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  • 1 Historical Portugal

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 During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.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

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    turn [tɜ:n]
    tourner ⇒ 1A (a), 1B (a), 1B (d), 1C (d), 2 (a), 2 (b), 2 (f) faire tourner ⇒ 1A (a) retourner ⇒ 1B (a) changer ⇒ 1C (a) faire devenir ⇒ 1C (a) se tourner ⇒ 2 (a) se retourner ⇒ 2 (b) devenir ⇒ 2 (d) se changer ⇒ 2 (e) tour ⇒ 3 (a), 3 (d), 3 (f), 3 (g) tournant ⇒ 3 (b), 3 (c) virage ⇒ 3 (b), 3 (c) tournure ⇒ 3 (d)
    A.
    (a) (cause to rotate, move round) tourner; (shaft, axle) faire tourner, faire pivoter; (direct) diriger;
    ∎ she turned the key in the lock (to lock) elle a donné un tour de clé (à la porte), elle a fermé la porte à clé; (to unlock) elle a ouvert la porte avec la clé;
    ∎ turn the wheel all the way round faites faire un tour complet à la roue;
    ∎ Cars to turn the (steering) wheel tourner le volant;
    ∎ turn the knob to the right tournez le bouton vers la droite;
    ∎ turn the knob to "record" mettez le bouton en position "enregistrer";
    ∎ she turned the oven to its highest setting elle a allumé ou mis le four à la température maximum;
    ∎ she turned her chair towards the window elle a tourné sa chaise face à la fenêtre;
    ∎ he turned the car into the drive il a engagé la voiture dans l'allée;
    ∎ we turned our steps homeward nous avons dirigé nos pas vers la maison;
    ∎ turn your head this way tournez la tête de ce côté
    ∎ she turned the conversation to sport elle a orienté la conversation vers le sport;
    ∎ their votes could turn the election in his favour leurs voix pourraient faire basculer les élections en sa faveur;
    ∎ he would not be turned from his decision to resign il n'y a pas eu moyen de le faire revenir sur sa décision de démissionner;
    ∎ nothing would turn the rebels from their cause rien ne pourrait détourner les rebelles de leur cause;
    ∎ you've turned my whole family against me vous avez monté toute ma famille contre moi;
    ∎ we turned his joke against him nous avons retourné la plaisanterie contre lui;
    ∎ let's turn our attention to the matter in hand occupons-nous de l'affaire en question;
    ∎ she turned her attention to the problem elle s'est concentrée sur le problème;
    ∎ to turn one's thoughts to God tourner ses pensées vers Dieu;
    ∎ research workers have turned the theory to practical use les chercheurs ont mis la théorie en pratique;
    ∎ how can we turn this policy to our advantage or account? comment tirer parti de cette politique?, comment tourner cette politique à notre avantage?;
    ∎ to turn one's back on sb tourner le dos à qn;
    ∎ she looked at the letter the minute his back was turned dès qu'il a eu le dos tourné, elle a jeté un coup d'œil à la lettre;
    ∎ how can you turn your back on your own family? comment peux-tu abandonner ta famille?;
    ∎ she turned her back on her friends elle a tourné le dos à ses amis;
    ∎ to turn one's back on the past tourner la page, tourner le dos au passé;
    ∎ she was so pretty that she turned heads wherever she went elle était si jolie que tout le monde se retournait sur son passage;
    ∎ success had not turned his head la réussite ne lui avait pas tourné la tête, il ne s'était pas laissé griser par la réussite;
    ∎ all their compliments had turned her head tous leurs compliments lui étaient montés à la tête ou lui avaient tourné la tête;
    ∎ to turn the tables on sb reprendre l'avantage sur qn;
    ∎ figurative now the tables are turned maintenant les rôles sont renversés
    B.
    (a) (flip over → page) tourner; (→ collar, mattress, sausages, soil, hay) retourner;
    ∎ the very thought of food turns my stomach l'idée même de manger me soulève le cœur;
    ∎ to turn sth on its head bouleverser qch, mettre qch sens dessus dessous;
    ∎ recent events have turned the situation on its head les événements récents ont retourné la situation
    ∎ he turned the beggar from his door il a chassé le mendiant;
    ∎ they turned the poachers off their land ils ont chassé les braconniers de leurs terres
    (c) (release, let loose)
    ∎ he turned the cattle into the field il a fait rentrer le bétail dans le champ
    (d) (go round → corner) tourner
    (e) (reach → in age, time) passer, franchir;
    ∎ I had just turned twenty je venais d'avoir vingt ans;
    ∎ she's turned thirty elle a trente ans passés, elle a dépassé le cap de la trentaine;
    ∎ it has only just turned four o'clock il est quatre heures passées de quelques secondes
    (f) (do, perform) faire;
    ∎ the skater turned a circle on the ice la patineuse a décrit un cercle sur la glace;
    ∎ to turn a cartwheel faire la roue
    (g) (ankle) tordre;
    ∎ I've turned my ankle je me suis tordu la cheville
    C.
    (a) (transform, change) changer, transformer; (make) faire devenir, rendre;
    ∎ to turn sth into sth transformer ou changer qch en qch;
    ∎ bitterness turned their love into hate l'amertume a transformé leur amour en haine;
    ∎ she turned the remark into a joke elle a tourné la remarque en plaisanterie;
    ∎ they're turning the book into a film ils adaptent le livre pour l'écran;
    ∎ the sight turned his heart to ice le spectacle lui a glacé le cœur ou l'a glacé;
    ∎ Stock Exchange you should turn your shares into cash vous devriez réaliser vos actions;
    ∎ time had turned the pages yellow le temps avait jauni les pages
    (b) (make bad, affect)
    ∎ the lemon juice turned the milk (sour) le jus de citron a fait tourner le lait
    (c) American Commerce (goods) promouvoir la vente de; (money) gagner;
    ∎ to turn a good profit faire de gros bénéfices;
    ∎ he turns an honest penny il gagne sa vie honnêtement;
    ∎ familiar he was out to turn a fast buck il cherchait à gagner ou faire du fric facilement
    (d) Technology (shape) tourner, façonner au tour;
    ∎ a well-turned leg une jambe bien faite;
    ∎ figurative to turn a phrase faire des phrases
    (a) (move round → handle, key, wheel) tourner; (→ shaft) tourner, pivoter; (→ person) se tourner;
    ∎ to turn on an axis tourner autour d'un axe;
    ∎ the crane turned (through) 180° la grue a pivoté de 180°;
    ∎ the key won't turn la clé ne tourne pas;
    ∎ he turned right round il a fait volte-face;
    ∎ they turned towards me ils se sont tournés vers moi ou de mon côté;
    ∎ they turned from the gruesome sight ils se sont détournés de cet horrible spectacle;
    ∎ turn (round) and face the front tourne-toi et regarde devant toi
    (b) (flip over → page) tourner; (→ car, person, ship) se retourner;
    ∎ figurative the smell made my stomach turn l'odeur m'a soulevé le cœur
    (c) (change direction → person) tourner; (→ vehicle) tourner, virer; (→ luck, wind) tourner, changer; (→ river, road) faire un coude; (→ tide) changer de direction;
    ∎ turn (to the) right (walking) tournez à droite; (driving) tournez ou prenez à droite;
    ∎ Military right turn! à droite!;
    ∎ we turned towards town nous nous sommes dirigés vers la ville;
    ∎ he turned (round) and went back il a fait demi-tour et est revenu sur ses pas;
    ∎ the road turns south la route tourne vers le sud;
    ∎ the car turned into our street la voiture a tourné dans notre rue;
    ∎ we turned onto the main road nous nous sommes engagés dans ou nous avons pris la grand-route;
    ∎ we turned off the main road nous avons quitté la grand-route;
    ∎ Stock Exchange the market turned downwards/upwards le marché était à la baisse/à la hausse;
    ∎ figurative I don't know where or which way to turn je ne sais plus quoi faire
    (d) (with adj or noun complement) (become) devenir;
    ∎ it's turning cold il commence à faire froid;
    ∎ the weather's turned bad le temps s'est gâté;
    ∎ the argument turned nasty la dispute s'est envenimée;
    ∎ she turned angry when he refused elle s'est mise en colère quand il a refusé;
    ∎ to turn red/blue virer au rouge/bleu;
    ∎ he turned red il a rougi;
    ∎ a lawyer turned politician un avocat devenu homme politique;
    ∎ to turn professional passer ou devenir professionnel;
    ∎ the whole family turned Muslim toute la famille s'est convertie à l'islam
    (e) (transform) se changer, se transformer;
    ∎ the pumpkin turned into a carriage la citrouille s'est transformée en carrosse;
    ∎ the rain turned to snow la pluie s'est transformée en neige;
    ∎ the little girl had turned into a young woman la petite fille était devenue une jeune femme;
    ∎ their love turned to hate leur amour se changea en haine ou fit place à la haine
    (f) (leaf) tourner, jaunir; (milk) tourner;
    ∎ the weather has turned le temps a changé
    3 noun
    (a) (revolution, rotation) tour m;
    ∎ he gave the handle a turn il a tourné la poignée;
    ∎ give the screw another turn donnez un autre tour de vis;
    ∎ with a turn of the wrist avec un tour de poignet
    (b) (change of course, direction) tournant m; (in skiing) virage m;
    ∎ to make a right turn (walking) tourner à droite; (driving) tourner ou prendre à droite;
    ∎ take the second turn on the right prenez la deuxième à droite;
    ∎ no right turn (sign) défense de tourner à droite;
    ∎ figurative at every turn à tout instant, à tout bout de champ
    (c) (bend, curve in road) virage m, tournant m;
    ∎ there is a sharp turn to the left la route fait un brusque virage ou tourne brusquement à gauche
    (d) (change in state, nature) tour m, tournure f;
    ∎ the conversation took a new turn la conversation a pris une nouvelle tournure;
    ∎ it was an unexpected turn of events les événements ont pris une tournure imprévue;
    ∎ things took a turn for the worse/better les choses se sont aggravées/améliorées;
    ∎ the patient took a turn for the worse/better l'état du malade s'est aggravé/amélioré;
    ∎ the situation took a tragic turn la situation a tourné au tragique
    ∎ at the turn of the year vers la fin de l'année;
    ∎ at the turn of the century au tournant du siècle
    (f) (in game, order, queue) tour m;
    ∎ it's my turn c'est à moi, c'est mon tour;
    ∎ whose turn is it? (in queue) (c'est) à qui le tour?; (in game) c'est à qui de jouer?;
    ∎ it's his turn to do the dishes c'est à lui ou c'est son tour de faire la vaisselle;
    ∎ you'll have to wait your turn il faudra attendre ton tour;
    ∎ they laughed and cried by turns ils passaient tour à tour du rire aux larmes;
    ∎ to take it in turns to do sth faire qch à tour de rôle;
    ∎ let's take it in turns to drive relayons-nous au volant;
    ∎ we took turns sleeping on the floor nous avons dormi par terre à tour de rôle;
    ∎ turn and turn about à tour de rôle
    (g) (action, deed)
    ∎ to do sb a good/bad turn rendre service/jouer un mauvais tour à qn;
    ∎ he did them a bad turn il leur a joué un mauvais tour;
    ∎ I've done my good turn for the day j'ai fait ma bonne action de la journée;
    ∎ proverb one good turn deserves another = un service en vaut un autre, un service rendu en appelle un autre
    (h) familiar (attack of illness) crise f, attaque f;
    ∎ she had one of her (funny) turns this morning elle a eu une de ses crises ce matin
    ∎ you gave me quite a turn! tu m'as fait une sacrée peur!, tu m'as fait une de ces peurs!;
    ∎ it gave me such a turn! j'ai eu une de ces peurs!
    (j) old-fashioned (short trip, ride, walk) tour m;
    ∎ let's go for or take a turn in the garden allons faire un tour dans le jardin
    (k) (tendency, style)
    ∎ to have an optimistic turn of mind être optimiste de nature ou d'un naturel optimiste;
    ∎ he has a strange turn of mind il a une drôle de mentalité;
    ∎ turn of phrase tournure f ou tour m de phrase;
    ∎ she has a witty turn of phrase elle est très spirituelle ou pleine d'esprit
    (l) (purpose, requirement) exigence f, besoin m;
    ∎ this book has served its turn ce livre a fait son temps
    (m) Music doublé m
    (n) Stock Exchange (transaction) transaction f (qui comprend l'achat et la vente); British (difference in price) écart m entre le prix d'achat et le prix de vente
    (o) British Theatre numéro m;
    ∎ a comedy turn un numéro de comédie
    ∎ done to a turn cuit à point; familiar humorous (tanned) tout bronzé
    ∎ she interviewed each of us in turn elle a eu un entretien avec chacun de nous l'un après l'autre;
