders von Löwen)8. obsa) Vollkraft fb) Übermut mB v/t pride o.s. (on, upon) stolz sein (auf akk), sich rühmen (gen), sich brüsten (mit), sich etwas einbilden (auf akk)* * *1. noun1) Stolz, der; (arrogance) Hochmut, dertake or have pride of place — die Spitzenstellung einnehmen; (in collection etc.) das Glanzstück sein
take [a] pride in somebody/something — auf jemanden/etwas stolz sein
2) (object, best one) Stolz, der3) (of lions) Rudel, das2. reflexive verbpride oneself [up]on something — (congratulate oneself) auf etwas (Akk.) stolz sein
* * *n.Eigenliebe f.Hochmut -e m.Stolz nur sing. m. -
92 one
one [wʌn]1. adjective• one hot summer afternoon she... par un chaud après-midi d'été, elle...► one... the other• one girl was French, the other was Swiss une des filles était française, l'autre était suisse• the sea is on one side, the mountains on the other d'un côté, il y a la mer, de l'autre les montagnes► one thing ( = something that)one thing I'd like to know is where he got the money ce que j'aimerais savoir, c'est d'où lui vient l'argent• if there's one thing I can't stand it's... s'il y a une chose que je ne supporte pas, c'est...► one person ( = somebody that)one person I hate is Roy s'il y a quelqu'un que je déteste, c'est Royb. ( = a single) un seul• the one man/woman who could do it le seul/la seule qui puisse le faire• the one and only Charlie Chaplin! le seul, l'unique Charlot !c. ( = same) même2. noun• one, two, three un, deux, trois• I for one don't believe it pour ma part, je ne le crois pas━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• any one of them n'importe lequel (or laquelle)3. pronoun━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• would you like one? en voulez-vous un(e) ?► adjective + one━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► one is not translated.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• that's a difficult one! ( = question) ça c'est difficile !━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The article and adjective in French are masculine or feminine, depending on the noun referred to.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• I'd like a big one ( = glass) j'en voudrais un grand• I'd like the big one ( = slice) je voudrais la grosse► the one + clause, phrase• the one who or that... celui qui (or celle qui)...• the one on the floor celui (or celle) qui est par terre• is this the one you wanted? c'est bien celui-ci (or celle-ci) que vous vouliez ?► one another l'un (e) l'autre4. compounds• his company is a one-man band (inf) il fait marcher l'affaire tout seul ► one-man show noun [of performer] spectacle m solo, one-man show m• it's a one-off (object) il n'y en a qu'un comme ça ; (event) ça ne va pas se reproduire ► one-on-one, one-one (US) adjective= one-to-one(US) = one-off► one-to-one, one-on-one, one-one (US) adjective [conversation] en tête-à-tête ; [training, counselling] individuel• to have a one-track mind n'avoir qu'une idée en tête ► one-upmanship (inf) noun art m de faire mieux que les autres• it's a one-way ticket to disaster (inf) c'est la catastrophe assurée ► one-woman adjective [business] individuel* * *Note: When one is used as a personal pronoun it is translated by on when it is the subject of the verb: one never knows = on ne sait jamais. When one is the object of the verb or comes after a preposition it is usually translated by vous: it can make one ill = cela peut vous rendre maladeFor more examples and all other uses, see the entry below[wʌn] 1.1) ( single) un/une2) (unique, sole) seulshe's one fine artist — US c'est une très grande artiste
3) ( same) même4) ( for emphasis)2.1) ( indefinite) un/une m/fcan you lend me one? — tu peux m'en prêter un/une?
every one of them — tous/toutes sans exception (+ v pl)
2) ( impersonal) ( as subject) on; ( as object) vousone would like to think that... — on aimerait penser que...
you're a one! — (colloq) toi alors!
I for one think that... — pour ma part je crois que...
4) ( demonstrative)the grey one — le gris/la grise
this one — celui-ci/celle-ci
which one? — lequel/laquelle?
that's the one — c'est celui-là/celle-là
5) ( in knitting)knit one, purl one — une maille à l'endroit, une maille à l'envers
6) ( in currency)one-fifty — ( in sterling) une livre cinquante; ( in dollars) un dollar cinquante
7) (colloq) ( drink)he's had one too many — il a bu un coup (colloq) de trop
8) (colloq) ( joke)have you heard the one about...? — est-ce que tu connais l'histoire de...?
