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the Long Parliament

  • 1 Westminster Assembly (Assembly called by the English Long Parliament to reform the Church of England, wrote the Larger and Shorter Westminster catechisms, the Westminster Confession, and the Directory of Public Worship)

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  • 2 long

    long [lɒŋ] (compar longer ['lɒŋgə(r)], superl longest ['lɒŋgɪst])
    (a) (in size) long (longue);
    how long is the pool? quelle est la longueur de la piscine?, la piscine fait combien de long?;
    the pool's 33 metres long la piscine fait 33 mètres de long;
    the article is 80 pages long l'article fait 80 pages;
    is it a long way (away)? est-ce loin (d'ici)?;
    it's a long way to the beach la plage est loin;
    she can throw a long way elle lance loin;
    to take the long way round prendre le chemin le plus long;
    the best by a long way de loin le meilleur;
    to get or grow longer (shadows) s'allonger; (hair, beard) pousser;
    long in the leg aux longues jambes;
    a long face un visage allongé;
    figurative to have or pull a long face faire la tête, faire une tête de six pieds de long;
    why the long face? pourquoi est-ce que tu fais cette tête de six pieds de long?
    (b) (in time → pause, speech, separation) long (longue);
    how long will the flight be/was the meeting? combien de temps durera le vol/a duré la réunion?;
    the film is three hours long le film dure trois heures;
    her five-year-long battle with the authorities sa lutte de cinq années contre les autorités;
    to have a long memory avoir une bonne mémoire;
    to have a long talk with sb parler longuement avec qn;
    to get longer (days, intervals) devenir plus long;
    they want longer holidays ils veulent des vacances plus longues;
    she took a long swig of beer elle a bu une grande gorgée de bière;
    they took a long look at the view ils restèrent longtemps à regarder la vue qui s'offrait à eux;
    it was a long two months ces deux mois ont été longs;
    I've had a long day j'ai eu une journée bien remplie;
    in the long term à long terme;
    it will take a long time cela prendra longtemps, ce sera long;
    a long time ago il y a (bien) longtemps;
    it's a long time since I was (last) in Paris ça fait longtemps que je ne suis pas allé à Paris;
    I've been wanting to go for a long time ça fait longtemps que j'ai envie d'y aller;
    I've known her (for) a long time or while je la connais depuis longtemps, cela fait longtemps que je la connais;
    it was a long haul (journey) le voyage a été long; (task, recovery) c'était un travail de longue haleine;
    at long last! enfin!
    (c) Grammar (vowel, syllable) long (longue)
    they're long on copper, they've taken a long position on copper ils ont investi dans le cuivre
    that serve was long ce service était trop long
    she's long on good ideas elle n'est pas à court de bonnes idées, ce ne sont pas les bonnes idées qui lui manquent;
    his speeches are long on rhetoric but short on substance ce n'est pas la rhétorique qui manque dans ses discours, c'est la substance
    2 noun
    (a) Grammar (vowel, syllable) longue f
    (b) Finance (bill) effet m à longue échéance
    the long and the short of it is that I got fired enfin bref, j'ai été viré;
    that's the long and the short of it! un point c'est tout!
    (a) (a long time) longtemps;
    they live longer than humans ils vivent plus longtemps que les êtres humains;
    he won't keep you long/much longer il ne vous gardera pas longtemps/beaucoup plus longtemps;
    I haven't been here long ça ne fait pas longtemps que je suis là;
    they haven't been married long ça ne fait pas longtemps qu'ils sont mariés, ils ne sont pas mariés depuis longtemps;
    how long will he be/was he in jail? (pendant) combien de temps restera-t-il/est-il resté en prison?;
    how long has he been in jail? ça fait combien de temps qu'il est en prison?, depuis combien de temps est-il en prison?;
    how long is it since we last visited them? quand sommes-nous allés les voir pour la dernière fois?;
    it happened long ago/not long ago cela s'est passé il y a longtemps/il n'y a pas longtemps;
    as long ago as 1937 déjà en 1937;
    long before you were born bien avant que tu sois né;
    not long before/after their divorce peu avant/après leur divorce;
    the decision had been taken long before la décision avait été prise depuis longtemps;
    long after or afterwards, when these events were mostly forgotten... bien après, alors que ces évènements étaient presque complètement oubliés...;
    colleagues long since promoted des collègues promus depuis longtemps;
    a law which had come into force not long since une loi qui était entrée en vigueur depuis peu;
    to look at sb/sth long and hard fixer qn/qch longuement;
    figurative to look at sth long and hard se pencher longuement sur qch;
    I've thought long and hard about this j'y ai longuement réfléchi;
    we talked long into the night nous avons parlé jusque tard dans la nuit
    (b) (with "be", "take")
    will you be long? tu en as pour longtemps?;
    I won't be long je n'en ai pas pour longtemps;
    please wait, she won't be long attendez, s'il vous plaît, elle ne va pas tarder;
    are you going to be much longer? tu en as encore pour longtemps?;
    how much longer will he be? (when will he be ready?) il en a encore pour longtemps?; (when will he arrive?) dans combien de temps sera-t-il là?;
    don't be or take too long fais vite;
    it wasn't long before he realized, it didn't take long for him to realize il n'a pas mis longtemps à s'en rendre compte, il s'en est vite rendu compte;
    he wasn't long in coming il n'a pas tardé à venir;
    he took or it took him so long to make up his mind... il a mis si longtemps à se décider..., il lui a fallu tellement de temps pour se décider...;
    how long does it take to get there? combien de temps faut-il pour y aller?;
    this won't take long ça va être vite fait;
    this won't take longer than five minutes ça sera fait en moins de cinq minutes
    (c) (in wishes, toasts)
    long may our partnership continue! à notre collaboration!;
    long live the Queen! vive la reine!
    (d) (for a long time) depuis longtemps;
    it has long been known that... on sait depuis longtemps que...;
    I have long suspected that he was involved in it cela fait longtemps que je le soupçonne ou je le soupçonne depuis longtemps d'être impliqué là-dedans;
    the longest-running TV series le feuilleton télévisé qui existe depuis le plus longtemps
    all day/week long toute la journée/la semaine;
    all my life long toute ma vie
    to go long acheter à la hausse, prendre une position longue;
    to buy long acheter à long terme
    so long! salut!, à bientôt!
    I long for him il me manque énormément;
    she was longing for a letter from you elle attendait impatiemment que vous lui écriviez;
    we were longing for a cup of tea nous avions très envie d'une tasse de thé;
    to long or to be longing to do sth être impatient ou avoir hâte de faire qch;
    he's longing to go back to Italy il meurt d'envie de retourner en Italie;
    I was longing to tell her the truth je mourais d'envie de lui dire la vérité;
    I've been longing to meet you for years cela fait des années que je souhaite faire votre connaissance
    Stock Exchange titres mpl longs, obligations fpl longues
    (a) (during the time that) aussi longtemps que, tant que;
    as long as he's in power, there will be no hope tant qu'il sera au pouvoir, il n'y aura aucun espoir;
    I'll never forget that day for as long as I live jamais de ma vie je n'oublierai ce jour
    (b) (providing) à condition que, pourvu que;
    you can have it as long as you give me it back vous pouvez le prendre à condition que ou pourvu que vous me le rendiez;
    I'll do it as long as I get paid for it je le ferai à condition d'être payé;
    you can go out as long as you're back before midnight tu peux sortir à condition de rentrer avant minuit;
    as long as you're happy du moment que tu es heureux
    as long as you're going to the post office get me some stamps puisque tu vas à la poste, achète-moi des timbres
    (soon) dans peu de temps, sous peu; (soon afterwards) peu (de temps) après;
    she'll be back before long elle sera de retour dans peu de temps ou sous peu;
    before long, everything had returned to normal tout était rapidement rentré dans l'ordre
    longtemps;
    he's still in charge here, but not for long c'est encore lui qui s'en occupe, mais plus pour longtemps
    ne...plus;
    not any longer plus maintenant;
    she no longer loves him elle ne l'aime plus;
    I can't wait any longer je ne peux pas attendre plus longtemps, je ne peux plus attendre;
    they used to live there, but not any longer ils habitaient là autrefois, mais plus maintenant
    ►► long black grand café m noir;
    Finance long credit crédit m à long terme;
    long drink long drink m; (non-alcoholic) = grand verre de jus de fruits, de limonade etc;
    Finance long hedge couverture f longue, achat m par couverture;
    Long Island Long Island;
    on Long Island à Long Island;
    Long Island iced tea = cocktail composé de cinq alcools, de bitter et de Coca-Cola;
    familiar long johns caleçon m long, caleçons mpl longs ;
    Sport long jump saut m en longueur;
    Sport long jumper sauteur(euse) m,f en longueur;
    History the Long March la Longue Marche;
    American long pants pantalon m long;
    the Long Parliament le Long Parlement, = Parlement convoqué par Charles Ier en 1640, renvoyé par Cromwell en 1653 et dissous en 1660;
    long pig chair f humaine;
    Stock Exchange long position position f acheteur ou longue;
    to take a long position acheter à la hausse, prendre une position longue;
    long shot (competitor, racehorse etc) outsider m; (bet) pari m risqué; Cinema plan m éloigné; figurative entreprise f hasardeuse;
    it's a bit of a long shot il y a peu de chances pour que cela réussisse;
    it's a bit of a long shot, but we may be successful c'est une entreprise hasardeuse mais nous réussirons peut-être;
    I haven't finished, not by a long shot je n'ai pas fini, loin de là;
    Technology long ton tonne f anglaise;
    long trousers pantalon m long;
    University long vacation grandes vacances fpl, vacances fpl d'été;
    long view prévisions fpl à long terme;
    to take the long view envisager les choses à long terme;
    long vodka = cocktail à base de vodka, de bitter, de sirop de citron vert et de soda ou limonade;
    Radio long wave grandes ondes fpl;
    on long wave sur les grandes ondes;
    long weekend week-end m prolongé;
    to take a long weekend prendre un week-end prolongé
    ✾ Play 'Long Day's Journey into Night' O'Neill 'Long Voyage vers la nuit'

    Un panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > long

  • 3 long

    long [lɒŋ]
    1. a
    1) дли́нный;

    long measures ме́ры длины́

    ;

    at long range на большо́м расстоя́нии

    ;

    a long mile до́брая ми́ля

    ;

    long waves радио дли́нные во́лны

    2) до́лгий;

    long look до́лгий взгляд

    ;

    long vacation ле́тние кани́кулы

    ;
    а) до́лгое проща́ние;
    б) проща́ние надо́лго
    3) име́ющий такую-то длину́ или продолжи́тельность;

    a mile long длино́й в одну́ ми́лю

    ;

    an hour long продолжа́ющийся в тече́ние ча́са

    4) ску́чный, многосло́вный
    5) удлинённый, продолгова́тый
    6) дли́тельный; давно́ существу́ющий;

    a long custom давни́шний, стари́нный обы́чай

    ;

    a friendship (an illness) of long standing стари́нная дру́жба (застаре́лая боле́знь)

    7) фон., прос. до́лгий ( о гласном звуке)
    8) фин. долгосро́чный
    9) ме́дленный; медли́тельный;

    how long he is! как он копа́ется!

    10) обши́рный, многочи́сленный;

    long family огро́мная семья́

    ;

    long bill дли́нный, разду́тый счёт

    ;

    long price непоме́рная цена́

    ;

    long shillings хоро́ший за́работок

    long ears глу́пость

    ;

    to make ( или to pull) a long face помрачне́ть

    ;

    to make a long nose показа́ть «нос»

    ;

    long greens амер. разг. бума́жные де́ньги; «зелёные»

    ;

    long head проница́тельность, предусмотри́тельность

    ;

    long nine амер. разг. дешёвая сига́ра

    ;

    long odds большо́е нера́венство ста́вок; нера́вные ша́нсы

    ;

    L. Tom

    а) дальнобо́йная пу́шка;
    б) разг. дли́нная сига́ра;

    L. Parliament ист. До́лгий парла́мент

    ;

    long in the teeth ста́рый

    ;

    to get a long start over smb. значи́тельно опереди́ть кого́-л.

    ;

    in the long run в конце́ концо́в

    2. adv
    1) давно́; до́лгое вре́мя (перед, спустя);

    long before задо́лго до

    ;

    long after до́лгое вре́мя спустя́

    ;

    long since уже́ давны́м-давно́

    2):

    his life long в тече́ние всей его́ жи́зни, всю его́ жизнь

    3) до́лго;

    as long as пока́

    ;

    stay for as long as you like остава́йтесь сто́лько, ско́лько вам бу́дет уго́дно

    ;

    long live... да здра́вствует...

    3. n
    1) до́лгий срок, до́лгое вре́мя;

    for long надо́лго

    ;

    before long ско́ро; вско́ре

    ;

    will not take long не займёт мно́го вре́мени

    2) фон. до́лгий гла́сный
    3) (the longs) = long vacation [см. long Ⅰ, 1, 2)]

    the long and the short of it коро́че говоря́, сло́вом

    long [lɒŋ] v
    1) стра́стно жела́ть (чего-л.), стреми́ться (to, for — к чему-л.)
    2) тоскова́ть

