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1 settle
'setl1) (to place in a position of rest or comfort: I settled myself in the armchair.) anbringe, sette (seg) til rette2) (to come to rest: Dust had settled on the books.) legge/senke seg3) (to soothe: I gave him a pill to settle his nerves.) berolige4) (to go and live: Many Scots settled in New Zealand.) slå seg ned, bosette seg5) (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.) avgjøre, slutte forlik6) (to pay (a bill).) gjøre opp•- settler
- settle down
- settle in
- settle on
- settle upbetale--------etablereIsubst. \/ˈsetl\/forklaring: høyrygget trebenk med armlener, ofte med et rom under setetIIverb \/ˈsetl\/1) legge til rette, hjelpe til rette, få i orden, installere2) kolonisere, slå seg ned i3) bosette seg, slå seg ned, sette bo4) sette seg til rette, slå seg ned5) hjelpe til å etablere seg, hjelpe til å sette bo6) se til å få gift, gifte bort7) plassere, anbringe8) avgjøre, gjøre slutt på, bilegge9) ordne, avklare, klare opp i, fikse• I'll settle him!10) roe, berolige, få til å stabilisere seg11) betale, gjøre opp• will you settle for all of us?12) bestemme, fastsette, avtale13) ( om bevingede dyr) slå seg ned, sette seg14) bre seg, legge seg15) bli fast, bli hard, bli tørr, stivne16) gjøre tørr, gjøre fast, gjøre hard18) (om hus, grunnvoll e.l.) sette seg, synke19) få til å legge seg, la synke til bunnensettle (up) accounts gjøre oppsettle (up) a debt betale ned en gjeldsettle down bosette seg, slå seg nedslå seg til roda hun fylte 60, slo hun seg til ro etter et hektisk livsette seg til rette, slå seg nedde satte seg ned for å ta en prat etablere seg, innrette segroe seg, stabilisere seg, legge segsettle down in life finne seg til rette i tilværelsensettle down to married life gifte segsettle down to something begynne med noe, komme inn i noesettle for nøye seg med bestemme seg forsettle in (flytte inn og) komme i ordensettle on bestemme seg for• which of the bags have you settled on?( om sykdom) slå seg på, sette seg (fast)settle one's affairs ordne opp i sakene sine beskikke sitt hussettle oneself slå seg ned, slå seg til ro, sette seg til rettebosette seg, slå seg ned, sette bo roe segsettle oneself to bestemme seg for å, sette i gang med åsettle somebody in hjelpe noen med å flytte inn og komme i ordensettle something on somebody ( jus) båndlegge noe til fordel for noensettle up gjøre opp, skvære opp -
2 France
The continental European country with which Portugal has had the closest and most friendly relations since the Middle Ages and whose culture since early modern times has been the most important model for Portugal's culture. Beginning in the Reconquest, French groups assisted the Portuguese in fighting the Muslims, and Portugal's first royal dynasty was Burgundian. Various French religious orders settled in Portugal and brought new skills and ideas. Franco-Portuguese relations in diplomacy went through various phases after a virtual break between the two monarchies during the Hundred Years' War and Castile's campaigns to conquer Portugal up to the battle of Aljubarrota (1385), when France was the main ally of Castile. France gave Portugal vital assistance in the 16th and 17th centuries against Spanish aggression. French aid was given to Dom Antônio, Prior of Crato, who opposed Filipe's domination of Portugal, and to restoration Portugal during the War of Restoration (1640-68). With the important exception of the disastrous Napoleonic invasions and war (1807-11), Franco-Portuguese relations in diplomacy, trade, and culture were exceptionally good from the first quarter of the 19th century.In part as a response to unpopular Castilianization during Spain's domination, the Portuguese found French culture a comforting, novel foil and prestigious alternative. Despite Great Britain's dominance in matters commercial, diplomatic, and political under the Anglo- Portuguese Alliance, French culture and politics came to enjoy primary importance in Portugal. Even in commerce, France was Portugal's third or fourth best customer during the 19th century. Especially between 1820 and 1960, French influence provided a major model for the well-educated.A brief list of some key political, literary, philosophical, and artistic ideas Portugal eagerly embraced is suggestive. King Pedro IV's 1826 Charter ( A Carta) was directly modeled on an early French constitution. French models of liberalism and socialism prevailed in politics; impressionism in art; romanticism and realism, Parnassian-ism, and symbolism in literature; positivism and Bergsonianism in philosophy, etc. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the Portuguese language, including vocabulary and orthography (spelling), experienced extensive Frenchification. French became the second language of Portugal's elite, providing access to knowledge and information vital for the education and development of isolated Portugal.French cultural influences became pervasive and entered the country by various means: through the French invasions before 1811, trade and commerce, improved international communication and transportation, Portuguese emigration to France (which became a mass movement after 1950), and close diplomatic and intellectual relations. An example of the importance of French culture until recently, when British and American cultural influences have become more significant, was that works in French dominated foreign book sections in Portuguese bookstores. If Portugal retained the oldest diplomatic link in world history with Britain, its chief cultural model until recently was France. Until after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, the largest portion of Portugal's educated elite studying abroad resided in France and took French higher degrees. The pattern of Portuguese students in higher education abroad has diversified in the years since, and now a significant portion are studying in other European continental states as well as in Britain and the United States. Diplomatic posts in France rank high in the pecking order of Portugal's small foreign service. -
3 Historical Portugal
Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims inPortugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and theChurch (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict untilUN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU. -
4 settle
I ['setl]nome = cassapanca dotata di schienale e braccioliII 1. ['setl]1) (position comfortably) sistemare [person, animal]2) (calm) calmare [stomach, nerves]3) (resolve) sistemare [matter, business]; comporre [ dispute]; risolvere, appianare [ conflict]; risolvere [ problem]that's settled — è deciso o fatto
that settles it! — (making decision) ho deciso! (in exasperation) e con questo ho chiuso!
