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1) время || измерять [определять\] время; отмечать время; хронометрировать2) период [интервал\] времени4) срок; длительность, продолжительность5) темп; такт6) хронировать; синхронизировать; осуществлять привязку по времени7) регулировать взаимное положение фаз периодических процессов•time on — время включения; продолжительность пребывания во включенном состоянии;time to failure — наработка на отказ;time to repair — 1. наработка до ремонта 2. время ремонта-
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n1) экономика; хозяйство2) экономия; бережливость•to build up national economy — строить / создавать национальную экономику
to improve one's economy — улучшать состояние экономики
to meet the needs of the national economy for smth — удовлетворять потребности национальной экономики в чем-л.
to rebuild a country's economy — восстанавливать / реконструировать экономику страны
to rehabilitate the war-ravaged national economy — восстанавливать разрушенную войной экономику страны
to remodel the economy — переделывать / изменять экономику
to revitalize / to revive the economy — возрождать / оживлять экономику
to satisfy the needs of the national economy for smth — удовлетворять потребности национальной экономики в чем-л.
to stimulate one's domestic economy — стимулировать рост экономики внутри страны
- adversely affected branches of economyto tighten one's economy hold — усиливать свое экономическое влияние
- agricultural economy
- ailing economy
- ailing economies of the Third World
- all-embracing economy
- appalling state of the economy
- balanced development of the branches of economy
- barter economy
- beleaguered economy
- black economy
- buoyancy in a country's economy
- buoyant economy
- business economy
- capitalist economy
- centralized economy
- centrally planned economy
- closed economy
- cohesive economy
- collapsing economy
- colonialist economy
- command economy
- commanding heights of the economy
- competitive economy
- complementary economies
- consumer economy
- controlled economy
- crippled economy
- crisis-free economy
- critical state of the economy
- day-to-day running of economy
- debt-ridden economy
- defense economy
- developed economy
- developed national economy
- developing economy
- dire state of the economy
- disrupted economy
- domestic economy
- economy catches its breath
- economy constricts
- economy expands
- economy goes deeper into crisis
- economy goes into a decline
- economy is buoyant
- economy is close to collapse
- economy is coming out of recession
- economy is crumbling
- economy is diving into a recession
- economy is facing a slump
- economy is faltering
- economy is headed upward
- economy is in a dreadful state
- economy is in a state of collapse
- economy is in bad condition
- economy is in recession
- economy is in the doldrums
- economy is not out of the woods yet
- economy is rolling downhill
- economy is sagging
- economy is seriously unbalanced
- economy is shrinking
- economy of disarmament
- economy of fuel
- economy of one-sided development
- economy of scarcity
- economy recovers
- economy undergoing charges
- economy will undergo drastic surgical measures
- economy with a high rate of growth in per capita output
- economies of industrialized countries are booming
- economies of scale
- economies on labor
- economies on social services
- emerging economy
- engineering economy
- exchange economy
- expanding economy
- fast developing economy
- flagging economy
- fragile economy
- frail economy
- free economy
- free enterprise economy
- freewheeling economy
- full employment economy
- ghost economy
- gilt-edged economy
- global economy
- gray economy
- green economy
- gross mismanagement of economy
- growth of the economy
- growth rate of the economy
- healthy economy
- high employment economy
- high interest rates further dampen down the economy
- highly developed branches of the economy
- home economy
- humane economy
- industrial economy
- inflationary pressures on the economy
- intensification of economy
- laissez-faire economy
- less centralized grip on the economy
- lop-sided economy
- low pressure economy
- major economy
- management of the economy
- market economy
- market-oriented economy
- mature economy
- mechanics of economy
- militarization of the economy
- militarized economy
- military economy
- mixed economy
- modernization of the economy
- monetary economy
- moribund economy
- multibranch economy
- multisectoral economy
- multistructrural economy
- national economy
- no-growth period of economy
- ongoing trends in the world economy
- overheated economy
- peace-time economy
- peasant economy
- plan-based economy
- planless economy
- plan-market economy
- planned economy
- pluralistic economy - powerful economy
- private economy
- private enterprise economy
- private sector of the economy
- progressive transformation of the economy
- protected economy
- public sector of the economy
- rapid expansion of the economy
- ravaged economy
- recovery in economy
- reforming of the economy along western lines
- regulated market economy
- retooling of the national economy
- revitalization of the economy
- robber economy
- robust economy
- run-down economy
- rural economy
- sagging economy
- sane economy
- self-sustained economy
- shadow economy
- shaky economy
- shattered economy
- shift away from central control of the economy
- shift to a market economy
- sick economy
- siege economy
- simple commodity economy
- size of the economy
- slide in the economy
- slowing of economy
- sluggish economy
- socialist economy
- socialist system of economy
- socialized economy
- sound economy
- Soviet-style economy
- spaceman economy
- spontaneous economy
- stability of economy
- stagnant economy - state-run economy
- stationary economy
- steady-state economy
- strict economy
- strong economy
- study of world economy
- subsistence economy
- sustained growth of economy
- swift transition to market economy
- swiss-cheese economy
- switchover to a market economy
- the country's economy grew by 10 per cent
- the country's economy has been in better shape than before
- the country's economy is in a pretty bad way
- the country's economy is in dire trouble
- tottering economy
- transition to market economy
- troubled economy
- turnaround in the economy
- two interlined economies
- unbalanced economy
- under-the-table economy
- unstable economy
- viable economy
- war economy
- war-ravaged economy
- war-time economy
- weakening of the economy
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9 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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fly [flaɪ]mouche ⇒ 1 (a) braguette ⇒ 1 (b) voler ⇒ 2 (a), 2 (c) prendre l'avion ⇒ 2 (a) filer ⇒ 2 (b) piloter ⇒ 3 (a)1 noun∎ familiar they're dropping like flies (dying, fainting) ils tombent comme des mouches;∎ familiar this illness is killing them off like flies cette maladie les fait tomber comme des mouches;∎ familiar the recession is killing companies off like flies la récession fait une véritable hécatombe parmi les entreprises;∎ figurative the fly in the ointment (person) l'empêcheur(euse) m,f de tourner en rond; (problem) l'os m;∎ figurative there's a fly in the ointment il y a un os;∎ familiar there are no flies on him il n'est pas fou;∎ figurative he wouldn't hurt a fly il ne ferait pas de mal à une mouche;∎ familiar to be catching flies (yawn, have mouth open) gober les mouches;(b) (often pl) (on trousers) braguette f;∎ your flies are or fly is undone or open ta braguette est ouverte∎ to go for a fly faire un tour en avion∎ to do sth on the fly (craftily, secretively) faire qch en douce(a) (bird, insect, plane, pilot) voler; (passenger) prendre l'avion; (arrow, bullet, missile) voler, filer;∎ the first plane to fly faster than the speed of sound le premier avion à dépasser la vitesse du son;∎ it flies well (plane) il se pilote bien;∎ I'm flying to Berlin tomorrow (passenger) je prends l'avion pour Berlin demain; (pilot) je vole à Berlin demain;∎ he flies to Paris about twice a month (passenger) il va à Paris en avion environ deux fois par mois;∎ we fly to Berlin four days a week (airline) nous avons des vols pour Berlin quatre jours par semaine;∎ we fly to over a dozen destinations (airline) nous desservons plus d'une douzaine de destinations;∎ soon we'll be flying over Manchester nous allons bientôt survoler Manchester;∎ to fly across the Channel traverser la Manche en avion;∎ to fly via London faire escale à Londres;∎ those who have flown British in or American with Concorde ceux qui ont voyagé en Concorde, ceux qui ont pris le Concorde;∎ he flies for an American airline il est pilote dans une compagnie aérienne américaine;∎ which airline did you fly with? avec quelle compagnie aérienne as-tu voyagé?;∎ they don't fly from Heathrow any more ils n'ont plus de vols au départ de Heathrow;∎ the trapeze artist flew through the air le trapéziste a voltigé;∎ figurative the bird had already flown l'oiseau s'était envolé(b) (move quickly → person) filer; (→ time) passer à toute vitesse; (flee) s'enfuir; (shoot into air → sparks, dust, cork, shavings) voler;∎ familiar I really must fly! il faut vraiment que je file ou que je me sauve!;∎ she flew out of the room elle est sortie de la pièce comme un bolide;∎ he came flying round the corner il a débouché du coin comme un bolide;∎ he flew to her rescue il a volé à son secours;∎ the time seems to have flown! le temps est passé à une vitesse!;∎ the past two years have just flown les deux dernières années ont passé à toute vitesse ou se sont envolées;∎ time flies!, doesn't time fly! comme le temps passe!;∎ the door flew open and there stood… la porte s'est ouverte brusquement sur…;∎ to fly into a rage or temper s'emporter, sortir de ses gonds;∎ to knock or to send sb flying envoyer qn rouler à terre;∎ to knock or to send sth flying envoyer qch voler;∎ his hat went flying across the room son chapeau a volé ou voltigé à travers la pièce;∎ the insults were really flying les insultes fusaient de toutes parts∎ he let fly with a powerful left hook il a décoché ou envoyé un puissant crochet du gauche;∎ she then let fly with a string of accusations elle a alors lancé un flot d'accusations;∎ to (let) fly at sb (physically) sauter ou se jeter sur qn; (verbally) s'en prendre violemment à qn;∎ to fly in the face of sth (reason, evidence, logic) défier qch;∎ this flies in the face of our agreement cela contrecarre notre accord(a) (plane, helicopter → of pilot) piloter;(b) (passengers, people, goods) transporter en avion; (route → of pilot, passenger) emprunter; (airline) voyager avec; (distance → of passenger, pilot, plane) parcourir; (combat mission) effectuer;∎ to fly the Atlantic (pilot, passenger) traverser l'Atlantique en avion; (plane) traverser l'Atlantique;∎ her employers flew her to the States ses employeurs l'ont envoyée aux États-Unis en avion;∎ we're flying them home on the first flight nous les rapatrions par le premier vol∎ a flag is flown on public buildings when… tous les bâtiments publics arborent un drapeau quand…(d) (flee from → the country) fuir;∎ familiar to fly the coop se faire la malle;∎ a fly guy un malin, un rusé►► fly agaric amanite f tue-mouches;fly ball (in baseball) chandelle f;fly cruise forfait m avion et croisière;Sport fly half (in rugby) demi m d'ouverture;∎ to play fly half jouer (en) demi d'ouverture;Sport fly kick (in rugby) coup m de pied à suivre;Fishing fly rod canne f à mouche;fly spray bombe f insecticide(bird, insect) voleter, voltiger; (plane, pilot) voler dans les parages, survoler les parages; figurative (rumours) courir;∎ there are lots of figures flying about or around on entend tellement de chiffres différents(bird, insect, plane) s'envoler➲ fly back(person, passengers → to an area) emmener en avion; (→ from an area) ramener en avion; (→ to own country) rapatrier en avion∎ the time has flown by! comme le temps a passé!;∎ as the days flew by à mesure que les jours s'enfuyaient➲ fly in(b) (bird, insect) entrer(troops, reinforcements, food) envoyer en avion; (of pilot → to an area) emmener; (→ from an area) amener➲ fly off∎ when do you fly off to Paris? quand prenez-vous l'avion pour Paris?;∎ she's always flying off somewhere elle est toujours entre deux avions(a) (from oil rig, island) évacuer en avion ou hélicoptère➲ fly out∎ planes fly out of the airport at a rate of 20 an hour les avions décollent de l'aéroport au rythme de 20 par heure;∎ which airport did you fly out of? de quel aéroport es-tu parti?;∎ a medical team flew out to the disaster area une équipe médicale s'est rendue en avion sur la région sinistrée;∎ I'll fly out to join you next Monday je prendrai l'avion pour te rejoindre lundi prochain;∎ we flew out but we're going back by boat nous avons fait l'aller en avion mais nous rentrons en bateau(b) (come out suddenly → from box, pocket) s'échapper;∎ the knife flew out of his hand le couteau lui a échappé de la main(person, supplies → to an area) envoyer par avion; (→ from an area) évacuer par avion;∎ they flew the President out (to a place) ils ont emmené le président en avion; (from a place) ils ont ramené le président en avion∎ figurative he flew past on a bicycle il est passé à toute vitesse en bicyclette(b) (time, days) passer à toute vitesse(a) (plane, bird) s'envoler;∎ the plane flew up to 10,000 metres l'avion est monté à 10000 mètres;∎ I flew up from London on Saturday j'ai pris l'avion depuis Londres samedi(b) (end of plank, lid) se soulever;∎ glass flew up into the air des éclats de verre ont été projetés en l'air -
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high [haɪ]haut ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (b), 1 (d), 1 (f), 1 (g), 1 (m), 1 (o), 1 (p), 2 (a), 2 (b), 3 (a), 3 (b) élevé ⇒ 1 (b)-(e), 1 (k) grand ⇒ 1 (c), 1 (d) noble ⇒ 1 (e) aigu ⇒ 1 (g) excité ⇒ 1 (s) en haut ⇒ 2 (a)∎ how high is that building? quelle est la hauteur de ce bâtiment?;∎ the walls are three metres high les murs ont ou font trois mètres de haut, les murs sont hauts de trois mètres;∎ the building is eight storeys high c'est un immeuble de ou à huit étages;∎ the highest mountain in the country la plus haute montagne du pays;∎ when I was only so high quand je n'étais pas plus grand que ça∎ built on high ground construit sur un terrain élevé;∎ the sun was high in the sky le soleil était haut(c) (above average → number) grand, élevé; (→ speed, value) grand; (→ cost, price, rate) élevé; (→ salary) élevé, gros (grosse); (→ pressure) élevé, haut; (→ polish) brillant;∎ to the highest degree au plus haut degré, à l'extrême;∎ of the highest importance de première importance;∎ to pay a high price payer le prix fort;∎ to fetch a high price se vendre cher;∎ to make a higher bid faire une offre supérieure, surenchérir;∎ highest bidder surenchérisseur(euse) m,f;∎ she suffers from high blood pressure elle a de la tension;∎ also figurative to play for high stakes jouer gros (jeu);∎ built to withstand high temperatures conçu pour résister à des températures élevées;∎ he has a high temperature il a beaucoup de température ou fièvre;∎ areas of high unemployment des régions à fort taux de chômage;∎ ore with a high mineral content minerai m à haute teneur;∎ milk is high in calcium le lait contient beaucoup de calcium;∎ high winds des vents mpl violents, de grands vents mpl;∎ Mathematics the highest common factor le plus grand commun diviseur(d) (better than average → quality) grand, haut; (→ standard) haut, élevé; (→ mark, score) élevé, bon; (→ reputation) bon;∎ our chances of success remain high nos chances de succès restent très bonnes;∎ to have a high opinion of sb avoir une bonne ou haute opinion de qn;∎ he has a high opinion of himself il a une haute idée de lui-même;∎ to have a high profile être très en vue;∎ she speaks of you in the highest terms elle dit le plus grand bien de vous;∎ one of the highest honours in the arts l'un des plus grands honneurs dans le monde des arts;∎ a man of high principles un homme qui a des principes (élevés);∎ he took a very high moral tone il prit un ton très moralisateur;∎ she has very high moral standards elle a des principes (de moralité) très élevés(f) (of great importance or rank) haut, important;∎ a high official un haut fonctionnaire;∎ we have it on the highest authority nous le tenons de la source la plus sûre;∎ to have friends in high places avoir des relations haut placées, avoir le bras long;∎ of high rank de haut rang∎ high summer plein été m;∎ it was high summer c'était au cœur de l'été;∎ it's high time we were leaving il est grand temps qu'on parte∎ resentment was high il y avait énormément de ressentiment;∎ moments of high drama des moments mpl extrêmement dramatiques;∎ high adventure grande aventure f;∎ to be high farce tourner à la farce∎ to have a high colour avoir le visage congestionné(k) (elaborate, formal → language, style) élevé, soutenu(l) (prominent → cheekbones) saillant∎ the highest card la carte maîtresse∎ a high Tory un tory ultra-conservateur;∎ a high Anglican un(e) anglican(e) de tendance conservatrice∎ to be in high spirits être plein d'entrain;∎ our spirits were high nous avions le moral;∎ high on cocaine défoncé à la cocaïne;∎ figurative they were high on success ils ne se sentaient plus après ce succès;∎ figurative he gets high on sailing il prend son pied en faisant de la voile;∎ they were (as) high as kites (drunk) ils étaient bien partis; (drugged) ils planaient; (happy) ils avaient la pêche2 adverb∎ up high en haut;∎ higher up plus haut;∎ higher and higher de plus en plus haut;∎ he raised both hands high il a levé les deux mains en l'air;∎ the kite flew high up in the sky le cerf-volant est monté très haut dans le ciel;∎ she threw the ball high into the air elle a lancé le ballon très haut;∎ the geese flew high over the fields les oies volaient très haut au-dessus des champs;∎ the shelf was high above her head l'étagère était bien au-dessus de sa tête;∎ he rose high in the company il a accédé aux plus hauts échelons de la société;∎ figurative we looked high and low for him nous l'avons cherché partout;∎ figurative to set one's sights high, to aim high viser haut;∎ figurative they're flying high ils visent haut, ils voient grand;∎ also figurative to hold one's head high porter la tête haute;∎ figurative to leave sb high and dry laisser qn en plan(b) (in intensity) haut;∎ they set the price/standards too high ils ont fixé un prix/niveau trop élevé;∎ I turned the heating up high j'ai mis le chauffage à fond;∎ he rose higher in my esteem il est monté encore plus dans mon estime;∎ salaries can go as high as £50,000 les salaires peuvent monter jusqu'à ou atteindre 50 000 livres;∎ I had to go as high as £50 il a fallu que j'aille ou que je monte jusqu'à 50 livres;∎ the card players played high les joueurs de cartes ont joué gros (jeu);∎ feelings were running high les esprits se sont échauffés∎ I can't sing that high je ne peux pas chanter aussi haut∎ to live high off or on the hog vivre comme un roi ou nabab3 noun∎ humorous the decision came from on high la décision fut prononcée en haut lieu(b) (great degree or level) haut m;∎ to reach a new high atteindre un nouveau record;∎ prices are at an all-time high les prix ont atteint leur maximum;∎ the Stock Market reached a new high la Bourse a atteint un nouveau record ou maximum;∎ the highs and lows (of share prices, career, life) les hauts mpl et les bas mpl(c) (setting → on iron, stove)∎ I put the oven on high j'ai mis le four sur très chaud∎ she's been on a permanent high since he came back elle voit tout en rose depuis son retour∎ Religion the Most High le Très-Haut►► Religion high altar maître-autel m;History High Antiquity Haute Antiquité f;Swimming high board plongeoir m le plus haut;high camp (affectation) affectation f, cabotinage m; (effeminate behaviour) manières fpl efféminées; (style) kitsch m;high chair chaise f haute (pour enfants);1 noun= fraction de l'Église d'Angleterre accordant une grande importance à l'autorité du prêtre, au rituel etc(a) = de tendance conservatrice dans l'Église anglicane;British Religion High Churchman = membre du mouvement conservateur à l'intérieur de l'Église anglicane;high comedy Theatre comédie f au dialogue brillant;∎ figurative the debate ended in scenes of high comedy le débat se termina par des scènes du plus haut comique;Military high command haut commandement m;Administration high commission haut-commissariat m;Administration high commissioner haut-commissaire m;Law the High Court (of Justice) ≃ le tribunal de grande instance (principal tribunal civil en Angleterre et au pays de Galles);Law High Court judge ≃ juge m du tribunal de grande instance;Law the High Court of Judiciary = la plus haute instance de justice en Écosse;Military high explosive explosif m puissant;high fashion haute couture f;high fidelity haute-fidélité f;high finance haute finance f;familiar high five = tape amicale donnée dans la paume de quelqu'un, bras levé, pour le saluer, le féliciter ou en signe de victoire;∎ they always give each other a high five when they meet ils se tapent dans la main à chaque fois qu'ils se voient;Electronics high frequency haute fréquence f;∎ figurative they moved into high gear ils se sont dépêchés;High German haut allemand m;high heels hauts talons mpl;high jump Sport saut m en hauteur;∎ British familiar figurative you're for the high jump when he finds out! qu'est-ce que tu vas prendre quand il l'apprendra!;Sport high jumper sauteur(euse) m,f (qui fait du saut en