    Англо-русский словарь Мюллера > long

  • 4 long

    ̈ɪlɔŋ I
    1. прил.
    1) (протяженный в пространстве) а) длинный;
    больше своей ширины long legs/arms/fingernails/nose ≈ длинные ноги, руки, ногти, нос long road/journey ≈ дальняя дорога long distance ≈ дальнее расстояние the long side of the room ≈ длина комнаты it's a long way to go ≈ это далеко he came from a long way off ≈ прибыл он издалека a long way aboutнемалый крюк (объезд) at long rangeна большом расстоянии long measuresмеры длины long wavesдлинные волны б) редк., иногда шутл. долговязый, высокий Syn: tall в) обладающий определенной протяженностью;
    имеющий такую-то длину a mile/ seven yards long ≈ длиной в одну милю, семь ярдов how long your nose is? ≈ какой длины твой нос?
    2) (протяженный во времени) а) долгий, длительный, существующий давно;
    продолжительный;
    затяжной long vacationлетние каникулы( в университетах и судах Великобритании) a long(-lasting) relationship/friendship/love ≈ длительные отношения, старинная дружба, любовь надолго an illness of long standing ≈ застарелая болезнь long cold winter ≈ долгая холодная зима a long beer, drink ≈ разг. пиво, коктейль и т. п. в высоком стакане she gave him a long look/stare ≈ она долго/пристально посмотрела на него long custom/tradition ≈ старинный обычай/давняя традиция long words ≈ долгая речь long memory ≈ долгая, хорошая память we took a long farewell а) мы долго прощались б) мы расставались надолго wait a while long ≈ подождите еще немного I shall not wait (any) long ≈ не буду больше ждать( two days, a week) at (the) longestсамое большее (два дня, неделю) for a long timeочень долго a long time ago ≈ очень давно long time no see ≈ амер. шутл. якобы коверкая язык давно не виделись! in the long termдолгосрочный;
    перспективный long service ≈ воен. сверхсрочная служба б) обладающий определенной протяженностью, длящийся столько-то a (whole) life long ≈ длиной в (целую) жизнь;
    всю жизнь an hour/three hours long ≈ часовой( продолжительностью в один час) трехчасовой how long does it take you to get there? ≈ сколько времени тебе понадобится, чтобы добраться туда?
    3) долгий, медленный;
    неспешный, медлительный How long he is! ≈ Что он так долго?! a long count by the referee ≈ (нарочно) медленный отсчет времени судьей (в спорте и т. п.) to be long about smth., to be long doing smth. ≈ копошиться, копаться (делая что-л.) ;
    возиться, канителиться( с чем-л.)
    4) а) длинный, большой;
    обширный (состоящий из многих пунктов, насчитывающий много объектов) long list ≈ огромный, длинный список( a book) 300 pages long ≈ (книга) в триста страниц long familyбольшая, многодетная семья long shillings ≈ ид. длинный рубль, хороший заработок б) огромный, избыточный, непомерно высокий long oddsкарт. высокие ставки long billраздутый счет long prices ≈ непомерные, бешеные цены the guy's a long purse! ≈ у него денег до черта! Syn: high I
    1., large
    1.
    5) длинный, далекий( далеко направленный, посланный, пущенный и т. п.) a long left jab ≈ длинный удар левой( в боксе) to hit the long ball ≈ выбить мяч далеко, сильно ударить( в футболе и т. п.) long trainпоезд дальнего следования( от long distance train)
    6) фон.;
    просодика а) долгий (гласный) ;
    слоговой( об элементе дифтонга) б) ударный
    7) направленный в будущее, относящийся к будущему а) отдаленный, отложенный на будущее long date ≈ отдаленный срок long thoughts ≈ мысли о будущем long guess ≈ долгосрочный прогноз, ожидание на будущее б) фин. долгосрочный a long note/bill, leaseдолгосрочный вексель, аренда
    8) (on) отличающийся( какой-л. чертой) ;
    тж. амер. сл. богатый( чем-л.), сильный в чем-л. long suit ≈ перен. сильная сторона( кого-л.) ;
    ориг. карт. длинная масть to be long on common senseбыть весьма здравомыслящим long on hope ≈ не переставать надеяться long on patience ≈ очень долго хранить терпение he-s long on weed ≈ у него еще большая куча травы Syn: strong
    1.
    9) эмфат., усил. целый, добрый long mile ≈ целая миля, не меньше мили to be waiting for a long hour ≈ ждать битый час
    10) продолговатый, удлиненныйлюбых фигурах, глазах и т. п.)
    11) бирж. играющий на повышение they are now long on wheatсейчас они играют на повышение цен на пшеницу take a long position in steelпринимать обязательства по срочным сделкам при игре на повышение цен на сталь ∙ long greens long nine Long Tom Long Parliament to make/pull a long face ≈ разг. помрачнеть long ears ≈ глупость, наивность a long head ≈ ум, башковитость;
    предусмотрительность to make a long nose ≈ показать 'нос' long in the tooth ≈ о лошади, тж. перен. старый to have a long tongue ≈ много болтать to get a long start over smb. ≈ значительно опередить кого-л. at long weapons ≈ воен. на расстоянии (перестреливаться)
    2. нареч.
    1) а) долго, длительно;
    в течение долгого времени it won't be long ≈ это ненадолго stay for as long as you like ≈ оставайтесь столько, сколько вам будет угодно long a popular hangout ≈ долгое время популярное заведение I, you, etc. may (do something) long enough ≈ ид. хоть в лепешку разбейся;
    как горохом об стену можешь стараться сколько угодно - все бесполезно б) до определенного времени didn't stay longer than midnight ≈ до полуночи уже ушла it is no longer possible ≈ это уже/более невозможно
    2) далеко, на далекое расстояние I didn't travel that long ≈ не то, чтобы я так далеко ездил threw the ball long ≈ запустил, бросил мяч далеко Syn: far
    2.
    3) а) давно, задолго до (особенно long before) long before you were born ≈ задолго до твоего появления на свет was excited long before the big day ≈ был весь в нервном напряжении еще задолго до событие long ago/since ≈ давным-давно/уже очень давно to be past long ≈ иметь место, пройти давно б) потом;
    долгое время спустя( особенно long after) long after midnight ≈ далеко заполночь
    4) усил. полностью, целиком all day/night long ≈ целый день/всю ночь (напролет) all smb.'s life long ≈ всю свою жизнь;
    в течение всей своей жизни
    5) бирж. на повышение to go long 100 sharesкупить 100 акций в расчете на повышение ∙ as long asпока;
    до тех пор, пока so longпока! до свидания! long live ≈ да здравствует...
    3. сущ.
    1) долгое время;
    долгий срок, долгий период времени before longскоро;
    вскоре, в ближайшем времени for long ≈ надолго, на долгое время it can take long ≈ это может занять много времени it didn't take him long to come ≈ его ждать долго не пришлось
    2) фон. долгий гласный;
    слоговой гласный дифтонга
    3) (the longs) летние каникулы( в университетах и судах Великобритании) Syn: long vacation
    4) бирж. маклер, спекулянт, играющий на повышение
    5) мн. а) брюки, длинные штаныпротивопоставление shorts) б) большие размеры мужской одежды ∙ the long and short the long and the short II гл. очень хотеть, страстно желать( чего-л.), испытывать потребность( в чем-л.), стремиться (to, for - к чему-л.) I long for you ≈ ты мне очень нужен, я не могу без тебя after she left me I was longing for a change in my life ≈ после того, как она меня покинула, мне очень хотелось радикально изменить свою жизнь he was longing for a shower ≈ он не мог дождаться момента, когда он сможет принять душ they long for peace but are driven to war ≈ им очень хочется мира, а их заставляют воевать I'm longing for a smoke ≈ очень хочется курить, умру без сигареты Syn: yearn, wish
    2., desire
    2., to be eager долгий срок;
    длительный период;
    большой промежуток времени - for * надолго, на большой срок - I shan't be away for * я уезжаю ненадолго, я скоро вернусь - before * скоро, в ближайшее время - we shall see you before * мы увидимся с вами в скором времени - it is * since we saw him мы уже давно его не видели, прошло много времени с тех пор, как мы его видели - it will not take * это не займет много времени - he did not take * to answer он не замедлил ответить - will you take * over it? вы скоро кончите? (стихосложение) долгий слог - four *s and six shorts четыре долгих слога и шесть коротких - *s and shorts стих, стихотворная строчка( особ. латинская) (фонетика) долгий гласный (музыкальное) лонга (the L.) (разговорное) сокр. от long vacation (биржевое) покупатель ценных бумаг (биржевое) спекулянт, играющий на повышение (длинные) брюки большие роста (мужской одежды) > the * and the short of smth. самая суть, самое главное( в чем-л.) > the * and the short of it is that they won короче говоря /все дело в том, что/ они выиграли длинный - * hair длинные волосы - * distance большое /далекое/ расстояние - * journey дальний /долгий/ путь - a * way off далеко - from a * way off издалека - a * way to go далеко (докуда-л.) - at * range на большом расстоянии;
    с большого расстояния - a * way about (большой) крюк, объезд - * waves (радиотехника) длинные волны - on the * wave на длинной волне - a novel 300 pages * роман( длиной) в 300 страниц (редкое) высокий, долговязый долгий, продолжительный, длительный - * life долгая жизнь - * visit длительный визит - * years долгие годы - * halt (военное) большой привал - * service( военное) сверхсрочная служба - L. Service and Good Conduct Medal медаль "За долголетнюю и безупречную службу" - * farewell долгое прощание;
    прощание надолго - * look долгий взгляд - * custom давнишний /старинный/ обычай - at (the) *est самое большее - we can wait only three days at (the) *est мы можем ждать самое большее три дня - for a * time долго, давно;
    надолго - a * time ago много времени тому назад;
    давным-давно - a * time before the war задолго до войны - it will be a * time before we meet again мы теперь не скоро встретимся опять - in the * term перспективный;
    долгосрочный имеющий такую-то длину;
    длиной в... - ten feet * длиной в десять футов - how * is this river? какова длина этой реки? имеющий такую-то продолжительность;
    продолжительностью в... - an hour * продолжающийся один час, часовой отдаленный - * date отдаленный срок (финансовое) долгосрочный - * bill долгосрочный вексель - to draw at a * date выставить долгосрочный вексель - * lease долгосрочная аренда - * guess загадывание( на будущее) ;
    долгосрочный прогноз медленный, медлительный - * illness затяжная болезнь - how * he is! как он копается! - to be * about smth., to be * doing smth. канителиться, копаться (с чем-л.) - the opportunity was not * in coming случай не замедлил представиться, случай пришлось ждать недолго томительный, скучный - the * hours dragged slowly by долгие, томительные часы тянулись так медленно - the days never seemed *, so full of interest were they заполненные интересными событиями, (эти) дни быстро пролетели - I had not seen him for many a * day я его целую вечность не видел (разговорное) многочисленный, обширный;
    состоящий из множества пунктов, большого числа членов и т. п. - * family очень большая /многодетная/ семья - * bill длинный счет;
    раздутый счет большой - * price непомерная цена - * purse много денег, толстый кошелек удлиненный, продолговатый - * square (вытянутый) прямоугольник - * slanted eyes миндалевидные раскосые глаза (фонетика) (стихосложение) долгий (о гласном, о слоге) - * mark знак долготы (:), (-) (грамматика) полный - * form полная форма( прилагательного и т. п.) целый - * mile добрая миля, не меньше мили - * hour целый /добрый/ час (on) богатый (чем-л.) ;
    сильный (в чем-л.) - he is * on common sense здравый смысл - его сильная сторона - they are * on hope их никогда не оставляет надежда( биржевое) играющий на повышение - * position обзательства /позиция/ по срочным сделкам при игре на повышение - to be * on exchange играть на повышение курса валюты > * tongue длинный язык, болтливость > * ears глупость;
    глуп, как осел > * suit (карточное) длинная масть;
    превосходство, преимущество( в чем-л.) > * finger средний палец руки > * bone (анатомия) трубчатая кость > a * dozen тринадцать;
    чертова дюжина > L. Tom дальнобойная пушка;
    длинная сигара;
    длинная глиняная трубка > * home могила > to make a * nose показать (длинный) нос > * hot summer (американизм) (историческое) период расовых столкновений и борьбы негров за свои права > * head проницательность;
    предусмотрительность > to have a * head быть проницательным или предусмотрительным > to take * views проявлять предусмотрительность, быть дальновидным > to take the * view of smth. рассматривать что-л. в перспективе /с точки зрения возможностей чего-л./ > to have a * wind обладать способностью долго бежать или долго говорить не задыхаясь > in the * run в конечном счете, в результате > to make /to cut/ a * story short короче говоря > * in the tooth старый (о коне) ;
    пожилой, в годах > she is rather * in the tooth она уже не первой молодости > by a * chalk намного, значительно > he is not * for this world он не жилец на этом свете долго;
    длительно - how * do you mean to stay in London? сколько времени вы думаете пробыть в Лондоне? - I shan't be * я скоро вернусь, я не задержусь - we've * been intending to call on you мы уже давно собираемся навестить вас - we can't wait any *er, we can wait no *er мы больше не можем ждать - he does not work here any *er он здесь больше не работает - it is no *er possible это уже невозможно давно;
    долгое время (спустя или перед чем-л.) - * after спустя много времени - * before задолго до - * before we were born задолго до нас - * ago /since/ давно - it was * past midnight было далеко за полночь - these events are * past все это случилось давно - she is * since dead она давно уже умерла (усилительно) полностью;
    с начала до конца - all day * целый день;
    день-деньской - all night * всю ночь напролет - all his life * всю свою долгую жизнь;
    в течение всей своей жизни (биржевое) на повышение - we went * 500 shares мы купили 500 акций в расчете на повышение > as * as пока (тж. so * as) > as * as I live пока я жив > you may stay there as * as you like вы можете оставаться там сколько (за) хотите > so * as если только, при условии, что > so *! до свидания! > * live...! да здравствует...! (for, after) страстно желать;
    стремиться - to * to go away стремиться уйти - to * for smb. тосковать, скучать по кому-л. - to * for a change жаждать перемены - we are *ing to see you мы очень хотим повидаться с вами - I *ed for a drink я ужасно хотел пить /выпить/;
    у меня в горле пересохло - we are *ing for your return мы ждем не дождемся вашего возвращения ~ имеющий такую-то длину или продолжительность;
    a mile long длиной в одну милю;
    an hour long продолжающийся в течение часа ~ долго;
    as long as пока;
    stay for as long as you like оставайтесь столько, сколько вам будет угодно;
    long live... да здравствует... ~ длинный;
    long measures меры длины;
    at long range на большом расстоянии;
    a long mile добрая миля;
    long waves радио длинные волны ~ долгий срок, долгое время;
    for long надолго;
    before long скоро;
    вскоре;
    will not take long не займет много времени a ~ farewell прощание надолго;
    a friendship (an illness) of long standing старинная дружба (застарелая болезнь) ;
    long vacation летние каникулы Long Parliament ист. Долгий парламент;
    long in the teeth старый;
    to get a long start over (smb.) значительно опередить (кого-л.) go ~ играть большую роль go ~ иметь большое влияние ~ медленный;
    медлительный;
    how long he is! как он копается! long большой промежуток времени ~ давно;
    долгое время (перед, спустя) ;
    long before задолго до;
    long after долгое время спустя;
    long since уже давным-давно ~ длинный;
    long measures меры длины;
    at long range на большом расстоянии;
    a long mile добрая миля;
    long waves радио длинные волны ~ длинный ~ длительный период ~ фон., прос. долгий (о гласном звуке) ~ долгий;
    длительный;
    давно существующий;
    long look долгий взгляд;
    a long custom давнишний, старинный обычай ~ фон. долгий гласный ~ долгий срок, долгое время;
    for long надолго;
    before long скоро;
    вскоре;
    will not take long не займет много времени ~ долго;
    as long as пока;
    stay for as long as you like оставайтесь столько, сколько вам будет угодно;
    long live... да здравствует... ~ долгосрочная ценная бумага ~ фин. долгосрочный;
    long ears глупость ~ долгосрочный ~ имеющий такую-то длину или продолжительность;
    a mile long длиной в одну милю;
    an hour long продолжающийся в течение часа ~ медленный;
    медлительный;
    how long he is! как он копается! ~ pl мужская одежда больших размеров ~ наличие у банка определенной суммы в иностранной валюте ~ обширный, многочисленный;
    long family огромная семья;
    long bill длинный, раздутый счет;
    long price непомерная цена;
    long shillings хороший заработок ~ покупатель ценных бумаг ~ скучный, многословный ~ спекулянт, играющий на повышение курса ~ срочная позиция, образовавшаяся в результате покупки фьючерсных и опционных контрактов ~ страстно желать (чего-л.), стремиться (to, for - к чему-л.) ~ тосковать ~ удлиненный, продолговатый ~ ценные бумаги, принадлежащие инвестору ~ (the longs) = ~ vacation;
    the ~ and the short of it короче говоря, словом longer: longer сравн. ст. от long;
    wait a while longer подождите еще немного;
    I shall not wait (any) longer не буду больше ждать longest: longest превосх. ст. от long;
    (a week) at longest самое большее (неделю) ~ давно;
    долгое время (перед, спустя) ;
    long before задолго до;
    long after долгое время спустя;
    long since уже давным-давно ~ (the longs) = ~ vacation;
    the ~ and the short of it короче говоря, словом ~ долгий;
    длительный;
    давно существующий;
    long look долгий взгляд;
    a long custom давнишний, старинный обычай ~ фин. долгосрочный;
    long ears глупость ~ обширный, многочисленный;
    long family огромная семья;
    long bill длинный, раздутый счет;
    long price непомерная цена;
    long shillings хороший заработок a ~ farewell долгое прощание a ~ farewell прощание надолго;
    a friendship (an illness) of long standing старинная дружба (застарелая болезнь) ;
    long vacation летние каникулы ~ greens амер. разг. бумажные деньги ~ head проницательность, предусмотрительность ~ adv his life ~ в течение всей его жизни, всю его жизнь Long Parliament ист. Долгий парламент;
    long in the teeth старый;
    to get a long start over (smb.) значительно опередить (кого-л.) ~ долго;
    as long as пока;
    stay for as long as you like оставайтесь столько, сколько вам будет угодно;
    long live... да здравствует... ~ долгий;
    длительный;
    давно существующий;
    long look долгий взгляд;
    a long custom давнишний, старинный обычай ~ длинный;
    long measures меры длины;
    at long range на большом расстоянии;
    a long mile добрая миля;
    long waves радио длинные волны ~ длинный;
    long measures меры длины;
    at long range на большом расстоянии;
    a long mile добрая миля;
    long waves радио длинные волны ~ nine амер. разг. дешевая сигара ~ odds большое неравенство ставок;
    неравные шансы odds: long (short) ~ неравные (почти равные) шансы;
    odds on шансы на выигрыш выше, чем у противника Long Parliament ист. Долгий парламент;
    long in the teeth старый;
    to get a long start over (smb.) значительно опередить (кого-л.) ~ обширный, многочисленный;
    long family огромная семья;
    long bill длинный, раздутый счет;
    long price непомерная цена;
    long shillings хороший заработок ~ обширный, многочисленный;
    long family огромная семья;
    long bill длинный, раздутый счет;
    long price непомерная цена;
    long shillings хороший заработок ~ давно;
    долгое время (перед, спустя) ;
    long before задолго до;
    long after долгое время спустя;
    long since уже давным-давно Long Tom дальнобойная пушка Long Tom разг. длинная сигара Tom: Tom название большого колокола или орудия, напр.: Long Tom ист. "Длинный Том" a ~ farewell прощание надолго;
    a friendship (an illness) of long standing старинная дружба (застарелая болезнь) ;
    long vacation летние каникулы ~ (the longs) = ~ vacation;
    the ~ and the short of it короче говоря, словом vacation: ~ каникулы;
    the long vacation летние каникулы ~ длинный;
    long measures меры длины;
    at long range на большом расстоянии;
    a long mile добрая миля;
    long waves радио длинные волны wave: ~ радио сигнал;
    волна;
    long (medium, short) waves длинные (средние, короткие) волны to make (или to pull) a ~ face помрачнеть to make a ~ nose показать "нос" ~ имеющий такую-то длину или продолжительность;
    a mile long длиной в одну милю;
    an hour long продолжающийся в течение часа so ~ разг. пока!, до свидания! ~ долго;
    as long as пока;
    stay for as long as you like оставайтесь столько, сколько вам будет угодно;
    long live... да здравствует... ~ долгий срок, долгое время;
    for long надолго;
    before long скоро;
    вскоре;
    will not take long не займет много времени