4) (agree on) stabilire, fissare [ arrangements]6) comm. (pay) regolare, saldare [bill, debt]to settle money on sb. — lasciare o intestare del denaro a qcn
7) (colonize) colonizzare, insediarsi in [ country]2.1) (come to rest) [bird, insect, wreck] posarsi; [ dregs] depositarsito let the dust settle — fare posare o depositare la polvere; fig. lasciare passare il polverone, lasciare che le acque si calmino
to settle over — [ mist] scendere su [ town]; fig. [silence, grief] scendere su [ community]
2) (become resident) fermarsi, stabilirsi, sistemarsi3) (become compacted) [ground, wall] assestarsi4) (calm down) [ baby] calmarsi; (go to sleep) addormentarsi5) (take hold)to be settling — [ snow] tenere; [ mist] persistere
6) dir. (agree) mettersi d'accordo3.to settle oneself in — sistemarsi su [ chair]; sistemarsi in, a [ bed]
••to settle a score with sb. — sistemare una faccenda o regolare i conti con qcn
* * *['setl]1) (to place in a position of rest or comfort: I settled myself in the armchair.) sistemarsi, mettersi2) (to come to rest: Dust had settled on the books.) posarsi3) (to soothe: I gave him a pill to settle his nerves.) calmare4) (to go and live: Many Scots settled in New Zealand.) stabilirsi5) (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.) decidere; risolvere6) (to pay (a bill).) pagare, saldare•- settler
- settle down
- settle in
- settle on
- settle up* * *settle /ˈsɛtl/n.♦ (to) settle /ˈsɛtl/A v. t.1 decidere; determinare; fissare; stabilire: to settle an argument, decidere (o dirimere) una controversia; ( sport) to settle a match, decidere un incontro; to settle the day, fissare la data; DIALOGO → - Inviting someone to stay- That's settled then, allora è deciso2 definire; precisare: to settle a few points before signing a contract, definire alcuni punti prima di firmare un contratto3 sistemare ( cose o persone): to settle one's affairs, sistemare i propri affari; to settle a matter, sistemare una faccenda4 risolvere ( una faccenda); comporre ( una disputa): The dispute has been settled in a friendly manner, la vertenza è stata composta in via amichevole5 mettere in ordine (o a posto); riordinare; riassestare; aggiustare: A nice cup of tea will settle your stomach, una bella tazza di tè ti metterà a posto lo stomaco; to settle a room, riordinare una stanza6 (comm.) pagare; regolare; saldare; estinguere: to settle a bill [an account], saldare una fattura [pagare un conto]; to settle sb. 's debts, pagare i debiti di q.14 (leg.) regolare ( una pendenza); comporre ( una lite); transigere: to settle a dispute out of court, comporre una vertenza in via stragiudiziale15 (leg.) assegnare; intestare: He settled his property on his son, ha intestato i suoi beni al figlio17 (fam.) mettere a posto, sistemare (q., sgridandolo, battendolo); sbarazzarsi di (q.); liquidare, far fuori (pop.)B v. i.1 ( spesso to settle down) sistemarsi; stabilirsi; insediarsi; andare a stare; domiciliarsi; mettere su casa: When he retired, he settled ( down) in his native village, quando è andato in pensione, si è stabilito nel suo paese natale; It's time for you to marry and settle down, è ora che ti sposi e ti sistemi; The French settled in Canada, i francesi si insediarono nel Canada2 posarsi; fermarsi: A fly settled on the plate, una mosca si è posata sul piatto; Dust had settled on the furniture, la polvere s'era posata sui mobili5 piantarsi, sprofondare: The car settled in the soft ground, l'automobile si è piantata nel terreno molle6 (naut.) affondare11 accordarsi; giungere a un accomodamento; raggiungere un accordo: It won't be easy to settle with our creditors, non sarà facile giungere a un accomodamento con i creditori; (leg.) to settle out of court, raggiungere un accordo stragiudiziale● (leg.) to settle a fine out of court, conciliare una multa □ to settle one's eldest daughter, sistemare (o accasare) la figlia maggiore □ ( slang) to settle sb. 's hash, ridurre q. a più miti consigli; far abbassare la cresta a q. □ to settle sb. in business, avviare q. negli affari □ to settle the issue, decidere il punto in discussione; ( sport) chiudere la partita ( determinarne il risultato) □ to settle oneself (down), accomodarsi; adagiarsi, sistemarsi; applicarsi, mettersi: I settled myself down in an armchair, m'accomodai in poltrona; Settle yourself down to work, mettiti al lavoro □ to settle the pillows, sprimacciare i guanciali □ to settle the succession to the throne, regolare la successione al trono □ ( spesso fig.) to have an account (o a score) to settle with sb., avere un conto da regolare con q. □ a liqueur to settle one's dinner, un bicchierino di liquore come digestivo □ He can't settle to anything, è perennemente irrequieto; è insoddisfatto di tutto □ That settles it!, ciò risolve la faccenda; (fam.) siamo sistemati (iron.); è fatta!* * *I ['setl]nome = cassapanca dotata di schienale e braccioliII 1. ['setl]1) (position comfortably) sistemare [person, animal]2) (calm) calmare [stomach, nerves]3) (resolve) sistemare [matter, business]; comporre [ dispute]; risolvere, appianare [ conflict]; risolvere [ problem]that's settled — è deciso o fatto
that settles it! — (making decision) ho deciso! (in exasperation) e con questo ho chiuso!
