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  • 1 colear

    v.
    1 to wag its tail (animal).
    2 to drag on (asunto, problema).
    3 to jackknife.
    * * *
    1 (perro etc) to wag its tail; (vaca, caballo, etc) to swish its tail
    2 familiar to drag on
    ■ aunque ya está casi solucionado, aún hay algún aspecto que colea although almost everything has been sorted out, there are still some sticky points
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) [+ toro] to hold on to the tail of
    2) LAm * (=regañar) to nag, give a hard time *
    3) CAm (=seguir) to tail, follow
    2. VI
    1) [perro] to wag its tail; [caballo] to swish its tail; [pez] to wriggle
    2) (fig)
    3) CAm, Caribe [en edad]

    colea en los 50 — he's close on 50, he's knocking on 50 *

    3.
    See:
    * * *
    verbo intransitivo
    a) (fam) ( no estar resuelto)
    b) (Col, CS) coche to fishtail
    * * *
    ----
    * vivito y coleando = alive and kicking, land of the living, the, safe and sound.
    * * *
    verbo intransitivo
    a) (fam) ( no estar resuelto)
    b) (Col, CS) coche to fishtail
    * * *
    * vivito y coleando = alive and kicking, land of the living, the, safe and sound.
    * * *
    colear [A1 ]
    vi
    1 ( fam)
    «asunto/problema»: todavía colea el tema de la herencia the question of the inheritance is still dragging on ( colloq)
    aún colean algunos asuntos de esa época certain questions from that period still haven't been sorted out
    2 (Col, CS) «auto» to fishtail
    3
    ( Chi fam) (ir último): iba coleando he was in last place
    el equipo va coleando the team is trailing at the bottom of the league ( o division etc)
    salir coleado ( Chi fam); to come last
    * * *

    colear verbo intransitivo
    1 (un perro) to wag its tail
    2 familiar (perdurar) las consecuencias de su dimisión aún colean, we haven't heard the last of the effects of his resignation
    ♦ Locuciones: familiar vivito y coleando, alive and kicking
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. Col, Méx, Ven [res] to throw down by the tail
    2. Chile [examen] to fail
    3. Col, Méx Fam [molestar] to bug, Br to nark
    ♦ vi
    1. [animal] to wag its tail
    2. [asunto, problema] to drag on;
    todavía colea el escándalo the scandal is still dragging on
    * * *
    fig
    I v/i
    :
    todavía colea la polémica the controversy is still dragging on
    II v/t toro pull the tail of
    * * *
    colear vi
    1) : to wag its tail
    2)
    vivito y coleando fam : alive and kicking

    Spanish-English dictionary > colear

  • 2 klären

    I v/t
    1. (reinigen) purify; (Abwässer) treat
    2. (Sache, Missverständnis) clear up; (Sache, Tatbestand) clarify; (Frage) settle
    II v/i SPORT clear; der Abwehrspieler klärte auf der Linie the defender cleared off the line
    III v/refl
    1. Himmel etc.: clear (up)
    2. Frage: be settled; Problem: be solved
    * * *
    to clear up; to clarify
    * * *
    klä|ren ['klɛːrən]
    1. vt
    to clear; Wasser, Luft to purify; Abwasser to treat; Bier, Wein to fine; Fall, Sachlage to clarify, to clear up; Frage to settle
    2. vi (SPORT)
    to clear (the ball)
    3. vr
    (Wasser, Himmel) to clear; (Wetter) to clear up; (Meinungen, Sachlage) to become clear; (Streitpunkte) to be clarified; (Frage) to be settled
    * * *
    1) (to make or become definite or clear: He tried to crystallize his ideas.) crystallize
    2) (to make or become definite or clear: He tried to crystallize his ideas.) crystallise
    3) (to reach a decision or agreement: Have you settled with the builders when they are to start work?; The dispute between management and employees is still not settled.) settle
    4) (to clear up or explain (a mystery, crime etc): That crime has never been solved.) solve
    * * *
    klä·ren
    [ˈklɛrən]
    I. vt
    ▪ etw \klären to clear up sth sep
    eine Frage \klären to settle a question
    ein Problem \klären to resolve [or settle] [or solve] a problem
    eine Sachlage \klären to clarify a situation
    den Tatbestand \klären to determine the facts [of the matter]
    ▪ geklärt werden Abwässer, Luft to be treated
    ▪ etw \klären to clarify [or settle] sth
    II. vr
    ▪ sich akk \klären to be cleared up
    das Problem wird sich schon eventuell [von selber] \klären the problem will probably resolve [or settle] itself [of its own accord]
    2. (sauber werden)
    ▪ sich akk [wieder] \klären Wasser to become clear [again]
    * * *
    1.
    1) (aufklären) settle, resolve <question, issue, matter>; clarify < situation>; clear up <case, affair, misunderstanding>
    2) (reinigen) purify; treat <effluent, sewage>; clear <beer, wine>
    2.
    1) (klar werden) < situation> become clear; <question, issue, matter> be settled or resolved
    2) (rein werden) < liquid, sky> clear
    3.
    intransitives Verb (Ballspiele) clear [the ball]
    * * *
    A. v/t
    1. (reinigen) purify; (Abwässer) treat
    2. (Sache, Missverständnis) clear up; (Sache, Tatbestand) clarify; (Frage) settle
    B. v/i SPORT clear;
    der Abwehrspieler klärte auf der Linie the defender cleared off the line
    C. v/r
    1. Himmel etc: clear (up)
    2. Frage: be settled; Problem: be solved
    * * *
    1.
    1) (aufklären) settle, resolve <question, issue, matter>; clarify < situation>; clear up <case, affair, misunderstanding>
    2) (reinigen) purify; treat <effluent, sewage>; clear <beer, wine>
    2.
    1) (klar werden) < situation> become clear; <question, issue, matter> be settled or resolved
    2) (rein werden) <liquid, sky> clear
    3.
    intransitives Verb (Ballspiele) clear [the ball]
    * * *
    v.
    to clarify v.
    to clear v.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > klären

  • 3 bleiben

    v/i; bleibt, blieb, ist geblieben
    1. (sich aufhalten, verweilen) stay, stop umg.; zu lange: tarry, linger; zu Hause bleiben stay at home; nicht ausgehen auch: stay in; im Bett bleiben stay in bed; draußen bleiben stay out; hinten bleiben be ( oder get) left behind; zum Essen bleiben stay for dinner; bleiben Sie bitte am Apparat please hold (the line); bleib auf deinem Platz stay where you are, don’t move; wir blieben über Nacht in einem Hotel we stopped ( oder stayed) at a hotel overnight umg.; und wo bleibe ich? umg. what about me?, and where do I come into it?; wir müssen ( selber) sehen, wo wir bleiben we’ll just have to fend for ourselves (do our own thing umg.); sieh zu, wo du bleibst! umg. you’re on your own, kid!; bleib mir damit vom Hals(e)! don’t bother me with such things; solange er in seinen Grenzen bleibt as long as he stays within his limits, as long as he doesn’t push himself too far; das bleibt unter uns! that’s between you and me, keep that under your hat umg.; im Krieg etc. bleiben (fallen) fall, be killed; Ball1, Leib etc.
    2. bleiben bei unverändert bei einer Sache: keep to, stick to, einer Meinung, Entscheidung etc.: stick to, stand by; bei der Wahrheit bleiben stick to the truth; wollen wir doch bei der Sache bleiben let’s stick ( oder keep) to the point ( oder subject), let’s get back on track umg.; ich bleibe dabei I’m not going to change my mind; ich bleibe dabei, dass... I still think ( oder maintain etc.) that...; ich bleibe bei meinem Versprechen / meiner Meinung I shall ( oder will) abide by my promise / opinion; ich bleibe ( lieber) bei(m) Bier (I think) I’ll stick to beer, thanks; Schuster, bleib bei deinem Leisten! Sprichw. let the cobbler stick to his last; Sache, Stange, Takt1 1, treu I
    3. in einem Zustand: remain, stay, continue (to be), keep; an / aus bleiben stay oder be kept on / off; geschlossen / trocken bleiben stay closed / dry; gesund bleiben stay ( oder keep) healthy; bleib gesund! mind how you go, now, take care!, keep well ( oder fit); am Leben bleiben stay alive; ruhig / gelassen bleiben keep quiet / one’s temper; unbestraft / unentdeckt bleiben go unpunished / undiscovered; unbenannt / anonym bleiben remain unnamed / anonymous; er bleibt immer freundlich he’s always very pleasant; sie wird sich immer treu bleiben she will always be the same; unsere Bemühungen blieben ohne Erfolg all our efforts were in vain; die Sache bleibt ein Geheimnis the affair remains a mystery; für sich bleiben keep to o.s.; bleib(, wo du bist)! stay where you are!, don’t move!; bleib, wie du bist stay the way you are; er wird uns stets in Erinnerung bleiben we will never forget him; in Todesanzeige: he will remain in our memory for ever; der Tag wird mir noch lange in Erinnerung bleiben well that’s a day I won’t forget in a hurry umg.; ruhig I
    4. mit Verb: remain, stay; bleiben Sie ( doch) sitzen! don’t get up, please; bleib doch sitzen! ungeduldig: can’t you sit still (for one minute)?; hängen1 6, liegen 7, stehen I 3-5
    5. etw. bleiben lassen (nicht tun) not do s.th., leave (s.th) alone; dann lass es eben bleiben don’t, then; nobody’s forcing you; das wirst du schön bleiben lassen! you’ll do nothing of the sort ( oder kind)!, don’t you dare!; lass es lieber bleiben (better) leave it
    6. etw. bleiben lassen (aufhören mit) stop (doing) s.th.; lass das bleiben! stop it ( oder that)!, don’t do that!, leave it alone!; er kann es nicht bleiben lassen he won’t stop (doing it); das Rauchen / Trinken etc. bleiben lassen stop ( oder quit umg.) smoking / drinking etc.
    7. (übrig bleiben) be left (over), remain; nur drei blieben ( noch) only three remained; uns bleibt nicht mehr viel Zeit we haven’t got ( oder there isn’t) much time left; mir bleibt keine ( andere) Wahl I have no choice ( als zu + Inf. but to + Inf.); es bleibt ihr nur die Erinnerung an ihn all she has left are the memories of him; jetzt bleibt uns nur noch eine Chance we have only one chance left, this is our last chance; vorbehalten II
    8. (wegbleiben) wo bleibt er denn? what’s taking him (so long)?, where’s he got to?; wo bist du so lange geblieben? where’ve you been all this time?, what took you so long?; wo ist denn der Peter geblieben? where’s Peter got to ( oder gone)?, what’s happened to Peter?; wo ist nur mein Schlüssel geblieben? what have I done with my key?; Kinder, wo ist nur die Zeit geblieben? Goodness, what’s happened to the time?
    9. unpers.: es bleibt dabei! that’s final ( oder settled) then, agreed!; und dabei bleibt es! and that’s that, and that’s final; dabei wird es nicht bleiben that won’t be the end of it ( oder the last we’ll etc. hear of it), matters won’t rest ( oder stop umg.) there; dabei muss es bleiben there the matter must rest, we’ll have to leave it there umg.; es wird bei unserer Abmachung bleiben we’ll stick to our agreement; es kann nicht dabei bleiben (so kann es nicht weiter gehen) it can’t go on like this; es wird nicht bei nur einem Fehler bleiben that won’t be the only mistake ( oder fault); es bleibt nur noch wenig zu tun there isn’t much left to be done; bleibt nur noch zu hoffen, dass... we can only hope (that)..., (well,) let’s hope (that)...; abwarten I, überlassen etc.
    * * *
    to remain; to keep; to rest; to stay; to abide
    * * *
    blei|ben ['blaibn] pret blieb [bliːp] ptp geblieben [gə'bliːbn]
    vi aux sein
    1) (= sich nicht verändern) to stay, to remain

    unbelohnt/unbestraft bléíben — to go unrewarded/unpunished

    unbeachtet bléíben — to go unnoticed, to escape notice

    unbeantwortet bléíben — to be left or to remain unanswered

    unvergessen bléíben — to continue to be remembered

    in Verbindung bléíben — to keep or stay or remain in touch

    in Übung/Form bléíben — to keep in practice/form

    jdm in or in jds Erinnerung bléíben — to stay or remain in sb's mind

    ruhig/still bléíben — to keep calm/quiet

    wach bléíben — to stay or keep awake

    Freunde bléíben — to stay or remain friends, to go on being friends

    2) (= sich nicht bewegen, zu Besuch bleiben) to stay; (= nicht weggehen, nicht zurückkommen) to stay, to remain

    sitzen/stehen bléíben — to stay sitting down/standing up, to remain seated/standing

    bitte, bléíben Sie doch sitzen — please don't get up

    von etw bléíben — to stay or keep away from sth

    wo sind denn all die alten Häuser geblieben? — what (has) happened to all the old houses?, where have all the old houses gone (to)?

