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11 Historical Portugal
Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims inPortugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and theChurch (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict untilUN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU. -
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grand, e [gʀɑ̃, gʀɑ̃d]1. adjectivea. ( = de haute taille) tall• quand il sera grand [enfant] when he grows up• tu es grand/grande maintenant you're a big boy/girl nowd. (en nombre, en quantité) [vitesse, poids, valeur, puissance] great ; [nombre, quantité] large ; [famille] large, bige. ( = intense) [bruit, cri] loud ; [froid, chaleur] intense ; [vent] strong ; [danger, plaisir, pauvreté] greatf. ( = riche, puissant) [pays, firme, banquier, industriel] leadingg. ( = important) great ; [ville, travail] big• je t'annonce une grande nouvelle ! I've got some great news!h. ( = principal) main• la grande difficulté consiste à... the main difficulty lies in...i. (intensif) [travailleur, collectionneur, ami, rêveur] great ; [buveur, fumeur] heavy ; [mangeur] bigj. ( = remarquable) greatk. ( = de gala) [réception, dîner] grandl. ( = noble) [âme] noble ; [pensée, principe] loftym. ( = exagéré) faire de grandes phrases to voice high-flown sentimentsn. ( = beaucoup de) cela te fera (le plus) grand bien it'll do you the world of good• grand bien vous fasse ! much good may it do you!2. adverb3. masculine nouna. ( = élève) senior boyb. (terme d'affection) viens, mon grand come here, sonc. ( = personne puissante) les grands de ce monde men in high places4. feminine nouna. ( = élève) senior girl5. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━The grandes écoles are competitive-entrance higher education establishments where engineering, business administration and other subjects are taught to a very high standard. The most prestigious include « l'École Polytechnique » (engineering), the three « Écoles normales supérieures » (arts and sciences), « l'ÉNA » (the civil service college), and « HEC » (business administration).Pupils prepare for entrance to the grandes écoles after their « baccalauréat » in two years of « classes préparatoires ». → CLASSES PRÉPARATOIRES CONCOURS ÉCOLE NATIONALE D'ADMINISTRATION* * *
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grande gʀɑ̃, gʀɑ̃d adjectif1) ( de dimensions importantes) ( en hauteur) tall; (en longueur, durée) long; ( en largeur) wide; (en étendue, volume) big2) (nombreux, abondant) large, biglaver à grande eau — to wash [something] in plenty of running water [légumes]; to wash [something] down [sol]
3) ( à un degré élevé) [rêveur, collectionneur, ami] great; [tricheur, joueur] big; [buveur, fumeur] heavy4) ( important) [découverte, expédition, nouvelle] great; [date] important; [rôle] major; [problème, décision] bigla grande majorité — the great ou vast majority
5) ( principal) main6) ( de premier plan) [société, marque] leading7) (brillant, remarquable) [peintre, vin, cause] great; [cœur, âme] nobleLouis le Grand — Louis the Great; esprit
les grandes classes — École the senior forms GB, the upper classes US
9) ( qualifiant une mesure) [hauteur, longueur, distance, valeur] great; [pointure, quantité, étendue] large; [vitesse] high10) (extrême, fort) [bonté, amitié, danger, intérêt] great; [bruit] loud; [froid] severe; [chaleur] intense; [vent] strong, high; [tempête] big, violentà grands cris — loudly; cas, remède
11) ( de rang social élevé) [famille, nom] great12) ( grandiose) [réception, projet] grand13) ( emphatique) [mot] big; [phrase] high-soundinget voilà, tout de suite les grands mots — there you go, straight off the deep end
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adverbe wideouvrir grand ses oreilles — fig to prick up one's ears
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nom masculinles cinq grands — Politique the Big Five
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en grand locution adverbialePhrasal Verbs:* * *ɡʀɑ̃, ɡʀɑ̃d grand, -e1. adj1) (= de haute taille) tallIl est grand pour son âge. — He's tall for his age.
2) (= aîné)C'est sa grande sœur. — She's his big sister.
3) (= adulte)Il est assez grand pour... — He's old enough to...
4) (= gros, vaste, large) big, large5) (importance, stature) greatC'est un grand ami à moi. — He's a great friend of mine.
les grandes lignes CHEMINS DE FER — the main lines
6) (ampleur, degré)les grands blessés; Les grands blessés ont été emmenés à l'hôpital en hélicoptère. — The severely injured were taken to hospital by helicopter.
7) (intensif)Ça te fera beaucoup de bien d'être au grand air. — It'll be very good for you to be out in the open air.
2. adv3. nm/f1) (= élève, enfant) big boy, big girlIl est chez les grands maintenant. — He's in the senior school now.
C'est une grande, elle peut y aller seule. — She's a big girl now, she can go on her own.
2) (= personnage)4. nm* * *A adj1 ( de dimensions importantes) ( en hauteur) [personne, arbre, tour, cierge] tall; (en longueur, durée) [bras, enjambée, promenade, voyage] long; ( en largeur) [angle, marge] wide; (en étendue, volume) [lac, ville, salle, trou, édifice, paquet] large, big; [tas, feu] big; ( démesuré) [pied, nez, bouche] big; un homme (très) grand a (very) tall man; un grand homme brun, un homme grand et brun a tall dark man; plus grand que nature larger than life; ouvrir de grands yeux to open one's eyes wide;2 (nombreux, abondant) [famille, foule] large, big; [fortune] large; grande braderie big sale; pas grand monde not many people; faire de grandes dépenses to spend a lot of money; il fait grand jour it's broad daylight; laver à grande eau to wash [sth] in plenty of running water [légumes]; to wash [sth] down [sol]; à grand renfort de publicité with much publicity;3 ( à un degré élevé) [rêveur, collectionneur, travailleur, ami, ennemi, pécheur] great; [tricheur, joueur, lâcheur, idiot] big; [buveur, fumeur] heavy; grand amateur de ballet great ballet lover; c'est un grand timide he's very shy; les grands malades very sick people; c'est un grand cardiaque he has a serious heart condition;4 ( important) [découverte, migration, expédition, événement, nouvelle, honneur] great; [date] important; [rôle] major; [problème, décision] big; ( principal) main; c'est un grand jour pour elle it's a big day for her; une grande partie de la maison a large part of the house; une grande partie des habitants many of the inhabitants; la grande majorité the great ou vast majority; ⇒ scène;5 ( principal) main; le grand escalier the main staircase; le grand problème/obstacle the main ou major problem/obstacle; les grands axes routiers the main ou trunk GB roads; les grands points du discours the main points of the speech; les grandes lignes d'une politique the broad lines of a policy;6 ( de premier plan) Écon, Pol [pays, société, industriel, marque] leading; les grandes industries the big industries;7 (brillant, remarquable) [peintre, œuvre, civilisation, vin, cause] great; [cœur, âme] noble; c'est un grand homme he's a great man; les grands écrivains great authors; un grand nom de la musique a great musician; un grand monsieur du théâtre a great gentleman of the stage; Louis/Pierre le Grand Louis/Peter the Great; les grands noms du cinéma/de la littérature indienne the big names of the cinema/of Indian literature; de grande classe [produit] high-class; [exploit] admirable; ⇒ esprit;8 ( âgé) [frère, sœur] elder; [élève] senior GB, older; ( adulte) grown-up; mon grand frère my elder brother; les grandes classes Scol the senior forms GB, the upper classes US; quand il sera grand when he grows up; mes enfants sont grands my children are quite old; une grande fille comme toi! a big girl like you!; 12 ans! tu es assez grand pour te débrouiller 12 years old! you're old enough to cope;9 ( qualifiant une mesure) [hauteur, longueur, distance, poids, valeur, âge] great; [dimensions, taille, pointure, quantité, nombre, étendue] large; [vitesse] high; [kilomètre, mois, heure] good; il est grand temps que tu partes it's high time you were off ou you went;10 (intense, extrême, fort) [bonté, lâcheté, pauvreté, amitié, chagrin, faim, danger, différence, intérêt] great; [bruit] great, loud; [froid] severe; [chaleur] intense; [vent] strong, high; [tempête] big, violent; avec grand plaisir with great ou much pleasure; dans le plus grand secret in great secrecy; d'une grande bêtise/timidité very ou extremely stupid/shy; à ma grande honte/surprise much to my shame/surprise; sans grand espoir/enthousiasme without much hope/enthusiasm; sans grande importance not very important; il n'y a pas grand mal à cela/à faire there isn't much harm in that/in doing; avoir grand faim/soif to be very hungry/thirsty; avoir grand besoin de to be badly in need of; ça te ferait le plus grand bien it would do you a world of good; à grands cris loudly; ⇒ cas, remède;11 ( de rang social élevé) [famille, nom] great; grande dame great lady; la grande bourgeoisie the upper middle class;12 ( grandiose) [réception] grand; grands projets grand designs; avoir grande allure, avoir grand air to look very impressive;13 ( emphatique) [mot] big; [phrase] high-sounding; un grand merci a big thank you; faire de grands gestes to wave one's arms about; et voilà, tout de suite les grands mots there you go, straight off the deep end.B nm,f1 ( enfant) big boy/girl; Scol senior GB ou older pupil; il a fait ça tout seul comme un grand he did it all by himself like a big boy; il fait le ménage comme un grand he does the housework like a grown-up; pour les grands et les petits for old and young alike;C adv wide; ouvrir grand la bouche to open one's mouth wide; ouvrir tout grand les bras to throw one's arms open; les fenêtres sont grand(es) ouvertes the windows are wide open; ouvrir la porte toute grande to open the door wide; ouvrir grand ses oreilles fig to prick up one's ears; ouvrir tout grand son cœur fig to open one's heart; les bottes chaussent grand the boots are large-fitting; leurs vêtements taillent grand their clothes are cut on the large side; voir grand fig to think big.D nm ( pays) big power; ( entreprise) leader, big name; les grands de ce monde the great and the good; Pol the world's leaders; les cinq grands Pol the Big Five; les grands de l'automobile the top car manufacturers; c'est un grand de la publicité he's big in advertising.E en grand loc adv [ouvrir] wide, completely; faire de l'élevage en grand to breed animals on a large scale; quand ils reçoivent, ils font les choses en grand when they entertain they do things on the grand scale or they really go to town○.grand argentier Hist royal treasurer; hum keeper of the nation's purse, Finance minister; le grand art alchemy; grand banditisme organized crime; grand bassin ( de piscine) main pool; Anat upper pelvis; grand cacatois main royal sail; grand caniche standard poodle; le grand capital Écon big money, big investors pl; grand commis de l'État top civil servant; grand coq de bruyère capercaillie; grand corbeau raven; grand couturier couturier; grand débutant absolute beginner; grand duc Zool eagle owl; grand écart Danse, Sport splits (sg); faire le grand écart to do the splits; le grand écran the big screen; grand électeur ( en France) elector who votes in the elections for the French Senate; ( aux États-Unis) presidential elector; grand ensemble high-density housing complex; la vie dans les grands ensembles high-rise living; grand