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reduced the level

  • 1 сократить

    1. abbreviate
    2. cut down

    сократил; сокращенный — cut back

    сокращенный; сократил — boiled down

    3. retrench
    4. shorten; abbreviate; abridge; reduce; curtail; short; brief
    5. cancel
    6. condense
    7. contract
    8. dock
    9. prune

    редактор сократил текст, сделав его более читабельным — the editor pruned long text to a shorter and more readable length

    10. reduce
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. сжать (глаг.) сжать; урезать
    2. уволить (глаг.) выгнать; выпереть; вытурить; вышвырнуть; вышибить; дать расчет; отказать от места; прогнать; рассчитать; уволить
    3. укоротить (глаг.) укоротить
    Антонимический ряд:

    Русско-английский большой базовый словарь > сократить

  • 2 сократишь

    1. reduce
    2. shrinking
    3. shrink

    Русско-английский военно-политический словарь > сократишь

  • 3 сократит

    Авиация и космонавтика. Русско-английский словарь > сократит

  • 4 сократит

    1. reduce
    2. reducing

    Бизнес, юриспруденция. Русско-английский словарь > сократит

  • 5 rebajar

    v.
    1 to reduce (price).
    te rebajo 10 euros I'll knock 10 euros off for you
    Pedro rebajó los precios Peter reduced the prices.
    2 to humiliate (person).
    María rebajó a sus empleados Mary humiliated her employees.
    3 to tone down.
    4 to lower (altura).
    5 to dilute.
    6 to lose weight.
    Pedro rebajó muy rápido Peter lost weight quickly.
    7 to rebate, to trim down, to sink, to trim.
    Ricardo rebajó los precios Richard rebated the prices.
    8 to have less.
    Me rebajó la fiebre I have less fever.
    * * *
    1 (nivel) to lower; (arco) to depress
    2 (precio) to cut, reduce
    3 (color) to soften, tone down; (intensidad) to diminish
    4 (bebida) to water down
    5 (comida - sazonamiento) to make milder; (- densidad) to make thinner, thin out
    6 figurado (humillar) to humiliate
    1 MILITAR to be exempted
    2 figurado (humillarse) to humble oneself
    \
    rebajarse a hacer algo to stoop to do something, lower oneself to do something
    rebajarse ante alguien to humble oneself before somebody
    * * *
    verb
    to reduce, lower
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=reducir)
    a) [en dinero] [+ impuesto, coste, precio] to reduce, cut, lower

    algunos bancos rebajaron ayer sus tipos de interés — some banks reduced o cut o lowered their interest rates yesterday

    le rebajaron el precio en un cinco por ciento — they reduced o cut the price by five per cent, they took five per cent off

    ¿nos han rebajado algo? — have they taken something off?, have they given us a reduction o discount?

    b) [en tiempo] [+ condena, castigo] to reduce; [+ edad, límite] to lower

    rebajó la plusmarca mundial en 1,2 segundos — he took 1.2 seconds off the world record

    c) [en cantidad] [+ nivel, temperatura] to reduce, lower; [+ luz, tensión, intensidad] to reduce; [+ peso] to lose; [+ dolor] to ease, alleviate
    2) (=diluir) [+ líquido] to dilute; [+ pintura] to thin; [+ color] to tone down; [+ droga] to cut, adulterate
    3) (=bajar la altura de) [+ terreno] to lower, lower the level of; [+ tejado] to lower; [+ puerta] to rabbet
    4) (=humillar) to humiliate, put down

    rebajó a su mujer delante de sus amigos — he put his wife down o humiliated his wife in front of their friends

    5) (Mil) (=eximir) to exempt (de from)
    2.
    VI

    rebajar de peso — Arg, Uru to slim, lose weight

    una dieta para rebajar de peso — a diet to lose weight, a slimming diet

    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1) < precio> to lower, bring... down; < artículo> to reduce

    me rebajó $200 — he took $200 off

    me lo rebajó a $3.500 — he brought the price down to $3,500

    2) <pintura/solución> to dilute, thin
    3)
    a) (achicar, acortar)

    rebajar un poco la puerta — to cut/saw/plane a little off the door

    b) < terreno> to lower (the level of)
    c) <peso/kilos> to lose
    4) ( humillar) to humiliate; ( bajar)
    2.
    rebajar vi ( humillar) to degrade, be degrading
    3.
    rebajarse v pron

    rebajarse a + inf — to lower oneself TO -ing

    * * *
    = be below + Posesivo + dignity, abase, humble, shave off, mark + Nombre + down.
    Ex. It was clear, though, that this author felt that the job had been below his dignity.
    Ex. Fairy tales not abased by the 'culture industry' might save us from our present state of barbarism resulting from a capitalism run wild.
    Ex. After nine long years, Pakistan's fourth military dictator, General Musharraf, had been humbled by the masses.
    Ex. You can shave off as much as 50% or even more from your current rate for home insurance in Arizona.
    Ex. They have just marked down all summer handbags to 50 percent off.
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    * rebajar el precio = cut + price.
    * rebajar los precios = knock down + prices, slash + prices.
    * rebajarse = crawl.
    * rebajarse a = stoop to.
    * rebajarse al nivel de Alguien = get down to + Posesivo + level.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1) < precio> to lower, bring... down; < artículo> to reduce

    me rebajó $200 — he took $200 off

    me lo rebajó a $3.500 — he brought the price down to $3,500

    2) <pintura/solución> to dilute, thin
    3)
    a) (achicar, acortar)

    rebajar un poco la puerta — to cut/saw/plane a little off the door

    b) < terreno> to lower (the level of)
    c) <peso/kilos> to lose
    4) ( humillar) to humiliate; ( bajar)
    2.
    rebajar vi ( humillar) to degrade, be degrading
    3.
    rebajarse v pron

    rebajarse a + inf — to lower oneself TO -ing

    * * *
    = be below + Posesivo + dignity, abase, humble, shave off, mark + Nombre + down.

    Ex: It was clear, though, that this author felt that the job had been below his dignity.

    Ex: Fairy tales not abased by the 'culture industry' might save us from our present state of barbarism resulting from a capitalism run wild.
    Ex: After nine long years, Pakistan's fourth military dictator, General Musharraf, had been humbled by the masses.
    Ex: You can shave off as much as 50% or even more from your current rate for home insurance in Arizona.
    Ex: They have just marked down all summer handbags to 50 percent off.
    * rebajar el precio = cut + price.
    * rebajar los precios = knock down + prices, slash + prices.
    * rebajarse = crawl.
    * rebajarse a = stoop to.
    * rebajarse al nivel de Alguien = get down to + Posesivo + level.

    * * *
    rebajar [A1 ]
    vt
    A ‹precio› to lower, bring … down; ‹artículo› to reduce, bring down the price of
    me rebajó $200 he took $200 off, he reduced it by $200, he knocked $200 off ( colloq)
    me rebajó el cuadro a $3.500 he brought the price of the painting down to $3,500, he reduced the painting to $3,500
    pídele que te lo rebaje ask him to bring the price down o to give you a discount o ( colloq) to knock a bit off
    todos estaban rebajados they were all reduced
    B ‹pintura› to reduce, dilute, thin; ‹solución› to dilute, thin
    C
    1
    (achicar, acortar): hay que rebajar un poco la puerta we need to cut/saw/plane a little off the door
    rebajaron el terreno unos tres metros they lowered (the level of) the ground by about three meters
    2 (adelgazar) to lose
    rebajó 15 kilos he lost o shed 15 kilos
    3 ‹arco› to depress
    4 ( RPl) ‹pelo› to layer
    D
    1 (humillar) to humiliate
    la rebajó delante de todos he humiliated her o made her look small in front of everyone
    2
    (bajar): llamarlo hostal es rebajarlo de categoría calling it a guest house doesn't do it justice o makes it sound less grand than it really is
    el restaurante ha sido rebajado de categoría the restaurant has been relegated to a lower category o has been downgraded
    3 (dar de baja) to exempt
    lo rebajaron de guardias he was exempted from o relieved of guard duties
    ■ rebajar
    vi
    A (humillar) to degrade, be degrading
    B
    ( RPl) (adelgazar) tb rebajar de peso to lose weight
    rebajarse A + INF to lower oneself TO -ING
    no pienso rebajarme a pedirle perdón I'm not going to humble myself by asking him to forgive me, I'm not going to lower myself to o stoop to asking him to forgive me
    rebajarse ANTE algn to humble oneself BEFORE sb
    * * *

    rebajar ( conjugate rebajar) verbo transitivo
    1 ‹ precio› to lower, bring … down;
    ‹ artículo› to reduce;
    ◊ me rebajó $200 he took $200 off