9) (colloq) ( blow)to land ou sock somebody one — en coller une à quelqu'un (colloq)
10) (colloq) (question, problem)3.1) ( number) un m; ( referring to feminine) une fto throw a one — ( on dice) faire un un
2) ( person)4.her loved ones — ceux qui lui sont/étaient chers
as one adverbial phrase [rise] comme un seul homme; [shout, reply] tous ensemble5.one by one adverbial phrase [pick up, wash] un par un/une par une••to be one up on somebody — (colloq) avoir un avantage sur quelqu'un
to have a thousand ou million and one things to do — avoir un tas de choses à faire
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93 record
[+ facts, story, speech, music] enregistrer ; [+ event] (in journal, log) consigner• his speech as recorded in the newspapers... son discours, tel que le rapportent les journaux...2. noun• to go/be on record as saying that... déclarer/avoir déclaré publiquement que...• just to set the record straight, let me point out that... pour qu'il n'y ait aucune confusion possible, j'aimerais préciser que...b. ( = case history) dossier m• this airline has a good safety record cette compagnie aérienne est réputée pour la sécurité de ses volsc. ( = recording) [of voice] enregistrement m3. compounds► record breaker noun ( = person) nouveau détenteur m du record, nouvelle détentrice f du record ; (Sport) nouveau recordman m, nouvelle recordwoman f• to do sth in record time faire qch en un temps record ► record token noun chèque-cadeau m (à échanger contre un disque)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━✦ Lorsque record est un verbe, l'accent tombe sur la seconde syllabe: rɪˈkɔ:d, lorsque c'est un nom, sur la première: ˈrekɔ:d.* * *1. ['rekɔːd], US ['rekərd]1) ( written account) ( of events) compte-rendu m; ( of official proceedings) procès-verbal mto be on record as saying that... — avoir déclaré officiellement que...
3) ( history) ( of individual) passé m; (of organization, group) réputation f4) Audio disque m (by, of de)5) ( best performance) record m (for, in de)6) Law (also criminal record) casier m judiciaire2. ['rekɔːd], US ['rekərd]noun modifier3. [rɪ'kɔːd]to be at a record high/low — être à son niveau le plus haut/bas
transitive verb1) ( note) noter2) (on disc, tape) enregistrer3) ( register) [equipment] enregistrer [temperature]; [dial] indiquer [pressure, speed]4) ( provide an account of) rapporter [event]4. [rɪ'kɔːd]intransitive verb [video, tape recorder] enregistrer -
94 intention
[ɪn'tenʃ(ə)n]nнамерение, планы, стремление, замысел, цельWe had every intention of finishing the job in time. — У нас были наилучшие намерения закончить работу во-время.
I haven't the slightest intention to accept/of accepting this offer. — Я совершенно не намерен принимать это предложение.
Many thanks for your kind intentions. — Спасибо за ваши добрые намерения.
Teaching was my original intention. — Моей первоначальной целью была преподавательская деятельность.
- one's firm intentionThe road to hell is paved with good intentions. — ◊ Дорога в ад вымощена благими намерениями
- smb's original intention
- unexpressed intention
- hastily-formed intention
- intention of the poem
- chief intention of the builder is stability
- best of intentions
- purity of smb's intentions
- with very goods intention
- without personal intention
- with no intention of doing smth
- with no intention to buy
- with the intention of helping him
- by deliberate intention
- by his expressed intention
- against smb's intentions
- whatever his intentions
- have good intentions
- do smth without intention
- reveal the original intentions
- defeat the best intentions
- look for an evil intention in everything
- have serious intentions
- do smth with secret intentions
- court a woman with honourable intentions
- express one's intentions
- declare one's intentions
- give up one's intentions
- make one's intentions known
- conceal one's intentions
- accomplish one's intention
- not to carry out one's intentions
- do smth against smb's intentions
- have no intention to do smth
- have no the slightest intention of accepting
- come with the intention of discussing all our complaints
- man of excellent intentions
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95 public
1. n собир. народthe public is the best judge, the public are the best judges — народ — лучший судья
2. n собир. публикаin public — открыто, публично; на людях
the public are not admitted — публика не допускается, вход воспрещён
general public, public at large — широкая публика
public image — репутация, мнение широкой публики
3. n собир. общественность4. a народный, общенародныйpublic ownership — общенародное достояние; общественная собственность
5. a общественный, коммунальный, общественного пользованияpublic service — коммунальное обслуживание, коммунальные услуги