    See:
    → Ball
    3) (fig)

    bei etw bléíben — to keep or stick (inf) to sth

    das bleibt unter uns — that's ( just) between ourselves

    wir möchten für or unter uns bléíben — we want to keep ourselves to ourselves

    See:
    → dabei
    4) (= übrig bleiben) to be left, to remain

    es blieb mir keine andere Wahl/Möglichkeit — I had no other choice/possibility

    es blieb keine andere Wahl/Möglichkeit — there was no other choice/possibility

    5)

    (= sein) es bleibt abzuwarten — it remains to be seen

    es bleibt zu hoffen or wünschen, dass... — I/we can only hope that...

    6) (inf = versorgt werden)

    sie können ( selber) sehen, wo sie bléíben — they'll just have to look out for themselves (inf)

    sieh zu, wo du bleibst! — you're on your own! (inf), you'd better look out for yourself! (inf)

    7) (euph = umkommen)
    * * *
    1) (to stay; not to leave: I shall remain here.) remain
    2) (to continue to be: The problem remains unsolved.) remain
    3) (to remain, last or continue for a long time or after the expected time: The smell of the bad fish lingered for days.) linger
    4) (to remain (in a place) for a time, eg while travelling, or as a guest etc: We stayed three nights at that hotel / with a friend / in Paris; Aunt Mary is coming to stay (for a fortnight); Would you like to stay for supper?; Stay and watch that television programme.) stay
    5) (to remain (in a particular position, place, state or condition): The doctor told her to stay in bed; He never stays long in any job; Stay away from the office till your cold is better; Why won't these socks stay up?; Stay where you are - don't move!; In 1900, people didn't realize that motor cars were here to stay.) stay
    6) (to stay: Will you be stopping long at the hotel?) stop
    * * *
    blei·ben
    <blieb, geblieben>
    [ˈblaibn̩]
    vi Hilfsverb: sein
    1. (verweilen) to stay
    \bleiben Sie doch noch! do stay!
    ich bleibe noch zwei Jahre in der Schule I'll be staying at school another two years
    ich bleibe heute etwas länger im Büro I'll be working late today
    \bleiben Sie am Apparat! hold the line!
    bleibt am Platz! stay seated [or in your seats]!
    wo bleibst du so lange? what has been keeping you all this time?
    wo sie nur so lange bleibt? wherever has she got to?
    wo ist meine Brieftasche geblieben? where has my wallet got to?, what has happened to my wallet?
    wo sind die Jahre bloß geblieben? how the years have flown [or passed by]!
    im Bett \bleiben to stay in bed
    zum Frühstück \bleiben to stay for breakfast
    auf dem Weg \bleiben to stay on [or keep to] the path
    für sich akk \bleiben wollen to want to be alone
    er ist ein Einzelgänger und will lieber für sich \bleiben he's a loner and likes to be by himself
    unter [o für] sich \bleiben wollen to want to keep to themselves
    in den Ferien \bleiben wir gern[e] unter uns on holidays we like to keep to ourselves
    wir \bleiben ganz unter uns there'll just be us
    ▪ bei jdm \bleiben to stay with sb
    2. (fig: nicht verlassen) to stay
    das bleibt unter uns that's [just] between ourselves [or fam between you and me and the bedpost]
    jdm in Erinnerung \bleiben to stay in sb's mind [or memory]
    im Rahmen \bleiben to keep within reasonable bounds
    3. (andauern) to last, to persist
    hoffentlich bleibt die Sonne noch eine Weile I do hope the sunshine lasts for a while yet
    der Regen dürfte vorerst \bleiben the rain should persist for the time being
    4. (wohnen) to stay
    ich habe immer noch keine Wohnung gefunden, wo ich \bleiben kann I still haven't found a place to stay
    5. (fam: zurechtkommen)
    und wo bleibe ich? and what about me?
    [selbst] [zu]sehen müssen, wo man bleibt to have to look out [or to fend] for oneself
    6. (euph geh: umkommen)
    im Feld \bleiben to fall in battle
    im Krieg/auf See \bleiben to die in the war/at sea
    7. (sich fernhalten, meiden)
    ▪ von jdm/etw \bleiben (fam) to stay away from sb/sth
    8. (nicht aufgeben)
    ▪ bei etw dat \bleiben to stick [or keep] to sth
    bleibt es bei unserer Abmachung? does our arrangement still stand?
    ich bleibe bei meiner alten Marke I'll stick to [or stay with] my old brand
    ich bleibe bei Weißwein I'm sticking to [or fam with] white wine
    dabei bleibt es! [and] that's that [or the end of it]!
    dabei \bleiben, dass... to still think [or say] that...
    9. (weiterhin sein) to stay, to remain
    ihre Klagen blieben ungehört her complaints were not listened to [or fell on deaf ears]
    die Lage blieb [weiterhin] angespannt the situation remained tense
    morgen \bleiben alle Geschäfte geschlossen all the shops are closed tomorrow
    er ist ganz der Alte geblieben he hasn't changed a bit [since I last saw him]
    in Form \bleiben to keep in shape
    Freunde \bleiben to remain [or go on being] friends
    frisch \bleiben to keep [fresh]
    gelassen/wach \bleiben to stay [or keep] calm/awake
    hartnäckig/inkonsequent/unzugänglich \bleiben to be still stubborn/inconsistent/inaccessible
    am Leben \bleiben to stay alive
    Präsident/Vorsitzender \bleiben to continue as president/chairman
    tot \bleiben ESP NORDD (fam: sterben) to die, to snuff it BRIT fam
    in Übung \bleiben to keep practising
    unbeachtet \bleiben to go unnoticed, to escape notice
    unbeantwortet \bleiben Brief to go [or remain] unanswered
    mein Brief ist bis jetzt unbeantwortet geblieben so far I have received no reply to my letter
    unbelohnt/unbestraft \bleiben to go unrewarded/unpunished
    unvergessen \bleiben to continue to be remembered
    diese Ereignisse werden mir für immer unvergessen \bleiben I shall never forget those events
    in Verbindung \bleiben to keep [or stay] [or remain] in touch
    10. (belassen werden) to stay [or remain] unchanged
    „bleibt“ TYPO “please retain”, “stet” spec
    es bleibt wenigstens die Hoffnung, dass... at least there's the hope that...
    eine Hoffnung/Möglichkeit bleibt uns noch we still have one hope/possibility left
    was bleibt mir dann? what shall I do?
    was blieb ihm anderes als nachzugeben? what else could he do but give in?
    es blieb ihr nur noch die Flucht her only choice was to flee
    es bleibt keine andere Möglichkeit/Wahl there is no other alternative/choice
    es blieb mir keine andere Möglichkeit/Wahl I was left with no other alternative/choice
    12. (sein, gelten)
    es bleibt Ihnen belassen, wie Sie sich entscheiden it's up to you how you decide
    es bleibt abzuwarten, ob... it remains to be seen whether...
    es bleibt zu hoffen/wünschen, dass... we/you etc. can only hope/wish that...
    es bleibt sehr zu wünschen, dass... we sincerely hope that...
    13. (fam: unterlassen)
    etw \bleiben lassen to refrain from sth; (aufhören mit) to stop sth; (aufgeben) to give up sth; (einmalig) to give sth a miss fam; (nicht wagen) to forget sth fam
    lass das/es [gefälligst] \bleiben! don't do that/it!; (hör auf) stop that/it!
    du willst ihr die Wahrheit sagen? das würde ich an deiner Stelle lieber \bleiben lassen! you want to tell her the truth? I wouldn't do that if I were you!
    das Rauchen \bleiben lassen to give up [or stop] smoking
    * * *
    unregelmäßiges intransitives Verb; mit sein
    1) stay; remain

    wo bleibst du denn so lange? — where have you been or what's been keeping you all this time?

    auf dem Weg bleiben — keep to or stay on the path

    bei etwas bleiben — (fig.): (an etwas festhalten) keep or stick to something

    jemandem in Erinnerung od. im Gedächtnis bleiben — stay in somebody's mind or memory

    das bleibt unter uns — (Dat.) that's [just] between ourselves

    zusehen können, wo man bleibt — (ugs.) have to fend for oneself

    im Feld/im Krieg/auf See bleiben — (verhüll. geh.) die or fall in action/die in the war/die at sea

    unbestraft/unbemerkt bleiben — go unpunished/go unnoticed or escape notice

    sitzen bleiben — stay or remain sitting down or seated

    dabei bleibt es! — (ugs.): (daran wird nichts mehr geändert) that's that; that's the end of it

    2)

    es bleibt zu hoffen, dass... — we can only hope that...

    3) (übrigbleiben) be left; remain

    uns (Dat.) bleibt noch Zeit — we still have time

    4)

    etwas bleiben lassen — give something a miss; forget something

    das Rauchen bleiben lassen — (aufgeben) give up or stop smoking

    * * *
    bleiben v/i; bleibt, blieb, ist geblieben
    1. (sich aufhalten, verweilen) stay, stop umg; zu lange: tarry, linger;
    zu Hause bleiben stay at home; nicht ausgehen auch: stay in;
    im Bett bleiben stay in bed;
    draußen bleiben stay out;
    hinten bleiben be ( oder get) left behind;
    zum Essen bleiben stay for dinner;
    bleiben Sie bitte am Apparat please hold (the line);
    bleib auf deinem Platz stay where you are, don’t move;
    wir blieben über Nacht in einem Hotel we stopped ( oder stayed) at a hotel overnight umg;
    und wo bleibe ich? umg what about me?, and where do I come into it?;
    wir müssen (selber) sehen, wo wir bleiben we’ll just have to fend for ourselves (do our own thing umg);
    sieh zu, wo du bleibst! umg you’re on your own, kid!;
    bleib mir damit vom Hals(e)! don’t bother me with such things;
    solange er in seinen Grenzen bleibt as long as he stays within his limits, as long as he doesn’t push himself too far;
    das bleibt unter uns! that’s between you and me, keep that under your hat umg;
    im Krieg etc
    bleiben (fallen) fall, be killed; → Ball1, Leib etc
    2.
    bleiben bei unverändert bei einer Sache: keep to, stick to, einer Meinung, Entscheidung etc: stick to, stand by;
    bei der Wahrheit bleiben stick to the truth;
    wollen wir doch bei der Sache bleiben let’s stick ( oder keep) to the point ( oder subject), let’s get back on track umg;
    ich bleibe dabei I’m not going to change my mind;
    ich bleibe dabei, dass … I still think ( oder maintain etc) that …;
    ich bleibe bei meinem Versprechen/meiner Meinung I shall ( oder will) abide by my promise/opinion;
    ich bleibe (lieber) bei(m) Bier (I think) I’ll stick to beer, thanks;
    Schuster, bleib bei deinem Leisten! sprichw let the cobbler stick to his last; → Sache, Stange, Takt1 1, treu A
    3. in einem Zustand: remain, stay, continue (to be), keep;
    an/aus bleiben stay oder be kept on/off;
    geschlossen/trocken bleiben stay closed/dry;
    gesund bleiben stay ( oder keep) healthy;
    bleib gesund! mind how you go, now, take care!, keep well ( oder fit);
    am Leben bleiben stay alive;
    ruhig/gelassen bleiben keep quiet/one’s temper;
    unbestraft/unentdeckt bleiben go unpunished/undiscovered;
    unbenannt/anonym bleiben remain unnamed/anonymous;
    er bleibt immer freundlich he’s always very pleasant;
    sie wird sich immer treu bleiben she will always be the same;
    unsere Bemühungen blieben ohne Erfolg all our efforts were in vain;
    die Sache bleibt ein Geheimnis the affair remains a mystery;
    für sich bleiben keep to o.s.;
    bleib(, wo du bist)! stay where you are!, don’t move!;
    bleib, wie du bist stay the way you are;
    er wird uns stets in Erinnerung bleiben we will never forget him; in Todesanzeige: he will remain in our memory for ever;
    der Tag wird mir noch lange in Erinnerung bleiben well that’s a day I won’t forget in a hurry umg; → ruhig A
    4. mit Verb: remain, stay;
    bleiben Sie (doch) sitzen! don’t get up, please;
    bleib doch sitzen! ungeduldig: can’t you sit still (for one minute)?; → hängen1 6, liegen 7, stehen A 3-5
    5. etwas
    bleiben lassen (nicht tun) not do sth, leave (s.th) alone;
    dann lass es eben bleiben don’t, then; nobody’s forcing you;
    das wirst du schön bleiben lassen! you’ll do nothing of the sort ( oder kind)!, don’t you dare!;
    lass es lieber bleiben (better) leave it
    6. etwas
    bleiben lassen (aufhören mit) stop (doing) sth;
    lass das bleiben! stop it ( oder that)!, don’t do that!, leave it alone!;
    er kann es nicht bleiben lassen he won’t stop (doing it);
    das Rauchen/Trinken etc
    bleiben lassen stop ( oder quit umg) smoking/drinking etc
    7. (übrig bleiben) be left (over), remain;
    nur drei blieben (noch) only three remained;
    uns bleibt nicht mehr viel Zeit we haven’t got ( oder there isn’t) much time left;
    mir bleibt keine (andere) Wahl I have no choice (
    als zu +inf but to +inf);
    es bleibt ihr nur die Erinnerung an ihn all she has left are the memories of him;
    jetzt bleibt uns nur noch eine Chance we have only one chance left, this is our last chance; → vorbehalten B
    wo bleibt er denn? what’s taking him (so long)?, where’s he got to?;
    wo bist du so lange geblieben? where’ve you been all this time?, what took you so long?;
    wo ist denn der Peter geblieben? where’s Peter got to ( oder gone)?, what’s happened to Peter?;
    wo ist nur mein Schlüssel geblieben? what have I done with my key?;
    Kinder, wo ist nur die Zeit geblieben? Goodness, what’s happened to the time?
    9. unpers:
    es bleibt dabei! that’s final ( oder settled) then, agreed!;
    und dabei bleibt es! and that’s that, and that’s final;
    dabei wird es nicht bleiben that won’t be the end of it ( oder the last we’ll etc hear of it), matters won’t rest ( oder stop umg) there;
    dabei muss es bleiben there the matter must rest, we’ll have to leave it there umg;
    es kann nicht dabei bleiben (so kann es nicht weiter gehen) it can’t go on like this;
    es wird nicht bei nur einem Fehler bleiben that won’t be the only mistake ( oder fault);
    es bleibt nur noch wenig zu tun there isn’t much left to be done;
    bleibt nur noch zu hoffen, dass … we can only hope (that) …, (well,) let’s hope (that) …; → abwarten A, überlassen etc
    * * *
    unregelmäßiges intransitives Verb; mit sein
    1) stay; remain