    2 ‹peso/kilos› to lose
    verbo intransitivo ( humillar) to degrade, be degrading
    rebajarse verbo pronominal rebajarse a hacer algo to lower oneself to doing sth;
    rebajarse ante algn to humble oneself before sb
    rebajar verbo transitivo
    1 (una superficie) to lower
    2 (un precio) to cut, reduce: nos ha rebajado dos mil pesetas, he has taken two thousand pesetas off
    hemos rebajado las camisas, we have cut the price of the shirts
    3 (una sustancia) to dilute
    (con agua) to water: rebajan el vino con agua, they water the wine
    (un color, tono) to soften
    4 (hacer disminuir) to diminish: la falta de empleo ha rebajado su autoestima, being unemployed has diminished his self-esteem
    5 (humillar) to humiliate: la corrupción rebaja a las personas, corruption degrades people
    6 (a un empleado, funcionario, etc) to downgrade: rebajaron a Gómez de categoría, Gómez was downgraded
    7 (una pena, multa) to reduce
    ' rebajar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    descontar
    English:
    bring down
    - cheapen
    - discount
    - knock down
    - lower
    - mark down
    - put down
    - reduce
    - slash
    - cut
    - debase
    - knock
    - mark
    - put
    - thin
    - work
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [precio] to reduce;
    han rebajado los precios a la mitad prices have been reduced o cut by half;
    te rebajo 10 euros I'll knock 10 euros off for you;
    me rebajaron el 10 por ciento they gave me 10 percent off
    2. [humillar] to humiliate, to put down;
    se siente inferior, toda la vida lo rebajaron he feels inferior, people have always put him down throughout his life
    3. [intensidad] to tone down
    4. [altura] to lower;
    [acera, bordillo] to lower
    5. [diluir] to dilute
    6. Mil to exempt
    7. RP [adelgazar] to lose;
    rebajé 3 kilos en un mes I lost 3 kilos in a month
    8. RP [pelo] to layer
    ♦ vi
    RP [adelgazar] to lose weight
    * * *
    v/t precio lower, reduce; mercancías reduce; Rpl: peso lose
    * * *
    1) : to reduce, to lower
    2) : to lessen, to diminish
    3) : to humiliate
    * * *
    rebajar vb to reduce

    Spanish-English dictionary > rebajar

  • 6 réduire

    réduire [ʀedyiʀ]
    ➭ TABLE 38
    1. transitive verb
    ( = diminuer) to reduce ; [+ texte] to shorten
    ► réduire à ( = ramener à) to reduce to ; ( = limiter à) to limit to
    • réduire qch en miettes/en morceaux to smash sth to tiny pieces/to pieces
    2. intransitive verb
    [sauce] to reduce
    • faire or laisser réduire la sauce cook the sauce to reduce it
    3. reflexive verb
    • se réduire à [affaire, incident] to boil down to ; [somme, quantité] to amount to
    * * *
    ʀedɥiʀ
    1.
    1) ( diminuer) to reduce

    réduire un article de 3% — to reduce an article by 3%

    réduire quelque chose en taille — to make something smaller, to reduce the size of something

    2) ( en reproduisant) to reduce [photographie]; to scale down [dessin]; ( en faisant des coupures) to cut [texte]

    être réduit en cendres — lit [ville] to be reduced to ashes; fig [espoirs, rêves] to turn to ashes

    être réduit à rien or à néant — [efforts, travail, fortune] to be wiped out

    5) ( obliger)
    6) ( vaincre) to subdue [ennemi]; to silence [opposition]; to crush [émeute]
    7) Culinaire, Chimie to reduce [composé, sauce]
    8) Mathématique to reduce [fraction]

    2.
    verbe intransitif Culinaire [sauce] to reduce; [épinards] to shrink

    3.
    se réduire verbe pronominal
    1) ( diminuer) [coûts] to be reduced ou cut; [délais] to be reduced ou shortened; [importations] to be cut; [écart] to narrow
    * * *
    ʀedɥiʀ vt
    1) (= diminuer) [pression, température] to lower, [prix, dépenses] to cut, to reduce

    Il faut réduire la pression interne à un niveau acceptable. — The internal pressure should be lowered to an acceptable level.

    Ils ont réduit leurs prix. — They've cut their prices.

    Il a réduit de moitié ses dépenses. — He has cut his spending by half.

    2)

    L'explosion avait réduit l'immeuble à un tas de décombres. — The explosion had reduced the building to a pile of debris.

    réduire en cendres — to reduce to ashes, to burn to ashes

    Ce superbe tableau à été réduit en cendres. — This superb painting was burnt to ashes.

    3)

    les circonstances qui l'avaient réduit à mendier; les circonstances qui l'avaient réduit à la mendicité — the circumstances that had reduced him to begging

    4) CUISINE to reduce
    5) MATHÉMATIQUE to reduce
    6) [carte] to scale down, to reduce
    7) MÉDECINE, [fracture] to set
    * * *
    réduire verb table: conduire
    A vtr
    1 ( diminuer) to reduce [impôt, coût, vitesse, distance, stocks, inégalités]; to reduce, to cut [dépenses]; to reduce, to shorten [délai, durée]; to reduce, to lessen [chances, risques]; to reduce, to limit [choix]; to reduce, to bring down [chômage]; to limit [influence]; réduire le personnel to cut (down on) staff; réduire un article de 3% to reduce ou cut the price of an article by 3%; réduire d'un quart to reduce by a quarter; réduire qch de peu/de beaucoup to reduce sth slightly/greatly; réduire qch au minimum to reduce sth to a minimum; réduire les subventions de moitié to cut subsidies by half; réduire qch en taille/en longueur to make sth smaller/shorter, to reduce the size/length of sth; les jeans sont réduits de 20% jeans are reduced by 20%; réduire le nombre de succursales to cut down the number of branches; je dois réduire mes dépenses I must cut down on my spending; réduire l'écart entre to narrow the gap between;
    2 ( en reproduisant) to reduce [photographie, document]; to scale down [dessin]; ( en faisant des coupures) to cut [texte];
    3 ( transformer) réduire qch en poudre to crush sth to powder; réduire qch en bouillie to reduce sth to a pulp; réduire le blé en farine to grind wheat into flour; être réduit en cendres lit [bâtiment, ville] to be reduced to ashes; fig [espoirs, rêves] to turn to ashes; être réduit à rien ou à néant [efforts, travail, fortune] to be wiped out;
    4 ( en simplifiant) réduire qch à to reduce sth to; réduire un problème à l'essentiel to reduce a problem to its bare essentials; vous avez tort de réduire ce conflit à… it is wrong to consider this conflict as no more than…;
    5 ( obliger) réduire qn à qch to reduce sb to sth; réduire qn au silence to reduce sb to silence; réduire qn à la mendicité to reduce sb to begging; en être réduit à se taire/mendier to be reduced to silence/begging; voilà à quoi j'en suis réduit! this is what I've been reduced to!; réduire un peuple en esclavage to reduce a nation to slavery;
    6 ( vaincre) to subdue [ennemi, tribu]; to silence [opposition]; to crush [émeute, mouvement de résistance];
    7 Culin, Chimie to reduce [composé];
    8 Méd to set, to reduce spéc [os fracturé];
    9 Math to reduce [fraction]; réduire des fractions au même dénominateur to reduce fractions to a common denominator.
    B vi Culin [sauce, sirop] to reduce; [champignons, épinards] to shrink; faites réduire le mélange allow the mixture to reduce; les champignons réduisent à la cuisson mushrooms shrink when cooked.
    1 ( diminuer) [coûts] to be reduced ou cut; [délais] to be reduced ou shortened; [importations] to be cut; l'écart se réduit the gap is narrowing;
    2 ( consister seulement en) se réduire à to consist merely of; leur contribution se réduit à quelques sacs de blé their contribution consists merely of a few sacks of wheat; cela se réduit à bien peu de chose it doesn't amount to very much;
    3 ( se restreindre) se réduire dans ses dépenses to cut down on one's spending.
    [redɥir] verbe transitif
    1. [restreindre - consommation] to reduce, to cut down on ; [ - inflation] to reduce, to bring down (separable), to lower ; [ - dépenses, effectifs] to reduce, to cut back on ; [ - distance] to reduce, to decrease ; [ - chauffage] to lower, to turn down (separable)
    il a réduit le prix de 10 % he cut ou reduced the price by 10%
    réduire quelque chose de moitié to cut something by half, to halve something
    2. [refaire en petit - photo] to reduce ; [ - schéma] to scale down (separable)
    3. [changer]
    4. [forcer]
    réduire la presse/l'opposition au silence to silence the press/the opposition
    réduire quelqu'un à faire to force ou to compel ou to drive somebody to do
    5. [vaincre] to quell, to subdue, to crush
    7. CHIMIE & CUISINE to reduce
    10. (Suisse) [ranger] to put away (separable)
    ————————
    [redɥir] verbe intransitif
    ————————
    se réduire verbe pronominal intransitif
    [économiser] to cut down
    ————————
    se réduire à verbe pronominal plus préposition
    [consister en] to amount to