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > long

  • 5 long

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    long имеющий такую-то длину или продолжительность; a mile long длиной в одну милю; an hour long продолжающийся в течение часа long долго; as long as пока; stay for as long as you like оставайтесь столько, сколько вам будет угодно; long live... да здравствует... long длинный; long measures меры длины; at long range на большом расстоянии; a long mile добрая миля; long waves радио длинные волны long долгий срок, долгое время; for long надолго; before long скоро; вскоре; will not take long не займет много времени a long farewell прощание надолго; a friendship (an illness) of long standing старинная дружба (застарелая болезнь); long vacation летние каникулы Long Parliament ист. Долгий парламент; long in the teeth старый; to get a long start over (smb.) значительно опередить (кого-л.) go long играть большую роль go long иметь большое влияние long медленный; медлительный; how long he is! как он копается! long большой промежуток времени long давно; долгое время (перед, спустя); long before задолго до; long after долгое время спустя; long since уже давным-давно long длинный; long measures меры длины; at long range на большом расстоянии; a long mile добрая миля; long waves радио длинные волны long длинный long длительный период long фон., прос. долгий (о гласном звуке) long долгий; длительный; давно существующий; long look долгий взгляд; a long custom давнишний, старинный обычай long фон. долгий гласный long долгий срок, долгое время; for long надолго; before long скоро; вскоре; will not take long не займет много времени long долго; as long as пока; stay for as long as you like оставайтесь столько, сколько вам будет угодно; long live... да здравствует... long долгосрочная ценная бумага long фин. долгосрочный; long ears глупость long долгосрочный long имеющий такую-то длину или продолжительность; a mile long длиной в одну милю; an hour long продолжающийся в течение часа long медленный; медлительный; how long he is! как он копается! long pl мужская одежда больших размеров long наличие у банка определенной суммы в иностранной валюте long обширный, многочисленный; long family огромная семья; long bill длинный, раздутый счет; long price непомерная цена; long shillings хороший заработок long покупатель ценных бумаг long скучный, многословный long спекулянт, играющий на повышение курса long срочная позиция, образовавшаяся в результате покупки фьючерсных и опционных контрактов long страстно желать (чего-л.), стремиться (to, for - к чему-л.) long тосковать long удлиненный, продолговатый long ценные бумаги, принадлежащие инвестору long (the longs) = long vacation; the long and the short of it короче говоря, словом longer: longer сравн. ст. от long; wait a while longer подождите еще немного; I shall not wait (any) longer не буду больше ждать longest: longest превосх. ст. от long; (a week) at longest самое большее (неделю) long давно; долгое время (перед, спустя); long before задолго до; long after долгое время спустя; long since уже давным-давно long (the longs) = long vacation; the long and the short of it короче говоря, словом long долгий; длительный; давно существующий; long look долгий взгляд; a long custom давнишний, старинный обычай long фин. долгосрочный; long ears глупость long обширный, многочисленный; long family огромная семья; long bill длинный, раздутый счет; long price непомерная цена; long shillings хороший заработок a long farewell долгое прощание a long farewell прощание надолго; a friendship (an illness) of long standing старинная дружба (застарелая болезнь); long vacation летние каникулы long greens амер. разг. бумажные деньги long head проницательность, предусмотрительность long adv his life long в течение всей его жизни, всю его жизнь Long Parliament ист. Долгий парламент; long in the teeth старый; to get a long start over (smb.) значительно опередить (кого-л.) long долго; as long as пока; stay for as long as you like оставайтесь столько, сколько вам будет угодно; long live... да здравствует... long долгий; длительный; давно существующий; long look долгий взгляд; a long custom давнишний, старинный обычай long длинный; long measures меры длины; at long range на большом расстоянии; a long mile добрая миля; long waves радио длинные волны long длинный; long measures меры длины; at long range на большом расстоянии; a long mile добрая миля; long waves радио длинные волны long nine амер. разг. дешевая сигара long odds большое неравенство ставок; неравные шансы odds: long (short) long неравные (почти равные) шансы; odds on шансы на выигрыш выше, чем у противника Long Parliament ист. Долгий парламент; long in the teeth старый; to get a long start over (smb.) значительно опередить (кого-л.) long обширный, многочисленный; long family огромная семья; long bill длинный, раздутый счет; long price непомерная цена; long shillings хороший заработок long обширный, многочисленный; long family огромная семья; long bill длинный, раздутый счет; long price непомерная цена; long shillings хороший заработок long давно; долгое время (перед, спустя); long before задолго до; long after долгое время спустя; long since уже давным-давно Long Tom дальнобойная пушка Long Tom разг. длинная сигара Tom: Tom название большого колокола или орудия, напр.: Long Tom ист. "Длинный Том" a long farewell прощание надолго; a friendship (an illness) of long standing старинная дружба (застарелая болезнь); long vacation летние каникулы long (the longs) = long vacation; the long and the short of it короче говоря, словом vacation: long каникулы; the long vacation летние каникулы long длинный; long measures меры длины; at long range на большом расстоянии; a long mile добрая миля; long waves радио длинные волны wave: long радио сигнал; волна; long (medium, short) waves длинные (средние, короткие) волны to make (или to pull) a long face помрачнеть to make a long nose показать "нос" long имеющий такую-то длину или продолжительность; a mile long длиной в одну милю; an hour long продолжающийся в течение часа so long разг. пока!, до свидания! long долго; as long as пока; stay for as long as you like оставайтесь столько, сколько вам будет угодно; long live... да здравствует... long долгий срок, долгое время; for long надолго; before long скоро; вскоре; will not take long не займет много времени

    English-Russian short dictionary > long

  • 6 long

    I [lɔŋ] 1. прил.
    1)
    а) длинный; больше своей ширины

    long legs / arms / fingernails — длинные ноги, руки, ногти

    long road / journey — дальняя дорога

    He came from a long way off. — Прибыл он издалека.

    б) разг. долговязый, высокий
    Syn:
    в) обладающий определённой протяжённостью; имеющий такую-то длину

    a mile / seven yards long — длиной в одну милю, семь ярдов

    2)
    а) долгий, длительный, существующий давно; продолжительный; затяжной

    a long(-lasting) relationship / friendship / love — длительные отношения, старинная дружба, любовь надолго

    long custom / tradition — старинный обычай, давняя традиция

    long words — длинная, долгая речь

    long memory — долгая, хорошая память

    in the long term — долгосрочный; перспективный

    long serviceвоен. сверхсрочная служба

    Long time no see!амер.; шутл. Давно не виделись! ( намеренно коверкая язык)

    We took a long farewell. — Мы долго прощались.

    She gave him a long look / stare. — Она пристально посмотрела на него.

    б) обладающий определённой протяжённостью, длящийся столько-то

    a (whole) life long — длиной в (целую) жизнь; всю жизнь

    an hour / three hours long — часовой (продолжительностью в один час), трёхчасовой

    (two days, a week) at (the) longest — самое большее (два дня, неделю)

    How long does it take you to get there? — Сколько времени тебе нужно, чтобы добраться туда?

    3) долгий, медленный; неспешный, медлительный

    to be long about smth., to be long doing smth. — копошиться, копаться (делая что-л.); возиться, канителиться (с чем-л.)

    4)
    а) многочисленный, большой; обширный (состоящий из многих пунктов, насчитывающий много объектов)

    long list — огромный, длинный список

    long family — большая, многодетная семья

    б) огромный, избыточный, непомерно высокий

    long oddsкарт. высокие ставки

    long prices — непомерные, бешеные цены

    Syn:
    5) длинный, далёкий ( далеко направленный)

    to hit the long ball — выбить мяч далеко, сильно ударить ( в футболе)

    at long weaponвоен. на расстоянии

    6) лингв.
    7)
    а) отдалённый, отложенный на будущее

    long guess — долгосрочный прогноз, ожидание на будущее

    б) фин. долгосрочный

    a long note / bill / lease — долгосрочный вексель, аренда

    8) ( long on)
    а) отличающийся (какой-л. чертой)

    to be long on patience — очень долго терпеть, уметь долго ждать

    б) амер.; разг. богатый (чем-л.), сильный в (чём-л.)

    He's long on good ideas. — Он полон хороших идей.

    9) целый, добрый

    long mile — целая миля, не меньше мили

    10) продолговатый, удлинённый
    11) фин. играющий на повышение

    They are now long on wheat. — Сейчас они играют на повышение цен на пшеницу.

    - Long Tom
    - Long Parliament
    - long suit
    - long in the tooth
    Gram:
    [ref dict="LingvoGrammar (En-Ru)"]long[/ref]
    ••

    long ears — глупость, наивность

    long head — ум, башковитость; предусмотрительность

    to make a long nose — показать "нос"

    to make / pull a long face — помрачнеть

    to get a long start over smb. — значительно опередить кого-л.

    2. нареч.
    1)
    а) долго, длительно; в течение долгого времени

    It won't be long. — Это ненадолго.

    Stay for as long as you like. — Оставайтесь столько, сколько вам будет угодно.

    Wait a while longer. — Подождите ещё немного.

    I shall not wait (any) longer. — Не буду больше ждать.

    She didn't stay longer than midnight. — Она осталась только до полуночи.

    It is no longer possible. — Это больше невозможно.

    2) далеко, на далёкое расстояние

    I didn't travel that long. — Я так далеко не ездил.

    He threw the ball long. — Он бросил мяч далеко.

    Syn:
    3)
    а) давно, задолго до

    long ago / since — давным-давно, уже очень давно

    long past — давнопрошедший; давний, далёкий

    She was excited long before the big day. — Она была вся в нервном напряжении ещё задолго до этого события.

    б) потом; долгое время спустя
    4) полностью, целиком

    all day / night long — целый день, всю ночь (напролёт)

    all smb.'s life long — всю свою жизнь; в течение всей своей жизни

    5) фин. на повышение
    ••

    you may do smth. long enough — хоть в лепёшку разбейся

    as long as — пока; до тех пор, пока

    long live — да здравствует...

    3. сущ.
    1) долгое время; долгий срок, долгий период времени

    before long — скоро; вскоре, в ближайшем времени

    for long — надолго, на долгое время

    It can take long. — Это может занять много времени.

    It didn't take him long to come. — Его не пришлось долго ждать.

    2) лингв. долгий гласный; слоговой гласный дифтонга
    Syn:
    4) фин. маклер, спекулянт, играющий на повышение
    5) ( longs)
    а) брюки, длинные штаны ( в противопоставление shorts)
    ••
    - long and the short of it
    - long and short of it II [lɔŋ] гл.
    очень хотеть, страстно желать (чего-л.), испытывать потребность (в чём-л.), стремиться (к чему-л.)

    I long for you. — Ты мне очень нужен, я не могу без тебя.

    After she left me I was longing for a change in my life. — После того, как она меня покинула, мне очень хотелось радикально изменить свою жизнь.

    He was longing for a shower. — Он не мог дождаться момента, когда сможет принять душ.

    They long for peace but are driven to war. — Они стремятся к миру, а их заставляют воевать.

    I'm longing for a smoke. — До смерти хочется курить.

    Syn:

    Англо-русский современный словарь > long

  • 7 long

    I
    1. adjective
    1) длинный; long measures меры длины; at long range на большом расстоянии; a long mile добрая миля; long waves radio длинные волны
    2) долгий; длительный; давно существующий; long look долгий взгляд; а long custom давнишний, старинный обычай; а
    long farewell
    а) долгое прощание;
    б) прощание надолго; а friendship (an illness) of long standing старинная дружба (застарелая болезнь); long vacation летние каникулы
    3) медленный; медлительный; how long he is! как он копается!
    4) имеющий такую-то длину или продолжительность; a mile long длиной в одну милю; an hour long продолжающийся в течение часа
    5) обширный, многочисленный; long family огромная семья; long bill длинный, раздутый счет; long price непомерная цена; long shillings хороший заработок
    6) удлиненный, продолговатый
    7) скучный, многословный
    8) phon. prosody долгий (о гласном звуке)
    9) fin. долгосрочный
    long ears глупость
    to make (или to pull) а long face помрачнеть
    to make a long nose показать 'нос'
    long greens amer. collocation бумажные деньги
    long head проницательность, предусмотрительность
    long nine amer. collocation дешевая сигара
    long odds большое неравенство ставок; неравные шансы
    Long Tom
    а) дальнобойная пушка;
    б) collocation длинная сигара
    Long Parliament hist. Долгий парламент
    long in the teeth старый
    to get a long start over smb. значительно опередить кого-л.
    2. adverb
    1) долго; as long as пока; stay for as long as you like оставайтесь столько, сколько вам будет угодно; long live... да здравствует...
    2) давно; долгое время (перед, спустя); long before задолго до; long after долгое время спустя; long since уже давным-давно
    3) his life long в течение всей его жизни, всю его жизнь
    3. noun
    1) долгий срок, долгое время; for long надолго; before long скоро; вскоре; will not take long не займет много времени
    2) (pl.) мужская одежда больших размеров
    3) phon. долгий гласный
    4) (the longs) = long vacation
    the long and the short of it короче говоря, словом
    II
    verb
    1) страстно желать (чего-л.), стремиться (to, for - к чему-л.)
    2) тосковать
    Syn:
    bcee.htm>yearn
    * * *
    1 (a) длинный; долгосрочный
    2 (d) длительно; долго
    3 (n) длинная позиция; долгосрочная государственная облигация; лицо, имеющее больше ценных бумаг; спекулянт, играющий на повышение
    * * *
    * * *
    [lɔŋ /lɒŋ] n. долгий срок; долгий гласный v. страстно желать, стремиться, тосковать adj. длинный, длительный, долгий; долголетний, давно существующий, долгосрочный; имеющий такую-то длину, имеющий такую-то продолжительность; скучный, медленный, медлительный; многочисленный, обширный; удлиненный, продолговатый; многословный adv. долго, давно, подолгу, долгое время
    * * *
    брюки
    вскоре
    давно
    длинен
    длинна
    длинная
    длинный
    длителен
    длительный
    долгая
    долгий
    долго
    долго-долго
    долголетний
    долгосрочный
    долог
    затянувшийся
    медленный
    медлительный
    многословный
    многочисленный
    обширный
    предусмотрительность
    продолговатый
    продолжительный
    скучный
    стремиться
    тосковать
    удлиненный
    * * *
    I 1. прил. 1) а) длинный; больше своей ширины б) редк., иногда шутл. долговязый в) обладающий определенной протяженностью; имеющий такую-то длину 2) а) долгий, длительный, существующий давно б) обладающий определенной протяженностью, длящийся столько-то 3) долгий 4) а) длинный, большой; обширный б) огромный, избыточный, непомерно высокий 5) длинный, далекий 6) фон.; просодика а) долгий (гласный); слоговой (об элементе дифтонга) б) ударный 2. нареч. 1) а) долго, длительно; в течение долгого времени б) до определенного времени 2) далеко, на далекое расстояние 3) а) давно, задолго до (особенно long before) б) потом; долгое время спустя (особенно long after) 3. сущ. 1) долгое время; долгий срок, долгий период времени 2) фон. долгий гласный; слоговой гласный дифтонга 3) (the longs) летние каникулы II гл. очень хотеть, страстно желать (чего-л.), испытывать потребность (в чем-л.), стремиться (to, for - к чему-л.)