4) (agree on) stabilire, fissare [ arrangements]6) comm. (pay) regolare, saldare [bill, debt]to settle money on sb. — lasciare o intestare del denaro a qcn
7) (colonize) colonizzare, insediarsi in [ country]2.1) (come to rest) [bird, insect, wreck] posarsi; [ dregs] depositarsito let the dust settle — fare posare o depositare la polvere; fig. lasciare passare il polverone, lasciare che le acque si calmino
to settle over — [ mist] scendere su [ town]; fig. [silence, grief] scendere su [ community]
2) (become resident) fermarsi, stabilirsi, sistemarsi3) (become compacted) [ground, wall] assestarsi4) (calm down) [ baby] calmarsi; (go to sleep) addormentarsi5) (take hold)to be settling — [ snow] tenere; [ mist] persistere
6) dir. (agree) mettersi d'accordo3.to settle oneself in — sistemarsi su [ chair]; sistemarsi in, a [ bed]
••to settle a score with sb. — sistemare una faccenda o regolare i conti con qcn
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1. adjective1) offenbe [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]
the offer remains open until the end of the month — das Angebot bleibt bestehen od. gilt noch bis Ende des Monats
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) offenhave 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
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]2. nounsomebody/something is an open book [to somebody] — (fig.) jemand/etwas ist ein aufgeschlagenes od. offenes Buch [für jemanden]
in the open — (outdoors) unter freiem Himmel
[out] in the open — (fig.) [öffentlich] bekannt
3. transitive verbbring something [out] into the open — (fig.) etwas an die Öffentlichkeit bringen
1) öffnen; aufmachen (ugs.)2) (allow access to)open something [to somebody/something] — etwas öffnen [für jemanden/etwas]; (fig.) [jemandem/einer Sache] etwas öffnen
open something to the public — etwas der Öffentlichkeit (Dat.) zugänglich machen
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)4. intransitive verbopen one's heart or mind to somebody/something — sich jemandem/einer Sache öffnen
1) sich öffnen; aufgehen; [Spalt, Kluft:] sich auftunopen 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
the kitchen opens into the living room — die Küche hat eine Tür zum Wohnzimmer
Phrasal Verbs:- open out- open up•• 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. adjective2) (allowing the inside to be seen: an open book.) offen3) (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.) geöffnet4) (not kept secret: an open show of affection.) offen5) (frank: He was very open with me about his work.) offen6) (still being considered etc: Leave the matter open.) offen7) (empty, with no trees, buildings etc: I like to be out in the open country; an open space.) offen2. verb1) (to make or become open: He opened the door; The door opened; The new shop opened last week.) öffnen2) (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. adj1. inv (not closed) container, eyes, garment, door, window offen, auf präd; pass also geöffnet, für den Verkehr freigegeben; book aufgeschlagen; flower aufgeblüht, erblüht; map auseinandergefaltetshe was breathing through her \open mouth sie atmete durch den offenen Mundexcuse me, your fly is \open entschuldige, aber dein Hosenstall steht offen famI had difficulty keeping my eyes \open ich konnte die Augen kaum noch offenhaltento welcome sb with \open arms ( fig) jdn mit offenen Armen empfangen [o aufnehmen]\open boat Boot nt ohne Verdeckto do sth with one's eyes \open etw ganz bewusst tunI got into this job with my eyes \open als ich diesen Job angenommen habe, war mir klar, was mich erwartetan \open wound eine offene Wundewide \open [sperrangel]weit geöffnetto burst \open bag, case aufgehento push sth \open etw aufstoßen; (violently) etw mit Gewalt öffnenis 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 erklärenthe race is still wide \open bei dem Rennen ist noch alles drinthe price is \open to negotiation über den Preis kann noch verhandelt werdento be \open to interpretation Interpretationsspielraum bietenan \open matter eine schwebende Angelegenheit [o offene Sache]an \open mind eine unvoreingenommene Einstellungto have/keep an \open mind unvoreingenommen [o objektiv] sein/bleibenshe has a very \open mind about new things sie steht neuen Dingen sehr aufgeschlossen gegenüberto keep one's options \open sich dat alle Möglichkeiten offenhaltenan \open question eine offene Frage\open ticket Ticket nt mit offenem Reisedatumto leave sth \open etw offenlassento be in the \open air an der frischen Luft seinto get out in the \open air an die frische Luft gehen\open country unbebautes Land\open field freies Feldon the \open road auf freier Streckeon the \open sea auf hoher See [o dem offenem Meerthis library is not \open to the general public dies ist keine öffentliche Bibliothekthe competition is \open to anyone over the age of sixteen an dem Wettbewerb kann jeder teilnehmen, der älter als 16 Jahre istthe job is \open to all applicants die Stelle steht allen Bewerbern offento have \open access to sth freien Zugang zu etw dat habenin \open court in öffentlicher Verhandlungan \open discussion eine öffentliche Diskussion\open hostility offene Feindschaft\open resentment unverhohlene Abneigungan \open scandal ein öffentlicher Skandalto lay sth \open etw offenlegenhe is quite \open about his weaknesses er spricht freimütig über seine Schwächen▪ to be \open with sb offen zu jdm seinan \open person ein offener [o aufrichtiger] Mensch\open to offers Angebote werden entgegengenommenthe company is \open to offers for the empty factory die Firma zieht Angebote für die leer stehende Fabrik in Betrachtto be \open to advice/new ideas/suggestions Ratschlägen/neuen Ideen/Vorschlägen gegenüber aufgeschlossen [o offen] seinto be \open to bribes/offers/persuasion für Bestechung/Angebote/Überredung zugänglich seinour offer will be kept \open until the end of the week unser Angebot gilt noch [o bleibt noch bestehen] bis Ende der Wochethere are still lots of opportunities \open to you dir stehen noch viele Möglichkeiten offenit is \open to you to accept or to refuse the offer es steht Ihnen frei, das Angebot anzunehmen oder abzulehnenthe line is \open now die Leitung ist jetzt freito keep a bank account \open ein Bankkonto [weiterhin] bestehen lassen\open time verfügbare Zeit\open vacancies offene [o freie] Stellenhis macho attitude leaves him \open to ridicule mit seinem Machogehabe gibt er sich selbst der Lächerlichkeit preisto be \open to attack Angriffen ausgesetzt seinto be \open to criticism kritisierbar seinto be \open to doubt zweifelhaft [o fraglich] seinto be \open to the enemy feindlichem Zugriff unterliegen\open champion Sieger(in) m(f) einer offenen Meisterschaft\open championship offene Meisterschaften plan \open screen ein Drahtgitter [o Drahtnetz] ntan \open weave eine lockere Webart\open note Grundton m\open pipe offene [Orgel]pfeife\open string leere Saite\open circuit unterbrochener Stromkreislauf19. LING offen\open syllable offene Silbe\open vowel offener Vokal20. MATH\open set offene Menge21.