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watch [wɒt∫]1. nouna. (for telling time) montre f• to keep or be on watch faire le guet• to keep a close watch on or over sb/sth surveiller qn/qch de près• to set a watch on sth/sb faire surveiller qch/qn• to be on the watch for sb/sth guetter qn/qcha. [+ event, programme, TV, person] regarder ; [+ suspect, house, car] surveiller ; [+ birds, insects] observer ; [+ notice board, small ads] consulter régulièrement ; [+ political situation, developments] suivre de près• to watch sb do or doing sth regarder qn faire qch• it's about as exciting as watching grass grow or watching paint dry c'est ennuyeux comme la pluie• "watch this space" « à suivre »b. ( = take care of, keep an eye on) surveillerc. ( = be careful of, mind) faire attention à• watch that knife! (fais) attention avec ce couteau !• watch your head! attention à ta tête !• watch your language! surveille ton langage !• watch what you're doing! fais attention (à ce que tu fais) !• watch your step!• watch yourself! (fais) attention !• I must watch the time as I've got a train to catch il faut que je surveille l'heure car j'ai un train à prendre• watch it! (inf) attention !• to watch for sth/sb ( = wait for) guetter qch/qn4. compounds( = take care) faire attention• watch out! attention !* * *[wɒtʃ] 1.1) ( timepiece) montre fmy watch is slow/fast — ma montre retarde/avance
2) ( surveillance) gen, Military surveillance f (on sur)to keep (a) watch on somebody/something — lit, fig surveiller quelqu'un/quelque chose
to be on the watch for somebody/something — lit guetter quelqu'un/quelque chose; fig être à l'affût de quelqu'un/quelque chose
to set a watch on somebody/something — tenir quelqu'un/quelque chose à l'œil
tornado watch — Meteorology surveillance f des cyclones
3) Nautical ( time on duty) quart m2. 3.transitive verbthe match, watched by a huge crowd... — le match, suivi par une foule immense...
2) fig suivre [career, development]; surveiller [situation]we had to sit by and watch the collapse of all our hopes — nous avons dû assister impuissants à l'effondrement de tous nos espoirs
3) lit ( keep under surveillance) surveiller4) ( pay attention to) faire attention à [obstacle, dangerous object etc]; surveiller [language, manners, time, money, weight]watch it! — (colloq) fais gaffe! (colloq)
to watch one's step — lit, fig regarder où on met les pieds
watch your back! — (colloq) lit attention devant!; fig surveille tes arrières!
5) ( look after) garder4.1) ( look) regarderthey are watching to see what will happen next — ils attendent pour voir ce qui va se passer maintenant
2) (dated) ( keep vigil) veiller5.to watch oneself — lit se regarder; fig faire attention
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1. n часы2. n мор. корабельный хронометр3. n пристальное наблюдение; надзор; присмотрwatch and ward — строгое наблюдение; неусыпная бдительность
watch list — список, за которым ведется наблюдение
4. n высматриваниеto be on the watch for — подкарауливать, поджидать
5. n мор. вахтаstarboard watch — первая вахта; вахта правого борта
6. n мор. дежурствоto keep watch, to be on watch — нести вахту
7. n мор. шотл. наблюдательный пункт на горе; сторожевой холм8. n ист. стража; караул, дозор9. n ист. сторож; страж, часовой10. n ист. оклик или крик ночного дозора11. v наблюдать, следить12. v смотреть, наблюдать13. v стеречь, сторожить, караулить, охранять14. v поджидать, выжидать, ожидать; высматривать; подстерегать, подкарауливатьwatch for — выжидать; выждать
15. v быть начеку, настороже; проявлять осмотрительностьwatch out!, watch it! — осторожно!, будь осторожным!
16. v дежурить17. v редк. стоять на вахте; быть в карауле, дозоре18. v рел. часто бодрствоватьСинонимический ряд:1. attention (noun) alertness; attention; guard; lookout; look-out; picket; sentinel; sentry; tout; vigil; vigilance; wake; ward; watch and ward; watchman2. eye (noun) eagle eye; eye; surveillance; tab3. go (noun) bout; go; hitch; innings; shift; spell; stint; time; tour; trick; turn4. observation (noun) observance; observation; scrutiny5. timepiece (noun) chronometer; clock; timepiece; timer6. await (verb) await; expect; wait for7. eye (verb) eye; eyeball; look at; scrutinize; survey8. guard (verb) guard; patrol; police; protect9. mind (verb) attend; care for; chaperon; look after; mind; minister to; see to; tend10. observe (verb) concentrate; examine; inspect; look; observe; perceive; scrutinise; see -
83 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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I noun2) see academic.ru/29895/funfair">funfair3) (exhibition) Messe, dieII 1. adjectiveantiques/book/trade fair — Antiquitäten- / Buch- / Handelsmesse, die
1) (just) gerecht; begründet [Beschwerde, Annahme]; berechtigt [Frage]; fair [Spiel, Kampf, Prozess, Preis, Handel]; (representative) typisch, markant [Beispiel, Kostprobe]be fair with or to somebody — gerecht gegen jemanden od. zu jemandem sein
it's only fair to do something/for somebody to do something — es ist nur recht und billig, etwas zu tun/dass jemand etwas tut
that's not fair — das ist ungerecht od. unfair
fair enough! — (coll.) dagegen ist nichts einzuwenden; (OK) na gut
all's fair in love and war — in der Liebe und im Krieg ist alles erlaubt
fair play — Fairness, die
2) (not bad, pretty good) ganz gut [Bilanz, Vorstellung, Anzahl, Kenntnisse, Chance]; ziemlich [Maß, Geschwindigkeit]3) (favourable) schön [Wetter, Tag, Abend]; günstig [Wetterlage, Wind]; heiter [Wetter, Tag]2. adverb1) fair [kämpfen, spielen]; gerecht [behandeln]2) (coll.): (completely) völligthe sight fair took my breath away — der Anblick hat mir glatt (ugs.) den Atem verschlagen
3)3. nounfair and square — (honestly) offen und ehrlich; (accurately) voll, genau [schlagen, treffen]
fair's fair — (coll.) Gerechtigkeit muss sein
* * *I [feə] adjective1) (light-coloured; with light-coloured hair and skin: fair hair; Scandinavian people are often fair.) hell5) (quite big, long etc: a fair size.) ansehnlich6) (beautiful: a fair maiden.) hübsch•- fairness- fairly
- fair play II [feə] noun1) (a collection of entertainments that travels from town to town: She won a large doll at the fair.) der Jahrmarkt2) (a large market held at fixed times: A fair is held here every spring.) der Markt3) (an exhibition of goods from different countries, firms etc: a trade fair.) die Messe* * *fair1[feəʳ, AM fer]I. adjyou're not being \fair das ist unfairthe point she's making is a \fair one ihr Einwand ist berechtigtto be \fair, he didn't have much time zugegeben, er hatte nicht viel Zeit, er hatte zugegebenermaßen nicht viel Zeit[that's] \fair enough! ( fam: approved) na schön! fam, o.k.! fam; (agreed) dagegen ist nichts einzuwenden! fam\fair contest fairer Wettbewerb\fair dealing FIN geordneter Effektenhandel fachspr; of photocopies Zulässigkeit f der Vervielfältigung zum persönlichen Gebrauch fachspr\fair price annehmbarer [o fairer] Preis\fair question berechtigte Frage\fair wage angemessener Lohnit's only \fair that/to... es ist nur recht und billig, dass/zu...it's \fair to say that... man kann [wohl] sagen, dass...▪ to not be \fair on sb jdm gegenüber nicht fair sein2. (just, impartial) gerecht, fairyou're not being \fair das ist ungerecht [o unfair]a \fair deal/trial ein fairer Handel/Prozessa \fair hearing eine faire Anhörungto get one's \fair share seinen Anteil bekommen, bekommen, was einem zustehtto not get one's \fair share zu kurz kommenFred's had more than his \fair share of trouble Fred hat mehr als genug Ärger gehabt▪ to be \fair to/towards sb jdm gegenüber gerecht [o fair] sein, gerecht gegen jdn sein▪ to be \fair with sb gerecht [o fair] zu jdm sein, jdn gerecht [o fair] behandelnwe've had a \fair amount of rain es hat ziemlich viel geregnetthere's still a \fair bit of work to do es gibt noch einiges zu tuna \fair number of people ziemlich viele Leuteto be a \fair size/weight ziemlich groß/schwer seinshe's got a \fair chance of winning this year ihre Gewinnchancen stehen dieses Jahr ziemlich gutthere's a \fair prospect of... es sieht ganz so aus, als ob...to have a \fair idea that... sich dat ziemlich sicher sein, dass...to have a \fair complexion einen hellen Teint habento have \fair hair blond seineverything seems set \fair BRIT alles scheint gut zu laufenmirror, mirror on the wall, who is the \fairest of them all? Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand, wer ist die Schönste im ganzen Land?to sign a letter with one's own \fair hand einen Brief eigenhändig unterschreiben9.▶ to give sb a \fair crack of the whip [or AM also a \fair shake] ( fam) jdm eine faire Chance geben▶ by \fair means or foul koste es, was es wolle\fair dos, we've all paid the same money BRIT ( fam) gleiches Recht für alle, wir haben [immerhin] alle gleich viel bezahltII. adv1. (according to rules)to play \fair fair sein; SPORT fair spielen3.he made a \fair old mess of it er machte alles nur noch schlimmerthat machine makes a \fair old noise diese Maschine macht vielleicht einen LärmI told them \fair and square that... ich sagte ihnen klar und deutlich, dass...he hit me \fair and square on the nose er schlug mir voll auf die Nasefair2[feəʳ, AM fer]n1. (funfair) Jahrmarkt m, Rummelplatz m, Rummel m DIAL, BES NORDD, Messe f SCHWEIZ, Chilbi f SCHWEIZ famautumn \fair Herbstmesse fthe Bristol Antiques F\fair die Antiquitätenmesse von Bristola county/state \fair AM ein Markt in einem US-County/US-Bundesstaata local craft \fair ein Kunsthandwerkmarkt mthe Frankfurt [Book] F\fair die Frankfurter Buchmessetrade \fair Messe f* * *I [fɛə(r)]1. adj (+er)1) (= just) person, fight, game, player, competition, price fair (to or on sb jdm gegenüber, gegen jdn); trial, conclusion gerechthe tried to be fair to everybody — er versuchte, allen gegenüber gerecht zu sein or (give everybody their due) allen gerecht zu werden
that is a ( very) fair point or comment — das lässt sich (natürlich) nicht abstreiten
it wouldn't be fair to disturb the children's education — es wäre unfair, die Ausbildung der Kinder zu unterbrechen
it is fair to say that... — man kann wohl sagen, dass...
