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strung out

  • 1 string out

    to stretch into a long line:

    The runners were strung out along the course.

    يَمْتَد في صَفٍّ طَويل

    Arabic-English dictionary > string out

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  • 3 нареждам

    (слагам в ред) put/set in order
    нареждам в редици line up
    нареждам масата set (out) the table
    нареждам по азбучен ред arrange in alphabetical order
    нареждам храна на масата set out a table with food
    нареждам дърва stack wood
    нареждам по височина line up in order of height
    поднос, на който са наредени чаши a tray set out with glasses
    нареждам си книгите/къщата/работите arrange o.'s books/house/affairs
    нареждам стая furnish a room; tidy a room, put a room in order
    нареждам хора на банкет/манифестация marshall persons at a banquet/in a procession
    нареждам войници в бойни редици line up
    войниците бяха наредени по пътя the soldiers were strung out along the road
    нареждам пасианс play patience
    нареждам си картите sort o.'s cards
    сам нареждам живота си make o.'s own life
    нареждам витрина dress/arrange a shop-window
    нареждам фигури на шах set up the board
    нареждам декори set the stage
    вж. нареден
    2. (давам нареждане, заповядвам) order, direct (s.o. to do s.th.); give orders/instructions (for s.th. to be done, that s.th. should be done); give the word to s.o.; arrange, order, decree (s.th, to be done, that s.th. should be done); have s.th. done
    3. (уреждам) arrange, make arrangements
    наредих някой да я придружи I have arranged for s.o. to escort her, I have arranged that s.o. should escort her
    нареждам среща make an appointment
    нареждам работата fix things up
    хубаво сте я наредили ирон. you've made a nice mess of it all
    нареждам децата си в живота settle o.'s children
    ще я наредим някак we'll fix it up somehow
    кой както я нареди some get on and some don't
    4. (заплашително-наказвам, отмъщавам) fix
    аз (хубаво) ще те наредя (тебе) I'll fix you, I'll settle you, I'll settle your hash, !'Ii cook your goose for you
    хубаво ме нареди you've landed me in a nice fix
    5. (плача, оплаквам) lament
    6. (в къща и пр.) settle (in), establish/fix o.s.
    нареждам се в първите редици на join the first ranks of
    нареждам се на опашката take o.'s place in the queue
    нареждаме се на опашка form a queue, queue up
    нареждам се на първо място rank first
    8. (подреждам си живота, работите)
    нареждам се в живота rise in the world, climb up the social ladder
    нареждам се на работа find a situation (for o.s.), get a job
    той винаги се нарежда he always gets the best of everything
    кой както се нареди some get on and some don't
    9. (уреждам се) get fixed up
    работите се нареждат добре things are turning out all right
    всичко ще се нареди everything will be all right, everything is going to be all right, everything will be Ok, things will come right
    10. прен. (попадам в затруднено положение) get o.s. in a mess/fix/pickle; be in a tight corner, be in hot water, be in a fine pickle
    добре се наредихме we're in a fine predicament; we're in for it now; here's a pretty go
    хубаво си се наредил a nice mess/fix/pickle you've got yourself in
    * * *
    нарѐждам,
    гл.
    1. ( подреждам) arrange; ( слагам в ред) put/set in order; (за показ) lay out; ( войски в боен ред ­ разполагам) draw out, draw up; войниците бяха наредени по пътя the soldiers were strung out along the road; \нареждам в редици line up; \нареждам витрина dress/arrange a shop-window; \нареждам войници в бойни редици line up; \нареждам декори set the stage; \нареждам дърва stack wood; \нареждам масата set (out) the table with food; \нареждам пасианс play patience; \нареждам по азбучен ред arrange in alphabetical order; \нареждам по височина line up in order of height; \нареждам си картите sort o.’s cards; \нареждам си книгите/къщата/работите arrange o.’s books/house/affairs; \нареждам стая furnish a room; tidy a room, put a room in order; \нареждам фигури на шах set up the board; сам \нареждам живота си make o.’s own life;
    2. ( давам нареждане, заповядвам) order, direct (s.o. to do s.th.); give orders/instructions (for s.th. to be done, that s.th. should be done); give the word to s.o.; arrange, order, decree s.th. to be done/that s.th. should be done; have s.th. done;
    3. ( уреждам) arrange (to do s.th.; that s.th. should be done), make arrangements; кой както я нареди some get on and some don’t; \нареждам децата си в живота settle o.’s children; \нареждам работата fix things up; той нареди всичките си роднини на хубави служби he found good jobs for all his relatives; хубаво сте я наредили ирон. you’ve made a nice mess of it all; ще я наредим някак we’ll fix it up somehow;
    4. ( заплашително ­ наказвам, отмъщавам) fix; аз (хубаво) ще те наредя (тебе) I’ll fix you, I’ll settle you, I’ll settle your hash, I’ll cook your goose for you; хубаво ме нареди you’ve landed me in a nice fix;
    \нареждам се 1. (в къща и пр.) settle (in), establish/fix o.s.;
    2. ( подреждам се) line up; draw up (in a line); войниците се наредиха в боен ред the troops drew up in order of battle; \нареждам се в първите редици на join the first ranks of; \нареждам се на опашката take o.’s place in the queue; \нареждам се на първо място rank first; нареждаме се на опашка form a queue, queue up;
    3. ( подреждам си живота, работите); добре сте се наредили ( добре сте си уредили живота) you’ve fixed yourselves up very nicely; кой както се нареди some get on and some don’t; наредил се е в живота he is a made man; \нареждам се в живота rise in the world, climb up the social ladder; той винаги се нарежда he always gets the best of everything;
    4. ( уреждам се) get fixed up; всичко се нареди много добре за него it worked out very well for him; всичко ще се нареди everything will be all right, everything is going to be all right, everything will be OK, things will come right; работите се нареждат добре things are turning out all right;
    5. прен. ( попадам в затруднено положение) get o.s. in a mess/fix/pickle; be in a tight corner, be in hot water, be in a fine pickle; добре се наредихме we’re in a fine predicament; we’re in for it now; here’s a pretty go; хубаво си се наредил a nice mess/fix/pickle you’ve got yourself in.
    * * *
    make; arrange: I'll нареждам the flowers. - Ще наредя цветята.; bid; collocate; direct{di'rekt}; dress: нареждам a shop- window - нареждам витрина; enjoin; graduate; neaten{ni;txn}; ordain; pose{pouz}; stow; trim; wangle
    * * *
    1. (в къща и пр.) settle (in), establish/fix o.s. 2. (войски в боен ред - разполагам) draw out, craw up 3. (давам нареждане, заповядвам) order, direct (s.o. to do s.th.);give orders/instructions (for s.th. to be done, that s.th. should be done);give the word to s.o.;arrange, order, decree (s.th, to be done, that s.th. should be done);have s.th. done 4. (за показ) lay out 5. (заплашително - наказвам, отмъщавам) fix 6. (плача, оплаквам) lament 7. (подреждам се) line up;draw up (in a line) 8. (подреждам си живота, работите): НАРЕЖДАМ се в живота rise in the world, climb up the social ladder 9. (подреждам) arrange 10. (слагам в ред) put/set in order 11. (уреждам се) get fixed up 12. (уреждам) arrange, make arrangements 13. 1 прен. (попадам в затруднено положение) get o.s. in a mess/fix/pickle;be in a tight corner, be in hot water, be in a fine pickle 14. 4 часа we arranged to meet at ten 15. НАРЕЖДАМ в редици line up 16. НАРЕЖДАМ витрина dress/arrange a shop-window 17. НАРЕЖДАМ войници в бойни редици line up 18. НАРЕЖДАМ декори set the stage 19. НАРЕЖДАМ децата си в живота settle o.'s children 20. НАРЕЖДАМ дърва stack wood 21. НАРЕЖДАМ масата set (out) the table 22. НАРЕЖДАМ пасианс play patience 23. НАРЕЖДАМ по азбучен ред arrange in alphabetical order 24. НАРЕЖДАМ по височина line up in order of height 25. НАРЕЖДАМ работата fix things up 26. НАРЕЖДАМ се 27. НАРЕЖДАМ се в първите редици на join the first ranks of 28. НАРЕЖДАМ се на опашката take o.'s place in the queue 29. НАРЕЖДАМ се на първо място rank first 30. НАРЕЖДАМ се на работа find a situation (for o.s.), get a job 31. НАРЕЖДАМ си картите sort o.'s cards 32. НАРЕЖДАМ си книгите/къщата/работите arrange o.'s books/house/affairs 33. НАРЕЖДАМ среща make an appointment 34. НАРЕЖДАМ стая furnish a room;tidy a room, put a room in order 35. НАРЕЖДАМ фигури на шах set up the board 36. НАРЕЖДАМ хора на банкет/манифестация marshall persons at a banquet/in a procession 37. НАРЕЖДАМ храна на масата set out a table with food 38. НАРЕЖДАМЕ се на опашка form a queue, queue up 39. аз (хубаво) ще те наредя (тебе) I'll fix you, I'll settle you, I'll settle your hash, !'Ii cook your goose for you 40. вж. нареден 41. войниците бяха наредени по пътя the soldiers were strung out along the road 42. войниците се наредиха в боен ред the troops drew up in order of battle 43. всичко се нареди много добре за него it worked out very well for him 44. всичко ще се нареди everything will be all right, everything is going to be all right, everything will be OK, things will come right 45. добре се наредихме we're in a fine predicament;we're in for it now;here's a pretty go 46. добре сте се наредили (добре сте си уредили живота) you've fixed yourselves up very nicely 47. кой както се нареди some get on and some don't 48. кой както я нареди some get on and some don't 49. лекарят нареди така it's doctor's orders 50. наредил се е в живота he is a made man 51. наредих някой да я придружи I have arranged for s.o. to escort her, I have arranged that s.o. should escort her 52. наредихме си среща за 53. поднос, на който са наредени чаши a tray set out with glasses 54. работите се нареждат добре things are turning out all right 55. сам НАРЕЖДАМ живота си make o.'s own life 56. той винаги се нарежда he always gets the best of everything 57. той нареди всичките си роднини на хубави служби he found good jobs for all his relatives 58. хубаво ме нареди you've landed me in a nice fix 59. хубаво си се наредил а nice mess/fix/pickle you've got yourself in 60. хубаво сте я наредили upoн. you've made a nice mess of it all 61. ще я наредим някак we'll fix it up somehow