▶ to be an \open book person [wie] ein aufgeschlagenes [o offenes] Buch sein; thing ein Kinderspiel seincomputers are an \open book to him mit Computern hat er überhaupt kein ProblemeII. vithe door \opens much more easily now die Tür lässt sich jetzt viel leichter öffnenthe flowers \open in the morning die Blüten öffnen sich am MorgenI can't get the door to \open! ich kann die Tür nicht aufkriegen!2. (give access)the door \opens into the garden die Tür führt direkt in den Gartenthe small path \opened off the main road der schmale Weg führte auf die Hauptstraßethe trial \opens/the Olympic Games \open tomorrow der Prozess wird/die Olympischen Spiele werden morgen eröffnetthe shares \opened lower bei Börsenbeginn standen die Aktien niedrigerthe valley \opened before them das Tal tat sich vor ihnen aufIII. nto camp in the \open unter freiem Himmel nächtigento bring sth out into the \open etw publikmachen [o an die Öffentlichkeit bringen]to get sth [out] in[to] the \open etw [offen] zur Sprache bringen [o ansprechenIV. vt1. (change from closed)to \open a book/magazine/newspaper ein Buch/ein Magazin/eine Zeitung aufschlagento \open a box/window/bottle eine Dose/ein Fenster/eine Flasche aufmachen [o öffnen]to \open the curtains [or drapes] die Vorhänge aufziehento \open one's eyes seine Augen öffnen [o aufmachen]to \open a letter/file einen Brief/eine Akte öffnento \open a map eine [Straßen]karte auffalten2. (begin)to \open fire MIL das Feuer eröffnento \open a meeting/rally ein Treffen/eine Kundgebung eröffnento \open negotiations in Verhandlungen eintretento \open the proceedings das Verfahren eröffnen3. (set up)to \open a bank account ein Konto einrichten [o eröffnen]to \open a business/branch ein Geschäft/eine Zweigstelle eröffnen [o aufmachen4. (for customers, visitors) öffnenthe company will open its doors for business next month die Firma wird im nächsten Monat eröffnetto \open a bakery/book store/restaurant eine Bäckerei/einen Buchladen/ein Restaurant öffnento \open a building ein Gebäude einweihento \open a road/tunnel eine Straße/einen Tunnel für den Verkehr freigeben6. (break new ground)▪ to \open sth etw erschließento \open a new field of science wissenschaftliches Neuland erschließen7. (evacuate)to \open one's bowels den Darm entleeren8. (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 Mengeto \open a canal einen Kanal passierbar machento \open a pipe ein Rohr durchgängig machento \open the view den Blick [o die Sicht] ermöglichen9.▶ to \open sb's eyes to sb/sth jdm die Augen über jdn/etw öffnen* * *['əUpən]1. adj1) door, bottle, book, eye, flower etc offen, auf pred, geöffnet; circuit offen; lines of communication frei; wound etc offento 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 —
his defeat blew the competition wide open — durch seine Niederlage war der Ausgang des Wettbewerbs weit offen
2) (= open for business shop, bank etc) geöffnetthe 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 Verdeck4) (= not blocked) Ling offen; road, canal, pores offen, frei (to für), geöffnet; rail track, river frei (to für); (MUS) string leer; pipe offenopen 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 eröffnetto declare sth open — etw einweihen/freigeben/für eröffnet erklären
6) (= not restricted, accessible) letter, scholarship offen; market, competition offen, frei; (= public) meeting, trial öffentlichto 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
an unlocked window is an open invitation to a thief — ein unverschlossenes Fenster lädt geradezu zum Diebstahl ein
7)to be open to advice/suggestions/ideas — Ratschlägen/Vorschlägen/Ideen zugänglich sein or gegenüber offen sein
to keep an open mind — alles offenlassen; (judge, jury) unvoreingenommen sein
to have an open mind on sth — einer Sache (dat) aufgeschlossen gegenüberstehen
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 durchbrochen13) (= frank) character, face, person offen, aufrichtig2. nit'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)
he eventually came out into the open about what he meant to do — er rückte endlich mit der Sprache heraus (inf), was er tun wollte
to force sb out into the open — jdn zwingen, sich zu stellen; (fig) jdn zwingen, Farbe zu bekennen
3. vt1) door, mouth, bottle, letter etc öffnen, aufmachen (inf); book aufschlagen, öffnen; newspaper aufschlagen; throttle, circuit öffnen3) region erschließen4) (= reveal, unfold) öffnento 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 beginnento open the bowels (person) — Stuhlgang haben; (medicine) abführen
8)to open fire (Mil) — das Feuer eröffnen (on auf +acc )
4. viI couldn't get the box/bottle to open — ich habe die Schachtel/Flasche nicht aufbekommen
2) (shop, museum) öffnen, aufmachenSee:→ also open on to4) (= start) beginnen (with mit); (CARDS, CHESS) eröffnen* * *open [ˈəʊpən]A s1. the opena) 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 Tag2. 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 locken3. besonders Golf, Tennis: (für Amateure und Profis) offenes Turnier: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;cut open aufschneiden;get open eine Tür etc aufbekommen, -bringen;hold the door open for sb jemandem die Tür aufhalten;keep one’s eyes open fig die Augen offen halten;pull open eine Schublade etc aufziehen;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 12. MED offen (Tuberkulose, Wunde etc)3. offen, frei, zugänglich:open country offenes Gelände;open field freies Feld;open sea offenes Meer, hohe See;4. frei, offen:an open car ein offener Wagen;lay open bloß-, freilegen ( → B 11)5. offen, eisfrei (Hafen, Wasser etc):open winter frostfreier Winter6. geöffnet, offen, präd auch auf umg:the lines are open from … to … Sie können von … bis … anrufen;we are open wir haben geöffnet7. 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 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;to für oder dat):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;10. offen(kundig), unverhüllt (Verachtung etc):an open secret ein offenes Geheimnis11. 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)open pattern JUR ungeschütztes Muster;open season Jagd-, Fischzeit f (Ggs Schonzeit)14. frei (Zeit):keep a day open sich einen Tag freihalten15. lückenhaft (Gebiss etc):open population geringe Bevölkerungsdichte16. durchbrochen (Gewebe, Handarbeit)17. WIRTSCH laufend (Konto, Kredit, Rechnung):18. LING offen (Silbe, Vokal):open consonant Reibelaut m19. MUSa) 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 fC v/t1. allg öffnen, aufmachen, die Augen, ein Buch auch aufschlagen: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 aufnehmen5. JUR in der Schwebe lassen:open a judg(e)ment beschließen, eine nochmalige Verhandlung über eine bereits gefällte Entscheidung zuzulassenD v/i3. führen, gehen (Fenster, Tür)4. figa) anfangen, beginnen (Börse, Schule etc)b) öffnen, aufmachen (Laden, Büro etc)d) (einen Brief, seine Rede) beginnen ( with mit)5. a) allg öffnenb) das Buch aufschlagen:let’s open at page 506. SCHIFF in Sicht kommen* * *1. adjective1) offenbe [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]
the offer remains open until the end of the month — das Angebot bleibt bestehen od. gilt noch bis Ende des Monats
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) offenhave 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]2. nounsomebody/something is an open book [to somebody] — (fig.) jemand/etwas ist ein aufgeschlagenes od. offenes Buch [für jemanden]
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
3. transitive verbbring something [out] into the open — (fig.) etwas an die Öffentlichkeit bringen
1) öffnen; aufmachen (ugs.)open something [to somebody/something] — etwas öffnen [für jemanden/etwas]; (fig.) [jemandem/einer Sache] etwas öffnen
open something to the public — etwas der Öffentlichkeit (Dat.) zugänglich machen
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
4. intransitive verbopen one's heart or mind to somebody/something — sich jemandem/einer Sache öffnen
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
3) (make a start) beginnen; [Ausstellung:] eröffnet werdenPhrasal Verbs:- open out- open up•• 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. -
6 over
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1. предл.