    ∎ I told Sarah and she in turn told Paul je l'ai dit à Sarah qui, à son tour, l'a dit à Paul;
    ∎ I worked in turn as a waiter, an actor and a teacher j'ai travaillé successivement ou tour à tour comme serveur, acteur et enseignant
    ∎ to be on the turn être sur le point de changer;
    ∎ the tide is on the turn c'est le changement de marée; figurative le vent tourne;
    ∎ the milk is on the turn le lait commence à tourner
    ∎ don't play out of turn attends ton tour pour jouer;
    ∎ figurative to speak out of turn faire des remarques déplacées, parler mal à propos
    ►► (shift) turn of duty (gen) tour m de service; Military tour m de garde;
    American turn signal clignotant m, Belgian clignoteur m, Swiss signofil(e) m;
    American turn signal lever (manette f de) clignotant m
    se retourner contre, s'en prendre à
    (move to one side) s'écarter; also figurative (move away) se détourner;
    ∎ she turned aside to blow her nose elle se détourna pour se moucher
    also figurative écarter, détourner
    (a) (avert) détourner;
    ∎ she turned her head away from him elle s'est détournée de lui
    (b) (reject → person) renvoyer; (stronger) chasser;
    ∎ the college turned away hundreds of applicants l'université a refusé des centaines de candidats;
    ∎ she turned the salesman away elle chassa le représentant;
    ∎ to turn people away (in theatre etc) refuser du monde;
    ∎ we've been turning business away nous avons refusé du travail
    se détourner;
    ∎ he turned away from them in anger en ou de colère, il leur a tourné le dos
    (a) (return → person) revenir, rebrousser chemin; (→ vehicle) faire demi-tour;
    ∎ it was getting dark so we decided to turn back comme il commençait à faire nuit, nous avons décidé de faire demi-tour;
    ∎ my mind is made up, there is no turning back ma décision est prise, je ne reviendrai pas dessus
    ∎ turn back to chapter one revenez ou retournez au premier chapitre
    (a) (force to return) faire faire demi-tour à; (refugee) refouler
    (b) (fold → collar, sheet) rabattre; (→ sleeves) remonter, retrousser; (→ corner of page) corner
    ∎ to turn the clock back remonter dans le temps, revenir en arrière
    (a) (heating, lighting, sound) baisser
    (b) (fold → sheet) rabattre, retourner; (→ collar) rabattre;
    ∎ to turn down the corner of a page corner une page;
    ∎ to turn down the bed ouvrir le lit
    (c) (reject → offer, request, suitor) rejeter, repousser; (→ candidate, job) refuser;
    ∎ they offered him a job but he turned them down ils lui ont proposé un emploi mais il a rejeté leur offre;
    ∎ familiar she turned me down flat elle m'a envoyé balader
    (move downwards) tourner vers le bas;
    ∎ the corners of his mouth turned down il a fait la moue ou une grimace désapprobatrice
    ➲ turn in
    (a) (return, give in → borrowed article, equipment, piece of work) rendre, rapporter; (→ criminal) livrer à la police;
    ∎ they turned the thief in (took him to the police) ils ont livré le voleur à la police; (informed on him) ils ont dénoncé le voleur à la police
    ∎ turn in the edges rentrez les bords
    ∎ the actor turned in a good performance l'acteur a très bien joué;
    ∎ the company turned in record profits l'entreprise a fait des bénéfices record
    (a) (feet, toes)
    ∎ my toes turn in j'ai les pieds en dedans
    ∎ he turned in at the gate arrivé à la porte, il est entré
    (c) familiar (go to bed) se coucher□
    ∎ to turn in on oneself se replier sur soi-même
    (a) (switch off → light) éteindre; (→ heater, radio, television) éteindre, fermer; (cut off at mains) couper; (tap) fermer;
    ∎ she turned the ignition/engine off elle a coupé le contact/arrêté le moteur
    (b) familiar (fail to interest) rebuter□ ; (sexually) couper l'envie à; (repulse) débecter;
    ∎ her superior attitude really turns me off son air suffisant me rebute
    (a) (leave road) tourner;
    ∎ we turned off at junction 5 nous avons pris la sortie d'autoroute 5
    (b) (switch off) s'éteindre;
    ∎ the heater turns off automatically l'appareil de chauffage s'éteint ou s'arrête automatiquement
    ➲ turn on
    (a) (switch on → electricity, heating, light, radio, television) allumer; (→ engine) mettre en marche; (→ water) faire couler; (→ tap) ouvrir; (open at mains) ouvrir;
    ∎ figurative she can turn on the charm/the tears whenever necessary elle sait faire du charme/pleurer quand il le faut
    (b) familiar (person → interest) intéresser□ ; (→ sexually) exciter; (→ introduce to drugs) initier à la drogue□ ;
    ∎ to be turned on (sexually) être excité;
    ∎ the movie didn't turn me on at all le film ne m'a vraiment pas emballé;
    ∎ he turned us on to this new pianist il nous a fait découvrir ce nouveau pianiste
    (attack) attaquer;
    ∎ the dogs turned on him les chiens l'ont attaqué ou se sont jetés sur lui;
    ∎ his colleagues turned on him and accused him of stealing ses collègues s'en sont pris à lui et l'ont accusé de vol
    (take drugs) se droguer
    (a) (switch on) s'allumer;
    ∎ the oven turns on automatically le four s'allume automatiquement
    (b) (depend, hinge on) dépendre de, reposer sur;
    ∎ the whole case turned on or upon this detail toute l'affaire reposait sur ce détail;
    ∎ everything turns on whether he continues as president tout dépend s'il reste président ou non
    (a) (switch off → light) éteindre; (→ gas) éteindre, couper
    ∎ she turns her toes out when she walks elle marche en canard
    (c) (dismiss, expel) mettre à la porte; (tenant) expulser, déloger;
    ∎ he turned his daughter out of the house il a mis sa fille à la porte ou a chassé sa fille de la maison;
    ∎ he was turned out of his job il a été renvoyé
    (d) (empty → container, pockets) retourner, vider; (→ contents) vider; (→ jelly) verser;
    ∎ turn the cake out onto a plate démoulez le gâteau sur une assiette
    (e) British (clean) nettoyer à fond;
    ∎ to turn out a room faire une pièce à fond
    (f) (produce) produire, fabriquer;
    ∎ he turns out a book a year il écrit un livre par an;
    ∎ few schools turn out the kind of people we need peu d'écoles forment le type de gens qu'il nous faut
    (g) (police, troops) envoyer;
    ∎ turn out the guard! faites sortir la garde!
    (h) (usu passive) (dress) habiller;
    ∎ nicely or smartly turned out élégant;
    ∎ he was turned out in a suit and a tie il portait un costume-cravate;
    ∎ she always turns her children out beautifully elle habille toujours bien ses enfants
    (a) (show up) venir, arriver; Military (guard) (aller) prendre la faction; (troops) aller au rassemblement;
    ∎ thousands turned out for the concert des milliers de gens sont venus ou ont assisté au concert;
    ∎ the doctor had to turn out in the middle of the night le docteur a dû se déplacer au milieu de la nuit
    (b) (car, person) sortir, partir;
    ∎ the car turned out of the car park la voiture est sortie du parking
    ∎ my feet turn out j'ai les pieds en canard ou en dehors
    (d) (prove) se révéler, s'avérer;
    ∎ his statement turned out to be false sa déclaration s'est révélée fausse;
    ∎ her story turned out to be true ce qu'elle a raconté était vrai;
    ∎ he turned out to be a scoundrel il s'est révélé être un vaurien, on s'est rendu compte que c'était un vaurien;
    ∎ it turns out that… il se trouve que… + indicative
    ∎ I don't know how it turned out je ne sais pas comment cela a fini;
    ∎ how did the cake turn out? le gâteau était-il réussi?;
    ∎ the story turned out happily l'histoire s'est bien terminée ou a bien fini;
    ∎ the evening turned out badly la soirée a mal tourné;
    ∎ everything will turn out fine tout va s'arranger ou ira bien;
    ∎ as it turns out, he needn't have worried en l'occurrence ou en fin de compte, ce n'était pas la peine de se faire du souci
    (f) British familiar (get out of bed) se lever□, sortir du lit□
    (a) (playing card, mattress, person, stone) retourner; (page) tourner; (vehicle) retourner; (boat) faire chavirer;
    ∎ I was turning over the pages of the magazine je feuilletais la revue;
    ∎ figurative to turn over a new leaf s'acheter une conduite;
    ∎ Agriculture to turn over the soil retourner la terre
    (b) (consider) réfléchir à ou sur;
    ∎ I was turning the idea over in my mind je tournais et retournais ou ruminais l'idée dans ma tête
    (c) (hand over, transfer) rendre, remettre;
    ∎ he turned the responsibility over to his deputy il s'est déchargé de la responsabilité sur son adjoint;
    ∎ to turn sb over to the authorities livrer qn aux autorités
    (d) (change) transformer, changer;
    ∎ he's turning the land over to cattle farming il reconvertit sa terre dans l'élevage du bétail
    ∎ the store turns over £1,000 a week la boutique fait un chiffre d'affaires de 1000 livres par semaine
    (g) British familiar (rob → person) voler□, dévaliser□ ; (→ store) dévaliser□ ; (→ house) cambrioler□
    (a) (roll over → person) se retourner; (→ vehicle) se retourner, faire un tonneau; (→ boat) se retourner, chavirer
    (b) (engine) commencer à tourner
    (c) (when reading) tourner;
    (d) Television (change channel) changer de chaîne
    (e) Commerce (merchandise) s'écouler, se vendre
    (a) (rotate → person) se retourner; (→ object) tourner;
    ∎ she turned round and waved goodbye elle se retourna et dit au revoir de la main;
    ∎ the dancers turned round and round les danseurs tournaient ou tournoyaient (sur eux-mêmes)
    (b) (face opposite direction → person) faire volte-face, faire demi-tour; (→ vehicle) faire demi-tour;
    ∎ figurative she turned round and accused us of stealing elle s'est retournée contre nous et nous a accusés de vol
    (a) (rotate → head) tourner; (→ object, person) tourner, retourner; (→ vehicle) faire faire demi-tour à;
    ∎ could you turn the car round please? tu peux faire demi-tour, s'il te plaît?
    ∎ to turn a situation round renverser une situation;
    ∎ Commerce to turn a company round sauver une entreprise de la faillite
    (d) (sentence, idea) retourner
    (a) (person) se tourner vers; (→ page) aller à;
    ∎ turn to chapter one allez au premier chapitre
    (b) (seek help from) s'adresser à, se tourner vers;
    ∎ to turn to sb for advice consulter qn, demander conseil à qn;
    ∎ I don't know who to turn to je ne sais pas à qui m'adresser ou qui aller trouver;
    ∎ he turned to his mother for sympathy il s'est tourné vers sa mère pour qu'elle le console;
    ∎ she won't turn to me for help elle ne veut pas me demander de l'aide;
    ∎ he turned to the bottle il s'est mis à boire
    (c) figurative (shift, move on to)
    ∎ her thoughts turned to her sister elle se mit à penser à sa sœur;
    ∎ the discussion turned to the war on se mit à discuter de la guerre
    (d) (address → subject, issue etc) aborder, traiter;
    ∎ we shall now turn to the problem of housing nous allons maintenant aborder le problème du logement;
    ∎ let us turn to another topic passons à un autre sujet
    ➲ turn up
    (a) (heat, lighting, radio, TV) mettre plus fort;
    ∎ to turn the sound up augmenter ou monter le volume;
    ∎ she turned the oven up elle a mis ou réglé le four plus fort, elle a augmenté la température du four;
    ∎ British very familiar turn it up! la ferme!
    (b) (find, unearth) découvrir, dénicher; (buried object) déterrer;
    ∎ her research turned up some interesting new facts sa recherche a révélé de nouveaux détails intéressants
    (c) (point upwards) remonter, relever;
    ∎ she has a turned-up nose elle a le nez retroussé
    (d) (collar) relever; (trousers) remonter; (sleeve) retrousser, remonter; (in order to shorten) raccourcir en faisant un ourlet
    (e) (uncover → card) retourner
    (a) (appear) apparaître; (arrive) arriver;
    ∎ she turned up at my office this morning elle s'est présentée à mon bureau ce matin;
    ∎ he'll turn up again one of these days il reviendra bien un de ces jours;
    ∎ I'll take the first job that turns up je prendrai le premier poste qui se présentera
    (b) (be found) être trouvé ou retrouvé;
    ∎ her bag turned up eventually elle a fini par retrouver son sac
    (c) (happen) se passer, arriver;
    ∎ don't worry, something will turn up ne t'en fais pas, tu finiras par trouver quelque chose;
    ∎ until something better turns up en attendant mieux
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  • 3 Haber, Fritz