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > réduire

  • 7 ridurre

    reduce (a to)
    prezzi, sprechi reduce, cut
    personale reduce, cut back
    ridurre al silenzio reduce to silence
    * * *
    ridurre v.tr.
    1 to reduce, to cut* (down); to curtail; to shorten: ridurre il personale, to cut (down) (o to reduce) the staff; ridurre il prezzo di un articolo, to reduce (o to lower o to bring down) the price of an article; ridurre le spese, lo stipendio, to reduce expenses, wages; ridurre una vacanza, to curtail (o to cut short) a holiday; ridurre la velocità, to reduce speed; (econ.) ridurre il capitale, to reduce capital; ridurre il tasso di sconto, to reduce the discount rate; stiamo cercando di ridurre i tempi, we are trying to shorten (o cut) the time // ridurre un'opera letteraria, to abridge a literary work // (mar.) ridurre la velatura, to shorten (o to take in) sail
    2 ( convertire) to convert, to reduce, to change; ( far diventare) to turn into: ogni volta che vengono gli amici mi riducono la casa un porcile, every time my friends come they turn the house into a pigsty; l'hotel Cavour è stato ridotto in appartamenti l'anno scorso, last year the Hotel Cavour was converted into flats // prima riduci quei dati in metri, first convert those data into metres; ridurre in pezzi, to break into pieces; ridurre in polvere, to turn to dust, to pulverize; ridurre qlco. in briciole, to crumble sthg. up
    3 ( adattare) to adapt: (cinem.) ridurre per lo schermo, to adapt for the screen; ridurre un testo per le scuole, to adapt (o to simplify) a text for schools
    4 (chim.) to reduce: ridurre lo stato di ossidazione di un atomo, to reduce the oxidation state of an atom; ridurre nitrogruppi ad aminogruppi, to reduce nitro groups to amino groups; (metall.) ridurre un minerale di rame a rame metallico, to reduce a copper ore to metallic ore
    5 to reduce: (mat.) ridurre una frazione ai minimi termini, to reduce a fraction to its lowest terms
    6 (indurre, portare a) to drive*, to reduce; to bring*: ridurre alla disperazione, to drive to despair; ridurre in miseria, al silenzio, to reduce to poverty, to silence; ridurre qlcu. all'obbedienza, to force s.o. to obedience; ridurre in rovina, in fin di vita, to bring to ruin, to the brink of death; fu ridotto a rubare, a mendicare, he was reduced (o driven) to steal, to beg; lo ridurranno alla pazzia, pazzo, they'll drive him mad // la malattia l'ha ridotto male, the illness has left him in a sorry state (o in a bad way); nell'incidente ha ridotto a, in pezzi l'auto, he made a wreck of his car in the accident
    7 (un abito ecc.) to take* in (a dress)
    8 (frattura ecc.) to set*; to reduce: ridurre una frattura, to set a broken bone
    9 (rar.) ( ricondurre) to bring* back, to take* back: ridurre il gregge all'ovile, to bring back the sheep to the fold // ridurre qlcu. alla ragione, to make s.o. see reason.
    ◘ ridursi v.intr.pron.
    1 to reduce oneself, to come* (down): non volevo ridurmi a questo, I didn't want to come to this; si ridusse a vendere i suoi mobili, he was reduced (o driven) to selling his furniture; le spese si riducono a poco, the expenses come (down) to very little; si riduce sempre all'ultimo a fare le valigie, he always leaves it to the last minute to pack; ridurre allo stretto necessario, to confine oneself to what is strictly necessary
    2 ( diminuire) to diminish, to decrease; (econ.) ( calcolare) to go* down, to drop: le possibilità di successo si sono ridotte, the possibilities of success have diminished (o decreased); i prezzi si sono ridotti, prices have gone down
    3 ( diventare) to be reduced, to become*: si è ridotto a pelle e ossa, he was reduced to (o became) skin and bone (o to a skeleton)
    4 ( restringersi) to shrink*: la camicia si è ridotta lavandola, the shirt shrank with washing
    5 ( ritirarsi) to retire: si ridusse a vita privata, he retired into private life.
    * * *
    1. [ri'durre]
    vb irreg vt
    1) (gen) Mat to reduce, (prezzo) to reduce, cut, bring down, (pressione) to lessen, (produzione) to cut (back), lower, (spese) to cut down on, cut back on
    2) (opera letteraria: per la radio, TV) to adapt, (accorciare) to abridge, (brano musicale) to arrange
    3)

    (fraseologia) ridurre qc in cenere — to reduce sth to ashes

    è proprio ridotto male o mal ridotto — (oggetto) it's really in bad condition, (persona) he's really in a bad way

    2.

    ridursi vip

    1)

    (quantità) ridursi (a) — to be reduced (to), (fig : questione, problema) to come down (to)

    2)

    (persona) ridursi male — to be in a bad state o way

    * * *
    [ri'durre] 1.
    verbo transitivo
    1) (diminuire) to reduce, to cut* [imposte, spese, costi, personale]; to reduce [dimensioni, velocità, distanza]; to reduce, to shorten [ durata]; to narrow [ divario]; to reduce, to lessen [rischi, probabilità]; to reduce, to bring* down [ disoccupazione]; to reduce, to limit [scelta, influenza]

    ridurre l'inflazione dell'1% — to cut 1% off inflation

    2) (nelle dimensioni) to reduce [foto, documento]; to cut*, to abridge [ testo]
    3) (trasformare) to reduce (in to)

    ridurre qcs. in polvere — to reduce o crush sth. to (a) powder

    ridurre qcs. a brandelli — to tear sth. to ribbons o shreds

    ridurre qcn. al silenzio, in miseria — to reduce sb. to silence, to begging

    5) med. to reset* [ osso fratturato]
    2.
    verbo pronominale ridursi
    1) (diminuire) [costi, ritardo] to be* reduced; [rischi, spese, velocità, disoccupazione, livello] to decrease; [ divario] to narrow, to close
    ••
    * * *
    ridurre
    /ri'durre/ [13]
     1 (diminuire) to reduce, to cut* [imposte, spese, costi, personale]; to reduce [dimensioni, velocità, distanza]; to reduce, to shorten [ durata]; to narrow [ divario]; to reduce, to lessen [rischi, probabilità]; to reduce, to bring* down [ disoccupazione]; to reduce, to limit [scelta, influenza]; ridurre il consumo di alcolici to cut down on alcohol; ridurre l'inflazione dell'1% to cut 1% off inflation; ridurre di un quarto to reduce by a quarter
     2 (nelle dimensioni) to reduce [foto, documento]; to cut*, to abridge [ testo]
     3 (trasformare) to reduce (in to); ridurre qcs. in polvere to reduce o crush sth. to (a) powder; ridurre qcs. a brandelli to tear sth. to ribbons o shreds
     4 (obbligare) ridurre qcn. al silenzio, in miseria to reduce sb. to silence, to begging
     5 med. to reset* [ osso fratturato]
    II ridursi verbo pronominale
     1 (diminuire) [costi, ritardo] to be* reduced; [rischi, spese, velocità, disoccupazione, livello] to decrease; [ divario] to narrow, to close
     2 (limitarsi) tutto si riduce al fatto che it all comes down to the fact that
     3 (diventare) la sua voce si ridusse a un sussurro his voice dropped to a whisper; la strada si riduceva a un sentiero the road narrowed to a track
    - rsi all'ultimo (momento) to leave things to the last minute.

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  • 8 Historical Portugal

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

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 9 intercambiable

    adj.
    interchangeable.
    * * *
    1 interchangeable
    * * *
    * * *
    adjetivo interchangeable
    * * *
    = interchangeable, exchangeable.
    Ex. The need to design the buildings so that books, readers and staff are interchangeable remains unchanged.
    Ex. Undoubtedly the absence of a reservoir of exchangeable material has severely reduced the overall level of appreciation of the value of thesis material.
    * * *
    adjetivo interchangeable
    * * *
    = interchangeable, exchangeable.

    Ex: The need to design the buildings so that books, readers and staff are interchangeable remains unchanged.

    Ex: Undoubtedly the absence of a reservoir of exchangeable material has severely reduced the overall level of appreciation of the value of thesis material.

    * * *
    interchangeable
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    intercambiable adjetivo
    interchangeable
    intercambiable adjetivo interchangeable
    ' intercambiable' also found in these entries:
    English:
    interchangeable
    * * *
    interchangeable
    * * *
    adj interchangeable
    * * *
    : interchangeable

    Spanish-English dictionary > intercambiable

  • 10 ridurre

    1. [ri'durre]
    vb irreg vt
    1) (gen) Mat to reduce, (prezzo) to reduce, cut, bring down, (pressione) to lessen, (produzione) to cut (back), lower, (spese) to cut down on, cut back on
    2) (opera letteraria: per la radio, TV) to adapt, (accorciare) to abridge, (brano musicale) to arrange
    3)

    (fraseologia) ridurre qc in cenere — to reduce sth to ashes

    è proprio ridotto male o mal ridotto — (oggetto) it's really in bad condition, (persona) he's really in a bad way

    2.

    ridursi vip

    1)

    (quantità) ridursi (a) — to be reduced (to), (fig : questione, problema) to come down (to)

    2)

    (persona) ridursi male — to be in a bad state o way

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  • 11 moderar

    v.
    1 to moderate.
    modere el consumo de alcohol you should try to avoid drinking excessive amounts of alcohol
    2 to chair (debate).
    * * *
    1 (gen) to moderate; (velocidad) to reduce
    1 to control oneself
    \
    moderarse en las palabras to measure one's words, mind what one says
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    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=controlar)
    a) [+ impulsos, emociones] to restrain, control; [+ violencia, deseo] to curb, control; [+ ambición, opiniones, actitud] to moderate
    b) [+ palabras, lenguaje, tono] to tone down, mind

    por favor, caballero, modere sus palabras — please, sir, mind your language

    2) (=reducir) [+ gastos, consumo] to cut, reduce; [+ velocidad] to reduce; [+ tensión] to ease

    modere su velocidad — reduce your speed, slow down

    marcha 3)
    3) [+ debate, coloquio] to chair, moderate
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <impulsos/aspiraciones> to curb, moderate
    b) <vocabulario/palabras>
    c) <gasto/consumo> to curb; < velocidad> to reduce
    2) <debate/coloquio> to moderate, chair
    2.
    moderarse v pron

    modérate, estás comiendo mucho — restrain yourself o (colloq) go easy, you're eating too much

    modérate, no hables así — control yourself, don't talk like that

    * * *
    = temper, tone down, moderate, lower.
    Ex. This advantage must be tempered by the fact that the standard centrally produced record may not always be consistent with local requirements.
    Ex. We found an increasing trend toward a more structured approach in data gathering procedures, while loose data collection was toned down significantly.
    Ex. The effect of using the system is moderated by 2 variable, the level of experience of the person completing the task, and the status of the client.
    Ex. When a forme was in place on the press stone, paper was lowered on to it by means of a tympan and frisket.
    ----
    * moderar la velocidad = slow down.
    * moderar + Posesivo + aspiraciones = lower + Posesivo + sights.
    * moderar + Posesivo + pretensiones = lower + Posesivo + sights.
    * moderarse = hold back on.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <impulsos/aspiraciones> to curb, moderate
    b) <vocabulario/palabras>
    c) <gasto/consumo> to curb; < velocidad> to reduce
    2) <debate/coloquio> to moderate, chair
    2.
    moderarse v pron

    modérate, estás comiendo mucho — restrain yourself o (colloq) go easy, you're eating too much

    modérate, no hables así — control yourself, don't talk like that

    * * *
    = temper, tone down, moderate, lower.

