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  • 1 the agreement has been reached

    договоренность достигнута

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > the agreement has been reached

  • 2 договоренность достигнута

    the agreement has been reached

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > договоренность достигнута

  • 3 reach

    A n
    1 ( physical range) portée f ; a long reach une longue portée ; beyond ou out of reach of hors de portée ; ‘keep out of reach of children’ ‘tenir hors de portée des enfants’ ; out of my reach hors de ma portée ; within (arm's) reach à portée de (la) main ; within easy reach of [place] à proximité de [shops, facility] ; to be within easy reach être tout près ;
    2 ( capability) beyond ou out of reach for hors de portée de [person] ; within reach for à la portée de [person] ; to put sth within/beyond sb's reach [price] mettre qch à la/hors de la portée de qn ; it's still well within her reach c'est encore tout à fait à sa portée.
    1 ( of society) the upper/lower reaches les échelons mpl les plus hauts/les plus bas ;
    2 Geog ( river) the upper/lower reaches la partie f supérieure/inférieure.
    C vtr
    1 ( after travel) [person, train, river, ambulance] atteindre [place, person] ; [sound, news, letter] parvenir à [person, place] ; to reach land toucher terre ; the message took three days to reach Paris le message a mis trois jours pour arriver jusqu'à Paris ; the product has yet to reach Italy/the shops le produit n'est pas encore arrivé en Italie/dans les magasins ; easily reached by bus facilement accessible par le bus ;
    2 (on scale, continuum) atteindre [age, level, position, peak] ; matters reached a point where les choses en sont arrivées à un point où ; to reach the finals parvenir en finale ;
    3 ( come to) arriver à [decision, compromise, deal, understanding, conclusion] ; to reach a verdict Jur rendre un verdict ; agreement has been reached on on a abouti à un accord sur [point] ;
    4 ( by stretching) atteindre [object, shelf, switch] ; can you reach that box for me? peux-tu me passer cette boîte? ; can you reach me down that box? GB peux-tu me descendre cette boîte? ;
    5 ( contact) joindre ; to reach sb by telephone joindre qn au téléphone ; to reach sb on GB ou at 514053 joindre qn au numéro 514053 ;
    6 ( make impact on) toucher [audience, public, market] (with avec) ;
    7 (in height, length) arriver à [floor, ceiling, roof] ; the snow had reached the window la neige arrivait jusqu'à la fenêtre ; curtains that reach the floor des rideaux qui descendent jusqu'au sol ; those trousers don't even reach your ankles ce pantalon ne t'arrive même pas aux chevilles ; her feet don't reach the pedals ses pieds ne touchent pas les pédales.
    D vi
    1 ( stretch) to reach up/down lever/baisser le bras (to do pour faire) ; to reach across and do étendre le bras et faire ; can you reach out and close the door? peux-tu étendre le bras et fermer la porte? ; to reach for one's gun/a switch étendre le bras pour saisir son arme/appuyer sur l'interrupteur ; the film will have you reaching for your hanky! hum ce film va vous faire sortir votre mouchoir! ; reach for the sky! les mains en l'air! ;
    2 ( extend) to reach (up/down) to arriver jusqu'à ; her hair reached down to her waist ses cheveux lui arrivaient jusqu'à la taille ; to reach as far as [ladder, rope] arriver jusqu'à.
    ▶ reach back to [sth/sb] remonter à [era, person].
    ■ reach out:
    ▶ reach out lit étendre le bras ; to reach out for chercher [affection, success] ; to reach out to ( help) aider ; ( make contact) établir un contact avec ;
    ▶ reach out [sth], reach [sth] out tendre ; to reach out one's hand tendre le bras.