    SUBJECT AREA: Chemical technology
    [br]
    b. 9 December 1868 Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland)
    d. 29 January 1934 Basel, Switzerland
    [br]
    German chemist, inventor of the process for the synthesis of ammonia.
    [br]
    Haber's father was a manufacturer of dyestuffs, so he studied organic chemistry at Berlin and Heidelberg universities to equip him to enter his father's firm. But his interest turned to physical chemistry and remained there throughout his life. He became Assistant at the Technische Hochschule in Karlsruhe in 1894; his first work there was on pyrolysis and electrochemistry, and he published his Grundrisse der technischen Electrochemie in 1898. Haber became famous for thorough and illuminating theoretical studies in areas of growing practical importance. He rose through the academic ranks and was appointed a full professor in 1906. In 1912 he was also appointed Director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry at Dahlem, outside Berlin.
    Early in the twentieth century Haber invented a process for the synthesis of ammonia. The English chemist and physicist Sir William Crookes (1832–1919) had warned of the danger of mass hunger because the deposits of Chilean nitrate were becoming exhausted and nitrogenous fertilizers would not suffice for the world's growing population. A solution lay in the use of the nitrogen in the air, and the efforts of chemists centred on ways of converting it to usable nitrate. Haber was aware of contemporary work on the fixation of nitrogen by the cyanamide and arc processes, but in 1904 he turned to the study of ammonia formation from its elements, nitrogen and hydrogen. During 1907–9 Haber found that the yield of ammonia reached an industrially viable level if the reaction took place under a pressure of 150–200 atmospheres and a temperature of 600°C (1,112° F) in the presence of a suitable catalyst—first osmium, later uranium. He devised an apparatus in which a mixture of the gases was pumped through a converter, in which the ammonia formed was withdrawn while the unchanged gases were recirculated. By 1913, Haber's collaborator, Carl Bosch had succeeded in raising this laboratory process to the industrial scale. It was the first successful high-pressure industrial chemical process, and solved the nitrogen problem. The outbreak of the First World War directed the work of the institute in Dahlem to military purposes, and Haber was placed in charge of chemical warfare. In this capacity, he developed poisonous gases as well as the means of defence against them, such as gas masks. The synthetic-ammonia process was diverted to produce nitric acid for explosives. The great benefits and achievement of the Haber-Bosch process were recognized by the award in 1919 of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, but on account of Haber's association with chemical warfare, British, French and American scientists denounced the award; this only added to the sense of bitterness he already felt at his country's defeat in the war. He concentrated on the theoretical studies for which he was renowned, in particular on pyrolysis and autoxidation, and both the Karlsruhe and the Dahlem laboratories became international centres for discussion and research in physical chemistry.
    With the Nazi takeover in 1933, Haber found that, as a Jew, he was relegated to second-class status. He did not see why he should appoint staff on account of their grandmothers instead of their ability, so he resigned his posts and went into exile. For some months he accepted hospitality in Cambridge, but he was on his way to a new post in what is now Israel when he died suddenly in Basel, Switzerland.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1898, Grundrisse der technischen Electrochemie.
    1927, Aus Leben und Beruf.
    Further Reading
    J.E.Coates, 1939, "The Haber Memorial Lecture", Journal of the Chemical Society: 1,642–72.
    M.Goran, 1967, The Story of Fritz Haber, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press (includes a complete list of Haber's works).
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  • 4 AS

    1. adverb in main sentence
    (in same degree)

    as... [as...] — so... [wie...]

    they did as much as they could — sie taten, was sie konnten

    as good a player [as he] — ein so guter Spieler [wie er]

    2. relative adverb or conjunction in subordinate clause
    1) (expr. degree)

    [as or so]... as... — [so...] wie...

    as quickly as possible — so schnell wie möglich

    as... as you can — so...[, wie] Sie können

    come as quickly as you can — kommen Sie, so schnell Sie können

    2) (though)

    ... as he etc. is/was — obwohl er usw.... ist/war

    intelligent as she is,... — obwohl sie ziemlich intelligent ist,...

    safe as it might be,... — obwohl es vielleicht ungefährlich ist,...

    3) (however much)

    try as he might/would, he could not concentrate — sosehr er sich auch bemühte, er konnte sich nicht konzentrieren

    4) (expr. manner) wie

    as it were — sozusagen; gewissermaßen

    5) (expr. time) als; während

    as we climbed the stairs — als wir die Treppe hinaufgingen

    6) (expr. reason) da
    7) (expr. result)

    so... as to... — so... zu

    8) (expr. purpose)

    so as to... — um... zu...

    9) (expr. illustration) wie [zum Beispiel]

    industrial areas, as the north-east of England for example — Industriegebiete wie zum Beispiel der Nordosten Englands

    3. preposition
    1) (in the function of) als

    speaking as a parent,... — als Mutter/Vater...

    2) (like) wie
    4. relative pronoun

    they danced, as was the custom there — sie tanzten, wie es dort Sitte war

    he was shocked, as were we all — er war wie wir alle schockiert

    the same as... — der-/die-/dasselbe wie...

    they enjoy such foreign foods as... — sie essen gern ausländische Lebensmittel wie...

    5.

    as far — see academic.ru/26446/far">far 1. 4)

    as for... — was... angeht

    as from... — von... an

    as is — wie die Dinge liegen; wie es aussieht

    the place is untidy enough as it is — es ist schon liederlich genug[, wie es jetzt ist]

    as of... — (Amer.) von... an

    as to — hinsichtlich (+ Gen.)