public network — общедоступная сеть; сеть общего пользования
6. a публичный, общедоступныйpublic sale — публичные торги, аукцион
7. a открытый, гласныйopen to the public — вход свободный ; открыто для всех
8. a государственный, национальныйpublic officer — государственный служащий, чиновник, должностное лицо
public trustee — публичный доверительный собственник; государственный попечитель
public notary, notary public — нотариус
public bill — публичный законопроект; законопроект общегосударственного значения
public institution — публичное, государственное учреждение
9. a публично-правовой10. a вчт. общийСинонимический ряд:1. civic (adj.) civic; civil; governmental; national; owned by the state; publicly-financed; societal; tax-supported; under the public domain2. communal (adj.) collective; common; communal; conjoint; conjunct; democratic; general; intermutual; joint; mutual; popular; prevalent; shared; vulgar; widespread3. unrestricted (adj.) accessible; free; free to all; known; not private; open; open to the public; open-door; unrestricted; without charge4. commons (noun) commonalty; commoners; commons; crowd; masses; mob5. populace (noun) audience; citizens; clientage; clientele; community; following; humanity; men; populace; society; the community6. societies (noun) communities; people; societiesАнтонимический ряд:individual; personal; private; restricted -
96 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, 714-1140The 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, 1140-1385Two 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 inPortugal (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, 1385-1580The 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, 1580-1640Despite 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, 1640-1822Foreign 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 theChurch (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, 1822-1910During 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, 1910-26Portugal'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), 1926-74During 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, 1974-76Following 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 untilUN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000After 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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(1895-1956)Writer, journalist, cultural leader, and diplomat in the early and middle phases of the Estado Novo. Born into a family with strong republican sympathies and enrolled as a student in Lisbon University's Law Faculty, Ferro soon abandoned his faith in the chaotic republic, quit studying law, and became a poet, writer, and journalist. His reputation as a modernist and nationalist who was also a cosmopolitan, celebrated, prolific, and well-traveled journalist was acquired during the years 1917-33, when his publications attracted much public attention. Ferro published best-selling accounts include exclusive personal interviews of right-wing dictators in Italy, Spain, and other countries; portraits of the United States, including Hollywood in the 1920s; and a depiction of the turbulent Spanish Republic prior to the Spanish Civil War.The best-selling book that brought Ferro a key government job with the Estado Novo was composed of a series of 1932 interviews with Portugal's dictator, Salazar-O Homem e a Sua Obra (1933). This sensational book advanced an appealing image of Antônio de Oliveira Salazar, recently appointed premier by the military. The next year, Salazar invited Ferro to head the government's new information arm, Secretariado de Propaganda Nacional, which was renamed Secretariado Nacional da Informação (SNI) in 1944. From 1933 to 1949, Ferro directed this agency. Later alienated by the political situation, he was posted as a diplomat to Berne and Rome. Ferro married the Lisbon-based writer Maria Fernanda de Castro (1900-94). She collaborated with him on many writing and film projects. Ferro's so-called "policy of the Spirit" was a cultural policy that blended modernism, nationalism, and conservative values in the plastic and performing arts, film, and literature. After his diplomatic service abroad, he died in Lisbon. -