    Новый англо-русский словарь > long

  • 8 parliament

    НБАРС > parliament

  • 9 parliament

    ̈ɪˈpɑ:ləmənt I сущ.
    1) парламент meeting of parliament ≈ заседание парламента house of parliament ≈ здание парламента in parliament ≈ в парламенте a member of parliamentчлен парламента to adjourn (a) parliament ≈ делать перерыв в работе парламента to convene, convoke (a) parliament ≈ собирать, созывать парламент to disband, dissolve (a) parliament ≈ распускать парламент to have a seat in parliament ≈ быть членом парламента to sit in parliament ≈ заседать в парламенте to stand for parliament ≈ брит. поддерживать парламент a parliament adjourns ≈ парламент делает перерыв в заседании a parliament convenes, meets ≈ парламент собирается a parliament disbands ≈ парламент распускается
    2) сессия парламента II сущ. имбирный пряник Syn: parliament-cake (часто P.) парламент - Act of P. парламентский акт;
    закон, принятый парламентом - meeting of * заседание парламента - to have a seat in * быть членом парламента - to open P. торжественно открывать сессию парламента - before * assembled в присутствии всего парламента - Clerk of the Parliaments высший чиновник палаты лордов - High Court of P. (юридическое) Высокий суд парламента - Long P. (историческое) Долгий парламент (1640 - 1660гг.) - Rump P. (историческое) "охвостье" (насмешливое прозвище парламента при Кромвеле) тонкий прямоугольный имбирный пряник( редкое) присутствовать на заседаниях парламента constituency seat in ~ места для избирателей в парламенте parliament имбирный пряник ~ парламент ~ парламентский parliament-cake: parliament-cake = parliament ~ attr. парламентский

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > parliament

  • 10 the whole kit and boiling

    амер.; разг.
    (the whole kit and biling (тж. the whole kit and caboodle или boodle))
    всё вместе, целиком; вся компания, братия

    Go 'long now, the whole kit and boiling [= biling] of ye [= you]. (M. Twain, ‘Huckleberry Finn’, ch. XXXVI) — Проваливайте-ка вы отсюда, вся братия.

    That would have been the logical thing for them to do, just start swimming, pa and ma, grandpa and grandma, and Baby Rosebud... the whole kit and caboodle of 'em... (R. P. Warren, ‘All the King's Men’, ch. VII) — Мать с отцом, бабушка, дедушка и младенец Роузбад... словом, вся компания, стали купаться, что было вполне разумно с их стороны...

    The whole kit and caboodle of railway modernization is now before Parliament. (‘The Canadian Tribune’) — Парламенту предстоит рассмотреть всю совокупность вопросов, связанных с модернизацией железных дорог.

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  • 11 draw the first blood

    "выпустить первую кровь", нанести первый удар; см. тж. draw blood

    The first blood was drawn by Charles who by packing the Bench seemed to have subjected the Common Law courts themselves to prerogative ideas. But the last word was to lie with the Long Parliament. (G. M. Trevelyan, ‘History of England’, book IV, ch. I) — Первый удар в этой борьбе был нанесён Карлом, который заполнил суды сторонниками королевского абсолютизма, чем, видимо, и обеспечил приоритет королевской власти над судами. Однако последнее слово было за Долгим парламентом.

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  • 12 Rump Parliament

    x. (the\Rump Parliament)잔부의회(Long Parliament의 일부로 구성된 의회, 1648-1653, 1659-60)

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  • 13 долгий

    long; (длительный тж.) prolonged

    до́лгий путь — long way

    до́лгое вре́мя спустя́ — long after

    на до́лгие го́ды [века́] — for years [centuries] to come

    по́сле до́лгих лет — after long years

    до́лгое изгна́ние — long period of exile

    до́лгий гла́сный лингв.long vowel

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    До́лгий парла́мент ист.Long Parliament

    откла́дывать в до́лгий я́щик (вн.)shelve (d); shovel (d) to the back burner

    э́то до́лгая пе́сня — ≈ that's a long story

    до́лгие про́воды - ли́шние слёзы посл.long partings mean a lot of tears

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  • 14 near cash

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    гос. фин. The resource budget contains a separate control total for “near cash” expenditure, that is expenditure such as pay and current grants which impacts directly on the measure of the golden rule.
    This paper provides background information on the framework for the planning and control of public expenditure in the UK which has been operated since the 1998 Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR). It sets out the different classifications of spending for budgeting purposes and why these distinctions have been adopted. It discusses how the public expenditure framework is designed to ensure both sound public finances and an outcome-focused approach to public expenditure.
    The UK's public spending framework is based on several key principles:
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    consistency with a long-term, prudent and transparent regime for managing the public finances as a whole;
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    the judgement of success by policy outcomes rather than resource inputs;
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    strong incentives for departments and their partners in service delivery to plan over several years and plan together where appropriate so as to deliver better public services with greater cost effectiveness; and
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    the proper costing and management of capital assets to provide the right incentives for public investment.
    The Government sets policy to meet two firm fiscal rules:
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    the Golden Rule states that over the economic cycle, the Government will borrow only to invest and not to fund current spending; and
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    the Sustainable Investment Rule states that net public debt as a proportion of GDP will be held over the economic cycle at a stable and prudent level. Other things being equal, net debt will be maintained below 40 per cent of GDP over the economic cycle.
    Achievement of the fiscal rules is assessed by reference to the national accounts, which are produced by the Office for National Statistics, acting as an independent agency. The Government sets its spending envelope to comply with these fiscal rules.
    Departmental Expenditure Limits ( DEL) and Annually Managed Expenditure (AME)
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    Departmental Expenditure Limit ( DEL) spending, which is planned and controlled on a three year basis in Spending Reviews; and
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    Annually Managed Expenditure ( AME), which is expenditure which cannot reasonably be subject to firm, multi-year limits in the same way as DEL. AME includes social security benefits, local authority self-financed expenditure, debt interest, and payments to EU institutions.
    More information about DEL and AME is set out below.
    In Spending Reviews, firm DEL plans are set for departments for three years. To ensure consistency with the Government's fiscal rules departments are set separate resource (current) and capital budgets. The resource budget contains a separate control total for “near cash” expenditure, that is expenditure such as pay and current grants which impacts directly on the measure of the golden rule.
    To encourage departments to plan over the medium term departments may carry forward unspent DEL provision from one year into the next and, subject to the normal tests for tautness and realism of plans, may be drawn down in future years. This end-year flexibility also removes any incentive for departments to use up their provision as the year end approaches with less regard to value for money. For the full benefits of this flexibility and of three year plans to feed through into improved public service delivery, end-year flexibility and three year budgets should be cascaded from departments to executive agencies and other budget holders.
    Three year budgets and end-year flexibility give those managing public services the stability to plan their operations on a sensible time scale. Further, the system means that departments cannot seek to bid up funds each year (before 1997, three year plans were set and reviewed in annual Public Expenditure Surveys). So the credibility of medium-term plans has been enhanced at both central and departmental level.
    Departments have certainty over the budgetary allocation over the medium term and these multi-year DEL plans are strictly enforced. Departments are expected to prioritise competing pressures and fund these within their overall annual limits, as set in Spending Reviews. So the DEL system provides a strong incentive to control costs and maximise value for money.
    There is a small centrally held DEL Reserve. Support from the Reserve is available only for genuinely unforeseeable contingencies which departments cannot be expected to manage within their DEL.
    AME typically consists of programmes which are large, volatile and demand-led, and which therefore cannot reasonably be subject to firm multi-year limits. The biggest single element is social security spending. Other items include tax credits, Local Authority Self Financed Expenditure, Scottish Executive spending financed by non-domestic rates, and spending financed from the proceeds of the National Lottery.
    AME is reviewed twice a year as part of the Budget and Pre-Budget Report process reflecting the close integration of the tax and benefit system, which was enhanced by the introduction of tax credits.
    AME is not subject to the same three year expenditure limits as DEL, but is still part of the overall envelope for public expenditure. Affordability is taken into account when policy decisions affecting AME are made. The Government has committed itself not to take policy measures which are likely to have the effect of increasing social security or other elements of AME without taking steps to ensure that the effects of those decisions can be accommodated prudently within the Government's fiscal rules.
    Given an overall envelope for public spending, forecasts of AME affect the level of resources available for DEL spending. Cautious estimates and the AME margin are built in to these AME forecasts and reduce the risk of overspending on AME.
    Together, DEL plus AME sum to Total Managed Expenditure (TME). TME is a measure drawn from national accounts. It represents the current and capital spending of the public sector. The public sector is made up of central government, local government and public corporations.
    Resource and Capital Budgets are set in terms of accruals information. Accruals information measures resources as they are consumed rather than when the cash is paid. So for example the Resource Budget includes a charge for depreciation, a measure of the consumption or wearing out of capital assets.
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    Non cash charges in budgets do not impact directly on the fiscal framework. That may be because the national accounts use a different way of measuring the same thing, for example in the case of the depreciation of departmental assets. Or it may be that the national accounts measure something different: for example, resource budgets include a cost of capital charge reflecting the opportunity cost of holding capital; the national accounts include debt interest.
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    Within the Resource Budget DEL, departments have separate controls on:
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    Near cash spending, the sub set of Resource Budgets which impacts directly on the Golden Rule; and
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    The amount of their Resource Budget DEL that departments may spend on running themselves (e.g. paying most civil servants’ salaries) is limited by Administration Budgets, which are set in Spending Reviews. Administration Budgets are used to ensure that as much money as practicable is available for front line services and programmes. These budgets also help to drive efficiency improvements in departments’ own activities. Administration Budgets exclude the costs of frontline services delivered directly by departments.
    The Budget preceding a Spending Review sets an overall envelope for public spending that is consistent with the fiscal rules for the period covered by the Spending Review. In the Spending Review, the Budget AME forecast for year one of the Spending Review period is updated, and AME forecasts are made for the later years of the Spending Review period.
    The 1998 Comprehensive Spending Review ( CSR), which was published in July 1998, was a comprehensive review of departmental aims and objectives alongside a zero-based analysis of each spending programme to determine the best way of delivering the Government's objectives. The 1998 CSR allocated substantial additional resources to the Government's key priorities, particularly education and health, for the three year period from 1999-2000 to 2001-02.
    Delivering better public services does not just depend on how much money the Government spends, but also on how well it spends it. Therefore the 1998 CSR introduced Public Service Agreements (PSAs). Each major government department was given its own PSA setting out clear targets for achievements in terms of public service improvements.
    The 1998 CSR also introduced the DEL/ AME framework for the control of public spending, and made other framework changes. Building on the investment and reforms delivered by the 1998 CSR, successive spending reviews in 2000, 2002 and 2004 have:
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    provided significant increase in resources for the Government’s priorities, in particular health and education, and cross-cutting themes such as raising productivity; extending opportunity; and building strong and secure communities;
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    enabled the Government significantly to increase investment in public assets and address the legacy of under investment from past decades. Departmental Investment Strategies were introduced in SR2000. As a result there has been a steady increase in public sector net investment from less than ¾ of a per cent of GDP in 1997-98 to 2¼ per cent of GDP in 2005-06, providing better infrastructure across public services;
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    introduced further refinements to the performance management framework. PSA targets have been reduced in number over successive spending reviews from around 300 to 110 to give greater focus to the Government’s highest priorities. The targets have become increasingly outcome-focused to deliver further improvements in key areas of public service delivery across Government. They have also been refined in line with the conclusions of the Devolving Decision Making Review to provide a framework which encourages greater devolution and local flexibility. Technical Notes were introduced in SR2000 explaining how performance against each PSA target will be measured; and
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    not only allocated near cash spending to departments, but also – since SR2002 - set Resource DEL plans for non cash spending.
    To identify what further investments and reforms are needed to equip the UK for the global challenges of the decade ahead, on 19 July 2005 the Chief Secretary to the Treasury announced that the Government intends to launch a second Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) reporting in 2007.
    A decade on from the first CSR, the 2007 CSR will represent a long-term and fundamental review of government expenditure. It will cover departmental allocations for 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010 11. Allocations for 2007-08 will be held to the agreed figures already announced by the 2004 Spending Review. To provide a rigorous analytical framework for these departmental allocations, the Government will be taking forward a programme of preparatory work over 2006 involving:
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    an assessment of what the sustained increases in spending and reforms to public service delivery have achieved since the first CSR. The assessment will inform the setting of new objectives for the decade ahead;
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    an examination of the key long-term trends and challenges that will shape the next decade – including demographic and socio-economic change, globalisation, climate and environmental change, global insecurity and technological change – together with an assessment of how public services will need to respond;
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    to release the resources needed to address these challenges, and to continue to secure maximum value for money from public spending over the CSR period, a set of zero-based reviews of departments’ baseline expenditure to assess its effectiveness in delivering the Government’s long-term objectives; together with
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    further development of the efficiency programme, building on the cross cutting areas identified in the Gershon Review, to embed and extend ongoing efficiency savings into departmental expenditure planning.
    The 2007 CSR also offers the opportunity to continue to refine the PSA framework so that it drives effective delivery and the attainment of ambitious national standards.
    Public Service Agreements (PSAs) were introduced in the 1998 CSR. They set out agreed targets detailing the outputs and outcomes departments are expected to deliver with the resources allocated to them. The new spending regime places a strong emphasis on outcome targets, for example in providing for better health and higher educational standards or service standards. The introduction in SR2004 of PSA ‘standards’ will ensure that high standards in priority areas are maintained.
    The Government monitors progress against PSA targets, and departments report in detail twice a year in their annual Departmental Reports (published in spring) and in their autumn performance reports. These reports provide Parliament and the public with regular updates on departments’ performance against their targets.
    Technical Notes explain how performance against each PSA target will be measured.
    To make the most of both new investment and existing assets, there needs to be a coherent long term strategy against which investment decisions are taken. Departmental Investment Strategies (DIS) set out each department's plans to deliver the scale and quality of capital stock needed to underpin its objectives. The DIS includes information about the department's existing capital stock and future plans for that stock, as well as plans for new investment. It also sets out the systems that the department has in place to ensure that it delivers its capital programmes effectively.
    This document was updated on 19 December 2005.
    Near-cash resource expenditure that has a related cash implication, even though the timing of the cash payment may be slightly different. For example, expenditure on gas or electricity supply is incurred as the fuel is used, though the cash payment might be made in arrears on aquarterly basis. Other examples of near-cash expenditure are: pay, rental.Net cash requirement the upper limit agreed by Parliament on the cash which a department may draw from theConsolidated Fund to finance the expenditure within the ambit of its Request forResources. It is equal to the agreed amount of net resources and net capital less non-cashitems and working capital.Non-cash cost costs where there is no cash transaction but which are included in a body’s accounts (or taken into account in charging for a service) to establish the true cost of all the resourcesused.Non-departmental a body which has a role in the processes of government, but is not a government public body, NDPBdepartment or part of one. NDPBs accordingly operate at arm’s length from governmentMinisters.Notional cost of a cost which is taken into account in setting fees and charges to improve comparability with insuranceprivate sector service providers.The charge takes account of the fact that public bodies donot generally pay an insurance premium to a commercial insurer.the independent body responsible for collecting and publishing official statistics about theUK’s society and economy. (At the time of going to print legislation was progressing tochange this body to the Statistics Board).Office of Government an office of the Treasury, with a status similar to that of an agency, which aims to maximise Commerce, OGCthe government’s purchasing power for routine items and combine professional expertiseto bear on capital projects.Office of the the government department responsible for discharging the Paymaster General’s statutoryPaymaster General,responsibilities to hold accounts and make payments for government departments and OPGother public bodies.Orange bookthe informal title for Management of Risks: Principles and Concepts, which is published by theTreasury for the guidance of public sector bodies.Office for NationalStatistics, ONS60Managing Public Money
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    GLOSSARYOverdraftan account with a negative balance.Parliament’s formal agreement to authorise an activity or expenditure.Prerogative powerspowers exercisable under the Royal Prerogative, ie powers which are unique to the Crown,as contrasted with common-law powers which may be available to the Crown on the samebasis as to natural persons.Primary legislationActs which have been passed by the Westminster Parliament and, where they haveappropriate powers, the Scottish Parliament and the Northern Ireland Assembly. Begin asBills until they have received Royal Assent.arrangements under which a public sector organisation contracts with a private sectorentity to construct a facility and provide associated services of a specified quality over asustained period. See annex 7.5.Proprietythe principle that patterns of resource consumption should respect Parliament’s intentions,conventions and control procedures, including any laid down by the PAC. See box 2.4.Public Accountssee Committee of Public Accounts.CommitteePublic corporationa trading body controlled by central government, local authority or other publiccorporation that has substantial day to day operating independence. See section 7.8.Public Dividend finance provided by government to public sector bodies as an equity stake; an alternative to Capital, PDCloan finance.Public Service sets out what the public can expect the government to deliver with its resources. EveryAgreement, PSAlarge government department has PSA(s) which specify deliverables as targets or aimsrelated to objectives.a structured arrangement between a public sector and a private sector organisation tosecure an outcome delivering good value for money for the public sector. It is classified tothe public or private sector according to which has more control.Rate of returnthe financial remuneration delivered by a particular project or enterprise, expressed as apercentage of the net assets employed.Regularitythe principle that resource consumption should accord with the relevant legislation, therelevant delegated authority and this document. See box 2.4.Request for the functional level into which departmental Estimates may be split. RfRs contain a number Resources, RfRof functions being carried out by the department in pursuit of one or more of thatdepartment’s objectives.Resource accountan accruals account produced in line with the Financial Reporting Manual (FReM).Resource accountingthe system under which budgets, Estimates and accounts are constructed in a similar wayto commercial audited accounts, so that both plans and records of expenditure allow in fullfor the goods and services which are to be, or have been, consumed – ie not just the cashexpended.Resource budgetthe means by which the government plans and controls the expenditure of resources tomeet its objectives.Restitutiona legal concept which allows money and property to be returned to its rightful owner. Ittypically operates where another person can be said to have been unjustly enriched byreceiving such monies.Return on capital the ratio of profit to capital employed of an accounting entity during an identified period.employed, ROCEVarious measures of profit and of capital employed may be used in calculating the ratio.Public Privatepartnership, PPPPrivate Finance Initiative, PFIParliamentaryauthority61Managing Public Money
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    GLOSSARYRoyal charterthe document setting out the powers and constitution of a corporation established underprerogative power of the monarch acting on Privy Council advice.Second readingthe second formal time that a House of Parliament may debate a bill, although in practicethe first substantive debate on its content. If successful, it is deemed to denoteParliamentary approval of the principle of the proposed legislation.Secondary legislationlaws, including orders and regulations, which are made using powers in primary legislation.Normally used to set out technical and administrative provision in greater detail thanprimary legislation, they are subject to a less intense level of scrutiny in Parliament.European legislation is,however,often implemented in secondary legislation using powers inthe European Communities Act 1972.Service-level agreement between parties, setting out in detail the level of service to be performed.agreementWhere agreements are between central government bodies, they are not legally a contractbut have a similar function.Shareholder Executive a body created to improve the government’s performance as a shareholder in businesses.Spending reviewsets out the key improvements in public services that the public can expect over a givenperiod. It includes a thorough review of departmental aims and objectives to find the bestway of delivering the government’s objectives, and sets out the spending plans for the givenperiod.State aidstate support for a domestic body or company which could distort EU competition and sois not usually allowed. See annex 4.9.Statement of Excessa formal statement detailing departments’ overspends prepared by the Comptroller andAuditor General as a result of undertaking annual audits.Statement on Internal an annual statement that Accounting Officers are required to make as part of the accounts Control, SICon a range of risk and control issues.Subheadindividual elements of departmental expenditure identifiable in Estimates as single cells, forexample cell A1 being administration costs within a particular line of departmental spending.Supplyresources voted by Parliament in response to Estimates, for expenditure by governmentdepartments.Supply Estimatesa statement of the resources the government needs in the coming financial year, and forwhat purpose(s), by which Parliamentary authority is sought for the planned level ofexpenditure and income.Target rate of returnthe rate of return required of a project or enterprise over a given period, usually at least a year.Third sectorprivate sector bodies which do not act commercially,including charities,social and voluntaryorganisations and other not-for-profit collectives. See annex 7.7.Total Managed a Treasury budgeting term which covers all current and capital spending carried out by the Expenditure,TMEpublic sector (ie not just by central departments).Trading fundan organisation (either within a government department or forming one) which is largely orwholly financed from commercial revenue generated by its activities. Its Estimate shows itsnet impact, allowing its income from receipts to be devoted entirely to its business.Treasury Minutea formal administrative document drawn up by the Treasury, which may serve a wide varietyof purposes including seeking Parliamentary approval for the use of receipts asappropriations in aid, a remission of some or all of the principal of voted loans, andresponding on behalf of the government to reports by the Public Accounts Committee(PAC).62Managing Public Money
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    GLOSSARY63Managing Public MoneyValue for moneythe process under which organisation’s procurement, projects and processes aresystematically evaluated and assessed to provide confidence about suitability, effectiveness,prudence,quality,value and avoidance of error and other waste,judged for the public sectoras a whole.Virementthe process through which funds are moved between subheads such that additionalexpenditure on one is met by savings on one or more others.Votethe process by which Parliament approves funds in response to supply Estimates.Voted expenditureprovision for expenditure that has been authorised by Parliament. Parliament ‘votes’authority for public expenditure through the Supply Estimates process. Most expenditureby central government departments is authorised in this way.Wider market activity activities undertaken by central government organisations outside their statutory duties,using spare capacity and aimed at generating a commercial profit. See annex 7.6.Windfallmonies received by a department which were not anticipated in the spending review.
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  • 15 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