to be fair,... —
it's only fair for her to earn more than us — es ist doch nur gerecht or fair, dass sie mehr verdient als wir
it's only fair to ask him/to give him a hand — man sollte ihn fairerweise fragen/ihm fairerweise helfen
it's only fair to expect... — man kann doch wohl zu Recht erwarten,...
fair enough! — na schön or gut, in Ordnung
by fair means or foul — mit allen Mitteln, egal wie (inf)
2) (= quite considerable) sum ziemlich groß3) (= reasonable, shrewd) guess, assessment, idea ziemlich guthe's a fair judge of character —
I had a pretty fair idea of the answer to the question — ich wusste ziemlich genau, was die Antwort auf diese Frage war
I've a fair idea that he's going to resign — ich bin mir ziemlich sicher, dass er zurücktreten wird
it's a fair guess that he'll never agree — man kann ziemlich sicher annehmen, dass er nie zustimmen wird
that's a fair sample of... — das ist ziemlich typisch für...
4) (= average) mittelmäßigthe fair sex (dated, hum) — das schöne Geschlecht
2. adv1)to play fair — fair sein; (Sport) fair spielen
See:→ also fair play2)fair and square (win, lose) — ganz klar
IIit fair took my breath away — das hat mir glatt den Atem verschlagen
n(Jahr)markt m; (= funfair) Volksfest nt; (COMM) Messe f* * *fair1 [feə(r)]b) hellhäutig3. rein, sauber, makellos, unbescholten:fair name guter Ruf4. schön, gefällig:give sb fair words jemanden mit schönen Worten abspeisenset fair beständig6. rein, klar (Wasser, Luft)8. frei, offen, ungehindert (Aussicht etc):a) jagdbares Wild,b) fig Freiwild n;9. günstig, aussichtsreich, vielversprechend:11. anständig:b) ehrlich, offen, aufrichtig ( alle:with gegen)c) unparteiisch, gerecht:fair and square offen und ehrlich, anständig;by fair means auf ehrliche Weise;a) so oder so,b) mit allen Mitteln;be fair (Redew) fairerweise;that’s only fair das ist nur recht und billig;fair is fair Gerechtigkeit muss sein;fair competition WIRTSCH redlicher Wettbewerb;all’s fair in love and war (Sprichwort) im Krieg und in der Liebe ist alles erlaubt; → comment A 1 b, play A 3, warning A 112. leidlich, ziemlich oder einigermaßen gut:be a fair judge of ein ziemlich gutes Urteil abgeben können über (akk);fair business leidlich gute Geschäfte;13. angemessen (Lohn, Preis etc)14. typisch (Beispiel)15. berechtigt:fair question! gute Frage!B adv1. schön, gut, freundlich, höflich:speak sb fair jemandem schöne oder freundliche Worte sagen2. rein, sauber, leserlich:3. günstig (nur noch in):a) sich gut anlassen, zu Hoffnungen berechtigen,b) (gute) Aussicht haben, versprechen ( to be zu sein);bid fair to succeed gute Erfolgsaussichten haben;the wind sits fair SCHIFF der Wind ist günstig4. anständig, fair:play fair fair spielen, a. fig sich an die Spielregeln halten5. unparteiisch, gerecht6. aufrichtig, offen, ehrlich:fair and square offen und ehrlich7. auf gutem Fuß ( with mit):8. direkt, genau:fair in the face mitten ins Gesicht9. völlig:the question caught him fair off his guard die Frage traf ihn völlig unvorbereitet10. Aus ganz schön:C s obs Schönheit f (auch Frau)D v/t1. TECH glätten, zurichten:fair into einpassen in (akk)2. ein Flugzeug etc verkleidenfair2 [feə(r)] s1. a) Jahrmarkt mb) Volksfest n:at the fair auf dem Jahrmarkt;(a day) after the fair fig (einen Tag) zu spät2. Ausstellung f, Messe f:at the fair auf der Messe3. Basar m* * *I noun3) (exhibition) Messe, dieII 1. adjectiveantiques/book/trade fair — Antiquitäten- / Buch- / Handelsmesse, die
1) (just) gerecht; begründet [Beschwerde, Annahme]; berechtigt [Frage]; fair [Spiel, Kampf, Prozess, Preis, Handel]; (representative) typisch, markant [Beispiel, Kostprobe]be fair with or to somebody — gerecht gegen jemanden od. zu jemandem sein
it's only fair to do something/for somebody to do something — es ist nur recht und billig, etwas zu tun/dass jemand etwas tut
that's not fair — das ist ungerecht od. unfair
fair enough! — (coll.) dagegen ist nichts einzuwenden; (OK) na gut
fair play — Fairness, die
2) (not bad, pretty good) ganz gut [Bilanz, Vorstellung, Anzahl, Kenntnisse, Chance]; ziemlich [Maß, Geschwindigkeit]3) (favourable) schön [Wetter, Tag, Abend]; günstig [Wetterlage, Wind]; heiter [Wetter, Tag]4) (blond) blond [Haar, Person]; (not dark) hell [Teint, Haut]; hellhäutig [Person]2. adverb1) fair [kämpfen, spielen]; gerecht [behandeln]2) (coll.): (completely) völligthe sight fair took my breath away — der Anblick hat mir glatt (ugs.) den Atem verschlagen
3)3. nounfair and square — (honestly) offen und ehrlich; (accurately) voll, genau [schlagen, treffen]
fair's fair — (coll.) Gerechtigkeit muss sein
* * *adj.angemessen adj.blond adj.fair adj.gerecht adj.mittelmäßig adj.ordentlich adj.partnerschaftlich adj. n.Jahrmarkt m. -
85 keep
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1. past tense, past participle - kept; verb1) (to have for a very long or indefinite period of time: He gave me the picture to keep.) guardar2) (not to give or throw away; to preserve: I kept the most interesting books; Can you keep a secret?) guardar3) (to (cause to) remain in a certain state or position: I keep this gun loaded; How do you keep cool in this heat?; Will you keep me informed of what happens?) mantener, conservar4) (to go on (performing or repeating a certain action): He kept walking.) continuar, seguir5) (to have in store: I always keep a tin of baked beans for emergencies.) guardar6) (to look after or care for: She keeps the garden beautifully; I think they keep hens.) tener; cuidar (un jardín); criar, dedicarse a criar (animales)7) (to remain in good condition: That meat won't keep in this heat unless you put it in the fridge.) conservar8) (to make entries in (a diary, accounts etc): She keeps a diary to remind her of her appointments; He kept the accounts for the club.) tener; llevar (al día)9) (to hold back or delay: Sorry to keep you.) retener, entretener10) (to provide food, clothes, housing for (someone): He has a wife and child to keep.) mantener11) (to act in the way demanded by: She kept her promise.) cumplir12) (to celebrate: to keep Christmas.) celebrar
2. noun(food and lodging: She gives her mother money every week for her keep; Our cat really earns her keep - she kills all the mice in the house.) sustento- keeper- keeping
- keep-fit
- keepsake
- for keeps
- in keeping with
- keep away
- keep back
- keep one's distance
- keep down
- keep one's end up
- keep from
- keep going
- keep hold of
- keep house for
- keep house
- keep in
- keep in mind
- keep it up
- keep off
- keep on
- keep oneself to oneself
- keep out
- keep out of
- keep time
- keep to
- keep something to oneself
- keep to oneself
- keep up
- keep up with the Joneses
- keep watch
keep1 n manutenciónI earn my keep by looking after the house a cambio de comida y cobijo, vigilo la casakeep2 vb1. quedarse / guardarI'm only lending it to you, you can't keep it sólo te lo dejo prestado, no te lo puedes quedar2. guardar / tener3. entretener / retener4. quedarse / permanecerkeep quiet! ¡cállate!5. mantener6. seguir / continuar7. conservarse / durardon't stop, keep talking no pares, sigue hablandotr[kiːp]1 (board) sustento, mantenimiento1 (not throw away) guardar2 (not give back) quedarse con4 (look after, save) guardar■ can you keep me a loaf of bread for Friday? ¿me guarda una barra de pan para el viernes?5 (put away, store) guardar■ where do you keep the glasses? ¿dónde guardas los vasos?6 (reserve) reservar■ what kept you? ¿cómo es que llegas tan tarde?8 (shop, hotel etc) tener, llevar9 (have in stock) tener, vender■ I'm afraid we don't keep cigars lo siento, pero no vendemos puros10 (support) mantener■ I don't know how they manage to keep a family on their wage no sé cómo pueden mantener una familia con lo que ganan11 (animals) tener■ our eggs are really fresh, we keep our own hens nuestros huevos son fresquísimos, tenemos gallinas12 (promise) cumplir13 (secret) guardar■ can you keep a secret? ¿sabes guardar un secreto?14 (appointment) acudir a, no faltar a■ please 'phone if you are unable to keep your appointment por favor, llame si no puede acudir a la visita15 (order) mantener16 (tradition) observar17 (with adj, verb, etc) mantener1 (do repeatedly) no dejar de; (do continuously) seguir, continuar■ don't keep interrupting me! ¡deja de interrumpirme!2 (stay fresh) conservarse■ this food will keep for five days in the fridge esta comida se conserva durante cinco días en la nevera■ I've got some news for you, but it'll keep till tomorrow tengo algo que decirte, pero puede esperar hasta mañana3 (continue in direction) continuar, seguir■ keep left/right circula por la izquierda/derecha4 (with adj, verb etc) quedarse, permanecer■ keep still! ¡estáte quieto!\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLfor keeps para siemprehow are you keeping? ¿cómo estás?keep it up! ¡ánimo!keep the change quédese con la vueltato keep going seguir (adelante)to keep one's head no perder la cabezato keep quiet callarse, no hacer ruidoto keep somebody company hacerle compañía a alguiento keep somebody from doing something impedir que alguien haga algoto keep something from somebody ocultar algo a alguiento keep something clean conservar algo limpio,-ato keep something to oneself no decir algo, guardar algo para síto keep oneself to oneself ser discreto,-ayou can't keep a good man down los buenos siempre salen adelante1) : cumplir (la palabra a uno), acudir a (una cita)2) observe: observar (una fiesta)3) guard: guardar, cuidar4) continue: mantenerto keep silence: mantener silencio5) support: mantener (una familia)6) raise: criar (animales)7) : llevar, escribir (un diario, etc.)8) retain: guardar, conservar, quedarse con9) store: guardar10) detain: hacer quedar, detener11) preserve: guardarto keep a secret: guardar un secretokeep vi1) : conservarse (dícese de los alimentos)2) continue: seguir, no dejarhe keeps on pestering us: no deja de molestarnos3)to keep from : abstenerse deI couldn't keep from laughing: no podía contener la risakeep n1) tower: torreón m (de un castillo), torre f del homenaje2) sustenance: manutención f, sustento m3)for keeps : para siempren.• torre del homenaje (Arquitectura) s.f.v.(§ p.,p.p.: kept) = conservar v.• cuidar v.• custodiar v.• detener v.(§pres: -tengo, -tienes...-tenemos) pret: -tuv-fut/c: -tendr-•)• guardar v.• guarecer v.• mantener v.(§pres: -tengo, -tienes...-tenemos) pret: -tuv-fut/c: -tendr-•)• permanecer v.• preservar v.• sostener v.(§pres: -tengo, -tienes...-tenemos) pret: -tuv-fut/c: -tendr-•)kiːp
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1) ( living) sustento m, manutención ffor keeps: if they win the cup again, it's theirs for keeps — si vuelven a ganar la copa, se la quedan para siempre
2) (in castle, fortress) torre f del homenaje
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(past & past p kept) transitive verb1)a) ( not throw away) \<\<receipt/ticket\>\> guardar, conservar; ( not give back) quedarse con; ( not lose) conservaryou can keep your lousy job! — (colloq) se puede guardar su porquería de trabajo!