d'Espagne Spanish grandee; grand foc outer jib; grand frais Météo moderate gale; grand hunier main topsail; grand hunier fixe lower main topsail; grand hunier volant upper main topsail; grand invalide civil, GIC civilian who is registered severely disabled; grand invalide de guerre, GIG Prot Soc ex-serviceman who is registered severely disabled; le grand large Naut the high seas (pl); grand magasin Comm department store; grand maître ( aux échecs) grand master; grand maître de l'ordre des Templiers Hist Grand Master of the Knights Templar; grand mât Naut mainmast; le grand monde high society; le Grand Nord Géog the Far North; Grand Œuvre Great Work; grand officier de la Légion d'Honneur high-ranking officer of the Legion of HonourGB; le Grand Orient the Grand Lodge of France; grand panda giant panda; Grand Pardon Day of Atonement; grand patron Méd senior consultant GB, head doctor US; grand perroquet Naut main topgallant sail; grand prêtre Relig, fig high priest; grand prix Courses Aut, Sport grand prix; le grand public the general public; Comm produit grand public consumer product; grand quart Naut six-hour watch; Grand quartier général, GQG Mil General Headquarters, GHQ; grand quotidien Presse big national daily; grand roque Jeux ( aux échecs) castling long; le Grand Siècle Hist the 17th century (in France); grand teint colourfastGB; grand tétras capercaillie; grand tourisme Courses Aut, Aut GT, gran turismo; le Grand Turc the Sultan; grand veneur Chasse master of the hounds; grande Armée Hist Grande Armée (Napoleon's army); grande Baie Australienne Géog Great Australian Bight; la grande banlieue the outer suburbs (pl); Grande Barrière (de Corail) Géog Great Barrier Reef; la grande bleue the sea; la grande cuisine Culin haute cuisine; grande distribution Écon volume retailing; grand école higher education institution; la Grande Guerre Hist the First World War; grande gueule○ loud mouth○; grande hune Naut maintop; la grande muette the army; la grande muraille de Chine Géog the Great Wall of China; grande personne grown-up, adult; la grande presse Presse the popular dailies (pl); grande puissance Pol superpower; grande roue ( de foire) big wheel GB, Ferris wheel US; grande série Comm mass production; fabriqué en grande série mass-produced; grande surface Comm supermarket; grandes eaux fountains; fig ( pleurs) waterworks; dès qu'on la gronde, ce sont les grandes eaux the minute you tell her off, she turns on the waterworks; grandes lignes Rail main train routes; grandes marées spring tides; grandes ondes Radio long wave (sg); Grandes Plaines Géog Great Plains; les grands blessés the seriously injured; grands corps de l'État Admin senior branches of the civil service; grands espaces Écol open spaces; grands fauves Zool big cats; grands fonds Naut ocean depths; les grands froids the cold of winter; Grands Lacs Géog Great Lakes; grands singes Zool great apes; ⇒ école, voyage.ⓘ Grande école A prestigious third-level institution where admission is usually by competitive entrance examination or concours. Places are much sought after as they are widely considered to guarantee more promising career prospects than the standard university institutions. Many grandes écoles specialize in particular disciplines or fields of study, e.g. ENA, Sciences Po, etc.( féminin grande) [grɑ̃, grɑ̃d] (devant nom masculin commençant par voyelle ou h muet [grɑ̃t]) adjectifA.[ASPECT QUANTITATIF]grand A/B/C capital A/B/Cune grande tour a high ou tall towerun grand fleuve a long ou big riveravoir de grands pieds to have big ou large feetmarcher à grands pas to walk with great ou long strides3. [d'un certain âge - être humain] big[aîné - frère, sœur] big4. [qui dure longtemps] long5. [intense, considérable] greatpendant les grandes chaleurs in high summer, in ou at the height of summerun grand incendie a major ou great firela grande majorité de the great ou vast majority ofils plongent à une grande profondeur they dive very deep ou to a great depth7. [entier]elle m'a fait attendre une grande heure/semaine she made me wait a good hour/a good week9. GÉOGRAPHIE10. ZOOLOGIEB.[ASPECT QUALITATIF]les grands problèmes de notre temps the main ou major ou key issues of our timece sont de grands amis they're great ou very good friendsles grands blessés/brûlés/invalides the seriously wounded/burned/disabled3. [puissant, influent - banque] top ; [ - industriel] top, leading, major ; [ - propriétaire, famille] important ; [ - personnage] great4. [dans une hiérarchie]les grands dignitaires du régime the leading ou important dignitaries of the regime5. [noble]avoir grand air ou grande allure to carry oneself well, to be imposing6. [généralementéreux]il a un grand cœur he's big-hearted, he has a big heart7. [exagéré] biggrands mots high-sounding words, high-flown language8. [fameux, reconnu] greatun grand journaliste a great ou top journalistil ne descend que dans les grands hôtels he only stays in the best hotels ou the most luxurious hotelsle grand film de la soirée tonight's big ou feature filmles grandes dates de l'histoire de France the great ou most significant dates in French history9. HISTOIRE10. [omnipotent, suprême] greatC.[EN INTENSIF]sans grand enthousiasme/intérêt without much enthusiasm/interestsa grande fierté, c'est son jardin he's very proud of ou he takes great pride in his gardenun grand merci à ta sœur lots of thanks to ou a big thank you to your sistercette cuisine a grand besoin d'être nettoyée this kitchen really needs ou is in dire need of a cleantoute la famille au grand complet the whole family, every single member of the familyjamais, au grand jamais je n'accepterai never in a million years will I acceptà sa grande surprise much to his surprise, to his great surprise————————, grande [grɑ̃, grɑ̃d] (devant nom masculin commençant par voyelle ou h muet [grɑ̃t]) nom masculin, nom féminin1. [enfant - d'un certain âge][en appellatif]merci mon grand! thanks, son!allons, ma grande, ne pleure pas! come on now, love, don't cry!comme un grand: je me débrouillerai tout seul, comme un grand/toute seule, comme une grande I'll manage on my own, like a big boy/a big girl[en appellatif]alors, ma grande, tu as pu te reposer un peu? well dear, did you manage to get some rest?[personne de grande taille]pour la photo, les grands se mettront derrière for the photo, tall people ou the taller people will stand at the back————————adverbe1. [vêtement]2. (locution)3. [largement]4. ART————————nom masculin1. PHILOSOPHIE → link=infiniment infiniment2. [entrepreneur, industriel]les grands de l'automobile the major ou leading car manufacturers————————grands nom masculin plurielÉCONOMIE & POLITIQUEles grands [les puissants] the rich (and powerful)les grands de ce monde the people in (positions of) power ou in high places————————en grand locution adverbiale[complètement] on a large scaleil faut aérer la maison en grand the house needs a thorough ou good airinggrande école nom féminingrand ensemble nom masculingrande surface nom fémininThe grandes écoles are relatively small and highly respected higher education establishments. Admission is usually only possible after two years of intensive preparatory studies and a competitive entrance examination. Most have close links with industry. The grandes écoles include l'École des hautes études commerciales or HEC (management and business), l'École polytechnique or l'X (engineering) and l'École normale supérieure (teacher training). -
16 fort
fort, e [fɔʀ, fɔʀt]━━━━━━━━━1. adjective2. adverb━━━━━━━━━1. <a. strong• c'est une forte tête he (or she) is a rebel► fort de• fort de son expérience, il... wiser for this experience, he...b. ( = gros) [personne, poitrine] large ; [hanches] broadc. ( = intense) [bruit, voix] loud ; [dégoût, crainte] great ; [douleur, chaleur] intense ; [fièvre] highd. ( = raide) [pente] steepe. ( = violent) [secousse, coup] hard ; [houle, pluies] heavyf. ( = excessif) (inf) c'est trop fort ! that's going too far!• et le plus fort, c'est que... and the best part of it is that...g. ( = important) (avant le nom) [somme, dose] large ; [baisse, différence, augmentation] big ; [consommation] high2. <a. ( = intensément) [lancer, serrer, souffler, frapper] hardb. ( = bruyamment) loudlyc. ( = beaucoup) greatly► fort bien [dessiné, dit, conservé] extremely well• fort bien ! excellent!3. <a. ( = forteresse) fortc. ( = spécialité) forted. ► au plus fort de... at the height of...* * *
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forte fɔʀ, fɔʀt adjectif1) ( puissant) strongarmée forte de 10000 hommes — 10,000-strong army
forts de leur expérience... — boosted by their experience...
2) ( résistant) strong3) ( intense) [bruit] loud; [lumière] bright; [chaleur, activité, pression] intense; [crampe] bad; [fièvre] high; [soupçon] strong; [crainte, colère] deep4) ( violent) [coup] hard; [pluie] heavy; [vent] strong5) ( concentré) [café, cigarette, alcool] strong; [épice] hot6) ( net) [accent, personnalité, odeur, tendance, impression] strong; [pente] steep; [somme, majorité, réduction] large; [taux, inflation, consommation] high; [expansion, pénurie] great; [baisse, augmentation] sharp; [différence] big; [contingent, dose, croissance] strong7) ( doué) good (en, à at; pour faire at doing)il est fort pour ne rien faire — hum he's good at doing nothing
8) ( ferme) [personne] strong9) ( gros) [personne] stout; [hanches] broad; [poitrine] large; [cuisses] big10) (colloq) ( exagéré)c'est un peu fort! — that's a bit much! (colloq)
le plus fort, c'est que... — ( surprenant) the most amazing thing is that...; ( absurde) the most ridiculous thing is that...
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1) ( très) [bon, déçu, émouvant] extremely; [bien, vite] very2) ( beaucoup) [douter] very muchj'ai eu fort à faire (colloq) pour le convaincre — I had a hard job convincing him
3) ( avec force) [frapper, tirer, frotter] hard; [serrer] tight; [respirer] deeply; [parler, crier] loudly; [sentir] stronglyy aller un peu fort — (colloq) to go a bit too far
4) ( bien) wellfaire or frapper (très) fort — (colloq) to do (really) well
attaquer très fort — (colloq) to start off really well
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nom masculin1) ( ouvrage fortifié) fort2) ( personne puissante) strong person3) ( domaine d'excellence) strong point, forte
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au plus fort de locution prépositivePhrasal Verbs:••fort comme un bœuf or Turc — strong as an ox
c'est plus fort que moi/qu'elle — ( incontrôlable) I/she just can't help it
c'est plus fort que l'as de pique (colloq) or que de jouer au bouchon — (colloq) that beats it all, that takes the biscuit (colloq)
* * *fɔʀ, fɔʀt fort, -e1. adj1) (physiquement, politiquement, économiquement) strong2) (par le goût, l'effet, la sensation) (café, médicament, odeur) strong, (sauce) hot, (alcool) strongLe café est trop fort. — The coffee's too strong.
4) (= corpulent) large5) (= doué)Il est très fort en espagnol. — He's very good at Spanish.
fort de; fort de son expérience — with a wealth of experience
à plus forte raison — even more so, all the more reason
2. adv1) [serrer, frapper] hard2) [sonner] loudly3) soutenu (= très) mostC'est fort désagréable. — It's most unpleasant.
fort bien... (avec adjectif) — very well...
fort peu loquace — not at all talkative, (emploi pronominal) very few
4) (= beaucoup) greatly, very muchIl appréciait fort sa compagnie. — He very much enjoyed his company.