hauteur);the high life la grande vie;∎ she has a taste for the high life elle a des goûts de luxe;∎ to lead or to live the high life mener la grande vie;Computing high memory mémoire f haute;Computing high memory area zone f de mémoire haute;History the High Middle Ages le Haut Moyen Âge;high noon plein midi m;∎ at high noon à midi pile;American Transport High Occupancy Vehicle = voiture particulière transportant au moins deux passagers;Religion high place haut lieu m;high point (major event → of news) événement m le plus marquant; (→ of evening, holiday) point m culminant, grand moment m; (→ of film, novel) point m culminant;∎ the high point of the party le clou de la soirée;high priest Religion grand prêtre m;∎ figurative the high priests of fashion les gourous mpl de la mode;high priestess Religion grande prêtresse f;∎ figurative the high priestess of rock la grande prêtresse du rock;Linguistics high register language langage m élevé ou soutenu;Art high relief haut-relief m;high rise tour f (immeuble);high road (main road) route f principale, grand-route f; figurative (most direct route) bonne voie f;∎ he's on the high road to success il est en bonne voie de réussir;∎ the high road to fame la voie de la gloire;high school School (in UK) = établissement d'enseignement secondaire regroupant collège et lycée; (in US) lycée m;∎ she's still at high school elle est toujours scolarisée ou va toujours au lycée;the high seas la haute mer;∎ on the high seas en haute ou pleine mer;high season haute ou pleine saison f;∎ during the high season en haute ou pleine saison;British Administration High Sheriff = dans les comtés anglais et gallois, représentant officiel du monarque;American high sign signe m;∎ to give sb the high sign faire signe à qn;high society haute société f, grand monde m;high spirits pétulance f, vitalité f, entrain m;∎ to be in high spirits avoir de l'entrain, être plein d'entrain;∎ to put sb in high spirits mettre qn de bonne humeur;(a) (major event → of news) événement m le plus marquant; (→ of evening, holiday) point m culminant, grand moment m; (→ of film, novel) point m culminant∎ we hit all the high spots (tourists) nous avons vu toutes les attractions touristiques;British the high street (street) la grand-rue, la rue principale; (shops) les commerçants mpl, le commerce;∎ Commerce & Economics the high street has been badly hit by the recession les commerçants ont été durement touchés par la récession;British high table (for guests of honour) table f d'honneur; School & University table f des professeurs;British high tea = repas léger pris en début de soirée et accompagné de thé;∎ at high tide à marée haute;Theatre high tragedy grande tragédie f;high treason haute trahison f;Electricity high voltage haute tension f;∎ the river is at high water le fleuve est en crue;high wire corde f raide ou de funambule;∎ to walk the high wire marcher sur la corde raide -
12 hit
hit [hɪt]coup ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (b) succès ⇒ 1 (c) hit ⇒ 1 (d) frapper ⇒ 2 (a), 3 (a) heurter ⇒ 2 (b) attaquer ⇒ 2 (c) toucher ⇒ 2 (d) arriver à ⇒ 2 (e) buter sur ⇒ 2 (f) marquer ⇒ 2 (g)1 noun∎ figurative that was a hit at me ça m'était destiné, c'est moi qui étais visé(b) Sport (in ball game) coup m; (in shooting) tir m réussi; (in fencing, billiards, snooker) touche f; (in baseball) coup m de batte; (in hockey) coup m de crosse;∎ to score a hit (in shooting) faire mouche, toucher la cible; (in fencing) faire ou marquer une touche;∎ he got three hits and one miss il a réussi trois tirs et en a manqué un;∎ it only counts as a hit if the bullet goes inside the red line le tir ne compte que si la balle se trouve à l'intérieur de la ligne rouge;∎ that was a hit (in fencing) il y a eu touche∎ Frank Sinatra's greatest hits les plus grands succès de Frank Sinatra;∎ to be a big hit (record, play, book, song) faire ou être un grand succès;∎ a hit with the public/the critics un succès auprès du public/des critiques;∎ to make a hit with sb (person) conquérir qn;∎ she's a hit with everyone elle a conquis tout le monde;∎ I think you've made a hit with him je crois que tu l'as conquis; (romantically) je crois que tu as fait une touche∎ this website counted 20,000 hits last week ce site Web a été consulté 20 000 fois la semaine dernière∎ a hit by the Mafia un meurtre perpétré par la Mafia(f) familiar drugs slang (of hard drugs) fix m; (of joint) taffe f; (effect of drugs) effet□ m (procuré par une drogue);∎ you get a good hit off that grass cette herbe fait rapidement de l'effet(a) (strike with hand, fist, stick etc → person) frapper; (→ ball) frapper ou taper dans; (→ nail) taper sur; Computing (key) appuyer sur;∎ to hit sb in the face/on the head frapper qn au visage/sur la tête;∎ they hit him over the head with a baseball bat ils lui ont donné un coup de batte de baseball sur la tête;∎ to hit a ball over the net envoyer un ballon par-dessus le filet;∎ figurative to hit sb where it hurts most toucher qn là où ça fait mal;∎ also figurative to hit a man when he's down frapper un homme quand il est à terre;∎ figurative to hit the nail on the head mettre le doigt dessus;∎ figurative he didn't know what had hit him il se demandait ce qui lui était arrivé(b) (come or bring forcefully into contact with → of ball, stone) heurter; (→ of bullet, arrow) atteindre, toucher;∎ the bottle hit the wall and smashed la bouteille a heurté le mur et s'est cassée;∎ the bullet hit him in the shoulder la balle l'a atteint ou touché à l'épaule;∎ I've been hit! j'ai été touché!;∎ the boat was hit by a missile le bateau a été touché par un missile;∎ the windscreen was hit by a stone une pierre a heurté le pare-brise;∎ he was hit by a stone il a reçu une pierre;∎ the two cars didn't actually hit each other en fait les deux voitures ne se sont pas heurtées;∎ to hit the target (with gun, missile etc) toucher la cible;∎ figurative his comments really hit their target ses remarques ont vraiment fait mouche, il a mis dans le mille avec ses remarques;∎ the car hit a tree la voiture a heurté ou est rentrée dans un arbre;∎ the dog was hit by a car le chien a été heurté par une voiture;∎ to hit one's head/knee (against sth) se cogner la tête/le genou (contre qch);∎ to hit sb's head against sth frapper ou cogner la tête de qn contre qch;∎ figurative to hit the ground running être opérationnel immédiatement;∎ figurative it suddenly hit me that… il m'est soudain venu à l'esprit que…(c) (attack → enemy) attaquer∎ the company has been hit by the recession l'entreprise a été touchée par la récession;∎ how badly did the postal strike hit you? dans quelle mesure avez-vous été touché par la grève des postes?;∎ the region worst hit by the earthquake la région la plus sévèrement touchée par le tremblement de terre;∎ the child's death has hit them all very hard la mort de l'enfant les a tous durement touchés ou frappés;∎ to be hard hit être durement touché;∎ familiar it hits everyone in the pocket tout le monde en subit financièrement les conséquences□, tout le monde le sent passer∎ familiar the new model can hit 130 mph on the straight le nouveau modèle peut atteindre les 210 km/h en ligne droite;∎ familiar to hit a problem se heurter à un problème ou une difficulté;∎ to hit the wrong note (singer) chanter faux; (instrumentalist) & figurative faire une fausse note;∎ I can't hit those high notes any more je n'arrive plus à chanter ces notes aiguës;∎ familiar the circus hits town tomorrow night le cirque arrive en ville demain soir□ ;∎ familiar we'll stop for dinner when we hit town nous nous arrêterons pour dîner quand nous arriverons dans la ville;∎ familiar let's hit the beach! allons à la plage!□ ;∎ to hit an all-time high/low (unemployment, morale etc) atteindre son plus haut/bas niveau□ ;∎ familiar to hit rock-bottom atteindre son point le plus bas□(f) (encounter → problem, difficulty) buter sur;∎ the tunnellers hit rock les ouvriers qui creusaient le tunnel sont tombés sur de la roche;∎ you'll hit the rush hour traffic tu vas te retrouver en plein dans la circulation de l'heure de pointe;∎ we hit a terrible snowstorm nous nous sommes trouvés dans une tempête de neige terrible;∎ to hit a sticky or bad patch rencontrer des difficultés∎ to hit three runs (in cricket) marquer trois points;∎ to hit a home run (in baseball) faire un tour complet de circuit∎ to hit sb for $10 taper qn de 10 dollars;∎ to hit sb for a loan emprunter de l'argent à qn□∎ to hit the books se mettre à étudier□ ;∎ familiar to hit the ceiling or roof sortir de ses gonds, piquer une colère folle;∎ familiar to hit the hay or the sack aller se mettre au pieu, aller se pieuter;∎ familiar if ever this hits the headlines we're in trouble si jamais cela paraît dans les journaux nous aurons des problèmes□ ;∎ to hit home (remark, criticism) faire mouche;∎ to hit the jackpot gagner le gros lot;∎ familiar to hit the road se mettre en route□ ;∎ familiar that really hits the spot! (of food, drink) c'est juste ce dont j'avais besoin□(a) (person, object) frapper, taper;∎ don't hit so hard, we're only playing ne frappe ou tape pas si fort, ce n'est qu'un jeu;∎ the door was hitting against the wall la porte cognait contre le mur;∎ the atoms hit against each other les atomes se heurtent(b) (inflation, recession) se faire sentir►► familiar hit list liste f noire;∎ to be on sb's hit list être sur la liste noire de qn;familiar hit man tueur m à gages□ ;old-fashioned hit parade hit-parade m;Military hit rate taux m de tirs réussis; figurative taux m de réussite;hit record (disque m à) succès m;hit single, hit song succès m, hit m, tube m;familiar hit squad commando m de tueurs□ ;hit tune air m à succès➲ hit back(reply forcefully, retaliate) riposter, rendre la pareille;∎ he hit back with accusations that they were giving bribes il a riposté en les accusant de verser des pots-de-vin;∎ to hit back at sb/sth (in speech) répondre à qn/qch;∎ to hit back at the enemy riposter, répondre à l'ennemi;∎ our army hit back with a missile attack notre armée a riposté en envoyant des missiles∎ to hit the ball back renvoyer le ballon;∎ he hit me back il m'a rendu mon coup(a) (in words) décrire ou dépeindre à la perfection; (in paint) représenter de manière très ressemblante; (in mimicry) imiter à la perfection∎ to hit it off (get on well) bien s'entendre□ ;∎ to hit it off with sb bien s'entendre avec qn□ ;∎ we hit it off immediately le courant est tout de suite passé entre nous(a) (find → solution, plan etc) trouver∎ he started hitting out at me il s'est mis à envoyer des coups dans ma direction(b) (in speech, writing)∎ to hit out at or against s'en prendre à, attaquer;∎ he hits out in his new book il lance l'offensive dans son nouveau livre∎ to hit it up se piquer(find → solution, plan etc) trouver -
13 recess
rɪˈses
1. сущ.