    Ex: This advantage must be tempered by the fact that the standard centrally produced record may not always be consistent with local requirements.

    Ex: We found an increasing trend toward a more structured approach in data gathering procedures, while loose data collection was toned down significantly.
    Ex: The effect of using the system is moderated by 2 variable, the level of experience of the person completing the task, and the status of the client.
    Ex: When a forme was in place on the press stone, paper was lowered on to it by means of a tympan and frisket.
    * moderar la velocidad = slow down.
    * moderar + Posesivo + aspiraciones = lower + Posesivo + sights.
    * moderar + Posesivo + pretensiones = lower + Posesivo + sights.
    * moderarse = hold back on.

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    moderar [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 ‹impulsos/aspiraciones› to curb, moderate
    2 ‹palabras/vocabulario›
    por favor modera tu vocabulario please mind your language
    modera el tonito don't use that tone of voice with me
    3 ‹gasto/consumo› to curb; ‹velocidad› to reduce
    moderaron la velocidad they slowed down, they reduced their speed
    tenemos que moderar el consumo de energía we have to curb o reduce energy consumption
    B ‹debate/coloquio› to moderate, chair
    modérate, estás comiendo demasiado restrain yourself o ( colloq) go easy, you're eating too much
    modérate, no hables así calm down o control yourself, don't talk like that
    este mes tendremos que moderarnos en los gastos this month we'll have to cut down on our spending
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    moderar ( conjugate moderar) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) ‹impulsos/aspiraciones› to curb, moderate;


    b) ‹gasto/consumo› to curb;

    ‹ velocidad› to reduce
    2 ‹debate/coloquio› to moderate, chair
    moderarse verbo pronominal:
    ◊ modérate, estás comiendo mucho restrain yourself o (colloq) go easy, you're eating too much;

    moderarse en los gastos to cut down on spending
    moderar verbo transitivo
    1 to moderate: tienes que moderar esos hábitos, you have to kick your bad habits
    2 (velocidad) to reduce: al llegar a la curva, modere la velocidad, slow down at the curve
    3 (una discusión) to chair: tengo que moderar un debate en el Ateneo, I have to chair a debate at the Ateneo

    ' moderar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    templar
    - atenuar
    English:
    chair
    - moderate
    - modify
    - hold
    - tone
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [templar, atenuar] to moderate;
    le pidieron que moderara su estilo agresivo he was asked to tone down his aggressive style;
    modere el consumo de alcohol you should try to avoid drinking excessive amounts of alcohol
    2. [velocidad] to reduce;
    modere su velocidad [en cartel] reduce speed
    3. [debate] to chair, to facilitate
    4. [contener] to contain, to restrain;
    moderar las pasiones to contain one's passions
    * * *
    v/t
    1 exigencias moderate; impulsos control, restrain
    2 velocidad, gastos reduce
    3 debate chair
    * * *
    1) temperar: to temper, to moderate
    2) : to curb, to reduce
    moderar gastos: to curb spending
    3) presidir: to chair (a meeting)

    Spanish-English dictionary > moderar

  • 12 участок


    part, portion, zone
    - (зонирования ла) — zone

    zone no. 310, area - fuselage aft of pressure bulkhead.
    - ("коробочки", захода на посадку по прямоугольному маршруту) (рис. 117) — leg
    - (поверхности) — area
    - (траектории полета) — (flight path) segment
    - взлетной дистанции, воздушный (вувд) (рис.113) — airborne part of takeoff distanee
    - взлетной дистанции, наземный (нувд) (рис. 113) — groundborne part of takeoff distance
    - воздушный (траектории взлета, посадки) — airborne part (of takeoff, landing path)
    -, второй (чистой траектории начального набора высоты) — second segment
    от точки полной уборки шасси до высоты 400 фт (рис. 114). — from the landing gear retraction complete point to a height of 400 feet.
    - горизонтального разгона — horizontal acceleration segment
    - графика, ограниченный с 4-x сторон замкнутыми кривыми (рис. 144) — carpet plot the altitude and temperatures are drawn as a carpet plot.
    -, деформированный (детали) — misshapen area
    выправить (отрихтовать) деформированные участки (поверхности). — straighten all misshapen areas.
    - записи (на магнитной ленте) — recorded item
    - захода (на посадку) до первого разворота (рис. 117) — upwind leg
    - захода (на посадку) между вторым и третьим разворотами — downwind leg that leg of the landing pattern during which an airplane files downwind.
    - захода (на посадку) между первым и вторым разворотом — crosswind leg
    - захода (на посадку) между третьим и четвертым разворотом — base leg
    -, заштрихованный (графика) — cross-hatched zone
    - земной поверхности, застроенный — cultured areas (on earth surface)
    - земной поверхности, незастроенный — noncultured area
    - изображения (фотоснимка) нерезкий — out-of-focus area
    - конечного этапа захода на посадку (после четвертого разворота) — final approach
    -, конечный (траектории начального набора высоты) — final takeoff segment
    от точки на высоте выравнивания до высоты 1500 фт. и более, с убранными закрылками и работе двиг. на максимальном продолжительном режиме. — this segment extends from the level-off height to а gross height of 1500 feet or more, with flaps up and maximum continuous thrust.
    - "коробочки" до первого разворота (рис. 117) — upwind leg
    - "коробочки" после второго разворота — downwind leg
    - "коробочки" после первого разворота — crosswind leg
    - "коробочки" после третьего разворота — base leg
    - "коробочки" после четвертого разворота — final approach
    - крыла, по которому разрешено хождение — overwing walkway area
    - маршрута — route segment /leg/
    маршрут или участок маршрута, обычно пролетаемый без промежуточных посадок. — a route or portion of а route usually flown without an intermediate stop.
    - маршрута (между двумя ппм - промежуточными пунктами маршрута) (рис. 124) — navigation leg (between two waypoints)
    - маршрута (при полете по ппм) — navigation /flight/ leg
    - маршрута, запрограммированный (в эвм) — stored navigation leg
    - маршрута, навигационнообеспечиваемый — navigated route leg
    -, маршрута, начальный — initial flight leg
    обычно участок полета по ортодромии от заданного места до первого ппм. — it is а normally great circle route from present position to the first en-route waypoint.
    - маршрута, новый (при полете по ппм) — new navigation leg
    - маршрута, предыдущий — last navigation leg
    - маршрута, следующий (при полете по ппм) — next navigation leg
    - маршрута, текущий (при полете по ппм) — current navigation /route/ leg
    - (зона планера, систем, двигатепей ла), могущий повлиять на безопасность эксппуатации ла. — problem area frequent maintenance visits allow early detection of problem areas in airframe, systems artd engines.
    - (начального) набора высоты (1-й-4-й) (рис.114) — takeoff flight path segment (first-fourth)
    - неба (небесной сферы) — sky region, portion of sky