    wo bleibst du denn so lange? — where have you been or what's been keeping you all this time?

    auf dem Weg bleiben — keep to or stay on the path

    bei etwas bleiben — (fig.): (an etwas festhalten) keep or stick to something

    jemandem in Erinnerung od. im Gedächtnis bleiben — stay in somebody's mind or memory

    das bleibt unter uns — (Dat.) that's [just] between ourselves

    zusehen können, wo man bleibt — (ugs.) have to fend for oneself

    im Feld/im Krieg/auf See bleiben — (verhüll. geh.) die or fall in action/die in the war/die at sea

    unbestraft/unbemerkt bleiben — go unpunished/go unnoticed or escape notice

    sitzen bleiben — stay or remain sitting down or seated

    dabei bleibt es! — (ugs.): (daran wird nichts mehr geändert) that's that; that's the end of it

    2)

    es bleibt zu hoffen, dass... — we can only hope that...

    3) (übrigbleiben) be left; remain

    uns (Dat.) bleibt noch Zeit — we still have time

    4)

    etwas bleiben lassen — give something a miss; forget something

    das Rauchen bleiben lassen — (aufgeben) give up or stop smoking

    * * *
    adj.
    abided adj. v.
    (§ p.,pp.: blieb, ist geblieben)
    = to abide v.
    to remain v.
    to rest v.
    to stay v. v.
    to abide Verb
    to abide v.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > bleiben

  • 4 quietly

    adverb
    1) (silently) still; (not loudly) leise

    be quietly drinking one's tea — in [aller] Ruhe seinen Tee trinken

    3) (gently) sanft
    4) (not overtly) insgeheim

    they settled the affair quietly — sie haben die Angelegenheit unter sich (Dat.) ausgemacht

    5) (not formally) zwanglos

    get married quietly — im kleinen Rahmen heiraten

    6) (not showily) dezent; schlicht
    * * *
    adverb ruhig
    * * *
    qui·et·ly
    [ˈkwaɪətli]
    1. (not loudly) leise
    he is a \quietly spoken, thoughtful man er ist ein nachdenklicher Mann, der mit leiser Stimme spricht
    2. (silently) still
    it's a fair cop — I'll come \quietly erwischt! — ich werde kein Theater machen und mitkommen fam
    to sit \quietly stillsitzen
    to wait \quietly ruhig warten
    3. (unobtrusively) unauffällig
    the plan has been \quietly dropped der Plan wurde stillschweigend fallengelassen
    to chuckle/laugh \quietly to oneself in sich akk hineinkichern/-lachen
    to be \quietly confident insgeheim überzeugt sein
    * * *
    ['kwaIətlɪ]
    adv
    (= making little noise) leise; (= peacefully, making little fuss) ruhig; (= secretly) still und heimlich; dressed dezent; (= placidly) still

    to live quietly — ruhig or zurückgezogen leben

    I can only think how happy I am, how quietly content — ich kann mich nur glücklich und zutiefst zufrieden schätzen

    I was sitting here quietly sipping my wine —

    he refused to go quietly — er weigerte sich, unauffällig zu gehen

    are you going to come quietly? (said by policeman) — kommen Sie widerstandslos mit?, kommen Sie ohne Widerstand zu leisten mit?

    he slipped off quietly — er machte sich in aller Stille davon (inf)

    they got married very quietly —

    and all the time he was quietly writing a novel about us — und die ganze Zeit hat er still und heimlich einen Roman über uns geschrieben

    * * *
    adverb
    1) (silently) still; (not loudly) leise
    2) (peacefully, tranquilly) ruhig

    be quietly drinking one's tea — in [aller] Ruhe seinen Tee trinken

    3) (gently) sanft
    4) (not overtly) insgeheim
    5) (not formally) zwanglos
    6) (not showily) dezent; schlicht
    * * *
    adv.
    ruhig adv.
    still adv.

    English-german dictionary > quietly

  • 5 open

    1. adjective

    with the window open — bei geöffnetem Fenster

    be [wide/half] open — [weit/halb] offen stehen

    hold the door open [for somebody] — [jemandem] die Tür aufhalten

    push/pull/kick the door open — die Tür aufstoßen/aufziehen/eintreten

    force something open — etwas mit Gewalt öffnen

    [not] be able to keep one's eyes open — [nicht mehr] die Augen offenhalten können; see also academic.ru/26032/eye">eye 1. 1)

    2) (unconfined) offen [Gelände, Feuer]

    in the open air — im Freien

    3) (ready for business or use)

    be open — [Laden, Museum, Bank usw.:] geöffnet sein

    ‘open’/‘open on Sundays’ — "geöffnet"/"Sonntags geöffnet"

    4) (accessible) offen; öffentlich [Treffen, Rennen]; (available) frei [Stelle]; freibleibend [Angebot]

    lay open — offen legen [Plan]

    5)

    be open to — (exposed to) ausgesetzt sein (+ Dat.) [Wind, Sturm]; (receptive to) offen sein für [Ratschlag, andere Meinung, Vorschlag]

    I hope to sell it for £1,000, but I am open to offers — ich möchte es für 1 000 Pfund verkaufen, aber ich lasse mit mir handeln

    lay oneself [wide] open to criticism — etc. sich der Kritik usw. aussetzen

    be open to question/doubt/argument — fraglich/zweifelhaft/umstritten sein

    6) (undecided) offen

    have an open mind about or on something — einer Sache gegenüber aufgeschlossen sein

    7) (undisguised, manifest) unverhohlen [Bewunderung, Hass]; offen [Verachtung, Empörung, Widerstand]; offensichtlich [Spaltung, Zwiespalt]

    open war/warfare — offener Krieg/Kampf

    8) (frank) offen [Wesen, Streit, Abstimmung, Gesicht]; (not secret) öffentlich [Wahl]

    be open [about something/with somebody] — [in Bezug auf etwas (Akk.) /gegenüber jemandem] offen sein

    9) (expanded, unfolded) offen, geöffnet [Pore, Regenschirm]; aufgeblüht [Blume, Knospe]; aufgeschlagen [Zeitung, Landkarte, Stadtplan]

    somebody/something is an open book [to somebody] — (fig.) jemand/etwas ist ein aufgeschlagenes od. offenes Buch [für jemanden]

    2. noun

    in the open — (outdoors) unter freiem Himmel

    [out] in the open — (fig.) [öffentlich] bekannt

    come [out] into the open — (fig.) (become obvious) herauskommen (ugs.); (speak out) offen sprechen

    bring something [out] into the open — (fig.) etwas an die Öffentlichkeit bringen

    3. transitive verb
    1) öffnen; aufmachen (ugs.)
    2) (allow access to)

    open something [to somebody/something] — etwas öffnen [für jemanden/etwas]; (fig.) [jemandem/einer Sache] etwas öffnen

    3) (establish) eröffnen [Konferenz, Kampagne, Diskussion, Laden]; beginnen [Verhandlungen, Krieg, Spiel]; (declare open) eröffnen [Gebäude usw.]

    open fire [on somebody/something] — das Feuer [auf jemanden/etwas] eröffnen

    4) (unfold, spread out) aufschlagen [Zeitung, Landkarte, Stadtplan, Buch]; aufspannen, öffnen [Schirm]; öffnen [Fallschirm, Poren]

    open one's arms [wide] — die od. seine Arme [weit] ausbreiten

    something opens new horizons/a new world to somebody — (fig.) etwas eröffnet jemandem neue Horizonte/eine neue Welt

    6) (make more receptive)

    open one's heart or mind to somebody/something — sich jemandem/einer Sache öffnen

    4. intransitive verb
    1) sich öffnen; aufgehen; [Spalt, Kluft:] sich auftun

    ‘Doors open at 7 p.m.’ — "Einlass ab 19 Uhr"