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    A vi (3e pers sg prés goes ; prét went ; pp gone)
    1 (move, travel) aller (from de ; to à, en) ; to go to London/Paris aller à Londres/Paris ; to go to Wales/to Ireland/to California aller au Pays de Galles/en Irlande/en Californie ; to go to town/to the country aller en ville/à la campagne ; they went home ils sont rentrés chez eux ; she's gone to Paris elle est allée à Paris ; to go up/down/across monter/descendre/traverser ; I went into the room je suis entré dans la pièce ; to go by bus/train/plane voyager en bus/train/avion ; we went there by bus nous y sommes allés en bus ; to go by ou past [person, vehicle] passer ; that car's going very fast! cette voiture roule très vite! ; there he goes again! ( that's him again) le revoilà! ; fig ( he's starting again) le voilà qui recommence!, c'est reparti! ; who goes there? Mil qui va là? ; where do we go from here? fig et maintenant qu'est-ce qu'on fait? ;
    2 (on specific errand, activity) aller ; to go shopping aller faire des courses ; to go swimming (in sea, river) aller se baigner ; ( in pool) aller à la piscine ; to go for a walk aller se promener ; to go on a journey/on holiday partir en voyage/en vacances ; to go for a drink aller prendre un verre ; he's gone to get some wine il est allé chercher du vin ; go and answer the phone va répondre au téléphone ; go and tell them that… va leur dire que… ; go after him! poursuivez-le! ;
    3 ( attend) aller ; to go to school/ church aller à l'école/l'église ; to go to work aller or se rendre au travail ; to go to the doctor's/dentist's aller chez le médecin/dentiste ;
    4 ( used as auxiliary with present participle) she went running up the stairs elle a monté l'escalier en courant ; she went complaining to the principal elle est allée se plaindre au directeur ;
    5 ( depart) partir ; I must go, I must be going il faut que je parte or que je m'en aille ; the train goes at six o'clock le train part à six heures ; a train goes every hour il y a un train toutes les heures ; to go on holiday partir en vacances ; be gone! va-t'en!, allez-vous en! ;
    6 euph ( die) mourir, disparaître ; when I am gone quand je ne serai plus là ; the doctors say she could go at any time d'après les médecins elle risque de mourir d'un instant à l'autre ;
    7 ( disappear) partir ; half the money goes on school fees la moitié de l'argent part en frais de scolarité ; the money/cake has all gone il ne reste plus d'argent/de gâteau ; I left my bike outside and now it's gone j'ai laissé mon vélo dehors et il n'est plus là or il a disparu ; there goes my chance of winning! c'en est fait de mes chances de gagner! ;
    8 (be sent, transmitted) it can't go by post on ne peut pas l'envoyer par la poste ; these proposals will go before parliament ces propositions seront soumises au parlement ;
    9 ( become) to go red rougir ; to go white blanchir ; his hair ou he is going grey il commençe à avoir les cheveux blancs ; to go mad devenir fou/folle ; to go bankrupt faire faillite ;
    10 ( change over to new system) to go Labour/Conservative Pol [country, constituency] voter travailliste/conservateur ; to go metric adopter le système métrique ; ⇒ private, public ;
    11 (be, remain) the people went hungry les gens n'avaient rien à manger ; we went for two days without food nous avons passé deux jours sans rien manger ; to go unnoticed passer inaperçu ; to go unpunished rester impuni ; the question went unanswered la question est restée sans réponse ; to go naked se promener tout nu ; he was allowed to go free il a été libéré or remis en liberté ;
    12 (weaken, become impaired) his memory/mind is going il perd la mémoire/l'esprit ; his hearing is going il devient sourd ; my voice is going je n'ai plus de voix ; the battery is going la batterie est presque à plat ; the engine is going le moteur a des ratés ;
    13 ( of time) ( elapse) s'écouler ; three hours went by before… trois heures se sont écoulées avant que… (+ subj) ; there are only three days to go before Christmas il ne reste plus que trois jours avant Noël ; how's the time going? quelle heure est-il? ; it's just gone seven o'clock il est un peu plus de sept heures ;
    14 ( be got rid of) he's totally inefficient, he'll have to go! il est complètement incapable, il va falloir qu'on se débarrasse de lui! ; that new lampshade is hideous, it'll have to go! ce nouvel abat-jour est affreux, il va falloir qu'on s'en débarrasse! ; the car will have to go il va falloir vendre la voiture ; either she goes or I do! c'est elle ou moi! ; six down and four to go! six de faits, et encore quatre à faire! ;
    15 (operate, function) [vehicle, machine, clock] marcher, fonctionner ; to set [sth] going mettre [qch] en marche ; to get going [engine, machine] se mettre en marche ; fig [business] démarrer ; to get the fire going allumer le feu ; to keep going [person, business, machine] tenir le coup , se maintenir ; we have several projects going at the moment nous avons plusieurs projets en route en ce moment ; ⇒ keep ;
    16 ( start) let's get going! allons-y!, allez, on commençe! ; we'll have to get going on that translation il va falloir qu'on se mette à faire cette traduction ; to get things going mettre les choses en train ; ready, steady, go! à vos marques, prêts, partez! ; here goes!, here we go! c'est parti! ; once he gets going, he never stops une fois lancé, il n'arrête pas ;
    17 ( lead) aller, conduire, mener (to à) ; that corridor goes to the kitchen le couloir va or conduit à la cuisine ; the road goes down to the sea/goes up the mountain la route descend vers la mer/monte au sommet de la montagne ; this road goes past the cemetery ce chemin passe à côté du cimetière ;
    18 ( extend in depth or scope) the roots of the plant go very deep les racines de la plante s'enfoncent très profondément ; the historical reasons for this conflict go very deep les raisons historiques de ce conflit remontent très loin ; these habits go very deep ces habitudes sont profondément ancrées or enracinées ; as far as that goes pour ce qui est de cela ; it's true as far as it goes c'est vrai dans un sens or dans une certaine mesure ; she'll go far! elle ira loin! ; this time he's gone too far! cette fois il est allé trop loin! ; a hundred pounds doesn't go far these days on ne va pas loin avec cent livres sterling de nos jours ; one leg of lamb doesn't go very far among twelve people un gigot d'agneau n'est pas suffisant pour douze personnes ; this goes a long way towards explaining his attitude ceci explique en grande partie son attitude ; you can make £5 go a long way on peut faire beaucoup de choses avec 5 livres sterling ;
    19 (belong, be placed) aller ; where do these plates go? où vont ces assiettes? ; that table goes beside the bed cette table va à côté du lit ; the suitcases will have to go in the back il va falloir mettre les valises derrière ;
    20 ( fit) gen rentrer ; it won't go into the box ça ne rentre pas dans la boîte ; five into four won't go quatre n'est pas divisible par cinq ; three into six goes twice six divisé par trois, ça fait deux ;
    21 (be expressed, sung etc in particular way) I can't remember how the poem goes je n'arrive pas à me rappeler le poème ; how does the song go? quel est l'air de la chanson? ; the song goes something like this la chanson ressemble à peu près à ça ; as the saying goes comme dit le proverbe ; the story goes that le bruit court que, on dit que ; her theory goes something like this… sa théorie consiste à peu près à dire que… ;
    22 ( be accepted) what he says goes c'est lui qui fait la loi ; it goes without saying that il va sans dire que ; that goes without saying cela va sans dire ; anything goes tout est permis ;
    23 ( be about to) to be going to do aller faire ; it's going to snow il va neiger ; I was just going to phone you j'étais justement sur le point de t'appeler, j'allais justement t'appeler ; I'm going to phone him right now je vais l'appeler tout de suite ; I'm not going to be treated like that! je ne vais pas me laisser faire comme ça! ; we were going to go to Italy, but we changed our plans nous devions aller en Italie, mais nous avons changé d'idée ;
    24 ( happen) the party went very well la soirée s'est très bien passée ; so far the campaign is going well jusqu'à maintenant la campagne a bien marché ; how did the evening go? comment s'est passée la soirée? ; the way things are going, I don't think we'll ever get finished vu la façon dont les choses se passent or si ça continue comme ça, je pense qu'on n'aura jamais fini ; how's it going ?, how are things going? comment ça va ? ; how goes it? hum comment ça va ?, comment va ? ;
    25 ( be on average) it's old, as Australian towns go c'est une ville assez vieille pour une ville australienne ; it wasn't a bad party, as parties go c'était une soirée plutôt réussie par rapport à la moyenne ;
    26 ( be sold) the house went for over £100,000 la maison a été vendue à plus de 100 000 livres ; we won't let the house go for less than £100,000 nous ne voulons pas vendre la maison à moins de 100 000 livres ; those rugs are going cheap ces tapis ne sont pas chers ; the house will go to the highest bidder la maison sera vendue au plus offrant ; ‘going, going, gone!’ ( at auction) ‘une fois, deux fois, trois fois, adjugé!’ ;
    27 ( be on offer) I'll have some coffee, if there's any going je prendrai bien un café, s'il y en a ; are there any drinks going? est-ce qu'il y a quelque chose à boire? ; I'll have whatever's going je prendrai ce qu'il y a ; it's the best machine going c'est la meilleure machine sur le marché ; there's a job going at their London office il y a un poste libre dans leur bureau de Londres ;
    28 ( contribute) the money will go towards a new roof l'argent servira à payer un nouveau toit ; the elements that go to make a great film les éléments qui font un bon film ; everything that goes to make a good teacher toutes les qualités d'un bon enseignant ;
    29 ( be given) [award, prize] aller (to à) ; [estate, inheritance, title] passer (to à) ; the money will go to charity les bénéfices iront aux bonnes œuvres ; most of the credit should go to the author la plus grande partie du mérite revient à l'auteur ; the job went to a local man le poste a été donné à un homme de la région ;
    30 ( emphatic use) she's gone and told everybody! elle est allée le dire à tout le monde! ; why did he go and spoil it? pourquoi est-il allé tout gâcher ? ; you've gone and ruined everything! tu t'es débrouillé pour tout gâcher! ; he went and won the competition! il s'est débrouillé pour gagner le concours! ; you've really gone and done it now! tu peux être fier de toi! iron ; then he had to go and lose his wallet comme s'il ne manquait plus que ça, il a perdu son portefeuille ;
    31 ( of money) (be spent, used up) all his money goes on drink tout son argent passe dans l'alcool ; most of his salary goes on rent la plus grande partie de son salaire passe dans le loyer ; I don't know where all my money goes (to)! je ne sais pas ce que je fais de mon argent! ;
    32 (make sound, perform action or movement) gen faire ; [bell, alarm] sonner ; the cat went ‘miaow’ le chat a fait ‘miaou’ ; wait until the bell goes attends que la cloche sonne ( subj) ; she went like this with her fingers elle a fait comme ça avec ses doigts ; so he goes ‘what about my money ?’ et puis il dit or il fait, ‘et mon argent?’ ;
    33 (resort to, have recourse to) to go to war [country] entrer en guerre ; [soldier] partir à la guerre ; to go to law GB ou to the law US aller en justice ;
    34 (break, collapse etc) [roof] s'effondrer ; [cable, rope] se rompre, céder ; ( fuse) [light bulb] griller ;
    35 (bid, bet) aller ; I'll go as high as £100 j'irai jusqu'à 100 livres sterling ; I went up to £100 je suis allé jusqu'à 100 livres sterling ;
    36 ( take one's turn) you go next c'est ton tour après, c'est à toi après ; you go first après vous ;
    37 ( be in harmony) those two colours don't go together ces deux couleurs ne vont pas ensemble ; the curtains don't go with the carpet les rideaux ne vont pas avec le tapis ; white wine goes better with fish than red wine le vin blanc va mieux avec le poisson que le rouge ;
    38 euph ( relieve oneself) aller aux toilettes ;
    39 US ( in takeaway) to go à emporter ; two hamburgers to go! deux hamburgers à emporter!
    1 ( travel) we had gone ten miles before we realized that… nous avions déjà fait dix kilomètres quand nous nous sommes rendu compte que… ; are you going my way? tu vas dans la même direction que moi? ; to go one's own way fig suivre son chemin ;
    2 (bet, bid) I go two diamonds ( in cards) j'annonce deux carreaux ; he went £20 il a mis or parié 20 livres sterling.
    C n (pl goes)
    1 GB ( person's turn) tour m ; ( try) essai m ; it's your go ( in game) c'est ton tour, c'est à toi ; whose go is it? gen à qui le tour? ; ( in game) à qui de jouer? ; you've had two goes ( in game) tu as eu deux tours ; ( two attempts at mending sth) tu as déjà essayé deux fois ; to have a go at sth essayer de faire qch ; have another go! essaie encore une fois or un coup! ; she had several goes at the exam elle a repassé l'examen plusieurs fois ; I had to have several goes before passing j'ai dû m'y reprendre à plusieurs fois avant de réussir ;
    2 ( energy) dynamisme m ; to be full of go, to be all go être très dynamique, avoir beaucoup d'allant ; he has no go in him il manque de dynamisme ;
    3 GB ( bout) ( of illness) attaque f ;
    D adj all systems are go! Aerosp tout est paré pour le lancement!
    to have a go at sb s'en prendre à qn ; to make a go of sth réussir qch ; she's always on the go elle n'arrête jamais ; he's all go ! il n'arrête pas! ; it's all the go ! ça fait fureur! ; we have several different projects on the go at the moment nous avons plusieurs projets différents en chantier or en cours en ce moment ; (it's) no go! pas question! ; from the word go dès le départ ; that was a near go ! on l'a échappé belle! ; in one go d'un seul coup ; to go one better than sb renchérir sur qn ; that's how it goes!, that's the way it goes! ainsi va le monde!, c'est la vie! ; there you go ! voilà!