3. nm1) (= édifice) fort2) (= point fort) strong point, forte3) (emploi substantivé, généralement pluriel) (personne, pays)au plus fort de (= au milieu de) — in the thick of, at the height of
* * *A adj1 ( puissant) [personne, pays, monnaie, économie, lunettes, médicament] strong; armée forte de 10 000 hommes 10,000-strong army; notre compagnie est forte de 30 appareils Aviat our airline can boast 30 aircraft; fort d'un chiffre d'affaires en hausse/de trois joueurs internationaux… boasting an increased turnover/three international players…; forts de leur approbation/expérience… boosted ou fortified by their approval/experience…; le roi est plus fort que la dame Jeux a king is worth more than a queen; trouver plus fort que soi to meet one's match; s'attaquer or s'en prendre à plus fort que soi to take on someone bigger than oneself; ⇒ partie;2 ( résistant) [carton, papier, colle] strong;3 ( intense) [bruit] loud; [lumière] bright; [chaleur, activité, pression] intense; [crampe, douleur] bad; [fièvre] high; [sentiment, soupçon] strong; [crainte, colère, mécontentement] deep; une forte grippe a bad attack of flu; avoir une forte envie de faire to feel a strong desire to do;5 ( concentré) [café, cigarette, alcool, moutarde] strong; [épice, piment, curry] hot; un vin fort a strong wine, a wine with a high degree of alcohol; au sens fort du mot fig in the fullest sense of the word;7 ( ample) [somme, majorité, réduction] large; [concentration, taux, inflation] high; [demande, consommation] high, heavy; [expansion, pénurie] great; [baisse, augmentation] sharp; [croissance] strong; [différence] big; [délégation, contingent, dose] strong; forte émigration/abstention high level of emigration/abstention; de forte puissance very powerful;8 ( doué) good (en, à at; pour faire at doing); ceux qui sont forts en latin those who are good at Latin; il est fort pour ne rien faire iron he's good at doing nothing;9 ( ferme) [personne] strong; rester fort dans le malheur to remain strong in adversity; je me fais fort de la convaincre I feel confident ou I am sure that I can convince her;10 ( gros) [personne] stout; [hanches] broad; [poitrine] large; [cuisses] big; être forte de poitrine to have a large bust;11 ○( exagéré) c'est un peu fort! that's a bit much○!; ( prix) that's a bit steep○!; le plus fort, c'est que… ( surprenant) the most amazing thing is that…; ( absurde) the most ridiculous thing is that…B adv1 ( très) [bon, déçu, émouvant, mécontent] extremely; [bien, logiquement, vite] very; fort recherché/demandé very much sought after/in demand; c'est fort dommage it's a great pity, it's extremely regrettable;2 ( beaucoup) [douter, soupçonner] very much; avoir fort à faire○ to have a lot to do; j'ai eu fort à faire○ pour le convaincre I had a hard job convincing him;3 ( avec force) [frapper, tirer, pousser, frotter] hard; [serrer] tight; [respirer] deeply; [parler, crier] loudly; [sentir] strongly; [coller] firmly; souffle fort! blow hard!; le vent souffle fort there's a strong wind; parler de plus en plus fort to speak louder and louder; mon cœur bat trop fort my heart is beating too fast; le chauffage marche trop fort the heating is turned up too high; dire haut et fort to say loud and clear; y aller un peu fort○ to go a bit too far; y aller un peu fort sur la moutarde/le sel to overdo the mustard/the salt; revenir très fort [coureur, équipe] to make a strong comeback;4 ( bien) well; il ne va pas très fort he's not very well; (moi) ça ne va pas très fort I'm not all that well○; chez eux ça ne va pas très fort things aren't going so well for them; marcher fort [entreprise] to do well; faire or frapper (très) fort○ to do (really) well; attaquer or commencer très fort○ to start off really well.C nm3 ( domaine d'excellence) strong point; les échecs ne sont pas mon fort chess is not my strong point; la générosité n'est pas ton fort generosity is not your strong point.D au plus fort de loc prép au plus fort de l'été/de l'incendie at the height of summer/of the fire; au plus fort de l'hiver in the depths of winter; au plus fort de la bataille in the thick of the fighting; au plus fort de la pluie in the middle of the downpour.fort des halles market porter; fig Goliath; fort en thème○ Scol swot○ GB, grind○ US; forte tête rebel.fort comme un bœuf or Turc strong as an ox; c'est plus fort que moi/qu'elle ( incontrôlable) I/she just can't help it; c'est plus fort que l'as de pique○ or que de jouer au bouchon that beats it all, that takes the biscuit○.( féminin forte) [fɔr, fɔrt] adjectifA.[QUI A DE LA PUISSANCE, DE L'EFFET]1. [vigoureux - personne, bras] strong, sturdy ; [ - vent] strong, high ; [ - courant, jet] strong ; [ - secousse] hard ; [ - pluies] heavyfort comme un Turc ou un bœuf as strong as an ox2. [d'une grande résistance morale]rester fort dans l'adversité to remain strong ou to stand firm in the face of adversity3. [autoritaire, contraignant - régime] strong-arm (avant nom)4. [puissant - syndicat, parti, économie] strong, powerful ; [ - monnaie] strong, hard ; [ - carton, loupe, tranquillisant] strongcolle (très) forte (super) ou extra strong glueB.[MARQUÉ]1. [épais, corpulent - jambes] big, thick ; [ - personne] stout, large ; [ - hanches] broad, large, wide2. [important quantitativement - dénivellation] steep, pronounced ; [ - accent] strong, pronounced, marked ; [ - fièvre, taux] high ; [ - hausse] large ; [ - somme] large, big ; [ - concentration] high ; [ - bruit] loud ; [ - différence] great, big3. [grand, intense - amour, haine] strong, intense ; [ - douleur] intense, great ; [ - influence] strong, big, great ; [ - propension] markedavoir une forte volonté to be strong-willed, to have a strong will4. [café, thé, moutarde, tabac] strong[odeur] strong5. (familier & locution)le plus fort, c'est qu'il avait raison! the best of it is that he was right!C.[HABILE] [compétent, doué]le marketing, c'est là qu'il est fort/que sa société est forte marketing is his/his company's strong pointpour donner des leçons, elle est très forte! she's very good at lecturing people!fort en gymnastique/en langues very good at gymnastics/at languages————————adverbe1. [avec vigueur - taper, tirer] hard[avec intensité]mets le gaz plus/moins fort turn the gas up/downparle plus fort, on ne t'entend pas speak up, we can't hear youmets le son plus/moins fort turn the sound up/down3. (soutenu) [très]fort bien, partons à midi! very well, let's leave at noon!4. (locution)là, tu as fait très fort! you've really excelled yourself!————————nom masculin1. [physiquement, moralement][intellectuellement]2. [spécialité] forte3. [forteresse] fort————————au (plus) fort de locution prépositionnelle -
17 plein
plein, pleine [plɛ̃, plεn]━━━━━━━━━1. adjective2. adverb━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Lorsque plein fait partie d'une locution comme en plein air, en mettre plein la vue, reportez-vous aussi à l'autre mot.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. <a. ( = rempli) fullb. ( = complet) [succès, confiance, satisfaction] completee. ( = ivre) (inf!) plastered (inf!)2. <a. ( = beaucoup) (inf) tu as des romans ? -- j'en ai plein have you any novels? -- I've got loadsb. ( = exactement vers) se diriger plein ouest to head due westc. (locutions)• en avoir plein les jambes (inf) to be exhausted► à plein [fonctionner, tourner] at full capacity ; [exploiter] to the full• il faut profiter à plein de ces jours de congé you should make the very most of your time off► en plein + préposition ou adverbe3. <b. [d'essence] faire le plein to fill up• le plein, s'il vous plaît fill it up please* * *
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pleine plɛ̃, plɛn adjectif1) ( rempli) full (de of)2)un plein verre/panier — a glassful/basketful (de of)
saisir à pleines mains — to take hold of [something] with both hands [objet massif]; to pick up a handful of [terre, sable, pièces]
3) ( non creux) [brique, mur] solid; [joues, visage] plump; [forme] rounded4) ( total) [pouvoir, accord, effet] full; [succès, confiance] completeavoir la responsabilité pleine et entière de quelque chose — to have full responsibility for something
5) ( entier) [mois] whole, full; [lune] full6) ( milieu)en pleine poitrine/réunion/forêt — (right) in the middle of the chest/meeting/forest
7) Zoologie pleine [femelle] pregnant; [vache] in calf (après n); [jument] in foal (après n); [truie] in pig (après n)8) (colloq) ( ivre) sloshed (colloq), drunk9) ( en parlant de cuir)
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nom masculin1) ( de réservoir)faire le plein de — lit to fill up with [eau, carburant]; fig to get a lot of [idées, voix, visiteurs]
j'ai fait deux pleins or deux fois le plein pour venir ici — I took two tankfuls to get here
2) ( en calligraphie) downstroke
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plein de (colloq) déterminant indéfiniplein de — lots of, loads (colloq) of
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à plein locution adverbiale [bénéficier, utiliser] fullytourner or marcher à plein — to work flat out, to work to capacity
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en plein locution adverbialeil m'est rentré en plein dedans — (colloq) he crashed right into me
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tout plein (colloq) locution adverbiale reallyPhrasal Verbs:••en avoir plein les jambes (colloq) or pattes — (colloq) to be worn out, to be fit to drop (colloq)
en avoir plein le dos (colloq) or les bottes — (sl)to be fed up (to the back teeth) (colloq)
(s')en prendre plein les gencives — (sl) to get it in the neck (colloq)
* * *plɛ̃, plɛn plein, -e1. adj1) (= rempli) fullplein de — full of, (= beaucoup de) lots of
La rue est pleine de gens. — The street is full of people.
2) (non creux) (porte, roue) solid3) (= gravide) (chienne) pregnant, (jument) in foalà pleines mains [ramasser] — in handfuls, [empoigner] firmly
à plein régime — at maximum revs, figat full speed
Elle travaille à plein temps. — She works full-time.
2. nm1) [carburant]faire le plein — to fill up (with petrol Grande-Bretagne), to fill up (with gas USA)
Le plein, s'il vous plaît. — Fill it up, please.
2) (= maximum)tourner à plein [usine, machine] — to work at full capacity
3. pleins nmplCALLIGRAPHIE downstrokes* * *A adj1 ( rempli) full (de of); être plein à craquer to be full to bursting; j'ai les mains pleines my hands are full; il avait les yeux pleins de larmes his eyes were full of tears; être plein de vie/d'idées/de fraîcheur to be full of life/of ideas/of freshness; être plein d'humour [personne, film, livre] to be amusing; des huîtres bien pleines nice fat oysters; une jupe pleine de taches a skirt covered with stains; avoir le nez plein○ to need to blow one's nose;2 ( indiquant une quantité maximale) un plein verre/panier/pot a glassful/basketful/potful (de of); une pleine assiette/valise/salle a plateful/suitcaseful/roomful (de of); il a une pleine cave de vin/chambre de jouets he has a cellar full of wine/bedroom full of toys; un plein carton de vieux journaux a boxful of old newspapers; prendre or saisir qch à pleines mains to take hold of sth with both hands [objet massif]; to pick up a handful of sth [terre, sable, pièces de monnaie];4 ( total) [pouvoir, accord, effet, adhésion] full; [succès, satisfaction, confiance] complete; confier or voter les pleins pouvoirs à qn to grant sb full power; avec le plein accord de qn with sb's full agreement; avoir la pleine maîtrise/utilisation de qch to have full control/use of sth; plein et entier [accord, adhésion, responsabilité] full; avoir la responsabilité pleine et entière de qch to have full responsibility for sth;5 ( entier) [jour, mois, année] whole, full; [lune] full; il faut compter un mois plein you should allow a full month; c'est la pleine mer it is high tide;6 ( milieu) en pleine poitrine/tête (right) in the middle of the chest/head; en pleine réunion/nuit/crise (right) in the middle of the meeting/night/crisis; en pleine ville/forêt/campagne (right) in the middle of the town/forest/countryside; en plein cœur right in the heart; en plein centre-ville right in the centreGB of town; en plein mois d'août right in the middle of August; en plein jour in broad daylight; en plein été at the height of summer; en plein hiver in the depths of winter; en pleine mer on the open sea; être en pleine mutation or évolution to be experiencing radical change; être en pleine récession to be in a deep recession;8 ○( ivre) sloshed○, drunk;9 ( en parlant de cuir) reliure pleine peau full leather binding; un livre avec une reliure pleine peau a fully leather-bound book; manteau/veste pleine peau coat/jacket made out of full skins.B adv1 ( exprimant une grande quantité) avoir des billes plein les poches to have one's pockets full of marbles; il a des idées plein la tête he's full of ideas;2 ( directement) être orienté plein sud/nord to face due south/north.C nm1 ( de réservoir) faire le plein de lit to fill up with [eau, carburant]; fig to get a lot of [idées, voix, visiteurs]; s'arrêter pour faire le plein to stop to fill up; j'ai fait deux pleins or deux fois le plein pour venir ici I took two tankfuls to get here; le plein s'il vous plaît fill it up please;2 Phys les pleins et les vides plenums and vacuums;3 ( en calligraphie) downstroke; les pleins et les déliés the downstrokes and upstrokes.D ○ plein de dét indéf plein de lots of, loads○ of [choses, argent, bises, amis]; tu veux des timbres? j'en ai (tout) plein do you want any stamps? I've got loads.E à plein loc adv [bénéficier, utiliser] fully; tourner or marcher à plein [machine, entreprise] to work flat out, to work to capacity.F en plein loc adv en plein devant right in front of; atterrir en plein dans le jardin/sur le toit to land right in the middle of the garden GB ou yard US/on top of the roof; l'avion s'est écrasé en plein sur l'immeuble the plane crashed straight into the building; il m'est rentré en plein dedans○ he crashed right into me.en avoir plein les jambes or pattes○ to be worn out, to be fit to drop○; en avoir plein le dos○ or les bottes○ or le cul● to be fed up (to the back teeth) (de with); (s')en prendre plein les gencives○ or la gueule● to get it in the neck○.1. [rempli] fullavoir l'estomac ou le ventre plein to have a full stomachêtre plein d'enthousiasme/de bonne volonté to show great enthusiasm/willingnessa. [valise] bulging, bursting, crammed