    open inwards/outwards — nach innen/außen aufgehen

    the door would not open — die Tür ging nicht auf od. ließ sich nicht öffnen

    his eyes opened wide — er riss die Augen weit auf

    open into/on to something — zu etwas führen

    2) (become open to customers) öffnen; aufmachen (ugs.); (start trading etc.) eröffnet werden
    3) (make a start) beginnen; [Ausstellung:] eröffnet werden
    Phrasal Verbs:
    •• Cultural note:
    Eine britische Fernuniversität, die 1969 gegründet wurde und vor allem Berufstätigen im Fernstudium Kurse auf verschiedenem Niveau bietet, insbesondere wissenschaftliche und berufliche Fortbildungsprogramme. Studenten jeder Altersgruppe, selbst solche ohne die erforderlichen Schulabschlüsse, können das Studium nach vier oder fünf Jahren mit dem Bachelor's degree und dem Master's degree abschließen. Teilnehmer studieren von zu Hause - teilweise mittels audiovisueller Medien - schicken ihre Arbeit ein und erhalten eine Rückantwort von ihrem tutor (Dozent). Studenten können auch am Direktunterricht mit wöchentlichen Seminaren in Studienzentren und an Sommerschulen teilnehmen. Nach dem erfolgreichen Vorbild der Open University gibt es inzwischen auch in anderen Teilen der Welt ähnliche Fortbildungsprogramme
    * * *
    ['əupən] 1. adjective
    1) (not shut, allowing entry or exit: an open box; The gate is wide open.) offen
    2) (allowing the inside to be seen: an open book.) offen
    3) (ready for business etc: The shop is open on Sunday afternoons; After the fog had cleared, the airport was soon open again; The gardens are open to the public.) geöffnet
    4) (not kept secret: an open show of affection.) offen
    5) (frank: He was very open with me about his work.) offen
    6) (still being considered etc: Leave the matter open.) offen
    7) (empty, with no trees, buildings etc: I like to be out in the open country; an open space.) offen
    2. verb
    1) (to make or become open: He opened the door; The door opened; The new shop opened last week.) öffnen
    2) (to begin: He opened the meeting with a speech of welcome.) eröffnen
    •
    - opener
    - opening
    - openly
    - open-air
    - open-minded
    - open-plan
    - be an open secret
    - bring something out into the open
    - bring out into the open
    - in the open
    - in the open air
    - keep/have an open mind
    - open on to
    - the open sea
    - open to
    - open up
    - with open arms
    * * *
    [ˈəʊpən, AM ˈoʊ-]
    I. adj
    1. inv (not closed) container, eyes, garment, door, window offen, auf präd; pass also geöffnet, für den Verkehr freigegeben; book aufgeschlagen; flower aufgeblüht, erblüht; map auseinandergefaltet
    she was breathing through her \open mouth sie atmete durch den offenen Mund
    excuse me, your fly is \open entschuldige, aber dein Hosenstall steht offen fam
    I had difficulty keeping my eyes \open ich konnte die Augen kaum noch offenhalten
    to welcome sb with \open arms ( fig) jdn mit offenen Armen empfangen [o aufnehmen]
    \open boat Boot nt ohne Verdeck
    to do sth with one's eyes \open etw ganz bewusst tun
    I got into this job with my eyes \open als ich diesen Job angenommen habe, war mir klar, was mich erwartet
    an \open wound eine offene Wunde
    wide \open [sperrangel]weit geöffnet
    to burst \open bag, case aufgehen
    to push sth \open etw aufstoßen; (violently) etw mit Gewalt öffnen
    2. inv, pred (for customers, visitors) shop, bar, museum geöffnet, offen
    is the supermarket \open yet? hat der Supermarkt schon auf?
    is that new computer store \open for business yet? hat dieser neue Computerladen schon aufgemacht?
    to declare sth for \open etw für eröffnet erklären
    3. inv (not yet decided) case, decision, question offen
    the race is still wide \open bei dem Rennen ist noch alles drin
    the price is \open to negotiation über den Preis kann noch verhandelt werden
    to be \open to interpretation Interpretationsspielraum bieten
    an \open matter eine schwebende Angelegenheit [o offene Sache]
    an \open mind eine unvoreingenommene Einstellung
    to have/keep an \open mind unvoreingenommen [o objektiv] sein/bleiben
    she has a very \open mind about new things sie steht neuen Dingen sehr aufgeschlossen gegenüber
    to keep one's options \open sich dat alle Möglichkeiten offenhalten
    an \open question eine offene Frage
    \open ticket Ticket nt mit offenem Reisedatum
    to leave sth \open etw offenlassen
    4. inv (not enclosed) offen
    to be in the \open air an der frischen Luft sein
    to get out in the \open air an die frische Luft gehen
    \open country unbebautes Land
    \open field freies Feld
    on the \open road auf freier Strecke
    on the \open sea auf hoher See [o dem offenem Meer
    5. inv (accessible to all) offen, öffentlich zugänglich
    this library is not \open to the general public dies ist keine öffentliche Bibliothek
    the competition is \open to anyone over the age of sixteen an dem Wettbewerb kann jeder teilnehmen, der älter als 16 Jahre ist
    the job is \open to all applicants die Stelle steht allen Bewerbern offen
    to have \open access to sth freien Zugang zu etw dat haben
    in \open court in öffentlicher Verhandlung
    an \open discussion eine öffentliche Diskussion
    6. inv (not concealed) offen
    \open hostility offene Feindschaft
    \open resentment unverhohlene Abneigung
    an \open scandal ein öffentlicher Skandal
    to lay sth \open etw offenlegen
    7. inv, pred (frank) person offen
    he is quite \open about his weaknesses er spricht freimütig über seine Schwächen
    ▪ to be \open with sb offen zu jdm sein
    an \open person ein offener [o aufrichtiger] Mensch
    8. inv, pred (willing to accept)
    ▪ to be \open to sth für etw akk offen sein
    \open to offers Angebote werden entgegengenommen
    the company is \open to offers for the empty factory die Firma zieht Angebote für die leer stehende Fabrik in Betracht
    to be \open to advice/new ideas/suggestions Ratschlägen/neuen Ideen/Vorschlägen gegenüber aufgeschlossen [o offen] sein
    to be \open to bribes/offers/persuasion für Bestechung/Angebote/Überredung zugänglich sein
    9. inv (available) frei, verfügbar; offer freibleibend
    our offer will be kept \open until the end of the week unser Angebot gilt noch [o bleibt noch bestehen] bis Ende der Woche
    there are still lots of opportunities \open to you dir stehen noch viele Möglichkeiten offen
    it is \open to you to accept or to refuse the offer es steht Ihnen frei, das Angebot anzunehmen oder abzulehnen
    the line is \open now die Leitung ist jetzt frei
    to keep a bank account \open ein Bankkonto [weiterhin] bestehen lassen
    \open time verfügbare Zeit
    \open vacancies offene [o freie] Stellen
    10. inv, pred (exposed) offen, ungeschützt; MIL ungedeckt, ohne Deckung
    ▪ to be \open to sth etw dat ausgesetzt sein
    his macho attitude leaves him \open to ridicule mit seinem Machogehabe gibt er sich selbst der Lächerlichkeit preis
    to be \open to attack Angriffen ausgesetzt sein
    to be \open to criticism kritisierbar sein
    to be \open to doubt zweifelhaft [o fraglich] sein
    to be \open to the enemy feindlichem Zugriff unterliegen
    to lay oneself \open to sth sich akk etw dat aussetzen
    11. inv SPORT offen
    \open champion Sieger(in) m(f) einer offenen Meisterschaft
    \open championship offene Meisterschaften pl
    12. inv SPORT (unprotected) game, style of play frei, ungedeckt
    13. inv (letting in air) durchlässig, porös
    an \open screen ein Drahtgitter [o Drahtnetz] nt
    an \open weave eine lockere Webart
    14. inv MUS
    \open note Grundton m
    \open pipe offene [Orgel]pfeife
    \open string leere Saite
    15. inv ELEC
    \open circuit unterbrochener Stromkreislauf
    16. inv MED (not constipated) bowels nicht verstopft, frei
    17. inv BRIT FIN (not crossed)
    \open cheque Barscheck m, Barcheck m SCHWEIZ
    18. inv (free of ice) port, river eisfrei; weather, winter frostfrei
    19. LING offen
    \open syllable offene Silbe
    \open vowel offener Vokal
    20. MATH
    \open set offene Menge
    21.
    ▶ to be an \open book person [wie] ein aufgeschlagenes [o offenes] Buch sein; thing ein Kinderspiel sein
    computers are an \open book to him mit Computern hat er überhaupt kein Probleme
    II. vi
    1. (from closed) sich akk öffnen, aufgehen
    the door \opens much more easily now die Tür lässt sich jetzt viel leichter öffnen
    the flowers \open in the morning die Blüten öffnen sich am Morgen
    I can't get the door to \open! ich kann die Tür nicht aufkriegen!
    2. (give access)
    ▪ to \open onto sth [direkt] zu etw dat führen
    the door \opens into the garden die Tür führt direkt in den Garten
    ▪ to \open off sth zu etw dat hinführen
    the small path \opened off the main road der schmale Weg führte auf die Hauptstraße
    3. (for service) öffnen, aufmachen fam
    the cafe \opens at ten o'clock das Café öffnet um zehn Uhr
    4. (start) piece of writing or music, story beginnen, anfangen; film anlaufen; play Premiere haben
    the trial \opens/the Olympic Games \open tomorrow der Prozess wird/die Olympischen Spiele werden morgen eröffnet
    the film \opens in New York next week der Film läuft nächste Woche in New York an
    who's going to \open? (in cards) wer kommt raus?, wer hat das Ausspiel?; STOCKEX
    the shares \opened lower bei Börsenbeginn standen die Aktien niedriger
    5. (become visible) sich akk zeigen
    the valley \opened before them das Tal tat sich vor ihnen auf
    6. (start new business) eröffnen, aufmachen, aufgehen SCHWEIZ
    III. n
    1. no pl (out of doors)
    ▪ [out] in the \open draußen; (in the open air) im Freien
    to camp in the \open unter freiem Himmel nächtigen
    2. no pl (not secret)
    to bring sth out into the \open etw publikmachen [o an die Öffentlichkeit bringen]
    to come out into the \open ans Licht kommen, auskommen SCHWEIZ, ruchbar werden geh
    to get sth [out] in[to] the \open etw [offen] zur Sprache bringen [o ansprechen
    ▪ the O\open [offene] Meisterschaft, Open nt fachspr
    IV. vt
    1. (change from closed)
    to \open a book/magazine/newspaper ein Buch/ein Magazin/eine Zeitung aufschlagen
    to \open a box/window/bottle eine Dose/ein Fenster/eine Flasche aufmachen [o öffnen]
    to \open the curtains [or drapes] die Vorhänge aufziehen
    to \open the door [or doors] to sth ( fig) neue Perspektiven [o Möglichkeiten] für etw akk eröffnen
    to \open one's eyes seine Augen öffnen [o aufmachen]
    to \open one's home to sb jdn bei sich dat aufnehmen
    to \open a letter/file einen Brief/eine Akte öffnen
    to \open a map eine [Straßen]karte auffalten
    to \open one's mouth ( also fig) den Mund aufmachen, etw ausplaudern [o SCHWEIZ ausbringen]
    to \open a vein ( hum) zum Strick greifen hum
    2. (begin)
    to \open fire MIL das Feuer eröffnen
    to \open a meeting/rally ein Treffen/eine Kundgebung eröffnen
    to \open negotiations in Verhandlungen eintreten
    to \open the proceedings das Verfahren eröffnen
    3. (set up)
    to \open a bank account ein Konto einrichten [o eröffnen]
    to \open a business/branch ein Geschäft/eine Zweigstelle eröffnen [o aufmachen
    4. (for customers, visitors) öffnen
    the company will open its doors for business next month die Firma wird im nächsten Monat eröffnet
    to \open a bakery/book store/restaurant eine Bäckerei/einen Buchladen/ein Restaurant öffnen
    to \open a building ein Gebäude einweihen
    to \open a road/tunnel eine Straße/einen Tunnel für den Verkehr freigeben
    ▪ to \open sth etw erschließen
    to \open a new field of science wissenschaftliches Neuland erschließen
    to \open one's bowels den Darm entleeren
    8. (clear blockages)
    ▪ to \open sth:
    the security team \opened a way through the crowd for the president das Sicherheitsteam bahnte dem Präsidenten einen Weg durch die Menge
    to \open a canal einen Kanal passierbar machen
    to \open a pipe ein Rohr durchgängig machen
    to \open the view den Blick [o die Sicht] ermöglichen
    9.
    ▶ to \open sb's eyes to sb/sth jdm die Augen über jdn/etw öffnen
    ▶ to \open the floodgates [to sb/sth] [jdm/etw] Tür und Tor öffnen pej
    ▶ to \open one's heart to sb jdm sein Herz ausschütten, sich akk jdm anvertrauen
    ▶ to \open one's mind offener [o SCHWEIZ meist aufgeschlossener] werden
    * * *
    ['əUpən]
    1. adj
    1) door, bottle, book, eye, flower etc offen, auf pred, geöffnet; circuit offen; lines of communication frei; wound etc offen

    to keep/hold the door open — die Tür offen lassen or auflassen/offen halten or aufhalten

    to fling or throw the door open —

    the window flew open —

    2) (= open for business shop, bank etc) geöffnet

    the baker/baker's shop is open — der Bäcker hat/der Bäckerladen ist or hat geöffnet or hat auf (inf)

    3) (= not enclosed) offen; country, ground offen, frei; view frei; carriage, car offen, ohne Verdeck
    4) (= not blocked) Ling offen; road, canal, pores offen, frei (to für), geöffnet; rail track, river frei (to für); (MUS) string leer; pipe offen

    open to traffic/shipping — für den Verkehr/die Schifffahrt freigegeben

    "road open to traffic" — "Durchfahrt frei"

    5) (= officially in use) building eingeweiht; road, bridge (offiziell) freigegeben; exhibition eröffnet

    to declare sth open — etw einweihen/freigeben/für eröffnet erklären

    6) (= not restricted, accessible) letter, scholarship offen; market, competition offen, frei; (= public) meeting, trial öffentlich

    to be open to sb (competition, membership, possibility) — jdm offenstehen; (admission) jdm freistehen; (place) für jdn geöffnet sein; (park)

    she gave us an open invitation to visit — sie lud uns ein, jederzeit bei ihr vorbeizukommen

    7)

    to be open to advice/suggestions/ideas — Ratschlägen/Vorschlägen/Ideen zugänglich sein or gegenüber offen sein

    8) (= not filled) evening, time frei; job, post frei, offen
    9) (= not concealed) campaign, secret, resistance offen; hostility offen, unverhüllt
    10) (= not decided or settled) question offen, ungeklärt, ungelöst

    to keep an open mind — alles offenlassen; (judge, jury) unvoreingenommen sein

    to have an open mind on sth — einer Sache (dat) aufgeschlossen gegenüberstehen

    11) (= exposed, not protected) (MIL) town offen; coast ungeschützt

    to be open to criticism/attack — der Kritik/Angriffen ausgesetzt sein

    to lay oneself open to criticism/attack — sich der Kritik/Angriffen aussetzen

    12) weave locker; fabric, pattern durchbrochen
    13) (= frank) character, face, person offen, aufrichtig
    2. n

    it's all out in the open now — nun ist alles heraus (inf), nun ist es alles zur Sprache gekommen

    to come out into the open ( fig, person ) — Farbe bekennen, sich erklären; (affair)

    to force sb out into the open — jdn zwingen, sich zu stellen; (fig) jdn zwingen, Farbe zu bekennen