1) перерыв, пауза в работе чего-л., кого-л. а) перерыв в работе или заседаниях (каких-л. организаций, суда и т. п., парламентские каникулы (тж. parliamentary recess) recess time ≈ каникулы, перерыв в работе to take a recess ≈ объявлять, делать перерыв to be in recess ≈ временно не работать;
разъехаться на каникулы Parliament was in recess. ≈ Парламент был на каникулах. Syn: break
1. б) тж. амер. каникулы (школьные, университетские и т. п.) in recess ≈ на каникулах spring recess ≈ весенние каникулы summer recess ≈ летние каникулы winter recess ≈ зимние каникулы Syn: break
1., vacation в) амер. перерыв (в банке и т. п.) ;
перемена( в школе и т. п.) two-hour lunch recess ≈ двухчасовой перерыв на обед recess time ≈ перерыв noon recess ≈ большая перемена at recess ≈ на перемене, во время перемены или перерыва Syn: break
1., pause
1.
2) а) уединенное, спокойное место;
тихий уголок;
место уединенного отдыха subterranean recesses ≈ подземные тайники, катакомбы mountain recess ≈ горное укрытие, убежище в горах б) глушь, окраина, укромный уголок;
тж. перен. тайник (души, сердца) in the inmost recesses of the soul ≈ в тайниках, глубине души
3) некое углубление в чем-л. а) углубление (в стене и т. п.), ниша( окна и т. п.) ;
альков recess bed ≈ кровать, убирающаяся в нишу или специальный шкаф Syn: alcove, oriel, niche б) углубление, впадина;
расселина a deep recess in the hill ≈ глубокая расселина в холме Syn: depression, indentation в) анат. изгиб, ямка;
пазуха, полость Syn: fold I
1., sinus г) мн., сл. туалет, отхожее место в тюрьме;
"параша"
4) а) отток, отступление, отход (вод, ледника и т. п.) ;
Syn: recession б) астр. апсида (закат, заход небесных светил) Syn: apse, apsis, apsides в) перен. отступление, ускользание( мыслей, хорошего настроения и т. п.) Syn: recession
5) маленькая бухта, бухточка;
заливчик
2. гл.
1) а) помещать, располагать в углублении, нише;
углубляться, вдаваться в стену recessed lighting ≈ источник света, расположенный в нише the window recessed itself into the wall ≈ окно утопает в стене б) ставить, располагать поодаль;
отодвигать назад his house stood recessed from the road ≈ его дом стоял в стороне от дороги Syn: set back, set away
2) а) вырезать, делать углубление или выемку;
удалять часть материала в одном месте б) тех. углублять
3) амер. а) делать перерыв (в работе, занятиях и т. п.) ;
прерывать(ся) (о заседаниях и т. п.) Syn: break
2. б) отсрочивать, откладывать Syn: adjourn, suspend перерыв в работе или в заседаниях (парламента, международных организаций и т. п.) ;
парламентские каникулы (тж. parliamentary *) - to take a * объявить перерыв (в заседаниях) ;
разъехаться, разойтись на (парламентские) каникулы и т. п. - to be in * не заседать;
временно не работать - the conference is in * на конференции сейчас перерыв (американизм) каникулы (в школе, университете) (американизм) перемена в школе - noon * большая перемена - children playing at * дети, играющие во время перемены углубление (в стене и т. п.) ;
ниша;
альков;
амбразура( окна) - * bed кровать, убирающаяся в нишу (анатомия) полость, ямка, впадина;
пазуха, карман( техническое) выемка, выточка;
прорезь - * hole глухое отверстие тайник;
укромный уголок;
глухое, уединенное место - subterranean *es подземные тайники - mountain * убежище в горах, горное гнездо - in the inmost /secret/ *es of the soul /of the heart/ в тайниках души;
в глубине сердца отход, отступление (воды, суши, ледника и т. п.) закат, заход (небесных светил) (маленькая) бухта;
заливчик отодвигать назад - to * a hedge from the line of the road отодвинуть изгородь от (линии) дороги помещать в укромном месте;
прятать в тайник (американизм) делать перерыв (в работе, заседаниях) - to * for deliberation удалиться на совещание - the session will * at 5 p.m. в 5 часов на сессии начнется перерыв (американизм) разъезжаться на каникулы помещать в углубление делать углубление - to * a wall сделать нишу в стене (техническое) поднутрять ~ углубление;
ниша, альков;
in the recess в глубине ~ уединенное место;
глухое место;
укромный уголок;
in the secret recesses of the heart в тайниках, в глубине души recess анат., бот. углубление, ямка ~ тех. делать выемку, углублять ~ делать перерыв в занятиях ~ делать углубление ~ амер. каникулы (в школе, университете) ~ маленькая бухта ~ отодвигать назад ~ амер. (большая) перемена в школе ~ перерыв в заседаниях (парламента, суда и т. п.) ~ помещать в укромном месте ~ тех. прорезь, выемка;
выточка ~ углубление;
ниша, альков;
in the recess в глубине ~ уединенное место;
глухое место;
укромный уголок;
in the secret recesses of the heart в тайниках, в глубине души -
14 worst
I 1. [wɜːst]1) (most unsatisfactory, unpleasant, serious etc.) peggiorethe worst book I've ever read — il peggior libro o il libro più brutto che abbia mai letto
2) (most inappropriate) peggiore, meno adatto2.the worst possible place to do — il peggiore posto possibile per fare, il posto meno adatto per fare
1) (most difficult, unpleasant etc.)the worst — il peggiore, la peggiore
last year was the worst for strikes — per quanto riguarda gli scioperi l'anno scorso è stato il peggiore
they're the worst of all — (people) sono i peggiori (di tutti); (things, problems, ideas) è ciò che c'è di peggio
the worst of it is,... — la cosa peggiore è che...
that's the worst of waiting till the last minute — questo è il brutto di aspettare fino all'ultimo minuto
to think the worst of sb. — avere una pessima opinione di qcn.
if the worst were to happen if the worst came to the worst (in serious circumstances) nel peggiore dei casi, nel caso peggiore; (involving fatality) se il peggio dovesse succedere; at worst — alla peggio, nella peggiore delle ipotesi
at its worst, the noise could be heard everywhere — quando raggiungeva il suo massimo, il rumore si sentiva ovunque
when you see people at their worst — quando vedi le persone nel loro momento peggiore o nelle condizioni peggiori
I'm at my worst in the morning — (in temper) è di mattina che sono più di cattivo umore
II [wɜːst]to bring out the worst in sb. — tirare fuori il peggio di qcn
they were (the) worst hit by the strike — sono quelli che hanno subito i disagi più gravi a causa dello sciopero
worst of all,... — e quel che è peggio...
they did (the) worst of all the group in the exam — nel loro gruppo d'esame sono quelli che hanno fatto peggio
* * *[wə:st] 1. adjective(bad to the greatest extent: That is the worst book I have ever read.) peggiore2. adverb(in the worst way or manner: This group performed worst (of all) in the test.) il peggio, il peggiore3. pronoun(the thing, person etc which is bad to the greatest extent: the worst of the three; His behaviour is at its worst when he's with strangers; At the worst they can only fine you.) il peggiore; alla peggio- get the worst of
- if the worst comes to the worst
- the worst of it is that
- the worst of it is* * *I 1. [wɜːst]1) (most unsatisfactory, unpleasant, serious etc.) peggiorethe worst book I've ever read — il peggior libro o il libro più brutto che abbia mai letto
2) (most inappropriate) peggiore, meno adatto2.the worst possible place to do — il peggiore posto possibile per fare, il posto meno adatto per fare
1) (most difficult, unpleasant etc.)the worst — il peggiore, la peggiore
last year was the worst for strikes — per quanto riguarda gli scioperi l'anno scorso è stato il peggiore
they're the worst of all — (people) sono i peggiori (di tutti); (things, problems, ideas) è ciò che c'è di peggio
the worst of it is,... — la cosa peggiore è che...
that's the worst of waiting till the last minute — questo è il brutto di aspettare fino all'ultimo minuto
to think the worst of sb. — avere una pessima opinione di qcn.
if the worst were to happen if the worst came to the worst (in serious circumstances) nel peggiore dei casi, nel caso peggiore; (involving fatality) se il peggio dovesse succedere; at worst — alla peggio, nella peggiore delle ipotesi
at its worst, the noise could be heard everywhere — quando raggiungeva il suo massimo, il rumore si sentiva ovunque
when you see people at their worst — quando vedi le persone nel loro momento peggiore o nelle condizioni peggiori
I'm at my worst in the morning — (in temper) è di mattina che sono più di cattivo umore
II [wɜːst]to bring out the worst in sb. — tirare fuori il peggio di qcn
they were (the) worst hit by the strike — sono quelli che hanno subito i disagi più gravi a causa dello sciopero
worst of all,... — e quel che è peggio...