b) (look after, reserve)2) ( store) guardarwhere do you keep the coffee? — ¿dónde guardas or tienes el café?
3) ( reserve for future use) guardar, dejar4)a) ( raise) \<\<pigs/bees\>\> criar*b) (manage, run) \<\<stall/guesthouse\>\> tener*5)a) ( support) mantener*b) ( maintain)she keeps a diary — escribe or lleva un diario
I've kept a note o record of everything — he tomado nota de todo, lo tengo todo anotado
6)a) (cause to remain, continue) mantener*to keep somebody/something + -ing: to keep somebody guessing tener* a algn en ascuas; he kept the engine running — mantuvo el motor en marcha
b) ( detain)what kept you? — ¿por qué tardaste?, ¿qué te retuvo?
they kept her in hospital — la dejaron ingresada or (CS, Méx tb) internada
7) (adhere to, fulfil) \<\<promise/vow\>\> cumplir8) (observe, celebrate) celebrar; ( Relig) guardar
2.
keep vi1) ( remain) mantenerse*to keep fit — mantenerse* en forma
to keep awake — mantenerse* despierto, no dormirse*
can't you keep quiet? — ¿no te puedes estar callado?
keep still! — estáte quieto! or quédate quieto!
2)a) ( continue) seguir*keep left/right — siga por la izquierda/derecha
to keep -ing — seguir* + ger
b) ( repeatedly)he keeps interfering — está continuamente entrometiéndose, no deja de entrometerse
I keep forgetting to bring it — nunca me acuerdo or siempre me olvido de traerlo
3)a) \<\<food\>\> conservarse (fresco)b) \<\<news/matter\>\> esperarI have something to tell you - will it keep till later? — tengo algo que decirte - ¿puede esperar a más tarde?
c) ( be in certain state of health) (colloq)how are you keeping? — ¿qué tal estás? (fam)
•Phrasal Verbs:- keep at- keep in- keep off- keep on- keep out- keep to- keep up[kiːp] (vb: pt, pp kept)1. TRANSITIVE VERBWhen keep is part of a set combination, eg to keep an appointment. to keep a promise, to keep one's seat, look up the noun.1) (=retain) [+ change, copy] quedarse con; [+ receipt] guardar; [+ business, customer, colour] conservaryou can keep the change — quédese con la vuelta or (LAm) el vuelto
is this jacket worth keeping? — ¿merece la pena guardar esta chaqueta?
he is to keep his job in spite of the incident — va a mantener or conservar el trabajo a pesar del incidente
this material will keep its colour/softness — este material conservará su color/suavidad
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to keep sth for o.s. — quedarse con algo2) (=save, put aside) guardar, reservarI'm keeping this wine in case we have visitors — voy a guardar or reservar este vino por si tenemos visitas
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I was keeping it for you — lo guardaba para ti3) (=have ready)where do you keep the sugar? — ¿dónde guardas el azúcar?
5) (=house)the prisoners were kept in a dark room — los prisioneros estaban encerrados en una habitación oscura
6) (=detain) tenerhe was kept in hospital over night — lo tuvieron una noche en el hospital, le hicieron pasar la noche en el hospital
7) (=delay) entretenerwhat kept you? — ¿por qué te has retrasado?
8) (=have) [+ shop, hotel, house, servant] tener; [+ pigs, bees, chickens] criar9) (=stock) tener10) (=support) [+ family, mistress] mantenerto keep o.s. — mantenerse
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the extra money keeps me in beer and cigarettes — el dinero extra me da para (comprar) cerveza y cigarrillosour garden keeps us in vegetables all summer — el huerto nos da suficientes verduras para todo el verano
11) (=fulfil, observe) [+ promise, agreement, obligation] cumplir; [+ law, rule] observar; [+ appointment] acudir a, ir a; [+ feast day] observar12) (=not divulge)•
to keep sth from sb — ocultar algo a algn•
keep it to yourself * — no se lo digas a nadiebut he kept the news to himself — pero se guardó la noticia, pero no comunicó la noticia a nadie
13) (=maintain)a) [+ accounts] llevar; [+ diary] escribirb) with adjective mantener; (less formal) tenerto keep o.s. clean — no ensuciarse, mantenerse limpio
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to keep inflation as low as possible — mantener la inflación tan baja como sea posible•
to keep sth safe — guardar algo bien, guardar algo en un lugar segurofixed 1., 3), happy 1., 3), post I, 2., 4)•
the garden is well kept — el jardín está muy bien cuidadoc) + -inggo 1., 24)keep him talking while I... — entretenlo hablando mientras yo...
14) (=hold)•
to keep sb at it — obligar a algn a seguir trabajandocounsel 1., 1)•
I'll keep you to your promise — haré que cumplas tu promesa15) (=prevent)•
to keep sb from doing sth — impedir que algn haga algowhat can we do to keep it from happening again — ¿qué podemos hacer para evitar que se repita?
to keep o.s. from doing sth — contener las ganas de hacer algo, aguantarse de hacer algo *
16) (=guard, protect) † guardarGod keep you! — ¡Dios te guarde!
17)to keep o.s. to o.s. — guardar las distancias
2. INTRANSITIVE VERB1) (=remain)•
it will keep fresh for weeks — se conservará fresco durante semanasb) with preposition/adverb2)to keep doing sth —
a) (=continue) seguir haciendo algokeep smiling! * — ¡no te desanimes!
keep going! — ¡no pares!
b) (=do repeatedly) no hacer más que hacer algo3) (in directions) (=continue) seguirto keep straight on — seguir todo recto or derecho
keep due north until you come to... — siga en dirección norte hasta que llegue a...
4) (=not go off) [food] conservarse fresco, conservarse bien5) * (=wait) esperarhow are you keeping? — ¿qué tal (estás)? (Sp) *, ¿como or qué tal te va? *, ¿cómo sigues? (LAm) *, ¿qué hubo? (Mex, Chile) *
she's keeping better — está mejor, se encuentra mejor
7) (=avoid)3. NOUN1) (=livelihood, food)I got £30 a week and my keep — me daban 30 libras a la semana y comida y cama
I pay £50 a week for my keep — la pensión me cuesta 50 libras a la semana
to earn one's keep — ganarse el sustento; (fig) justificar el gasto
2) (Archit) torreón m, torre f del homenaje3) (=permanently)- keep at- keep in- keep off- keep on- keep out- keep to- keep up* * *[kiːp]
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1) ( living) sustento m, manutención ffor keeps: if they win the cup again, it's theirs for keeps — si vuelven a ganar la copa, se la quedan para siempre
2) (in castle, fortress) torre f del homenaje
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(past & past p kept) transitive verb1)a) ( not throw away) \<\<receipt/ticket\>\> guardar, conservar; ( not give back) quedarse con; ( not lose) conservaryou can keep your lousy job! — (colloq) se puede guardar su porquería de trabajo!
b) (look after, reserve)2) ( store) guardarwhere do you keep the coffee? — ¿dónde guardas or tienes el café?
3) ( reserve for future use) guardar, dejar4)a) ( raise) \<\<pigs/bees\>\> criar*b) (manage, run) \<\<stall/guesthouse\>\> tener*5)a) ( support) mantener*b) ( maintain)she keeps a diary — escribe or lleva un diario
I've kept a note o record of everything — he tomado nota de todo, lo tengo todo anotado
6)a) (cause to remain, continue) mantener*to keep somebody/something + -ing: to keep somebody guessing tener* a algn en ascuas; he kept the engine running — mantuvo el motor en marcha
b) ( detain)what kept you? — ¿por qué tardaste?, ¿qué te retuvo?
they kept her in hospital — la dejaron ingresada or (CS, Méx tb) internada
7) (adhere to, fulfil) \<\<promise/vow\>\> cumplir8) (observe, celebrate) celebrar; ( Relig) guardar
2.
keep vi1) ( remain) mantenerse*to keep fit — mantenerse* en forma
to keep awake — mantenerse* despierto, no dormirse*
can't you keep quiet? — ¿no te puedes estar callado?
keep still! — estáte quieto! or quédate quieto!