    a telescope examines a sky region.
    -, первый (чистой траектории начального набора высоты) — first segment
    от точки на высоте 35 фт. до точки полной уборки шасси, начатой через 3 сек. после отрыва самолета при взлете. — from the 35 feet height point to the point at which the landing gear is fully retracted, retraction of the landing gear having been initiated 3 seconds after lift-off.
    - поверхности — surface area
    - поверхности ла, по которому разрешено хождение — walkway area
    - посадочной дистанции, воздушный (рис. 116) — airborne part of landing distance
    - посадочной дистанции, наземный — groundbcrne part of landing distance
    -, последующий (траектории) — remaining segment
    - предпосадочного маневра — intermediate approach pattern leg
    -, предшествующий (траектории) — preceding segment
    -, пятый (чистой траектории начального набора высоты) — fifth segment
    участок обычно заканчивается на высоте 1500 фт. но может быть продолжен до большей высоты при наличии препятствий. самолет находится в полетной конфигурации. — the segment normally ends at 1500 feet, but may be continued to а greater height should obstacle clearance make this necessary. the aircraft is in the en-route configuration.
    -, рабочий (рабочее место в цехе, мастерской) — workplace (in shop)
    - разгона — acceleration segment
    полет на участке разгона производится без набора высоты. — in acceleration segment there is no gain in height.
    - траектории (полета) — flight path segment
    - траектории взлета, воздушный — airborne part of the takeoff path
    наклон воздушного участка траектории взлета должен быть положительным в каждой точке. — the slope of the airborne part of the takeoff path must be positive at each point.
    - траектории начального набора высоты — takeoff path segment
    определения участков по нлгс-2, bcar и циркуляру икао не совпадают. определения участков (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) даются пo циркуляру икао. (рис. 112, 114). — the takeoff path segments must be clearly defined and must be related to the distinct changes in configuration, power or thrust and speed.
    -, третий (чистой траектории начального набора высоты) — third segment from thе point at а height of 400 feet to the point reached when the time elapsed from the start of takeoff is that given in the graph illustrating fime at start of acceleration segment.
    - цепи (эл.) — circuit portion
    -, четвертый (чистой траектории набора высоты) — fourth segment
    от конца третьего участка до точки, достигаемой при собпюдении ниже указанных требований. пo истечении указанного времени (время в начале участка разгона) самолет разгоняется в горизонтальном полете при работе двиг. на макс. взлетном режиме. по достижении скорости начала уборки закрылков начинается уборка закрылков. разгон в горизонтальном полете продолжается до полной уборки закрылков и достижения скорости набора высоты с убранными закрылками (при одном неработающем двигателе), и в данной точке двигатели переводятся на макс. продолжительный режим. — from the end of the third segment to the point reached by following the procedure described hereafter. when the specified time (time at start of acceleration segment) has elapsed, the aeroplane is accelerated in levef flight using maximum take-off power. when speed has reached the flap retraction initiation speed flaps are selected to up. the acceleration in level flight is continued until the flaps are fully retracted and the speed has increased to the appropriate flaps up climb speed (one engine inoperative) at which point power is reduced to maximum continuous.
    - чистой траектории начального набора высоты — net takeoff flight path segment
    - шкалы, градуированный — graduated band of scale
    - шкалы (прибора), окрашенный в зеленый цвет (индикация измеряемой величины в пределах нормы) — green band (of indicator scale) the tgt is stabilized in green band of the tgt indicator.
    - шкалы (прибора), окрашенный в красный цвет (индикация измеряемой величины выше нормы) — red band (of indicator scale) at tgt overtemperature the tgt indicator pointer is in red band.
    - шкалы, оцифрованный — scale band marked with figures
    -, штилевой (поверхности моря) — smooth sea state area
    в начале участка — at start of segment
    в конце участка — at end of segment
    на у. (траектории) — in segment
    начало у. (траектории) — start of segment
    изменять (переключать) у. — change leg /route, track/
    маршрута (автоматически или вручную) — (automatically or manually)

    Русско-английский сборник авиационно-технических терминов > участок

  • 13 degradare

    degrade
    da un rango demote
    * * *
    degradare v.tr.
    1 to demote (anche mil.): fu degradato, he was demoted
    2 (fig.) ( avvilire) to degrade, to debase, to lower: degradare gli uomini al livello delle bestie, to degrade men to the level of beasts
    3 (chim.) to degrade
    ◆ v. intr. → digradare.
    ◘ degradarsi v.rifl. to degrade oneself, to lower oneself, to bring* disgrace upon oneself: non dovresti degradarti fino a questo punto, you should not lower yourself that far
    ◆ v.intr.pron.
    1 (chim.) to degrade
    2 ( subire un degrado) to deteriorate, to degenerate: gli edifici storici si stanno degradando per incuria, the historic buildings are deteriorating as a result of neglect.
    * * *
    [deɡra'dare]
    1. vt
    Mil to demote, (fig : persona) to degrade
    to degrade o.s., demean o.s.
    * * *
    [degra'dare] 1.
    verbo transitivo
    1) mil. to break*; mar. to disrate [ ufficiale]
    2) (umiliare) [ vizio] to debase
    3) (deteriorare) to degrade [ ambiente]
    2.
    verbo pronominale degradarsi
    1) (abbrutirsi) to become* degraded
    2) (deteriorarsi) to deteriorate
    3) geol. to degrade
    * * *
    degradare
    /degra'dare/ [1]
     1 mil. to break*; mar. to disrate [ ufficiale]; essere degradato a soldato semplice to be reduced to the ranks
     2 (umiliare) [ vizio] to debase
     3 (deteriorare) to degrade [ ambiente]
    II degradarsi verbo pronominale
     1 (abbrutirsi) to become* degraded
     2 (deteriorarsi) to deteriorate
     3 geol. to degrade.

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > degradare

  • 14 сниженный

    1. depressed
    2. bring down

    выторговать; убедить снизить цену — cut down

    3. cut
    4. decline
    5. drop
    6. abased
    7. lower; reduce; decrease
    8. reduce
    Синонимический ряд:
    уменьшить (глаг.) понизить; сбавить; убавить; уменьшить
    Антонимический ряд:

    Русско-английский большой базовый словарь > сниженный

  • 15 каким-то чудом

    Артамонов-старший ответил не сразу. Он с удивлением видел, что сын каким-то чудом встал вровень с ним, сам поднялся до значительности взрослого или принизил взрослого до себя. (М. Горький, Дело Артамоновых) — Artamonov senior did not answer at once. He realized, to his amazement, that by some miracle his son stood on a level with himself. The boy had risen to adult significance, or, perhaps, reduced the adult to his own level.

    Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > каким-то чудом

  • 16 bajar

    v.
    1 to take/bring down (poner abajo) (libro, cuadro).
    2 to go/come down (descender) (montaña, escaleras).
    bajó las escaleras a toda velocidad she ran down the stairs as fast as she could
    bajar en ascensor to go/come down in the lift o (British) elevator (United States)
    bajar por la escalera to go/come down the stairs
    bajar (a) por algo to go out and get something
    bajar corriendo to run down
    3 to reduce.
    bajar el fuego (de la cocina) to reduce the heat
    4 to lower (ojos, cabeza, voz).
    5 to download (informal) (computing).
    6 to fall, to drop.
    este modelo ha bajado de precio this model has gone down in price, the price of this model has gone down
    bajó la Bolsa share prices fell
    las acciones de C & C han bajado C & C share prices have fallen
    7 to descend, to come down, to decrease, to drop.
    Bajó el calor The heat descended.
    El hielo bajó la temperatura The ice reduced the temperature.
    8 to step down, to stand down, to climb down, to get down.
    Ricardo bajó del camión Richard stepped down from the truck.
    9 to take down, to discharge, to carry down, to get down.
    Pedro bajó el equipaje Peter took down the luggage.
    10 to put down, to lower, to put in a lower position.
    Ella bajó su mano She put down her hand.
    11 to go down, to descend.
    Ese elevador baja That elevator goes down.
    12 to have less.
    Me bajó la temperatura I have less temperature.
    13 to walk down, to descend.
    Ella bajó el camino al mar She walked down the path to the sea.
    * * *
    1 (coger algo de un lugar alto) to get down, take down
    ■ ¿has bajado las persianas? have you lowered the blinds?
    ■ ese cuadro está muy alto, bájalo un poco that picture's too high, bring it down a bit
    3 (reducir) to lower, reduce, bring down
    4 (reducir en intensidad) to lower; (voz) to lower; (sonido, luz, gas) to turn down
    ■ baja la voz, que te van a oír lower your voice, they'll hear you
    ■ baja la tele un poco, no te oigo turn the telly down, I can't hear you
    ■ baja la calefacción, hace calor turn the heating down, it's hot
    5 (alargar) to lengthen, let down
    6 (recorrer de arriba abajo) to go down, come down
    7 (en informática) to download
    1 (ir abajo - acercándose) to come down; (- alejándose) to go down
    ■ ¡baja de ahí ahora mismo! come down from there right now!
    ■ ¿bajas en ascensor o por la escalera? are you going down in the lift or by the stairs?
    ■ bajó corriendo/volando he ran/flew down
    2 (reducirse) to fall, drop, come down
    3 (hinchazón) to go down; (fiebre) to go down, come down
    4 (marea) to go out
    5 (apearse - de coche) to get out (de, of); (de bicicleta, caballo) to get off (de, -); (de avión, tren, autobús) to get off (de, -)
    1 (ir abajo - acercándose) to come down; (- alejándose) to go down
    2 (apearse - de coche) to get out (de, -); (bicicleta, caballo) to get off (de, -); (avión, tren, autobús) to get off (de, -)
    3 (agacharse) to bend down, bend over
    \
    bajarse la cabeza to bow one's head
    no bajar de... to be at least..., not be less than...
    * * *
    verb
    3) fall
    •
    - bajarse
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=llevar abajo) to take down; (=traer abajo) to bring down

    ¿has bajado la basura? — have you taken the rubbish down?

    ¿me bajas el abrigo?, hace frío aquí fuera — could you bring my coat down? it's cold out here

    ¿me baja a la Plaza Mayor? — [en taxi] could you take me to the Plaza Mayor?

    2) (=mover hacia abajo) [+ bandera, ventanilla] to lower; [+ persiana] to put down, lower
    3) [con partes del cuerpo] [+ brazos] to drop, lower

    bajó la vista o los ojos — he looked down

    bajó la cabeza — she bowed o lowered her head

    4) (=reducir) [+ precio] to lower, put down; [+ fiebre, tensión, voz] to lower
    5) [+ radio, televisión, gas] to turn down

    baja la radio que no oigo nada — turn the radio down, I can't hear a thing

    ¡baja la voz, que no estoy sordo! — keep your voice down, I'm not deaf!

    6)

    bajar la escalera — [visto desde arriba] to go down the stairs; [visto desde abajo] to come down the stairs

    7) (=perder) to lose
    8) (Inform) to download
    9) (=humillar) to humble, humiliate
    10) Caribe ** (=pagar) to cough up *, fork out *
    11) And ** (=matar) to do in **
    2. VI
    1) (=descender) [visto desde arriba] to go down; [visto desde abajo] to come down

    ¡ahora bajo! — I'll be right down!