1) а) указывает на движение или нахождение над каким-л. предметом над, выше a flight over the sea ≈ полет над морем б) указывает на положение поверх какого-л. предмета на, над His hand was over his heart. ≈ Он прижал руку к сердцу. в) указывает на положение поперек чего-л. через a new bridge over a river ≈ новый мост через реку г) указывает на положение по другую сторону чего-л. по ту сторону, за, через over the river ≈ по ту сторону реки, за рекой д) указывает на положение около, вблизи чего-л. у, при, за to be over the fire ≈ находиться у костра е) указывает на прикосновение к поверхности чего-л. по to run hands over the machine ≈ провести руками по машине ж) указывает на надевание одежды, натягивание чехла и т. п. to put an apron over the dress ≈ надеть передник поверх платья
2) а) указывает на период, в течение которого происходило действие за, в, в течение over the last three years ≈ за последние три года б) указывает на действие, которое происходило во время какого-л. др. действия, занятия She fell asleep over her work. ≈ Она заснула во время работы.
3) указывает на большое количество, в т. ч. большой возраст, время свыше, сверх, больше over ten millions ≈ свыше десяти миллионов She is over twenty. ≈ Ей больше двадцати лет.
4) указывает на более высокое положение, старшинство, господство, власть и т. п. над to rule over smth. ≈ господствовать над чем-л., управлять чем-л.
5) указывает на предмет спора, обсуждения и т. п. to dispute over smth. ≈ спорить о чем-л.
6) указывает на преодоление трудностей to get over difficulties ≈ преодолеть трудности
7) указывает на источник, средство, способ передачи, пересылки и т. п. через, через посредство, посредством, по over the telephone ≈ по телефону
2. нареч.
1) а) указывает на движение через что-л., передается приставками пере-, вы- to jump over ≈ перепрыгнуть to swim over ≈ переплыть б) указывает на движение над чем-л. или нахождение наверху наверх;
наверху to hang over ≈ висеть наверху, висеть над головой в) указывает на переход на противоположную сторону, вт. ч. изменение позиции to sail over ≈ переплыть на другую сторону г) указывает на нахождение на какой-л. стороне over by the hill ≈ за холмом
2) указывает на повторение снова, вновь, еще раз to do smth. over ≈ переделывать что-л.
3) указывает на доведение действия до конца, а также тщательность его выполнения про- to think smth. over ≈ (тщательно) продусмать что-л.
4) указывает на окончание, прекращение действия The lesson is over. ≈ Урок окончен.
5) указывает на повсеместность действия, распространенность по всей территории He ached all over. ≈ У него болело абсолютно все.
6) во временном отношении указывает на длительность протекания какого-л. процесса в течение опред. периода времени over until Sunday ≈ до воскресенья
7) указывает на передачу чего-л. от одного лица к другому to make a property over to smb. ≈ передать имущество кому-л.
8) вдобавок, сверх, слишком, чересчур difference over or under ≈ одним различием больше или иеньше
9) при измерении по диаметру или по поперек в диаметре, размер поперек a board a foot over ≈ доска диаметром в 1 фут
10) имеет усилительное значение ∙ over and above
3. сущ.
1) а) избыток, излишек Syn: extra б) приплата Syn: extra payment
2) воен. перелет( снаряда)
3) радио переход на прием
4. прил.