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level ['levəl]niveau ⇒ 1 (a)-(d), 1 (f) hauteur ⇒ 1 (a) taux ⇒ 1 (b) échelon ⇒ 1 (c) étage ⇒ 1 (f) plat ⇒ 1 (g), 2 (a) au même niveau ⇒ 2 (b) à la même hauteur ⇒ 2 (b) horizontal ⇒ 2 (c) de/à niveau ⇒ 2 (c) à égalité ⇒ 2 (d) calme ⇒ 2 (e) à l'horizontale ⇒ 3 aplanir ⇒ 4 (a) niveler ⇒ 4 (a)1 noun∎ at ground level au niveau du sol;∎ water seeks its own level c'est le principe des vases communicants; figurative on se heurte toujours à ses propres limites;∎ the level of the river has risen overnight le niveau de la rivière a monté pendant la nuit;∎ the flood waters have reached the level of the bridge la crue a atteint le niveau du pont;∎ the sink is on a level with the work surface l'évier est au niveau du ou de niveau avec le plan de travail;∎ on the same level au même niveau∎ noise levels are far too high le niveau sonore est bien trop élevé;∎ a low level of sugar in the bloodstream un faible taux de sucre dans le sang;∎ inflation has reached new levels l'inflation a atteint de nouveaux sommets;∎ check the oil level (in car) vérifiez le niveau d'huile;∎ her ambition is on a level with mine son ambition est du même ordre que la mienne;∎ Computing levels of grey échelle f des gris∎ at cabinet/national level à l'échelon ministériel/national;∎ at a regional level au niveau régional;∎ talks are being held at the highest level on négocie au plus haut niveau(d) (standard) niveau m;∎ her level of English is poor elle n'a pas un très bon niveau en anglais;∎ students at beginners' level étudiants mpl au niveau débutant;∎ a high level of competence/intelligence un haut niveau de compétence/d'intelligence;∎ they're not on the same level at all ils ne sont pas du tout du même niveau, ils n'ont absolument pas le même niveau;∎ she's on a different level from the others elle n'est pas au même niveau que les autres;∎ to come down to sb's level se mettre au niveau de qn;∎ don't descend or sink to their level ne t'abaisse pas à leur niveau∎ on a personal level, I really like him sur le plan personnel, je l'aime beaucoup;∎ on a practical level du point de vue pratique∎ the library is on level three la bibliothèque est au niveau trois ou au troisième étage(g) (flat land) plat m;∎ 100 km/h on the level 100 km/h sur le plat(h) (for woodwork, building etc)∎ (spirit) level niveau m (à bulle)∎ on the level (honest) honnête□, réglo;∎ do you think he's on the level? tu crois qu'il est réglo ou que c'est un type réglo?;∎ I'm giving it to you on the level je te dis ça franchement ou sans détour;∎ this deal is definitely on the level cette affaire est tout ce qu'il y a de plus réglo∎ a level spoonful une cuillerée rase;∎ to make sth level aplanir qch∎ the terrace is level with the pool la terrasse est au même niveau que ou de plain-pied avec la piscine;∎ his head is just level with my shoulder sa tête m'arrive exactement à l'épaule∎ the leading cars are almost level les voitures de tête sont presque à la même hauteur;∎ to draw level se trouver à égalité;∎ the other runners drew level with me les autres coureurs m'ont rattrapé(e) (calm, steady) calme, mesuré;∎ to speak in a level voice parler d'une voix calme ou posée;∎ she gave me a level look elle me regarda posément;∎ to keep a level head garder la tête froide∎ you're not being level with me tu ne joues pas franc jeu avec moi∎ to do one's level best faire de son mieux;∎ she did her level best to irritate me elle a tout fait pour me mettre en colère;∎ they're level pegging ils sont à égalité3 adverbà l'horizontale;∎ hold the tray level tenez le plateau à l'horizontale ou bien à plat;∎ Aviation to fly level voler en palier∎ to level a town (to the ground) raser une ville∎ to level a gun at sb braquer une arme sur qn;∎ to level accusations at sb lancer des accusations contre qn;∎ a lot of criticism has been levelled at me on m'a beaucoup critiqué(c) (in surveying) effectuer des opérations de nivellement dans, niveler∎ familiar to level with sb être franc avec qn□, jouer franc jeu avec qn□►► British & French Canadian level crossing passage m à niveau;Aviation level flight vol m horizontal(surface) aplanir, niveler; (standard) niveler par le bas(a) (production, rise, development) s'équilibrer, se stabiliser;∎ the curve on the graph levels off at this point la courbe du graphique se stabilise à partir d'ici;∎ the team's performance has levelled off this season les résultats de l'équipe se sont stabilisés cette saison(flatten) aplatir, niveler(a) (road, surface) s'aplanir(b) (stabilize) se stabilisernivelerniveler (par le haut) -
99 say
say [seɪ](a) (put into words) dire;∎ to say sth (to sb) dire qch (à qn);∎ to say hello/goodbye to sb dire bonjour/au revoir à qn;∎ say hello to them for me dites-leur bonjour de ma part;∎ figurative I think you can say goodbye to your money je crois que vous pouvez dire adieu à votre argent;∎ as I said yesterday/in my letter comme je l'ai dit hier/dans ma lettre;∎ to say yes/no dire oui/non;∎ did you say yes or no to his offer? tu as répondu oui ou non à sa proposition?, tu as accepté ou refusé sa proposition?;∎ I wouldn't say no! je ne dis pas non!, ce n'est pas de refus!;∎ I wouldn't say no to a cold drink je prendrais volontiers ou bien une boisson fraîche;∎ to say please/thank you dire s'il vous plaît/merci;∎ to say a prayer (for) dire une prière (pour);∎ to say