    Български-английски речник > нареждам

  • 4 нервный

    1) General subject: brittle, edgy, emotional, fidget, fidgety, fussy, high keyed, high toned, high-keyed, high-strung, highly strung, highlystrung, jittery, jumpy, nerve, nervous, neuro, neurotic, psychoneurotic, squeamish, twitchy, unstrung (о человеке), uptight, wrought-up, queasy (With all the talk of terrorism some people get queasy.), uncomfortable (человек и т.п.)
    2) Biology: excitatory
    4) Colloquial: flappable, nervy
    5) American: goosey, goosy
    7) Rare: nervose
    8) Anatomy: nerval, nervine, neural
    9) Mathematics: pertaining to nerve
    10) Australian slang: anal
    11) Jargon: antsy, hitchy, ill at ease, keyed (up), keyed up, spooked (особенно без видимой причины), wired, wired up, yantsy, in a twit, spastic, strung out, ballsy, windy
    12) Simple: clutched, clutchy
    13) Aviation medicine: neuronal, overstrung (о человеке)
    15) Phraseological unit: brass-necked (Nervy; cheeky; shameless.), bag of rations

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > нервный

  • 5 измотанный

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > измотанный

  • 6 aufreihen

    (trennb., hat -ge-)
    I v/t
    1. (Dinge) put s.th. in a row; (Menschen) line up; (Perlen etc.) thread, string
    2. fig. (Argumente etc.) list, enumerate
    II v/refl line up; (hintereinander) queue, Am. get ( oder stand) in line
    * * *
    to file; to string
    * * *
    auf|rei|hen sep
    1. vt
    (in Linie) to line up, to put in a line/lines or a row/rows; Perlen to string; (fig = aufzählen) to list, to enumerate
    2. vr
    to line up, to get in a line/lines or a row/rows
    * * *
    1) (to stretch into a long line: The runners were strung out along the course.) string out
    2) (to put (beads etc) on a string etc: The pearls were sent to a jeweller to be strung.) string
    * * *
    auf|rei·hen
    I. vt
    etw [auf etw akk] \aufreihen to string sth [on sth]
    Edelsteine auf eine Schnur \aufreihen to string precious stones on a thread
    II. vr
    sich akk \aufreihen to line up, to get in lines [or a line]
    aufgereiht stehen to stand in rows [or a row]
    * * *
    aufreihen (trennb, hat -ge-)
    A. v/t
    1. (Dinge) put sth in a row; (Menschen) line up; (Perlen etc) thread, string
    2. fig (Argumente etc) list, enumerate
    B. v/r line up; (hintereinander) queue, US get ( oder stand) in line
    * * *
    v.
    to string v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: strung)

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > aufreihen

  • 7 fuso

    1. past part vedere c
    metallurgy molten
    burro melted
    2. m spindle
    fuso orario time zone
    * * *
    fuso1 agg. ( di metallo) fused, melted, smelted, cast; ( di materiale non metallico) melted; ( di formaggio, burro) melted, runny.
    fuso2 s.m.
    1 (tess., mecc.) spindle: fuso di ritorcitura, doubling spindle // dritto come un fuso, as straight as a ramrod (o die): se ne andò via da lei dritto come un fuso, he left her like a shot
    2 fuso orario, time zone
    3 ( di àncora) shank
    4 ( di paracadute) panel.
    * * *
    ['fuzo] 1. 2.
    1) (liquefatto) [burro, formaggio] melted; [ metallo] molten
    2) colloq. (rovinato) [motore, macchina, televisione] burnt out
    3) colloq. (esausto) strung out; (sballato) stoned
    3.
    sostantivo maschile
    1) (per filare) spindle
    2) geogr.
    ••
    * * *
    fuso
    /'fuzo/
     →  fondere
     1 (liquefatto) [burro, formaggio] melted; [ metallo] molten
     2 colloq. (rovinato) [motore, macchina, televisione] burnt out
     3 colloq. (esausto) strung out; (sballato) stoned
    III sostantivo m.
     1 (per filare) spindle
     2 geogr. fuso orario time zone
    dritto come un fuso straight as a ramrod.

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > fuso

  • 8 ослабевший

    2) Metallurgy: weaking
    3) Jargon: strung out

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > ослабевший

  • 9 نظم

    نَظَمَ \ compose: to write (music, a poem, a speech, etc.). \ نَظَمَ في صَفّ \ string: to tie (or spread out) in a row: His wet clothes were strung out to dry. The horsemen were strung out in a line across the field.

    Arabic-English dictionary > نظم

  • 10 string

    حَبْل رَفيع \ string: a strong thick thread for tying things: a piece of string. \ نَظَمَ في صَفّ \ string: to tie (or spread out) in a row: His wet clothes were strung out to dry. The horsemen were strung out in a line across the field.

    Arabic-English glossary > string

  • 11 находящийся при последнем издыхании

    General subject: expiring, strung out, strung-out

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > находящийся при последнем издыхании

  • 12 одуревший

    1) General subject: muzzy (от вина), spoony, strung out, strung-out (от наркотиков или алкоголя)
    2) Colloquial: mixed
    3) Jargon: scooters
    4) Aviation medicine: woozy

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > одуревший

  • 13 pelo

    m.
    1 hair (cabello).
    la bañera estaba llena de pelos the bathtub was full of hair
    2 fur.
    3 down.
    4 nap.
    5 hairbreadth, narrow margin, small margin.
    6 head of hair, tresses.
    7 thrix.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: pelar.
    * * *
    1 hair
    2 (de animal) coat, fur
    3 familiar bit
    \
    a pelo (sin montura) bareback 2 (sin ayuda) without help 3 (sin nada) without anything
    con pelos y señales in great detail, down to the last detail
    de medio pelo second-rate
    estar hasta los pelos familiar to be fed up (de, with)
    no tener pelos en la lengua to speak one's mind, not mince words
    no tener un pelo de tonto,-a familiar to be nobody's fool
    no verle el pelo a alguien to see neither hide nor hair of somebody
    poner los pelos de punta to make one's hair stand on end
    por los pelos by the skin of one's teeth
    soltarse el pelo to let one's hair down
    tirarse de los pelos (estar furioso) to be furious 2 (arrepentirse) to kick oneself
    tocarle un pelo a alguien to lay a finger on somebody
    tomar el pelo a alguien to pull somebody's leg
    venir al pelo familiar to be just the thing
    pelo de camello camelhair
    * * *
    noun m.
    1) hair
    2) fur
    3) pile
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=filamento) [de persona, animal] hair; [de barba] whisker; (Téc) fibre, fiber (EEUU), strand
    2) [en conjunto] [de persona] hair; (=piel) fur, coat; [de fruta] down; [de jersey] fluff; [de tejido] nap, pile

    pelo de camello — camel-hair, camel's hair (EEUU)

    3) [de reloj] hairspring
    4) [de diamante] flaw
    5) (=grieta) hairline crack
    6) (=sierra) hacksaw blade
    7)

    a pelo *

    cabalgar o montar a pelo — to ride bareback

    hacerlo a pelo[sexualmente] to have unprotected sex

    está más guapa a pelo que con maquillaje — she's prettier just as she is, without her make-up on

    ir a pelo(=sin sombrero) to go bareheaded; (=desnudo) to be stark naked

    pasar el mono a pelo[de drogas] to go through cold turkey

    al pelo *

    te queda al pelo — it looks great on you, it fits like a glove

    ¡se te va a caer el pelo! — you're (in) for it now!