    go about:
    1 = go around ;
    2 Naut virer de bord ; prepare to go about! parer à virer! ;
    go about [sth]
    1 ( undertake) s'attaquer à [task] ; how do you go about writing a novel? comment est-ce que vous vous y prenez pour écrire un roman? ; he knows how to go about it il sait s'y prendre ;
    2 ( be busy with) to go about one's business vaquer à ses occupations ; she went about her work mechanically elle faisait son travail machinalement.
    go across:
    go across traverser ; he's gone across to the shop/neighbour's il est allé au magasin en face/chez les voisins en face ;
    go across [sth] traverser [street, river, bridge etc].
    go after:
    go after [sth/sb]
    1 ( chase) poursuivre [person] ;
    2 fig ( try hard to get) he really went after that job il a fait tout son possible pour avoir ce travail.
    go against [sb/sth]
    1 ( prove unfavourable to) the vote/verdict/decision went against them le vote/le verdict/la décision leur a été défavorable or n'a pas été en leur faveur ; the war is going against them la guerre tourne à leur désavantage ;
    2 ( conflict with) être contraire à [rules, principles] ; to go against the trend aller à l'encontre de or être contraire à la tendance ; to go against the party line Pol ne pas être dans la ligne du parti ;
    3 (resist, oppose) s'opposer à, aller à l'inverse de [person, sb's wishes].
    1 ( go in front) go ahead, I'll follow you on partez devant, je vous suis ;
    2 fig ( proceed) go! ( in conversation) continue! ; go ahead and shoot! vas-y, tire! ; they are going ahead with the project ils ont décidé de mettre le projet en route ; we can go ahead without them nous pouvons continuer sans eux ; next week's strike is to go ahead la grève de la semaine prochaine va avoir lieu.
    1 ( move along) [person, vehicle] aller, avancer ; to make sth up as one goes along fig inventer qch au fur et à mesure ;
    2 ( attend) aller ; she went along as a witch elle y est allée déguisée en sorcière ; I went along as a witness j'y suis allé or je me suis présenté comme témoin.
    go along with [sb/sth] être d'accord avec, accepter [plans, wishes] ; I can't go along with that je ne peux pas accepter ça ; I'll go along with you there je suis d'accord avec vous sur ce point.
    go around:
    1 (move, travel about) se promener, circuler ; to go around naked/barefoot se promener tout nu/pieds nus ; she goes around on a bicycle elle circule à bicyclette ; they go around everywhere together ils vont partout ensemble ;
    2 ( circulate) [rumour] courir ; there's a rumour going around that le bruit court que ; there's a virus going around il y a un virus qui traîne ; there isn't enough money to go around il n'y a pas assez d'argent pour tout le monde ;
    go around [sth] faire le tour de [house, shops, area] ; to go around the world faire le tour du monde ; they went around the country looking for him ils l'ont cherché dans tout le pays.
    go at:
    go at [sb] ( attack) attaquer, tomber sur ;
    go at [sth] s'attaquer à, s'atteler à [task, activity].
    go away [person] partir ; to go away on holiday GB ou vacation US partir en vacances ; go away and leave me alone! va-t-en et laisse-moi tranquille! ; go away and think about it réfléchissez-y ; don't go away thinking that ne va pas croire que ; this cold/headache just won't go away! je n'arrive pas à me débarrasser de ce rhume/mal de tête! ; the problems aren't just going to go away! les problèmes ne vont pas disparaître tout seuls!
    go back
    1 ( return) retourner ; ( turn back) rebrousser chemin, faire demi-tour ; ( resume work) reprendre le travail ; (resume classes, studies) reprendre les cours ; as it was raining, they decided to go back comme il pleuvait, ils ont décidé de faire demi-tour or de rebrousser chemin ; they went back home ils sont rentrés chez eux ; let's go back to France rentrons en France ; to go back to the beginning recommencer ; to go back to sleep se rendormir ; to go back to work/writing se remettre au travail/à écrire ; go back! the path isn't safe reculez! le chemin est dangereux ; once you've committed yourself, there's no going back une fois que vous vous êtes engagé, vous ne pouvez plus reculer ;
    2 ( in time) remonter ; to go back in time remonter dans le temps ; to understand the problem we need to go back 20 years pour comprendre le problème il faut remonter 20 ans en arrière ; this tradition goes back a century cette tradition est vieille d'un siècle ; we go back a long way ça fait longtemps qu'on se connaît ;
    3 ( revert) revenir (to à) ; to go back to teaching revenir à l'enseignement ; to go back to being a student reprendre des études ; let's go back to what we were discussing yesterday revenons à ce que dont nous parlions hier.
    go back on [sth] revenir sur [promise, decision].
    go before:
    go before ( go in front) aller au devant ; fig ( in time) se passer avant ; all that had gone before tout ce qui s'était passé avant ;
    go before [sb/sth] [person] comparaître devant [court, judge] ; the bill went before parliament le projet de loi a été soumis au parlement.
    go below gen, Naut descendre.
    go by:
    go by [person] passer ; [time] passer, s'écouler ; as time goes by avec le temps ; don't let such opportunities go by il ne faut pas laisser passer de telles occasions ;
    go by [sth]
    1 ( judge by) juger d'après ; to go by appearances juger d'après or sur les apparences ; going by her looks, I'd say she was about 30 à la voir, je lui donne 30 ans ; you mustn't go by what you read in the papers il ne faut pas croire tout ce que disent les journaux ; if the trailer is anything to go by, it should be a good film à en juger par la bande-annonce, ça doit être un bon film ; if the father is anything to go by, I wouldn't like to meet the son! quand on voit le père, on n'a pas envie de rencontrer le fils! ;
    2 ( proceed by) to go by the rules suivre or observer le règlement ; promotion goes by seniority la promotion se fait à l'ancienneté or en fonction de l'ancienneté.
    go down:
    go down
    1 ( descend) gen descendre ; [diver] effectuer une plongée ; to go down to the cellar descendre à la cave ; to go down to the beach aller à la plage ; to go down to the pub aller au pub ; they've gone down to Brighton for a few days ils sont allés passer quelques jours à Brighton ; ‘going down!’ ( in elevator) ‘on descend!’ ; to go down on one's knees se mettre à genoux ;
    2 ( fall) [person, aircraft] tomber ; ( sink) [ship] couler, sombrer ; [person] couler, disparaître sous les flots ; most of the passengers went down with the ship la plupart des passagers ont coulé avec le navire ; the plane went down in flames l'avion s'est écrasé en flammes ; the plane went down over Normandy/the Channel l'avion s'est écrasé en Normandie/est tombé dans la Manche ; to go down for the third time [drowning person] disparaître sous les flots et se noyer ;
    3 [sun] se coucher ;
    4 ( be received) to go down well/badly être bien/mal reçu ; this remark didn't go down at all well cette remarque n'a pas été appréciée du tout ; his jokes went down well/didn't go down well with the audience le public a apprécié/n'a pas beaucoup apprécié ses plaisanteries ; another cup of coffee would go down nicely! une autre tasse de café serait la bienvenue! ;
    5 ( be swallowed) it went down the wrong way c'est passé de travers ;
    6 ( become lower) [water level, temperature] baisser ; [tide] descendre ; [price, standard] baisser ; ( abate) [storm, wind] se calmer ; [fire] s'éteindre ; the river has/the floods have gone down le niveau de la rivière/des inondations a baissé ; foodstuffs are going down (in price) les produits alimentaires deviennent moins chers ;
    7 ( become deflated) [swelling] désenfler ; [tyre, balloon] se dégonfler ;
    8 GB Univ ( break up for holiday) terminer les cours ; ( leave university permanently) quitter l'université ; when do you go down? quand est-ce que vous êtes en vacances? ;
    9 gen, Sport (fail, be defeated) perdre ; ( be downgraded) redescendre ; Corby went down 6-1 to Oxford Corby a perdu 6-1 contre Oxford ; the team has gone down to the second division l'équipe est redescendue en deuxième division ;
    10 ( be remembered) he will go down as a great statesman on se souviendra de lui comme d'un grand homme d'État ;
    11 ( be recorded) être noté ; it all goes down in her diary elle note tout dans son journal ;
    12 ( continue) the book goes down to 1939 le livre va jusqu'en 1939 ; if you go down to the second last line you will see that si vous regardez à l'avant-dernière ligne, vous verrez que ;
    13 ( be stricken) to go down with flu/malaria attraper la grippe/la malaria ;
    14 GB ( be sent to prison) être envoyé en prison ;
    15 Comput [computer, system] tomber en panne ;
    go down [sth]
    1 lit descendre [hill] ; descendre dans [mine] ;
    2 ( be downgraded) to go down a class Sch redescendre d'une classe.
    go down on [sth] ( set) [sun] se coucher sur ; when the sun went down on the Roman Empire fig quand l'empire romain commençait à décliner ;
    go down on [sb] ( have oral sex with) tailler une pipe à [man] ; faire minette à [woman].
    go for:
    go for [sb/sth]
    1 (favour, have liking for) craquer pour [person, physical type] ; aimer [style of music, literature etc] ; he really goes for blondes il craque pour or il adore les blondes ; I don't go much for modern art je ne suis pas emballé par l'art moderne, je n'aime pas tellement l'art moderne ;
    2 ( apply to) être valable pour, s'appliquer à ; that goes for all of you! c'est valable pour tout le monde! ; the same goes for him c'est valable pour lui aussi!, ça s'applique à lui aussi! ;
    go for [sb]
    1 ( attack) ( physically) attaquer, tomber sur ; ( verbally) attaquer, s'en prendre à [person] ; the two youths went for him les deux jeunes l'ont attaqué or lui ont sauté dessus ; to go for sb's throat [animal] attaquer qn à la gorge ; she really went for him! (in argument, row) elle l'a vraiment incendié!, elle s'en est prise violemment à lui! ;
    2 he has a lot going for him il a beaucoup de choses pour lui ;
    go for [sth]
    1 ( attempt to achieve) essayer d'obtenir [honour, victory] ; she's going for the gold medal/world record elle vise la médaille d'or/le record mondial ; go for it ! vas-y, fonce ! ; the company is going for a new image l'entreprise cherche à se donner une nouvelle image ; the team is going for a win against Italy l'équipe compte bien gagner contre l'Italie ;
    2 ( choose) choisir, prendre ; I'll go for the blue one je prendrai le bleu.
    go forth sout [person] ( go out) sortir ; ( go forward) aller, avancer ; go forth and multiply allez et multipliez-vous.
    go forward(s) avancer.
    go in
    1 ( enter) entrer ; ( go back in) rentrer ;
    2 Mil [army, troops] attaquer ; the troops went in at dawn les troupes ont attaqué à l'aube ;
    3 ( disappear) [sun, moon] se cacher.
    go in for:
    go in for [sth]
    1 ( be keen on) aimer [sport, hobby etc] ; I don't go in for sports much je n'aime pas tellement le sport ; he goes in for opera in a big way il adore l'opéra, c'est un fou d'opéra ; we don't go in for that sort of thing nous n'aimons pas ce genre de chose ; they don't go in much for foreign languages at Ben's school ils ne s'intéressent pas beaucoup aux langues étrangères dans l'école de Ben ;
    2 ( take up) to go in for teaching entrer dans l'enseignement ; to go in for politics se lancer dans la politique ;
    3 ( take part in) s'inscrire à [exam, competition].
    go into:
    go into [sth]
    1 ( enter) entrer dans ; fig ( take up) se lancer dans ; to go into hospital entrer à l'hôpital ; to go into parliament entrer au parlement ; to go into politics/business se lancer dans la politique/les affaires ;
    2 (examine, investigate) étudier ; we need to go into the question of funding il faut que nous étudiions la question du financement ;
    3 (explain, describe) I won't go into why I did it je n'expliquerai pas pourquoi je l'ai fait ; let's not go into that now laissons cela de côté pour l'instant ;
    4 ( launch into) se lancer dans ; she went into a long explanation of what had happened elle s'est lancée dans une longue explication de ce qui s'était passé ;
    5 ( be expended) a lot of work/money went into this project beaucoup de travail/d'argent a été investi dans ce projet ; a lot of effort went into organizing the party l'organisation de la soirée a demandé beaucoup de travail ;
    6 ( hit) [car, driver] rentrer dans, heurter ; the car went into a lamp post la voiture est rentrée dans or a heurté un réverbère.
    go in with [sb] se joindre à [person, ally, organization] ; he went in with us to buy the present il s'est mis avec nous pour acheter le cadeau.
    go off:
    go off
    1 (explode, fire) [bomb] exploser ; the gun didn't go off le coup n'est pas parti ;
    2 [alarm clock] sonner ; [fire alarm] se déclencher ;
    3 ( depart) partir, s'en aller ; he went off to work il est parti au travail ; she went off to find a spade elle est allée chercher une pelle ; they went off together ils sont partis ensemble ;
    4 GB ( go bad) [milk, cream] tourner ; [meat] s'avarier ; [butter] rancir ; ( deteriorate) [performer, athlete etc] perdre sa forme ; [work] se dégrader ; ( lose one's attractiveness) [person] être moins beau/belle qu'avant ; he used to be very handsome, but he's gone off a bit il était très beau, mais il est moins bien maintenant ; the first part of the film was good, but after that it went off la première partie du film était bien, mais après ça s'est dégradé ;
    5 ( fall asleep) s'endormir ;