2)a) ( continue) seguir*keep left/right — siga por la izquierda/derecha
to keep -ing — seguir* + ger
b) ( repeatedly)he keeps interfering — está continuamente entrometiéndose, no deja de entrometerse
I keep forgetting to bring it — nunca me acuerdo or siempre me olvido de traerlo
3)a) \<\<food\>\> conservarse (fresco)b) \<\<news/matter\>\> esperarI have something to tell you - will it keep till later? — tengo algo que decirte - ¿puede esperar a más tarde?
c) ( be in certain state of health) (colloq)how are you keeping? — ¿qué tal estás? (fam)
•Phrasal Verbs:- keep at- keep in- keep off- keep on- keep out- keep to- keep up -
86 eye
1. n глаз, окоeye specialist — окулист, офтальмолог, врач по глазным болезням, «глазник»
2. n чаще взгляд, взорto arrest the eye — остановить взор; заставить взглянуть на себя
a slink of the eye — взгляд, брошенный искоса
3. n взгляды, мнение, воззрение; суждениеI look upon the problem with a different eye — я иначе смотрю на этот вопрос, я не разделяю такого взгляда на этот вопрос
4. n зрение5. n вкус; пониманиеto keep an eye on — глаз не спускать с, следить за
6. n план, замыселto have an eye to — иметь на примете ; не упускать из виду
with an eye to — с видами на, в расчёте на, с целью; для того чтобы
7. n глазомерeye sketch — глазомерная съёмка; определение расстояния на глаз
eye in mourning — синяк под глазом, подбитый глаз
8. n центр; средоточиеthe eye of day — дневное светило, солнце, «небесное око»
the eye of Greece — око Греции, Афины
9. n глазок; смотровое окошко10. n тех. ушко11. n петелька12. n колечко13. n ноздря, глазоксыщик, детектив
14. n сл. экран телевизора15. n тех. проушина; глазок; коуш16. n мор. рым17. n горн. устье шахты18. v разглядывать; рассматривать; взирать19. v держать под наблюдением, следить, не спускать глазСинонимический ряд:1. core (noun) center; centre; core; crux; focus; heart; hub; middle; midpoint; nucleus2. eagle eye (noun) eagle eye; scrutiny; tab; watch3. guard (noun) guard; surveillance; vigilance4. lamp (noun) lamp; ocular; oculus; orb; peeper; winker5. loop (noun) loop; ring; staple6. observation (noun) appreciation; attention; discrimination; judgment; observation; perception; taste7. opinion (noun) belief; conviction; feeling; mind; opinion; persuasion; sentiment; view8. organ of sight (noun) compound eye; eye speck; eyeball; instrument of vision; lenspiece; optic receiver; organ of sight; simple eye9. seeing (noun) eyesight; seeing; sight; vision10. thick (noun) midst; thick11. eyeball (verb) eyeball; scrutinize12. gawk (verb) gawk; ogle; stare at13. gaze (verb) gape; gaze; glare; goggle; look; peer; rubberneck14. look (verb) consider; contemplate; gaze upon; look; look upon; regard; view15. stare (verb) blink; get an eyeful; glance; look over; peek at; stare16. watch (verb) look at; observe; survey; watchАнтонимический ряд:ignore; periphery -
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[wo ] 1. noun1) (a small instrument for telling the time by, worn on the wrist or carried in the pocket of a waistcoat etc: He wears a gold watch; a wrist-watch.) relógio2) (a period of standing guard during the night: I'll take the watch from two o'clock till six.) vigília3) (in the navy etc, a group of officers and men who are on duty at a given time: The night watch come(s) on duty soon.) turno2. verb1) (to look at (someone or something): He was watching her carefully; He is watching television.) ver2) (to keep a lookout (for): They've gone to watch for the ship coming in; Could you watch for the postman?) esperar3) (to be careful of (someone or something): Watch (that) you don't fall off!; Watch him! He's dangerous.) prestar atenção4) (to guard or take care of: Watch the prisoner and make sure he doesn't escape; Please watch the baby while I go shopping.) vigiar5) (to wait for (a chance, opportunity etc): Watch your chance, and then run.) esperar•- watcher- watchful
- watchfully
- watchfulness
- watchdog
- watchmaker
- watchman
- watchtower
- watchword
- keep watch
- watch one's step
- watch out
- watch over* * *[wɔtʃ] n 1 cuidado, atenção. 2 guarda, vigilância, atalaia. we set a watch upon him / nós vigiamo-lo. 3 guarda, vigia. he is on the watch / ele está de espreita, atento, vigilante. 4 Hist sentinela. 5 período ou tempo de vigilância. 6 veladura, vigília, ato de estar acordado. this life passes away as a watch in the night / esta vida passa depressa como uma noite de vigília. 7 relógio de bolso ou de pulso. 8 Naut quarto: a) período em que parte da tripulação está de serviço ou prontidão (geralmente de quatro horas). b) o grupo que está a serviço ou de prontidão no mesmo período. • vt+vi 1 olhar atentamente, assistir a (jogo, televisão, etc.). 2 estar atento, ter cuidado, prestar atenção. 3 vigiar, observar. 4 ficar de vigília, velar, ficar acordado. 5 guardar, velar ou zelar por, cuidar de. 6 ficar de espreita, espreitar. 7 estar de sentinela. 8 acompanhar (acontecimento). 9 esperar. he watched his opportunity / ele esperou, aproveitou a sua oportunidade. they cannot watch their time / eles não sabem esperar a sua hora. I’d watch it! isto é o que eu queria ver! isto é o que faltava! stop watch cronômetro. to be on the watch for someone esperar alguém de tocaia, de espreita. they were on the watch for him / eles esperaram-no de tocaia. to keep a close watch manter rigorosa vigilância. to keep a watch on someone manter alguém em observação, vigiar alguém. to put one’s watch on/ back adiantar/atrasar o relógio. to watch in ficar acordado para comemorar o Ano-Novo. to watch one’s step agir com cautela. to watch out estar alerta, atento. to watch out for a) estar observando e esperando por alguém ou alguma coisa. b) tomar cuidado com. to watch over zelar por, guardar. watch and ward vigilância contínua. watch what you’re doing! preste atenção no que você está fazendo!watch your mouth! cuidado com o que você diz! watch yourself! cuidado! watch your step! atenção! (degrau, etc.). -
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1. preposition1) (next to; near; at the side of: by the door; He sat by his sister.) junto a2) (past: going by the house.) (por) delante3) (through; along; across: We came by the main road.) por4) (used (in the passive voice) to show the person or thing which performs an action: struck by a stone.) por5) (using: He's going to contact us by letter; We travelled by train.) por, en6) (from; through the means of: I met her by chance; by post.) por7) ((of time) not later than: by 6 o'clock.) para8) (during the time of.) de9) (to the extent of: taller by ten centimetres.) de, por10) (used to give measurements etc: 4 metres by 2 metres.) por11) (in quantities of: fruit sold by the kilo.) por12) (in respect of: a teacher by profession.) de
2. adverb1) (near: They stood by and watched.) al lado (de)2) (past: A dog ran by.) por ahí3) (aside; away: money put by for an emergency.) apartado•- bypass
3. verb(to avoid (a place) by taking such a road.) desviar- bystander
- by and by
- by and large
- by oneself
- by the way
by1 advby expresa la idea de pasar cerca, pero sin detenersehe saw me, but he passed by without saying a word me vio, pero pasó sin decirme ni una palabraby2 prep1. porhe was attacked by a dog fue atacado por un perro / un perro lo atacó2. junto a / al lado deshe sat by me se sentó a mi lado / se sentó junto a mí3. de4. en5. para6. a7. concan I pay by credit card? ¿puedo pagar con tarjeta?8. a base debytr[baɪ]1 (agent) por2 (means) por■ by air/road por avión/carretera3 (showing difference) por4 (not later than) para5 (during) de■ by day/night de día/noche6 (near) junto a, al lado de7 (according to) según8 (measurements) por9 (rate) por10 SMALLMATHEMATICS/SMALL por11 (progression) a12 (in sets) en1 al lado, delante\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLto go by pasar delanteby and by con el tiempoby the by a propósitoby oneself solo,-aby ['baɪ] adv1) near: cercahe lives close by: vive muy cerca2)to stop by : pasar por casa, hacer una visita3)to go by : pasarthey rushed by: pasaron corriendo4)to put by : reservar, poner a un lado5)by and by : poco después, dentro de poco6)by and large : en generalby prep1) near: cerca de, al lado de, junto a2) via: porshe left by the door: salió por la puerta3) past: por, por delante dethey walked by him: pasaron por delante de él4) during: de, duranteby night: de nochewe'll be there by ten: estaremos allí para las diezby then: para entoncesbuilt by the Romans: construido por los romanosa book by Borges: un libro de Borgesmade by hand: hecho a manobyadv.• a un lado adv.• aparte adv.prep.• al lado de prep.• de prep.• de acuerdo con prep.• para prep.• por prep.• según prep.