fullb. [salle] packeda. (familier) [valise, salle] to be chock-a-blockb. [personne repue] to be stuffed2. [massif] solid3. [complet] fullplein temps, temps plein full-timeêtre ou travailler à temps plein to work full-timea. [généralement] full pageb. [en publicité, sur une page] full-page adc. [en publicité, sur deux pages] spread5. [en intensif]chanter/crier à plein gosier to sing/to shout at the top of one's voiceplein tube (familier) , pleins tubes (familier) : mettre la radio (à) pleins tubes to put the radio on full blastfoncer/rouler (à) plein tube to go/to drive flat out6. [arrondi] fullavoir des formes pleines to have a well-rounded ou full figureavoir des joues pleines to have chubby cheeks, to be chubby-cheeked[jument] in foal[chatte] pregnant8. (littéraire) [préoccupé]être plein de soi-même/son sujet to be full of oneself/one's subject————————nom masculin1. [de carburant] full tankavec un plein, tu iras jusqu'à Versailles you'll get as far as Versailles on a full tankle plein, s'il vous plaît fill her ou it up, please[de courses]2. [maximum]donner son plein [personne] to give one's best, to give one's all3. [en calligraphie] downstroke4. CONSTRUCTION solid ou massive parts————————adverbe1. (familier)tout plein [très] reallyil est mignon tout plein, ce bébé what a cute little baby2. [non creux]————————préposition[partout dans] all overj'ai des plantes plein ma maison my house is full of plants, I have plants all over the houseb. [être éperdu d'admiration] to be bowled over————————à plein locution adverbialeles moteurs/usines tournent à plein the engines/factories are working to full capacity————————de plein droit locution adverbialeexiger ou réclamer quelque chose de plein droit to demand something as of right ou as one's right————————de plein fouet locution adjectivale————————de plein fouet locution adverbiale————————en plein locution adverbiale2. [complètement, exactement]en plein dans/sur right in the middle of/on top of————————en plein locution prépositionnelle,en pleine locution prépositionnelle[au milieu de, au plus fort de]une industrie en plein essor a boom ou fast-growing industry————————plein de locution déterminanteil y avait plein de gens dans la rue there were crowds ou masses of people in the streettu veux des bonbons/de l'argent? j'en ai plein do you want some sweets/money? I've got loads ou lots -
18 Chronology
15,000-3,000 BCE Paleolithic cultures in western Portugal.400-200 BCE Greek and Carthaginian trade settlements on coast.202 BCE Roman armies invade ancient Lusitania.137 BCE Intensive Romanization of Lusitania begins.410 CE Germanic tribes — Suevi and Visigoths—begin conquest of Roman Lusitania and Galicia.714—16 Muslims begin conquest of Visigothic Lusitania.1034 Christian Reconquest frontier reaches Mondego River.1064 Christians conquer Coimbra.1139 Burgundian Count Afonso Henriques proclaims himself king of Portugal; birth of Portugal. Battle of Ourique: Afonso Henriques defeats Muslims.1147 With English Crusaders' help, Portuguese seize Lisbon from Muslims.1179 Papacy formally recognizes Portugal's independence (Pope Alexander III).1226 Campaign to reclaim Alentejo from Muslims begins.1249 Last Muslim city (Silves) falls to Portuguese Army.1381 Beginning of third war between Castile and Portugal.1383 Master of Aviz, João, proclaimed regent by Lisbon populace.1385 April: Master of Aviz, João I, proclaimed king of Portugal by Cortes of Coimbra. 14 August: Battle of Aljubarrota, Castilians defeated by royal forces, with assistance of English army.1394 Birth of "Prince Henry the Navigator," son of King João I.1415 Beginning of overseas expansion as Portugal captures Moroccan city of Ceuta.1419 Discovery of Madeira Islands.1425-28 Prince D. Pedro, older brother of Prince Henry, travels in Europe.1427 Discovery (or rediscovery?) of Azores Islands.1434 Prince Henry the Navigator's ships pass beyond Cape Bojador, West Africa.1437 Disaster at Tangier, Morocco, as Portuguese fail to capture city.1441 First African slaves from western Africa reach Portugal.1460 Death of Prince Henry. Portuguese reach what is now Senegal, West Africa.1470s Portuguese explore West African coast and reach what is now Ghana and Nigeria and begin colonizing islands of São Tomé and Príncipe.1479 Treaty of Alcáçovas between kings of Portugal and Spain.1482 Portuguese establish post at São Jorge da Mina, Gold Coast (now Ghana).1482-83 Portuguese navigator Diogo Cão reaches mouth of Congo River and Angola.1488 Navigator Bartolomeu Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, and finds route to Indian Ocean.1492-93 Columbus's first voyage to West Indies.1493 Columbus visits Azores and Portugal on return from first voyage; tells of discovery of New World. Treaty of Tordesillas signed between kings of Portugal and Spain: delimits spheres of conquest with line 370 leagues west of Cape Verde Islands (claimed by Portugal); Portugal's sphere to east of line includes, in effect, Brazil.King Manuel I and Royal Council decide to continue seeking all-water route around Africa to Asia.King Manuel I expels unconverted Jews from Portugal.1497-99 Epic voyage of Vasco da Gama from Portugal around Africa to west India, successful completion of sea route to Asia project; da Gama returns to Portugal with samples of Asian spices.1500 Bound for India, Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral "discovers" coast of Brazil and claims it for Portugal.1506 Anti-Jewish riots in Lisbon.Battle of Diu, India; Portugal's command of Indian Ocean assured for some time with Francisco de Almeida's naval victory over Egyptian and Gujerati fleets.Afonso de Albuquerque conquers Goa, India; beginning of Portuguese hegemony in south Asia.Portuguese conquest of Malacca; commerce in Spice Islands.1519 Magellan begins circumnavigation voyage.1536 Inquisition begins in Portugal.1543 Portuguese merchants reach Japan.1557 Portuguese merchants granted Chinese territory of Macau for trading factory.1572 Luís de Camões publishes epic poem, Os Lusíadas.1578 Battle of Alcácer-Quivir; Moroccan forces defeat army of King Sebastião of Portugal; King Sebastião dies in battle. Portuguese succession crisis.1580 King Phillip II of Spain claims and conquers Portugal; Spanish rule of Portugal, 1580-1640.1607-24 Dutch conquer sections of Asia and Brazil formerly held by Portugal.1640 1 December: Portuguese revolution in Lisbon overthrows Spanish rule, restores independence. Beginning of Portugal's Braganza royal dynasty.1654 Following Dutch invasions and conquest of parts of Brazil and Angola, Dutch expelled by force.1661 Anglo-Portuguese Alliance treaty signed: England pledges to defend Portugal "as if it were England itself." Queen Catherine of Bra-ganza marries England's Charles II.1668 February: In Portuguese-Spanish peace treaty, Spain recognizes independence of Portugal, thus ending 28-year War of Restoration.1703 Methuen Treaties signed, key commercial trade agreement and defense treaty between England and Portugal.1750 Pombal becomes chief minister of King José I.1755 1 November: Massive Lisbon earthquake, tidal wave, and fire.1759 Expulsion of Jesuits from Portugal and colonies.1761 Slavery abolished in continental Portugal.1769 Abandonment of Mazagão, Morocco, last Portuguese outpost.1777 Pombal dismissed as chief minister by Queen Maria I, after death of José I.1791 Portugal and United States establish full diplomatic relations.1807 November: First Napoleonic invasion; French forces under Junot conquer Portugal. Royal family flees to colony of Brazil and remains there until 1821.1809 Second French invasion of Portugal under General Soult.1811 Third French invasion of Portugal under General Masséna.1813 Following British general Wellington's military victories, French forces evacuate Portugal.1817 Liberal, constitutional movements against absolutist monarchist rule break out in Brazil (Pernambuco) and Portugal (Lisbon, under General Gomes Freire); crushed by government. British marshal of Portugal's army, Beresford, rules Portugal.Liberal insurrection in army officer corps breaks out in Cadiz, Spain, and influences similar movement in Portugal's armed forces first in Oporto.King João VI returns from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and early draft of constitution; era of constitutional monarchy begins.1822 7 September: João VI's son Pedro proclaims independence ofBrazil from Portugal and is named emperor. 23 September: Constitution of 1822 ratified.Portugal recognizes sovereign independence of Brazil.King João VI dies; power struggle for throne ensues between his sons, brothers Pedro and Miguel; Pedro, emperor of Brazil, abdicates Portuguese throne in favor of his daughter, D. Maria II, too young to assume crown. By agreement, Miguel, uncle of D. Maria, is to accept constitution and rule in her stead.1828 Miguel takes throne and abolishes constitution. Sections of Portugal rebel against Miguelite rule.1831 Emperor Pedro abdicates throne of Brazil and returns to Portugal to expel King Miguel from Portuguese throne.1832-34 Civil war between absolutist King Miguel and constitutionalist Pedro, who abandons throne of Brazil to restore his young daughter Maria to throne of Portugal; Miguel's armed forces defeated by those of Pedro. Miguel leaves for exile and constitution (1826 Charter) is restored.1834-53 Constitutional monarchy consolidated under rule of Queen Maria II, who dies in 1853.1851-71 Regeneration period of economic development and political stability; public works projects sponsored by Minister Fontes Pereira de Melo.1871-90 Rotativism period of alternating party governments; achieves political stability and less military intervention in politics and government. Expansion of colonial territory in tropical Africa.January: Following territorial dispute in central Africa, Britain delivers "Ultimatum" to Portugal demanding withdrawal of Portugal's forces from what is now Malawi and Zimbabwe. Portugal's government, humiliated in accepting demand under threat of a diplomatic break, falls. Beginning of governmental and political instability; monarchist decline and republicanism's rise.Anglo-Portuguese treaties signed relating to delimitation of frontiers in colonial Africa.1899 Treaty of Windsor; renewal of Anglo-Portuguese defense and friendship alliance.1903 Triumphal visit of King Edward VII to Portugal.1906 Politician João Franco supported by King Carlos I in dictatorship to restore order and reform.1908 1 February: Murder in Lisbon of King Carlos I and his heir apparent, Prince Dom Luís, by Portuguese anarchists. Eighteen-year-old King Manuel II assumes throne.1910 3-5 October: Following republican-led military insurrection in armed forces, monarchy falls and first Portuguese republic is proclaimed. Beginning of unstable, economically troubled, parliamentary republic form of government.May: Violent insurrection in Lisbon overturns government of General Pimenta de Castro; nearly a thousand casualties from several days of armed combat in capital.March: Following Portugal's honoring ally Britain's request to confiscate German shipping in Portuguese harbors, Germany declares war on Portugal; Portugal enters World War I on Allied side.Portugal organizes and dispatches Portuguese Expeditionary Corps to fight on the Western Front. 9 April: Portuguese forces mauled by German offensive in Battle of Lys. Food rationing and riots in Lisbon. Portuguese military operations in Mozambique against German expedition's invasion from German East Africa. 5 December: Authoritarian, presidentialist government under Major Sidónio Pais takes power in Lisbon, following a successful military coup.1918 11 November: Armistice brings cessation of hostilities on Western Front in World War I. Portuguese expeditionary forces stationed in Angola, Mozambique, and Flanders begin return trip to Portugal. 14 December: President Sidónio Pais assassinated. Chaotic period of ephemeral civil war ensues.1919-21 Excessively unstable political period, including January1919 abortive effort of Portuguese monarchists to restore Braganza dynasty to power. Republican forces prevail, but level of public violence, economic distress, and deprivation remains high.1921 October: Political violence attains peak with murder of former prime minister and other prominent political figures in Lisbon. Sectors of armed forces and Guarda Nacional Republicana are mutinous. Year of financial and corruption scandals, including Portuguese bank note (fraud) case; military court acquits guilty military insurrectionists, and one military judge declares "the country is sick."28 May: Republic overthrown by military coup or pronunciamento and conspiracy among officer corps. Parliament's doors locked and parliament closed for nearly nine years to January 1935. End of parliamentary republic, Western Europe's most unstable political system in this century, beginning of the Portuguese dictatorship, after 1930 known as the Estado Novo. Officer corps assumes reins of government, initiates military censorship of the press, and suppresses opposition.February: Military dictatorship under General Óscar Carmona crushes failed republican armed insurrection in Oporto and Lisbon.April: Military dictatorship names Professor Antônio de Oliveira Salazar minister of finance, with dictatorial powers over budget, to stabilize finances and rebuild economy. Insurrectionism among military elements continues into 1931.1930 Dr. Salazar named minister for colonies and announces balanced budgets. Salazar consolidates support by various means, including creation of official regime "movement," the National Union. Salazar engineers Colonial Act to ensure Lisbon's control of bankrupt African colonies by means of new fiscal controls and centralization of authority. July: Military dictatorship names Salazar prime minister for first time, and cabinet composition undergoes civilianization; academic colleagues and protégés plan conservative reform and rejuvenation of society, polity, and economy. Regime comes to be called the Estado Novo (New State). New State's constitution ratified by new parliament, the National Assembly; Portugal described in document as "unitary, corporative Republic" and governance influenced by Salazar's stern personality and doctrines such as integralism, Catholicism, and fiscal