    6 ( cease to operate) [lights, heating] s'éteindre ;
    7 (happen, take place) [evening, organized event] se passer ; the concert went off very well le concert s'est très bien passé ;
    8 Theat quitter la scène ;
    go off [sb/sth] GB I used to like him but I've gone off him je l'aimais bien avant, mais je ne l'aime plus tellement ; I've gone off opera/whisky je n'aime plus tellement l'opéra/le whisky ; I think she's gone off the idea je crois qu'elle a renoncé à l'idée.
    go off with [sb/sth] partir avec [person, money] ; she went off with all his money elle est partie avec tout son argent ; who's gone off with my pen? qui a pris mon stylo?
    go on:
    go on
    1 (happen, take place) se passer ; what's going on? qu'est-ce qui se passe? ; there's a party going on upstairs il y a une fête en haut ; how long has this been going on? depuis combien de temps est-ce que ça dure? ; a lot of stealing goes on il y a beaucoup de vols ; a lot of drinking goes on at Christmas time les gens boivent beaucoup à Noël ;
    2 ( continue on one's way) poursuivre son chemin ;
    3 ( continue) continuer ; go on with your work continuez votre travail, continuez de travailler ; go on looking continuez à or de chercher ; she went on speaking elle a continué de parler ; go on, we're all listening! continue, nous t'écoutons tous! ; ‘and another thing,’ she went on, ‘you're always late’ ‘et autre chose,’ a-t-elle ajouté, ‘vous êtes toujours en retard’ ; if he goes on like this, he'll get into trouble! s'il continue comme ça, il va s'attirer des ennuis ; we can't go on like this! nous ne pouvons pas continuer comme ça! ; life must go on la vie continue ; the meeting went on into the afternoon la réunion s'est prolongée jusque dans l'après-midi ; you can't go on being a pen pusher all your life! tu ne peux pas rester gratte-papier toute ta vie! ; the list goes on and on la liste est infinie or interminable ; that's enough to be going on with ça suffit pour le moment ; have you got enough work to be going on with? est-ce que tu as assez de travail pour le moment? ; here's £20 to be going on with voici 20 livres pour te dépanner ; go on (with you) ! allons donc! ;
    4 ( of time) ( elapse) as time went on, they… avec le temps, ils… ; as the evening went on, he became more animated au fur et à mesure que la soirée avançait, il devenait plus animé ;
    5 ( keep talking) to go on about sth ne pas arrêter de parler de qch, parler de qch à n'en plus finir ; he was going on about the war il parlait de la guerre à n'en plus finir ; don't go on about it! arrête de parler de ça!, change de disque! ; she went on and on about it elle en a fait toute une histoire ; he does tend to go on a bit! il a tendance à radoter ! ; the way she goes on, you'd think she was an expert on the subject! à l'entendre, on croirait qu'elle est experte en la matière! ;
    6 ( proceed) passer ; let's go on to the next item passons au point suivant ; he went on to say that/describe how puis il a dit que/décrit comment ;
    7 ( go into operation) [heating, lights] s'allumer ;
    8 Theat entrer en scène ; what time do you go on? à quelle heure est-ce que vous entrez en scène? ;
    9 ( approach) it's going on three o'clock il est presque trois heures ; she's four going on five elle va sur ses cinq ans ; he's thirty going on three hum il a trente ans mais il pourrait bien en avoir trois ;
    10 ( fit) these gloves won't go on ces gants ne m'iront pas ; the lid won't go on properly le couvercle ne ferme pas bien ;
    go on [sth] se fonder sur [piece of evidence, information] ; that's all we've got to go on tout ce que nous savons avec certitude ; we've got nothing else to go on nous n'avons pas d'autre point de départ ; the police haven't got much evidence to go on la police n'a pas beaucoup de preuves à l'appui.
    go on at:
    go on at [sb] s'en prendre à [person] ; he's always going on at me for writing badly il s'en prend toujours à moi à cause de ma mauvaise écriture ; they're always going on at us about deadlines ils sont toujours sur notre dos pour des histoires de délais.
    go out
    1 (leave, depart) sortir ; she went out of the room elle a quitté la pièce, elle est sortie de la pièce ; to go out walking aller se promener ; to go out for a drink aller prendre un verre ; they go out a lot ils sortent beaucoup ; she likes going out elle aime sortir ; she had to go out to work at 14 il a fallu qu'elle aille travailler à 14 ans ;
    2 ( travel long distance) partir (to à, pour) ; she's gone out to Australia/Africa elle est partie pour l'Australie/l'Afrique ;
    3 ( have relationship) to go out with sb sortir avec qn ; they've been going out together for six weeks ils sortent ensemble depuis six semaines ;
    4 [tide] descendre ; the tide is going out la marée descend, la mer se retire ;
    5 Ind ( go on strike) se mettre en grève ;
    6 ( become unfashionable) passer de mode ; ( no longer be used) ne plus être utilisé ; mini-skirts went out in the 1970s les mini-jupes ont passé de mode dans les années 70 ; gas went out and electricity came in l'électricité a remplacé le gaz ;
    7 ( be extinguished) [fire, light] s'éteindre ;
    8 ( be sent) [invitation, summons] être envoyé ; ( be published) [journal, magazine] être publié ; Radio, TV ( be broadcast) être diffusé ;
    9 ( be announced) word went out that he was coming back le bruit a couru qu'il revenait ; the news went out from Washington that Washington a annoncé que ;
    10 ( be eliminated) gen, Sport être éliminé ; she went out in the early stages of the competition elle a été éliminée au début de la compétition ;
    11 (expressing compassion, sympathy) my heart goes out to them je les plains de tout mon cœur, je suis de tout cœur avec eux ; our thoughts go out to absent friends nos pensées vont vers nos amis absents ;
    12 ( disappear) all the spirit seemed to have gone out of her elle semblait avoir perdu tout son entrain ; the romance seemed to have gone out of their relationship leur relation semblait avoir perdu tout son charme ;
    13 ( end) [year, month] se terminer ;
    14 ( in cards) terminer.
    go over:
    go over
    1 ( cross over) aller ; she went over to him/to the window elle est allée vers lui/vers la fenêtre, elle s'est approchée de lui/de la fenêtre ; to go over to Ireland/to America aller en Irlande/aux États-Unis ; we are now going over to Washington for more news Radio, TV nous passons maintenant l'antenne à Washington pour plus d'informations ;
    2 ( be received) how did his speech go over? comment est-ce que son discours a été reçu? ; his speech went over well son discours a été bien reçu ; to go over big avoir un grand succès ;
    3 ( switch over) he went over to Labour from the Conservatives il est passé du parti des conservateurs au parti des travaillistes ; to go over to the other side fig passer dans l'autre camp ; we've gone over to gas (central heating) nous sommes passés au chauffage central au gaz ; to go over to Islam se convertir à l'Islam ;
    go over [sth]
    1 ( review) passer [qch] en revue [details] ; she went over the events of the day in her mind elle a passé en revue les événements de la journée ; we've gone over the details again and again nous avons déjà passé les détails en revue mille fois ; to go over one's lines ( actor) répéter son texte ; there's no point in going over old ground il n'y a aucune raison de revenir là-dessus ;
    2 (check, inspect) vérifier [accounts, figures] ; revoir [facts, piece of work] ; I want to go over this article once more before I hand it in je veux relire cet article une dernière fois avant de le remettre ; to go over a house faire le tour d'une maison ;
    3 ( clean) he went over the room with a duster il a donné un coup de chiffon dans la pièce ; after cleaning, go over the surface with a dry cloth après l'avoir nettoyée, essuyez la surface avec un chiffon sec or passez un chiffon sec sur la surface ;
    4 to go over a sketch in ink repasser un dessin à l'encre ;
    5 ( exceed) dépasser ; don't go over £100 ne dépassez pas 100 livres sterling.
    go round GB:
    1 ( turn) [wheel, propeller etc] tourner ; the wheels went round and round les roues n'ont pas arrêté de tourner ; my head's going round j'ai la tête qui tourne ;
    2 ( call round) to go round to see sb aller voir qn ; he's gone round to Anna's il est allé chez Anna ;
    3 ( suffice) there isn't enough food/money to go round il n'y a pas assez de nourriture/d'argent pour tout le monde ; there was barely enough to go round il y en avait à peine assez pour tout le monde ;
    4 ( circulate) there's a rumour going round that le bruit court que ;
    5 ( make detour) faire un détour ; we had to go round the long way ou the long way round il a fallu qu'on prenne un chemin plus long ; I had to go round by the bridge il a fallu que je passe par or que je fasse un détour par le pont ;
    go round [sth] ( visit) faire le tour de [shops, house, museum].
    1 ( come in) entrer ; if you'll just go (on) through, I'll tell them you're here si vous voulez bien entrer, je vais leur dire que vous êtes arrivé ;
    2 ( be approved) [law, agreement] passer ; the law failed to go through la loi n'est pas passée ; the divorce hasn't gone through yet le divorce n'a pas encore été prononcé ;
    3 ( be successfully completed) [business deal] être conclu ;
    go through [sth]
    1 ( undergo) endurer, subir [experience, ordeal] ; ( pass through) passer par [stage, phase] ; in spite of all he's gone through malgré tout ce qu'il a enduré ; we've all gone through it nous sommes tous passés par là ; she's gone through a lot elle a beaucoup souffert ; he went through the day in a kind of daze toute la journée il a été dans un état second ; the country has gone through two civil wars le pays a connu deux guerres civiles ; to go through a crisis traverser une crise ; as you go through life au fur et à mesure que tu vieillis, en vieillissant ; you have to go through the switchboard/right authorities il faut passer par le standard/les autorités compétentes ; it went through my mind that l'idée m'a traversé l'esprit que ;
    2 (check, inspect) examiner, étudier ; ( rapidly) parcourir [documents, files, list] ; to go through one's mail parcourir son courrier ; let's go through the points one by one étudions or examinons les problèmes un par un ;
    3 ( search) fouiller [person's belongings, baggage] ; to go through sb's pockets/drawers fouiller dans les poches/tiroirs de qn ; at customs they went through all my things à la douane ils ont fouillé toutes mes affaires ;
    4 (perform, rehearse) répéter [scene] ; expliquer [procedure] ; let's go through the whole scene once more répétons or reprenons toute la scène une dernière fois ; there are still a certain number of formalities to be gone through il y a encore un certain nombre de formalités à remplir ; I went through the whole procedure with him je lui ai expliqué comment il fallait procéder en détail ;
    5 (consume, use up) dépenser [money] ; we went through three bottles of wine nous avons bu or descendu trois bouteilles de vin ; I've gone through the elbows of my jacket j'ai usé ma veste aux coudes.
    go through with [sth] réaliser, mettre [qch] à exécution [plan] ; in the end they decided to go through with the wedding finalement ils ont décidé de se marier ; I can't go through with it je ne peux pas le faire ; you'll have to go through with it now il va falloir que tu le fasses maintenant.
    1 ( harmonize) [colours, pieces of furniture etc] aller ensemble ; these colours don't go together ces couleurs ne vont pas ensemble ;
    2 ( entail each other) aller de pair ; poverty and crime often go together la pauvreté et le crime vont souvent de pair ;
    3 ( have relationship) [couple] sortir ensemble.
    1 [boat, ship] couler, sombrer ; [drowning person] couler, disparaître sous les flots ;
    2 fig ( succumb) [person] succomber ; ( go bankrupt) [business, company] faire faillite.
    go up:
    go up
    1 ( ascend) monter ; to go up to bed monter se coucher ; they've gone up to London ils sont allés or montés à Londres ; they've gone up to Scotland ils sont allés en Écosse ; ‘going up!’ ( in elevator) ‘on monte!’ ;
    2 ( rise) [price, temperature] monter ; Theat [curtain] se lever (on sur) ; petrol has gone up (in price) (le prix de) l'essence a augmenté ; unemployment is going up le chômage augmente or est en hausse ; our membership has gone up le nombre de nos adhérents a augmenté ; a cry went up from the crowd un cri est monté or s'est élevé de la foule ;
    3 ( be erected) [building] être construit ; [poster] être affiché ; new office blocks are going up all over the place on construit de nouveaux immeubles un peu partout ;
    4 (be destroyed, blown up) [building] sauter, exploser ;
    5 GB Univ ( start university) entrer à l'université ; ( start term) reprendre les cours ;
    6 ( be upgraded) the team has gone up to the first division l'équipe est passée en première division ;
    7 ( continue) the book/series goes up to 1990 le livre/la série va jusqu'en 1990 ;
    go up [sth]
    1 ( mount) monter, gravir [hill, mountain] ;
    2 to go up a class Sch passer dans une classe supérieure.
    go with:
    go with [sth]
    1 (match, suit) aller avec ; your shirt goes with your blue eyes ta chemise va bien avec tes yeux bleus ; white wine goes better with fish than red wine le vin blanc va mieux avec le poisson que le rouge ;
    2 ( accompany) aller de pair avec ; the car goes with the job la voiture va de pair avec la situation ; the responsibilities that go with parenthood les responsabilités qui vont de pair avec le fait d'être parent ;
    go with [sb] ( date) sortir avec ; ( have sex with) coucher avec [person].
    go without s'en passer ; you'll just have to go without! il va falloir que tu t'en passes!, il va falloir que tu fasses sans! ;
    go without [sth] se passer de [food, luxuries].