    3. vt
    1) door, mouth, bottle, letter etc öffnen, aufmachen (inf); book aufschlagen, öffnen; newspaper aufschlagen; throttle, circuit öffnen
    2) (officially) exhibition eröffnen; building einweihen; motorway (für den Verkehr) freigeben
    3) region erschließen
    4) (= reveal, unfold) öffnen

    to open one's heart to sb — sich jdm eröffnen (geh), jdm sein Herz aufschließen (geh)

    open your mind to new possibilities — öffnen Sie sich (dat) den Blick für neue Möglichkeiten

    5) (= start) case, trial, account eröffnen; debate, conversation etc beginnen
    6) (= set up) shop eröffnen, aufmachen (inf); school einrichten
    7) (MED) pores öffnen

    to open the bowels (person) — Stuhlgang haben; (medicine) abführen

    8)
    4. vi
    1) aufgehen; (eyes) sich öffnen; (door, flower, book, wound, pores, window) sich öffnen, aufgehen

    I couldn't get the box/bottle to open — ich habe die Schachtel/Flasche nicht aufbekommen

    2) (shop, museum) öffnen, aufmachen
    3) (= afford access door) führen (into in +acc)
    See:
    → also open on to
    4) (= start) beginnen (with mit); (CARDS, CHESS) eröffnen
    * * *
    open [ˈəʊpən]
    A s
    a) das offene Land,
    b) die offene oder hohe See,
    c) der freie Himmel:
    in the open im Freien, unter freiem Himmel, in der freien Natur, an der frischen Luft, (Bergbau) über Tag
    2. the open die Öffentlichkeit:
    bring into the open an die Öffentlichkeit bringen;
    a) sich zeigen, hervorkommen,
    b) sich erklären, offen reden, Farbe bekennen,
    c) an die Öffentlichkeit treten ( with sth mit etwas);
    draw sb into the open jemanden hervorlocken, jemanden aus seinem Versteck locken
    3. besonders Golf, Tennis: (für Amateure und Profis) offenes Turnier:
    the French Open pl die French Open pl
    B adj (adv openly)
    1. allg offen (Buch, Fenster, Flasche etc):
    sleep with the window open bei offenem Fenster schlafen;
    open chain CHEM offene Kette;
    open prison JUR offenes Gefängnis;
    open visibility SCHIFF klare Sicht;
    the door is open die Tür ist oder steht offen, die Tür ist geöffnet oder umg auf;
    cut open aufschneiden;
    get open eine Tür etc aufbekommen, -bringen;
    hold the door open for sb jemandem die Tür aufhalten;
    keep ( oder leave) open eine Tür etc auflassen;
    keep one’s eyes open fig die Augen offen halten;
    pull open eine Schublade etc aufziehen;
    throw open eine Tür etc aufreißen, -stoßen ( → B 7);
    with open eyes mit offenen Augen (a. fig); → arm1 Bes Redew, book A 1, bowel A 1 b, door Bes Redew, order A 5, punctuation 1
    2. MED offen (Tuberkulose, Wunde etc)
    3. offen, frei, zugänglich:
    open country offenes Gelände;
    open field freies Feld;
    open sea offenes Meer, hohe See;
    open spaces öffentliche Plätze (Parkanlagen etc); → air1 A 1
    4. frei, offen:
    an open car ein offener Wagen;
    open motor ELEK offener oder ungeschützter Motor;
    lay open bloß-, freilegen ( → B 11)
    5. offen, eisfrei (Hafen, Wasser etc):
    open winter frostfreier Winter
    6. geöffnet, offen, präd auch auf umg:
    the lines are open from … to … Sie können von … bis … anrufen;
    we are open wir haben geöffnet
    7. fig offen (to für), öffentlich, (jedem) zugänglich:
    be open to offenstehen (dat);
    a) der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich machen,
    b) zugänglich machen (to dat, für)( → B 1);
    open tournament → A 3;
    open competition freier Wettbewerb;
    open letter offener Brief;
    open market WIRTSCH offener oder freier Markt;
    open position freie oder offene (Arbeits)Stelle;
    open sale öffentliche Versteigerung;
    open session öffentliche Sitzung;
    open for subscription WIRTSCH zur Zeichnung aufgelegt;
    open to the public für die Öffentlichkeit zugänglich;
    open to traffic für den Verkehr freigegeben;
    in open court JUR in öffentlicher Sitzung oder Verhandlung
    8. fig zugänglich, aufgeschlossen ( beide:
    to für oder dat):
    be open to suggestions für Vorschläge offen sein; → bribery, conviction 2, mind A 2
    9. fig ausgesetzt, unterworfen ( beide:
    to der Kritik etc):
    open to question anfechtbar;
    open to temptation anfällig gegen die Versuchung;
    lay o.s. open to criticism sich der Kritik aussetzen;
    leave o.s. wide open to sb sich jemandem gegenüber eine (große) Blöße geben;
    that is open to argument darüber lässt sich streiten;
    be open to different interpretations verschiedene Deutungen zulassen; → misconstruction 1
    10. offen(kundig), unverhüllt (Verachtung etc):
    an open secret ein offenes Geheimnis
    11. offen, freimütig:
    I will be open with you ich will ganz offen mit Ihnen reden;
    open and aboveboard offen und ehrlich;
    a) offen darlegen,
    b) aufdecken, enthüllen ( → B 4)
    12. unentschieden, offen (Frage, Kampf etc)
    13. fig frei (ohne Verbote):
    open pattern JUR ungeschütztes Muster;
    open season Jagd-, Fischzeit f (Ggs Schonzeit)
    14. frei (Zeit):
    keep a day open sich einen Tag freihalten
    15. lückenhaft (Gebiss etc):
    open population geringe Bevölkerungsdichte
    16. durchbrochen (Gewebe, Handarbeit)
    17. WIRTSCH laufend (Konto, Kredit, Rechnung):
    open cheque Br Barscheck m
    18. LING offen (Silbe, Vokal):
    open consonant Reibelaut m
    19. MUS
    a) weit (Lage, Satz)
    b) leer (Saite etc):
    open harmony weiter Satz;
    open note Grundton m (einer Saite etc)
    20. TYPO licht:
    open matter lichter oder weit durchschossener Satz;
    open type Konturschrift f
    C v/t
    1. allg öffnen, aufmachen, die Augen, ein Buch auch aufschlagen:
    open the circuit ELEK den Stromkreis ausschalten oder unterbrechen;
    open one’s mouth fig den Mund aufmachen; → bowel A 1 b, door Bes Redew
    2. eröffnen ( an account WIRTSCH ein Konto; a business WIRTSCH ein Geschäft; a credit WIRTSCH einen Kredit oder ein Akkreditiv; the debate die Debatte; fire MIL das Feuer [ at, on auf akk]; a prospect eine Aussicht):
    open an account auch ein Konto anlegen;
    open new markets WIRTSCH neue Märkte erschließen;
    open negotiations Verhandlungen anknüpfen, in Verhandlungen eintreten;
    open a road to traffic eine Straße dem Verkehr übergeben;
    open diplomatic relations POL diplomatische Beziehungen aufnehmen
    3. aufschneiden, -stechen, öffnen ( alle auch MED)
    4. Gefühle, Gedanken enthüllen, seine Absichten kundtun:
    open o.s. to sb sich jemandem mitteilen; → heart Bes Redew
    5. JUR in der Schwebe lassen:
    open a judg(e)ment beschließen, eine nochmalige Verhandlung über eine bereits gefällte Entscheidung zuzulassen
    6. besonders SCHIFF ein bisher verdecktes Objekt in Sicht bekommen
    D v/i
    1. sich öffnen oder auftun, aufgehen (Tür etc):
    “doors open at 7 p.m.” „Einlass ab 19 Uhr“; → heaven 4
    2. (to) fig sich (dem Auge, Geist etc) erschließen oder zeigen oder auftun
    3. führen, gehen (Fenster, Tür)
    4. fig
    a) anfangen, beginnen (Börse, Schule etc)
    b) öffnen, aufmachen (Laden, Büro etc)
    c) anlaufen (Film), eröffnen (Ausstellung etc)
    d) (einen Brief, seine Rede) beginnen ( with mit)
    5. a) allg öffnen
    b) das Buch aufschlagen:
    let’s open at page 50
    6. SCHIFF in Sicht kommen
    * * *
    1. adjective

    be [wide/half] open — [weit/halb] offen stehen

    hold the door open [for somebody] — [jemandem] die Tür aufhalten

    push/pull/kick the door open — die Tür aufstoßen/aufziehen/eintreten

    [not] be able to keep one's eyes open — [nicht mehr] die Augen offenhalten können; see also eye 1. 1)

    2) (unconfined) offen [Gelände, Feuer]

    be open — [Laden, Museum, Bank usw.:] geöffnet sein

    ‘open’/‘open on Sundays’ — "geöffnet"/"Sonntags geöffnet"

    4) (accessible) offen; öffentlich [Treffen, Rennen]; (available) frei [Stelle]; freibleibend [Angebot]

    lay open — offen legen [Plan]

    5)

    be open to — (exposed to) ausgesetzt sein (+ Dat.) [Wind, Sturm]; (receptive to) offen sein für [Ratschlag, andere Meinung, Vorschlag]

    I hope to sell it for £1,000, but I am open to offers — ich möchte es für 1 000 Pfund verkaufen, aber ich lasse mit mir handeln

    lay oneself [wide] open to criticism — etc. sich der Kritik usw. aussetzen

    be open to question/doubt/argument — fraglich/zweifelhaft/umstritten sein

    6) (undecided) offen

    have an open mind about or on something — einer Sache gegenüber aufgeschlossen sein

    7) (undisguised, manifest) unverhohlen [Bewunderung, Hass]; offen [Verachtung, Empörung, Widerstand]; offensichtlich [Spaltung, Zwiespalt]

    open war/warfare — offener Krieg/Kampf

    8) (frank) offen [Wesen, Streit, Abstimmung, Gesicht]; (not secret) öffentlich [Wahl]

    be open [about something/with somebody] — [in Bezug auf etwas (Akk.) /gegenüber jemandem] offen sein

    9) (expanded, unfolded) offen, geöffnet [Pore, Regenschirm]; aufgeblüht [Blume, Knospe]; aufgeschlagen [Zeitung, Landkarte, Stadtplan]

    somebody/something is an open book [to somebody] — (fig.) jemand/etwas ist ein aufgeschlagenes od. offenes Buch [für jemanden]

    2. noun

    in the open — (outdoors) unter freiem Himmel

    [out] in the open — (fig.) [öffentlich] bekannt

    come [out] into the open — (fig.) (become obvious) herauskommen (ugs.); (speak out) offen sprechen

    bring something [out] into the open — (fig.) etwas an die Öffentlichkeit bringen

    3. transitive verb
    1) öffnen; aufmachen (ugs.)

    open something [to somebody/something] — etwas öffnen [für jemanden/etwas]; (fig.) [jemandem/einer Sache] etwas öffnen

    3) (establish) eröffnen [Konferenz, Kampagne, Diskussion, Laden]; beginnen [Verhandlungen, Krieg, Spiel]; (declare open) eröffnen [Gebäude usw.]

    open fire [on somebody/something] — das Feuer [auf jemanden/etwas] eröffnen

    4) (unfold, spread out) aufschlagen [Zeitung, Landkarte, Stadtplan, Buch]; aufspannen, öffnen [Schirm]; öffnen [Fallschirm, Poren]

    open one's arms [wide] — die od. seine Arme [weit] ausbreiten

    5) (reveal, expose)

    something opens new horizons/a new world to somebody — (fig.) etwas eröffnet jemandem neue Horizonte/eine neue Welt

    open one's heart or mind to somebody/something — sich jemandem/einer Sache öffnen

    4. intransitive verb
    1) sich öffnen; aufgehen; [Spalt, Kluft:] sich auftun

    ‘Doors open at 7 p.m.’ — "Einlass ab 19 Uhr"

    open inwards/outwards — nach innen/außen aufgehen

    the door would not open — die Tür ging nicht auf od. ließ sich nicht öffnen

    open into/on to something — zu etwas führen

    2) (become open to customers) öffnen; aufmachen (ugs.); (start trading etc.) eröffnet werden
    3) (make a start) beginnen; [Ausstellung:] eröffnet werden
    Phrasal Verbs:
    •• Cultural note:
    Eine britische Fernuniversität, die 1969 gegründet wurde und vor allem Berufstätigen im Fernstudium Kurse auf verschiedenem Niveau bietet, insbesondere wissenschaftliche und berufliche Fortbildungsprogramme. Studenten jeder Altersgruppe, selbst solche ohne die erforderlichen Schulabschlüsse, können das Studium nach vier oder fünf Jahren mit dem Bachelor's degree und dem Master's degree abschließen. Teilnehmer studieren von zu Hause - teilweise mittels audiovisueller Medien - schicken ihre Arbeit ein und erhalten eine Rückantwort von ihrem tutor (Dozent). Studenten können auch am Direktunterricht mit wöchentlichen Seminaren in Studienzentren und an Sommerschulen teilnehmen. Nach dem erfolgreichen Vorbild der Open University gibt es inzwischen auch in anderen Teilen der Welt ähnliche Fortbildungsprogramme
    * * *
    (not concealed) adj.
    offen adj. (not hidden) adj.
    nicht geheim adj. adj.
    offen (Mathematik) adj.
    offen adj.
    übersichtlich (Gelände) adj. (close) the meeting expr.
    Sitzung eröffnen (schließen) ausdr. (up) v.
    erschließen (Markt) ausdr. v.
    anfangen v.
    eröffnen v.
    öffnen v.