    ¡Juan viene a cenar y yo con estos pelos! — Juan is coming to dinner and look at the state I'm in!

    así nos luce el pelo — and that's the awful state we're in, that's why we're so badly off

    pasó el examen por los pelos — he passed the exam by the skin of his teeth, he scraped through the exam

    punta 1., 2)
    8)

    un pelo * (=un poco)

    no se mueve un pelo de aire o viento — there isn't a breath of wind stirring

    no afloja un pelo Cono Sur he won't give an inch

    * * *
    1) ( de personas) hair

    pelo rizado/liso or lacio — curly/straight hair

    tiene un pelo divinoshe has lovely o beautiful hair

    al pelo — (fam)

    la falda le quedó al pelothe skirt looked great on her

    andar or estar con los pelos de punta — (CS fam) to be in a real state (colloq)

    caérsele el pelo a alguien: se me cae el pelo my hair is falling out; se le está cayendo el pelo he's losing his hair; como te descubran se te va a caer el pelo if you get found out, you'll be for it o you've had it (colloq); con estos pelos (fam): y yo con estos pelos! look at the state I'm in!; con pelos y señales (fam) down to the last detail; de medio pelo (fam) <película/jugador> second-rate; echar el pelo (Chi fam) to live it up (colloq); no tiene pelos en la lengua (fam) he doesn't mince his words; no tienes/tiene (ni) un pelo de tonto (fam) you're/he's no fool; no verle el pelo a alguien (fam) not to see hide nor hair of somebody (colloq); ya no te vemos el pelo por aquí we never see you around here any more; ponerle a alguien los pelos de punta (fam) ( aterrorizar) to make somebody's hair stand on end (colloq); ( poner neurótico) (AmL) to drive somebody crazy o mad; por los pelos (fam) only just; se me/le ponen los pelos de punta (fam) it sends shivers down my/his spine, it makes my/his hair stand on end; tirarse de los pelos (fam): estaba que se tiraba de los pelos he was at his wit's end, he was tearing his hair out (in desperation); tocarle un pelo a alguien to lay a finger on somebody; tomarle el pelo a alguien (fam) ( bromeando) to pull somebody's leg (colloq); ( burlándose) to mess around with somebody (AmE), to mess somebody around (BrE); traído por or de los pelos — farfetched

    2) (fam) ( poco)
    3) (Zool) ( filamento) hair; (pelaje - de perro, gato) hair, fur; (- de conejo, oso) fur

    montar a or (CS) en pelo — to ride bareback

    4) ( de alfombra) pile
    * * *
    = hair, bristle.
    Ex. They are followed in turn by the see and see also references to the heading: HEAD see also BRAIN; EAR; EYE; FACE; hair; NOSE.
    Ex. A linear equation system is derived to calculate the physical deflection of bristles according to the force exerted on them from the surface of the paper.
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    * abundancia de pelo = hair coat.
    * aclarar el pelo = lighten + Posesivo + hair.
    * alisador del pelo = straightener, hair straightener.
    * apartarse el pelo de los ojos = flick + Posesivo + hair out of + Posesivo + eyes.
    * arrancarse el pelo a manojos = tear + Posesivo + hair out.
    * arreglarse el pelo = primp.
    * cable de pelos = stranded wire.
    * caída de pelo = hair loss.
    * champú para el pelo = hair shampoo.
    * con forma de pelo = hair-like.
    * con pelo cano = gray-haired, grey-haired.
    * con pelos y señales = blow-by-blow.
    * corte de pelo = hair cut.
    * del grosor de un pelo = hairline.
    * de medio pelo = small-time.
    * de pelo cano = gray-haired, grey-haired.
    * de pelo espeso y tieso = bushy-haired.
    * de pelo negro = dark-haired.
    * de pelo oscuro = dark-haired.
    * erizar los pelos = bristle.
    * escapar por los pelos = have + a close call, have + a narrow escape, have + a lucky escape, have + a close shave.
    * escape por los pelos = close call, close shave.
    * estilo de pelo = hairstyle.
    * fisura del grosor de un pelo = hairline fracture.
    * goma del pelo = hair bobble.
    * grieta del grosor de un pelo = hairline crack.
    * horquilla del pelo = hair grip.
    * horquilla para el pelo = bobby pin.
    * implante de pelo = hair implant.
    * lavado de pelo = shampooing.
    * lavarse el pelo = shampoo + Posesivo + hair, wash + Posesive + hair.
    * lavarse el pelo con champú = shampoo + Posesivo + hair.
    * manta de pelo = hair coat.
    * nacimiento del pelo = hairline.
    * no tener ni un pelo de tonto = there are no flies (on/about) + Pronombre.
    * no tener pelos en lengua = call + a spade a spade.
    * parecido a los pelos = hair-like.
    * pelo de caballo = horsehair.
    * pelo gris = grey hair [gray hair].
    * pelo lacio = straight hair.
    * pelo liso = straight hair.
    * pelos y señales = chapter and verse.
    * pérdida de pelo = hair loss.
    * pinza del pelo = hair claw.
    * pinzas del pelo = hair clip.
    * poner los pelos de punta = bristle, scare + the living daylights out of, frighten + the living daylights out of, frighten + Nombre + to death, make + Posesivo + hair stand on end, scare + the hell out of.
    * por los pelos = by the skin of + Posesivo + teeth, close call, close shave.
    * redecilla para el pelo = hairnet.
    * rizador del pelo = curler.
    * salvado por los pelos = saved by the bell.
    * salvarse por los pelos = have + a narrow escape, have + a lucky escape, have + a close call, have + a close shave.
    * secador de pelo = hairdryer, blow-dryer.
    * sexo a pelo = unprotected sex.
    * sin pelo = hairless.
    * sin pelos en la lengua = outspokenly.
    * sin venir a pelo = out of the blue, like a bolt out of the blue, for no reason, for no specific reason, for no particular reason, for no good reason.
    * suavizante del pelo = hair conditioner.
    * tener pelos en la lengua = mince + words.
    * tirarse de los pelos = tear + Posesivo + hair out.
    * tocarle un pelo a = lay + a finger on.
    * tomadura de pelo = ribbing.
    * tomar el pelo = tease, twit, taunt.
    * tomarle el pelo a = make + fun of.
    * * *
    1) ( de personas) hair

    pelo rizado/liso or lacio — curly/straight hair

    tiene un pelo divinoshe has lovely o beautiful hair

    al pelo — (fam)

    la falda le quedó al pelothe skirt looked great on her

    andar or estar con los pelos de punta — (CS fam) to be in a real state (colloq)

    caérsele el pelo a alguien: se me cae el pelo my hair is falling out; se le está cayendo el pelo he's losing his hair; como te descubran se te va a caer el pelo if you get found out, you'll be for it o you've had it (colloq); con estos pelos (fam): y yo con estos pelos! look at the state I'm in!; con pelos y señales (fam) down to the last detail; de medio pelo (fam) <película/jugador> second-rate; echar el pelo (Chi fam) to live it up (colloq); no tiene pelos en la lengua (fam) he doesn't mince his words; no tienes/tiene (ni) un pelo de tonto (fam) you're/he's no fool; no verle el pelo a alguien (fam) not to see hide nor hair of somebody (colloq); ya no te vemos el pelo por aquí we never see you around here any more; ponerle a alguien los pelos de punta (fam) ( aterrorizar) to make somebody's hair stand on end (colloq); ( poner neurótico) (AmL) to drive somebody crazy o mad; por los pelos (fam) only just; se me/le ponen los pelos de punta (fam) it sends shivers down my/his spine, it makes my/his hair stand on end; tirarse de los pelos (fam): estaba que se tiraba de los pelos he was at his wit's end, he was tearing his hair out (in desperation); tocarle un pelo a alguien to lay a finger on somebody; tomarle el pelo a alguien (fam) ( bromeando) to pull somebody's leg (colloq); ( burlándose) to mess around with somebody (AmE), to mess somebody around (BrE); traído por or de los pelos — farfetched

    2) (fam) ( poco)
    3) (Zool) ( filamento) hair; (pelaje - de perro, gato) hair, fur; (- de conejo, oso) fur

    montar a or (CS) en pelo — to ride bareback

    4) ( de alfombra) pile
    * * *
    = hair, bristle.

    Ex: They are followed in turn by the see and see also references to the heading: HEAD see also BRAIN; EAR; EYE; FACE; hair; NOSE.