1) верхний Syn: upper
2) вышестоящий( по званию, положению и т. п.) Syn: higher in authority
3) избыточный, излишний Syn: superfluous, surplus, excessive;
extra
4) сверхсильный, чрезмерный overaggressive behavior ≈ сверхагрессивное поведение Syn: too great, excessive
5) оконченный, окончившийся;
прошедший when the war was over ≈ когда война была завершена Syn: ended, done, past излишек, избыток приплата ( военное) перелет (снаряда) (спортивное) серия бросков (радиотехника) переход на прием верхний;
внешний - the * eyelid верхнее веко вышестоящий излишний, избыточный;
чрезмерный - * imagination слишком богатое воображение указывает на нахождение или движение над чем-либо наверху;
наверх - to hand * нависать, висеть над головой - the balloon was directly * воздушный шар находился прямо над нами указывает на движение через что-либо - часто передается глагольной приставкой пере- - to jump * перепрыгнуть - to step * перешагнуть - the pot was full and the soup was boiling * кастрюля была полна, и суп убежал - to climb * into the garden перелезать через забор в сад указывает на изменение положения, переворачивание, переход из вертикального положения в горизонтальное - часто передается глагольной приставкой пере- - to roll * перекатывать(ся) - to turn smth.* перевернуть что-либо на другую сторону - please, turn * смотри на обороте (надпись) - to knock smb. * сбить кого-либо с ног - to knock smth. * опрокинуть что-либо - turn * on your side поверни(те) сь на бок - he gave me a push and * I went он толкнул меня, и я упал - the car almost swung * автомобиль чуть не перевернулся - he stooped * to laсe his shoes он наклонился, чтобы зашнуровать ботинки указывает на переход на противоположную сторону, изменение позиции - часто передается глагольной приставкой пере- - to go * to the enemy перейти еа сторону неприятеля - to sail * переплыть (на другую сторону) - they went * to a five-day week они перешли на пятидневную неделю - O.! O. to you (радиотехника) перехожу на прием! - he drove us * to the other side of town он отвез нас в другой конец города указывает на приближение к какому-либо месту, лицу или переход к чему-либо - часто передается глагольной приставкой под- - he led her * to the window он подвел ее к окну - send her * to me пришли ее ко мне - he went * to the railing он подошел к перилам - to go * to see smb. (разговорное) зайти к кому-либо, навестить кого-либо - we have guests coming * this evening сегодня вечером к нам придут гости - to go * to the store сходить в магазин - take these letters * to post office отнести эти письма на почту - ask him * пригласите его (в гости) указывает на нахождение на какой-либо стороне - * here здесь - * there( вон) там - there's a good sport * there там есть хорошее местечко - * by the hill там, за холмом указывает на повторение вновь, опять, еще раз - * again, * and * (again) опять, снова, много раз (подряд) - he said the some thing * and * (again) он все время повторял одно и то же - he read the article twice * он еще раз перечитал статью - to do smth. * переделывать что-либо - he did that problem three times * он трижды принимался за решение этой проблемы - you'll have to do it * (again) тебе придется переделать это указывает на тщательность выполнения действия или доведение его до конца - передается глагольными приставками про-, пере- - to think smth. * продумать что-либо - to talk * обсудить - to check * проверить - to read a newspaper * прочитать газету (от первой до последней страницы) - to look * осмотреть;
проверить - may I look the house *? можно осмотреть дом? - dig the ground * well before planting the flowers прежде чем сажать цветы, тщательно перекопайте землю указывает на окончание чего-либо - the lesson is * урок окончен - the war was * война кончилась - the incident is * инцидент исчерпан указывает на нерешенность, незаконченность, неурегулированность - to lay * откладывать, отсрочивать - to hold * a decision откладывать принятие решения;
повременить с решением - let's hold it * until the next meeting давайте отложим это до следующего собрания указывает на распространение по всему данному месту, по всей территории - to be all * in dust быть покрытым пылью с головы до ног - to paint the wall * закрасить всю стену - they searched the town * они искали по всему городу - a dress covered * with jewels платье, усыпанное драгоценностями - her face became red all * краска залила ее лицо - he ached all * у него болело все тело указывает на длительность протекания действия в течении какого-либо периода времени или по истечении этого периода времени - please stay * until Monday оставайтесь, пожалуйста, у нас до понедельника указывает на передачу или переход чего-либо от одного лица к другому - передается глагольной приставкой пере- - to hand smth. * to smb. передать что-либо кому-либо - to take * a job smb. продолжать работу, начатую кем-либо другим - to make a property * to smb. передать имущество кому-либо, переписать имущество не кого-либо - to get one's point * to smb. (разговорное) втолковать кому-либо что-либо - he willed the house * to his son он завещал дом своему сыну указывает на излишек, избыток вдобавок, сверх того - boys of twelve years and * мальчики двенадцати лет и старше - to pay the full sum and smth. заплатить сполна и еще прибавить - I've got one card * у меня осталась одна открытка - you will keep what is left * оставьте себе, что осталось ( о сдаче) - nineteen divided by five makes three, and four * девятнадцать, деленное на пять, равно трем и четыре в остатке - they were gone three hours or * их тут нет уже три часа, а то и больше - difference * or under одним различием больше или меньше указывает на избыток или высшую степень качества чрезвычайно, сверх - she is not * strong она не очень-то сильна - he is * polite он в высшей степени вежливый человек - he is * tried он переутомлен - do not be * shy не будьте слишком застенчивы указывает на измерение по диаметру или поперек: в - a board a foot * доска в один фут в диаметре в сочетаниях: - * against напротив - Dover is * against Calais Дувр расположен против Кале против, по сравнению - to set truth * against falsehood противопоставить правду лжи - all * (эмоционально-усилительно) типичный (для кого-либо) - that rudeness is George all * такая грубость характерна для Джорджа - she is her mother all * она точная копия своей матери, она вся в мать - he's French all * он вылитый француз - * with (разговорное) сделанный, законченный - let's hurry and get the job * with давай(те) поторопимся и закончим наше дело - it is all * with him с ним все кончено;
он погиб;
он разорен - that's * and done with с этим все покончено, это предано забвению - * and above к тому же, кроме того, вдобавок к - * and above, he is younger than you и к тому же он моложе вас - * and above слишком, чересчур - it is not done * and above well сделано это не слишком-то хорошо указывает на нахождение или движение над каким-либо предметом: над - the roof * one's head крыша над головой - a sign * the entrance вывеска над входом - to bend * smb., smth. наклониться над кем-либо, чем-либо - heavy fog hung * the city над городом висел густой туман - a flight * the ocean полет над океаном указывает на положение на каком-либо предмете или поверх него: на - his hat was pulled low * his eyes его шляпа была низко надвинута на глаза - his hand was * his heart он держал руку на сердце - her hand closed * his она сжала его руку - the water came * his knees вода доходила ему до колен указывает на положение поперек чего-либо: через - a bridge * a river мост через реку - he had a towel * his shoulder через плечо у него было перекинуто полотенце указывает на местоположение по другую сторону чего-либо по ту сторону, за - * the river за рекой - * the sea за морем;