    English-german dictionary > open

  • 6 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

  • 7 Sache

    f; -, -n
    1. (Gegenstand) thing; Sachen (Kleidung etc.) umg. allg. things; (Habseligkeiten) auch belongings; häng deine Sachen in den Schrank hang up you things in the cupboard (Am. closet); seine Sachen überall herumliegen lassen leave one’s things lying around all over the place; Gewalt gegen Sachen JUR. (violent) damage to property; warme Sachen für den Winter (warme Kleidung) warm things for the winter; süße Sachen (Süßigkeiten) sweet things, sweets; scharfe Sachen (Schnaps etc.) hard stuff Sg.
    2. (Angelegenheit) affair; (auch Vorfall) matter, business; (Problem, Frage) matter; das ist eine Sache für sich that’s a completely different matter; iro. that’s another story; ich werde der Sache nachgehen I’ll look into the matter; bei der Sache bleiben keep to the point; das gehört nicht zur Sache that’s got nothing to do with it; die Sache ist... the thing is..., it’s like this...; die Sache ist die, dass... the point is that...; in eigener Sache sprechen speak on one’s own behalf; wie ist die Sache mit dem Auto ausgegangen? how did that business with the car turn out?; die Sache steht gut things are looking good; die Sache macht sich umg. things are ( oder it’s) coming along fine; das ist so eine Sache it’s not so easy; eine runde Sache a fine piece of work; ich mag keine halben Sachen I don’t like (any) half measures; das ist eine tolle / blöde Sache umg. that’s fantastic / a stupid business; ich habe die ganze Sache ( gründlich) satt I’m sick (and tired) of the whole business; die einfachste / natürlichste Sache der Welt the simplest / most natural thing in the world; das ist nicht jedermanns Sache that’s not for everybody, that’s not everybody’s cup of tea; jemandem sagen, was Sache ist umg. (worauf es ankommt) put s.o. in the picture allg.; (die Meinung sagen) tell s.o. what’s what; sie war ganz bei der Sache she was all attention ( oder quite absorbed); er war nicht ( ganz) bei der Sache he had his mind on other things, he wasn’t (quite) concentrating; seiner Sache sicher sein be sure of oneself; sich seiner Sache sicher glauben think o.s. sure of one’s point; zur Sache kommen get to the point; (handeln) get down to business (brass tacks umg.); zur Sache! can we get to the point?; bleiben wir bei der Sache! let’s stick to the point; das tut nichts zur Sache that makes no difference; das kommt der Sache schon näher that’s more like it; das ist seine Sache that’s his business ( oder affair); das ist nicht meine Sache that’s got nothing to do with me; es ist eine Sache der Erziehung etc. it’s a matter of upbringing etc.; es ist eine Sache von Leben und Tod it’s a matter of life and death; es ist eine abgekartete Sache it’s a put-up job (Am. a scam oder setup) umg.; mach keine Sachen! umg., erstaunt: you’re kidding; warnend: no funny business; Sachen gibt’s(, die gibt’s gar nicht) umg. would you believe it allg.; was machst du denn für Sachen? umg. what have you been up to then?; du machst Sachen! umg. the things you get up to!; was höre ich denn für ( schöne) Sachen? what’s all this I’ve been hearing then?
    3. JUR. case; in Sachen A. gegen B. JUR. in the matter of A versus B
    4. in Sachen umg., fig. (bezüglich) with regard to, as to; in Sachen Umwelt where the environment is concerned, in questions of the environment; was tut sich in Sachen Hausbau? how are things on the housebuilding front?; wie macht er sich in Sachen Schule? how’s he getting on at (Am. how’s he doing in) school?
    5. (Ziel, Anliegen) cause; für eine gute / gerechte Sache kämpfen fight for a good cause / for the cause of justice; mit jemandem gemeinsame Sache machen make common cause with s.o.
    6. (Aufgabe) job; er versteht seine Sache he knows his stuff; sie hat ihre Sache gut gemacht she did a good job; etw. um der Sache willen tun do s.th. for its own sake; es ist Sache des Gerichts zu entscheiden, ob... it is for the court to decide whether...
    7. mit 100 Sachen fahren MOT., umg. do ( oder drive) a hundred (miles an hour), Brit. auch do a ton
    * * *
    die Sache
    affair; cause; business; concern; matter; thing
    * * *
    Sạ|che ['zaxə]
    f -, -n
    1) thing; (= Gegenstand) object, thing; (JUR = Eigentum) article of property

    der Mensch wird zur Sache — man is reduced to or becomes an object

    Sachen gibts(, die gibts gar nicht)! (inf) — would you credit it! (inf)

    2) pl inf = Zeug) things pl; (JUR) property

    seine Sachen packen — to pack ones bags

    3) (= Angelegenheit) matter; (= Rechtsstreit, Fall) case; (= Aufgabe) job

    eine Sache der Polizei/der Behörden — a matter for the police/authorities

    es ist Sache der Polizei/der Behörden, das zu tun — it's up to the police/authorities or it's for the police/authorities to do that

    das mit dem Präsidenten war eine unangenehme Sache — that was an unpleasant business with the president

    das ist eine ganz tolle/unangenehme Sache — it's really fantastic/unpleasant

    die Sache macht sich (inf) — things are coming along

    das ist eine andere Sache — that's a different matter, that's a different kettle of fish (inf), that's a different cup of tea (US inf)

    das ist meine/seine Sache — that's my/his affair or business

    in eigener Sache — on one's own account

    das ist nicht jedermanns Sache — it's not everyone's cup of tea (inf)

    er versteht seine Sache — he knows what he's doing or what he's about (inf)

    er macht seine Sache gut — he's doing very well; (beruflich) he's doing a good job

    diese Frage können wir nicht hier mitbesprechen, das ist eine Sache für sich — we can't discuss this question now, it's a separate issue all to itself

    und was hat deine Frau gesagt?/was meinen Sie zu diesen Streiks? – das ist eine Sache für sich — and what did your wife say?/what do you think about these strikes? – that's another story

    das ist so eine Sache (inf) — it's a bit tricky, it's a bit of a problem

    die Sache mit der Bank ist also geplatzt — so the bank job fell through

    4) (= Vorfall) business, affair

    was hat die Polizei zu der Sache gesagt? — what did the police say about it or about all this business?

    die Sache hat geklappt/ist schiefgegangen — everything or it worked/went wrong

    mach keine Sachen! (inf) — don't be daft (Brit inf) or silly!

    5) (= Frage, Problem) matter, question; (= Thema) subject; (= Ideal, Anliegen) cause

    eine Sache der Erziehung/des Geschmacks — a matter or question of education/taste

    um die Sache herumreden — to talk( all) round the subject

    zur Sache! — let's get on with it; (Parl, Jur etc) come to the point!

    zur Sache gehen (inf) — to come to the crunch (inf); (Sport) to get stuck in (inf)

    seiner Sache sicher or gewiss sein — to be sure of one's ground

    bei der Sache sein — to be with it (inf), to be on the ball (inf)

    sie war nicht bei der Sache — her mind was elsewhere

    bei der Sache bleiben — to keep one's mind on the job; (bei Diskussion) to keep to the point

    6) (= Sachlage) things pl, no art

    so steht die Sache also — so that's the way things are

    die Sache ist die, dass... — the thing is that...

    jdm sagen, was Sache ist (inf) — to tell sb what's what

    7)

    (= Tempo) mit 60/100 Sachen (inf) — at 60/100

    * * *
    die
    1) (a thing or situation that must be done or dealt with: a difficult proposition.) proposition
    2) (an object; something that is not living: What do you use that thing for?) thing
    3) (any fact, quality, idea etc that one can think of or refer to: Music is a wonderful thing; I hope I haven't done the wrong thing; That was a stupid thing to do.) thing
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    Sa·che
    <-, -n>
    [ˈzaxə]
    f
    1. (Ding) thing, object; (im Laden a.) article
    2. pl (Alkohol)
    scharfe \Sachen (fam) hard stuff fam [or liquor] sing
    3. pl (Kleidung) things, clothes, togs fam
    warme \Sachen warm clothes [or nsing clothing
    4. pl KUNST (fam: Werke, Stücke) pieces
    5. meist pl (Eigentum) property
    ▪ jds \Sachen sb's things [or belongings] [or goods] [or fam stuff]
    bewegliche/unbewegliche \Sachen JUR personal property [or chattels] [or movables]/immovables [or things immovable]
    eingebrachte \Sache contributed item
    herrenlose \Sache derelict property, res nullius
    verbrauchbare \Sache consumable
    vertretbare \Sache fungible
    6. (Angelegenheit) matter, affair; (Problem, Frage a.) question; (Thema) subject; (Anliegen) cause
    ich hatte mir die \Sache eigentlich anders vorgestellt in fact, I had imagined things differently
    wie ist die \Sache mit dem Haus gelaufen? how did the house business turn out?
    die \Sache ist schiefgegangen everything went wrong
    die \Sache steht gut things are looking good
    das ist so eine \Sache (fam) that's a bit tricky [or bit of a problem]
    das ist eine andere \Sache that's another matter [or something else]
    das ist eine \Sache des Geschmacks that's a matter of taste
    es ist eine \Sache seiner Abstammung it's a question of his origins
    ▪ jds \Sache sein to be sb's affair [or business]
    eine aussichtslose \Sache a lost cause
    beschlossene \Sache sein to be [all] settled [or a foregone conclusion]
    in eigener \Sache on one's own behalf
    ▪ eine \Sache für sich akk sein to be a matter apart [or chapter in itself]
    geschäftliche \Sache business matter
    eine gute \Sache (angenehm) a good thing; (wohltätig) a good cause
    eine unangenehme \Sache an unpleasant affair [or business]
    um der \Sache willen for the love of it [or it's own sake]; s.a. Natur
    7. JUR (Fall) case, cause
    in \Sachen... in the matter of...
    in \Sachen Umwelt bleibt noch viel zu tun there is still a lot to be done where the environment is concerned
    in \Sachen [o in der \Sache] Meier gegen Müller in the case [of] [or form in re] Meier versus Müller
    eine \Sache verhandeln/vertreten/verweisen to hear/uphold/remit a case
    sich akk zur \Sache äußern to refer to the merits of the case
    zur \Sache vernommen werden to be questioned [with regard to the matter itself]
    8. (Sachlage) factual situation
    die \Sache ist die, dass... (es geht darum, dass...) the matter so far is that...; (einschränkend) the thing is [that]...
    bei der \Sache bleiben to keep to the point
    neben der \Sache liegen (fam) to be beside the point
    nichts zur \Sache tun to be irrelevant, to not matter
    sich dat [bei jdm/etw] seiner \Sache sicher [o (geh) gewiss] sein to be sure of one's ground
    zur \Sache kommen to come to the point
    9. (Aufgabe) job
    er macht seine \Sache gut he's doing well [or a good job]
    es ist \Sache der Polizei, den Schuldigen zu finden it's up to [or it's for] the police to find the guilty person
    keine halben \Sachen machen to not do things by halves, to not deal in half-measures
    seine \Sache verstehen to know what one is doing [or fam is about
    10. pl (Vorfall) things
    mach keine \Sachen! (fam: was du nicht sagst) [what] you don't say?; (tu das bloß nicht) don't be daft! fam
    was machst du bloß für \Sachen! (fam) the things you do!
    was sind denn das für \Sachen? what's going on here?
    das sind doch keine \Sachen! (fam) you shouldn't do that
    11. pl (fam: Stundenkilometer)
    mit 255 \Sachen at 255 [kph [or fam kliks]]
    12.
    ▶ bei der \Sache sein to be concentrating
    er war nicht bei der \Sache his mind was wandering
    er war bei den Hausaufgaben nicht ganz bei der \Sache he didn't give his full attention to his homework
    ▶ mit jdm gemeinsame \Sache machen to make common cause with sb
    ▶ \Sachen gibt's[, die gibt's gar nicht]! (fam) [well] would you credit it?, isn't it amazing?
    ▶ nicht jedermanns \Sache sein to be not everyone's cup of tea
    ▶ jemandem sagen, was \Sache ist (fam) to tell sb what's what fam, to put sb in the picture fam
    ▶ zur \Sache! come to the point; (in Parlament a.) [the] question!
    * * *
    die; Sache, Sachen
    1) Plural things

    scharfe Sachen trinken — drink the hard stuff (coll.)