    2) (=apearse) [de autobús, avión, tren, moto, bici, caballo] to get off; [de coche] to get out

    bajar de — [+ autobús, avión, tren, moto, bici, caballo] to get off; [+ coche] to get out of

    3) (=reducirse) [temperatura, fiebre, tensión arterial] to go down, fall, drop; [hinchazón, calidad] to go down
    4)

    • bajar de (=perder) —

    5)

    • no bajar de (=no ser menos de) —

    6) [regla] to start
    3.
    See:
    BAJAR De vehículos ► Bajar(se) de un vehículo privado o de un taxi se traduce por get out of, mientras que bajar(se) de un vehículo público (tren, autobús, avión {etc}) se traduce por get off: Bajó del coche y nos saludó She got out of the car and said hello No baje del tren en marcha Don't get off the train while it is still moving ► Debe emplearse get off cuando nos referimos a bicicletas, motos y animales de montura: Se bajó de la bicicleta He got off his bicycle Otros verbos de movimiento ► Bajar la escalera/ la cuesta {etc}, por regla general, se suele traducir por come down o por go down, según la dirección del movimiento (hacia o en sentido contrario del hablante), pero come y go se pueden substituir por otros verbos de movimiento si la oración española especifica la forma en que se baja mediante el uso de adverbios o construcciones adverbiales: Bajó las escaleras deprisa y corriendo She rushed down the stairs Bajó la cuesta tranquilamente He ambled down the hill Para otros usos y ejemplos ver la entrada
    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1)
    a) ascensor/persona ( alejándose) to go down; ( acercándose) to come down

    espérame, ya bajo — wait for me, I'll be right down

    ¿bajas a la playa con nosotros? — are you coming (down) to the beach with us?

    bajar a + inf — to go/come down to + inf

    b) ( apearse)

    bajar de algo — de tren/avión to get off sth; de coche to get out of sth; de caballo/bicicleta to get off sth

    c) (Dep) equipo to go down
    2)
    a) marea to go out
    b) fiebre/tensión to go down, drop; hinchazón to go down; temperatura to fall, drop

    le ha bajado la fiebre — her fever o temperature has gone down

    c) precio/valor to fall, drop; cotización to fall; calidad to deteriorate; popularidad to diminish
    d) menstruación to start
    2.
    bajar vt
    1) <escalera/cuesta> to go down
    2) <brazo/mano> to put down, lower
    3) (Inf) to download
    4)
    a)

    bajar algo (de algo) — de armario/estante to get sth down (from sth); del piso de arriba to bring/take down sth

    ¿me bajas las llaves? — can you bring down my keys?

    b)

    bajar a algn de algo — de mesa/caballo to get sb off sth

    5)
    a) <persiana/telón> to lower; < ventanilla> to open
    b) < cremallera> to undo
    6) < precio> to lower; < fiebre> to bring down; < volumen> to turn down
    3.
    bajarse verbo pronominal
    1) ( apearse)

    bajarse de algo — de tren/autobús to get off sth; de coche to get out of sth; de caballo/bicicleta to get off sth

    2) < pantalones> to take down; < falda> to pull down
    * * *
    = come + downstairs, drop, go down, lower, walk down, ebb, subside, move down, come down, wind + Nombre + down, coast, freewheel, take + a tumble, turn down.
    Ex. Meanwhile the journeymen, who had just gone to bed, hearing the row quickly got up again, came downstairs and then shoved me out of the door.
    Ex. The search profile will only be modified periodically as the quality of the set of notifications output from the search drops to unacceptable levels.
    Ex. Since recall goes up as precision goes down, it is clearly not possible to achieve in general a system which gives full recall at the same time as full precision.
    Ex. When a forme was in place on the press stone, paper was lowered on to it by means of a tympan and frisket.
    Ex. Some of the questions to ask ourselves are will people walk up or down stairs, across quadrangles, etc just to visit the library?.
    Ex. Subsequently, library development stalled as cultural interaction ebbed from classical levels.
    Ex. Her agitation subsided suddenly.
    Ex. Of the 32 institutions indicating some change in status from July 1982 to January 1983, 19 moved down in status and 13 moved up.
    Ex. Costs are likely to be high but they will only come down as the system moves into the mass market.
    Ex. Not the least of the ironies of this venture is that going ahead with it is as full of hazard as winding it down abruptly.
    Ex. Pushing our bicycles up a very steep hill one sunny morning, two men on bicycles coasted down the hill and passed us.
    Ex. His vehicle freewheeled backwards down a hill and collided with another vehicle heading up the hill.
    Ex. Tourism takes a tumble in Australia due to the global credit crunch.
    Ex. Cytokines are small proteins used to communicate messages between the immune cells in the immune system to either turn up or down the immune response.
    ----
    * bajar a = head down to.
    * bajar a Alguien del pedestal = knock + Nombre + off + Posesivo + pedestal, cut + Nombre + down to size.
    * bajar de categoría = demote.
    * bajar de precio = come down in + price.
    * bajar el listón = lower + the bar.
    * bajar el nivel = lower + the bar.
    * bajar el precio = lower + price.
    * bajar la calidad = lower + standards.
    * bajar la guardia = lower + Posesivo + guard.
    * bajar la moral = lower + morale.
    * bajar la ventana = wind down + window.
    * bajar la voz = lower + Posesivo + voice.
    * bajarle la nota a Alguien = mark + Nombre + down.
    * bajarle los humos a Alguien = knock + Nombre + off + Posesivo + pedestal, cut + Nombre + down to size, take + the wind out of + Posesivo + sails.
    * bajar los precios = roll back + prices.
    * bajar mucho = go + way down.
    * bajarse de = get off.
    * bajarse de las nubes = get real.
    * bajarse del tren = get off + the train.
    * hacer bajar = force down.
    * no bajarse del burro = stick to + Posesivo + guns.
    * precio + bajar = price + fall.
    * que baja los humos = humbling.
    * subir y = move up and/or down.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1)
    a) ascensor/persona ( alejándose) to go down; ( acercándose) to come down

    espérame, ya bajo — wait for me, I'll be right down

    ¿bajas a la playa con nosotros? — are you coming (down) to the beach with us?

    bajar a + inf — to go/come down to + inf

    b) ( apearse)

    bajar de algo — de tren/avión to get off sth; de coche to get out of sth; de caballo/bicicleta to get off sth

    c) (Dep) equipo to go down
    2)
    a) marea to go out
    b) fiebre/tensión to go down, drop; hinchazón to go down; temperatura to fall, drop

    le ha bajado la fiebre — her fever o temperature has gone down

    c) precio/valor to fall, drop; cotización to fall; calidad to deteriorate; popularidad to diminish
    d) menstruación to start
    2.
    bajar vt
    1) <escalera/cuesta> to go down
    2) <brazo/mano> to put down, lower
    3) (Inf) to download
    4)
    a)

    bajar algo (de algo) — de armario/estante to get sth down (from sth); del piso de arriba to bring/take down sth

    ¿me bajas las llaves? — can you bring down my keys?

    b)

    bajar a algn de algo — de mesa/caballo to get sb off sth

    5)
    a) <persiana/telón> to lower; < ventanilla> to open
    b) < cremallera> to undo
    6) < precio> to lower; < fiebre> to bring down; < volumen> to turn down
    3.
    bajarse verbo pronominal
    1) ( apearse)

    bajarse de algo — de tren/autobús to get off sth; de coche to get out of sth; de caballo/bicicleta to get off sth

    2) < pantalones> to take down; < falda> to pull down
    * * *
    = come + downstairs, drop, go down, lower, walk down, ebb, subside, move down, come down, wind + Nombre + down, coast, freewheel, take + a tumble, turn down.

    Ex: Meanwhile the journeymen, who had just gone to bed, hearing the row quickly got up again, came downstairs and then shoved me out of the door.

    Ex: The search profile will only be modified periodically as the quality of the set of notifications output from the search drops to unacceptable levels.
    Ex: Since recall goes up as precision goes down, it is clearly not possible to achieve in general a system which gives full recall at the same time as full precision.
    Ex: When a forme was in place on the press stone, paper was lowered on to it by means of a tympan and frisket.
    Ex: Some of the questions to ask ourselves are will people walk up or down stairs, across quadrangles, etc just to visit the library?.
    Ex: Subsequently, library development stalled as cultural interaction ebbed from classical levels.
    Ex: Her agitation subsided suddenly.
    Ex: Of the 32 institutions indicating some change in status from July 1982 to January 1983, 19 moved down in status and 13 moved up.
    Ex: Costs are likely to be high but they will only come down as the system moves into the mass market.
    Ex: Not the least of the ironies of this venture is that going ahead with it is as full of hazard as winding it down abruptly.
    Ex: Pushing our bicycles up a very steep hill one sunny morning, two men on bicycles coasted down the hill and passed us.
    Ex: His vehicle freewheeled backwards down a hill and collided with another vehicle heading up the hill.
    Ex: Tourism takes a tumble in Australia due to the global credit crunch.
    Ex: Cytokines are small proteins used to communicate messages between the immune cells in the immune system to either turn up or down the immune response.
    * bajar a = head down to.
    * bajar a Alguien del pedestal = knock + Nombre + off + Posesivo + pedestal, cut + Nombre + down to size.
    * bajar de categoría = demote.
    * bajar de precio = come down in + price.
    * bajar el listón = lower + the bar.
    * bajar el nivel = lower + the bar.
    * bajar el precio = lower + price.
    * bajar la calidad = lower + standards.
    * bajar la guardia = lower + Posesivo + guard.
    * bajar la moral = lower + morale.
    * bajar la ventana = wind down + window.
    * bajar la voz = lower + Posesivo + voice.
    * bajarle la nota a Alguien = mark + Nombre + down.
    * bajarle los humos a Alguien = knock + Nombre + off + Posesivo + pedestal, cut + Nombre + down to size, take + the wind out of + Posesivo + sails.
    * bajar los precios = roll back + prices.
    * bajar mucho = go + way down.
    * bajarse de = get off.
    * bajarse de las nubes = get real.
    * bajarse del tren = get off + the train.
    * hacer bajar = force down.
    * no bajarse del burro = stick to + Posesivo + guns.
    * precio + bajar = price + fall.
    * que baja los humos = humbling.
    * subir y = move up and/or down.