за пределами страны, за границей - a city * the border город по ту сторону границы - to sell smth. * the counter тоговать чем-либо за прилавком - we heard voices * the wall за стеной были слышны голоса указывает на положение у, около чего-либо: у - to sit * the fire сидеть у огня указывает на надевание, натягивание чехла: на - to throw a sheet * the bad покрыть кровать простыней - to spread a cloth * the table постелить на (стол) скатерть - she put an apron * her dress она надела передник на платье - he drew the blanket * him он натянул на себя одеяло указывает на движение через что-либо, по чему-либо или через какое-либо препятствие: через, по - * the border через границу - to leap * smth. перепрыгнуть через что-либо - to help smb. * the road помочь кому-либо перейти дорогу - to go * the bridge перейти через мост - they looked * his shoulder into the room они заглядывали в комнату через плечо - she fell * a stone она упала, споткнувшись о камень - she stumbled * her words она говорила запинаясь указывает на движение или распространение по какой-либо поверхности в определенных или разных направлениях: по, на - he travelled * Europe он путешествовал по Европе - all * the north of England по всей северной Англии - all * the world по всему свету - to motor * a new route ехать на машине по новой дороге - it snowed all * the valley в долине повсюду шел снег - a smile stole * his face на лице его промелькнула улыбка - he spread the butter * a slice of bread он намазал ломтик хлеба маслом - winter settled * the mountains в горах наступила зима указывает на прикосновение к поверхности чего-либо: по - he ran his hand * the machine он провел рукой по машине - he rubbed his hand * his cheek он потер щеку рукой - his hands moved * the papers on the table он перебирал бумаги на столе - his fountain-pen drove briskly * the paper его перо быстро и легко скользило по бумаге - he ran his eyes * the letter он пробежал глазами письмо - the breeze from the window poured * him на него подуло из окна указывает на период протекания действия: в течение, за - * a long term of years в течение долгих лет - * a period of years в течение ряда лет - * the last two days за последние два дня указывает на включение в действие какого-либо момента, отрезка времени: включая;
до - can you stay * the week-end? можете ли вы остаться до понедельника - the meeting was adjourned * the holidays совещание было прервано с тем, чтобы возобновиться после праздника указывает на протекание действия во время какого-либо занятия: за - he fell asleep * his work он заснул за работой - we'll discuss it * our dinner мы обсудим это за обедом - they sat * their coffee они сидели за кофе - how long will he be * it? сколько времени у него это займет? указывает на большее количество: свыше, сверх, больше - * a mile больше мили - * fifty millions свыше пятидесяти миллионов указывает на больший возраст, время: больше - he is * twenty ему больше двадцати (лет) - he spoke * an hour он говорил больше часа указывает на более высокое положение, преимущество, преобладание, господство, власть: над - superiority * smb. превосходство над кем-либо - an advantage * smb. преимущество перед кем-либо - to triumph * smth. восторжествовать над чем-либо - to rule * smth. управлять чем-либо - she has no control * her temper она не умеет сдерживаться - he has no command * himself он собой не владеет указывает на более высокий ранг, положение: выше, старше - a colonel is * a lieutenant полковник по чину старше лейтенанта - he is * me in the office он мой начальник указывает на предмет мысли, спора о, относительно, по поводу, касательно - a dispute * smth. спор о чем-либо - to quarrel * a matter собираться по поводу чего-либо - there was disagreement * the agenda при обсуждении повестки дня возникли разногласия - to think * smth. обдумывать что-либо, думать над чем-либо - to laugh * smth. смеяться над чем-либо - don't concern yourself * the expenses о расходах не беспокойтесь - he is worried * his health он обеспокоен своим здоровьем указывает на предмет рассмотрения, просмотра - часто передается глагольной приставкой про- - to go * smb.'s notes (внимательно) прочесть чьи-либо заметки - to go * details вспомнить все подробности - he went * everything in his pockets он тщательно проверил все, что у него было в карманах указывает на преодоление трудностей, препятствий - to get * difficulties справиться с трудностями - I got * my cold quickly я быстро оправился от простуды - we're * the worst самое худшее уже позади указывает на способ передвижения, пересылки, передачи: по - * the air по воздуху - * the radio по радио - to talk * the telephone (по) говорить по телефону указывает на лицо, с которым что-либо просходит или случается - depression crept * him им овладело уныние - a feeling of relief came * him он почувствовал облегчение - a change came * him он изменился - what has come * you? (разговорное) что (это) на вас нашло? > it is * my head это выше моего понимания > * head and ears, head * ears по уши;
по горло > to be head * ears in love быть безумно влюбленным > to be head * ears in work быть по горло занятым работой > head * heels кувырком, вверх ногами;
вверх тормашками > * the left как раз наоборот > it will suit you perfectly well. - O. the left! это вам очень подойдет. - Скажете тоже! > * the signature of smb., * smb.'s signature за подписью кого-либо, за чьей-либо подписью ~ prep указывает на характер движения: по, по всей поверхности;
over the whole country, all over the country по всей стране assume control ~ брать на себя контроль ~ prep указывает на взаимное положение предметов: через;
a bridge over the river мост через реку changing ~ перемена местами he is ~ polite он чрезвычайно любезен;
children of fourteen and over дети четырнадцати лет и старше to flow ~ the edge бежать через край;
to stumble over a stone споткнуться о камень ~ prep указывает на превосходство в положении, старшинство и т. п. над;
a general is over a colonel генерал старше по чину, чем полковник take it ~ to the post-office отнеси-ка это на почту;
hand it over to them передай-ка им это they want a good chief ~ them им нужен хороший начальник;
he is over me in the office он мой начальник по службе he is ~ polite он чрезвычайно любезен;
children of fourteen and over дети четырнадцати лет и старше ~ prep указывает на характер движения: через, о;
he jumped over the ditch он перепрыгнул через канаву a village ~ the river деревня по ту сторону реки;
he lives over the way он живет через дорогу he packed ~ two hours он собрался за два часа;
to stay over the whole week оставаться в течение всей недели ~ prep указывает на характер движения: поверх, на;
he pulled his hat over his eyes он надвинул шляпу на глаза pull: ~ надвигать, натягивать;