    2) (Angelegenheit) matter; business (esp. derog.)

    es ist beschlossene Sache, dass... — it's [all] arranged or settled that...

    es ist die einfachste Sache [von] der Welt — it's the simplest thing in the world

    [mit jemandem] gemeinsame Sache machen — join forces [with somebody]

    [sich (Dat.)] seiner Sache sicher od. gewiss sein — be sure one is right

    das tut nichts zur Sache — that's irrelevant; that's got nothing to do with it

    4) o. Pl. (Anliegen) cause
    5) Plural (ugs.): (Stundenkilometer) kilometres per hour
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    Sache f; -, -n
    1. (Gegenstand) thing;
    Sachen (Kleidung etc) umg allg things; (Habseligkeiten) auch belongings;
    häng deine Sachen in den Schrank hang up you things in the cupboard (US closet);
    seine Sachen überall herumliegen lassen leave one’s things lying around all over the place;
    Gewalt gegen Sachen JUR (violent) damage to property;
    warme Sachen für den Winter (warme Kleidung) warm things for the winter;
    süße Sachen (Süßigkeiten) sweet things, sweets;
    scharfe Sachen (Schnaps etc) hard stuff sg
    2. (Angelegenheit) affair; (auch Vorfall) matter, business; (Problem, Frage) matter;
    das ist eine Sache für sich that’s a completely different matter; iron that’s another story;
    ich werde der Sache nachgehen I’ll look into the matter;
    bei der Sache bleiben keep to the point;
    das gehört nicht zur Sache that’s got nothing to do with it;
    die Sache ist … the thing is …, it’s like this …;
    die Sache ist die, dass … the point is that …;
    in eigener Sache sprechen speak on one’s own behalf;
    wie ist die Sache mit dem Auto ausgegangen? how did that business with the car turn out?;
    die Sache steht gut things are looking good;
    die Sache macht sich umg things are ( oder it’s) coming along fine;
    das ist so eine Sache it’s not so easy;
    eine runde Sache a fine piece of work;
    ich mag keine halben Sachen I don’t like (any) half measures;
    das ist eine tolle/blöde Sache umg that’s fantastic/a stupid business;
    ich habe die ganze Sache (gründlich) satt I’m sick (and tired) of the whole business;
    die einfachste/natürlichste Sache der Welt the simplest/most natural thing in the world;
    das ist nicht jedermanns Sache that’s not for everybody, that’s not everybody’s cup of tea;
    jemandem sagen, was Sache ist umg (worauf es ankommt) put sb in the picture allg; (die Meinung sagen) tell sb what’s what;
    sie war ganz bei der Sache she was all attention ( oder quite absorbed);
    er war nicht (ganz) bei der Sache he had his mind on other things, he wasn’t (quite) concentrating;
    seiner Sache sicher sein be sure of oneself;
    sich seiner Sache sicher glauben think o.s. sure of one’s point;
    zur Sache kommen get to the point; (handeln) get down to business (brass tacks umg);
    zur Sache! can we get to the point?;
    bleiben wir bei der Sache! let’s stick to the point;
    das tut nichts zur Sache that makes no difference;
    das kommt der Sache schon näher that’s more like it;
    das ist seine Sache that’s his business ( oder affair);
    das ist nicht meine Sache that’s got nothing to do with me;
    es ist eine Sache der Erziehung etc it’s a matter of upbringing etc;
    es ist eine Sache von Leben und Tod it’s a matter of life and death;
    es ist eine abgekartete Sache it’s a put-up job (US a scam oder setup) umg;
    mach keine Sachen! umg, erstaunt: you’re kidding; warnend: no funny business;
    Sachen gibt’s(, die gibt’s gar nicht) umg would you believe it allg;
    was machst du denn für Sachen? umg what have you been up to then?;
    du machst Sachen! umg the things you get up to!;
    was höre ich denn für (schöne) Sachen? what’s all this I’ve been hearing then?
    3. JUR case;
    in Sachen A. gegen B. JUR in the matter of A versus B
    4.
    in Sachen umg, fig (bezüglich) with regard to, as to;
    in Sachen Umwelt where the environment is concerned, in questions of the environment;
    was tut sich in Sachen Hausbau? how are things on the housebuilding front?;
    wie macht er sich in Sachen Schule? how’s he getting on at (US how’s he doing in) school?
    5. (Ziel, Anliegen) cause;
    für eine gute/gerechte Sache kämpfen fight for a good cause/for the cause of justice;
    mit jemandem gemeinsame Sache machen make common cause with sb
    6. (Aufgabe) job;
    er versteht seine Sache he knows his stuff;
    sie hat ihre Sache gut gemacht she did a good job;
    etwas um der Sache willen tun do sth for its own sake;
    es ist Sache des Gerichts zu entscheiden, ob … it is for the court to decide whether …
    7.
    mit 100 Sachen fahren AUTO, umg do ( oder drive) a hundred (miles an hour), Br auch do a ton
    * * *
    die; Sache, Sachen
    1) Plural things
    2) (Angelegenheit) matter; business (esp. derog.)

    es ist beschlossene Sache, dass... — it's [all] arranged or settled that...

    es ist die einfachste Sache [von] der Welt — it's the simplest thing in the world

    [mit jemandem] gemeinsame Sache machen — join forces [with somebody]

    [sich (Dat.)] seiner Sache sicher od. gewiss sein — be sure one is right

    das tut nichts zur Sache — that's irrelevant; that's got nothing to do with it

    4) o. Pl. (Anliegen) cause
    5) Plural (ugs.): (Stundenkilometer) kilometres per hour
    * * *
    -n f.
    business n.
    case n.
    cause n.
    concern n.
    matter n.
    thing n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Sache

  • 8 sache

    f; -, -n
    1. (Gegenstand) thing; Sachen (Kleidung etc.) umg. allg. things; (Habseligkeiten) auch belongings; häng deine Sachen in den Schrank hang up you things in the cupboard (Am. closet); seine Sachen überall herumliegen lassen leave one’s things lying around all over the place; Gewalt gegen Sachen JUR. (violent) damage to property; warme Sachen für den Winter (warme Kleidung) warm things for the winter; süße Sachen (Süßigkeiten) sweet things, sweets; scharfe Sachen (Schnaps etc.) hard stuff Sg.
    2. (Angelegenheit) affair; (auch Vorfall) matter, business; (Problem, Frage) matter; das ist eine Sache für sich that’s a completely different matter; iro. that’s another story; ich werde der Sache nachgehen I’ll look into the matter; bei der Sache bleiben keep to the point; das gehört nicht zur Sache that’s got nothing to do with it; die Sache ist... the thing is..., it’s like this...; die Sache ist die, dass... the point is that...; in eigener Sache sprechen speak on one’s own behalf; wie ist die Sache mit dem Auto ausgegangen? how did that business with the car turn out?; die Sache steht gut things are looking good; die Sache macht sich umg. things are ( oder it’s) coming along fine; das ist so eine Sache it’s not so easy; eine runde Sache a fine piece of work; ich mag keine halben Sachen I don’t like (any) half measures; das ist eine tolle / blöde Sache umg. that’s fantastic / a stupid business; ich habe die ganze Sache ( gründlich) satt I’m sick (and tired) of the whole business; die einfachste / natürlichste Sache der Welt the simplest / most natural thing in the world; das ist nicht jedermanns Sache that’s not for everybody, that’s not everybody’s cup of tea; jemandem sagen, was Sache ist umg. (worauf es ankommt) put s.o. in the picture allg.; (die Meinung sagen) tell s.o. what’s what; sie war ganz bei der Sache she was all attention ( oder quite absorbed); er war nicht ( ganz) bei der Sache he had his mind on other things, he wasn’t (quite) concentrating; seiner Sache sicher sein be sure of oneself; sich seiner Sache sicher glauben think o.s. sure of one’s point; zur Sache kommen get to the point; (handeln) get down to business (brass tacks umg.); zur Sache! can we get to the point?; bleiben wir bei der Sache! let’s stick to the point; das tut nichts zur Sache that makes no difference; das kommt der Sache schon näher that’s more like it; das ist seine Sache that’s his business ( oder affair); das ist nicht meine Sache that’s got nothing to do with me; es ist eine Sache der Erziehung etc. it’s a matter of upbringing etc.; es ist eine Sache von Leben und Tod it’s a matter of life and death; es ist eine abgekartete Sache it’s a put-up job (Am. a scam oder setup) umg.; mach keine Sachen! umg., erstaunt: you’re kidding; warnend: no funny business; Sachen gibt’s(, die gibt’s gar nicht) umg. would you believe it allg.; was machst du denn für Sachen? umg. what have you been up to then?; du machst Sachen! umg. the things you get up to!; was höre ich denn für ( schöne) Sachen? what’s all this I’ve been hearing then?
    3. JUR. case; in Sachen A. gegen B. JUR. in the matter of A versus B
    4. in Sachen umg., fig. (bezüglich) with regard to, as to; in Sachen Umwelt where the environment is concerned, in questions of the environment; was tut sich in Sachen Hausbau? how are things on the housebuilding front?; wie macht er sich in Sachen Schule? how’s he getting on at (Am. how’s he doing in) school?
    5. (Ziel, Anliegen) cause; für eine gute / gerechte Sache kämpfen fight for a good cause / for the cause of justice; mit jemandem gemeinsame Sache machen make common cause with s.o.
    6. (Aufgabe) job; er versteht seine Sache he knows his stuff; sie hat ihre Sache gut gemacht she did a good job; etw. um der Sache willen tun do s.th. for its own sake; es ist Sache des Gerichts zu entscheiden, ob... it is for the court to decide whether...
    7. mit 100 Sachen fahren MOT., umg. do ( oder drive) a hundred (miles an hour), Brit. auch do a ton
    * * *
    die Sache
    affair; cause; business; concern; matter; thing
    * * *
    Sạ|che ['zaxə]
    f -, -n
    1) thing; (= Gegenstand) object, thing; (JUR = Eigentum) article of property

    der Mensch wird zur Sache — man is reduced to or becomes an object

    Sachen gibts(, die gibts gar nicht)! (inf) — would you credit it! (inf)

    2) pl inf = Zeug) things pl; (JUR) property

    seine Sachen packen — to pack ones bags

    3) (= Angelegenheit) matter; (= Rechtsstreit, Fall) case; (= Aufgabe) job

    eine Sache der Polizei/der Behörden — a matter for the police/authorities

    es ist Sache der Polizei/der Behörden, das zu tun — it's up to the police/authorities or it's for the police/authorities to do that

    das mit dem Präsidenten war eine unangenehme Sache — that was an unpleasant business with the president

    das ist eine ganz tolle/unangenehme Sache — it's really fantastic/unpleasant

    die Sache macht sich (inf) — things are coming along

    das ist eine andere Sache — that's a different matter, that's a different kettle of fish (inf), that's a different cup of tea (US inf)

    das ist meine/seine Sache — that's my/his affair or business

    in eigener Sache — on one's own account

    das ist nicht jedermanns Sache — it's not everyone's cup of tea (inf)

    er versteht seine Sache — he knows what he's doing or what he's about (inf)

    er macht seine Sache gut — he's doing very well; (beruflich) he's doing a good job

    diese Frage können wir nicht hier mitbesprechen, das ist eine Sache für sich — we can't discuss this question now, it's a separate issue all to itself

    und was hat deine Frau gesagt?/was meinen Sie zu diesen Streiks? – das ist eine Sache für sich — and what did your wife say?/what do you think about these strikes? – that's another story

    das ist so eine Sache (inf) — it's a bit tricky, it's a bit of a problem

    die Sache mit der Bank ist also geplatzt — so the bank job fell through

    4) (= Vorfall) business, affair

    was hat die Polizei zu der Sache gesagt? — what did the police say about it or about all this business?

    die Sache hat geklappt/ist schiefgegangen — everything or it worked/went wrong

    mach keine Sachen! (inf) — don't be daft (Brit inf) or silly!