one's prayers faire sa prière;∎ I can't say Russian names properly je n'arrive pas à bien prononcer les noms russes;∎ I said to myself "let's wait a bit" je me suis dit "attendons un peu";∎ what did he say about his plans? qu'a-t-il dit de ses projets?;∎ have you said anything about it to him? est-ce que vous lui en avez parlé?;∎ don't say too much about our visit ne parlez pas trop de notre visite;∎ the less said the better moins nous parlerons, mieux cela vaudra;∎ what did you say? (repeat what you said) pardon?, qu'avez-vous dit?; (in reply) qu'avez-vous répondu?;∎ well, say something then! eh bien, dites quelque chose!;∎ I can't think of anything to say je ne trouve rien à dire;∎ I have nothing more to say on the matter je n'ai rien à ajouter là-dessus;∎ nothing was said about going to Moscow on n'a pas parlé d'aller ou il n'a pas été question d'aller à Moscou;∎ let's say no more about it n'en parlons plus;∎ can you say that again? pouvez-vous répéter ce que vous venez de dire?;∎ you can say that again! c'est le cas de le dire!, je ne vous le fais pas dire!;∎ Telecommunications who shall I say is calling? c'est de la part de qui?;∎ say what you think dites ce que vous pensez;∎ say what you mean dites ce que vous avez à dire;∎ the chairman would like to say a few words le président voudrait dire quelques mots;∎ he didn't have a good word to say about the plan il n'a dit que du mal du projet;∎ he doesn't have a good word to say about anybody il n'a jamais rien de positif à dire sur personne;∎ what have you got to say for yourself? eh bien, expliquez-vous!;∎ he didn't have much to say for himself (spoke little) il n'avait pas grand-chose à dire; (no excuses) il n'avait pas de véritable excuse à donner;∎ he certainly has a lot to say for himself il n'a pas la langue dans la poche;∎ as you might say pour ainsi dire;∎ so saying, he walked out sur ces mots, il est parti;∎ to say nothing of the overheads sans parler des frais;∎ British just say the word, you only have to say (the word) vous n'avez qu'un mot à dire;∎ having said that ceci (étant) dit;∎ to say one's piece dire ce qu'on a à dire;∎ it goes without saying that we shall travel together il va sans dire ou il va de soi que nous voyagerons ensemble;∎ familiar you said it! tu l'as dit!, comme tu dis!;∎ familiar don't say you've forgotten! ne me dis pas que tu as oublié!;∎ say no more n'en dis pas plus;∎ enough said (I understand) je vois;∎ well said! bien dit!;∎ say when dis-moi stop;∎ American say what? quoi?;∎ when all's said and done tout compte fait, au bout du compte∎ "not at all", she said "pas du tout", dit-elle;∎ she says (that) the water's too cold elle dit que l'eau est trop froide;∎ she said (we were) to come elle a dit qu'on devait venir;∎ she said to get back early elle a dit qu'on devait rentrer tôt;∎ they said on the news that… on a dit ou annoncé aux informations que…;∎ they said it was going to rain ils ont annoncé de la pluie(c) (claim, allege) dire;∎ they say ghosts really do exist ils disent que les fantômes existent vraiment;∎ you know what they say, no smoke without fire tu sais ce qu'on dit, il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu;∎ as they say comme ils disent ou on dit;∎ it is said that no one will ever know the real story on dit que personne ne saura jamais ce qui s'est vraiment passé;∎ I've heard it said that… j'ai entendu dire que… + indicative;∎ these fans are said to be very efficient ces ventilateurs sont très efficaces, d'après ce qu'on dit;∎ he is said to be rich, they say he is rich on le dit riche, on dit qu'il est riche;∎ he is said to have emigrated on dit qu'il a émigré∎ as you say, he is the best candidate comme tu dis, c'est lui le meilleur candidat;∎ so he says, that's what he says c'est ce qu'il dit;∎ I can't say how long it will last je ne peux pas dire combien de temps cela va durer;∎ who can say? qui sait?;∎ who can say when he'll come? qui peut dire quand il viendra?;∎ (you can) say what you like, but I'm going vous pouvez dire ce que vous voulez, moi je m'en vais;∎ I must say she's been very helpful je dois dire ou j'avoue qu'elle nous a beaucoup aidés;∎ well this is a fine time to arrive, I must say! en voilà une heure pour arriver!;∎ I'll say this much for them, they don't give up easily au moins, on peut dire qu'ils n'abandonnent pas facilement;∎ I'll say this for him, he certainly tries hard je dois reconnaître qu'il fait tout son possible;∎ you might as well say we're all mad! autant dire qu'on est tous fous!;∎ you don't mean to say he's eighty-six vous n'allez pas me dire qu'il a quatre-vingt-six ans;∎ is he stupid? - I wouldn't say that est-ce qu'il est bête? - je n'irais pas jusque-là;∎ I should say so bien sûr que oui, je pense bien;∎ I should say not! bien sûr que non!;∎ if you say so si ou