he pulled his hat over his eyes он нахлобучил шляпу на глаза hills covered all ~ with snow холмы, сплошь покрытые снегом;
paint the wall over покрась всю стену ~ prep указывает на источник, средство и т. п. через, через посредство, по;
I heard it over the radio я слышал это по радио over вдобавок, сверх, слишком, чересчур;
I paid my bill and had five shillings over я заплатил по счету, и у меня еще осталось пять шиллингов ~ and above с лихвой;
it can stand over это может подождать;
that is Tom all over это так характерно для Тома, это так похоже на Тома ~ указывает на окончание, прекращение действия: the meeting is over собрание окончено;
it is all over все кончено;
все пропало ~ снова, вновь, еще раз;
the work is badly done, it must be done over работа сделана плохо, ее нужно переделать ~ указывает на движение через (что-л.), передается приставками пере-, вы;
to jump over перепрыгнуть ~ имеет усилительное значение: over there вон там;
let him come over here пусть-ка он придет сюда ~ указывает на окончание, прекращение действия: the meeting is over собрание окончено;
it is all over все кончено;
все пропало ~ against по сравнению с;
over and over( again) много раз, снова и снова ~ against против, напротив ~ and above в добавление, к тому же ~ and above с лихвой;
it can stand over это может подождать;
that is Tom all over это так характерно для Тома, это так похоже на Тома ~ against по сравнению с;
over and over (again) много раз, снова и снова ~ fine millions свыше пяти миллионов;
she is over fifty ей за пятьдесят ~ prep указывает на взаимное положение предметов: над, выше;
over our heads над нашими головами ~ our heads сверх, выше нашего понимания;
over our heads разг. не посоветовавшись с нами ~ our heads сверх, выше нашего понимания;
over our heads разг. не посоветовавшись с нами ~ prep указывает на характер движения: по, по всей поверхности;
over the whole country, all over the country по всей стране ~ имеет усилительное значение: over there вон там;
let him come over here пусть-ка он придет сюда ~ prep указывает на количественное или числовое превышение свыше, сверх, больше;
over two years больше двух лет hills covered all ~ with snow холмы, сплошь покрытые снегом;
paint the wall over покрась всю стену pass ~ передавать pass: ~ over хим. дистиллироваться ~ over обходить молчанием ~ over оставлять без внимания ~ over перевозить ~ over передавать ~ over передавать ~ over переправлять ~ over пропускать, оставлять без внимания;
обходить молчанием (тж. pass over in silence) ~ over пропускать ~ over проходить;
переправляться ~ over умереть preside ~ председательствовать на ~ указывает на доведение действия до конца;
передается приставкой про-;
to read the story over прочитать рассказ до конца;
to think over продумать ~ fine millions свыше пяти миллионов;
she is over fifty ей за пятьдесят ~ prep относительно, касательно;
to talk over the matter говорить относительно этого дела;
she was all over him она не знала, как угодить ему snow is falling ~ the north of England на севере Англии идет снег he packed ~ two hours он собрался за два часа;
to stay over the whole week оставаться в течение всей недели to flow ~ the edge бежать через край;
to stumble over a stone споткнуться о камень to swim ~ переплыть;
to boil over разг. убегать( о молоке и т. п.) take it ~ to the post-office отнеси-ка это на почту;
hand it over to them передай-ка им это ~ prep относительно, касательно;
to talk over the matter говорить относительно этого дела;
she was all over him она не знала, как угодить ему ~ and above с лихвой;
it can stand over это может подождать;
that is Tom all over это так характерно для Тома, это так похоже на Тома they want a good chief ~ them им нужен хороший начальник;
he is over me in the office он мой начальник по службе ~ prep указывает на взаимное положение предметов: у, при, за;
they were sitting over the fire они сидели у камина ~ указывает на доведение действия до конца;
передается приставкой про-;
to read the story over прочитать рассказ до конца;
to think over продумать think: ~ постоянно думать, мечтать;
think out продумать до конца;
think over обсудить, обдумать a village ~ the river деревня по ту сторону реки;
he lives over the way он живет через дорогу ~ снова, вновь, еще раз;
the work is badly done, it must be done over работа сделана плохо, ее нужно переделать -
7 Jobard, Jean-Baptiste-Ambroise Marcelin
SUBJECT AREA: Mining and extraction technology[br]b. 14 May 1792 Baissey, Haute-Marne, Franced. 27 October 1861 Brussels, Belgium[br]French technologist, promoter of Belgian industry.[br]After attending schools in Langres and Dijon, Jobard worked in Groningen and Maastricht as a cadastral officer from 1811 onwards. After the Netherlands had been constituted as a new state in 1814, he became a Dutch citizen in 1815 and settled in Brussels. In 1825, when he had learned of the invention of lithography by Alois Senefelder, he retired and established a renowned lithographic workshop in Belgium, with considerable commercial profit. After the political changes which led to the separation of Belgium from the Netherlands in 1830, he devoted his activities to the progress of science and industry in this country, in the traditional idea of enlightenment. His main aim was to promote all branches of the young economy, to which he contributed with ceaseless energy. He cultivated especially the transfer of technology in many articles he wrote on his various journeys, such as to Britain, France, Germany and Switzerland, and he continued to do so when he became the Director of the Museum of Industry in Brussels in 1841, editing its Bulletin until his death. Jobard, as a member of societies for the encouragement of arts and industry in many countries, published on almost any subject and produced many inventions. Being a restless character by nature, and having, in addition, a strong attitude towards designing and constructing, he also contributed to mining technology in 1828 when he was the first European to practise successfully the Chinese method of rope drilling near Brussels.[br]Bibliography1840, Plan d'organisation du Musée de l'industrie, présenté au Ministre de l'interieur, Brussels.1844, Machines à vapeur, arrêtes et instructions, Brussels.1846, Comment la Belgique peut devenir industrielle, à propos de la Société d'exportation, Brussels.considérées comme blason de l'industrie et du commerce, dédié à la Société des inventeurs et protecteurs de l'industrie, Brussels.1855, Discours prononcé à l'assemblée des industriels réunis pour l'adoption de la marque obligatoire, Paris.Further ReadingH.Blémont, 1991, article in Dictionnaire de biographie française, Paris, pp. 676–7 (for a short account of his life).A.Siret, 1888–9, article in Biographie nationale de belgique, Vol. X, Brussels, col. 494– 500 (provides an impressive description of his restless character and a selected bibliography of his many publications.T.Tecklenburg, 1900, Handbuch der Tiefbohrkunde, 2nd edn, Vol. IV, Berlin, pp. 7–8 (contains detailed information on his method of rope drilling).WKBiographical history of technology > Jobard, Jean-Baptiste-Ambroise Marcelin
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