    as yet — bis jetzt

    * * *
    [æz] 1. conjunction
    1) (when; while: I met John as I was coming home; We'll be able to talk as we go.) während
    2) (because: As I am leaving tomorrow, I've bought you a present.) weil
    3) (in the same way that: If you are not sure how to behave, do as I do.) so wie
    4) (used to introduce a statement of what the speaker knows or believes to be the case: As you know, I'll be leaving tomorrow.) wie
    5) (though: Old as I am, I can still fight; Much as I want to, I cannot go.) obgleich
    6) (used to refer to something which has already been stated and apply it to another person: Tom is English, as are Dick and Harry.) so wie
    2. adverb
    (used in comparisons, eg the first as in the following example: The bread was as hard as a brick.) so...wie
    3. preposition
    1) (used in comparisons, eg the second as in the following example: The bread was as hard as a brick.) so...wie
    2) (like: He was dressed as a woman.) wie
    3) (with certain verbs eg regard, treat, describe, accept: I am regarded by some people as a bit of a fool; He treats the children as adults.) wie
    4) (in the position of: He is greatly respected both as a person and as a politician.) als
    •
    - as for
    - as if / as though
    - as to
    * * *
    as
    [æz, əz]
    I. conj
    1. (while) als
    she sat watching him \as he cooked the dinner sie saß da und schaute ihm dabei zu, wie er das Abendessen kochte
    he gets more and more attractive \as he gets older er wird mit zunehmendem Alter immer attraktiver
    \as I was getting into the car, I noticed a piece of paper on the seat beim Einsteigen bemerkte ich ein Stück Papier auf dem Autositz
    2. (in the way that, like) wie
    knowing him \as I do, he won't do it wie ich ihn kenne, wird er es nicht tun
    \as is often the case with children,... wie das bei Kindern oft ist,...
    she is an actor, \as is her brother sie ist Schauspielerin, wie ihr Bruder
    all merchandise is sold \as is esp AM alle Waren werden verkauft, wie sie sind
    do \as I say! mach, was ich sage!
    ..., \as my mother puts it ( hum)..., wie meine Mutter [immer] zu sagen pflegt
    I'd never seen him looking so miserable \as he did that day ich habe ihn noch nie so traurig gesehen wie an dem Tag
    \as things happened [or stood] [or turned out],... wie sich zeigte,...
    \as it is [or stands],..., \as things are [or stand],... [so] wie die Dinge stehen,...
    \as it stood at the time,... so wie die Dinge damals standen,...
    exactly \as genauso wie
    just \as so wie
    \as it is (already) sowieso schon
    I've spent far too much money \as it is ich habe sowieso schon zu viel Geld ausgegeben
    \as it were sozusagen
    he's a little on the large side, \as it were er ist, sagen wir [ein]mal, ein bisschen groß geraten
    \as it happens rein zufällig
    \as it happens, I met him this morning rein zufällig [o wie der Zufall will], habe ich ihn heute Morgen getroffen
    \as you like [or prefer] [or wish] ( form) wie Sie wünschen
    \as if [or though] als ob
    she looked at me \as if she didn't understand a word sie schaute mich als, als würde sie kein Wort verstehen
    it isn't \as if she wasn't warned es ist ja nicht so, dass sie nicht gewarnt worden wäre, schließlich war sie ja gewarnt
    \as if I care[d]! als ob mich das interessieren würde!
    3. (because) weil, da geh
    \as you were out, I left a message weil du nicht da warst, habe ich eine Nachricht hinterlassen
    he may need some help \as he's new er braucht vielleicht Hilfe, weil er neu ist
    4. (used to add a comment) wie
    \as already mentioned,... wie bereits erwähnt,...
    \as you know,... wie du weißt,...
    she smiled and I smiled back, \as you do sie lächelte und ich lächelte zurück, du weißt schon
    \as if! ( iron) wohl kaum!, das denkst du aber auch nur! iron
    such riches \as he has, he is still not happy so reich er auch ist, glücklich ist er noch immer nicht
    angry \as he was,... so verärgert er auch war,...
    sweet \as he is,... so süß er auch ist,...
    try \as he might,... so sehr er es auch versucht,...
    6.
    ▶ \as for... was... betrifft
    he wasn't thrilled, \as for me, I thought it a good idea er war nicht begeistert, ich dagegen hielt es für eine gute Idee
    ▶ \as from [or of] ab
    \as from [or of] her 18th birthday, she is free to use the money nach der Vollendung des 18. Lebensjahres kann sie frei über das Geld verfügen
    \as of [or from] tomorrow/the first/next Monday ab morgen/dem Ersten/nächsten [o nächstem] Monat
    \as of [or from] now/today von jetzt/heute an, ab jetzt/heute
    ▶ \as to... was... angeht
    \as to her manual skills, we'll have to work on them was ihre handwerklichen Fähigkeiten angeht, daran müssen wir noch arbeiten
    \as to where we'll get the money from, we'll talk about that later wir müssen später noch besprechen, wo wir das Geld hernehmen
    he was uncertain \as to which road to take er war sich nicht sicher, welche Straße er nehmen sollte
    ▶ \as and when BRIT sobald
    you can revise them \as and when I send them to you du kannst sie redigieren, sobald ich sie dir schicke
    II. prep
    1. (in the past, being) als
    he was often ill \as a child als Kind war er oft krank
    2. (in the capacity, function of) als
    she was praised \as an actress, but less so \as a director als Schauspielerin wurde sie sehr gelobt, aber als Regisseurin weitaus weniger
    speaking \as a mother, I cannot accept that als Mutter kann ich das nicht akzeptieren
    what do you think of his book \as a basis for a film? was hältst du von seinem Buch als Grundlage für einen Film?
    3. (like, being) als
    he went to the fancy-dress party dressed \as a banana er kam als Banane verkleidet zum Kostümfest
    the news came \as no surprise die Nachricht war keine Überraschung
    use your coat \as a blanket nimm deinen Mantel als Decke
    such big names \as... so große Namen wie...
    such agricultural states \as Kansas and Oklahoma Agrarstaaten wie Kansas und Oklahoma
    the necklace was reported \as having been stolen die Kette war als gestohlen gemeldet
    I always thought of myself \as a good mother ich habe mich immer für eine gute Mutter gehalten
    do you regard punishment \as being essential in education? hältst du Strafen für unerlässlich in der Erziehung?
    \as a matter of principle aus Prinzip
    III. adv inv
    they live in the same town \as my parents sie wohnen in derselben Stadt wie meine Eltern
    ▪ [just] \as... \as... [genau]so... wie...
    he's \as tall \as Peter er ist so groß wie Peter
    I can run just \as fast \as you ich kann genauso schnell laufen wie du
    half \as... \as... halb so... wie...
    she's not half \as self-confident \as people think sie ist bei Weitem nicht so selbstbewusst, wie alle denken
    \as much \as so viel wie
    I don't earn \as much \as Paul ich verdiene nicht so viel wie Paul
    twice/three times \as much [\as] zweimal/dreimal so viel [wie]
    \as usual wie gewöhnlich
    you're late, \as usual du bist wie immer zu spät
    \as... \as that so...
    if you play \as well \as that,... wenn du so gut spielst,...
    he's not \as handsome \as that! so gut sieht er nun auch wieder nicht aus!
    2. (indicating an extreme)
    these sunflowers can grow \as tall \as 8 ft diese Sonnenblumen können bis zu 8 Fuß hoch werden
    \as many/much \as immerhin; (even) sogar
    the decision could affect \as many \as 2 million people die Entscheidung könnte immerhin 2 Millionen Menschen betreffen
    prices have risen by \as much \as 50% die Preise sind um ganze [o beachtliche] 50 % gestiegen
    \as little \as nur
    you can pick up a second-hand machine for \as little \as £20 ein gebrauchtes Gerät kriegt man schon für 20 Pfund
    * * *
    [z, əz]
    1. conj
    1) (= when, while) als; (two parallel actions) während, als, indem (geh)

    he got deafer as he got older —

    as a child he would... — als Kind hat er immer...

    2) (= since) da
    3)

    (= although) rich as he is I won't marry him — obwohl er reich ist, werde ich ihn nicht heiraten

    stupid as he is, he... — so dumm er auch sein mag,... er

    big as he is I'll... — so groß, wie er ist, ich...

    much as I admire her,... — sosehr ich sie auch bewundere,...

    try as he might — sosehr er sich auch bemüht/bemühte

    4) (manner) wie

    do as you like — machen Sie, was Sie wollen

    the first door as you go upstairs/as you go in — die erste Tür oben/, wenn Sie hereinkommen

    knowing him as I do —

    as you yourself said... — wie Sie selbst gesagt haben...

    as it is, I'm heavily in debt — ich bin schon tief verschuldet

    as it were — sozusagen, gleichsam

    as you were! (Mil) — weitermachen!; (fig) lassen Sie sich nicht stören; (in dictation, speaking) streichen Sie das

    my husband as was (inf) — mein verflossener or (late) verstorbener Mann

    5)

    (phrases) as if or though — als ob, wie wenn

    he rose as if to go — er erhob sich, als wollte er gehen

    as for him/you — (und) was ihn/dich anbetrifft or angeht

    as from or of the 5th — vom Fünften an, ab dem Fünften

    as from now — von jetzt an, ab jetzt

    be so good as to... (form) — hätten Sie die Freundlichkeit or Güte,... zu... (form)

    he's not so silly as to do that — er ist nicht so dumm, das zu tun, so dumm ist er nicht

    2. adv

    as... as — so... wie

    not as... as — nicht so... wie

    is it as difficult as that? —

    she is very clever, as is her brother — sie ist sehr intelligent, genau(so) wie ihr Bruder

    as many/much as I could — so viele/so viel ich (nur) konnte

    this one is just as good — diese(r, s) ist genauso gut

    as often happens, he was... — wie so oft, war er...

    3. rel pron
    1) (with same, such) der/die/das; (pl) die

    the same man as was here yesterday — derselbe Mann, der gestern hier war

    See:
    → such
    2) (dial) der/die/das; (pl) die
    4. prep
    1) (= in the capacity of) als
    2) (esp = such as) wie (zum Beispiel)
    * * *
    AS abk
    * * *
    1. adverb in main sentence

    as... [as...] — so... [wie...]

    they did as much as they could — sie taten, was sie konnten

    as good a player [as he] — ein so guter Spieler [wie er]

    2. relative adverb or conjunction in subordinate clause
    1) (expr. degree)

    [as or so]... as... — [so...] wie...

    as... as you can — so...[, wie] Sie können

    come as quickly as you can — kommen Sie, so schnell Sie können

    ... as he etc. is/was — obwohl er usw.... ist/war

    intelligent as she is,... — obwohl sie ziemlich intelligent ist,...

    safe as it might be,... — obwohl es vielleicht ungefährlich ist,...

    try as he might/would, he could not concentrate — sosehr er sich auch bemühte, er konnte sich nicht konzentrieren

    4) (expr. manner) wie

    as it were — sozusagen; gewissermaßen

    5) (expr. time) als; während
    6) (expr. reason) da
    7) (expr. result)

    so... as to... — so... zu

    8) (expr. purpose)

    so as to... — um... zu...

    9) (expr. illustration) wie [zum Beispiel]

    industrial areas, as the north-east of England for example — Industriegebiete wie zum Beispiel der Nordosten Englands

    3. preposition

    speaking as a parent,... — als Mutter/Vater...

    2) (like) wie
    4. relative pronoun

    they danced, as was the custom there — sie tanzten, wie es dort Sitte war

    he was shocked, as were we all — er war wie wir alle schockiert

    the same as... — der-/die-/dasselbe wie...

    they enjoy such foreign foods as... — sie essen gern ausländische Lebensmittel wie...

    5.

    as far — see far 1. 4)

    as for... — was... angeht

    as from... — von... an

    as is — wie die Dinge liegen; wie es aussieht

    the place is untidy enough as it is — es ist schon liederlich genug[, wie es jetzt ist]

    as of... — (Amer.) von... an

    as to — hinsichtlich (+ Gen.)

    * * *
    adv.
    als adv.
    da adv.
    ebenso/allso adv.
    indem (zeitlich) adv.
    obgleich konj.
    so adv.
    weil adv.
    wie adv.
    während adv.

    English-german dictionary > AS

  • 5 as

    1. adverb in main sentence
    (in same degree)

    as... [as...] — so... [wie...]

    they did as much as they could — sie taten, was sie konnten

    as good a player [as he] — ein so guter Spieler [wie er]

    2. relative adverb or conjunction in subordinate clause
    1) (expr. degree)

    [as or so]... as... — [so...] wie...

    as quickly as possible — so schnell wie möglich

    as... as you can — so...[, wie] Sie können

    come as quickly as you can — kommen Sie, so schnell Sie können

    2) (though)

    ... as he etc. is/was — obwohl er usw.... ist/war

    intelligent as she is,... — obwohl sie ziemlich intelligent ist,...

    safe as it might be,... — obwohl es vielleicht ungefährlich ist,...

    3) (however much)

    try as he might/would, he could not concentrate — sosehr er sich auch bemühte, er konnte sich nicht konzentrieren

    4) (expr. manner) wie

    as it were — sozusagen; gewissermaßen

    5) (expr. time) als; während

    as we climbed the stairs — als wir die Treppe hinaufgingen

    6) (expr. reason) da
    7) (expr. result)

    so... as to... — so... zu

    8) (expr. purpose)

    so as to... — um... zu...

    9) (expr. illustration) wie [zum Beispiel]

    industrial areas, as the north-east of England for example — Industriegebiete wie zum Beispiel der Nordosten Englands

    3. preposition
    1) (in the function of) als

    speaking as a parent,... — als Mutter/Vater...