conservatism.1936 Violent instability and ensuing civil war in neighboring Spain, soon internationalized by fascist and communist intervention, shake Estado Novo regime. Pseudofascist period of regime features creation of imitation Fascist institutions to defend regime from leftist threats; Portugal institutes "Portuguese Youth" and "Portuguese Legion."1939 3 September: Prime Minister Salazar declares Portugal's neutrality in World War II. October: Anglo-Portuguese agreement grants naval and air base facilities to Britain and later to United States for Battle of the Atlantic and Normandy invasion support. Third Reich protests breach of Portugal's neutrality.6 June: On day of Allies' Normandy invasion, Portugal suspends mining and export of wolfram ore to both sides in war.8 May: Popular celebrations of Allied victory and Fascist defeat in Lisbon and Oporto coincide with Victory in Europe Day. Following managed elections for Estado Novo's National Assembly in November, regime police, renamed PIDE, with increased powers, represses opposition.1947 Abortive military coup in central Portugal easily crushed by regime. Independence of India and initiation of Indian protests against Portuguese colonial rule in Goa and other enclaves.1949 Portugal becomes founding member of NATO.1951 Portugal alters constitution and renames overseas colonies "Overseas Provinces." Portugal and United States sign military base agreements for use of air and naval facilities in Azores Islands and military aid to Lisbon. President Carmona dies in office, succeeded by General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58). July: Indians occupy enclave of Portuguese India (dependency of Damão) by means of passive resistance movement. August: Indian passive resistance movement in Portuguese India repelled by Portuguese forces with loss of life. December: With U.S. backing, Portugal admitted as member of United Nations (along with Spain). Air force general Humberto Delgado, in opposition, challenges Estado Novo's hand-picked successor to Craveiro Lopes, Admiral Américo Tomás. Delgado rallies coalition of democratic, liberal, and communist opposition but loses rigged election and later flees to exile in Brazil. Portugal joins European Free Trade Association (EFTA).January and February: Estado Novo rocked by armed African insurrection in northern Angola, crushed by armed forces. Hijacking of Portuguese ocean liner by ally of Delgado, Captain Henrique Galvão. April: Salazar defeats attempted military coup and reshuffles cabinet with group of younger figures who seek to reform colonial rule and strengthen the regime's image abroad. 18 December: Indian army rapidly defeats Portugal's defense force in Goa, Damão, and Diu and incorporates Portugal's Indian possessions into Indian Union. January: Abortive military coup in Beja, Portugal.1965 February: General Delgado and his Brazilian secretary murdered and secretly buried near Spanish frontier by political police, PIDE.1968 August and September: Prime Minister Salazar, aged 79, suffers crippling stoke. President Tomás names former cabinet officer Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor. Caetano institutes modest reforms in Portugal and overseas.1971 Caetano government ratifies amended constitution that allows slight devolution and autonomy to overseas provinces in Africa and Asia. Right-wing loyalists oppose reforms in Portugal. 25 April: Military coup engineered by Armed Forces Movement overthrows Estado Novo and establishes provisional government emphasizing democratization, development, and decolonization. Limited resistance by loyalists. President Tomás and Premier Caetano flown to exile first in Madeira and then in Brazil. General Spínola appointed president. September: Revolution moves to left, as President Spínola, thwarted in his program, resigns.March: Military coup by conservative forces fails, and leftist response includes nationalization of major portion of economy. Polarization between forces and parties of left and right. 25 November: Military coup by moderate military elements thwarts leftist forces. Constituent Assembly prepares constitution. Revolution moves from left to center and then right.March: Constitution ratified by Assembly of the Republic. 25 April: Second general legislative election gives largest share of seats to Socialist Party (PS). Former oppositionist lawyer, Mário Soares, elected deputy and named prime minister.1977-85 Political pendulum of democratic Portugal moves from center-left to center-right, as Social Democratic Party (PSD) increases hold on assembly and take office under Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. July1985 elections give edge to PSD who advocate strong free-enterprise measures and revision of leftist-generated 1976 Constitution, amended modestly in 1982.1986 January: Portugal joins European Economic Community (EEC).1987 July: General, legislative elections for assembly give more than 50 percent to PSD led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. For first time, since 1974, Portugal has a working majority government.1989 June: Following revisions of 1976 Constitution, reprivatization of economy begins, under PS government.January: Presidential elections, Mário Soares reelected for second term. July: General, legislative elections for assembly result in new PSD victory and majority government.January-July: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the European Economic Community (EEC). December: Tariff barriers fall as fully integrated Common Market established in the EEC.November: Treaty of Maastricht comes into force. The EEC officially becomes the European Union (EU). Portugal is signatory with 11 other member-nations.October: General, legislative elections for assembly result in PS victory and naming of Prime Minister Guterres. PS replace PSD as leading political party. November: Excavations for Lisbon bank uncover ancient Phoenician, Roman, and Christian ruins.January: General, presidential elections; socialist Jorge Sampaio defeats PSD's Cavaco Silva and assumes presidency from Dr. Mário Soares. July: Community of Portuguese Languages Countries (CPLP) cofounded by Portugal and Brazil.May-September: Expo '98 held in Lisbon. Opening of Vasco da Gama Bridge across Tagus River, Europe's longest (17 kilometers/ 11 miles). June: National referendum on abortion law change defeated after low voter turnout. November: National referendum on regionaliza-tion and devolution of power defeated after another low voter turnout.October: General, legislative elections: PS victory over PSD lacks clear majority in parliament. Following East Timor referendum, which votes for independence and withdrawal of Indonesia, outburst of popular outrage in streets, media, and communications of Portugal approves armed intervention and administration of United Nations (and withdrawal of Indonesia) in East Timor. Portugal and Indonesia restore diplomatic relations. December: A Special Territory since 1975, Colony of Macau transferred to sovereignty of People's Republic of China.January-June: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the EU; end of Discoveries Historical Commemoration Cycle (1988-2000).United Nations forces continue to occupy and administer former colony of East Timor, with Portugal's approval.January: General, presidential elections; PS president Sampaio reelected for second term. City of Oporto, "European City of Culture" for the year, hosts arts festival. December: Municipal elections: PSD defeats PS; socialist prime minister Guterres resigns; President Sampaio calls March parliamentary elections.1 January: Portugal enters single European Currency system. Euro currency adopted and ceases use of former national currency, the escudo. March: Parliamentary elections; PSD defeats PS and José Durão Barroso becomes prime minister. Military modernization law passed. Portugal holds chairmanship of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).May: Municipal law passed permitting municipalities to reorganize in new ways.June: Prime Minister Durão Barroso, invited to succeed Romano Prodi as president of EU Commission, resigns. Pedro Santana Lopes becomes prime minister. European Parliament elections held. Conscription for national service in army and navy ended. Mass grave uncovered at Academy of Sciences Museum, Lisbon, revealing remains of several thousand victims of Lisbon earthquake, 1755.February: Parliamentary elections; PS defeats PSD, socialists win first absolute majority in parliament since 1975. José Sócrates becomes prime minister.January: Presidential elections; PSD candidate Aníbal Cavaco Silva elected and assumes presidency from Jorge Sampaio. Portugal's national soccer team ranked 7th out of 205 countries by international soccer association. European Union's Bologna Process in educational reform initiated in Portugal.July-December: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the European Union. For reasons of economy, Portugal announces closure of many consulates, especially in France and the eastern US. Government begins official inspections of private institutions of higher education, following scandals.2008 January: Prime Minister Sócrates announces location of new Lisbon area airport as Alcochete, on south bank of Tagus River, site of air force shooting range. February: Portuguese Army begins to receive new modern battle tanks (Leopard 2 A6). March: Mass protest of 85,000 public school (primary and secondary levels) teachers in Lisbon schools dispute recent educational policies of minister of education and prime minister. -
19 скорость
speed
в механике - одна из основных характеристик движения материальной точки. — rate of motion. speed and velocity are often used interchangeably although some authorities maintain that velocity should be used only for the vector quantity.
- (вектор) (рис.124) — velocity (vel)
величина скорости в данном направлении, — а vector quantity equal to speed in a given direction.
- (темп изменения величины) — rate
- аварийного слива топлива (в воздухе) — fuel dumping /jettison/ rate. jettison rate for all tanks and all boost pumps operating is... kg per minute.
- аварийного слива топлива (производительность слива) порядка 2000 л/мин — fuel dump rate of 2000 liters per minute
- азимутальной коррекции (гироскопа) — azimuth erection rate
-, безопасная — safety speed
- бокового движения (вертолета) — sideward flight speed
- бокового перемещения (скольжения) — lateral velocity
скорость относительно невозмущенного воздуха в направлении поперечной оси. — the velocity relative to the undisturbed air in the direction of the lateral axis.
-, большая — high speed
-, большая (стеклоочистителя) — fast rate (fast)
"- велика" (надпись на указателе отклонения от заданной скорости прибора пкп) — fast
-, вертикальная — vertical speed
- вертикальная (для ссос) — descent /sink/ rate
-, вертикальная (при посадке) — descent velocity
with а limit descent velocity of... f.p.s. at the design landing weight...
- ветра (величина) — wind speed (ws)
скорость массы воздуха в горизонтальном направлении. — ws is horizontal velocity of а mass of air.
- ветра (величина и направление) (рис.124) — wind velocity
фактическая скорость ветра на высоте 50 фт. по сообщению) диспетчера. зафиксировать скорость и направление ветра. — the actual wind velocity at 50 foot height reported from the tower. record wind velocity and direction.
- ветра (название шкалы на графике) — wind
- ветра (сообщаемая диспетчерским пунктом или по метеосводке) — reported wind (speed)
- в зависимости от высоты и веса, вертикальная — vertical speed for altitude and weight
- взлета, безопасная (v2) — takeoff safety speed (v2)
скорость, достигаемая на первом этапе взлета, и выбираемая таким образом, чтобы обеспечить безопасное получение нормируемых градиентов набора высоты на втором этапе взлета. — the scheduled target speed to be attained at the 35 feet height with one engine inoperative.
- взлета, минимальная безопасная (v2 min) — minimum takeoff safety speed (v2 min)
наименьшая допустимая скорость на 1-м этапе взлета.
- взлета, минимально эволютивная (vmin эв) — air minimum control speed (v мса)
- в зоне ожидания — holding speed
- в момент отказа критического двигателя (при взлете) — critical engine failure speed (v1)
- в момент принятия решения (при взлете) — decision speed (v1)
-, воздушная — airspeed
скорость полета ла относительно воздуха, независимо от пути, пройденного относительно земной поверхности, — the rate of speed at which an aircraft is traveling through the atmosphere (air), and is independent of any distance covered on the surface of the earth.
- возникновения бафтинга — buffet (onset) speed
- возникновения бафтинга, предшествующего срыву — pre-stall buffet speed
- возникновения предупреждающей тряски (vтp) — pre-stall warning speed
скорость, при которой возникают заметные естественные или искусственно созданные признаки близости сваливания.
- возникновения флаттера — flutter (onset) speed
- восстановления (гироскопа) большая — fast erection rate
- вращения — rotational speed (n, n)
оборотов за единицу времени. — revolutions per unit time.
- вращения земли, угловая — earth('s) angular velocity
- вращения колеса (напр., при взлете) — tire speed. ; maximum takeoff weight restricted by tire speed
- в точке принятия решения — decision speed
- в точке принятия решения (при отказе критического двигателя) — critical engine failure speed
- встречного ветра — headwind speed
- встречного ветра (название шкалы на графике) — headwind
- в условиях турбулентности — rough air speed (vra)
- входа в зону турбулентности, заданная — target (air)speed for turbulent air penetration
-, выбранная заявителем — speed selected by the applicant
- выпуска (или уборки) шасси, максимальная — landing gear operating speed (vlo)
максимальная скорость полета, при которой разрешается выпускать или убирать шасси. — maximum speed at which it is safe to extend or retract the landing gear.
- выхода (гидросамолета, са молета-амфибии) на редан — hump speed. the speed at which the water resistance of a seaplane or amphibian is hignest.
- газового потока (через двиг.) — gas flow velocity
- герметизации кабины — cabin pressurization rate
-, гиперзвуковая — hypersonic speed
скорости от м-5 и выше. — pertaining to speeds of mach 5 or greater.