    Ex: A linear equation system is derived to calculate the physical deflection of bristles according to the force exerted on them from the surface of the paper.
    * abundancia de pelo = hair coat.
    * aclarar el pelo = lighten + Posesivo + hair.
    * alisador del pelo = straightener, hair straightener.
    * apartarse el pelo de los ojos = flick + Posesivo + hair out of + Posesivo + eyes.
    * arrancarse el pelo a manojos = tear + Posesivo + hair out.
    * arreglarse el pelo = primp.
    * cable de pelos = stranded wire.
    * caída de pelo = hair loss.
    * champú para el pelo = hair shampoo.
    * con forma de pelo = hair-like.
    * con pelo cano = gray-haired, grey-haired.
    * con pelos y señales = blow-by-blow.
    * corte de pelo = hair cut.
    * del grosor de un pelo = hairline.
    * de medio pelo = small-time.
    * de pelo cano = gray-haired, grey-haired.
    * de pelo espeso y tieso = bushy-haired.
    * de pelo negro = dark-haired.
    * de pelo oscuro = dark-haired.
    * erizar los pelos = bristle.
    * escapar por los pelos = have + a close call, have + a narrow escape, have + a lucky escape, have + a close shave.
    * escape por los pelos = close call, close shave.
    * estilo de pelo = hairstyle.
    * fisura del grosor de un pelo = hairline fracture.
    * goma del pelo = hair bobble.
    * grieta del grosor de un pelo = hairline crack.
    * horquilla del pelo = hair grip.
    * horquilla para el pelo = bobby pin.
    * implante de pelo = hair implant.
    * lavado de pelo = shampooing.
    * lavarse el pelo = shampoo + Posesivo + hair, wash + Posesive + hair.
    * lavarse el pelo con champú = shampoo + Posesivo + hair.
    * manta de pelo = hair coat.
    * nacimiento del pelo = hairline.
    * no tener ni un pelo de tonto = there are no flies (on/about) + Pronombre.
    * no tener pelos en lengua = call + a spade a spade.
    * parecido a los pelos = hair-like.
    * pelo de caballo = horsehair.
    * pelo gris = grey hair [gray hair].
    * pelo lacio = straight hair.
    * pelo liso = straight hair.
    * pelos y señales = chapter and verse.
    * pérdida de pelo = hair loss.
    * pinza del pelo = hair claw.
    * pinzas del pelo = hair clip.
    * poner los pelos de punta = bristle, scare + the living daylights out of, frighten + the living daylights out of, frighten + Nombre + to death, make + Posesivo + hair stand on end, scare + the hell out of.
    * por los pelos = by the skin of + Posesivo + teeth, close call, close shave.
    * redecilla para el pelo = hairnet.
    * rizador del pelo = curler.
    * salvado por los pelos = saved by the bell.
    * salvarse por los pelos = have + a narrow escape, have + a lucky escape, have + a close call, have + a close shave.
    * secador de pelo = hairdryer, blow-dryer.
    * sexo a pelo = unprotected sex.
    * sin pelo = hairless.
    * sin pelos en la lengua = outspokenly.
    * sin venir a pelo = out of the blue, like a bolt out of the blue, for no reason, for no specific reason, for no particular reason, for no good reason.
    * suavizante del pelo = hair conditioner.
    * tener pelos en la lengua = mince + words.
    * tirarse de los pelos = tear + Posesivo + hair out.
    * tocarle un pelo a = lay + a finger on.
    * tomadura de pelo = ribbing.
    * tomar el pelo = tease, twit, taunt.
    * tomarle el pelo a = make + fun of.

    * * *
    pelo rizado/liso or lacio curly/straight hair
    tengo que ir a cortarme el pelo I have to go and have my hair cut
    tiene un pelo divino she has lovely o beautiful hair
    tiene mucho pelo he has really thick hair
    siempre lleva el pelo suelto she always wears her hair down o loose
    me encontré un pelo en la sopa I found a hair in my soup
    al pelo ( fam); great ( colloq)
    la falda le quedó al pelo the skirt looked great on her, she looked great in the skirt
    el dinero extra me viene al pelo the extra money is just what I need
    ¿cómo se portó el coche? — al pelo ( Col); how did the car go? — just great o spot on ( colloq)
    andar or estar con los pelos de punta (CS fam); to be in a real state ( colloq)
    caérsele el pelo a algn: se le está cayendo el pelo he's losing his hair
    como te descubran se te va a caer el pelo if you get found out, you'll be for it o you've had it ( colloq)
    con estos pelos ( fam): ¡llegan dentro de media hora, y yo con estos pelos! they're arriving in half an hour and look at the state I'm in!
    con pelos y señales ( fam): me contó su viaje con pelos y señales she gave me a blow-by-blow account of her trip, she described her trip down to the last detail
    lo describió con pelos y señales she gave a very detailed description of him
    de medio pelo ( fam); ‹película/jugador› second-rate
    le regaló un anillo de medio pelo he gave her a rather tacky ring
    echar el pelo ( Chi fam); to live it up ( colloq), to have a good time ( colloq)
    no tiene pelos en la lengua ( fam); he doesn't mince his words
    no tiene/tienes (ni) un pelo de tonto ( fam); you're/he's no fool, there are no flies on you/him ( colloq)
    no verle el pelo a algn ( fam); not to see hide nor hair of sb ( colloq)
    hace mucho que no se le ve el pelo nobody's seen hide nor hair of him for ages
    ya no te vemos el pelo por aquí we never see you around here any more
    ponerle a algn los pelos de punta ( fam) (aterrorizar) to make sb's hair stand on end ( colloq) (poner neurótico) ( AmL) to drive sb crazy o mad
    por los pelos ( fam); only just
    se libró por los pelos de que lo detuvieran he narrowly o only just escaped being arrested
    aprobó el examen por los pelos he just scraped through the exam (by the skin of his teeth)
    por un pelo ( AmL); just
    me salvé por un pelo I escaped by the skin of my teeth ( colloq)
    perdí el autobús por un pelo I just missed the bus, I missed the bus by a few seconds
    por un pelo no llego al banco I only just got to the bank in time
    se me/le erizaron los pelos ( fam); it sent shivers down my/his spine, it made my/his hair stand on end
    se me/le ponen los pelos de punta ( fam); it sends shivers down my/his spine, it makes my/his hair stand on end
    tirado de los pelos ( fam); farfetched
    tirarse de los pelos ( fam): estaba que se tiraba de los pelos he was at his wit's end, he was tearing his hair out (in desperation)
    tocarle un pelo a algn to lay a finger on sb
    tomarle el pelo a algn ( fam): no va en serio, te están tomando el pelo they don't mean it, they're only joking o teasing o ( colloq) pulling your leg
    me están tomando el pelo, ya me han cambiado la fecha cuatro veces they're messing me around, this is the fourth time they've changed the date
    B ( fam)
    (poco): se han pasado un pelo they've gone a bit too far o ( BrE colloq) a bit over the top
    no me fío (ni) un pelo de ese tipo I don't trust that guy an inch
    no quiso aflojar (ni) un pelo he refused to budge an inch
    te queda un pelito corta it's a tiny o a wee bit short for you
    C ( Zool) (filamento) hair; (pelaje — de un perro, gato) hair, fur; (— de un conejo, oso) fur
    el gato va dejando pelos por toda la casa the cat leaves hairs all over the house
    la perra me dejó llena de pelos I got covered with dog-hairs
    un perro pequeño de pelo largo a small, long-haired dog
    montar a or ( RPl) en pelo to ride bareback
    ser pelos de la cola ( Chi fam); to be nothing
    Compuestos:
    camelhair
    angora, angora wool
    elephant hair
    una alfombra de pelo largo a shag-pile carpet
    este suéter suelta mucho pelo this sweater leaves a lot of fluff everywhere
    * * *

     

    Del verbo pelar: ( conjugate pelar)

    pelo es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    peló es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    pelar    
    pelo
    pelar ( conjugate pelar) verbo transitivo
    1
    a)fruta/zanahoria to peel;

    habas/marisco to shell;
    caramelo to unwrap
    b) ave to pluck

    2 ( rapar): lo peloon al cero or al rape they cropped his hair very short
    3 (fam) ( en el juego) to clean … out (colloq)
    4 (Chi fam) ‹ persona to badmouth (AmE colloq), to slag off (BrE colloq)
    pelarse verbo pronominal ( a causa del sol) [ persona] to peel;
    [cara/hombros] (+ me/te/le etc) to peel;

    pelo sustantivo masculino
    1 ( de personas) hair;
    pelo rizado/liso or lacio curly/straight hair;
    tiene mucho/poco pelo he has really thick/thin hair;

    llevar el pelo suelto to wear one's hair down o loose;
    se le está cayendo el pelo he's losing his hair;
    con pelos y señales (fam) down to the last detail;
    no tiene pelos en la lengua (fam) he doesn't mince his words;
    se me/le ponen los pelos de punta (fam) it sends shivers down my/his spine, it makes my/his hair stand on end;
    tomarle el pelo a algn (fam) ( bromeando) to pull sb's leg (colloq);

    ( burlándose) to mess around with sb (AmE), to mess sb around (BrE)
    2 (Zool) ( filamento) hair;
    ( pelaje — de perro, gato) hair, fur;
    (— de conejo, oso) fur;