I baɪ1)a) ( not later than)will it be ready by 5? — ¿estará listo para las 5?
by the time he arrived, Ann had left — cuando llegó, Ann se había ido
b) (during, at)by day/night — de día/noche
2)a) (at the side of, near to) al lado de, junto acome and sit by me — ven a sentarte a mi lado or junto a mí
b) ( to hand) (AmE)3)a) ( past)I said hello, but he walked right by me — lo saludé pero él pasó de largo
b) (via, through) porby land/sea/air — por tierra/mar/avión
4) (indicating agent, cause) (with passive verbs) por [The passive voice is, however, less common in Spanish than it is in English]she was brought up by her grandmother — la crió su abuela, fue criada por su abuela
5)a) (indicating means, method)to pay by credit card — pagar* con tarjeta de crédito
to navigate by the stars — guiarse* por las estrellas
by -ing: you won't get anywhere by shouting no vas a conseguir nada con gritar; I'll begin by introducing myself — empezaré por presentarme
b) (owing to, from)he had two children by his second wife — tuvo dos hijos con or de su segunda mujer
by -ing: by specializing, she has limited her options al especializarse, ha restringido sus posibilidades; they have lost public support by being too extreme — han perdido apoyo popular por ser demasiado extremistas
6)a) ( according to)by the look of things — por lo visto or al parecer
b) (in oaths)I swear by Almighty God... — juro por Dios Todopoderoso...
by God, you'll be sorry you said that! — te juro que te vas a arrepentir de haber dicho eso
7)a) ( indicating rate) porshe broke the record by several seconds — batió el récord en or por varios segundos
little by little — poco a poco, de a poco (CS)
8) ( Math) pordivide six by three — divide seis por or entre tres
9) ( in compass directions)10)by oneself — (alone, without assistance) solo
I need to be by myself — necesito estar solo or a solas
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a) ( past)b) (aside, in reserve)c) ( to somebody's residence)call o stop by on your way to work — pasa por casa de camino al trabajo
d) (in phrases)[baɪ] When by is the second element in a phrasal verb, eg go by, stand by, look up the verb. When it is part of a set combination, eg by chance, by degrees, by half, look up the other word.by and by: by and by they came to the clearing al poco rato llegaron al claro; it's going to rain by and by va a llover dentro de poco; by and large por lo general, en general; by the by — see bye I
1. PREPOSITION1) (=close to) al lado de, junto athe house by the church — la casa que está al lado de or junto a la iglesia
come and sit by me — ven y siéntate a mi lado or junto a mí
"where's the bank?" - "it's by the post office" — -¿dónde está el banco? -está al lado de or junto a la oficina de correos
2) (=via) porhe came in by the back door/by the window — entró por la puerta de atrás/por la ventana
which route did you come by? — ¿por dónde or por qué camino or por qué ruta viniste?
3) (=past) por delante de4) (=during)by day he's a bank clerk and by night he's a security guard — de día es un empleado de banco y de noche es guarda de seguridad
a) (=not later than) paracan you finish it by tomorrow? — ¿puedes terminarlo para mañana?
I'll be back by midnight — estaré de vuelta antes de or para la medianoche
applications must be submitted by 21 April — las solicitudes deben presentarse antes del 21 de abril
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by the time I got there it was too late — cuando llegué ya era demasiado tarde•
by that time or by then I knew — para entonces ya lo sabíab) (in year, on date, on day)by tomorrow/Tuesday, I'll be in France — mañana/el martes ya estaré en Francia
by yesterday it was clear that... — ayer ya se veía claro que...
by 30 September we had spent £500 — a 30 de septiembre habíamos gastado 500 libras
by 1998 the figure had reached... — en 1998 la cifra había llegado a...
by 2010 the figure will have reached... — hacia el año 2010 la cifra habrá llegado a...
it seems to be getting bigger by the minute/day — parece que va creciendo minuto a minuto/día a día
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little by little — poco a poco•
one by one — uno tras otro, uno a uno•
two by two — de dos en dos7) (indicating agent, cause) porthe thieves were caught by the police — los ladrones fueron capturados por la policía, la policía capturó a los ladrones
who's that song by? — ¿de quién es esa canción?
8) (indicating transport, method etc)•
by bus/ car — en autobús/coche•
by the light of the moon/a candle — a la luz de la luna/de una velaby working hard — a fuerza de mucho trabajar, trabajando mucho
he ended by saying that... — terminó diciendo que...
10) (=according to) segúnit's all right by me — por mí no hay problema or está bien
she's lighter than her brother by only a couple of pounds — pesa solo un par de libras menos que su hermano
it missed me by inches — no me dio por un pelo, me pasó rozando
12) (in measurements, sums)•
to divide by — dividir por or entre•
to multiply by — multiplicar por13)south by southwest — sudsudoeste, sursuroeste
15) (in oaths) por2. ADVERB1) (=past)•
they wouldn't let me by — no me dejaban pasar•
she rushed by without stopping — pasó a toda prisa, sin pararse•
by and by, I'll be with you by and by — enseguida estoy contigo•
by and large — en general, por lo general•
to put sth by — poner algo a un lado* * *
I [baɪ]1)a) ( not later than)will it be ready by 5? — ¿estará listo para las 5?
by the time he arrived, Ann had left — cuando llegó, Ann se había ido
b) (during, at)by day/night — de día/noche
2)a) (at the side of, near to) al lado de, junto acome and sit by me — ven a sentarte a mi lado or junto a mí
b) ( to hand) (AmE)3)a) ( past)I said hello, but he walked right by me — lo saludé pero él pasó de largo
b) (via, through) porby land/sea/air — por tierra/mar/avión
4) (indicating agent, cause) (with passive verbs) por [The passive voice is, however, less common in Spanish than it is in English]she was brought up by her grandmother — la crió su abuela, fue criada por su abuela
5)a) (indicating means, method)to travel by car/train — viajar en coche/tren
to pay by credit card — pagar* con tarjeta de crédito
to navigate by the stars — guiarse* por las estrellas
by -ing: you won't get anywhere by shouting no vas a conseguir nada con gritar; I'll begin by introducing myself — empezaré por presentarme
b) (owing to, from)he had two children by his second wife — tuvo dos hijos con or de su segunda mujer
by -ing: by specializing, she has limited her options al especializarse, ha restringido sus posibilidades; they have lost public support by being too extreme — han perdido apoyo popular por ser demasiado extremistas
6)a) ( according to)by the look of things — por lo visto or al parecer
b) (in oaths)I swear by Almighty God... — juro por Dios Todopoderoso...
by God, you'll be sorry you said that! — te juro que te vas a arrepentir de haber dicho eso
7)a) ( indicating rate) porshe broke the record by several seconds — batió el récord en or por varios segundos
little by little — poco a poco, de a poco (CS)
8) ( Math) pordivide six by three — divide seis por or entre tres
9) ( in compass directions)10)by oneself — (alone, without assistance) solo
I need to be by myself — necesito estar solo or a solas
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a) ( past)b) (aside, in reserve)c) ( to somebody's residence)call o stop by on your way to work — pasa por casa de camino al trabajo
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89 relief
I 1. [rɪ'liːf]1) (from pain, distress) sollievo m.2) (help) aiuto m., soccorso m.to come to the relief of sb. — venire in aiuto o in soccorso di qcn.
tax relief agevolazione o sgravio fiscale; to be on relief — AE percepire un sussidio statale
3) (diversion) divertimento m., distrazione f.4) mil. (of garrison, troops) liberazione f., soccorso m.5) (replacement on duty) cambio m.6) dir. (of grievance) riparazione f.2.modificatore [ operation] di soccorso; [programme, project] di aiuti; [bus, train] supplementareII [rɪ'liːf]nome art. arch. geogr. rilievo m.to throw sth. into relief — mettere qcs. in rilievo
* * *[rə'li:f]1) (a lessening or stopping of pain, worry, boredom etc: When one has a headache, an aspirin brings relief; He gave a sigh of relief; It was a great relief to find nothing had been stolen.) sollievo2) (help (eg food) given to people in need of it: famine relief; ( also adjective) A relief fund has been set up to send supplies to the refugees.) aiuto, soccorso3) (a person who takes over some job or task from another person, usually after a given period of time: The bus-driver was waiting for his relief; ( also adjective) a relief driver.) sostituto4) (the act of freeing a town etc from siege: the relief of Mafeking.) liberazione5) (a way of carving etc in which the design is raised above the level of its background: a carving in relief.) rilievo•- relieve- relieved* * *I 1. [rɪ'liːf]1) (from pain, distress) sollievo m.2) (help) aiuto m., soccorso m.to come to the relief of sb. — venire in aiuto o in soccorso di qcn.