- горизонтального полета — level flight speed, speed in level flight
- горизонтального полета на максимальном продолжительном режиме (двиг.), максимальная — maximum speed in level flight with maximum continuous power
- горизонтального полета на расчетном режиме работы двигателей, максимальная — maximum speed in level flight with rated rpm and power
- движения назад (вертолета) — rearward (flight) speed
-, демонстрационная — demonstrated speed
- дисс (доплеровского измерителя скорости и сноса) — doppler velocity
- для определения характеристик устойчивости, максимальная — maximum speed for stability characteristic (vfc)
- горизонтального полета на режиме максимальной продолжительной мощности (тяги) — maximum speed in level flight with maximum continuous power (or thrust) (vh)
-, дозвуковая — subsonic speed
-, докритическая — pre-stall speed
-, допустимая — allowable speed
-, допустимая (ограниченная) — limiting speed
-, заданная воздушная — target airspeed
- заданная подвижным индексом — bug speed. fuel dumping may be necessary to reduce the bug speed.
- заправки топливом — fueling rate, fuel delivery rate
- захода на посадку (vзп) — approach speed (vapp)
- захода на посадку при всех работающих двигателях — approach speed with all engines operating
- захода на посадку при одном неработающем двигателе — approach speed with one engine inoperative
- захода на посадку с убранными закрылками — no flap approach speed
- захода на посадку с убранными закрылками и предкрылками — no flap-no slat approach speed. аn approach speed of 15 knots below no flap-no slat approach speeds can be used.
- захода на посадку с убранными предкрылками — no slat approach speed. with the leading edge slats extended, an approach speed of 15 knots below no flap - no slat approach speeds can be used.
-, звуковая — sonic speed
скорость ла или его части. равная скорости звука в данных условиях. — the speed of sound. when an object travels in air at the same speed as that of sound in the same medium.
-, земная индикаторная (v13) (из) — calibrated airspeed (cas)
- изменения (величины) — rate (of change)
- изменения бокового отклонения — crosstrack (distance) deviation rate, xtk deviation rate
- изменения шага (винта) — pitch-change rate
-, индикаторная воздушная — equivalnet airspeed (eas)
-, индикаторная земная (v13, из) (сша) — calibrated airspeed (cas)
равна показанию указателя скорости (приборной скорости) с учетом аэродинамической поправки (и инструментальной погрешности). напр., 150 км/ч из. — airspeed indicator reading, as installed in airplane, corrected for (static source) position (and instrument) error. cas is equal to the tas in standard atmosphere at sea level.
-, индикаторная земная (англ.) — rectified air speed (ras). ras is the indicated airspeed corrected for instrument and position errors.
- истечения выходящих газов (из реактивного сопла газотурбинного двигателя) — exhaust velocity, speed of ехhaust gases. the velocity of gaseous or other particles (exhaust stream) that exhaust through the nozzle.
-, истинная воздушная (ис) — true airspeed (tas)
скорость самолета относительно невозмущенного воздуха, равная скорости. — the speed of the airplane relative to undisturbed air.
-, истинная воздушная (по числу m) — true mach number (m)
показания указателя числа м c учетом аэродинамической поправки для приемника статического давления. — machmeter reading corrected for static source position error.
- касания (при посадке) — touch-down speed
- коррекции гироскопа — gyro erection rate
- коррекции гироскопа в азимуте — gyro azimuth erection rate
- коррекции гироскопа по крену и тангажу — gyro roll/pitch erection rate
- крейсерская — cruising speed
скорость полета, не превышающая 90 % расчетной скорости горизонтального полета. — а speed not greater than 90 % of the design level speed.
-, крейсерская расчетная — design cruising speed (vc)
- крена, угловая — rate of roll, roll rate
-, критическая (сваливания) — stalling speed (vs)
-, линейная — linear velocity
скорость в заданном направлении для определения скорости. — speed acting in one specified direction defines velocity.
-, линейная (скорость движения no прямой) — linear speed. rate of motion in a straight iine.
-, максимальная допустимая эксплуатационная (no терминологии икао) — maximum permissible operating speed
-, максимальная маневренная — maneuvering speed (va)
нe допускать максимального отклонения поверхности управления при превышении максимальной маневренной скорости. — maximum deflection of flight controls should not be used above va.
-, максимальная посадочная (vп max) — maximum landing speed
-, максимальная предельнодопустимая — maximum operating limit speed
-, максимальная предельнодопустимая, приборная — maximum operating limit indicated airspeed (ias)
-, максимальная эксплуатационная — maximum operating limit speed (vmo)
- максимально допустимая (vмд) — maximum operating limit speed (vmo)
- максимальной продопжительности (полета) — high-endurance cruise speed
"- мала" (надпись на указателе отклонения от заданной скорости прибора пкп) — slow
-, малая — low speed
-, малая (стеклоочистителя) — slow rate (slow)
-, минимальная — minimum speed
наименьшая установившаяся скорость горизонтального полета на высоте, значительно превышающей размер крыла, при любом режиме работы двигателей, — the lowest steady speed which can be maintained by an airplane in level flight at an altitude large in comparison with the dimension of the wings, with any throttle setting.
-, минимальная (полетная) — minimum flying speed
наименьшая установившаяся скорость, выдерживаемая при любом режиме работы двигателей в горизонтальном полете на высоте, превышающей размах крыла, — the lowest steady speed that can be maintained with any throttle setting whatsoever, by an airplane in level flight at an altitude above the ground, greater than the span of the wing.
-, минимальная посадочная (vп min) — minimum landing speed
-, минимально эволютивная (vminэ) — minimum control speed (vmc)
скорость, при которой в случае отказа критического двигателя обеспечивается возможность управления самолетом для выдерживания прямолинейного полета на данной скорости, при нулевом рыскании и угле крена не более 5°. — vmc is the speed at which, when the critical engine is suddenly made inoperative at that speed, it is possible to recover control of the airplane with the engine still inoperative and to maintain it in straight flight at that speed, either with zero yaw or with an angle of bank not in excess of 5°.
-, минимально эволютивная (в воздухе) (vminэв) — air minimum control speed (vmca)
минимальная скорость полета, при которой обеспечивается управление самолетом с макс. креном до 5° в случае отказа критического двигателя и при работе остальных двигателей на взлетном режиме. — the minimum flight speed at which the airplane is controllable with а maximum of 5 deg. bank when the critical engine suddenly becomes inoperative with the remaining engines at take-off thrust.
-, минимально эволютивная (на земле) (vmin эр) — ground minimum control speed (vmcg)
минимальная скорость разбега, обеспечивающая продолжение взлета, с использеванием только аэродинамических поверхностей правления, в случае отказа критич. двиг. и при работе остальных двигателей на взлетном режиме. — the minimum speed on the ground at which the takeoff can be continued, utilizing aerodynamic controls alone, when the critical engine suddenly becomes inoperative with the remaining engines at takeoff thrust.
-, минимально эволютивная (при начальном наборе высоты) — minimum control speed (at takeoff climb)
-, минимально эволютивная (у земли) — minimum control speed near ground
-, минимально допустимая эксплуатационная — minimum operating speed
- набора высоты (вдоль траектории) — climb speed
- набора высоты (вертикальная) — rate of climb
при проверке летных характеристик - вертикальная составляющая возд. скор. в условиях станд. атмосферы. в обычном полете - скорость удаления от земной поверхности. — in performance testing, the vertical component of the air speed in standard atmosphere. in general flying, the rate of ascent from tfle earth.
- набора высоты на маршруте — enroute climb speed
- набора высоты, начальная — initial climb-out speed
- набора высоты с убранными закрылками — flaps up climb(ing) speed, no flap climb speed
- на высоте 15м, посадочная — landing reference speed (vref)
минимальная скорость на высоте 15м при нормальной посадке. — the minimum speed at the 50 foot height in a normal landing.
- нагрева — heating rate
- наибольшей дальности — best range cruise speed
- наибольшей продолжительности полета — high-endurance cruise speed
- наивыгоднейшего набора высоты — speed for best rate of climb (vy)
- наивыгоднейшего угла траектории набора высоты — speed for best angle of climb (vx)
- на маршруте — еп route speed
- на режиме максимальной дальности, крейсерская — long-range cruise speed
- на режиме наибольшей дальности — best range cruise speed
- на режиме наибольшей продолжительности — high-endurance cruise speed
- начала изменения положения механизации (при взлете,v3) — speed at start of extendable (high-lift) devices retraction (v3)
- начала подъема передней опоры (при взлете) — rotation speed (vr)
- начала торможения (vн.т.) — brake application speed, speed at start of (wheel) brakes application
- начального набора высоты — initial climb speed, climb-out speed
- начального набора высоты (v4) (в конце полной взлетной дистанции) — initial climb speed (v4)
- начального набора высоты, установившаяся — steady initial climb speed. take-off safety speed, v2, at 35 feet shall be consistent with achievement of smooth transition to steady initial climb speed, v4 at height of 400 feet.
- (максимальная), непревышаемая — never exceed speed (vne)
-, нормируемая — rated speed
- обнаружения (искомого) светила (звезды) телескопом (астрокорректора) — star-detection rate of telescope
- образования (напр., льда) — rate of (ice) formation
-, ограниченная заявителем — speed selected by the applicant
the approach and landing speeds must be selected by the applicant.
-, ограниченная энергоемкостью тормозов — maximum brake energy speed (vmbe)
максимальная скорость движения самолета по земле, при которой энергоемкость тормозов сможет обеспечить полную остановку самолета, — the maximum speed on the ground from which a stop can be accomplished within the energy capabilities of the brakes.
-, околозвуковая — transonic speed
скорость в диапазоне от м = 0,8 - 1,2. — speed in а range of mach 0.8 to 1.2.
-, окружная — circumferential speed
-, окружная (конца лопасти) — tip speed
-, окружная (тангенциальная, касательная) — radial velocity. doppler effect in terms of radial velocity of a target.
-, опасная (самолета, превышающая vмо/mмо) — aircraft overspeed (а/с ovsp). speed exceeding vmo/mmo
- определяется для гладкой, сухой впп с жестким покрытием — vi speed is based on smooth, dry, hard surfaced runways
-, оптимальная — best speed
- отказа критического двигателя (при взлете) — critical engine failure speed (v1)
скорость, при которой после обнаружения отказавшего двигателя, дистанция продолжительного взлета до высоты 10,7 м не превышает располагаемой дистанции взлета, или дистанция до полной остановки не превышает располагаемой дистанции прерванного взлета, — the speed at which, when an engine failure is recognized, the distance to continue the takeoff to а height of 35 feet will not exceed the usable takeoff distance or, the distance to bring the airplane to а full stop will not exceed the accelerate-stop distance available.
- (сигнал) от доплеровской системы — doppler velocity
- от измерителя дисс (доплеровский измеритель путевой скорости и сноса), путевая — gappier ground speed (gsd)
- откачки (слива) топлива (на земле) — defueling rate, fuel off-loading rate
- отклонения закрылков — rate of the flaps motion
- отклонения от глиссады — glide slope deviation rate
- отклонения поверхности ynравления — control surface deflection rate
-, относительная — relative speed, speed of relative movement
motion of an aircraft relative to another.
- отработки (скорость изменения индикации прибора в зависимости от изменения параметра) — response rate /speed/, rate of response
- отработки астропоправки по курсу — rate /speed/ of response to celestial correction to azimuth e rror
- отработки поправки — correction response rate /speed/
- отработки сигнала — signal response rate
- отрыва (ла) — lirt-off speed (vlof:)
скорость в момент отрыва основных опорных устройств самолета от впп по окончании разбега при взлете (vотр.). — vlof is the speed at which the airplane first becomes airborne.
- отрыва колеса (характеристика тормозного колеса) — wheel unstick speed
-, отрыва, минимальная — minimum unstick speed (vmu)
устаназливается разработчиком (заявителем), как наименьшая скор, движения самолета на взлете, при которой еще можно производить отрыв самолета и затем продолжать взлет без применения особых методов пилотирования. — the speed selected by the applicant at and above which the airplane can be made to lift off the ground and сопtinue the take-off without displaying any hazardous characteristics.
- отрыва носового колеса (или передней стойки шасси) (vп.oп) — rotation speed (vr)
скорость начала преднамеренного увеличения угла тангажа при разбеге (рис. 113). — the speed at which the airplane rotation is initiated during the takeoff.
vr is the speed at which the nosewheel is raised and the airplane is rotated to the lift off attitude.
- отрыва передней опоры при взлете (vп.оп) — rotation speed
- перевода в набор высоты (после взлета) — initial climb speed
- перемещения органа управления — rate of control movement /displacement/
- пересечения входной кромки впп (vвк) — threshold speed (vt)
скорость самолета, с которой он пролетает над входной кромкой впп.