    3 ( de alfombra) pile
    pelar verbo transitivo
    1 (piel, fruta) to peel
    2 (un ave) to pluck
    3 fam (cortar el pelo a) to cut the hair of
    ♦ Locuciones: hace un frío que pela, it's freezing cold
    duro de pelar, a hard nut
    pelo sustantivo masculino
    1 (de una persona) hair
    2 (de un animal) coat, fur
    ♦ Locuciones: caérsele el pelo a alguien: si te pescan, se te va a caer el pelo, if they catch you, you'll get it
    no tener un pelo de tonto, to be no fool
    no tener pelos en la lengua, not to mince words
    poner los pelos de punta, to give the creeps
    tomarle el pelo a alguien, to pull sb's leg
    venir al pelo, to come just right
    con pelos y señales, in full detail
    por los pelos, by the skin of one's teeth
    ' pelo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    aclarado
    - ahuecar
    - alisarse
    - arremolinarse
    - barba
    - caerse
    - caída
    - calva
    - canosa
    - canoso
    - caracol
    - castaña
    - castaño
    - cepillarse
    - cepillo
    - cerda
    - cero
    - cinta
    - comer
    - copete
    - cortarse
    - corte
    - crespa
    - crespo
    - de
    - decir
    - decolorarse
    - diadema
    - el
    - enjuagar
    - enredar
    - enredarse
    - erizar
    - estropajosa
    - estropajoso
    - fastidiar
    - fijador
    - fosca
    - fosco
    - ir
    - gancho
    - goma
    - grasa
    - grasienta
    - grasiento
    - graso
    - horquilla
    - laca
    - lazada
    - llevar
    English:
    applicant
    - arrange
    - artificial
    - balding
    - bareback
    - bleach
    - blow-dry
    - bob
    - body
    - braid
    - bristle
    - brush
    - bun
    - bushy
    - clip
    - coat
    - come out
    - conditioner
    - consent
    - crew cut
    - crop
    - curl
    - dark
    - deceive
    - disheveled
    - dishevelled
    - do
    - dye
    - fair
    - fall out
    - false
    - flowing
    - fly
    - fool
    - fringe
    - frizzy
    - fur
    - fuzzy
    - gel
    - get
    - ginger
    - glossy
    - greasy
    - grey
    - grey-haired
    - grow
    - hair
    - hair-clippers
    - hair-conditioner
    - hair-restorer
    * * *
    pelo nm
    1. [cabello] hair;
    hay un pelo en la sopa there's a hair in my soup;
    la bañera estaba llena de pelos the bathtub was full of hairs;
    se me está cayendo el pelo I'm losing my hair;
    tiene un pelo rubio precioso she has lovely fair hair;
    llevar o [m5] tener el pelo de punta to have spiky hair;
    cortarse el pelo [uno mismo] to cut one's (own) hair;
    [en peluquería] to have one's hair cut;
    teñirse el pelo to dye one's hair;
    llevar el pelo recogido/suelto to wear one's hair up/loose;
    se le va a caer el pelo he'll be in big trouble;
    Méx Fam
    de pelos [muy bien] great;
    Chile Fam
    echar el pelo to chill;
    Fam
    estar hasta los pelos to be fed up;
    así te luce el pelo: no estudias nada y así te luce el pelo en los exámenes you never study and it shows in your exam results;
    de medio pelo second-rate;
    Fam
    te voy a dar para el pelo I'm going to give you what for;
    por los pelos, por un pelo by the skin of one's teeth, only just;
    CSur Fam
    andar o [m5] estar con los pelos de punta to be strung-out;
    poner a alguien los pelos de punta to make sb's hair stand on end;
    se me pusieron los pelos de punta it made my hair stand on end;
    con pelos y señales with all the details;
    no tiene pelos en la lengua she doesn't mince her words;
    no tiene un pelo de tonto he's nobody's fool;
    soltarse el pelo to let one's hair down;
    tirarse de los pelos [de desesperación] to tear one's hair out;
    tocar un pelo (de la ropa) a alguien [hacerle daño] to lay a finger on sb;
    no le toqué un pelo I never touched her, I never laid a finger on her;
    tomar el pelo a alguien to pull sb's leg;
    traído por los pelos [argumento, hipótesis] farfetched;
    venir a pelo [en la conversación, discusión] to be relevant;
    venir al pelo a alguien to be just right for sb;
    no ver el pelo a alguien not to see hide nor hair of sb;
    Fam
    ¡y yo con estos pelos!: ¡mi novio ha llegado y yo con estos pelos! my boyfriend's arrived and I am in such a state o look such a mess!
    2. [pelaje] [de oso, conejo, gato] fur;
    [de perro, caballo] coat;
    a pelo: montar (a caballo) a o RP [m5] en pelo to ride bareback;
    Fam
    presentarse a un examen a pelo to go to an exam unprepared;
    Esp muy Fam
    follar a pelo to ride bareback [have unprotected sex]
    pelo de camello [tejido] camel hair
    3. [de melocotón] down
    4. [de una tela, tejido] nap;
    [de alfombra] pile;
    este jersey suelta mucho pelo o [m5] muchos pelos this jumper leaves a lot of hairs everywhere
    5. Fam [pizca, poquito]
    échame un pelo más de ginebra could I have a smidgin o tad more gin?;
    pasarse un pelo to go a bit too far;
    no me gusta (ni) un pelo ese tipo I don't like that guy at all
    * * *
    m
    1 de persona, de perro hair;
    tiene el pelo muy largo he has very long hair;
    por los pelos fam by a hair’s-breadth, by a whisker fam ;
    por un pelo just, barely;
    los pelos se me ponen de punta fig my hair stands on end;
    tirarse de los pelos fig fam tear one’s hair out;
    traído por los pelos fig far-fetched;
    soltarse el pelo fig fam let one’s hair down fam
    2 de animal fur;
    a pelo fam ( sin preparación) unprepared;
    montar a pelo ride bareback;
    tomar el pelo a alguien fam pull s.o.’s leg fam ;
    con pelos y señales in minute detail;
    (ni) un pelo not at all;
    no tiene un pelo de tonto fig fam there are no flies on him fam, he’s no fool;
    no tener pelos en la lengua fig fam not mince one’s words fam
    * * *
    pelo nm
    1) : hair
    2) : fur
    3) : pile, nap
    4)
    a pelo : bareback
    5)
    con pelos y señales : in great detail
    6)
    no tener pelos en la lengua : to not mince words, to be blunt
    7)
    tomarle el pelo a alguien : to tease someone, to pull someone's leg
    * * *
    pelo n
    1. (en general) hair

    Spanish-English dictionary > pelo

  • 14 Länge

    f; -, -n
    1. length (auch zeitlich); (Größe) height; 20 Meter in der Länge, mit einer Länge von 20 Metern 20 met|res (Am. -ers) long ( oder in length), with a length of 20 met|res (Am. -ers); der Länge nach lengthwise; der Länge nach hinfallen fall flat on one’s face, go sprawling; in seiner vollen Länge senden etc. broadcast etc. in full; in die Länge ziehen fig. draw ( oder drag) out; (Erzählung) spin out; sich in die Länge ziehen drag on; auf die Länge umg. in the long run
    2. SPORT length; mit einer Länge gewinnen win by a length; um Längen gewinnen win by a mile; um Längen geschlagen werden be beaten out of sight
    3. (langweilige Stelle) longueur; der Film hatte Längen the film ( Am auch movie) had its dull patches
    4. LING. long vowel; METRIK: long syllable
    5. GEOG., ASTRON., MATH. longitude; auf oder unter 10 Grad westlicher Länge liegen have a longitude of 10 degrees West, lie at 10 degrees West longitude
    * * *
    die Länge
    longitude; footage; tallness; length
    * * *
    lạn|ge I ['laŋə] (S Ger) [laŋ] (Aus)
    adv
    ['lɛŋɐ] comp - er ['lɛŋɐ] ['lɛŋstə] superl am lä\#ngsten ['lɛŋstn]
    1) (zeitlich) a long time; (in Fragen, Negativsätzen) long

    die Sitzung hat heute lange/nicht lange gedauert — the meeting went on (for) a long time/didn't go on (for) long today

    wie lange lernst du schon Deutsch/bist du schon hier? — how long have you been learning German (for)/been here (for)?

    es ist noch gar nicht lange her, dass wir diese Frage diskutiert haben — we discussed this question not long ago, it's not long since we discussed this question

    er wird es nicht mehr lange machen (inf)he won't last long, he's not got long to go

    bis Weihnachten ist es ja noch lange hinit's still a long time till Christmas, we're a long way from Christmas

    lange nicht gesehen (inf)long time no see (inf)

    je länger, je lieber — the more the better; (zeitlich) the longer the better

    2) (inf = längst)

    noch lange nicht — not by any means, not by a long chalk (Brit inf) or shot

    lange nicht so... — nowhere near as..., not nearly as...

    er verdient lange nicht so viel — he doesn't earn nearly as much, he doesn't earn anywhere near as much

    wenn er das schafft, kannst du das schon lange — if he can do it, you can do it easily