tax relief agevolazione o sgravio fiscale; to be on relief — AE percepire un sussidio statale
3) (diversion) divertimento m., distrazione f.4) mil. (of garrison, troops) liberazione f., soccorso m.5) (replacement on duty) cambio m.6) dir. (of grievance) riparazione f.2.modificatore [ operation] di soccorso; [programme, project] di aiuti; [bus, train] supplementareII [rɪ'liːf]nome art. arch. geogr. rilievo m.to throw sth. into relief — mettere qcs. in rilievo
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90 stand
1. n стойка; подставка, подпорка; штатив, консоль2. n столик3. n ларёк, киоск4. n прилавок5. n стенд, установка для испытания6. n буфетная стойка7. n эстрада8. n зрители на трибунахstand by — быть безучастным зрителем, не вмешиваться
9. n кафедра, трибуна10. n амер. юр. место для дачи свидетельских показаний в суде11. n место, позиция, положениеstand down — уступать, отступаться; освобождать место
stand ground — удержать позиции; проявить твердость
12. n позиция, установка, точка зренияto take a definite stand on the question of civil rights — занять определённую позицию в вопросе о гражданских правах
13. n боевая позиция; оборона, защита14. n спорт. стояние, стойка15. n стоянка16. n воен. постостановка, пауза
17. n театр. город, где даются гастроли18. n театр. недоумение, смущение, затруднение; дилемма19. n театр. воен. комплект20. n театр. охот. выводок21. n театр. с. -х. урожай на корню22. n с. -х. подрост23. n с. -х. травостой, стеблестой24. n тех. станина25. n тех. клеть26. n тех. реакт. пусковой ствол27. n тех. стойло28. v стоятьthe hill whereon we stand — холм, на котором мы стоим
29. v вставать30. v находиться, быть расположеннымstand about — стоять, находиться
to stand first — быть первым; быть в первых рядах
31. v занимать положениеthe thermometer stood at 0° — термометр показывал 0°
32. v ставить, помещать33. v поставить34. v не двигаться, стоять на местеto stand straight — стоять прямо, не горбиться
stand in the way — мешать; стоять на пути
35. v останавливаться, прекращать движение36. v не работать, простаивать, стоятьto stand buff — стоять, держаться
37. v быть устойчивым, прочным, крепким38. v быть стойким, держатьсяto stand to it — твёрдо настаивать на том, что …
39. v выдерживать, выносить, переноситьstand up — выдерживать; устоять
40. v подвергаться41. v выносить, терпеть, мириться42. v обыкн. юр. оставаться в силе, действовать; сохранять силу, тождествоto stand good — иметь силу, оставаться в силе
stand off — держаться на расстоянии; оставаться в стороне
43. v придерживаться определённой точки зрения, занимать определённую позицию44. v настаиватьto stand on ceremony — соблюдать условности, придерживаться этикета
to stand upon punctilios — настаивать на мелочах, придерживаться мелочных формальностей
45. v основываться46. v зависеть47. v быть написанным, напечатанным48. v иметь определённое количество стоячих мест49. v мор. идти, держать курс, направлятьсяstand for — поддерживать; твердо держаться
50. v охот. делать стойку51. v иметь в перспективеto stand or fall — уцелеть или погибнуть;
52. v с. -х. быть производителем; быть пригодным для случкиСинонимический ряд:1. blind (noun) blind2. booth (noun) booth; case; counter; stall; table3. defensive (noun) defensive; effort; hold; resistance4. grove (noun) copse; crop; forest; grove; growth; wood5. platform (noun) dais; gantry; grandstand; platform; podium; pulpit; stage6. poise (noun) place; poise; pose; post; spot; station7. position (noun) attitude; belief; color; determination; notion; opinion; position; posture; sentiment; stance; view; viewpoint8. bear (verb) abide; accept; bear; brook; continue; digest; endure; go; hold; lump; outlast; stick out; stomach; suffer; survive; sustain; swallow; sweat out; take; tolerate; undergo; weather9. erect (verb) erect; fix; place; position; put; set10. get up (verb) get up; rise11. oppose (verb) compete; confront; encounter; face; meet; oppose; resist; withstand12. stand for (verb) advocate; champion; endorse; represent; stand for; support; symbolize13. treat (verb) blow; set up; treatАнтонимический ряд:fade; fail; fall; lay; lie; move; oppose; proceed; progress; retreat; run; succumb; yield -
91 order
A n1 ( logical arrangement) ordre m ; a sense of order un sens de l'ordre ; it's in the natural order of things c'est dans l'ordre naturel des choses ; to produce order out of chaos produire de l'ordre à partir du désordre ; to put ou set sth in order mettre qch en ordre [affairs] ; to set ou put one's life in order remettre de l'ordre dans sa vie ;2 ( sequence) ordre m ; to be in alphabetical/chronological order être dans l'ordre alphabétique/chronologique ; to put sth in order classer [files, record cards] ; to put the names in alphabetical order mettre les noms par ordre alphabétique ; in order of priority par ordre de priorité ; in ascending/descending order dans l'ordre croissant/décroissant ; in the right/wrong order dans le bon/mauvais ordre ; to be out of order [files, records] être en désordre, être mélangé ;3 (discipline, control) ordre m ; to restore order rétablir l'ordre ; to keep order [police, government] maintenir l'ordre ; [teacher] maintenir la discipline ; ⇒ law and order, public order ;5 ( command) ordre m, consigne f (to do de faire) ; to give/issue an order donner/lancer un ordre ; to carry out an order exécuter un ordre ; to give an order for the crowd to disperse donner à la foule l'ordre de se disperser ; to be under sb's orders être sous les ordres de qn ; to have ou to be under orders to do avoir (l')ordre de faire ; my orders are to guard the door j'ai l'ordre de surveiller l'entrée ; I have orders not to let anybody through j'ai ordre de ne laisser passer personne ; to take orders from sb recevoir des ordres de qn ; they take their orders from Paris ils reçoivent leurs ordres de Paris ; I won't take orders from you je ne suis pas à vos ordres ; he won't take orders from anybody il ne supporte pas que quiconque lui donne des ordres ; on the orders of the General sur les ordres du Général ; to act on sb's order agir sur l'ordre de qn ; that's an order! c'est un ordre! ; orders are orders les ordres sont les ordres ; until further orders jusqu'à nouvel ordre ;6 Comm ( request to supply) commande f (for de) ; ( in restaurant) commande f (of de) ; to place an order passer une commande ; to put in ou place an order for sth commander qch ; to place an order with sb for sth commander qch à qn ; a grocery order une commande d'épicerie ; a telephone order une commande par téléphone ; a rush/repeat order une commande urgente/renouvelée ; the books are on order les livres ont été commandés ; made to order fait sur commande ; cash with order payable à la commande ;7 ( operational state) to be in good/perfect order être en bon/parfait état ; in working ou running order en état de marche ; to be out of order [phone line] être en dérangement ; [lift, machine] être en panne ;8 ( correct procedure) to call the meeting to order déclarer la séance ouverte ; order! order! un peu de silence, s'il vous plaît! ; to call sb to order rappeler qn à l'ordre ; to be in order [documents, paperwork] être en règle ; the Honourable member is perfectly in order GB Pol Monsieur le député n'enfreint aucunement les règles ; the Speaker ruled the question out of order le Président de l'Assemblée a déclaré que cela était contraire à la procédure ; it is perfectly in order for him to refuse to pay il a tout à fait le droit de refuser de payer ; would it be out of order for me to phone her at home? est-ce que ce serait déplacé de lui téléphoner chez elle? ; your remark was way out of order ta remarque était tout à fait déplacée ; you're well ou way out of order ○ tu dépasses les bornes ; I hear that congratulations are in order il paraît que ça se fait de féliciter ; a toast would seem to be in order il me semble qu'un toast serait le bienvenu ; the order of the day Mil, Pol l'ordre du jour ; economy is the order of the day fig l'économie est à l'ordre du jour ;9 ( taxonomic group) ordre m ;11 (rank, scale) craftsmen of the highest order des artisans de premier ordre ; investment of this order is very welcome les investissements de cet ordre sont tout à fait souhaitables ; talent of this order is rare un tel talent est rare ; the higher/lower orders les classes supérieures/inférieures ; of the order of 15% GB, in the order of 15% US de l'ordre de 15% ;12 Jur ( decree) ordre m ; an order of the Court un ordre du tribunal ; by order of the Minister par ordre du ministre ;13 Fin pay to the order of T. Williams (on cheque, draft) payer à l'ordre de T. Williams ; ⇒ banker's order, money order, postal order, standing order ;14 ( on Stock Exchange) ordre m (de Bourse) ; buying/selling order ordre m d'achat/de vente ; limit order ordre m (à cours) limité ; stop order ordre m stop ;15 GB (honorary association, title) ordre m (of de) ; she was awarded the Order of the Garter on lui a conféré l'Ordre de la Jarretière ;16 Archit ordre m ;17 Mil ( formation) ordre m ; ( clothing) tenue f ; battle order ordre m de bataille ; close order ordre m serré ; short-sleeve order tenue f d'été.B orders npl Relig ordres mpl ; major/minor orders les ordres majeurs/mineurs ; to be in Holy order être dans les ordres ; to take Holy orders entrer dans les ordres.C in order that conj phr ( with the same subject) afin de (+ infinitive), pour (+ infinitive) ; ( with different subjects) afin que (+ subj), pour que (+ subj) ; I've come in order that I might help you je suis venu pour t'aider ; he brought the proofs in order that I might check them il a apporté les épreuves pour que je puisse les vérifier.D in order to prep phr pour (+ infinitive), afin de (+ infinitive) ; he came in order to talk to me il est venu pour me parler ; I'll leave in order not to disturb you je partirai pour ne pas te déranger.E vtr1 ( command) ordonner [inquiry, retrial, investigation] ; to order sb to do ordonner à qn de faire ; to order the closure/delivery of sth ordonner la fermeture/livraison de qch ; to order sb home/to bed donner à qn l'ordre de rentrer chez lui/d'aller se coucher ; to order sth to be done donner l'ordre de faire qch ; to order that sth be done ordonner que qch soit fait ; the council ordered the building to be demolished le conseil municipal a ordonné la démolition de ce bâtiment ; the soldiers were ordered to disembark les soldats ont reçu l'ordre de débarquer ; ‘keep quiet,’ she ordered ‘taisez-vous,’ a-t-elle ordonné ;3 ( arrange) organiser [affairs] ; classer [files, cards] ; mettre [qch] dans l'ordre [names, dates].F vi [diner, customer] commander.in short order tout de suite.■ order about, order around:▶ order [sb] around donner des ordres à qn ; he loves ordering people around il adore donner des ordres ; you've got no right to order me around je n'ai pas d'ordre à recevoir de vous.▶ order [sb] off [referee] expulser [player] ; to order sb off ordonner à qn de quitter [land, grass].■ order out:▶ order [sb] out -
92 spark
[spɑːk] I 1. сущ.1)а) искраspark guard — амер. каминная решётка
to emit / produce a spark — испускать искры
the spark that set off the war — искра, от которой разгорелась война
Syn:sparkle 1.б) физ. электрическая искра, искровой разрядSyn:2) ( a spark of) вспышка, проблеск (чувства и т. п.)If you had a spark of honesty / courage / decency — Если бы у тебя было хоть немного честности, мужества, порядочности
Even Oliver felt a tiny spark of excitement. — Даже Оливер почувствовал лёгкое волнение.
Syn:3) ( Sparks) употр. с гл. в ед.; воен.; жарг. радистSyn:••- divine spark
- spark of diamond
- diamond spark
- strike sparks off each other
- strike sparks off one another
- get a spark up 2. гл.1)а) искритьсяб) тех. искрить; давать искры, искровой разрядSyn:sparkle 2.2) = spark off воспламенять, зажигать; вызыватьA dropped cigarette might have sparked the fire. — Пожар, возможно, вспыхнул из-за небрежно брошенной сигареты.
Some hot ash fell into the box of matches, and sparked off the whole lot. — Горячий пепел попал в спичечный коробок, и все спички вспыхнули.
What was it that sparked your interest in motoring? — Что пробудило твой интерес к автомобильному делу?
It would not take more than one careless remark to spark off violence in the crowd. — Достаточно одного небрежного замечания, чтобы вызвать негодование толпы.
Syn:••II 1. сущ.; уст.1) щёголь, франтSyn:2) кавалер, поклонник, возлюбленныйto play the spark — ухаживать (за кем-л.)