puisque tu le dis;∎ and so say all of us et nous sommes tous d'accord ou de cet avis;∎ there's no saying what will happen impossible de prédire ce qui va arriver;∎ to say the least c'est le moins qu'on puisse dire;∎ it's rather dangerous, to say the least c'est plutôt dangereux, c'est le moins qu'on puisse dire;∎ I was surprised, not to say astounded j'étais surpris, pour ne pas dire stupéfait;∎ there's something to be said for the idea l'idée a du bon;∎ there's not much to be said for the idea l'idée ne vaut pas grand-chose;∎ there's a lot to be said for doing sport il y a beaucoup d'avantages à faire du sport;∎ there is little to be said for beginning now on n'a pas intérêt à commencer dès maintenant;∎ that's not saying much ça ne veut pas dire grand-chose;∎ it doesn't say much for his powers of observation cela en dit long sur son sens de l'observation;∎ you're honest, I'll say that for you je dirais en votre faveur que vous êtes honnête;∎ that isn't saying much for him ce n'est pas à son honneur;∎ it says a lot for his courage/about his real motives cela en dit long sur son courage/ses intentions réelles;∎ the way you dress says something about you as a person la manière dont les gens s'habillent est révélatrice de leur personnalité∎ I say you should leave je pense que vous devriez partir;∎ what do you say? qu'en dites-vous?, qu'en pensez-vous?;∎ what will people say? que vont dire les gens?;∎ what did they say to your offer? qu'ont-ils dit de votre proposition?;∎ what do you say we drive over or to driving over to see them? que diriez-vous de prendre la voiture et d'aller les voir?;∎ what would you say to a picnic? que diriez-vous d'un pique-nique?, ça vous dit de faire un pique-nique?;∎ when would you say would be the best time for us to leave? quel serait le meilleur moment pour partir, à votre avis?;∎ to look at them, you wouldn't say they were a day over forty à les voir, on ne leur donnerait pas plus de quarante ans(f) (suppose, assume)∎ (let's) say your plan doesn't work, what then? admettons ou supposons que votre plan ne marche pas, qu'est-ce qui se passe?;∎ say he doesn't arrive, who will take his place? si jamais il n'arrive pas, qui prendra sa place?;∎ look at, say, Jane Austen or George Eliot… prends Jane Austen ou George Eliot, par exemple…;∎ if I had, say, £100,000 to spend si j'avais, mettons ou disons, 100 000 livres à dépenser;∎ come tomorrow, say after lunch venez demain, disons ou mettons après le déjeuner;∎ shall we say Sunday? disons dimanche, d'accord?(g) (indicate, register) indiquer, marquer;∎ the clock says 10.40 la pendule indique 10 heures 40;∎ what does your watch say? quelle heure est-il à ta montre?;∎ the sign says 50 km le panneau indique 50 km;∎ the gauge says 3.4 la jauge indique ou marque 3,4;∎ it says "shake well" c'est marqué "bien agiter";∎ the instructions say (to) open it out of doors dans le mode d'emploi, on dit qu'il faut l'ouvrir dehors;∎ it says in the newspaper that… on dit dans le journal que… + indicative;∎ the Bible says or it says in the Bible that… comme il est écrit dans la Bible…(h) (express → of intonation, eyes) exprimer, marquer;∎ his expression said everything son expression était très éloquente ou en disait long;∎ that look says a lot ce regard en dit long∎ that is to say c'est-à-dire;∎ it's short, that's to say, about twenty pages c'est court, ça fait dans les vingt pages;∎ that's not to say I don't like it cela ne veut pas dire que je ne l'aime pas(tell) dire;∎ he won't say il ne veut pas le dire;∎ I'd rather not say je préfère ne rien dire;∎ I can't say exactly je ne sais pas au juste;∎ it's not for me to say (speak) ce n'est pas à moi de le dire; (decide) ce n'est pas à moi de décider;∎ I can't say fairer than that je ne peux pas mieux dire;∎ so to say pour ainsi dire;∎ I say! (expressing surprise) eh bien!; (expressing indignation) dites donc!; (to attract attention) dites!;∎ American say! dites donc!;∎ I mean to say! tout de même!, quand même!;∎ I'll say! et comment donc!;∎ you don't say! sans blague!, ça alors!3 noun∎ to have a say in sth avoir son mot à dire dans qch;∎ I had no say in choosing the wallpaper on ne m'a pas demandé mon avis pour le choix du papier peint;∎ I have no say in the matter je n'ai pas voix au chapitre;∎ we had little say in the matter on ne nous a pas vraiment demandé notre avis;∎ to have one's say dire ce qu'on a à dire;∎ now you've had your say, let me have mine maintenant que vous avez dit ce que vous aviez à dire, laissez-moi parler -
100 Stephenson, George