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15 recess
[rɪ'ses] 1. сущ.1)а) = parliamentary recess перерыв в работе или заседаниях (каких-л. организаций, суда и т. п.), парламентские каникулыrecess time — каникулы, перерыв в работе
to be in recess — временно не работать; разъехаться на каникулы
Parliament was in recess. — Парламент был на каникулах.
Syn:break 1.б) амер. каникулы (школьные, университетские и т. п.)Syn:в) амер. перерыв (в банке и т. п.); перемена (в школе и т. п.)Syn:2)а) уединённое, укромное место; тайник; тихий уголокsubterranean recesses — подземные тайники, катакомбы
mountain recess — горное укрытие, убежище в горах
in the inmost recesses of the soul — в тайниках, глубине души
б) глушь, окраина3)а) углубление (в стене и т. п.); ниша (окна и т. п.); альковrecess bed — кровать, убирающаяся в нишу или специальный шкаф
Syn:б) углубление, впадина; расселинаSyn:в) анат. изгиб, ямка; пазуха, полостьSyn:г) ( recesses) крим. туалет, отхожее место в тюрьме, "параша"4)а) отступление, отход (вод, ледника)Syn:б) ускользание (мыслей, настроения)Syn:5) маленькая бухта, бухточка; заливчик2. гл.1)а) помещать, располагать в углублении, нишеThe window recessed itself into the wall — Окно находилось в нише.
б) отодвигать назад, ставить, располагать поодальHis house stood recessed from the road. — Его дом стоял в стороне от дороги.
Syn:2)а) делать углубление или выемкуб) тех. углублять3) амер.а) делать перерыв (в работе, занятиях и т. п.); прерываться (о заседаниях и т. п.)Syn:break 2.б) отсрочивать, откладыватьSyn: -
16 on
on❢ When on is used as a straightforward preposition expressing position ( on the beach, on the table) it is generally translated by sur: sur la plage, sur la table ; on it is translated by dessus: there's a table over there, put the key on it = il y a une table là-bas, mets la clé dessus.on is often used in verb combinations in English ( depend on, rely on, cotton on etc). For translations, consult the appropriate verb entry (depend, rely, cotton etc).If you have doubts about how to translate a phrase or expression beginning with on ( on demand, on impulse, on top etc) consult the appropriate noun or other entry (demand, impulse, top etc).This dictionary contains usage notes on such topics as dates, islands, rivers etc. Many of these use the preposition on.For examples of the above and further uses of on, see the entry below.A prep1 ( position) sur ; on the table/the pavement sur la table/le trottoir ; on the coast/the lake sur la côte/le lac ; on top of the piano sur le piano ; on the wall/ceiling/blackboard au mur/plafond/tableau noir ; on the floor par terre ; there's a stain on it il y a une tache dessus ; to live on Park Avenue habiter Park Avenue ; it's on Carson Road c'est sur Carson Road ; on the M4 motorway sur l'autoroute M4 ; a studio on Avenue Montaigne un studio Avenue Montaigne ; the paintings on the wall les tableaux qui sont au mur ; accidents on and off the piste des accidents sur la piste et en dehors ; to climb/leap on to sth grimper/sauter sur qch ; ⇒ get, hang, jump, pin, sew, tie ;2 (indicating attachment, contact) to hang sth on a nail accrocher qch à un clou ; on a string au bout d'une or attaché à une ficelle ; to put a hand on sb's shoulder mettre la main sur l'épaule de qn ; to punch sb on the nose/on the chin donner un coup dans le nez/sur le menton de qn ; ⇒ hit, pat, slap ;3 ( on or about one's person) I've got no small change on me je n'ai pas de monnaie sur moi ; have you got the keys on you? est-ce que tu as les clés (sur toi)? ; to have a ring on one's finger avoir une bague au doigt ; the finger with the ring on it le doigt qui porte la bague ; a girl with sandals on her feet une fille avec des sandales aux pieds ; to have a smile/to have a frown on one's face sourire/froncer les sourcils ;4 (about, on the subject of) sur ; a book/a programme on Africa un livre/une émission sur l'Afrique ; information on the new tax des renseignements sur le nouvel impôt ; to read Freud on dreams lire ce que Freud a écrit sur les rêves ; have you heard him on electoral reform? est-ce que tu l'as entendu parler de la réforme électorale? ; we're on fractions in maths en maths, nous en sommes aux fractions ;5 (employed, active) to be on faire partie de [team] ; être membre de [board, committee, council] ; to be on the Gazette travailler pour la Gazette ; a job on the railways un travail dans les chemins de fer ; there's a bouncer on the door il y a un videur à la porte ; there are 20 staff on this project il y a 20 personnes qui travaillent sur ce projet ;6 ( in expressions of time) on 22 February le 22 février ; on Friday vendredi ; on Saturdays le samedi ; on the night of 15 May la nuit du 15 mai ; on or about the 23rd vers le 23 ; on sunny days quand il fait beau ; on Christmas Day le jour de Noël ; on your birthday le jour de ton anniversaire ; ⇒ dot, hour ;7 ( immediately after) on his arrival à son arrivée ; on the death of his wife à la mort de sa femme ; on hearing the truth she… quand elle a appris la vérité, elle… ; on reaching London he… quand il est arrivé à Londres, il… ;8 (taking, using) to be on tablets/steroids/heroin prendre des médicaments/des stéroïdes/de l'héroïne ; to be on drugs se droguer ; to be on 40 (cigarettes) a day fumer 40 cigarettes par jour ; to be on a bottle of whisky a day boire une bouteille de whisky par jour ; ⇒ antibiotic, pill, tranquillizer ;9 ( powered by) to work ou run on batteries marcher à piles, fonctionner sur piles ; to run on electricity être électrique ;10 ( indicating support) sur ; to stand on one leg se tenir sur un pied ; to lie on one's back s'allonger sur le dos ; put it on its side pose-le sur le côté ;11 ( indicating a medium) on TV/the radio à la télé/radio ; I heard it on the news j'ai entendu ça au journal ; on video/cassette en vidéo/cassette ; on disk/computer sur disquette/ordinateur ; on channel four sur la quatrième chaîne ; to play sth on the piano jouer qch au piano ; with Lou Luciano on drums avec Lou Luciano à la batterie ;12 (income, amount of money) to be on £20,000 a year gagner 20 000 livres sterling par an ; to be on a salary ou income of £15,000 gagner 15 000 livres sterling ; he's on more than me il gagne plus que moi ; to be on a low income avoir un bas salaire ; ⇒ dole, grant, live, overtime ;13 (paid for by, at the expense of) this round is on me c'est ma tournée ; have a beer on me je te paye une bière ; ⇒ credit, expenses, house ;14 ( repeated events) disaster on disaster désastre sur désastre ; defeat on defeat défaite sur défaite ;15 ( in scoring) to be on 25 points avoir 25 points ; Martin is the winner on 50 points Martin est le gagnant avec 50 points ;16 Turf he's got £10 on Easy Rider il a parié 10 livres sterling sur Easy Rider ; I'll have 50 dollars on Rapido je parie 50 dollars sur Rapido ; ⇒ odds ;17 Transp to travel on the bus/train voyager en bus/train ; to be on the plane/the train être dans l'avion/le train ; to be on the yacht être sur le yacht ; to be on one's bike être à vélo ; to leave on the first train/flight prendre le premier train/avion ; ⇒ foot, horseback.B adj1 (taking place, happening) to be on [event] avoir lieu ; is the match still on? est-ce que le match aura lieu? ; the engagement is back on again ils sont à nouveau fiancés ; while the meeting is on pendant la réunion ; there's a war/recession on il y a une guerre/récession ; I've got nothing on tonight je n'ai rien de prévu pour ce soir ; to have something on avoir quelque chose de prévu ; I've got a lot on je suis très occupé ;2 (being broadcast, performed, displayed) Euro-express is on tonight il y a Euro-express à la télé ce soir ; the news is on in 10 minutes le journal est dans 10 minutes ; it's on at the Rex ça passe au Rex ; there's an exhibition on at the Town Hall il y a une exposition à la mairie ; what's on? ( on TV) qu'est-ce qu'il y a à la télé? ; ( at the cinema) qu'est-ce qui passe au cinéma? ; ( at the theatre) qu'est-ce qu'il y a à l'affiche or au théâtre? ; there's nothing on il n'y a rien de bien ; Hamlet is still on Hamlet est toujours à l'affiche ;3 (functional, live) to be on [TV, oven, heating, light] être allumé ; [handbrake] être serré ; [dishwasher, radio, washing machine] marcher ; [hot tap, gas tap] être ouvert ; the power is on il y a du courant ; the power is back on le courant est rétabli ; the switch is in the ‘on’ position l'interrupteur est en position ‘allumé’ ; ⇒ switch on (switch), turn on (turn) ;4 GB ( permissible) it's just ou simply not on ( out of the question) c'est hors de question ; ( not the done thing) ça ne se fait pas ; ( unacceptable) c'est inadmissible ; it's simply not on to expect me to do that c'est inadmissible de penser que je vais faire ça ;5 (attached, in place) to be on [lid, top, cap] être mis ; the cap isn't properly on le couvercle est mal mis ; once the roof is on une fois le toit construit ; ⇒ put, screw.C adv1 ( on or about one's person) to have a hat/coat on porter un chapeau/manteau ; to have one's glasses on porter ses lunettes ; he's got his suit on il est en costume ; to have nothing on être nu, ne rien avoir sur le dos ; on with your coats! allez, mettez vos manteaux! ; to have make-up on être maquillé ; with sandals/slippers on en sandales/pantoufles ; ⇒ put, try ;2 ( ahead in time) 20 years on he was still the same 20 ans plus tard, il n'avait pas changé ; a few years on from now dans quelques années ; from that day on à partir de ce jour-là ; to be well on in years ne plus être tout jeune ; the party lasted well on into the night la soirée s'est prolongée tard dans la nuit ; ⇒ later, now ;3 ( further) to walk on continuer à marcher ; to walk on another 2 km faire encore 2 km ; to go on to Newcastle continuer jusqu'à Newcastle ; to go to Paris then on to Marseilles aller à Paris et de là à Marseille ; to play/work on continuer à jouer/travailler ; a little further on un peu plus loin ; ⇒ carry, go, move, press, read ;4 ( on stage) I'm on after the juggler je passe juste après le jongleur ; he's not on until Act II il n'entre en scène qu'au deuxième acte ; you're on! en scène!D on and off adv phr ( also off and on) to see sb on and off voir qn de temps en temps ; she's been working at the novel on and off for years ça fait des années que son roman est en chantier ; he lives there on and off il y habite de temps en temps ; to flash on and off clignoter.E on and on adv phr to go on and on [speaker] parler pendant des heures ; [lectures, speech] durer des heures ; he went ou talked on and on about the war il n'a pas arrêté de parler de la guerre ; the list goes on and on la liste n'en finit pas.you're on d'accord ; are you still on for tomorrow's party? c'est toujours d'accord pour la soirée de demain? ; to be always on at sb être toujours sur le dos de qn ; she's always on at me to get my hair cut elle est toujours sur mon dos pour que je me fasse couper les cheveux ; what's he on about? GB qu'est-ce qu'il raconte? ; I don't know what you're on about je ne sais pas de quoi tu parles ; he's been on to me about the lost files GB il m'a contacté à propos des dossiers perdus. ⇒ get, go, put. -
17 period
1. nounthe Classical / Romantic / Renaissance period — die Klassik/Romantik/Renaissance
of the period — (of the time under discussion) der damaligen Zeit
over a period [of time] — über einen längeren Zeitraum
showers and bright periods — (Meteorol.) Schauer und Aufheiterungen
3) (Sch.) Stunde, diehave her/a period — ihre Periode od. Regel od. (ugs. verhüll.) Tage haben
5) (punctuation mark) Punkt, derwe can't pay higher wages, period — wir können keine höheren Löhne zahlen, da ist nichts zu machen
7) (Geol.) Periode, die2. adjectivezeitgenössisch [Tracht, Kostüm]; Zeit[roman, -stück]; antik [Möbel]* * *['piəriəd] 1. noun2) (a stage in the Earth's development, an artist's development, in history etc: the Pleistocene period; the modern period.) das Zeitalter3) (the punctuation mark (.), put at the end of a sentence; a full stop.)), put at the end of a sentence; a full stop.der Punkt2. adjective(of furniture, costumes etc) of or from the same or appropriate time in history; antique or very old: period costumes; His house is full of period furniture (=antique furniture). zeitgeschichtlich, Stil...- academic.ru/54621/periodic">periodic- periodically
- periodical 3. adjective(see periodic.)* * *pe·ri·od[ˈpɪəriəd, AM ˈpɪr-]I. nhe was unemployed for a long \period [of time] er war lange [Zeit] arbeitslos\period of gestation Schwangerschaftsdauer f\period of grace Nachfrist ffor a \period of three months für die Dauer von drei Monaten\periods of sun sonnige Abschnittetrial \period Probezeit fwithin the agreed \period innerhalb der festgelegten Frista fixed \period eine festgelegte Fristwhat have you got [in] third \period? was hast du in der dritten Stunde?3. (time in life, history, development) Zeit f; (distinct time) Zeitabschnitt m, Periode f geh; (phase) Phase fincubation \period Inkubationszeit f\period of office Amtszeit fcolonial \period Kolonialzeit fDali's surrealistic \period Dalis surrealistische Periodethe Victorian \period das viktorianische Zeitalterof the \period der damaligen ZeitPrecambrian \period Präkambrium nt fachsprshe missed her \period ihre Periode ist ausgebliebento get/have one's \period seine Periode bekommen/habenyou are not getting into the team, \period! du kommst nicht in die Mannschaft, Punkt, aus!1. (of an earlier period) chair, clothing, vase historisch; (set in an earlier period) drama, novel historisch2. (concerning menstruation) cramps, days Menstruations-\period pain Menstruationsschmerzen pl* * *['pIərɪəd]nfor a period of eight weeks/two hours — für eine (Zeit)dauer or einen Zeitraum von acht Wochen/zwei Stunden
at that period (of my life) — zu diesem Zeitpunkt (in meinem Leben)
I don't know anything about American literature period (esp US) — ich habe überhaupt keine Ahnung von amerikanischer Literatur
I'm not going period! (esp US) — ich gehe nicht, Schluss or und damit basta (inf)!