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  • 4 stand

    stænd
    1. past tense, past participle - stood; verb
    1) (to be in an upright position, not sitting or lying: His leg was so painful that he could hardly stand; After the storm, few trees were left standing.)
    2) ((often with up) to rise to the feet: He pushed back his chair and stood up; Some people like to stand (up) when the National Anthem is played.)
    3) (to remain motionless: The train stood for an hour outside Newcastle.)
    4) (to remain unchanged: This law still stands.)
    5) (to be in or have a particular place: There is now a factory where our house once stood.)
    6) (to be in a particular state, condition or situation: As matters stand, we can do nothing to help; How do you stand financially?)
    7) (to accept or offer oneself for a particular position etc: He is standing as Parliamentary candidate for our district.)
    8) (to put in a particular position, especially upright: He picked up the fallen chair and stood it beside the table.)
    9) (to undergo or endure: He will stand (his) trial for murder; I can't stand her rudeness any longer.)
    10) (to pay for (a meal etc) for (a person): Let me stand you a drink!)

    2. noun
    1) (a position or place in which to stand ready to fight etc, or an act of fighting etc: The guard took up his stand at the gate; I shall make a stand for what I believe is right.)
    2) (an object, especially a piece of furniture, for holding or supporting something: a coat-stand; The sculpture had been removed from its stand for cleaning.)
    3) (a stall where goods are displayed for sale or advertisement.)
    4) (a large structure beside a football pitch, race course etc with rows of seats for spectators: The stand was crowded.)
    5) ((American) a witness box in a law court.)
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    - standing
    3. noun
    1) (time of lasting: an agreement of long standing.)
    2) (rank or reputation: a diplomat of high standing.)
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    4. adjective
    ((of an airline passenger or ticket) costing or paying less than the usual fare, as the passenger does not book a seat for a particular flight, but waits for the first available seat.)

    5. adverb
    (travelling in this way: It costs a lot less to travel stand-by.)
    - standing-room
    - make someone's hair stand on end
    - stand aside
    - stand back
    - stand by
    - stand down
    - stand fast/firm
    - stand for
    - stand in
    - stand on one's own two feet
    - stand on one's own feet
    - stand out
    - stand over
    - stand up for
    - stand up to
    stand1 n tribuna / gradería
    stand2 vb
    1. estar de pie
    2. ponerse de pie / levantarse
    everyone stood when the headmaster came in al entrar el director, todo el mundo se puso de pie
    3. estar
    4. poner
    5. aguantar / soportar
    stand still! ¡estáte quieto! / ¡no te muevas!