    2) (like) wie
    4. relative pronoun

    they danced, as was the custom there — sie tanzten, wie es dort Sitte war

    he was shocked, as were we all — er war wie wir alle schockiert

    the same as... — der-/die-/dasselbe wie...

    they enjoy such foreign foods as... — sie essen gern ausländische Lebensmittel wie...

    5.

    as far — see academic.ru/26446/far">far 1. 4)

    as for... — was... angeht

    as from... — von... an

    as is — wie die Dinge liegen; wie es aussieht

    the place is untidy enough as it is — es ist schon liederlich genug[, wie es jetzt ist]

    as of... — (Amer.) von... an

    as to — hinsichtlich (+ Gen.)

    as yet — bis jetzt

    * * *
    [æz] 1. conjunction
    1) (when; while: I met John as I was coming home; We'll be able to talk as we go.) während
    2) (because: As I am leaving tomorrow, I've bought you a present.) weil
    3) (in the same way that: If you are not sure how to behave, do as I do.) so wie
    4) (used to introduce a statement of what the speaker knows or believes to be the case: As you know, I'll be leaving tomorrow.) wie
    5) (though: Old as I am, I can still fight; Much as I want to, I cannot go.) obgleich
    6) (used to refer to something which has already been stated and apply it to another person: Tom is English, as are Dick and Harry.) so wie
    2. adverb
    (used in comparisons, eg the first as in the following example: The bread was as hard as a brick.) so...wie
    3. preposition
    1) (used in comparisons, eg the second as in the following example: The bread was as hard as a brick.) so...wie
    2) (like: He was dressed as a woman.) wie
    3) (with certain verbs eg regard, treat, describe, accept: I am regarded by some people as a bit of a fool; He treats the children as adults.) wie
    4) (in the position of: He is greatly respected both as a person and as a politician.) als
    •
    - as for
    - as if / as though
    - as to
    * * *
    as
    [æz, əz]
    I. conj
    1. (while) als
    she sat watching him \as he cooked the dinner sie saß da und schaute ihm dabei zu, wie er das Abendessen kochte
    he gets more and more attractive \as he gets older er wird mit zunehmendem Alter immer attraktiver
    \as I was getting into the car, I noticed a piece of paper on the seat beim Einsteigen bemerkte ich ein Stück Papier auf dem Autositz
    2. (in the way that, like) wie
    knowing him \as I do, he won't do it wie ich ihn kenne, wird er es nicht tun
    \as is often the case with children,... wie das bei Kindern oft ist,...
    she is an actor, \as is her brother sie ist Schauspielerin, wie ihr Bruder
    all merchandise is sold \as is esp AM alle Waren werden verkauft, wie sie sind
    do \as I say! mach, was ich sage!
    ..., \as my mother puts it ( hum)..., wie meine Mutter [immer] zu sagen pflegt
    I'd never seen him looking so miserable \as he did that day ich habe ihn noch nie so traurig gesehen wie an dem Tag
    \as things happened [or stood] [or turned out],... wie sich zeigte,...
    \as it is [or stands],..., \as things are [or stand],... [so] wie die Dinge stehen,...
    \as it stood at the time,... so wie die Dinge damals standen,...
    exactly \as genauso wie
    just \as so wie
    \as it is (already) sowieso schon
    I've spent far too much money \as it is ich habe sowieso schon zu viel Geld ausgegeben
    \as it were sozusagen
    he's a little on the large side, \as it were er ist, sagen wir [ein]mal, ein bisschen groß geraten
    \as it happens rein zufällig
    \as it happens, I met him this morning rein zufällig [o wie der Zufall will], habe ich ihn heute Morgen getroffen
    \as you like [or prefer] [or wish] ( form) wie Sie wünschen
    \as if [or though] als ob
    she looked at me \as if she didn't understand a word sie schaute mich als, als würde sie kein Wort verstehen
    it isn't \as if she wasn't warned es ist ja nicht so, dass sie nicht gewarnt worden wäre, schließlich war sie ja gewarnt
    \as if I care[d]! als ob mich das interessieren würde!
    3. (because) weil, da geh
    \as you were out, I left a message weil du nicht da warst, habe ich eine Nachricht hinterlassen
    he may need some help \as he's new er braucht vielleicht Hilfe, weil er neu ist
    4. (used to add a comment) wie
    \as already mentioned,... wie bereits erwähnt,...
    \as you know,... wie du weißt,...
    she smiled and I smiled back, \as you do sie lächelte und ich lächelte zurück, du weißt schon
    \as if! ( iron) wohl kaum!, das denkst du aber auch nur! iron
    such riches \as he has, he is still not happy so reich er auch ist, glücklich ist er noch immer nicht
    angry \as he was,... so verärgert er auch war,...
    sweet \as he is,... so süß er auch ist,...
    try \as he might,... so sehr er es auch versucht,...
    6.
    ▶ \as for... was... betrifft
    he wasn't thrilled, \as for me, I thought it a good idea er war nicht begeistert, ich dagegen hielt es für eine gute Idee
    ▶ \as from [or of] ab
    \as from [or of] her 18th birthday, she is free to use the money nach der Vollendung des 18. Lebensjahres kann sie frei über das Geld verfügen
    \as of [or from] tomorrow/the first/next Monday ab morgen/dem Ersten/nächsten [o nächstem] Monat
    \as of [or from] now/today von jetzt/heute an, ab jetzt/heute
    ▶ \as to... was... angeht
    \as to her manual skills, we'll have to work on them was ihre handwerklichen Fähigkeiten angeht, daran müssen wir noch arbeiten
    \as to where we'll get the money from, we'll talk about that later wir müssen später noch besprechen, wo wir das Geld hernehmen
    he was uncertain \as to which road to take er war sich nicht sicher, welche Straße er nehmen sollte
    ▶ \as and when BRIT sobald
    you can revise them \as and when I send them to you du kannst sie redigieren, sobald ich sie dir schicke
    II. prep
    1. (in the past, being) als
    he was often ill \as a child als Kind war er oft krank
    2. (in the capacity, function of) als
    she was praised \as an actress, but less so \as a director als Schauspielerin wurde sie sehr gelobt, aber als Regisseurin weitaus weniger
    speaking \as a mother, I cannot accept that als Mutter kann ich das nicht akzeptieren
    what do you think of his book \as a basis for a film? was hältst du von seinem Buch als Grundlage für einen Film?
    3. (like, being) als
    he went to the fancy-dress party dressed \as a banana er kam als Banane verkleidet zum Kostümfest
    the news came \as no surprise die Nachricht war keine Überraschung
    use your coat \as a blanket nimm deinen Mantel als Decke
    such big names \as... so große Namen wie...
    such agricultural states \as Kansas and Oklahoma Agrarstaaten wie Kansas und Oklahoma
    the necklace was reported \as having been stolen die Kette war als gestohlen gemeldet
    I always thought of myself \as a good mother ich habe mich immer für eine gute Mutter gehalten
    do you regard punishment \as being essential in education? hältst du Strafen für unerlässlich in der Erziehung?
    \as a matter of principle aus Prinzip
    III. adv inv
    they live in the same town \as my parents sie wohnen in derselben Stadt wie meine Eltern
    ▪ [just] \as... \as... [genau]so... wie...
    he's \as tall \as Peter er ist so groß wie Peter
    I can run just \as fast \as you ich kann genauso schnell laufen wie du
    half \as... \as... halb so... wie...
    she's not half \as self-confident \as people think sie ist bei Weitem nicht so selbstbewusst, wie alle denken
    \as much \as so viel wie
    I don't earn \as much \as Paul ich verdiene nicht so viel wie Paul
    twice/three times \as much [\as] zweimal/dreimal so viel [wie]
    \as usual wie gewöhnlich
    you're late, \as usual du bist wie immer zu spät
    \as... \as that so...
    if you play \as well \as that,... wenn du so gut spielst,...
    he's not \as handsome \as that! so gut sieht er nun auch wieder nicht aus!
    2. (indicating an extreme)
    these sunflowers can grow \as tall \as 8 ft diese Sonnenblumen können bis zu 8 Fuß hoch werden
    \as many/much \as immerhin; (even) sogar
    the decision could affect \as many \as 2 million people die Entscheidung könnte immerhin 2 Millionen Menschen betreffen
    prices have risen by \as much \as 50% die Preise sind um ganze [o beachtliche] 50 % gestiegen
    \as little \as nur
    you can pick up a second-hand machine for \as little \as £20 ein gebrauchtes Gerät kriegt man schon für 20 Pfund
    * * *
    [z, əz]
    1. conj
    1) (= when, while) als; (two parallel actions) während, als, indem (geh)

    he got deafer as he got older —

    as a child he would... — als Kind hat er immer...

    2) (= since) da
    3)

    (= although) rich as he is I won't marry him — obwohl er reich ist, werde ich ihn nicht heiraten

    stupid as he is, he... — so dumm er auch sein mag,... er

    big as he is I'll... — so groß, wie er ist, ich...

    much as I admire her,... — sosehr ich sie auch bewundere,...

    try as he might — sosehr er sich auch bemüht/bemühte

    4) (manner) wie

    do as you like — machen Sie, was Sie wollen

    the first door as you go upstairs/as you go in — die erste Tür oben/, wenn Sie hereinkommen

    knowing him as I do —

    as you yourself said... — wie Sie selbst gesagt haben...

    as it is, I'm heavily in debt — ich bin schon tief verschuldet

    as it were — sozusagen, gleichsam

    as you were! (Mil) — weitermachen!; (fig) lassen Sie sich nicht stören; (in dictation, speaking) streichen Sie das

    my husband as was (inf) — mein verflossener or (late) verstorbener Mann

    5)

    (phrases) as if or though — als ob, wie wenn

    he rose as if to go — er erhob sich, als wollte er gehen

    as for him/you — (und) was ihn/dich anbetrifft or angeht

    as from or of the 5th — vom Fünften an, ab dem Fünften

    as from now — von jetzt an, ab jetzt

    be so good as to... (form) — hätten Sie die Freundlichkeit or Güte,... zu... (form)

    he's not so silly as to do that — er ist nicht so dumm, das zu tun, so dumm ist er nicht

    2. adv

    as... as — so... wie

    not as... as — nicht so... wie

    is it as difficult as that? —

    she is very clever, as is her brother — sie ist sehr intelligent, genau(so) wie ihr Bruder

    as many/much as I could — so viele/so viel ich (nur) konnte

    this one is just as good — diese(r, s) ist genauso gut

    as often happens, he was... — wie so oft, war er...