Syn:2. гл.; амер.; разг.He used to go sparkin' round among the girls. — Он околачивался возле девушек, ухаживая за ними.
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93 post
1. n спорт. столб2. n шест, кол, вехаnithing post — кол, вбитый в знак презрения
3. n тех. стр. стойка; подкос, подпорка4. n тех. стр. мачта, свая; надолба; колонка5. n тех. стр. мор. ахтерштевень6. n тех. стр. горн. целик угля или руды7. n тех. стр. геол. мелкозернистый песчаник8. n тех. стр. спец. штырь9. n тех. стр. внешняя дорожка10. n тех. стр. эл. клемма11. v вывешивать, расклеивать12. v обклеивать плакатами, афишами13. v вывешивать списки студентов, не выдержавших экзаменов14. v амер. спорт. записывать счёт15. n почтовое отделение; почтовая контора16. n почтовый ящикpost office — почтовое отделение; почта
17. n почта, корреспонденция18. n ист. почтовая карета или дилижанс19. n ист. почтовый пароход20. n ист. почтовая станция21. n ист. ист. кучер почтовой кареты22. n ист. уст. диал. почтальон23. n ист. курьер24. n ист. формат бумагиlarge post 4 vo — формат писчей бумаги,3Х25,4 см
large post 8 vo — формат писчей бумаги,7Х20,3 см
extra large post — формат писчей бумаги 45?57,1 см
large post 4 vo — формат писчей бумаги 20,3?25,4 см
large post 8 vo — формат писчей бумаги 12,7?20,3 см
25. n ист. вид игры в жмурки, в которой по возгласу « » играющие меняются местами26. n ист. вчт. извещение27. adv ист. на почтовых или на курьерских лошадях28. adv спешно, стремительно29. v отправлять по почте; опускать в почтовый ящик30. v ехать на почтовых, на перекладных31. v подпрыгивать, подскакивать в седле32. v мчаться, спешить33. v обыкн. извещать, давать информацию34. v бухг. переносить в гроссбух35. v бухг. заносить в бухгалтерскую книгу36. v бухг. делать проводку, осуществлять разноску по счетамholding the post — занимающий пост; нахождение на посту
defended post — обороняемая позиция, обороняемый пост
ministerial post — министерский пост, пост министра
37. n пост, должность; положение38. n воен. позиция39. n воен. укреплённый узел, форт40. n воен. огневая точка41. n воен. амер. пункт42. n воен. амер. воен. гарнизон; постоянная стоянка43. n воен. торговое поселениеtrading post — фактория, торговый пост
44. n воен. тех. пульт управления45. n воен. ж. -д. блокпост46. n воен. амер. отделение организации ветеранов войны47. n воен. амер. бирж. место торговли определённым видом акций48. n воен. положение центрового игрока49. v часто pass ставить, расставлять50. v часто pass воен. выставлять караул51. v часто pass воен. назначать на должность52. v часто pass воен. мор. прикомандировать53. n воен. сигнал на горнеshe grasped the post with her hands for fear of falling — боясь упасть, она крепко держалась за столб обеими руками
Синонимический ряд:1. column (noun) column; mast; pillar; pole; prop; support; upright2. embassy (noun) delegation; embassy; legation; ministry; mission3. job (noun) appointment; berth; billet; connection; job; office; place; situation; spot4. picket (noun) picket; shaft; stake; stud5. position (noun) assignment; base; beat; position; posting; round; station; task6. affix (verb) affix; circulate; hang up7. announce (verb) advertise; announce; publicise; publicize8. enter (verb) enter; insert; record; register; slate9. inform (verb) acquaint; advise; apprise; clew; clue; fill in; inform; notify; tell; warn; wise up10. placard (verb) placard; poster11. put (verb) bet; gamble; game; lay; lay down; play; put; stake; wager12. score (verb) notch; score; tally13. set (verb) assign; place; set; stationАнтонимический ряд: -
94 service
1. n услужениеdomestic service — домашняя работа, обязанности слуги
to be in service — быть слугой, служить
2. n работаlength of service — стаж работы; срок службы
3. n рабочий стаж, срок службы4. n государственная служба5. n учреждение6. n службаrailway service, service of trains — железнодорожное сообщение
7. n обслуживание, сервис8. n сфера услуг; обслуживание населения; служба быта, сервисservice workers — работники, занятые в сфере обслуживания
9. n библиотечное обслуживание10. n военная службаactive service, service with the colours — действительная военная служба
11. n воен. вид вооружённых сил; род войскthe three services — the army, the navy, the aviation — три рода войск: сухопутные войска, военно-морской флот и военно-воздушные силы
12. n услуга, одолжение; помощь13. n заслугаdistinguished service order — орден "За боевые заслуги"
14. n сервиз15. n прибор16. n церк. богослужение, службаmemorial service — заупокойная служба, панихида
17. n юр. исполнение постановления суда; вручение; судебное извещениеservice of warrant — вручение судебного приказа, ордера
18. n с. -х. случка19. n мор. клетневание20. n тех. эксплуатация21. a военный; относящийся к вооружённым силамservice test — испытания в войсках, войсковые испытания
service troops — войска обслуживания; тыловые части и подразделения
22. a служебный23. a повседневный; прочный, ноский24. a обслуживающийservice trades — профессии, относящиеся к сфере обслуживания
25. v обслуживать26. v производить осмотр и текущий ремонт27. v заправлять28. n бот. рябина домашняяСинонимический ряд:1. action (noun) action; combat2. agency (noun) agency; bureau; commission; department3. aid (noun) aid; assistance; attendance; cooperation; help; ministration; usefulness; value4. armed forces (noun) armed forces; military5. army (noun) army; duty; stint6. benefit (noun) benefit; utility; wear7. effort (noun) effort; labor8. favor (noun) courtesy; dispensation; favor; favour; grace; indulgence; kindness9. rite (noun) ceremonial; ceremony; formality; liturgy; observance; rite; ritual; sermon; worship10. tableware (noun) china; set; setting; silver; tableware11. use (noun) account; advantage; applicability; application; appropriateness; avail; employment; fitness; relevance; serviceability; use; utilisation12. maintain (verb) maintain; preserve; repair; sustain -
95 sight
A n1 ( faculty) vue f ; to have good/poor sight avoir une bonne/mauvaise vue ; her sight is failing elle perd la vue ;2 ( act of seeing) vue f ; at first sight à première vue ; at the sight of à la vue de [blood, uniform, luxury, injustice] ; at the sight of her en la voyant ; she felt misgivings at the sight en voyant cela, elle fut saisie d'un doute ; this was my first sight of c'était la première fois que je voyais ; to have sight of Jur voir [correspondence, will, document] ; to catch sight of sb/sth apercevoir qn/qch ; to lose sight of sb/sth lit, fig perdre qn/qch de vue ; we mustn't lose sight of the fact that fig nous ne devons pas perdre de vue que ; to know sb by sight connaître qn de vue ; to shoot sb on sight tirer à vue sur qn ; I took a dislike to him on sight je l'ai détesté dès que je l'ai vu ; I can't stand the sight of him! je ne peux pas le voir (en peinture)! ;3 ( range of vision) to be in sight [town, land, border] être en vue ; [peace, victory, freedom, new era] être proche ; the end/our goal is in sight! on approche de la fin/du but! ; there's no solution in sight on n'a pas encore trouvé de solution ; the war goes on with no end in sight la guerre continue sans aucun espoir de paix ; there wasn't a soldier/boat in sight il n'y avait pas un soldat/bateau en vue ; in the sight of God sout devant Dieu ; to come into sight apparaître ; to be out of sight ( hidden) être caché ; ( having moved) ne plus être visible ; to do sth out of sight of faire qch sans être vu par [observer, guard] ; to keep ou stay out of sight rester caché ; to keep sb/sth out of sight cacher qn/qch ; don't let her out of your sight! ne la quitte pas des yeux! ;4 ( thing seen) spectacle m ; a familiar/sorry sight un spectacle familier/triste ; a sight to behold un spectacle à voir ; it was not a pretty sight! iron ce n'était pas beau à voir! ;5 ( a shock to see) ( place) porcherie f ; ( person) you're a sight! tu n'es pas présentable! ; I look such a sight je ne suis pas présentable ; she looked a sight in that hat elle avait une de ces allures avec ce chapeau.1 ( places worth seeing) attractions fpl touristiques (of de) ; to see the sights visiter ; to show sb the sights faire visiter à qn ; the sights and sounds of a place l'ambiance d'un lieu ;2 (on rifle, telescope) viseur m ;3 fig to have sth in one's sights avoir qch dans la mire ; to have sb in one's sights avoir qn dans le collimateur ○ ; to set one's sights on sth viser qch ; to set one's sights too high viser trop haut ; to raise/lower one's sights viser plus haut/plus bas ; to have one's sights firmly fixed on sth se fixer qch pour but.C vtr apercevoir [land, plane, ship, rare bird] ; to sight a gun ( aiming) viser ; ( adjusting) régler le viseur de son fusil. -
96 mission
( боевая) задача, ( военная) миссия; вылет; полет; стрельба; огневая задача; предназначение; общая задача; задача части [соединения] ( пункт боевого приказа); см. тж. tasktroop carrier (combat) mission — ав. задача по переброске войск
US mission, Berlin — американская (военная) миссия в Западном Берлине
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97 fix