4) (= menstruation) Periode f, Monatsblutung f, Tage pl (inf)* * *period [ˈpıərıəd]A s1. Periode f, Zyklus m, regelmäßige Wiederkehr2. Periode f, Zeit(dauer) f, -raum m, -spanne f, Frist f:period of appeal Berufungsfrist;period of exposure FOTO Belichtungszeit;period of incubation MED Inkubationszeit;period of office Amtsdauer f;period of pressure SPORT Drangperiode;period of validity Gültigkeitsdauer f;the Reformation period die Reformationszeit;for a period für einige Zeit;the fashion of the period die augenblickliche Mode;a girl of the period ein modernes Mädchen4. ASTRON Umlaufzeit f5. SCHULE (Unterrichts)Stunde f6. SPORT Spielabschnitt m, z. B. Eishockey: Drittel n7. ELEK, PHYS Periode f, Schwingdauer f11. (Sprech)Pause f, Absatz m12. LINGa) besonders US Punkt mb) Gliedersatz m, Satzgefüge nc) allg wohlgefügter SatzB adja) zeitgeschichtlich, -genössisch, historisch, Zeit…b) Stil…:a period play ein Zeitstück n;period furniture Stilmöbel pl;period house Haus n im Zeitstil;period dress historisches Kostümper. abk1. period2. person Pers.* * *1. nounthe Classical / Romantic / Renaissance period — die Klassik/Romantik/Renaissance
of the period — (of the time under discussion) der damaligen Zeit
over a period [of time] — über einen längeren Zeitraum
showers and bright periods — (Meteorol.) Schauer und Aufheiterungen
3) (Sch.) Stunde, diehave her/a period — ihre Periode od. Regel od. (ugs. verhüll.) Tage haben
5) (punctuation mark) Punkt, derwe can't pay higher wages, period — wir können keine höheren Löhne zahlen, da ist nichts zu machen
7) (Geol.) Periode, die2. adjectivezeitgenössisch [Tracht, Kostüm]; Zeit[roman, -stück]; antik [Möbel]* * *Zeitabschnitt m. (school) n.Unterrichtsstunde f. n.Frist -en f.Periode -n f.Schwingungszeit f.Zeitraum -¨e m. -
18 curve
1) кривая2) изгиб; закругление; кривизна || изгибать(ся); закруглять(ся)4) лекало (чертёжное, швейное)5) ж.-д. кривая (пути)6) дорож. разбивать кривую•to negotiate a curve — вписываться в кривую (пути);to round curves — проходить кривые участки пути;to run through a curve — проходить кривую (пути);curve of (centers of) flotation — катящаяся кривая, кривая центров тяжести площади ватерлинии ( при наклонениях судна)curve of constant slope — линия откосаcurves of form (of hydrostatic properties) — мор. кривые элементов теоретического чертежаcurve of metacenters — мор. кривая метацентров, метацентрическая обёрткаcurve of Persei — кривая Персея, спирическая кривая-
A curve
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Abbot's curve
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aberration curve
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adiabatic curve
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altitude curve
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amplitude-response curve
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analytic curve
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angle-time curve
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anharmonic curve
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anhysteretic magnetization curve
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annealing curve
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antidromic curve
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antipedal curve
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aperture response curve
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apolar curve
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backwater surface curve
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backwater curve
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ballistic curve
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bath-tub curve
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bearing area curve
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bearing stress curve
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bell-shaped curve
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B-H curve
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binaural curve
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biquartic curve
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bitangential curve
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bitangent curve
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boiling curve
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boiling-point curve
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borderline knock curve
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bound curves
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brake performance curve
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broken-back curve
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buoyancy curve
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burning curve
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calibration curve
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caliper curve
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capacity curve
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catenary curve
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characteristic current curve
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characteristic curve
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characteristic time curve
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charging curve
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circular curve
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climb curve
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closed curve
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color response curve
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commutation curve
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compound curve
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compression curve
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condensation curve
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confocal curves
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continuous curve
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contour curve
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contrast response curve
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conveyor curve
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coordinate curve
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correction curve
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cosecant curve
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cosine curve
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cotangent curve
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cross curves of stability
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cubic curve
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cumulative property curves
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current-time curve
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current-voltage curve
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damper curve
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decay curve
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decline curve
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decrement curve
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de-emphasis curve
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deflection curve
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deformation curve
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demagnetization curve
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depletion curve
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derating curve
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dew-point curve
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dextrorse curve
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directing curve
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discharge curve
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discharge frequency curve
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discharge voltage-time curve
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discharging curve
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displacement curve
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distillate yield curve
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distribution curve
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D-log E curve
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dose-survival curve
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drawdown curve
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drooping volt-ampere curve
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dry-bulb temperature curve
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duration curve
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dynamic stability curve
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easement curve
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efficiency curve
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elastic curve
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elevation-area curve
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elution curve
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empirical curve
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end point yield curve
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enthalpy curve
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entropy curve
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envelope curve
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epitrochoidal curve
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equalization curve
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equiprobability curve
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error curve
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exponential curve
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faired curve
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family curve
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fatigue curve
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firing curve
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first-arrival curve
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fitted curve
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flash point yield curve
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flash yield curve
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flat curve
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floodable length curve
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flow curve
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flow-through curve
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frequency curve
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frequency-response curve
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full-load curve
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full-load performance curve
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full-load saturation curve
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funicular curve
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gain curve
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Gaussian curve
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generating curve
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generation curve
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grading curve
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granulometric curve
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gravity mid per cent curve
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growth curve
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guide curve
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H and D curve
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hardening curve
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harmonic curve
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head-flow curve
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heating load curve
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helical curve
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horizontal curve
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Hurter and Driffield curve
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hydrostatic curves
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hysteresis curve
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incremental fuel consumption curve
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induction-permeability curve
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infiltration curve
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integral curve
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interpolation curve
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ionization curve
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irregular curve
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isentropic curve
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isobaric curve
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isobatic curve
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isochronous curve
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isoclinic curve
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isothermal curve
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isotime curve
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isotropic curve
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lag curve
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launching curves
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lead curve
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learning curve
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level curve
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limit curve
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load curve
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load-deflection curve
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load-duration curve
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load-extension curve
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load-opening displacement curve
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load-strain curve
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load-time curve