    stand m (pl stands) Com stand ' stand' also found in these entries: Spanish: abordaje - aguantar - arisca - arisco - así - atragantarse - atravesarse - atril - banquillo - brazo - campar - cara - caseta - condescendencia - contemplación - convoy - cruzarse - cuadrarse - desorganizada - desorganizado - despuntar - destacar - destacarse - distinguirse - dominar - elevarse - erguirse - erizar - erizarse - estrado - expositor - expositora - flojera - frente - fritura - gorda - gordo - imponer - intríngulis - levantarse - obstaculizar - pabellón - parar - parada - parado - paragüero - pararse - paripé - perchero - pie English: angular - bear - booth - chance - end - fast - hair - humour - hypocrite - leg - news-stand - one-night - pace - stand - stand about - stand around - stand aside - stand back - stand by - stand down - stand for - stand in - stand out - stand over - stand up - stand-in - stand-off - stand-offishness - stand-to - stand-up comic - standby ticket - still - stood - taxi stand - wastefulness - whereas - witness stand - attention - band - bristle - clear - coat - crowd - ease - freeze - get - grand - ground - hand - head
    tr[stænd]
    1 (position) lugar nombre masculino, sitio; (attitude, opinion) posición nombre femenino, postura; (defence, resistence) resistencia
    2 (of lamp, sculpture, etc) pie nombre masculino, pedestal nombre masculino, base nombre femenino
    4 (for taxis) parada
    5 SMALLSPORT/SMALL (in stadium) tribuna
    6 SMALLAMERICAN ENGLISH/SMALL (witness box) estrado
    intransitive verb (pt & pp stood tr[stʊd])
    1 (person - be on one's feet) estar de pie, estar; (- get up) ponerse de pie, levantarse; (- remain on one's feet) quedarse de pie; (- take up position) ponerse
    ■ stand still! ¡estáte quieto,-a!, ¡no te muevas!
    ■ don't just stand there! ¡no te quedes allí parado!
    2 (measure - height) medir; (- value, level) marcar, alcanzar
    ■ inflation stands at 6% la inflación alcanza el 6%
    3 (thing - be situated) estar, encontrarse, haber
    4 (remain valid) seguir en pie, seguir vigente
    ■ he stands high in their opinion tienen muy buena opinión de él, le tienen mucho respeto
    ■ how do things stand between you and your boss? ¿cómo están las cosas entre tu jefe y tú?
    7 (take attitude, policy) adoptar una postura
    ■ where do you stand on abortion? ¿cuál es tu posición sobre el aborto?
    9 (liquid) estancar; (mixture) reposar
    10 SMALLPOLITICS/SMALL (run) presentarse
    1 (place) poner, colocar
    2 familiar (bear, tolerate) aguantar, soportar; (endure, withstand) soportar, resistir
    ■ will it stand the test of time? ¿resistirá el paso del tiempo?
    3 familiar (invite) invitar
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    'No standing' SMALLAMERICAN ENGLISH/SMALL "Prohibido estacionarse"
    'Stand and deliver!' "La bolsa o la vida"
    to do something standing on one's head hacer algo con los ojos cerrados
    to know where one stands saber a qué atenerse
    to make a stand against (gen) oponer resistencia a 2 (mil) resistir a
    not to stand a chance no tener ni la más remota posibilidad
    to stand bail (for somebody) salir fiador,-ra (por alguien)
    to stand clear (of something) apartarse (de algo)
    ■ stand clear of the doors! ¡apártense de las puertas!
    to stand fast / stand firm mantenerse firme
    to stand in the way of impedir, obstaculizar, poner trabas a
    to stand on ceremony ser muy ceremonioso,-a
    to stand one's ground mantenerse firme, seguir en sus trece
    to stand on one's head hacer el pino
    to stand on one's own two feet apañárselas solo,-a
    to stand out a mile saltar a la vista
    to stand somebody in good stead resultarle muy útil a alguien
    to stand something on its head dar la vuelta a algo, poner algo patas arriba
    to stand to attention estar firmes, cuadrarse
    to stand to reason ser lógico,-a
    to stand trial ser procesado,-a
    to stand up and be counted dar la cara por sus principios
    cake stand bandeja para pasteles
    coat stand / hat stand perchero
    newspaper stand quiosco
    stand ['stænd] v, stood ['stʊd] ; standing vi
    1) : estar de pie, estar parado
    I was standing on the corner: estaba parada en la esquina
    2) or to stand up : levantarse, pararse, ponerse de pie
    they stand third in the country: ocupan el tercer lugar en el país
    the machines are standing idle: las máquinas están paradas
    how does he stand on the matter?: ¿cuál es su postura respecto al asunto?
    5) be: estar
    the house stands on a hill: la casa está en una colina
    6) continue: seguir
    the order still stands: el mandato sigue vigente
    stand vt
    1) place, set: poner, colocar
    he stood them in a row: los colocó en hilera
    2) tolerate: aguantar, soportar
    he can't stand her: no la puede tragar
    3)
    to stand firm : mantenerse firme
    4)
    to stand guard : hacer la guardia
    1) resistance: resistencia f
    2) booth, stall: stand m, puesto m, kiosko m (para vender periódicos, etc)
    3) base: pie m, base f
    4) : grupo m (de árboles, etc.)
    5) position: posición f, postura f
    6) stands npl
    grandstand: tribuna f
    n.
    • apostadero s.m.
    • banca s.f.
    • caseta s.f.
    • etapa s.f.
    • parada s.f.
    • pedestal s.m.
    • pie s.m.
    • posición s.f.
    • postura s.f.
    • puesto s.m.
    • quiosco s.m.
    • soporte s.m.
    • tarima s.f. (Election, UK)
    v.
    • presentarse (E lección) (•Gobierno•) v.
    v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: stood) = estar v.
    (§pres: estoy, estás...) pret: estuv-•)
    • resistir v.
    • soportar v.
    stænd
    I
    1)
    a) ( position) lugar m, sitio m
    b) ( attitude) postura f, posición f