    II [laŋ]
    1. adj comp - er
    ['lɛŋɐ] superl ['lɛŋɐ] -ste(r, s) ['lɛŋstə]
    1) long['lɛŋstn]; Film, Roman, Aufenthalt, Rede long, lengthy

    das war seit Langem geplantit was planned a long time ago

    in nicht allzu langeer Zeit — before too or very long, in the not too distant future

    etw länger machen — to make sth longer, to lengthen sth

    es ist eine langee Strecke bis Bristol, jedenfalls länger, als ich gedacht hatte — it's a long way to Bristol, at least, further than I thought

    die Tage werden wieder längerthe days are drawing out, the days are getting longer

    des Langen und Breitenat great length

    See:
    2) (inf = groß gewachsen) Mensch tall

    eine langee Latte sein, ein langeer Lulatsch sein, ein langees Elend or Ende sein — to be a (real) beanpole (inf)

    2. adv comp -er, superl am -sten

    der lange ersehnte Tag/Urlaub — the longed-for day/holiday (esp Brit) or vacation (US)

    lange gestreckt — long; Dorf auch strung-out

    lange gezogen (Ton, Schrei) — long-drawn-out; Kurve long

    mein ganzes Leben langeall my life, my whole life

    See:
    auch lange, entlang
    * * *
    die
    1) (the distance from one end to the other of an object, period of time etc: What is the length of your car?; Please note down the length of time it takes you to do this.) length
    2) (in racing, the measurement from end to end of a horse, boat etc: He won by a length; The other boat is several lengths in front.) length
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    Län·ge
    <-, -n>
    [ˈlɛŋə]
    f
    1. (räumliche Ausdehnung) length
    in die \Länge wachsen to shoot up
    auf eine \Länge von etw dat for sth
    die Autobahn war auf eine \Länge von 45 Kilometern blockiert the motorway was blocked for 45 kilometres
    der \Länge nach lengthways, lengthwise; (in ganzer Länge) flat on one's face
    die Frau fiel der \Länge nach hin the woman fell flat on her face
    das Regal stürzte der \Länge nach zu Boden the shelf fell flat on the floor
    von bestimmter \Länge of a certain length
    ich benötige Pfähle von drei Metern \Länge I need posts three metres in length
    2. (zeitliche Ausdehnung) length, duration
    in voller \Länge in its entirety
    etw in die \Länge ziehen to drag out sth sep
    er zog das Gespräch in die \Länge he dragged the conversation out
    sich akk in die \Länge ziehen to drag on
    die Verhandlungen zogen sich in die \Länge the negotiations dragged on
    3. (fam: Größe) height
    was hast du eigentlich für eine \Länge? how tall are you?
    4. SPORT (Strecke einer Bootslänge) length
    5. FILM, LIT, MEDIA (langatmige Stelle) long-drawn-out passage [or scene
    6. (Abstand vom Nullmeridian) longitude
    die Insel liegt 38° östlicher \Länge the longitudinal position of the island is 38° east
    7. (poet: lange Silbe) long syllable
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    länger, am längsten Adverb

    lange schlafen/arbeiten — sleep/work late

    es ist noch gar nicht lange her, dass ich ihn gesehen habe — it's not long since I saw him; I saw him not long ago

    sie wird es nicht mehr lange machen(ugs.) she won't last much longer; s. auch länger 3.

    das ist [noch] lange nicht alles — that's not all by any means; that's not all, not by a long chalk or shot (coll.)

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    Länge f; -, -n
    1. length (auch zeitlich); (Größe) height;
    20 Meter in der Länge, mit einer Länge von 20 Metern 20 metres (US -ers) long ( oder in length), with a length of 20 metres (US -ers);
    der Länge nach lengthwise;
    der Länge nach hinfallen fall flat on one’s face, go sprawling;
    in seiner vollen Länge senden etc broadcast etc in full;
    in die Länge ziehen fig draw ( oder drag) out; (Erzählung) spin out;
    auf die Länge umg in the long run
    2. SPORT length;
    mit einer Länge gewinnen win by a length;
    um Längen gewinnen win by a mile;
    um Längen geschlagen werden be beaten out of sight
    der Film hatte Längen the film ( Am auch movie) had its dull patches
    4. LING long vowel; METRIK long syllable
    5. GEOG, ASTRON, MATH longitude;
    unter 10 Grad westlicher Länge liegen have a longitude of 10 degrees West, lie at 10 degrees West longitude
    * * *
    länger, am längsten Adverb

    lange schlafen/arbeiten — sleep/work late

    es ist noch gar nicht lange her, dass ich ihn gesehen habe — it's not long since I saw him; I saw him not long ago

    sie wird es nicht mehr lange machen(ugs.) she won't last much longer; s. auch länger 3.

    das ist [noch] lange nicht alles — that's not all by any means; that's not all, not by a long chalk or shot (coll.)

    * * *
    -n f.
    footage n.
    length n.
    longitude n.
    tallness n.

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  • 15 lange

    f; -, -n
    1. length (auch zeitlich); (Größe) height; 20 Meter in der Länge, mit einer Länge von 20 Metern 20 met|res (Am. -ers) long ( oder in length), with a length of 20 met|res (Am. -ers); der Länge nach lengthwise; der Länge nach hinfallen fall flat on one’s face, go sprawling; in seiner vollen Länge senden etc. broadcast etc. in full; in die Länge ziehen fig. draw ( oder drag) out; (Erzählung) spin out; sich in die Länge ziehen drag on; auf die Länge umg. in the long run
    2. SPORT length; mit einer Länge gewinnen win by a length; um Längen gewinnen win by a mile; um Längen geschlagen werden be beaten out of sight
    3. (langweilige Stelle) longueur; der Film hatte Längen the film ( Am auch movie) had its dull patches
    4. LING. long vowel; METRIK: long syllable
    5. GEOG., ASTRON., MATH. longitude; auf oder unter 10 Grad westlicher Länge liegen have a longitude of 10 degrees West, lie at 10 degrees West longitude
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    die Länge
    longitude; footage; tallness; length
    * * *
    lạn|ge I ['laŋə] (S Ger) [laŋ] (Aus)
    adv
    ['lɛŋɐ] comp - er ['lɛŋɐ] ['lɛŋstə] superl am lä\#ngsten ['lɛŋstn]
    1) (zeitlich) a long time; (in Fragen, Negativsätzen) long

    die Sitzung hat heute lange/nicht lange gedauert — the meeting went on (for) a long time/didn't go on (for) long today

    wie lange lernst du schon Deutsch/bist du schon hier? — how long have you been learning German (for)/been here (for)?

    es ist noch gar nicht lange her, dass wir diese Frage diskutiert haben — we discussed this question not long ago, it's not long since we discussed this question

    er wird es nicht mehr lange machen (inf)he won't last long, he's not got long to go

    bis Weihnachten ist es ja noch lange hinit's still a long time till Christmas, we're a long way from Christmas

    lange nicht gesehen (inf)long time no see (inf)

    je länger, je lieber — the more the better; (zeitlich) the longer the better

    2) (inf = längst)

    noch lange nicht — not by any means, not by a long chalk (Brit inf) or shot

    lange nicht so... — nowhere near as..., not nearly as...

    er verdient lange nicht so viel — he doesn't earn nearly as much, he doesn't earn anywhere near as much

    wenn er das schafft, kannst du das schon lange — if he can do it, you can do it easily

    II [laŋ]
    1. adj comp - er
    ['lɛŋɐ] superl ['lɛŋɐ] -ste(r, s) ['lɛŋstə]
    1) long['lɛŋstn]; Film, Roman, Aufenthalt, Rede long, lengthy

    das war seit Langem geplantit was planned a long time ago

    in nicht allzu langeer Zeit — before too or very long, in the not too distant future

    etw länger machen — to make sth longer, to lengthen sth

    es ist eine langee Strecke bis Bristol, jedenfalls länger, als ich gedacht hatte — it's a long way to Bristol, at least, further than I thought

    die Tage werden wieder längerthe days are drawing out, the days are getting longer

    des Langen und Breitenat great length

    See:
    2) (inf = groß gewachsen) Mensch tall

    eine langee Latte sein, ein langeer Lulatsch sein, ein langees Elend or Ende sein — to be a (real) beanpole (inf)