fix [fɪks]fixer ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (b) s'occuper ⇒ 1 (c), 1 (d) préparer ⇒ 1 (e) arranger ⇒ 1 (f) pétrin ⇒ 2 (a) dose ⇒ 2 (b)(a) (fasten in position → mirror, sign) fixer; (attention, gaze) fixer; (something in mind) inscrire, graver;∎ to fix a post in the ground enfoncer un poteau dans le sol;∎ Military fix bayonets! baïonnettes aux canons!;∎ to fix the blame on sb attribuer ou imputer la faute à qn;∎ to fix one's hopes on sb/sth mettre tous ses espoirs en qn/qch∎ nothing has been fixed yet rien n'a encore été fixé;∎ have you (got) anything fixed for Friday? as-tu quelque chose de prévu pour vendredi?(c) (arrange, sort out) s'occuper de;∎ I'll fix it je vais m'en occuper;∎ try to fix it so you don't have to stay overnight essaye de t'arranger pour que tu ne sois pas obligé de passer la nuit là-bas;∎ I'll fix it with your teacher j'arrangerai cela avec ton professeur;∎ I've fixed it for them to come tomorrow je me suis arrangé pour qu'ils viennent demain∎ I'll fix him je vais m'occuper de lui, je vais lui régler son compte;∎ that'll fix him ça devrait lui régler son compte∎ can I fix you a drink? puis-je te servir un verre?□∎ to fix one's hair se coiffer□ ; (redo) se recoiffer□(g) (mend, repair → car, puncture etc) réparer;∎ I've been meaning to get that fixed for ages ça fait une éternité que j'ai l'intention de faire réparer ça(h) familiar (rig → race, fight, election, result) truquer; (set up → interview) arranger□ ; (bribe → jury, official, security guard etc) acheter∎ he's fixing to go on holiday (planning) il a prévu de partir en vacances; (determined) il est résolu à partir en vacances2 noun∎ to be in a fix être dans une mauvaise passe;∎ to get into/out of a fix se mettre dans une/sortir d'une mauvaise passe;∎ you've put me in a bit of a fix tu me mets dans l'embarras;∎ I'm in a bit of a fix financially j'ai quelques difficultés financières□∎ to give oneself a fix prendre un fix, se piquer;∎ humorous to get one's fix of coffee/news avoir sa dose de café/d'informations∎ to get a fix on (ship) déterminer la position de; figurative (get clear idea of) se faire une idée de∎ the result was a fix le résultat avait été truqué➲ fix on(attach) fixer(decide on → date, candidate) choisir➲ fix up(a) (install, erect) mettre en place, installer∎ it's all fixed up c'est une affaire réglée, tout est arrangé;∎ fix me up with an appointment with the dentist prends-moi un rendez-vous chez le dentiste;∎ he'll try to fix something up for us il va essayer de nous arranger quelque chose;∎ have you got anything fixed up for this evening? as-tu quelque chose de prévu pour ce soir?;∎ have you got fixed up for your holidays? est-ce que tu t'es organisé pour tes vacances?;∎ I've managed to fix him up with some work j'ai réussi à lui trouver du travail;∎ they fixed me up in a hotel ils m'ont pris une chambre dans un hôtel;∎ you can stay here until you get fixed up (with a place to stay) tu peux loger ici jusqu'à ce que tu trouves un endroit où habiter;∎ to fix sb up with a date trouver un/une partenaire à qn∎ we could always fix the smallest bedroom up as a study on pourrait toujours transformer la plus petite chambre en bureau;∎ you should fix yourself up a bit tu devrais t'arranger un peus'arranger pour que + subjunctive;∎ I've fixed up for us to see the flat tomorrow je me suis arrangé pour que nous visitions l'appartement demain;∎ I've already fixed up to go out tonight j'ai déjà prévu de sortir ce soir -
98 RCS
1) Военный термин: Remote Collection System, Royal Corps of Signals, Rudder Control System, radar calibration sphere, radar collimator system, radar cross section, radio command system, radio communications set, radio communications subcommittee, range control station, range coordination section, reaction control system, rearward communications system, refurbishment cost study, regimental conduct sheet, reliability control standard, reliable corrective-action summary, remote control set, remote control station, remote control system, report control symbol, representative conflict situations, riot control system, ЭПР (radar cross section), эффективная площадь рассеяния2) Техника: Rayleigh channel simulator, radar control ship, radar countermeasures, radio communication service, reliability, costs, schedule, remote control switches3) Юридический термин: Really Contrived Story4) Автомобильный термин: Служба строительства дорог (Road Construction Services)5) Грубое выражение: Really Crappy Support6) Телекоммуникации: Radio Cluster Server, Real Communication Solution7) Сокращение: Radar Cross-Section, Reply Card Scanning (PLANET code based future system), Revenue Cutter Service (predecessor to the U.S. Coast Guard), Robot Containerization Systems (developed by ABB), Royal College of Science, Royal College of Surgeons8) Университет: Rensselaer Computing System9) Школьное выражение: Rockford Christian School10) Вычислительная техника: reloadable control storage, Remote Connection Service (IBM, OS/2, LAN), Reaction Control System (Space), Revision Control System (Unix, CM, GNU)11) Нефть: надёжность, стоимость, календарный план (reliability, costs, schedule)12) Иммунология: rabbit aorta contracting substance13) Картография: radio communication station14) Упаковка: жёсткая упаковка15) Фирменный знак: Residence And Catering Services, Roof Consulting Services, Inc.16) Образование: Reading Consultation And Study17) Сетевые технологии: Remote Cache Server, Resource Construction Set, Resource Control System, Revision Control System, remote control software, программа дистанционного управления, система контроля за новыми редакциями документов18) Автоматика: real-time control system19) Химическое оружие: Remote Characterization System20) Расширение файла: Records Communications Switching System, Revision Control System (Unix)21) Нефть и газ: песок, покрытый смолой ( родовое название соответствующих марок проппантов, или расклинивающих агентов для гидроразрыва пласта) (сокр. от Resin-Coated Sand)22) Электротехника: reactor coolant system23) NYSE. RCM Strategic Global Government Fund, Inc.24) НАСА: Reaction Control Sub-system -
99 RCs
1) Военный термин: Remote Collection System, Royal Corps of Signals, Rudder Control System, radar calibration sphere, radar collimator system, radar cross section, radio command system, radio communications set, radio communications subcommittee, range control station, range coordination section, reaction control system, rearward communications system, refurbishment cost study, regimental conduct sheet, reliability control standard, reliable corrective-action summary, remote control set, remote control station, remote control system, report control symbol, representative conflict situations, riot control system, ЭПР (radar cross section), эффективная площадь рассеяния2) Техника: Rayleigh channel simulator, radar control ship, radar countermeasures, radio communication service, reliability, costs, schedule, remote control switches3) Юридический термин: Really Contrived Story4) Автомобильный термин: Служба строительства дорог (Road Construction Services)5) Грубое выражение: Really Crappy Support6) Телекоммуникации: Radio Cluster Server, Real Communication Solution7) Сокращение: Radar Cross-Section, Reply Card Scanning (PLANET code based future system), Revenue Cutter Service (predecessor to the U.S. Coast Guard), Robot Containerization Systems (developed by ABB), Royal College of Science, Royal College of Surgeons8) Университет: Rensselaer Computing System9) Школьное выражение: Rockford Christian School10) Вычислительная техника: reloadable control storage, Remote Connection Service (IBM, OS/2, LAN), Reaction Control System (Space), Revision Control System (Unix, CM, GNU)11) Нефть: надёжность, стоимость, календарный план (reliability, costs, schedule)12) Иммунология: rabbit aorta contracting substance13) Картография: radio communication station14) Упаковка: жёсткая упаковка15) Фирменный знак: Residence And Catering Services, Roof Consulting Services, Inc.16) Образование: Reading Consultation And Study17) Сетевые технологии: Remote Cache Server, Resource Construction Set, Resource Control System, Revision Control System, remote control software, программа дистанционного управления, система контроля за новыми редакциями документов18) Автоматика: real-time control system19) Химическое оружие: Remote Characterization System20) Расширение файла: Records Communications Switching System, Revision Control System (Unix)21) Нефть и газ: песок, покрытый смолой ( родовое название соответствующих марок проппантов, или расклинивающих агентов для гидроразрыва пласта) (сокр. от Resin-Coated Sand)22) Электротехника: reactor coolant system23) NYSE. RCM Strategic Global Government Fund, Inc.24) НАСА: Reaction Control Sub-system -
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1) Военный термин: Remote Collection System, Royal Corps of Signals, Rudder Control System, radar calibration sphere, radar collimator system, radar cross section, radio command system, radio communications set, radio communications subcommittee, range control station, range coordination section, reaction control system, rearward communications system, refurbishment cost study, regimental conduct sheet, reliability control standard, reliable corrective-action summary, remote control set, remote control station, remote control system, report control symbol, representative conflict situations, riot control system, ЭПР (radar cross section), эффективная площадь рассеяния2) Техника: Rayleigh channel simulator, radar control ship, radar countermeasures, radio communication service, reliability, costs, schedule, remote control switches3) Юридический термин: Really Contrived Story4) Автомобильный термин: Служба строительства дорог (Road Construction Services)5) Грубое выражение: Really Crappy Support6) Телекоммуникации: Radio Cluster Server, Real Communication Solution7) Сокращение: Radar Cross-Section, Reply Card Scanning (PLANET code based future system), Revenue Cutter Service (predecessor to the U.S. Coast Guard), Robot Containerization Systems (developed by ABB), Royal College of Science, Royal College of Surgeons8) Университет: Rensselaer Computing System9) Школьное выражение: Rockford Christian School10) Вычислительная техника: reloadable control storage, Remote Connection Service (IBM, OS/2, LAN), Reaction Control System (Space), Revision Control System (Unix, CM, GNU)11) Нефть: надёжность, стоимость, календарный план (reliability, costs, schedule)12) Иммунология: rabbit aorta contracting substance13) Картография: radio communication station14) Упаковка: жёсткая упаковка15) Фирменный знак: Residence And Catering Services, Roof Consulting Services, Inc.16) Образование: Reading Consultation And Study17) Сетевые технологии: Remote Cache Server, Resource Construction Set, Resource Control System, Revision Control System, remote control software, программа дистанционного управления, система контроля за новыми редакциями документов18) Автоматика: real-time control system19) Химическое оружие: Remote Characterization System20) Расширение файла: Records Communications Switching System, Revision Control System (Unix)21) Нефть и газ: песок, покрытый смолой ( родовое название соответствующих марок проппантов, или расклинивающих агентов для гидроразрыва пласта) (сокр. от Resin-Coated Sand)22) Электротехника: reactor coolant system23) NYSE. RCM Strategic Global Government Fund, Inc.24) НАСА: Reaction Control Sub-system
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