- пересечения входной кромки впп, демонстрационная — demonstrated threshold speed
- пересечения входной кромки впп, максимальная (vвк max.) — maximum threshold speed (vmt)
- пересечения входной кромки впп, намеченная (заданная) — target threshold speed (vtt). target threshold speed is the speed which the pilot aims to reach when the airplane crosses the threshold.
- пересечения входной кромки впп при нормальной работе всех двигателей (vвкn) — threshold speed with all еngines operating
- пересечения входной кромки впп при нормальной работе всех двигателей, намеченная (заданная) — target threshold speed with all engines operating
- пересечения входной кромки впп с двумя неработающими двигателями (vвк n-2) — threshold speed with two еngines inoperative
- пересечения входной кромки впп с одним неработающим двиг. (vвкn-1) — threshold speed with one еngine inoperative
- пересечения входной кромки впп с одним неработающим двигателем, намеченная (заданная) — target threshold speed with one engine inoperative
- пикирования — diving speed
- пикирования, демонстрационная — demonstrated flight diving speed (vdf)
-, пикирования, расчетная — design diving speed (vd)
- планирования — gliding speed
- планирования при заходе на посадку — gliding approach speed
- по азимуту, угловая — rate of turn
- поворота, угловая — rate of turn
- подъема передней опоры (стойки) шасси — rotation speed (vr)
скорость начала увеличения yгла тангажа на разбеге, преднамеренно создаваемого отклонением штурвала на себя для вывода самолета на взлетный угол атаки (vп.ст.). — the speed at which the airplane rotation is initiated during the takeoff, to lift /to rise/ the nose gear off the runway.
- поиска (искомой) звезды телескопом — (target) star detection rate of telescope
detection rate is the ratio of field of view to detection time.
-пo курсу, угловая — rate of turn
- полета — flight speed
- полета в болтанку — rough air speed (vra)
- полета в зоне ожидания — holding speed
- полета в неспокойном (турбулентном) воздухе — rough air speed (vra)
- полета для длительных режимов, наибольшая (vнэ) — normal operating limit speed (vno)
- полета, максимальная — maximum flying speed
- полета на наибольшую дальность крейсерская — best range cruise speed
- полета на наибольшую продолжительность — high-endurance cruise speed
- полета на режиме максимальной продолжительной мощности — speed (in flight) with maximum continuous power (or thrust)
- полета при болтанке — rough air speed (vra)
- полета с максимальной крейсерской тягой — speed (in flight) with maximum cruise /cruising/ thrust
-, пониженная — reduced (air) speed
при невозможности уборки створок реверса тяги продолжайте полет на пониженной скорости. — if reverser cannot be stowed, continue (flight) at reduced speed.
- по прибору (пр) — indicated airspeed (ias)
- попутного ветра — tailwind speed
- попутного ветра (название шкалы на графике) — tailwind
- порыва ветра — gust velocity
-, посадочная (vп) — landing speed
скорость самолета в момент касания основными его опорными устройствами поверхности впп — the minimum speed of an airplane at the instant of contact with the landing area in a normal landing.
-, посадочная (на высоте 15м) — landing reference speed (vref)
минимальная скорость на высоте 50 фт в условиях нормальной посадки, равная 1.3 скорости сваливания в посадочной конфигурации ла. — the minimum speed at 50 foot height in normal langin. equal to (1.3) times the stall speed in landing configuration.
-, постоянная — constant speed
-, поступательная (скорость движения вертолета вперед) — forward speed. steady angle of helicopter glide must be determined in autorotation, and with the optimum forward speed.
- по тангажу, угловая — rate of pitch
- потока газа (проходящего через двигатель, в фт/сек) — gas flow velocity (fps), vel f.p.s.
-, предельная (vпред.) — maximum operating limit speed (vmo)
скорость, преднамеренное превышение которой не допускается на всех режимах полета (набор высоты, крейсерский полет, снижение), кроме особо оговоренных случаев, допускаемых при летных испытаниях или тренировочных полетах. — speed that may not be deliberately exceeded in any regime of normal flight (climb, cruise or descent), unless а higher speed is authorized for flight test or pilot training operations.
-, предельно (свободно падающего тела) — terminal velocity
-, предельная (скорость самолета, превышающая допустимые ограничения vmo/mmo) — aircraft overspeed (а/с ovsp) а/с ovsp annunciator warns of exceeding air speed limitations (vmo/mmo)
-, предельно допустимая эксплуатационная (vпред.) — maximum operating limit speed (vmo)
- прецессии (гироскопа) — precession rate
- приближения (сближения) — closure rate
- приближения к земле (чрезмерная) — (excessive) closure rate to terrain, excessive rate of descent with respect to terrain
-,приборная воздушная (vпр) (пр) — indicated airspeed (ias)
показания указателя скорости, характеризующие величину скоростного напора, а не скорость перемещения самолета (напр.,150 км/ч пр). — airspeed indicator reading, as installed in the airplane, uncorrected for airspeed indicator system errors.
- приборная исправленная с учетом аэродинамической поправки и инструментальной погрешности прибора — calibrated airspeed (cas)
- при включении и выключении реверса тяги, максимальная — maximum speed for extending and retracting the thrust reverser, thrust reverser operating speed
- при включении стеклоочистителей лобовых стекол — windshield wiper operation speed
(т.е., скорость полета, при которой разрешается включать стеклоочистители) — do not operate the w/s wipers at speed in excess of... km/hr.
- при включении тормозов (при пробеге) — brake-on speed
- при выпуске воздушных тормозов — speed brake operating speed (vsb)
- при выпуске (уборке) посадочной фары — landing light operation speed
- при выпущенных интерцепторах (спойлерах), расчетная максимальная — design speller extended speed
- при выпуске (уборке) шасси, максимальная — maximum landing gear operating speed (vlo)
- при заходе на посадку и посадке, минимальная эволютивная — minimum control speed at арpreach and landing (vmcl)
- при (напр., взлетной) конфигурации самолета — speed in (takeaff) configuration
- при максимальной силе порыва ветра, расчетная — design speed for maximum gust intensity (vb)
- при максимальных порывах ветра, расчетная — design speed for maximum gust intensity
- при наборе высоты — climb speed
- при наборе высоты, наивыгоднейшая (оптимальная) — best climb speed
- при наборе высоты по маршруту на конечном участке чистой траектории — еn route climb speed at final net flight path segment
- принятия решения (v1) — (takeoff) decision speed (v1), critical engine failure speed (v1)
наибольшая скорость разбега самолета, при которой в случае отказа критич. двиг. (отказ распознается на этой скорости) возможно как безопасное прекращение, так и безопасное продолжение взлета. (рис. 113) — the speed at which, when an engine failure is recognized, the distance to continue the takeoff to а height of 35 feet will not exceed the usable takeoff distance, or, the distance to bring the airplane to а full stop will not exceed the accelerate-stop distance available.
- принятия решения относительная (v1/vr) — engine failure speed ratio (v1/vr ratio)
отношение скорости принятия решения v1 к скорости подъема передней стойки шасси vr. — the ratio of the engine failure speed, v1, for actual runway dimensions and conditions, to the rotation speed, vr
- принятия решения (v1), принятая при расчете макс. допустимого взлетного веса — critical engine failure speed (v1) assumed for max. allowable take-off weight max, allowable т.о. wt is derived from the corresponding critical engine failure speed (v1).
- при отказе критического двигателя (при взлете) — critical engine failure speed (v1)
- при отрыве носового колеса (см. скорость подъема передней опоры) (рис. 113) — rotation speed (vr)
- при предпосадочном маневре — (approach) pattern speed. overshooting the turn on final approach may occur with the higher (approach) pattern speed.
- при снижении — speed in descent
- при экстремальном снижении — emergency descent speed
- проваливания (резкая потеря высоты) — sink rate
- продольной составляющей ветра (график) — wind component parallel to flight path
- прохождения порога, максимальная — maximum threshold speed
- путевая (w) — ground speed (gs)
скорость перемещения самолета относительно земной поверхности, измеряемая вдоль линии пути. — aircraft velocity relative to earth surface measured along the present track.
- разбега, мннимально-эволю тивная (vmin эр) — round minimum control speed vmcg)
- разгерметизации — rate of decompression
- раскрытия (парашюта), критическая — critical opening speed
- рассогласования — rate of disagreement
-, расчетная — design speed
-, расчетная предельная (пикирования) — design diving speed (vd)
-, расчетная крейсерская — design cruising speed (vc)
-, расчетная маневренная — design maneuvering speed (va)
максимальная скорость, при которой максимальное отклонение поверхностей управления (элеронов,ph. рв) не вызывает опасных напряжений в конструкции ла. — the maximum speed at which application of full available aileron, rudder or elevator will not overstress the airplane.
- реакции — reaction rate
- реверса (поверхностей) управления — reversal speed
минимальная индикаторнаявоздушная скорость при которой возникает реверс поверхностей управления. — the lowest equivalent air speed at which reversal of control occurs.
-, рекомендованная изготовителем — manufacturer's recommended speed
-, рейсовая — block speed
-, рулежная — taxiing speed
- рыскания, угловая — rate of yaw, yaw rate
- сближения — closure /closing/ rate /speed/, rate of closure
скорость с которой два объекта приближаются друг к другу. — the speed at which two bodies approach each other.
- сближения с землей, опасная (чрезмерная) — excessive closure rate to terrain
- сваливания (vс) — stalling speed (vs)
скорость сваливания определяется началом сваливания самолета при заданных: конфигурации самолета, его полетном весе и режиме работы двигателей. — means the stalling speed or the minimum steady flight speed at which the airplane is controllabie.
- сваливания, минимальная (vсmin.) — minimurn stalling speed
- сваливания, приборная — indicated stalling speed
the indlcalcid air speed at the stall.
- сваливания при посадочной конфигурации (vсо) — stalling speed (vso). stalling speed or minimum steady flighl speed in landing configuration.
- сваливания при наработающих двигателях — power-off stalling speed
- сваливания при работающих двигателях — power-off stalling speed
- сваливания при рассматриваемой конфигурации самолета (vс1) — stalling speed (vs1). stalling speed or minimum steady. flight speed obtained in a specified configuration.
- сваливания с закрылками в посадочном положении, минимальная — minimum stalling speed with wing-flaps in landing setting
-, сверхзвуковая — supersonic speed
скорость, превышающая скорость звука, — pertaining to, or dealing with, speeds greater than the acoustic velocity.
- с выпущенными закрылками, максимальная — maximum flap extended speed (vfe)
- с выпущенными шасси, максимальная — maximum landing gear extended speed (vle)
максимальная скорость, при которой разрешается полет с выпущенным шасси, — maximum speed at which the airplane can be safety flown with the landing gear extended.
- скоса потока вниз — downwash velocity
- слежения за изменением высоты (корректором высоты) — rate of response to altitude variation /change/
- слива (откачки) топлива (на земле) — defueling rate, fuel off-loading rate
- снижения — speed of /in/ descent
-, снижения (напр., при посадке) — rate of sink, sink rate. touchdown at minimum rate of sink.
- снижения, вертикальная — rate of descent, descent /sink/ rate
- снижения в момент касания (водной поверхности при аварийной посадке на воду) — impact sink speed. the impact sink speed should be kept below 100 fpm to minimize the risk of a primary fuselage structural failure.
- снижения парашюта — parachute rate of descent
- снижения парашютов с единичным грузом — rate of descent of single cargo parachutes
- снижения, чрезмерная — excessive rate of descent, excessive sink rate
- сноса — drift rate
- согласования (гироагрегата) — rate of slaving, slaving rate
- согласования следящих сиетем (инерциальной системы) — servo loop slaving rate
- с отказавшим критическим двигателем, минимальная эеолютивная — minimum control speed with the critical engine inoperative (vmc)
- с полностью убранными закрылками, посадочная — zero flap landing speed
zero flap landing ground speeds are obviously high so fuel dumping may be necessary to reduce the bug speed.
- спуска, вертикальная — rate of sink, sink rate
touchdown at minimum rate of sink. perform high sink rate maneuver.
-, средняя — average speed
-, средняя эксплуатационная (коммерческая) — block speed
- срыва (см. скорость сваливания) — stalling speed (vs)
- схода (ракеты) с направляющей — launch(ing) speed
- тангажа, угловая — rate of pitch, pitch rate
-, текущая — current speed
ete calculation is based on current ground speed.
- (уборки) выпуска шасси, максимальная — maximum landing gear operating speed (vlo)
-, угловая — angular velocity
изменение угла за единицу времени, — the change of angle per unit time.