    to take a stand on something — adoptar una postura or posición (con) respecto a algo

    c) ( resistance) resistencia f

    to make a stand against something — oponer* resistencia a algo

    2)
    a) (pedestal, base) pie m, base f
    b) ( for sheet music) atril m
    c) (for coats, hats) perchero m
    3) (at fair, exhibition) stand m, caseta f; ( larger) pabellón m

    newspaper stand — puesto m de periódicos

    a hot-dog stand — (esp AmE) un puesto de perritos calientes

    4) ( for spectators) (often pl) tribuna f
    5) ( witness box) (AmE) estrado m

    II
    1.
    (past & past p stood) intransitive verb
    1)
    a) (be, remain upright) \<\<person\>\> estar* de pie, estar* parado (AmL)
    b) ( rise) levantarse, ponerse* de pie, pararse (AmL)

    her hair stood on end — se le pusieron los pelos de punta, se le pararon los pelos (AmL); see also stand up

    c) ( in height)

    the tower stands 30 meters high — la torre tiene or mide 30 metros de altura

    2) (move, take up position) ponerse*, pararse (AmL)

    stand over there — ponte or (AmL tb) párate allí

    he stood on a chair — se subió a or (AmL tb) se paró en una silla

    to stand aside — hacerse* a un lado, apartarse

    can you stand on your head? — ¿sabes pararte de cabeza or (Esp) hacer el pino?

    3)
    a) (be situated, located)

    where do you stand on this issue? — ¿cuál es tu posición en cuanto a este problema?

    c) (be mounted, fixed)

    a hut standing on wooden piles — una choza construida or que descansa sobre pilotes de madera

    4)
    a) (stop, remain still) \<\<person\>\>

    can't you stand still for two minutes? — ¿no puedes estarte quieto un minuto?

    no standing — (AmE) estacionamiento prohibido, prohibido estacionarse

    to stand firm o fast — mantenerse* firme

    b) ( remain undisturbed) \<\<batter/water\>\>
    c) (survive, last)
    5) (remain unchanged, valid) \<\<law/agreement\>\> seguir* vigente or en vigor
    6)
    a) (be)

    to stand AT something: unemployment stands at 17% el desempleo alcanza el 17%; receipts stand at $150,000 — el total recaudado asciende a 150.000 dólares

    to stand to + INF: he stands to lose a fortune puede llegar a perder una fortuna; what does she stand to gain out of this? — ¿qué es lo que puede ganar con esto ?

    7) (for office, election) (BrE) presentarse (como candidato)

    to stand FOR something: she is standing for the presidency — se va a presentar como candidata a la presidencia


    2.
    vt
    1) ( place) poner*; (carefully, precisely) colocar*

    he stood the ladder against the wall — puso or colocó or apoyó la escalera contra la pared

    2)
    a) (tolerate, bear) (with can, can't, won't) \<\<pain/noise\>\> aguantar, soportar

    I can't stand him — no lo aguanto or soporto, no lo trago (fam)

    I can't stand it any longer! — no puedo más!, no aguanto más!