[br]b. 9 June 1781 Wylam, Northumberland, Englandd. 12 August 1848 Tapton House, Chesterfield, England[br]English engineer, "the father of railways".[br]George Stephenson was the son of the fireman of the pumping engine at Wylam colliery, and horses drew wagons of coal along the wooden rails of the Wylam wagonway past the house in which he was born and spent his earliest childhood. While still a child he worked as a cowherd, but soon moved to working at coal pits. At 17 years of age he showed sufficient mechanical talent to be placed in charge of a new pumping engine, and had already achieved a job more responsible than that of his father. Despite his position he was still illiterate, although he subsequently learned to read and write. He was largely self-educated.In 1801 he was appointed Brakesman of the winding engine at Black Callerton pit, with responsibility for lowering the miners safely to their work. Then, about two years later, he became Brakesman of a new winding engine erected by Robert Hawthorn at Willington Quay on the Tyne. Returning collier brigs discharged ballast into wagons and the engine drew the wagons up an inclined plane to the top of "Ballast Hill" for their contents to be tipped; this was one of the earliest applications of steam power to transport, other than experimentally.In 1804 Stephenson moved to West Moor pit, Killingworth, again as Brakesman. In 1811 he demonstrated his mechanical skill by successfully modifying a new and unsatisfactory atmospheric engine, a task that had defeated the efforts of others, to enable it to pump a drowned pit clear of water. The following year he was appointed Enginewright at Killingworth, in charge of the machinery in all the collieries of the "Grand Allies", the prominent coal-owning families of Wortley, Liddell and Bowes, with authorization also to work for others. He built many stationary engines and he closely examined locomotives of John Blenkinsop's type on the Kenton \& Coxlodge wagonway, as well as those of William Hedley at Wylam.It was in 1813 that Sir Thomas Liddell requested George Stephenson to build a steam locomotive for the Killingworth wagonway: Blucher made its first trial run on 25 July 1814 and was based on Blenkinsop's locomotives, although it lacked their rack-and-pinion drive. George Stephenson is credited with building the first locomotive both to run on edge rails and be driven by adhesion, an arrangement that has been the conventional one ever since. Yet Blucher was far from perfect and over the next few years, while other engineers ignored the steam locomotive, Stephenson built a succession of them, each an improvement on the last.During this period many lives were lost in coalmines from explosions of gas ignited by miners' lamps. By observation and experiment (sometimes at great personal risk) Stephenson invented a satisfactory safety lamp, working independently of the noted scientist Sir Humphry Davy who also invented such a lamp around the same time.In 1817 George Stephenson designed his first locomotive for an outside customer, the Kilmarnock \& Troon Railway, and in 1819 he laid out the Hetton Colliery Railway in County Durham, for which his brother Robert was Resident Engineer. This was the first railway to be worked entirely without animal traction: it used inclined planes with stationary engines, self-acting inclined planes powered by gravity, and locomotives.On 19 April 1821 Stephenson was introduced to Edward Pease, one of the main promoters of the Stockton \& Darlington Railway (S \& DR), which by coincidence received its Act of Parliament the same day. George Stephenson carried out a further survey, to improve the proposed line, and in this he was assisted by his 18-year-old son, Robert Stephenson, whom he had ensured received the theoretical education which he himself lacked. It is doubtful whether either could have succeeded without the other; together they were to make the steam railway practicable.At George Stephenson's instance, much of the S \& DR was laid with wrought-iron rails recently developed by John Birkinshaw at Bedlington Ironworks, Morpeth. These were longer than cast-iron rails and were not brittle: they made a track well suited for locomotives. In June 1823 George and Robert Stephenson, with other partners, founded a firm in Newcastle upon Tyne to build locomotives and rolling stock and to do general engineering work: after its Managing Partner, the firm was called Robert Stephenson \& Co.In 1824 the promoters of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway (L \& MR) invited George Stephenson to resurvey their proposed line in order to reduce opposition to it. William James, a wealthy land agent who had become a visionary protagonist of a national railway network and had seen Stephenson's locomotives at Killingworth, had promoted the L \& MR with some merchants of Liverpool and had carried out the first survey; however, he overreached himself in business and, shortly after the invitation to Stephenson, became bankrupt. In his own survey, however, George