-, угловая — angular speed, angular rate, angular velocity
изменение направления за единицу времени, напр., отметки (цели) на экране радиолокатора. — change of direction per unit time, as for a target on a radar screen.
-, угловая инерционная (корпуса гироскопа относительно к-л. оси) — nertial angular velocity (of gyro case about the indicated axis)
-, угловая, (координатного сопровождающего) трехгранника (относительно земли) — angular velocity of moving соordinate trihedral
- у земли, минимальная эволютивная — minimum control speed near ground
-, установившаяся — steady speed
- установившегося полета, минимальная — minimum steady flight speed
- установившегося разворота, угловая — sustained turn rate (str)
- ухода гироскопа — gyro drift rate
- ухода гироскопа в азимуте — azimuth drift rate of the gyro
- флаттера, критическая — flutter speed
наименьшая индикаторная скорость, при которой возникает флаттер, — the lowest equivalent air speed at which flutter occurs.
"(-) число м" (кнопка) — v/m (button or key)
-, эволютивная (минимальная) — (minimum) control speed (vmc)
- эволютивная разбега, минимальная (vmin эр) — ground minimum control speed (vmcg)
-, экономическая — economic speed
скорость полета, при которой обеспечивается минимальный расход топлива на единицу пути в спокойном воздухе. — the flight speed at which the fuel consumption per unit of distance covered in still air, is а minimum.
-, экономическая крейсерская — economic cruising speed
-, эксплуатационная — operating speed
гашение с. — deceleration
на с. км/час — at а speed of km/hr
набор с. — acceleration
на полной с. — at full speed
нарастание с. — acceleration
переход к с. (набора высоты) — transition to (climb) speed
при с. км/час — at а speed of km/hr
разгон (ла) до с. — acceleration to speed of...
уменьшение с. (процесс) — deceleration
выдерживать с. (точно) — maintain /hold/ speed (accurately)
выражать значение с. полета в виде приборной (индикаторной) скорости — state (he speeds in terms of ias (eas)
гашение с. (перед выравниванием) — speed bleed-off (before flare)
гасить с. — decelerate
достигать с. (величина) — attain а speed of (... km/hr)
достигать с. (обозначание) — reach the speed (v1)
задавать с. — set up (speed, rate)
задавать с. км/час (при проверке барометрических приборов на земле) — apply pressure corresponding to а speed of... km/hr
набирать с. — gain /pick up/ speed, accelerate
увеличивать с. — increase speed, accelerate
уменьшать с. — decrease speed, decelerate
устанавливать с. (полета) — set up speedРусско-английский сборник авиационно-технических терминов > скорость
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20 phraseology of meteorological breefing/consultation
фразеология метеоконсультацииThis is the 0600 UTC surface synoptic (significant weather, high level) chart.
– Это приземная синоптическая (особых явлений, высотная) карта за 0600 UTC.This prognostic significant weather (high level, 200, 300 hPa) chart is valid for 1800 UTC.
– Эта прогностическая карта особых явлений (высотная, 200, 300 гПа) на 18 UTC.Wind speed and displacement of baric systems on our charts is given in kmh.
– Скорость ветра и смещения барических систем на наших картах указана в км/ч.Altitudes on our charts are given in decametres.
– Высоты на наших картах даны в декаметрах.This cyclone (anticyclone) according to data of barric topography is tracked up to the altitude of... km.
– Этот циклон (антициклон) по данным барической топографии прослеживается до высоты... км.The cyclone (anticyclone) centred at (Northern, Southern...) Norway is displacing North-East (South...) with the speed of... kmh.
– Циклон (антициклон), расположенный над (северной, южной...) Норвегией смещается к северо-востоку (югу...) со скоростью... км/ч.The low (high) centred North (South...) of the Bahames is moving North-Eastward (South-Eastward...) at about 20 kmh and is deepening.
– Циклон (антициклон), расположенный севернее (южнее...) Багамских о-вов, смещается в северо-восточном (юго-восточном...) направлении со скоростью 20 км/ч углубляясь.The 300 hPa chart shows a trough lying North-East to South-West across the track.
– На карте 300 гПа поверхности прослеживается ложбина, пересекая маршрут с северо-востока на юго-запад.The trough is expected to remain in the present position for the next 12 hours.
– Предполагается, что положение ложбины сохранится на ближайшие 12 часов.The semi-permanent high (low) over the Baltic sea is bilding up.
– Квазистационарный антициклон (циклон) формируется над Балтийским морем.Weather along the route (section of the route) will be influenced by... Northern (Southern, Eastern...) periphery of deepening, (filling) cyclone (anticyclone, trough, crest, warm sector of the cyclone).
– Погода по маршруту (участку маршрута) обуславливается... северной (южной, восточной) периферией углубляющегося (заполняющегося) циклона (антициклона, ложбины, гребня, теплым сектором циклона).Weather conditions on the route... to... are therefore expected to be...
– Поэтому по маршруту... ожидаются метеоусловия...Flight in cold (warm, secondary cold, occluded) front zone.
– Полет в зоне холодного (теплого, вторичного холодного, окклюдированного) фронта.Flight along cold (warm...) front (cold front with waves).
– Полет вдоль холодного (теплого) фронта (холодного фронта с волнами).While crossing cold (warm...) front...
– При пересечении холодного (теплого...) фронта...Cold (warm...) front is displacing North (Northeast...) with the speed... kmh, to the East (West...).
– Холодный (теплый...) фронт смещается к северу (северо-востоку...) со скоростью... км/ч, на восток (запад...).An active warm front lying South-East to North-West along the coast of Norway at 12 UTC is moving East at 30 kmh. It is preceded by a narrow belt of heavy snow.
– Активный теплый фронт, пролегающий с юго-востока на северо-запад вдоль побережья Норвегии на 12 UTC, смещается на восток со скоростью 30 км/ч. Ему предшествует узкая зона сильного снегопада.Front is well expressed in temperature contrasts (wind regime, precipitation...).
– Фронт хорошо выражен в температурных контрастах (в ветровом режиме, осадках...).A cold (warm...) front is shown on 12 UTC surface chart.
– На приземной карте, за 12 UTC показан холодный (теплый...) фронт.It is recommended not to cross cold front zone, to go above clouds at a distance not less than 1000 m from CB.
– Рекомендуется не пересекать зону холодного фронта, идти над облаками на расстоянии не менее 1000 м от куч.-дождевых облаков.Warm (high warm) front is placed over Norway at 18 UTC.
– Теплый (высотный теплый) фронт расположен над Норвегией на 18 UTC.In connection with it, it is expected...
– В связи с этим ожидается...Scattered (broken, overcast) clouds (layers), embedded CB
– Рассеянная (значительная, сплошная) облачность (слой), маскированная куч.-дождеваяBase of cloud... km.
– Нижняя граница облачности... км.Top... km.
– Верхняя граница... км.CB top above... km.
– Верхняя границы куч.-дождевой облачности выше... км.Cloud base will be lowering to... m (km) (rapidly). Increasing cloud layers, (local) thunderstorm(s) (probability of thunderstorm, thunderstorm situation is shown on the charts as RISK &)
– Нижняя границы облачности понизится до... м (км) (быстро). Повышающаяся облачность, (местами) гроза(ы), (вероятность грозы, т.е. грозовое положение на картах RISK |^)Cb clouds with tops above 10 km and associated thunderstorms are expected to effect the route
– Предполагается по маршруту влияния куч.-дождевой облачности с верхней границей свыше 10 км и связанные с ней грозы.Light (moderate, severe) icing in cloud (precipitation).
– Слабое (умеренное, сильное) обледенение в облаках (осадках).Moderate (severe) turbulence in cloud (surface layer).
– Умеренная (сильная) турбулентность в облаках (приземном слое).(Orographic) Moderate (severe) clear air turbulence is expected North of... (the jet stream) at... km
– (Орографическая) умеренная (сильная) турбулентность в ясном небе ожидается к северу от... (оси струйного течения) на высоте... кмTo escape icing (turbulence) we advise you to choose flight level over... km.
– Чтобы избежать обледенения (турбулентности) рекомендуем выбрать высоту полета выше... км.Data from boards confirm presence of moderate (severe) icing (turbulence) in cloud.
– Бортовые данные подтверждают наличие умеренного (сильного) обледенения (турбулентности) в облаках.Radar (satellite) data confirm presence of thunderstorms, CB clouds.
– Радиолокационные (спутниковые) данные подтверждают наличие грозовых очагов, куч.-дождевой облачности.Displacing Northward (Southward...).
– Смещение к северу (югу...).Visibility... km (m) (in rain).
– Видимость... км (м) (в дожде). – Улучшение (ухудшение)The altitude of tropopause is... km
– Высота тропопаузы... кмSharp slope of tropopause is observed over area of...
– Резкий наклон тропопаузы наблюдается над районом...Upper wind and temperature, wind and temperature aloft
– Ветер и температура на высотеThe 500 hPa prognostic chart for 12 UTC indicates upper winds of 240 degrees 60 kilometres per hour with temperature minus 20 degrees Celsius
– По 500 гПа прогностической карте за 12 UTC высотный ветер 240° 60 км/ч и температура – 20° СWind direction... degrees (variable)
– Направление ветра... град (неустойчивое)Wind speed... kilometres per hour (metres per second if surface)
– Скорость ветра... км/ч (если приземный – м/сек)Wind speeds over the route Moscow – London are expected to increase (decrease) from... to... kmh
– Предполагается усиление (ослабление) ветра по маршруту Москва – Лондон от... до... км/ч – Изменение ветраIt is expected to remain in the present position for the next 12 hours
– Предполагается сохранение настоящего положения на последующие 12 часов – Максимальный ветерThe jet stream with winds 240 degrees and speed 200 kmh is expected at 12 km
– Струйное течение с ветром 240° 200 км/ч предполагается на высоте 12 км – Борты сообщают о сдвиге ветраAccording data from arriving (departing) aircrafts...
– Согласно данным прибывающих (вылетающих) воздушных судов...Information about observed (expected) existence of wind shear
– Информация о наблюдаемом (ожидаемом) сдвиге ветра(In this case) wind shear conditions are associated with thunderstorm (cold/warm front; strong surface wind; low level temperature inversion)
– (В этом случае) условия сдвига ветра связаны с грозой (холод ным/теплым фронтом; сильным приземным ветром; температурной инверсией в приземном слое)Wind shear could adversly affect aircraft on the takeoff path (in climb out) in layer from runway level to 500 metres
– Сдвиг ветра может оказать неблагоприятное воздействие на воздушное судно на взлете (при наборе высоты) в слое – уровень ВПП/500 м – Интенсивность сдвига ветраWind shear warning surface wind 320/10 wind at 60m 360/25 in approach
– Оповещения о сдвиге ветра – в зоне захода на посадку – приземный ветер 320/10, на высоте 60 м – 360/25B-707 reported moderate (strong, severe) wind shear in approach (while takeoff, in climbout) runway 34 at 15.10
– Б707 сообщает об умеренном (сильном, очень сильном) сдвиге ветра при подходе (на взлете, при наборе высоты) к ВПП 34 в 15.10Temperature between... and (minus)... degrees Celsius
– Температура... (м)... градусов ЦельсияZero isotherm is at the altitude of... km
– Нулевая изотерма на высоте... кмAt the beginning (end, in the middle, in the first half) of the route
– В начале (конце, в середине, в первой половине) маршрутаIt is displacing to the North (South...) Northward (Southward...)
– Смещается к северу (югу...), на север (юг...)Locally from... to...
– Местами от... до...At the altitude of... km
– На высоте... кмIn the layer from (between)... to (and)... km
– В слое... –... км (между)... – При посадке (взлете)The information depicted on high level (wind, temperature) charts should be grid points data
– Информация на высотных картах (ветер, температура) является данными в точках сеткиSatellite nephanalysis for 12 UTC today shows that...
– На основании данных нефанализа за 12 UTC настоящего дня видно, что... – Фактическая погода в пункте вылета (посадки)Runway visual range is... m
– Дальность видимости на ВПП –... мYour alternate is...
– Ваш запасной... – У вас есть вопросы?English-Russian aviation meteorology dictionary > phraseology of meteorological breefing/consultation
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United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea — For maritime law in general, see Admiralty law. United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea Logo of the Convention Signed December 10, 1982 Location Montego Bay, Jamaica Effective November 16, 1994[1] … Wikipedia
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Red Sea — The Red Sea is a salt water inlet of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb sound and the Gulf of Aden. In the north are the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf … Wikipedia