    5) (= Frage, Problem) matter, question; (= Thema) subject; (= Ideal, Anliegen) cause

    eine Sache der Erziehung/des Geschmacks — a matter or question of education/taste

    um die Sache herumreden — to talk( all) round the subject

    zur Sache! — let's get on with it; (Parl, Jur etc) come to the point!

    zur Sache gehen (inf) — to come to the crunch (inf); (Sport) to get stuck in (inf)

    seiner Sache sicher or gewiss sein — to be sure of one's ground

    bei der Sache sein — to be with it (inf), to be on the ball (inf)

    sie war nicht bei der Sache — her mind was elsewhere

    bei der Sache bleiben — to keep one's mind on the job; (bei Diskussion) to keep to the point

    6) (= Sachlage) things pl, no art

    so steht die Sache also — so that's the way things are

    die Sache ist die, dass... — the thing is that...

    jdm sagen, was Sache ist (inf) — to tell sb what's what

    7)

    (= Tempo) mit 60/100 Sachen (inf) — at 60/100

    * * *
    die
    1) (a thing or situation that must be done or dealt with: a difficult proposition.) proposition
    2) (an object; something that is not living: What do you use that thing for?) thing
    3) (any fact, quality, idea etc that one can think of or refer to: Music is a wonderful thing; I hope I haven't done the wrong thing; That was a stupid thing to do.) thing
    * * *
    Sa·che
    <-, -n>
    [ˈzaxə]
    f
    1. (Ding) thing, object; (im Laden a.) article
    2. pl (Alkohol)
    scharfe \Sachen (fam) hard stuff fam [or liquor] sing
    3. pl (Kleidung) things, clothes, togs fam
    warme \Sachen warm clothes [or nsing clothing
    4. pl KUNST (fam: Werke, Stücke) pieces
    5. meist pl (Eigentum) property
    ▪ jds \Sachen sb's things [or belongings] [or goods] [or fam stuff]
    bewegliche/unbewegliche \Sachen JUR personal property [or chattels] [or movables]/immovables [or things immovable]
    eingebrachte \Sache contributed item
    herrenlose \Sache derelict property, res nullius
    verbrauchbare \Sache consumable
    vertretbare \Sache fungible
    6. (Angelegenheit) matter, affair; (Problem, Frage a.) question; (Thema) subject; (Anliegen) cause
    ich hatte mir die \Sache eigentlich anders vorgestellt in fact, I had imagined things differently
    wie ist die \Sache mit dem Haus gelaufen? how did the house business turn out?
    die \Sache ist schiefgegangen everything went wrong
    die \Sache steht gut things are looking good
    das ist so eine \Sache (fam) that's a bit tricky [or bit of a problem]
    das ist eine andere \Sache that's another matter [or something else]
    das ist eine \Sache des Geschmacks that's a matter of taste
    es ist eine \Sache seiner Abstammung it's a question of his origins
    ▪ jds \Sache sein to be sb's affair [or business]
    eine aussichtslose \Sache a lost cause
    beschlossene \Sache sein to be [all] settled [or a foregone conclusion]
    in eigener \Sache on one's own behalf
    ▪ eine \Sache für sich akk sein to be a matter apart [or chapter in itself]
    geschäftliche \Sache business matter
    eine gute \Sache (angenehm) a good thing; (wohltätig) a good cause
    eine unangenehme \Sache an unpleasant affair [or business]
    um der \Sache willen for the love of it [or it's own sake]; s.a. Natur
    7. JUR (Fall) case, cause
    in \Sachen... in the matter of...
    in \Sachen Umwelt bleibt noch viel zu tun there is still a lot to be done where the environment is concerned
    in \Sachen [o in der \Sache] Meier gegen Müller in the case [of] [or form in re] Meier versus Müller
    eine \Sache verhandeln/vertreten/verweisen to hear/uphold/remit a case
    sich akk zur \Sache äußern to refer to the merits of the case
    zur \Sache vernommen werden to be questioned [with regard to the matter itself]
    8. (Sachlage) factual situation
    die \Sache ist die, dass... (es geht darum, dass...) the matter so far is that...; (einschränkend) the thing is [that]...
    bei der \Sache bleiben to keep to the point
    neben der \Sache liegen (fam) to be beside the point
    nichts zur \Sache tun to be irrelevant, to not matter
    sich dat [bei jdm/etw] seiner \Sache sicher [o (geh) gewiss] sein to be sure of one's ground
    zur \Sache kommen to come to the point
    9. (Aufgabe) job
    er macht seine \Sache gut he's doing well [or a good job]
    es ist \Sache der Polizei, den Schuldigen zu finden it's up to [or it's for] the police to find the guilty person
    keine halben \Sachen machen to not do things by halves, to not deal in half-measures
    seine \Sache verstehen to know what one is doing [or fam is about
    10. pl (Vorfall) things
    mach keine \Sachen! (fam: was du nicht sagst) [what] you don't say?; (tu das bloß nicht) don't be daft! fam
    was machst du bloß für \Sachen! (fam) the things you do!
    was sind denn das für \Sachen? what's going on here?
    das sind doch keine \Sachen! (fam) you shouldn't do that
    11. pl (fam: Stundenkilometer)
    mit 255 \Sachen at 255 [kph [or fam kliks]]
    12.
    ▶ bei der \Sache sein to be concentrating
    er war nicht bei der \Sache his mind was wandering
    er war bei den Hausaufgaben nicht ganz bei der \Sache he didn't give his full attention to his homework
    ▶ mit jdm gemeinsame \Sache machen to make common cause with sb
    ▶ \Sachen gibt's[, die gibt's gar nicht]! (fam) [well] would you credit it?, isn't it amazing?
    ▶ nicht jedermanns \Sache sein to be not everyone's cup of tea
    ▶ jemandem sagen, was \Sache ist (fam) to tell sb what's what fam, to put sb in the picture fam
    ▶ zur \Sache! come to the point; (in Parlament a.) [the] question!
    * * *
    die; Sache, Sachen
    1) Plural things

    scharfe Sachen trinken — drink the hard stuff (coll.)

    2) (Angelegenheit) matter; business (esp. derog.)

    es ist beschlossene Sache, dass... — it's [all] arranged or settled that...

    es ist die einfachste Sache [von] der Welt — it's the simplest thing in the world

    [mit jemandem] gemeinsame Sache machen — join forces [with somebody]

    [sich (Dat.)] seiner Sache sicher od. gewiss sein — be sure one is right

    das tut nichts zur Sache — that's irrelevant; that's got nothing to do with it

    4) o. Pl. (Anliegen) cause
    5) Plural (ugs.): (Stundenkilometer) kilometres per hour
    * * *
    …sache f im subst
    Charaktersache matter ( oder question) of character;
    Einstellungssache matter ( oder question) of attitude
    Frauensache women’s business;
    Ministersache ministerial matter;
    Regierungssache government matter
    * * *
    die; Sache, Sachen
    1) Plural things
    2) (Angelegenheit) matter; business (esp. derog.)

    es ist beschlossene Sache, dass... — it's [all] arranged or settled that...

    es ist die einfachste Sache [von] der Welt — it's the simplest thing in the world

    [mit jemandem] gemeinsame Sache machen — join forces [with somebody]

    [sich (Dat.)] seiner Sache sicher od. gewiss sein — be sure one is right

    das tut nichts zur Sache — that's irrelevant; that's got nothing to do with it

    4) o. Pl. (Anliegen) cause
    5) Plural (ugs.): (Stundenkilometer) kilometres per hour
    * * *
    -n f.
    business n.
    case n.
    cause n.
    concern n.
    matter n.
    thing n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > sache

  • 9 definitivamente

    adv.
    1 definitely (sin duda).
    2 for good.
    3 definitively, for good, once and for all, definitely.
    * * *
    1 (para siempre) for good, once and for all
    2 (finalmente) finally
    * * *
    ADV
    1) (=con seguridad) definitely
    2) (=para siempre) permanently

    se ha instalado definitivamente en la capital — he has settled permanently in the capital, he has settled in the capital for good

    eliminaron definitivamente el virus — they permanently eliminated the virus, they eliminated the virus for ever o for good o once and for all

    3) (=claramente) definitely

    definitivamente, es la peor película del año — it's definitely the worst film of the year

    * * *
    a) <resolver/rechazar> once and for all
    b) <quedarse/instalarse> permanently, for good
    * * *
    = assuredly, definitely, definitively, once and for all, terminally, incurably, once for all.
    Ex. Without question, information has most assuredly become the competitive edge for business and industry.
    Ex. Cutter argued that when it could be established that the second term was definitely more significant then inversion of headings was acceptable.
    Ex. It still may be too early to say definitively whether the abandonment of this policy has overall been in the public interest.
    Ex. I cannot tell you how happy we in the circulation department will all be to put an end once and for all to the smiling delinquent patron who rejoices in paying his fine because he is thereby 'supporting a worthy cause'.
    Ex. The gap between God's finger and Adam's in Michelangelo's Creation of Adam (Vatican, Sistine Chapel) reflects Adam's terminally imperfect state.
    Ex. Regrettably, the well-intentioned publication of Devereux's typescript has been incurably bungled, and Rastell remains without either a complete or trustworthy bibliography.
    Ex. Dead men have no friends; consequently, Israel must abandon its love affair with its putative, feckless friends and kill, once for all, its mortal foes.
    ----
    * cerrar definitivamente = close + Posesivo + doors.
    * * *
    a) <resolver/rechazar> once and for all
    b) <quedarse/instalarse> permanently, for good
    * * *
    = assuredly, definitely, definitively, once and for all, terminally, incurably, once for all.

    Ex: Without question, information has most assuredly become the competitive edge for business and industry.

    Ex: Cutter argued that when it could be established that the second term was definitely more significant then inversion of headings was acceptable.
    Ex: It still may be too early to say definitively whether the abandonment of this policy has overall been in the public interest.
    Ex: I cannot tell you how happy we in the circulation department will all be to put an end once and for all to the smiling delinquent patron who rejoices in paying his fine because he is thereby 'supporting a worthy cause'.
    Ex: The gap between God's finger and Adam's in Michelangelo's Creation of Adam (Vatican, Sistine Chapel) reflects Adam's terminally imperfect state.
    Ex: Regrettably, the well-intentioned publication of Devereux's typescript has been incurably bungled, and Rastell remains without either a complete or trustworthy bibliography.
    Ex: Dead men have no friends; consequently, Israel must abandon its love affair with its putative, feckless friends and kill, once for all, its mortal foes.
    * cerrar definitivamente = close + Posesivo + doors.

    * * *
    1 ‹resolver/rechazar› once and for all
    el texto quedó terminado definitivamente en la sesión de ayer the text was finalized at yesterday's meeting, the final o definitive version of the text was drawn up at yesterday's meeting
    mientras se resuelve definitivamente el problema while waiting for a final o definitive solution to the problem
    2 ‹quedarse/instalarse› permanently, for good
    tú quedarás definitivamente a cargo de esta sección you will be in charge of this department on a permanent basis
    ha decidido dejar de bailar definitivamente he has decided to give up dancing permanently o for good
    están afincados definitivamente en Popayán they have settled permanently in Popayán
    3 ( indep)
    (decididamente): definitivamente, esto no es para mí this is definitely not for me
    * * *

     

    definitivamente adverbio ‹resolver/rechazar› once and for all;
    ‹quedarse/instalarse› permanently, for good
    definitivamente adverbio
    1 (para siempre, de una vez por todas) for good o once and for all: rompió definitivamente su relación con él, she broke up with him once and for all
    2 (sin lugar a dudas, en conclusión) definitely: definitivamente, el jefe quiere arruinar esta empresa, the managing director clearly wants to run this company to the ground
    tu hermano es definitivamente tonto, your brother is definitely stupid
    ' definitivamente' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    cerrar
    - decididamente
    - siempre
    English:
    finally
    - definitely
    * * *
    1. [sin duda] definitely;
    definitivamente, el picante no me sienta bien hot food definitely doesn't agree with me
    2. [finalmente]
    nos tienes que decir definitivamente si vas a venir o no you have to tell us whether you're definitely coming or not;
    hasta que no se solucione definitivamente la avería no habrá electricidad there won't be any electricity until the problem is properly fixed
    3. [para siempre] for good;
    queremos quedarnos a vivir aquí definitivamente we want to come and live here for good;
    la banda se separó definitivamente en 1969 the band finally broke up in 1969;
    la corte se instaló definitivamente en Madrid the court moved to Madrid, where it remained
    * * *
    1) : finally
    2) : permanently, for good
    3) : definitely, absolutely

    Spanish-English dictionary > definitivamente

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