    2. adv comp -er, superl am -sten

    der lange ersehnte Tag/Urlaub — the longed-for day/holiday (esp Brit) or vacation (US)

    lange gestreckt — long; Dorf auch strung-out

    lange gezogen (Ton, Schrei) — long-drawn-out; Kurve long

    mein ganzes Leben langeall my life, my whole life

    See:
    auch lange, entlang
    * * *
    die
    1) (the distance from one end to the other of an object, period of time etc: What is the length of your car?; Please note down the length of time it takes you to do this.) length
    2) (in racing, the measurement from end to end of a horse, boat etc: He won by a length; The other boat is several lengths in front.) length
    * * *
    Län·ge
    <-, -n>
    [ˈlɛŋə]
    f
    1. (räumliche Ausdehnung) length
    in die \Länge wachsen to shoot up
    auf eine \Länge von etw dat for sth
    die Autobahn war auf eine \Länge von 45 Kilometern blockiert the motorway was blocked for 45 kilometres
    der \Länge nach lengthways, lengthwise; (in ganzer Länge) flat on one's face
    die Frau fiel der \Länge nach hin the woman fell flat on her face
    das Regal stürzte der \Länge nach zu Boden the shelf fell flat on the floor
    von bestimmter \Länge of a certain length
    ich benötige Pfähle von drei Metern \Länge I need posts three metres in length
    2. (zeitliche Ausdehnung) length, duration
    in voller \Länge in its entirety
    etw in die \Länge ziehen to drag out sth sep
    er zog das Gespräch in die \Länge he dragged the conversation out
    sich akk in die \Länge ziehen to drag on
    die Verhandlungen zogen sich in die \Länge the negotiations dragged on
    3. (fam: Größe) height
    was hast du eigentlich für eine \Länge? how tall are you?
    4. SPORT (Strecke einer Bootslänge) length
    5. FILM, LIT, MEDIA (langatmige Stelle) long-drawn-out passage [or scene
    6. (Abstand vom Nullmeridian) longitude
    die Insel liegt 38° östlicher \Länge the longitudinal position of the island is 38° east
    7. (poet: lange Silbe) long syllable
    * * *
    länger, am längsten Adverb

    lange schlafen/arbeiten — sleep/work late

    es ist noch gar nicht lange her, dass ich ihn gesehen habe — it's not long since I saw him; I saw him not long ago

    sie wird es nicht mehr lange machen(ugs.) she won't last much longer; s. auch länger 3.

    das ist [noch] lange nicht alles — that's not all by any means; that's not all, not by a long chalk or shot (coll.)

    * * *
    lange; länger, am längsten; adv
    1. zeitlich: for a long time;
    nicht lange darauf not long after(ward[s]);
    er braucht immer lange it always takes him a while; pej he’s very slow;
    das ist schon lange her that was a long time ago;
    es ist schon lange her, dass it’s been a long time since, umg it’s ages since;
    wie lange lernen Sie schon Englisch? how long have you been learning English?;
    so lange wie as long as;
    so lange bis till, until;
    da kannst du lange warten umg you can wait till the cows come home;
    du brauchst nicht lange zu fragen you don’t need to ask;
    er fragte nicht erst lange he didn’t stop to ask
    lange nicht (bei Weitem nicht) not nearly …; umg not by a long chalk (US shot), nowhere near …;
    (noch) lange nicht fertig/gut genug etc not nearly ready/good enough etc;
    ist er fertig? - noch lange nicht umg has he finished? - nowhere near ( oder nothing like, iron you must be joking);
    das ist noch lange kein Grund, um aufzugeben that’s absolutely no reason for giving up, that certainly doesn’t mean you’ve got to give up;
    deswegen brauchst du dir noch lange nichts einzubilden you mustn’t go getting any ideas just because of that, don’t imagine that’s anything at all special
    * * *
    länger, am längsten Adverb

    lange schlafen/arbeiten — sleep/work late

    es ist noch gar nicht lange her, dass ich ihn gesehen habe — it's not long since I saw him; I saw him not long ago

    sie wird es nicht mehr lange machen(ugs.) she won't last much longer; s. auch länger 3.

    das ist [noch] lange nicht alles — that's not all by any means; that's not all, not by a long chalk or shot (coll.)

    * * *
    -n f.
    footage n.
    length n.
    longitude n.
    tallness n.

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  • 16 Historical Portugal

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

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 17 lang

    tall; long
    * * *
    lạn|ge I ['laŋə] (S Ger) [laŋ] (Aus)
    adv
    ['lɛŋɐ] comp - er ['lɛŋɐ] ['lɛŋstə] superl am lä\#ngsten ['lɛŋstn]
    1) (zeitlich) a long time; (in Fragen, Negativsätzen) long

    die Sitzung hat heute lange/nicht lange gedauert — the meeting went on (for) a long time/didn't go on (for) long today

    wie lange lernst du schon Deutsch/bist du schon hier? — how long have you been learning German (for)/been here (for)?

    es ist noch gar nicht lange her, dass wir diese Frage diskutiert haben — we discussed this question not long ago, it's not long since we discussed this question

    er wird es nicht mehr lange machen (inf)he won't last long, he's not got long to go

    bis Weihnachten ist es ja noch lange hinit's still a long time till Christmas, we're a long way from Christmas

    lange nicht gesehen (inf)long time no see (inf)

    je länger, je lieber — the more the better; (zeitlich) the longer the better

    2) (inf = längst)

    noch lange nicht — not by any means, not by a long chalk (Brit inf) or shot

    lange nicht so... — nowhere near as..., not nearly as...

    er verdient lange nicht so viel — he doesn't earn nearly as much, he doesn't earn anywhere near as much

    wenn er das schafft, kannst du das schon lange — if he can do it, you can do it easily

    II [laŋ]
    1. adj comp - er
    ['lɛŋɐ] superl ['lɛŋɐ] -ste(r, s) ['lɛŋstə]
    1) long['lɛŋstn]; Film, Roman, Aufenthalt, Rede long, lengthy

    das war seit Langem geplantit was planned a long time ago

    in nicht allzu langeer Zeit — before too or very long, in the not too distant future

    etw länger machen — to make sth longer, to lengthen sth

    es ist eine langee Strecke bis Bristol, jedenfalls länger, als ich gedacht hatte — it's a long way to Bristol, at least, further than I thought

    die Tage werden wieder längerthe days are drawing out, the days are getting longer

    des Langen und Breitenat great length

    See:
    2) (inf = groß gewachsen) Mensch tall

    eine langee Latte sein, ein langeer Lulatsch sein, ein langees Elend or Ende sein — to be a (real) beanpole (inf)

    2. adv comp -er, superl am -sten

    der lange ersehnte Tag/Urlaub — the longed-for day/holiday (esp Brit) or vacation (US)

    lange gestreckt — long; Dorf auch strung-out

    lange gezogen (Ton, Schrei) — long-drawn-out; Kurve long

    mein ganzes Leben langeall my life, my whole life

    See:
    auch lange, entlang
    * * *
    1) (measuring a great distance from one end to the other: a long journey; a long road; long legs.) long
    2) (having a great period of time from the first moment to the last: The book took a long time to read; a long conversation; a long delay.) long
    3) (measuring a certain amount in distance or time: The wire is two centimetres long; The television programme was just over an hour long.) long
    4) (a great period of time: This happened long before you were born.) long
    5) (for a great period of time: Have you been waiting long?) long
    * * *
    <länger, längste>
    [laŋ]
    I. adj
    1. (räumlich ausgedehnt) long
    seine Haare sind jetzt länger als früher he has longer hair than he used to
    die Schraube ist 4,5 Zentimeter \lang the screw is 4.5 centimetres long [or in length]
    der Tisch ist zwei Meter \lang und einen Meter breit the table is two metres by one
    ein Kleid länger machen to make a dress longer, to lengthen a dress
    die Zeit wurde ihr nicht \lang she didn't get bored
    in nicht allzu \langer Zeit in the not too distant future
    vor nicht allzu \langer Zeit not so long ago
    eine \lange Zeit brauchen to take a long time
    3. (ausführlich) Aufsatz, Brief long, lengthy
    4. (fam: groß gewachsen) tall
    II. adv
    1. (eine lange Dauer) long
    diese fürchterliche Kälte kann man nicht \lang aushalten you can't stand this terrible cold for long
    die Verhandlungen ziehen sich schon \lange hin negotiations have been dragging on for a long time
    wir können hier nicht länger bleiben we can't stay here any longer
    dauert das noch viel länger? is this going to last much longer?
    wo bist du denn so \lange geblieben? where have you been all this time?
    \lang und breit [o (geh) des L \langen und Breiten] at length, in great detail
    \lang ersehnt longed-for, long-hoped-for, long-desired
    \lang gehegt (geh) long-cherished form
    \lang gezogen prolonged
    \lang haftend Lippenstift long-lasting; Maskara long-wearing
    es nicht mehr \lang[e] machen (sl) to not last much longer
    noch \lang[e] for a long time
    bleibst du noch \lang in Stuttgart? are you staying in Stuttgart for long?
    noch \lang[e] nicht not by any means [or a long shot]
    es ist noch \lang[e] nicht fertig it's not nearly finished
    schon \lang[e] for a long time
    ich weiß das schon \lang I've known that for a long time
    seit \langem/längerem for a long time/lengthy period
    wohnen Sie schon seit längerem hier? have you been living here long?
    2. (für die Dauer von etw)
    eine bestimmte Zeit \lang for a certain period of time
    sie hielt einen Moment \lang inne she paused for a moment
    wir haben sieben Monate \lang nichts mehr von dir gehört we haven't heard anything from you for seven months!
    wie \lang[e] machst du diese Arbeit schon? how long have you been doing this job?
    sein ganzes Leben \lang all his life
    3. (der Länge nach)
    \lang gestreckt long, extended
    \lang hinschlagen to fall flat on one's face
    4. (fam: entlang) along
    ich glaube, wir müssen hier \lang I think we have to take this way
    5.
    da [o darauf] kannst du \lang[e] warten! (iron) you can whistle for it iron
    je länger, je lieber the longer, the better
    \lang[e] nicht so... not nearly as...
    der Film war \lang nicht so spannend wie erhofft the film was nowhere near as exciting as people had expected
    ich habe \lange nicht so viel bekommen wie sie I didn't get nearly as much as she did
    was \lange währt, wird endlich gut (prov) the wait is worth it
    * * *
    I 1.
    ; länger, längst... Adjektiv
    1) (räumlich) long