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  • 17 parlement

    parlement [paʀləmɑ̃]
    masculine noun
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    paʀləmɑ̃
    nom masculin Parliament
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    paʀləmɑ̃ nm
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    Parlement nm le Parlement européen/de Strasbourg/de Westminster the European/Strasbourg/British Parliament; au Parlement [majorité, siège, vote] in Parliament; [élu] to Parliament; [passer, présenter] through Parliament; voter qch au Parlement to vote on sth in Parliament; débattu/soumis au Parlement discussed in/put before Parliament; entrer au Parlement européen to go into the European Parliament.
    [parləmɑ̃] nom masculin
    b. [en Grande-Bretagne] (the Houses of) Parliament
    2. HISTOIRE [en France] parliament ou parlement (under the Ancien Régime)
    [en Grande-Bretagne]
    Parlement Court/Croupion/Long Short/Rump/Long Parliament

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  • 18 rentrée

    rentrée [ʀɑ̃tʀe]
    feminine noun
       a. rentrée (scolaire or des classes) start of the new school year
    rentrée universitaire start of the new academic year ; (du trimestre) start of the new term
       c. [d'acteur, sportif] comeback
       d. ( = retour) return
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    La rentrée in September each year is not only the time when French children and teachers go back to school; it is also the time when political and social life begins again after the long summer break. The expression la rentrée is thus not restricted to an educational context, but can refer in general to the renewed activity that takes place throughout the country in the autumn.
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    The week at the beginning of September when the new school year starts and around which much of French administrative life revolves. The preceding weeks see intensive advertising of associated merchandise, from books and stationery to clothes and sports equipment. Many stores and supermarkets have a range of special purchases at bargain prices. The concept of the rentrée also extends to literary, political and other activities which are resumed after the period of the grandes vacances in July and August when businesses can close for up to a month. La rentrée littéraire marks the start of the literary year and la rentrée parlementaire signals the reassembly of Parliament after the recess
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    ʀɑ̃tʀe nf
    1) (rentrée d'argent) cash no pl coming in

    la rentrée; la rentrée des classes — the start of the new school year

    4) [artiste, acteur]
    * * *
    rentréerentré B, D.
    Rentrée The week at the beginning of September when the new school year starts and around which much of French administrative life revolves. The preceding weeks see intensive advertising of associated merchandise, from books and stationery to clothes and sports equipment. Many stores and supermarkets have a range of special purchases at bargain prices. The concept of the rentrée also extends to literary, political and other activities which are resumed after the period of the grandes vacances in July and August when businesses can close for up to a month. La rentrée littéraire marks the start of the literary year and la rentrée parlementaire signals the reassembly of Parliament after the recess.
    [rɑ̃tre] nom féminin
    depuis la rentrée de Noël/Pâques since the spring/summer term began, since the Christmas/Easter break
    c'est quand, la rentrée, chez vous? when do you go back? (to school, college etc.)
    b. [après une absence] to make one's (political) comeback
    3. [saison artistique]
    la rentrée musicale/théâtrale the new musical/theatrical season (after the summer break)
    a. [après les vacances] for the start of your autumn (UK) ou fall (US) season in Paris
    b. [après une absence] for your Paris comeback
    4. [retour - des vacances d'été] (beginning of the) autumn (UK) ou fall (US) ; [ - de congé ou de week-end] return to work
    6. [des foins] bringing ou taking in
    ————————
    rentrées nom féminin pluriel
    The time of the year when children go back to school has considerable cultural significance in France; coming after the long summer break or grandes vacances, it is the time when academic, political, social and commercial activity begins again in earnest.

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > rentrée

  • 19 mandato

    m.
    1 order, command (orden, precepto).
    2 mandate.
    3 term of office.
    4 period of office, premiership, office, period in office.
    5 mandatum.
    6 terms of reference.
    * * *
    1 (orden) order, command
    2 DERECHO mandate
    3 PLÍTICA term of office
    \
    mandato judicial court order
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=orden) mandate
    2) (=período de mando) term of office, mandate frm

    se acerca el final de su mandatohis term of office o his mandate frm is coming to an end

    bajo o durante el mandato de algn — during sb's term of office o mandate frm

    territorio bajo mandato — mandated territory

    3) (Jur) (=estatutos) terms of reference pl ; (=poder) power of attorney
    4) (Inform) command
    5) (Com)
    6) (Rel) maundy
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( período) term of office
    b) ( orden) mandate
    2) (Der) mandate
    * * *
    = commandment, instruction, mandate, parliament, tenure, dictate, injunction, term, edict, term of office, period of office, term in office, watch, behest.
    Ex. The commandment KOLN see COLOGNE should be sufficient cause for the rejection of the illicit proposal to establish OPERA -- KOLN.
    Ex. A command language is the language with which the search proceeds; the commands are instructions that the searcher can issue to the computer.
    Ex. The original mandate was very clear: to consider for inclusion all proposals made.
    Ex. Librarians should not indulge in complacency in the wake of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's decision not to impose any VAT on books for the duration of the present parliament.
    Ex. During his tenure, OSU was recognized for the high quality Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) program it developed in serving both students and faculty.
    Ex. In practice, once the barriers are broken down in children antagonistic to reading, everything blends into the flux of a whole experience split into bits only by the dictates of a school timetable.
    Ex. Familiar injunctions such as 'Enter under...' seem to have been lost.
    Ex. The board consists of seven members elected by popular ballot for three-year terms.
    Ex. A French edict of 1571 set the maximum price of Latin textbooks in large type at 3 deniers a sheet.
    Ex. At the same time we traditionally record the departure of those who have completed terms of office and who have given much of their time and some of their lives to forwarding the cause of libraries and librarianship.
    Ex. This paper identifies the librarians of Glasgow University since 1641 and assesses their periods of office.
    Ex. The book focuses on Nixon's two terms in office and draws on solid, original source material to get inside the minds of the president and his chief hatchetman, Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, in particular.
    Ex. During his watch, the US economy as well as the global monetary situation have been thrown into a precarious situation.
    Ex. Prophet Mohammed told him, "Well look here, so long as they follow my behests, they will not be ill".
    ----
    * al final de su mandato = lame duck.
    * en el mandato = in office.
    * finalizar un mandato = leave + office.
    * mandato judicial = writ.
    * periodo de mandato = period of office.
    * territorio bajo mandato = mandate.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( período) term of office
    b) ( orden) mandate
    2) (Der) mandate
    * * *
    = commandment, instruction, mandate, parliament, tenure, dictate, injunction, term, edict, term of office, period of office, term in office, watch, behest.

    Ex: The commandment KOLN see COLOGNE should be sufficient cause for the rejection of the illicit proposal to establish OPERA -- KOLN.

    Ex: A command language is the language with which the search proceeds; the commands are instructions that the searcher can issue to the computer.
    Ex: The original mandate was very clear: to consider for inclusion all proposals made.
    Ex: Librarians should not indulge in complacency in the wake of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's decision not to impose any VAT on books for the duration of the present parliament.
    Ex: During his tenure, OSU was recognized for the high quality Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) program it developed in serving both students and faculty.
    Ex: In practice, once the barriers are broken down in children antagonistic to reading, everything blends into the flux of a whole experience split into bits only by the dictates of a school timetable.
    Ex: Familiar injunctions such as 'Enter under...' seem to have been lost.
    Ex: The board consists of seven members elected by popular ballot for three-year terms.
    Ex: A French edict of 1571 set the maximum price of Latin textbooks in large type at 3 deniers a sheet.
    Ex: At the same time we traditionally record the departure of those who have completed terms of office and who have given much of their time and some of their lives to forwarding the cause of libraries and librarianship.
    Ex: This paper identifies the librarians of Glasgow University since 1641 and assesses their periods of office.
    Ex: The book focuses on Nixon's two terms in office and draws on solid, original source material to get inside the minds of the president and his chief hatchetman, Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, in particular.
    Ex: During his watch, the US economy as well as the global monetary situation have been thrown into a precarious situation.
    Ex: Prophet Mohammed told him, "Well look here, so long as they follow my behests, they will not be ill".
    * al final de su mandato = lame duck.
    * en el mandato = in office.
    * finalizar un mandato = leave + office.
    * mandato judicial = writ.
    * periodo de mandato = period of office.
    * territorio bajo mandato = mandate.

    * * *
    A
    1 (período) term of office
    2 (orden) mandate
    la Regencia se ejercerá por mandato constitucional the Regency will operate according to the constitution
    B ( Der) mandate
    * * *

     

    mandato sustantivo masculino
    1


    2 (Der) mandate
    mandato sustantivo masculino
    1 (orden) order, command
    Jur warrant
    2 (periodo de gobierno) term of office
    ' mandato' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    orden
    - ordenar
    - que
    - legislatura
    English:
    expire
    - injunction
    - mandate
    - order
    - term
    - writ
    * * *
    1. [orden, precepto] order, command;
    fue detenido por mandato del juez he was arrested on the judge's instructions
    Der mandato judicial warrant
    2. [poderes de representación] mandate
    mandato electoral electoral mandate
    3. [periodo] term of office;
    durante el mandato del alcalde during the mayor's term of office;
    el candidato republicano aspira a un tercer mandato consecutivo the Republican candidate is seeking his third consecutive term
    * * *
    m
    1 ( orden) order
    2 POL mandate
    * * *
    1) : term of office
    2) : mandate

    Spanish-English dictionary > mandato

  • 20 Stephenson, Robert

    [br]
    b. 16 October 1803 Willington Quay, Northumberland, England
    d. 12 October 1859 London, England
    [br]
    English engineer who built the locomotive Rocket and constructed many important early trunk railways.
    [br]
    Robert Stephenson's father was George Stephenson, who ensured that his son was educated to obtain the theoretical knowledge he lacked himself. In 1821 Robert Stephenson assisted his father in his survey of the Stockton \& Darlington Railway and in 1822 he assisted William James in the first survey of the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway. He then went to Edinburgh University for six months, and the following year Robert Stephenson \& Co. was named after him as Managing Partner when it was formed by himself, his father and others. The firm was to build stationary engines, locomotives and railway rolling stock; in its early years it also built paper-making machinery and did general engineering.
    In 1824, however, Robert Stephenson accepted, perhaps in reaction to an excess of parental control, an invitation by a group of London speculators called the Colombian Mining Association to lead an expedition to South America to use steam power to reopen gold and silver mines. He subsequently visited North America before returning to England in 1827 to rejoin his father as an equal and again take charge of Robert Stephenson \& Co. There he set about altering the design of steam locomotives to improve both their riding and their steam-generating capacity. Lancashire Witch, completed in July 1828, was the first locomotive mounted on steel springs and had twin furnace tubes through the boiler to produce a large heating surface. Later that year Robert Stephenson \& Co. supplied the Stockton \& Darlington Railway with a wagon, mounted for the first time on springs and with outside bearings. It was to be the prototype of the standard British railway wagon. Between April and September 1829 Robert Stephenson built, not without difficulty, a multi-tubular boiler, as suggested by Henry Booth to George Stephenson, and incorporated it into the locomotive Rocket which the three men entered in the Liverpool \& Manchester Railway's Rainhill Trials in October. Rocket, was outstandingly successful and demonstrated that the long-distance steam railway was practicable.
    Robert Stephenson continued to develop the locomotive. Northumbrian, built in 1830, had for the first time, a smokebox at the front of the boiler and also the firebox built integrally with the rear of the boiler. Then in Planet, built later the same year, he adopted a layout for the working parts used earlier by steam road-coach pioneer Goldsworthy Gurney, placing the cylinders, for the first time, in a nearly horizontal position beneath the smokebox, with the connecting rods driving a cranked axle. He had evolved the definitive form for the steam locomotive.
    Also in 1830, Robert Stephenson surveyed the London \& Birmingham Railway, which was authorized by Act of Parliament in 1833. Stephenson became Engineer for construction of the 112-mile (180 km) railway, probably at that date the greatest task ever undertaken in of civil engineering. In this he was greatly assisted by G.P.Bidder, who as a child prodigy had been known as "The Calculating Boy", and the two men were to be associated in many subsequent projects. On the London \& Birmingham Railway there were long and deep cuttings to be excavated and difficult tunnels to be bored, notoriously at Kilsby. The line was opened in 1838.
    In 1837 Stephenson provided facilities for W.F. Cooke to make an experimental electrictelegraph installation at London Euston. The directors of the London \& Birmingham Railway company, however, did not accept his recommendation that they should adopt the electric telegraph and it was left to I.K. Brunel to instigate the first permanent installation, alongside the Great Western Railway. After Cooke formed the Electric Telegraph Company, Stephenson became a shareholder and was Chairman during 1857–8.
    Earlier, in the 1830s, Robert Stephenson assisted his father in advising on railways in Belgium and came to be increasingly in demand as a consultant. In 1840, however, he was almost ruined financially as a result of the collapse of the Stanhope \& Tyne Rail Road; in return for acting as Engineer-in-Chief he had unwisely accepted shares, with unlimited liability, instead of a fee.
    During the late 1840s Stephenson's greatest achievements were the design and construction of four great bridges, as part of railways for which he was responsible. The High Level Bridge over the Tyne at Newcastle and the Royal Border Bridge over the Tweed at Berwick were the links needed to complete the East Coast Route from London to Scotland. For the Chester \& Holyhead Railway to cross the Menai Strait, a bridge with spans as long-as 460 ft (140 m) was needed: Stephenson designed them as wrought-iron tubes of rectangular cross-section, through which the trains would pass, and eventually joined the spans together into a tube 1,511 ft (460 m) long from shore to shore. Extensive testing was done beforehand by shipbuilder William Fairbairn to prove the method, and as a preliminary it was first used for a 400 ft (122 m) span bridge at Conway.
    In 1847 Robert Stephenson was elected MP for Whitby, a position he held until his death, and he was one of the exhibition commissioners for the Great Exhibition of 1851. In the early 1850s he was Engineer-in-Chief for the Norwegian Trunk Railway, the first railway in Norway, and he also built the Alexandria \& Cairo Railway, the first railway in Africa. This included two tubular bridges with the railway running on top of the tubes. The railway was extended to Suez in 1858 and for several years provided a link in the route from Britain to India, until superseded by the Suez Canal, which Stephenson had opposed in Parliament. The greatest of all his tubular bridges was the Victoria Bridge across the River St Lawrence at Montreal: after inspecting the site in 1852 he was appointed Engineer-in-Chief for the bridge, which was 1 1/2 miles (2 km) long and was designed in his London offices. Sadly he, like Brunel, died young from self-imposed overwork, before the bridge was completed in 1859.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    FRS 1849. President, Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1849. President, Institution of Civil Engineers 1856. Order of St Olaf (Norway). Order of Leopold (Belgium). Like his father, Robert Stephenson refused a knighthood.
    Further Reading
    L.T.C.Rolt, 1960, George and Robert Stephenson, London: Longman (a good modern biography).
    J.C.Jeaffreson, 1864, The Life of Robert Stephenson, London: Longman (the standard nine-teenth-century biography).
    M.R.Bailey, 1979, "Robert Stephenson \& Co. 1823–1829", Transactions of the Newcomen Society 50 (provides details of the early products of that company).
    J.Kieve, 1973, The Electric Telegraph, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles.
    PJGR

    Biographical history of technology > Stephenson, Robert

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