    3. rel pron
    1) (with same, such) der/die/das; (pl) die

    the same man as was here yesterday — derselbe Mann, der gestern hier war

    See:
    → such
    2) (dial) der/die/das; (pl) die
    4. prep
    1) (= in the capacity of) als
    2) (esp = such as) wie (zum Beispiel)
    * * *
    as [æz; unbetont əz; z]
    A adv
    1. so, ebenso, geradeso:
    I ran as fast as I could ich lief so schnell ich konnte;
    just as good ebenso gut;
    twice as large zweimal so groß
    2. wie (zum Beispiel):
    statesmen, as Churchill
    B konj
    1. (gerade) wie, so wie:
    as often as they wish sooft (wie) sie wünschen;
    as you wish wie Sie wünschen;
    as is the case wie es der Fall ist;
    a) (so) wie die Dinge liegen,
    b) schon;
    as and when wann immer;
    (as) soft as butter butterweich;
    as requested wunschgemäß;
    as I said before wie ich vorher oder schon sagte;
    as was their habit wie es ihre Gewohnheit war
    2. ebenso wie, genauso wie:
    then as now damals wie jetzt;
    you will reap as you sow wie man sät, so erntet man
    3. als, während, indem:
    as he entered als er eintrat, bei seinem Eintritt
    4. obwohl, obgleich, wenn auch, wie sehr, sosehr, wie:
    late as he was, he attended the session trotz seiner Verspätung nahm er noch an der Sitzung teil;
    old as I am so alt wie ich bin;
    try as he would sosehr er sich auch mühte;
    improbable as it seems so unwahrscheinlich es auch scheint
    5. da, weil:
    as you are sorry I’ll forgive you
    6. (als oder so) dass:
    so clearly guilty as to leave no doubt so offensichtlich schuldig, dass kein Zweifel bleibt
    C pron
    1. der, die, das, welch(er, e, es) ( nach such oder same):
    such as need our help diejenigen, welche unsere Hilfe brauchen;
    the same man as was here yesterday derselbe Mann, der gestern hier war
    2. was, welche Tatsache, wie:
    his health is not good, as he himself admits seine Gesundheit lässt zu wünschen übrig, was oder wie er selbst zugibt
    D präp als:
    he is as a father to me er ist zu mir wie ein VaterBesondere Redewendungen: as … as (eben)so … wie;
    as sweet as can be so süß wie nur möglich;
    as cheap as fifty pence the bottle für nur fünfzig Pence die Flasche;
    as recently as last week erst letzte Woche;
    as far as can be ascertained soweit es sich feststellen lässt;
    as at an oder WIRTSCH zu (einem Zeitpunkt);
    as from von einem Zeitpunkt an, ab (1. April etc);
    as is im gegenwärtigen Zustand;
    the car was sold as is der Wagen wurde, so wie er war, verkauft;
    as it were sozusagen, gewissermaßen, gleichsam;
    as of von einem Zeitpunkt an, ab (1. April etc);
    a) was … (an)betrifft, im Hinblick auf (akk),
    b) nach, gemäß (dat);
    as to this question was diese Frage betrifft;
    he is taxed as to his earnings er wird nach seinem Verdienst besteuert;
    as you were!
    a) MIL Kommando zurück!,
    b) allg alles zurück!; → against A 8, far Bes Redew, follow C 1, for A 23, good C 2, if1 A 1, invoice A, kind2 1, long1 B 1, much Bes Redew, per 3, though A 4, usual A, well1 A 12, yet A 1
    * * *
    1. adverb in main sentence

    as... [as...] — so... [wie...]

    they did as much as they could — sie taten, was sie konnten

    as good a player [as he] — ein so guter Spieler [wie er]

    2. relative adverb or conjunction in subordinate clause
    1) (expr. degree)

    [as or so]... as... — [so...] wie...

    as... as you can — so...[, wie] Sie können

    come as quickly as you can — kommen Sie, so schnell Sie können

    ... as he etc. is/was — obwohl er usw.... ist/war

    intelligent as she is,... — obwohl sie ziemlich intelligent ist,...

    safe as it might be,... — obwohl es vielleicht ungefährlich ist,...

    try as he might/would, he could not concentrate — sosehr er sich auch bemühte, er konnte sich nicht konzentrieren

    4) (expr. manner) wie

    as it were — sozusagen; gewissermaßen

    5) (expr. time) als; während
    6) (expr. reason) da
    7) (expr. result)

    so... as to... — so... zu

    8) (expr. purpose)

    so as to... — um... zu...

    9) (expr. illustration) wie [zum Beispiel]

    industrial areas, as the north-east of England for example — Industriegebiete wie zum Beispiel der Nordosten Englands

    3. preposition

    speaking as a parent,... — als Mutter/Vater...

    2) (like) wie
    4. relative pronoun

    they danced, as was the custom there — sie tanzten, wie es dort Sitte war

    he was shocked, as were we all — er war wie wir alle schockiert

    the same as... — der-/die-/dasselbe wie...

    they enjoy such foreign foods as... — sie essen gern ausländische Lebensmittel wie...

    5.

    as far — see far 1. 4)

    as for... — was... angeht

    as from... — von... an

    as is — wie die Dinge liegen; wie es aussieht

    the place is untidy enough as it is — es ist schon liederlich genug[, wie es jetzt ist]

    as of... — (Amer.) von... an

    as to — hinsichtlich (+ Gen.)

    * * *
    adv.
    als adv.
    da adv.
    ebenso/allso adv.
    indem (zeitlich) adv.
    obgleich konj.
    so adv.
    weil adv.
    wie adv.
    während adv.

    English-german dictionary > as

  • 6 lead

    I 1. [liːd]

    to be in the lead to have the lead essere in testa o al primo posto; to go into the lead to take the lead — passare in testa, assumere il comando

    to follow sb.'s lead — seguire l'esempio di qcn

    4) (clue) pista f., indizio m.
    5) teatr. cinem. parte f. principale, ruolo m. principale
    6) giorn.
    7) el. (wire) filo m.
    8) BE (for dog) guinzaglio m.
    2.
    modificatore [guitarist, guitar] primo; [ role] principale; [ article] d'apertura
    II 1. [liːd]
    verbo transitivo (pass., p.pass. led)
    1) (guide, escort) guidare, condurre [ person] (to sth. a qcs.; to sb. da qcn.)

    to lead sb. away — condurre via o allontanare qcn.

    to lead sb. across the road — fare attraversare la strada a qcn

    2) (bring) [path, sign] portare (to a), guidare (to da, verso); [ smell] guidare [ person] (to da, verso)
    3) (be leader of) guidare [army, team, attack, procession]; dirigere [orchestra, research]
    4) sport comm. (be ahead of) condurre su, essere in vantaggio su [ rival]; guidare su [ team]

    to lead the field — (in commerce, research) essere il leader nel settore; (in race) condurre, essere in testa

    5) (cause, influence)

    to lead sb. to do — portare qcn. a fare

    6) (conduct, have) condurre, fare [ active life]
    2.
    verbo intransitivo (pass., p.pass. led)
    1) (go, be directed)

    to lead to — [ path] condurre, portare a; [ door] dare su; [exit, trapdoor] portare a

    to lead to — portare a [complication, discovery, accident, response]

    one thing led to another, and we... — da cosa nacque cosa, e noi

    3) (be ahead) [ company] essere in testa; [runner, car, team] condurre, essere in testa, essere al comando
    4) (go first) (in walk) fare strada; (in procession) essere in testa; (in action, discussion) prendere l'iniziativa
    5) (in dancing) condurre, guidare
    6) giorn.

    to lead with — mettere in prima pagina [story, headline]

    8) (in cards) essere di mano
    •
    ••

    to lead the way — (go first) fare strada; (guide others) mostrare la via o strada; (be ahead, winning) essere in testa

    III 1. [led]
    1) (metal) piombo m.
    2) colloq. fig. (bullets) piombo m.
    3) (anche blacklead) (graphite) grafite f.; (in pencil) mina f.
    4) mar. (for sounding) piombo m., scandaglio m.
    5) BE (for roofing) piombo m.
    2.

    lead poisoning — avvelenamento da piombo, saturnismo

    ••

    to fill o pump sb. full of lead colloq. riempire qcn. di piombo; to get the lead out AE colloq. (stop loafing) darsi una mossa; (speed up) liberarsi della zavorra; to go over AE o down BE like a lead balloon — colloq. fallire miseramente