    etwas länger machen — make something longer; lengthen something

    2) (ugs.): (groß) tall; s. auch Latte 1); Lulatsch

    des langen und breiten(geh.) at great length; in great detail

    4) (zeitlich) long; long, lengthy <speech, lecture, etc.>; prolonged < thought>

    seit langer Zeit, seit langem — for a long time

    2.
    1) (zeitlich) [for] a long time

    der lang anhaltende Beifallthe lengthy or prolonged applause

    etwas nicht länger ertragen können — be unable to bear or stand something any longer

    lang und breit — at great length; in great detail

    2)

    einen Augenblick/mehrere Stunden lang — for a moment/several hours

    sein Leben lang — all one's life; s. auch länger 2., 3.

    II 1.
    (bes. nordd.) Präposition mit Akk.: s. entlang 1.
    2.
    Adverb s. entlang 2.

    [nicht] wissen, wo es lang geht — (fig.) [not] know what it's all about

    * * *
    lang1; länger, am längsten
    A. adj
    1. räumlich: long; Mensch: tall;
    ein Hemd mit langen Ärmeln a long-sleeved shirt;
    einen Rock länger machen lengthen ( oder let down) a skirt;
    zehn Meter lang und vier Meter breit ten metres (US -ers) (long) by four (wide);
    eine 20cm lange Kette a chain 20cm long ( oder in length);
    sie sind gleich lang they’re the same length;
    einen langen Hals machen umg crane one’s neck, US rubberneck;
    sich des Langen und Breiten über etwas auslassen fig expatiate at great length on sth, go on and on about sth; Bank1 1, Gesicht1 2 etc
    2. zeitlich: long;
    lange Jahre for years;
    seit Langem for a long time;
    vor nicht allzu langer Zeit not so long ago;
    mir wird die Zeit lang the days are beginning to drag;
    das wird eine lange Nacht it’s going to be a long night;
    die Tage werden länger the days are getting longer ( oder drawing out)
    eine drei Wochen lange Reise a trip lasting three weeks, a three-week trip
    B. adv
    das Haar lang tragen wear one’s hair long;
    lang gestreckt extended; Form: elongated; Gebäude: long; auch Mensch: stretched out; Gebirgszug etc: stretching for miles;
    lang gestielt Werkzeug: long-handled; BOT long-stemmed;
    lang und breit fig at great length
    2. zeitlich: for a long time; mit 2. Partizip: long-…;
    lang anhaltend prolonged, long-lasting;
    vermisst sorely missed;
    lang gehegt Hoffnung etc: long-cherished ( oder -nourished);
    lang erhofft long-hoped-for;
    erwartet long-awaited;
    lang gezogen Ton etc: long-drawn out
    3. nachgestellt, zur Angabe der Dauer: for;
    drei Jahre lang for three years;
    die ganze Woche lang all week long, (for) the whole week;
    eine Sekunde/einen Augenblick lang for a second/moment
    4. umg lange; dauern1, länger, längst, Leitung 2, Lulatsch etc
    lang2 dial
    A. präp (entlang) along;
    die Straße lang along ( oder down) the street
    B. adv:
    wir müssen hier lang we must go along here ( oder this way)
    * * *
    I 1.
    ; länger, längst... Adjektiv
    1) (räumlich) long

    etwas länger machen — make something longer; lengthen something

    2) (ugs.): (groß) tall; s. auch Latte 1); Lulatsch

    des langen und breiten(geh.) at great length; in great detail

    4) (zeitlich) long; long, lengthy <speech, lecture, etc.>; prolonged < thought>

    seit langer Zeit, seit langem — for a long time

    2.
    1) (zeitlich) [for] a long time

    der lang anhaltende Beifallthe lengthy or prolonged applause

    etwas nicht länger ertragen könnenbe unable to bear or stand something any longer

    lang und breit — at great length; in great detail

    2)

    einen Augenblick/mehrere Stunden lang — for a moment/several hours

    sein Leben lang — all one's life; s. auch länger 2., 3.

    II 1.
    (bes. nordd.) Präposition mit Akk.: s. entlang 1.
    2.

    [nicht] wissen, wo es lang geht — (fig.) [not] know what it's all about

    * * *
    adj.
    long adj. adv.
    a long time adv.
    for a long time adv.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > lang

  • 18 наредя

    вж. нареждам
    * * *
    наредя̀,
    нарѐждам гл.
    1. ( подреждам) arrange; ( слагам в ред) put/set in order; (за показ) lay out; ( войски в боен ред ­ разполагам) draw out, draw up; войниците бяха наредени по пътя the soldiers were strung out along the road; \наредя в редици line up; \наредя витрина dress/arrange a shop-window; \наредя войници в бойни редици line up; \наредя декори set the stage; \наредя дърва stack wood; \наредя масата set (out) the table with food; \наредя пасианс play patience; \наредя по азбучен ред arrange in alphabetical order; \наредя по височина line up in order of height; \наредя си картите sort o.’s cards; \наредя си книгите/къщата/работите arrange o.’s books/house/affairs; \наредя стая furnish a room; tidy a room, put a room in order; \наредя фигури на шах set up the board; сам \наредя живота си make o.’s own life;
    2. ( давам нареждане, заповядвам) order, direct (s.o. to do s.th.); give orders/instructions (for s.th. to be done, that s.th. should be done); give the word to s.o.; arrange, order, decree s.th. to be done/that s.th. should be done; have s.th. done;
    3. ( уреждам) arrange (to do s.th.; that s.th. should be done), make arrangements; кой както я нареди some get on and some don’t; \наредя децата си в живота settle o.’s children; \наредя работата fix things up; той нареди всичките си роднини на хубави служби he found good jobs for all his relatives; хубаво сте я наредили ирон. you’ve made a nice mess of it all; ще я наредим някак we’ll fix it up somehow;
    4. ( заплашително ­ наказвам, отмъщавам) fix; аз (хубаво) ще те наредя (тебе) I’ll fix you, I’ll settle you, I’ll settle your hash, I’ll cook your goose for you; хубаво ме нареди you’ve landed me in a nice fix;
    \наредя се 1. (в къща и пр.) settle (in), establish/fix o.s.;
    2. ( подреждам се) line up; draw up (in a line); войниците се наредиха в боен ред the troops drew up in order of battle; \наредя се в първите редици на join the first ranks of; \наредя се на опашката take o.’s place in the queue; \наредя се на първо място rank first; нареждаме се на опашка form a queue, queue up;
    3. ( подреждам си живота, работите); добре сте се наредили ( добре сте си уредили живота) you’ve fixed yourselves up very nicely; кой както се нареди some get on and some don’t; наредил се е в живота he is a made man; \наредя се в живота rise in the world, climb up the social ladder; той винаги се нарежда he always gets the best of everything;
    4. ( уреждам се) get fixed up; всичко се нареди много добре за него it worked out very well for him; всичко ще се нареди everything will be all right, everything is going to be all right, everything will be OK, things will come right; работите се нареждат добре things are turning out all right;
    5. прен. ( попадам в затруднено положение) get o.s. in a mess/fix/pickle; be in a tight corner, be in hot water, be in a fine pickle; добре се наредихме we’re in a fine predicament; we’re in for it now; here’s a pretty go; хубаво си се наредил a nice mess/fix/pickle you’ve got yourself in.
    * * *
    вж. нареждам

    Български-английски речник > наредя

  • 19 растянутый

    1) General subject: extended, lengthy, long-drawn, longspun, outstretched, overstuffed, prolate, prolate (в ширину), protensive, protracted, redundant, sheeted, slow footed, slow-footed, sprawling, strained, long-drawn-out
    2) Aviation: cross-braced
    3) Military: strung-out
    4) Automobile industry: tensile
    5) Metallurgy: elongated
    6) Oil: pulling up
    7) Drilling: PU (pulled up), expanded, in tension
    9) Dog breeding: long coupled

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > растянутый

  • 20 scoppiato agg

    [skop'pjato] scoppiato (-a)
    (fig : pugile) played out, (drogato) strung out

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > scoppiato agg

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