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logarithmic curve
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luminosity curve
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magnetization curve
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Mayor curve
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mean temperature-time curve
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no-load curve
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normal curve
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normal traveltime curve
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normalized magnetization curve
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O-curve
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overload curve
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parameter curve
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particle-size distribution curve
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part-load curve
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pay load-range curve
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pedal curve
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performance curve
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permeability curve
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plane curve
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polar curve
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potential curve
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power-angle curve
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preemphasis curve
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pressure curve
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pressure drawdown curve
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probability curve
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propeller performance curves
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quadric curve
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quartic curve
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quintic curve
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railroad curve
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railway curve
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rate-of-failure curve
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rating curve
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recession curve
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reciprocity curve
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recovery curve
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rectifiable curve
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refrigerant flow curve
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regression curve
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regulation curve
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remanence curve
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remarkable curve
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resistance curve
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resistance variation curve
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resonance curve
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response curve
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reverse curve
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righting arms curve
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righting arm curve
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righting moment curve
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rising-stage curve
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room temperature curve
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runoff curve
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sag vertical curve
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saturation curve
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secant curve
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self-polar curve
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sensitivity curve
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sensitometric curve
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sextic curve
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sharp curve
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sheer curve
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short radius curve
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short-circuit curve
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simple curve
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sine curve
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sinistrorse curve
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sizing curve
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sliding curve
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slip-current curve
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smooth curve
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space curve
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spectral-distribution curve
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spectral-response curve
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speed performance curve
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speed-load curve
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spiral curve
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spur conveyor curve
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stability curve
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standardization curve
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statical stability curve
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stationary curve
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steam-pressure curve
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steep curve
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step curve
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stratification curve
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stress-strain curve
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stripping curve
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subsequent fracture curve
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superheat curve
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swing curve
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tangent curve
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tangential curve
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temperature curve
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temperature-depth curve
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temperature-viscosity curve
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test curve
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thrust curve
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tide curve
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time-gamma curve
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time-light curve
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time-temperature-transformation curve
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tons per inch curve
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torque curve
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torque-angle curve
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torque-speed curve
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torque-vs-displacement curve
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total heat curve
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track curve
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transfer curve
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transient curve
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transition boiling curve
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transition curve
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translation curve
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transversal curve
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trochoidal curve
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TTT curve
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turnout curve
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universal curve
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vapor-pressure curve
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vapor curve
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vertical curve
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vertical travel-time curve
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viscosity mid per cent curve
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volumetric efficiency curve
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washability curve
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wear-time curve
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wet-bulb temperature curve
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Wohler's curve
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work-hardening curve
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19 curve
1. кривая 2. траектория
curve of erosion кривая эрозии
curve of variation вариационная кривая
altefation curve кривая изменения
altimetric frequency curve кривая распределения высот
appraisal curve кривая оценки (добычи газа или нефти за определённый период времени)
arch curve перегиб свода
area curve площадная кривая
backwater curve кривая стоячей воды
boundary curve фазовая граница
Cassinian curve изохроматическая кривая (часть интерференционной фигуры в кристаллах)
clinographic curve клинографическая кривая
compaction curve кривая уплотнения
compression curve кривая сжатия
concordia curve кривая согласованных значений абсолютного возраста
conductive glow curves кривые свечения
critical curve критическая кривая
cumulative curve кумулятивная кривая
depletion curve кривая истощения
depth curve изобата
depth-velocity curve эпюра скорости, годограф
determinative curve градуировочная кривая
direct travel time curve прямой годограф
discharge-rating curve кривая зависимости расхода (воды) от уровня
dispersion curve кривая дисперсии
drawdown curve кривая депрессии
drift curve кривая смещения нуль-пункта
drop-down — кривая спада
duration curve кривая продолжительности
earth curve изгиб земной коры
easy curve пологая кривая
energy decay curves кривые спада энергии
family curve сводная кривая
flow-duration curve кривая продолжительности течения
Gaussian curve кривая ошибок, кривая погрешностей, кривая нормального распределения (Гаусса)
generalized curve обобщённая кривая
grain-size distribution curve кривая распределения гранулометрического состава
granulometric curve кривая гранулометрического состава
inverse travel time curve обратный годограф
isodynamic curve изодинамическая кривая, изодинама
isostatic curve изостатическая кривая, изостата
isothermal curve изотермическая кривая, изотерма
low-flow frequency curve кривая повторяемости минимальных расходов
loxodromic curve локсодромия, локсодромная кривая линия
magnetization curve кривая намагничивания
meizoseismal curve кривая точек максимальной разрушительной силы землетрясений
mesokurtic curve кривая распределения с нормальным эксцессом
Oden curve кривая осадконакопления (из взвеси)
outlay curve кривая расхода
particle-size distribution curve кривая гранулометрического состава
polar wandering curves кривые перемещения полюсов
porosity curve кривая естественных потенциалов
pressure curve кривая давления
pressure-fusion curve кривая плавления под давлением
Proctor curve кривая уплотнения (грунта или почвы)
rating curve тарировочная кривая, тарировочный график
reaction curve контур реакции
recession curve кривая спада стока (после дождя, таяния снега)
saturation curve кривая насыщения
sedimentation curve кривая осадконакопления
self-potential curve кривая естественных потенциалов
shallow penetration curve кривая неглубокого проникновения
sine curve синусоидальная кривая, синусоида
slope-discharge curve кривая зависимости расхода от уклона
SP curve см. spontaneous-potential curve
spectral-distribution curve кривая спектрального распределения
spontaneous-potential curve кривая естественных потенциалов
stage-capacity curve кривая зависимости объёма воды в резервуаре от её уровня
stage-discharge curve кривая зависимости расхода текучей воды от её уровня
stress-strain curve кривая напряжение — деформация
summation curve результирующая кривая
Sundberg resistivity curve кривая сопротивления Зундберга
surface curve кривая свободной поверхности воды, профиль поверхности воды
Т. D. curve см. time-distance curve
theoretical curve теоретическая кривая
tidal curve график приливно-отливного режима
time curve см. time-distance
curve time depth curve вертикальный годограф
time-distance [time-path, travel-time] curve кривая времени пробега (сейсмических волн), годограф
trough curve перегиб мульды
velocity profile curve кривая распределения скоростей по профилю, эпюра скорости
washability curve кривая обогатимости
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20 such
1. adjective, no compar. or superl.1) (of that kind) solch...such a person — solch od. (ugs.) so ein Mensch; ein solcher Mensch
such a book — solch od. (ugs.) so ein Buch; ein solches Buch
such things — so etwas
or some such thing — oder so etwas; oder etwas in der Art
you'll do no such thing — das wirst du nicht tun
there is no such bird — solch einen od. einen solchen Vogel gibt es nicht
experiences such as these — solche od. derartige Erfahrungen
I will take such steps as I think necessary — ich werde die Schritte unternehmen, die ich für notwendig halte
at such a moment as this — in einem Augenblick wie diesem; (disapproving) gerade jetzt
in such a case — in einem solchen od. (ugs.) so einem Fall
for or on such an occasion — zu einem solchen Anlass
such a one as he/she is impossible to replace — jemand wie er/sie ist unersetzlich
I got such a fright that... — ich bekam einen derartigen od. (ugs.) so einen Schrecken, dass...
such was the force of the explosion that... — die Explosion war so stark, dass...