    * * *
    bajar [A1 ]
    vi
    A
    1 «ascensor/persona» (alejándose) to go down; (acercándose) to come down
    yo bajo por la escalera I'll walk down o take the stairs
    espérame, ya bajo wait for me, I'll be right down
    ¿bajas a la playa? are you coming (down) to the beach?
    bajar A + INF to go/come down to + INF
    bajó a saludarnos he came down to say hello
    todavía no ha bajado a desayunar she hasn't come down for breakfast yet
    ha bajado a comprar cigarrillos he's gone down to buy some cigarettes
    2 (apearse) bajar DE algo ‹de un tren/un avión› to get off sth; ‹de un coche› to get out OF sth; ‹de un caballo/una bicicleta› to get off sth, dismount FROM sth
    me caí al bajar del autobús I fell as I was getting off the bus
    yo no bajo, me quedo en el coche I'm not getting out, I'll stay in the car
    no sabe bajar sola del caballo she can't get down off the horse o dismount on her own
    3 ( Dep) «equipo» to go down, be relegated
    4
    «río/aguas» (+ compl): el río baja crecido the river is (running) high
    B
    1 «marea» to go out
    2 «fiebre/tensión» to go down, drop, fall; «hinchazón» to go down
    han bajado mucho las temperaturas temperatures have fallen o dropped sharply
    no le ha bajado la fiebre her fever o ( BrE) temperature hasn't gone down
    3 «precio/valor» to fall, drop; «cotización» to fall
    el dólar bajó ligeramente the dollar slipped back o fell slightly
    nuestro volumen de ventas no ha bajado our turnover hasn't fallen o dropped o decreased
    los precios bajaron en un 25% prices fell by 25%
    los ordenadores están bajando de precio computers are going down in price
    ha bajado mucho la calidad del producto the quality of the product has deteriorated badly
    su popularidad ha bajado últimamente her popularity has diminished recently
    seguro que no baja de los dos millones I bet it won't be o cost less than two million
    ha bajado mucho en mi estima he's gone down o fallen a lot in my estimation
    4 «período/menstruación» (+ me/te/le etc) to start
    5
    ( Chi fam) (entrar) (+ me/te/le etc): con el vino le bajó un sueño tremendo the wine made him incredibly sleepy
    al escuchar tanta estupidez nos bajó una rabia … listening to such nonsense made us so angry …
    ■ bajar
    vt
    A ‹escalera/cuesta› to go down
    bajó la cuesta corriendo she ran down the hill
    B
    1 ‹brazo/mano› to put down, lower
    bajó la cabeza/mirada avergonzado he bowed his head/lowered o dropped his eyes in shame
    2 (de un armario, estante) to get down; (de una planta, habitación) to bring/take down
    me ayudó a bajar la maleta he helped me to get my suitcase down
    ¿me bajas las llaves? can you bring down my keys?
    hay que bajar estas botellas al sótano we have to take these bottles down to the basement
    bajar algo/a algn DE algo to get sth/sb down FROM sth
    bájame la caja del estante get the box down from the shelf (for me)
    bájalo de la mesa/del caballo get him down off the table/horse
    3 ‹persiana/telón› to lower
    ¿me bajas la cremallera? will you undo my zipper ( AmE) o ( BrE) zip for me?
    le bajó los pantalones para ponerle una inyección she took his pants ( AmE) o ( BrE) trousers down to give him an injection
    tengo que bajarle el dobladillo I have to let the hem down
    baja la ventanilla open the window
    C ‹precio› to lower; ‹fiebre› to bring down; ‹radio› to turn down
    bájale el volumen or ( Col) al volumen turn the volume down
    baja la calefacción/el gas turn the heating/the gas down
    baja la voz lower your voice
    lo bajaron de categoría it was downgraded o demoted
    D ( Inf) to download
    estoy bajando música a la computadora ( AmL) or al ordenador ( Esp) I'm downloading music to my computer
    A (apearse) bajarse DE algo ‹de un tren/un autobús› to get off sth; ‹de un coche› to get out OF sth; ‹de un caballo/una bicicleta› to get off sth, dismount FROM sth
    me bajo en la próxima I'm getting off at the next stop
    ¡bájate del muro! get down off the wall!
    B ‹pantalones› to take down, pull down; ‹falda› to pull down
    C
    1 (Arg, Col arg) (liquidar) to rub out (sl)
    2 ( Arg arg) (tener relaciones sexuales con) to score with (sl)
    * * *

     

    bajar ( conjugate bajar) verbo intransitivo
    1
    a) [ascensor/persona] ( alejándose) to go down;

    ( acercándose) to come down;
    ◊ bajar por las escaleras to go/come down the stairs;

    ya bajo I'll be right down
    b) ( apearse) bajar de algo ‹de tren/avión› to get off sth;

    ‹ de coche› to get out of sth;
    ‹de caballo/bicicleta› to get off sth
    c) (Dep) [ equipo] to go down

    2

    b) [fiebre/tensión] to go down, drop;

    [ hinchazón] to go down;
    [ temperatura] to fall, drop
    c) [precio/valor] to fall, drop;

    [ calidad] to deteriorate;
    [ popularidad] to diminish;

    verbo transitivo
    1 ‹escalera/cuesta› to go down
    2 ‹brazo/mano› to put down, lower
    3
    a) bajar algo (de algo) ‹de armario/estante› to get sth down (from sth);

    ‹ del piso de arriba› ( traer) to bring sth down (from sth);
    ( llevar) to take sth down (to sth)
    b) bajar a algn de algo ‹de mesa/caballo› to get sb off sth

    4
    a) ‹persiana/telón› to lower;