    * * *
    I 1. [li:d] past tense, past participle - led; verb
    1) (to guide or direct or cause to go in a certain direction: Follow my car and I'll lead you to the motorway; She took the child by the hand and led him across the road; He was leading the horse into the stable; The sound of hammering led us to the garage; You led us to believe that we would be paid!)
    2) (to go or carry to a particular place or along a particular course: A small path leads through the woods.)
    3) ((with to) to cause or bring about a certain situation or state of affairs: The heavy rain led to serious floods.)
    4) (to be first (in): An official car led the procession; He is still leading in the competition.)
    5) (to live (a certain kind of life): She leads a pleasant existence on a Greek island.)
    2. noun
    1) (the front place or position: He has taken over the lead in the race.)
    2) (the state of being first: We have a lead over the rest of the world in this kind of research.)
    3) (the act of leading: We all followed his lead.)
    4) (the amount by which one is ahead of others: He has a lead of twenty metres (over the man in second place).)
    5) (a leather strap or chain for leading a dog etc: All dogs must be kept on a lead.)
    6) (a piece of information which will help to solve a mystery etc: The police have several leads concerning the identity of the thief.)
    7) (a leading part in a play etc: Who plays the lead in that film?)
    •
    - leadership
    - lead on
    - lead up the garden path
    - lead up to
    - lead the way     II [led] noun
    1) (( also adjective) (of) an element, a soft, heavy, bluish-grey metal: lead pipes; Are these pipes made of lead or copper?)
    2) (the part of a pencil that leaves a mark: The lead of my pencil has broken.)
    •
    * * *
    lead (1) /lɛd/
    n.
    1 [u] (chim.) piombo: lead acetate, acetato di piombo; lead arsenate, arseniato di piombo
    2 (naut.) piombo; piombino; scandaglio: sounding lead, piombo per scandaglio
    3 (= blacklead) grafite; mina ( di matita)
    4 (tipogr.) interlinea
    5 [u] (fig.) piombo; proiettili
    ● ( slang) lead balloon, fiasco (fig.); fallimento □ (elettr.) lead-covered cable, cavo sotto piombo □ (fam. USA) lead foot (o lead-footed driver), automobilista che ha il piede pesante ( sull'acceleratore) □ (chim., ecc.) lead-free, senza piombo: lead-free petrol, benzina senza piombo; benzina verde □ (miner.) lead glance, galena □ lead grey, (color) plumbeo: The sky turned a lead grey, il cielo si fece plumbeo □ (naut.) lead line, scandaglio a sagola □ lead paint, minio □ (med.) lead paralysis, paralisi saturnina □ lead pencil, matita ( di grafite) □ ( slang USA) lead-pipe cinch, fatto inevitabile; certezza assoluta □ lead piping, tubazione di piombo □ (med.) lead poisoning, avvelenamento da piombo; saturnismo □ lead seal, piombino ( per sigillare) □ lead shot, pallini di piombo □ lead wool, lana di piombo ( per condutture dell'acqua) □ (naut.) to cast (o to heave) the lead, gettare lo scandaglio □ ( slang) to have lead in one's pencil, esser pieno di vigore sessuale □ ( slang) to put lead in sb. 's pencil, dare la carica a q. □ (fam. ingl.) to swing the lead, oziare, battere la fiacca; darsi malato, marcare visita.
    ♦ lead (2) /li:d/
    n.
    1 [u] comando; guida; posizione di testa; primo posto; avanguardia: We will follow your lead, ci lasceremo guidare da te; ti verremo dietro; to be in the lead, essere all'avanguardia; ( in una gara o classifica) essere in testa, essere al comando, condurre; Burns pulled out to an early lead, Burns passò ben presto in testa; ( sport) to gain the lead, portarsi in testa; prendere il comando; passare in vantaggio; to take the lead, prendere l'iniziativa; prendere il comando; ( in una gara o classifica) portarsi in testa; Asia has taken the lead in car production, l'Asia è diventata la prima produttrice al mondo di automobili; to lose the lead, perdere il comando, ( in una gara o classifica) perdere il primo posto (o la prima posizione)
    2 ( anche polit.) vantaggio: He has a good lead over the other candidates, ha un buon vantaggio sugli altri candidati
    3 suggerimento; indizio; pista, traccia: to give sb. a lead in solving a problem, dare a q. un suggerimento per la soluzione d'un problema; to follow (up) various leads, seguire varie piste
    4 guinzaglio; laccio: The dog was on the lead, il cane era al guinzaglio
    5 (teatr., cinem.) parte principale; primo attore, prima attrice: to play the lead, avere il ruolo principale: DIALOGO → - Discussing a film- I thought that George Harrington was perfect for the lead role, penso che George Harrington fosse perfetto nel ruolo di protagonista NOTA D'USO: - protagonist o main character?-
    6 ( a carte) mano: Whose lead is it?, chi è di mano?; Your lead!, la mano è tua!; sta a te!; sei di mano tu!
    9 (elettr.) conduttore isolato, cavo, cavetto; ( anche) anticipo di fase
    10 (ind. min.) filone ( di minerale)
    11 (mecc.) passo ( di vite)
    12 (giorn.) articolo di fondo (o di spalla); fondo
    13 (giorn.) attacco ( di articolo)
    14 (comm. est.) anticipo ( di pagamento)
    16 ( sport) vantaggio; margine; distacco; scarto
    18 (pl.) (autom., elettr.) collegamenti; fili
    19 (mil., caccia) anticipo
    ● lead-in, introduzione; ( radio, TV) filo dell'antenna, discesa d'antenna □ ( basket) lead official, primo arbitro □ (equit.) lead rope, longia, longina ( corda per guidare un cavallo a mano) □ (mecc.) lead-screw, madrevite □ (mus.) lead singer, voce principale ( di un gruppo musicale) □ lead time, intervallo tra l'inizio e la fine di un processo di produzione □ (mus.) lead violin, primo violino □ (mus.) lead vocals, voce solista; prima voce □ ( sport) to give sb. the lead, mandare in vantaggio q. □ to give sb. a lead, fare strada a, instradare q. □ ( a carte) return lead, rimessa ( di carta dello stesso seme).
    (to) lead (1) /lɛd/
    A v. t.
    1 piombare; impiombare; rivestire di piombo
    2 impiombare; piombare; mettere il piombo (o i piombi) a
    3 (tipogr.) interlineare
    B v. i.
    ( della canna d'arma da fuoco) incrostarsi di piombo.
    ♦ (to) lead (2) /li:d/
    (pass. e p. p. led)
    A v. t.
    1 condurre, essere alla testa di; guidare ( anche nella danza): to lead the demonstration, essere alla testa dei dimostranti; to lead a blind man, guidare un cieco; The captain led his team onto the field, il capitano era alla testa della squadra quando entrarono in campo
    2 dirigere; capeggiare; comandare; essere in testa a (o a capo di); ( sport) essere il capitano di
    3 condurre, portare (a): This road will lead you to the country house, questa strada ti condurrà (o ti porterà) alla villa
    4 condurre; fare; avere: to lead a peaceful existence, condurre una vita tranquilla
    5 far fare: to lead sb. a dog's life, far fare a q. una vita da cani
    6 convincere; persuadere; indurre; portare (fig.): His embarrassment led me to believe he was lying, il suo imbarazzo mi ha indotto (o mi ha portato) a credere che mentisse
    7 essere il primo di; essere in testa a: Saudi Arabia leads the world in oil production, l'Arabia Saudita è il primo paese del mondo per produzione del petrolio
    8 far passare, immettere ( acqua in un canale); passare ( una corda, attraverso qc.)
    9 (mus.) dirigere: to lead an orchestra [a band, a chorus], dirigere un'orchestra [una banda, un coro]
    10 ( a carte) giocare (o calare) come prima carta; aprire il gioco con: to lead the ace of hearts, calare l'asso di cuori (in apertura di gioco)
    11 condurre a mano: to lead a horse, condurre a mano un cavallo
    13 ( sport: nelle corse) essere il capoclassifica di; essere il primo a
    14 ( calcio, ecc.) condurre, essere in vantaggio su
    15 ( sport) passare in avanti, prolungare la palla (o il disco) per ( un compagno); fare un suggerimento a
    B v. i.
    1 essere in testa; fare strada; essere in vantaggio; ( sport) condurre: (autom.) Which car is leading?, quale macchina è in testa (o conduce)?
    2 – to lead to, condurre a; portare a: All roads lead to Rome, tutte le strade portano a Roma; This situation could lead to war, questa situazione potrebbe portare alla guerra
    3 ( boxe) saggiare l'avversario; partire (fig.): Never lead with your right, non partire mai di destro!
    4 ( a carte) avere la mano; aprire
    5 (giorn.) aprire: to lead with a terrible piece of news, aprire con una notizia terribile
    6 (elettr.) essere in anticipo
    ● to lead sb. by the hand, condurre q. per mano □ to lead sb. by the nose, tenere q. al guinzaglio; tenere il piede sul collo a q. □ to lead sb. captive, far prigioniero q. □ to lead the dance, aprire le danze □ to lead a double life, avere una doppia vita □ to lead the fashion, dettare la moda □ ( sport) to lead from the start, prendere subito il comando ( della corsa) □ (fam.) to lead sb. a hard life, rendere la vita difficile a q.; tormentare q. □ (fig.) to lead sb. a merry (o a pretty) dance, menare q. per il naso; portare a spasso q. (fig.) □ to lead a parade, aprire una sfilata □ ( sport) to lead the race, condurre (la corsa); aprire la corsa; essere in testa □ to lead the way, fare strada; (fig.) prendere l'iniziativa □ to lead with one's chin, ( boxe) cominciare l'incontro con il mento scoperto; (fig.) gettarsi ( in una discussione, ecc.) a capofitto; esporsi; scoprirsi; essere avventato □ led horse, cavallo condotto a mano; cavallo di riserva □ (prov.) One thing leads to another, da cosa nasce cosa.
    * * *
    I 1. [liːd]

    to be in the lead to have the lead essere in testa o al primo posto; to go into the lead to take the lead — passare in testa, assumere il comando

    to follow sb.'s lead — seguire l'esempio di qcn

    4) (clue) pista f., indizio m.
    5) teatr. cinem. parte f. principale, ruolo m. principale
    6) giorn.
    7) el. (wire) filo m.
    8) BE (for dog) guinzaglio m.
    2.
    modificatore [guitarist, guitar] primo; [ role] principale; [ article] d'apertura
    II 1. [liːd]
    verbo transitivo (pass., p.pass. led)
    1) (guide, escort) guidare, condurre [ person] (to sth. a qcs.; to sb. da qcn.)

    to lead sb. away — condurre via o allontanare qcn.

    to lead sb. across the road — fare attraversare la strada a qcn

    2) (bring) [path, sign] portare (to a), guidare (to da, verso); [ smell] guidare [ person] (to da, verso)
    3) (be leader of) guidare [army, team, attack, procession]; dirigere [orchestra, research]
    4) sport comm. (be ahead of) condurre su, essere in vantaggio su [ rival]; guidare su [ team]

    to lead the field — (in commerce, research) essere il leader nel settore; (in race) condurre, essere in testa

    5) (cause, influence)

    to lead sb. to do — portare qcn. a fare

    6) (conduct, have) condurre, fare [ active life]
    2.
    verbo intransitivo (pass., p.pass. led)
    1) (go, be directed)

    to lead to — [ path] condurre, portare a; [ door] dare su; [exit, trapdoor] portare a

    to lead to — portare a [complication, discovery, accident, response]

    one thing led to another, and we... — da cosa nacque cosa, e noi

    3) (be ahead) [ company] essere in testa; [runner, car, team] condurre, essere in testa, essere al comando
    4) (go first) (in walk) fare strada; (in procession) essere in testa; (in action, discussion) prendere l'iniziativa
    5) (in dancing) condurre, guidare
    6) giorn.

    to lead with — mettere in prima pagina [story, headline]

    8) (in cards) essere di mano
    •
    ••

    to lead the way — (go first) fare strada; (guide others) mostrare la via o strada; (be ahead, winning) essere in testa

    III 1. [led]
    1) (metal) piombo m.
    2) colloq. fig. (bullets) piombo m.
    3) (anche blacklead) (graphite) grafite f.; (in pencil) mina f.
    4) mar. (for sounding) piombo m., scandaglio m.
    5) BE (for roofing) piombo m.
    2.

    lead poisoning — avvelenamento da piombo, saturnismo

    ••

    to fill o pump sb. full of lead colloq. riempire qcn. di piombo; to get the lead out AE colloq. (stop loafing) darsi una mossa; (speed up) liberarsi della zavorra; to go over AE o down BE like a lead balloon — colloq. fallire miseramente