3) with adj. so2. pronounshe has such lovely blue eyes — sie hat so schöne blaue Augen
as such — als solcher/solche/solches; (strictly speaking) im Grunde genommen; an sich
such as — wie [zum Beispiel]
* * *1. adjective1) (of the same kind as that already mentioned or being mentioned: Animals that gnaw, such as mice, rats, rabbits and weasels are called rodents; He came from Bradford or some such place; She asked to see Mr Johnson but was told there was no such person there; I've seen several such buildings; I've never done such a thing before; doctors, dentists and such people.) solch2) (of the great degree already mentioned or being mentioned: If you had telephoned her, she wouldn't have got into such a state of anxiety; She never used to get such bad headaches (as she does now).) derartig3) (of the great degree, or the kind, to have a particular result: He shut the window with such force that the glass broke; She's such a good teacher that the headmaster asked her not to leave; Their problems are such as to make it impossible for them to live together any more.) derartig4) (used for emphasis: This is such a shock! They have been such good friends to me!) solch2. pronoun(such a person or thing, or such persons or things: I have only a few photographs, but can show you such as I have; This isn't a good book as such (= as a book) but it has interesting pictures.) der/die/das, solch- academic.ru/71813/suchlike">suchlike- such-and-such
- such as it is* * *[sʌtʃ, sətʃ]I. adjI had never met \such a person before so [o geh solch] ein Mensch [o ein solcher Mensch] war mir noch nie begegnetI don't spend money on \such things für solche [o fam so] Dinge gebe ich kein Geld auspresent on this grand occasion were Andrew Davies, Melissa Peters and other \such stars bei diesem besonderen Anlass waren Andrew Davies, Melissa Peters und andere Stars dieser Größenordnung zugegenI have been involved in many \such courses ich habe [schon] viele Kurse dieser Art gemachthe said she had a cold, superior manner or some \such remark er sagte, sie sei kalt und überheblich, oder so etwas [o fam was] in der RichtungI tried to tell her in \such a way that she wouldn't be offended ich versuchte es ihr so zu sagen, dass sie nicht beleidigt warI'll show you \such books as I have ich zeige Ihnen, was ich an Büchern habein \such cases in solchen [o fam so] Fällen\such a thing so etwas [o fam was]I'm looking for a cloth for cleaning silver — do you have \such a thing? ich suche ein Tuch, mit dem man Silber putzen kann — führen Sie das?I said no \such thing so etwas habe ich nie gesagt, ich habe nie etwas Derartiges gesagtthere's no \such thing as ghosts so etwas wie Geister gibt es nicht2. (so great) solche(r, s), derartighe' \such an idiot! er ist so [o geh solch] ein Idiot!, er ist ein solcher [o derartiger] Idiot!why are you in \such a hurry? warum bist du so [o derart] in Eile?\such beauty is rare solche [o so viel] Schönheit ist selten3.II. pron1. (of that type) solche(r, s)we were second-class citizens and they treated us as \such wir waren Bürger zweiter Klasse und wurden auch so [o als solche] behandelt\such being the case... wenn das so ist,...\such is life so ist das Leben\such as it is so wie die Dinge liegen\such as it was, we had no alternative but to call our parents so wie die Dinge lagen, blieb uns nichts anderes übrig, als unsere Eltern anzurufenour lunch was \such that we don't really need an evening meal unser Mittagessen war so üppig, dass wir kein Abendessen brauchenthe wound was \such that... die Wunde war so groß, dass...\such is the elegance of his typeface that... seine Schrift ist so elegant, dass...\such as wiesmall companies \such as ours are very vulnerable in a recession Kleinunternehmen wie unseres sind äußerst rezessionsanfälligthat sum of money is to cover costs \such as travel and accommodation dieser Betrag soll Auslagen wie Reise- und Unterbringungskosten abdecken3. (suchlike) dergleichenwe talked about our kids, the weather and \such wir sprachen über unsere Kinder, das Wetter und Ähnliches [o dergleichen4. (strictly speaking)▪ as \such an [und für] sich, eigentlichwe don't have a secretary as \such wir haben eigentlich [o an [und für] sich] keine richtige Sekretärinthere was no vegetarian food as \such es gab kein eigentlich vegetarisches Essen5.▶ \such as it is:you're welcome to borrow my tennis racket, \such as it is du kannst dir gerne meinen Tennisschläger ausborgen — soweit er überhaupt noch viel taugtbreakfast, \such as it was, consisted of a couple of croissants and a cup of coffee das Frühstück, soweit vorhanden, bestand aus ein paar Croissants und einer Tasse Kaffeethe car, \such as it is, will get you to work auch wenn das Auto nicht mehr viel taugt, kannst du damit immer noch zur Arbeit fahrenshe's \such an arrogant person sie ist so [o dermaßen] arrogantthat's \such a good film das ist so ein [o ein wirklich] guter Film\such a big city! was für eine große Stadt!I've never had \such good coffee ich habe noch nie [einen] so guten Kaffee getrunkenit's \such a long time ago es ist [schon] so lange herto be \such a long way [away] so weit weg seinI'd put on \such a lot of weight that... ich hatte so [o dermaßen] viel zugenommen, dass...\such nice weather so schönes Wetterit was \such nice weather that... das Wetter war so schön, dass...\such that... so [o auf die Art]... dass...we still have to link the sentences \such that they constitute a narrative wir müssen die Sätze noch so verbinden, dass sie eine Erzählung ergeben* * *[sʌtʃ]1. adj1) (= of that kind) solche(r, s)such a person — so or solch ein Mensch, ein solcher Mensch
such a book — so ein Buch, ein solches Buch
such people/books — solche Leute/Bücher
many/few/all such people/books — viele/wenige/all solche Leute/Bücher
all such books are very expensive —
such a thing — so etwas, so was
have you got such a thing as...? there's such a thing as divorce — haben Sie so etwas wie...? es gibt so etwas wie eine Scheidung
I'll/you'll do no such thing — ich werde mich/du wirst dich hüten
... or some such idea —... oder so etwas,... oder so was in der Richtung (inf),... oder so ähnlich
... or some such name/place —... oder so (ähnlich)
he was such a one/just such another — er war einer von ihnen/auch (so) einer
men/books such as these, such men/books as these — Männer/Bücher wie diese, solche Männer/Bücher
writers such as Agatha Christie, such writers as Agatha Christie —
he's not such a fool as you think — er ist nicht so dumm, wie Sie denken
I'm not such a fool as to believe that or that I'd believe that — ich bin nicht so dumm or kein solcher Dummkopf, dass ich das glaube
such people as attended — die(jenigen), die anwesend waren
I'll give you such books/money as I have — was ich an Büchern/Geld habe, gebe ich Ihnen
2)(= so much, so great etc)
he's such a liar — er ist so or solch ein Lügner, er ist ein derartiger or solcher Lügnerhe did it in such a way that... — er machte es so, dass...
such wealth! — welch( ein) Reichtum!
3) predhis surprise was such that..., such was his surprise that... — seine Überraschung war so groß, dass..., er war so überrascht, dass...
his manner was such that... —
her speech was such that... — ihre Rede war so gehalten, dass...
4)See:2. advso, solch (geh)3. pronrabbits and hares and such — Kaninchen, Hasen und dergleichen
such being the case... —
such was not my intention — dies war nicht meine Absicht
such as it is — so, wie es nun mal ist
the food, such as there was of it... —
I'll give you such as I have — ich gebe Ihnen, was ich habe
* * *such [sʌtʃ]A adj1. solch(er, e, es), derartig(er, e, es):such a man ein solcher Mann;no such thing nichts dergleichen;there are such things so etwas gibt es oder kommt vor;such a life as they live ein Leben, wie sie es führen;such people as you see here die(jenigen) oder alle Leute, die man hier sieht;a system such as this ein derartiges System;such a one ein solcher, eine solche, ein solches;Mr such and such Herr Soundso;such and such persons die und die Personen2. ähnlich, derartig(er, e, es):such is life so ist das Leben;such as it is wie es nun einmal ist;such being the case da es sich so verhälthe got such a fright that … er bekam einen derartigen Schrecken, dass …;such was the force of the explosion so groß war die Gewalt der Explosion5. umg so gewaltig, solch:we had such fun! wir hatten (ja) so einen Spaß!B adv so, derart:such a nice day so ein schöner Tag;such a long time eine so lange ZeitC pron1. solch(er, e, es), der, die, das, die pl:a) diejenigen, welche; alle, die; solche, die,b) wie (zum Beispiel);such was not my intention das war nicht meine Absicht;man as such der Mensch als solcher;all such alle dieser Art;and such (like) und dergleichen2. umg oder WIRTSCH der-, die-, dasselbe, dieselben pl* * *1. adjective, no compar. or superl.1) (of that kind) solch...such a person — solch od. (ugs.) so ein Mensch; ein solcher Mensch
such a book — solch od. (ugs.) so ein Buch; ein solches Buch
or some such thing — oder so etwas; oder etwas in der Art
there is no such bird — solch einen od. einen solchen Vogel gibt es nicht
experiences such as these — solche od. derartige Erfahrungen
I will take such steps as I think necessary — ich werde die Schritte unternehmen, die ich für notwendig halte
at such a moment as this — in einem Augenblick wie diesem; (disapproving) gerade jetzt
in such a case — in einem solchen od. (ugs.) so einem Fall
for or on such an occasion — zu einem solchen Anlass
such a one as he/she is impossible to replace — jemand wie er/sie ist unersetzlich
2) (so great) solch...; derartigI got such a fright that... — ich bekam einen derartigen od. (ugs.) so einen Schrecken, dass...
such was the force of the explosion that... — die Explosion war so stark, dass...
3) with adj. so2. pronounas such — als solcher/solche/solches; (strictly speaking) im Grunde genommen; an sich
such as — wie [zum Beispiel]
* * *adj.derartig adj.solch adj.solcher adj.solches adj.
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