Stephenson lacked the assistance of his son Robert, who had left for South America, and he delegated much of the detailed work to incompetent assistants. During a devastating Parliamentary examination in the spring of 1825, much of his survey was shown to be seriously inaccurate and the L \& MR's application for an Act of Parliament was refused. The railway's promoters discharged Stephenson and had their line surveyed yet again, by C.B. Vignoles.The Stockton \& Darlington Railway was, however, triumphantly opened in the presence of vast crowds in September 1825, with Stephenson himself driving the locomotive Locomotion, which had been built at Robert Stephenson \& Co.'s Newcastle works. Once the railway was at work, horse-drawn and gravity-powered traffic shared the line with locomotives: in 1828 Stephenson invented the horse dandy, a wagon at the back of a train in which a horse could travel over the gravity-operated stretches, instead of trotting behind.Meanwhile, in May 1826, the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway had successfully obtained its Act of Parliament. Stephenson was appointed Engineer in June, and since he and Vignoles proved incompatible the latter left early in 1827. The railway was built by Stephenson and his staff, using direct labour. A considerable controversy arose c. 1828 over the motive power to be used: the traffic anticipated was too great for horses, but the performance of the reciprocal system of cable haulage developed by Benjamin Thompson appeared in many respects superior to that of contemporary locomotives. The company instituted a prize competition for a better locomotive and the Rainhill Trials were held in October 1829.Robert Stephenson had been working on improved locomotive designs since his return from America in 1827, but it was the L \& MR's Treasurer, Henry Booth, who suggested the multi-tubular boiler to George Stephenson. This was incorporated into a locomotive built by Robert Stephenson for the trials: Rocket was entered by the three men in partnership. The other principal entrants were Novelty, entered by John Braithwaite and John Ericsson, and Sans Pareil, entered by Timothy Hackworth, but only Rocket, driven by George Stephenson, met all the organizers' demands; indeed, it far surpassed them and demonstrated the practicability of the long-distance steam railway. With the opening of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway in 1830, the age of railways began.Stephenson was active in many aspects. He advised on the construction of the Belgian State Railway, of which the Brussels-Malines section, opened in 1835, was the first all-steam railway on the European continent. In England, proposals to link the L \& MR with the Midlands had culminated in an Act of Parliament for the Grand Junction Railway in 1833: this was to run from Warrington, which was already linked to the L \& MR, to Birmingham. George Stephenson had been in charge of the surveys, and for the railway's construction he and J.U. Rastrick were initially Principal Engineers, with Stephenson's former pupil Joseph Locke under them; by 1835 both Stephenson and Rastrick had withdrawn and Locke was Engineer-in-Chief. Stephenson remained much in demand elsewhere: he was particularly associated with the construction of the North Midland Railway (Derby to Leeds) and related lines. He was active in many other places and carried out, for instance, preliminary surveys for the Chester \& Holyhead and Newcastle \& Berwick Railways, which were important links in the lines of communication between London and, respectively, Dublin and Edinburgh.He eventually retired to Tapton House, Chesterfield, overlooking the North Midland. A man who was self-made (with great success) against colossal odds, he was ever reluctant, regrettably, to give others their due credit, although in retirement, immensely wealthy and full of honour, he was still able to mingle with people of all ranks.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsPresident, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, on its formation in 1847. Order of Leopold (Belgium) 1835. Stephenson refused both a knighthood and Fellowship of the Royal Society.Bibliography1815, jointly with Ralph Dodd, British patent no. 3,887 (locomotive drive by connecting rods directly to the wheels).1817, jointly with William Losh, British patent no. 4,067 (steam springs for locomotives, and improvements to track).Further ReadingL.T.C.Rolt, 1960, George and Robert Stephenson, Longman (the best modern biography; includes a bibliography).S.Smiles, 1874, The Lives of George and Robert Stephenson, rev. edn, London (although sycophantic, this is probably the best nineteenthcentury biography).PJGR
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