    English-Italian dictionary > lead

  • 7 plunge

    plʌndʒ
    1. сущ.
    1) ныряние Syn: plunging, diving
    2) а) погружение, прыжок в воду Syn: immersion, submersion, dive
    1. б) заплыв Syn: swim
    1. ∙ take the plunge
    2. гл.
    1) а) нырять б) окунать(ся) ;
    погружать(ся) The children plunged into the cold water without complaining. ≈ Дети без разговоров полезли в ледяную воду. Syn: immerse
    2) а) вовлекать, втягивать( во что-л.) We were plunged at once into philosophical discussions. ≈ Мы тотчас же были вовлечены в философские дебаты. б) разг. по уши влезать во что-л. It was only to plunge into new errors. ≈ Не хватало еще наделать кучу новых ошибок.
    3) с.-х. погружать в землю
    4) а) бросаться, врываться (часто into, out of) He stumbled across the landing and plunged into Torpenhow's room. ≈ Он споткнулся о лестничную площадку и ввалился в комнату к Торпенхоу. Syn: rush II
    2. б) бросаться вперед (о лошади)
    5) разг. азартно играть;
    влезать в долги She has been plunging rather deeply. ≈ Она чересчур азартно играла. ∙ plunge down plunge in plunge into ныряние - to take a * броситься в воду часто (морское) погружение стремительный бросок, стремительное продвижение - his * won the race этот бросок принес ему победу в гонке падение волны( редкое) сильный ливень (американизм) бассейн для плавания( американизм) (сленг) крупная биржевая спекуляция, рискованное помещение капитала > to take the * решиться, сделать решительный шаг;
    ринуться навстречу опасности > he takes the great * tomorrow завтра у него решающий день нырять погружать;
    окунать - to * a thermometer into water опустить термометр в воду - to * a dagger into smb.'s heart вонзить кому-л. кинжал в сердце - to * one's hands into one's pockets засунуть руки в карманы - he turned the switch off and the room was *d into darkness он повернул выключатель, и комната погрузилась в темноту погружаться;
    окунаться - the submarine was slowly plunding подводная лодка медленно погружалась (часто into, out of) бросаться, врываться;
    ринуться - to * into the room ворваться в комнату - to * out of the room выбежать /выскочить/ из комнаты - they *d forth upon the square они бросились /ринулись/ на площадь( военное) стремительно продвигаться броситься, рвануться вперед (о лошади) (into) ввергать - to * smb. into despair ввергнуть кого-л. в отчаяние - to * one's family into poverty довести свою семью до нищеты - to * a country into war ввергнуть страну в войну (into) пускаться( во что-л.), начинать - to * into a description пуститься в длинное описание - to * into an argument /discussion/ начать спор - to * oneself into excesses предаваться излишествам, пуститься в разгул - to * into study с головой погрузиться /окунуться, уйти/ в учебу (to, into) круто опускаться, спускаться - the path *s to the sea тропинка круто спускается к морю подвергаться килевой качке, зарываться носом в волны (о судне) идти качаясь( разговорное) азартно играть;
    залезать в долги - to * deeply наделать уйму долгов - to * into debt залезать в долги( садоводчество) высаживать растение или горшок с растением в почву, мох, клумбу и т. п.( военное) вести навесной огонь - to * under fire держать под огнем plunge разг. азартно играть;
    влезать в долги;
    plunge down круто спускаться (о дороге и т. п.) ;
    plunge up круто подниматься( о дороге и т. п.) ~ бросаться, врываться (into) ;
    to plunge into a difficulty попасть в трудное положение ~ бросаться вперед (о лошади) ~ ввергать (in, into) ;
    to plunge one's family into poverty довести свою семью до нищеты ~ крупная биржевая спекуляция ~ ныряние ~ нырять ~ окунать(ся) ;
    погружать(ся) ~ погружение;
    to take the plunge сделать решительный шаг ~ резкое снижение ~ стремительно падать plunge разг. азартно играть;
    влезать в долги;
    plunge down круто спускаться (о дороге и т. п.) ;
    plunge up круто подниматься (о дороге и т. п.) ~ бросаться, врываться (into) ;
    to plunge into a difficulty попасть в трудное положение ~ ввергать (in, into) ;
    to plunge one's family into poverty довести свою семью до нищеты plunge разг. азартно играть;
    влезать в долги;
    plunge down круто спускаться (о дороге и т. п.) ;
    plunge up круто подниматься (о дороге и т. п.) price ~ стремительное падение курса ценных бумаг ~ погружение;
    to take the plunge сделать решительный шаг take the ~ резко падать( о курсе ценных бумаг)

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > plunge

  • 8 plunge

    1. [plʌndʒ] n
    1. 1) ныряние
    2) часто мор. погружение
    3) стремительный бросок, стремительное продвижение
    2. 1) падение волны
    2) редк. сильный ливень
    3. амер. бассейн для плавания
    4. амер. сл. крупная биржевая спекуляция, рискованное помещение капитала

    ♢ to take the plunge - решиться, сделать решительный шаг; ринуться навстречу опасности

    2. [plʌndʒ] v
    1. нырять
    2. 1) погружать; окунать

    to plunge a dagger into smb.'s heart - вонзить кому-л. кинжал в сердце

    he turned the switch off and the room was plunged into darkness - он повернул выключатель, и комната погрузилась в темноту

    2) погружаться; окунаться
    3. 1) ( часто into, out of) бросаться, врываться; ринуться

    to plunge out of the room - выбежать /выскочить/ из комнаты

    they plunged forth upon the square - они бросились /ринулись/ на площадь

    2) воен. стремительно продвигаться
    3) броситься, рвануться вперёд ( о лошади)
    4. (into) ввергать

    to plunge smb. into despair [grief] - ввергнуть кого-л. в отчаяние [в печаль]

    5. (into) пускаться (во что-л.), начинать

    to plunge into an argument /discussion/ - начать спор

    to plunge oneself into excesses - предаваться излишествам, пуститься в разгул

    to plunge into study - с головой погрузиться /окунуться, уйти/ в учёбу

    6. (to, into) круто опускаться, спускаться
    7. 1) подвергаться килевой качке, зарываться носом в волны ( о судне)
    2) идти качаясь
    8. разг. азартно играть; залезать в долги
    9. сад. высаживать растение или горшок с растением в почву, мох, клумбу и т. п.
    10. воен. вести навесной огонь

    НБАРС > plunge

  • 9 away

    1. adverb
    1) (at a distance) entfernt

    play away — (Sport) auswärts spielen

    Christmas is still months away — bis Weihnachten dauert es noch Monate

    2) (to a distance) weg; fort

    away with you/him! — weg od. fort mit dir/ihm!

    3) (absent) nicht da

    be away [from school] with a cold — wegen einer Erkältung [in der Schule] fehlen

    4)

    die/fade away — verhallen

    5) (constantly) unablässig

    work away on something — ohne Unterbrechung an etwas (Dat.) arbeiten

    6) (without delay) gleich [fragen usw.]

    fire away — (lit. or fig.) losschießen (ugs.)

    2. adjective
    (Sport) auswärts präd.; Auswärts-

    away team — Gastmannschaft, die

    * * *
    [ə'wei]
    1) (to or at a distance from the person speaking or the person or thing spoken about: He lives three miles away (from the town); Go away!; Take it away!) weg
    2) (in the opposite direction: She turned away so that he would not see her tears.) weg
    3) ((gradually) into nothing: The noise died away.) hinweg
    4) (continuously: They worked away until dark.) immer weiter
    5) ((of a football match etc) not on the home ground: The team is playing away this weekend; ( also adjective) an away match.) auswärts
    * * *
    [əˈweɪ]
    I. adv inv
    1. (elsewhere) weg
    to be \away on business geschäftlich unterwegs sein
    to go \away weggehen, fortgehen
    to move \away wegziehen
    she's \away from work with a cold sie ist heute nicht bei der Arbeit, da sie erkältet ist
    2. (distant) weg
    oh, but it's miles \away aber das ist ja ewig weit weg von hier! fam
    to move \away from somewhere sich von etw dat entfernen
    five miles \away [from here] fünf Meilen [von hier] entfernt
    as far \away as possible so weit weg wie möglich
    \away from the city außerhalb der Stadt
    \away from each other voneinander entfernt
    to keep [or stay] \away from sb/sth sich akk von jdm/etw fernhalten
    3. (in another direction) weg
    to look \away wegsehen
    to turn \away sich akk abwenden; AM STOCKEX
    the bid is \away from the market das Angebot liegt unter dem Kursniveau
    4. ( fig: from subject, trouble)
    to move a discussion \away from sth das Gespräch auf ein anderes Thema bringen
    5. (in future time)
    to be two days/six months \away event in zwei Tagen/sechs Monaten sein
    to be still/only a week \away erst/schon in einer Woche sein
    summer still seems a long time \away der Sommer scheint noch weit entfernt
    6. (through entire period of time)
    we danced the night \away wir tanzten die ganze Nacht durch
    you're dreaming your life \away du verträumst noch dein ganzes Leben
    7. (continuously) dahin-
    to drink the night \away die ganze Nacht über trinken
    to be laughing \away ständig am Lachen sein
    to write \away drauflosschreiben fam
    8. SPORT (at opponents' ground)
    to play \away auswärts spielen
    9. ( old liter)
    \away! hinweg! veraltet liter
    II. adj inv, attr SPORT auswärts, Auswärts-
    \away game [or fixture] [or match] Auswärtsspiel nt
    \away team Gastmannschaft f
    \away win Auswärtssieg m
    * * *
    [ə'weɪ]
    1. adv
    1) (= to or at a distance) weg

    three miles away (from here) — drei Meilen (entfernt) von hier

    away back in the distance/past — weit in der Ferne/vor sehr langer Zeit

    they're away behind/out in front/off course — sie sind weit zurück/voraus/ab vom Kurs

    2)

    (motion) away! (old, liter) away with the old philosophy, in with the new! come, let us away! (liter) away with him! — fort!, hinweg! (old, liter) fort mit der alten Philosophie, her mit der neuen! kommt, lasst uns fort von hier (old) fort mit ihm!

    but he was away before I could say a word — aber er war fort or weg, bevor ich den Mund auftun konnte

    they're away! (horses, runners etc) — sie sind gestartet

    3) (= absent) fort, weg
    4) (SPORT)
    5)

    (= out of existence, possession etc) to put/give away — weglegen/weggeben

    to boil/gamble/die away — verkochen/verspielen/verhallen

    6) (= continuously) unablässig

    to work/knit etc away — vor sich (acc) hin arbeiten/stricken etc

    7)

    (= forthwith) ask away! — frag nur!, schieß los (inf)

    pull/heave away! — und los(, zieht/hebt an)!

    he's away with the idea that... — er hat den Fimmel, dass... (inf)

    2. adj attr (SPORT)
    Auswärts-
    3. n
    (in football pools = away win) Auswärtssieg m
    * * *
    away [əˈweı]
    A adv & präd adj
    1. weg (-…), fort(…) ( from von):
    away with you! fort mit dir!;
    be away from the question nicht zur Frage oder Sache gehören
    2. a) (weit) entfernt, (weit) weg (örtlich und zeitlich):
    six miles away sechs Meilen entfernt;
    Christmas is still three weeks away bis Weihnachten sind es noch drei Wochen
    b) away from in einiger Entfernung von
    3. fort, abwesend, außer Hause, verreist:
    away on business geschäftlich unterwegs;
    away on holiday (bes US vacation) auf Urlaub;
    after five days away nach fünftägiger Abwesenheit
    4. weg…, zur Seite, in andere(r) Richtung
    5. fort, weg (aus jemandes Besitz, Gebrauch etc)
    6. drauf’los…
    7. US weit, bei weitem:
    away below average weit unter dem Durchschnitt
    8. auch away from home SPORT auswärts:
    our next game is away unser nächstes Spiel findet auswärts statt
    B adj SPORT Auswärts…:
    away defeat (game, win, etc);
    away strength Auswärtsstärke f;
    away weakness Auswärtsschwäche f
    C s SPORT
    a) Auswärtsspiel n
    b) Auswärtssieg m
    * * *
    1. adverb
    1) (at a distance) entfernt

    play away — (Sport) auswärts spielen

    2) (to a distance) weg; fort

    away with you/him! — weg od. fort mit dir/ihm!

    3) (absent) nicht da

    be away [from school] with a cold — wegen einer Erkältung [in der Schule] fehlen

    4)

    die/fade away — verhallen

    5) (constantly) unablässig
    6) (without delay) gleich [fragen usw.]

    fire away — (lit. or fig.) losschießen (ugs.)

    2. adjective
    (Sport) auswärts präd.; Auswärts-

    away team — Gastmannschaft, die

    * * *
    adj.
    abwesend adj.
    entfernt adj.
    entfernt/weg adj.
    fort adj.
    weg adj.

    English-german dictionary > away

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