    ‹ ventanilla› to open

    5 ‹ precio› to lower;
    ‹ fiebre› to bring down;
    ‹ volumen› to turn down;
    ‹ voz› to lower
    bajarse verbo pronominal
    1 ( apearse) bajarse de algo ‹de tren/autobús› to get off sth;
    ‹ de coche› to get out of sth;
    ‹de caballo/bicicleta› to get off sth;
    ‹de pared/árbol› to get down off sth
    2 ‹ pantalones› to take down;
    ‹ falda› to pull down
    bajar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (descender) to come o go down: bajé corriendo la cuesta, I ran downhill ➣ Ver nota en ir 2 (llevar algo abajo) to bring o get o take down: baja los disfraces del trastero, bring the costumes down from the attic
    3 (un telón) to lower
    (una persiana) to let down
    (la cabeza) to bow o lower
    4 (reducir el volumen) to turn down
    (la voz) to lower
    5 (los precios, etc) to reduce, cut
    6 (ropa, dobladillo) tengo que bajar el vestido, I've got to let the hem down
    7 Mús tienes que bajar un tono, you've got to go down a tone
    II verbo intransitivo
    1 to go o come down: bajamos al bar, we went down to the bar
    2 (apearse de un tren, un autobús) to get off
    (de un coche) to get out [de, of]: tienes que bajarte en la siguiente parada, you've got to get off at the next stop
    3 (disminuir la temperatura, los precios) to fall, drop: ha bajado su cotización en la bolsa, its share prices have dropped in the stock exchange
    ' bajar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abaratarse
    - basura
    - descender
    - guardia
    - irse
    - a
    - bandera
    - hundir
    - mirada
    - poder
    - vista
    - volumen
    English:
    boil over
    - bow
    - bring down
    - climb down
    - come down
    - decline
    - decrease
    - deflate
    - descend
    - dip
    - down
    - downgrade
    - downstairs
    - draw
    - drop
    - fall
    - force down
    - get down
    - get off
    - go below
    - go down
    - guard
    - hang
    - heave
    - inflammation
    - jump down
    - jump off
    - let down
    - let off
    - lift down
    - lower
    - mark down
    - move down
    - pull down
    - relegate
    - send down
    - slide down
    - slip
    - slip down
    - spiral down
    - steeply
    - subside
    - swoop
    - take down
    - turn down
    - walk down
    - wind down
    - bring
    - can
    - come
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [poner abajo] [libro, cuadro] to take/bring down;
    [telón, persiana] to lower; [ventanilla] to wind down, to open;
    he bajado la enciclopedia de la primera a la última estantería I've moved the encyclopedia down from the top shelf to the bottom one;
    ayúdame a bajar la caja [desde lo alto] help me get the box down;
    [al piso de abajo] help me carry the box downstairs
    2. [ojos, cabeza, mano] to lower;
    bajó la cabeza con resignación she lowered o bowed her head in resignation
    3. [descender] [montaña, escaleras] to go/come down;
    bajó las escaleras a toda velocidad she ran down the stairs as fast as she could;
    bajó la calle a todo correr he ran down the street as fast as he could
    4. [reducir] [inflación, hinchazón] to reduce;
    [precios] to lower, to cut; [música, volumen, radio] to turn down; [fiebre] to bring down;
    bajar el fuego (de la cocina) to reduce the heat;
    bajar el tono to lower one's voice;
    bajar la moral a alguien to cause sb's spirits to drop;
    bajar los bríos o [m5] humos a alguien to take sb down a peg or two
    5. [hacer descender de categoría] to demote
    6. Fam Informát to download
    7. Carib Fam [pagar] to cough up, to pay up
    ♦ vi
    1. [apearse] [de coche] to get out;
    [de moto, bicicleta, tren, avión] to get off; [de caballo] to dismount; [de árbol, escalera, silla] to get/come down;
    bajar de [de coche] to get out of;
    [de moto, bicicleta, tren, avión] to get off; [de caballo] to get off, to dismount; [de árbol, escalera, silla, mesa] to get/come down from;
    es peligroso bajar de un tren en marcha it is dangerous to jump off a train while it is still moving;
    bajar a tierra [desde barco] to go on shore;
    bajo en la próxima parada I'm getting off at the next stop
    2. [descender] to go/come down;
    ¿podrías bajar aquí un momento? could you come down here a minute?;
    tenemos que bajar a sacar la basura we have to go down to put the Br rubbish o US trash out;
    bajo enseguida I'll be down in a minute;
    bajar corriendo to run down;
    bajar en ascensor to go/come down in the Br lift o US elevator;
    bajar por la escalera to go/come down the stairs;
    bajar (a) por algo to go down and get sth;
    ha bajado a comprar el periódico she's gone out o down to get the paper;
    bajar a desayunar to go/come down for breakfast;
    el río baja crecido the river is high;
    está bajando la marea the tide is going out;
    el jefe ha bajado mucho en mi estima the boss has gone down a lot in my estimation
    3. [disminuir] to fall, to drop;
    [fiebre, hinchazón] to go/come down; [cauce] to go down, to fall;
    los precios bajaron prices dropped;
    bajó la gasolina the price of Br petrol o US gasoline fell;
    el euro bajó frente a la libra the euro fell against the pound;
    bajó la Bolsa esp Br share o esp US stock prices fell;
    las acciones de C & C han bajado C & C esp Br share o esp US stock prices have fallen;
    han bajado las ventas sales are down;
    este modelo ha bajado de precio this model has gone down in price, the price of this model has gone down;
    el coste total no bajará del millón the total cost will not be less than o under a million;
    no bajará de tres horas it will take at least three hours, it won't take less than three hours
    4. Fam [ir, venir] to go/come down;
    bajaré a la capital la próxima semana I'll be going down to the capital next week;
    ¿por qué no bajas a vernos este fin de semana? why don't you come down to see us this weekend?
    5. [descender de categoría] to be demoted (a to); Dep to be relegated, to go down (a to);
    * * *
    I v/t
    1 voz, precio lower;
    bajar la mirada lower one’s eyes o gaze, look down;
    bajar algo de arriba get sth down
    2 TV, radio turn down
    3 escalera go down
    4 INFOR download
    II v/i
    1 go down
    2 de intereses fall, drop
    * * *
    bajar vt
    1) descender: to lower, to let down, to take down
    2) reducir: to reduce (prices)
    3) inclinar: to lower, to bow (the head)
    4) : to go down, to descend
    5)
    bajar de categoría : to downgrade
    bajar vi
    1) : to drop, to fall
    2) : to come down, to go down
    3) : to ebb (of tides)
    * * *
    bajar vb
    1. (ir abajo) to go down
    2. (descender) to drop [pt. & pp. dropped] / to fall [pt. fell; pp. fallen] / to go down
    3. (salir de un coche) to get out
    ¡bájate del coche! get out of the car!
    4. (salir de un tren, autobús) to get off
    5. (llevar abajo) to get down / to take down [pt. took; pp. taken]
    ¿me bajas la maleta? can you get my suitcase down?
    6. (traer abajo) to bring down [pt. & pp. brought]
    ¿me bajas el bolso? can you bring my bag down?
    7. (voz, vista) to lower
    8. (cabeza) to bow
    9. (volumen) to turn down
    baja la música, por favor turn the music down, please

    Spanish-English dictionary > bajar

  • 17 Hamilton, Harold Lee (Hal)

    [br]
    b. 14 June 1890 Little Shasta, California, USA
    d. 3 May 1969 California, USA
    [br]
    American pioneer of diesel rail traction.
    [br]
    Orphaned as a child, Hamilton went to work for Southern Pacific Railroad in his teens, and then worked for several other companies. In his spare time he learned mathematics and physics from a retired professor. In 1911 he joined the White Motor Company, makers of road motor vehicles in Denver, Colorado, where he had gone to recuperate from malaria. He remained there until 1922, apart from an eighteenth-month break for war service.
    Upon his return from war service, Hamilton found White selling petrol-engined railbuses with mechanical transmission, based on road vehicles, to railways. He noted that they were not robust enough and that the success of petrol railcars with electric transmission, built by General Electric since 1906, was limited as they were complex to drive and maintain. In 1922 Hamilton formed, and became President of, the Electro- Motive Engineering Corporation (later Electro-Motive Corporation) to design and produce petrol-electric rail cars. Needing an engine larger than those used in road vehicles, yet lighter and faster than marine engines, he approached the Win ton Engine Company to develop a suitable engine; in addition, General Electric provided electric transmission with a simplified control system. Using these components, Hamilton arranged for his petrol-electric railcars to be built by the St Louis Car Company, with the first being completed in 1924. It was the beginning of a highly successful series. Fuel costs were lower than for steam trains and initial costs were kept down by using standardized vehicles instead of designing for individual railways. Maintenance costs were minimized because Electro-Motive kept stocks of spare parts and supplied replacement units when necessary. As more powerful, 800 hp (600 kW) railcars were produced, railways tended to use them to haul trailer vehicles, although that practice reduced the fuel saving. By the end of the decade Electro-Motive needed engines more powerful still and therefore had to use cheap fuel. Diesel engines of the period, such as those that Winton had made for some years, were too heavy in relation to their power, and too slow and sluggish for rail use. Their fuel-injection system was erratic and insufficiently robust and Hamilton concluded that a separate injector was needed for each cylinder.
    In 1930 Electro-Motive Corporation and Winton were acquired by General Motors in pursuance of their aim to develop a diesel engine suitable for rail traction, with the use of unit fuel injectors; Hamilton retained his position as President. At this time, industrial depression had combined with road and air competition to undermine railway-passenger business, and Ralph Budd, President of the Chicago, Burlington \& Quincy Railroad, thought that traffic could be recovered by way of high-speed, luxury motor trains; hence the Pioneer Zephyr was built for the Burlington. This comprised a 600 hp (450 kW), lightweight, two-stroke, diesel engine developed by General Motors (model 201 A), with electric transmission, that powered a streamlined train of three articulated coaches. This train demonstrated its powers on 26 May 1934 by running non-stop from Denver to Chicago, a distance of 1,015 miles (1,635 km), in 13 hours and 6 minutes, when the fastest steam schedule was 26 hours. Hamilton and Budd were among those on board the train, and it ushered in an era of high-speed diesel trains in the USA. By then Hamilton, with General Motors backing, was planning to use the lightweight engine to power diesel-electric locomotives. Their layout was derived not from steam locomotives, but from the standard American boxcar. The power plant was mounted within the body and powered the bogies, and driver's cabs were at each end. Two 900 hp (670 kW) engines were mounted in a single car to become an 1,800 hp (l,340 kW) locomotive, which could be operated in multiple by a single driver to form a 3,600 hp (2,680 kW) locomotive. To keep costs down, standard locomotives could be mass-produced rather than needing individual designs for each railway, as with steam locomotives. Two units of this type were completed in 1935 and sent on trial throughout much of the USA. They were able to match steam locomotive performance, with considerable economies: fuel costs alone were halved and there was much less wear on the track. In the same year, Electro-Motive began manufacturing diesel-electrie locomotives at La Grange, Illinois, with design modifications: the driver was placed high up above a projecting nose, which improved visibility and provided protection in the event of collision on unguarded level crossings; six-wheeled bogies were introduced, to reduce axle loading and improve stability. The first production passenger locomotives emerged from La Grange in 1937, and by early 1939 seventy units were in service. Meanwhile, improved engines had been developed and were being made at La Grange, and late in 1939 a prototype, four-unit, 5,400 hp (4,000 kW) diesel-electric locomotive for freight trains was produced and sent out on test from coast to coast; production versions appeared late in 1940. After an interval from 1941 to 1943, when Electro-Motive produced diesel engines for military and naval use, locomotive production resumed in quantity in 1944, and within a few years diesel power replaced steam on most railways in the USA.
    Hal Hamilton remained President of Electro-Motive Corporation until 1942, when it became a division of General Motors, of which he became Vice-President.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    P.M.Reck, 1948, On Time: The History of the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors Corporation, La Grange, Ill.: General Motors (describes Hamilton's career).
    PJGR

    Biographical history of technology > Hamilton, Harold Lee (Hal)

  • 18 снижать

    1. reduce; descend

    «не снижать» — do not reduce

    2. reduced; descended
    3. lowering; decreasing (refl.)

    Авиация и космонавтика. Русско-английский словарь > снижать

  • 19 сокращающий

    1. cutting
    2. shrinked
    3. shrinking
    4. prune

    [lang name="Russian"]сокращать; стекать; сокращенный — run down

    5. contract (refl.); reduce
    6. reduced
    7. reduce; contract (refl.)
    8. reducing; contracting (refl.)

    Русско-английский научный словарь > сокращающий

  • 20 сокращаем

    1. reduced
    2. reduce
    3. reducing
    4. shrunk
    5. shrink
    6. shrinking

    Русско-английский военно-политический словарь > сокращаем

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