    to stand -ING: she can't stand being interrupted — no soporta or no tolera que la interrumpan

    b) ( withstand) \<\<heat/strain\>\> soportar, resistir
    3) ( pay for) \<\<drink/dinner\>\> invitar a
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    Phrasal Verbs:
    [stænd] (vb: pt, pp stood)
    1. N
    1) (=position) posición f, puesto m
    2) (fig) (=stance) actitud f, postura f
    3) (Mil)
    - make a stand

    to make or take a stand against sth — oponer resistencia a algo

    one-night stand
    4) (for taxis) parada f (de taxis)
    5) (=lamp stand) pie m; (=music stand) atril m; (=hallstand) perchero m
    6) (=newspaper stand) quiosco m, puesto m (esp LAm); (=market stall) puesto m; (in shop) estante m, puesto m; (at exhibition) caseta f, stand m; (=bandstand) quiosco m
    7) (Sport) (=grandstand) tribuna f
    8) (Jur) estrado m

    to take the stand — (esp US) (=go into witness box) subir a la tribuna de los testigos; (=give evidence) prestar declaración

    9) [of trees] hilera f, grupo m
    10) *** (=erection) empalme *** m
    2. VT
    1) (=place) poner, colocar
    2) (=withstand) resistir
    - stand one's ground
    3) (=tolerate) aguantar

    I can't stand it any longer! — ¡no aguanto más!

    I can't stand (the sight of) him — no lo aguanto, no lo puedo tragar

    I can't stand waiting for people — no aguanto or soporto que me hagan esperar

    chance 1., 3)
    4) * (=pay for)

    to stand sb a drink/meal — invitar a algn a una copa/a comer

    3. VI
    1) (=be upright) estar de pie or derecho, estar parado (LAm)

    we must stand together — (fig) debemos unirnos or ser solidarios

    - stand on one's own two feet
    - stand tall
    ease 1., 4)
    2) (=get up) levantarse, pararse (LAm)

    all stand! — ¡levántense!

    3) (=stay, stand still)

    don't just stand there, do something! — ¡no te quedes ahí parado, haz algo!

    to stand talking — seguir hablando, quedarse a hablar

    we stood chatting for half an hour — charlamos durante media hora, pasamos media hora charlando

    stand and deliver! — ¡la bolsa o la vida!

    4) (=tread)

    he stood on the brakes — (Aut) * pisó el freno a fondo

    5) (=measure) medir

    the mountain stands 3,000m high — la montaña tiene una altura de 3.000m

    6) (=have reached)

    the thermometer stands at 40° — el termómetro marca 40 grados

    the record stands at ten minutes — el record está en diez minutos, el tiempo récord sigue siendo de diez minutos

    sales stand at five per cent more than last year — las ventas han aumentado en un cinco por cien en relación con el año pasado

    7) (=be situated) encontrarse, ubicarse (LAm)
    8) (=be mounted, based) apoyarse
    9) (=remain valid) [offer, argument, decision] seguir en pie or vigente

    it has stood for 200 years — ha durado 200 años ya, lleva ya 200 años de vida

    10) (fig) (=be placed) estar, encontrarse

    as things stand, as it stands — tal como están las cosas

    how do we stand? — ¿cómo estamos?

    where do you stand with him? — ¿cuáles son tus relaciones con él?

    11) (=be in a position)

    what do we stand to gain by it? — ¿qué posibilidades hay para nosotros de ganar algo?, ¿qué ventaja nos daría esto?

    we stand to lose a lot — para nosotros supondría una pérdida importante, estamos en peligro de perder bastante

    12) (=be)

    to stand (as) security for sb — (Econ) salir fiador de algn; (fig) salir por algn

    it stands to reason that... — es evidente que..., no cabe duda de que...

    clear 2., 3), correct 2., 1)
    13) (=remain undisturbed) estar

    to let sth stand in the sun — poner algo al sol, dejar algo al sol

    14) (Brit) (Pol) presentarse (como candidato)

    • to stand against sb in an election — presentarse como oponente a algn en unas elecciones

    • to stand as a candidate — presentarse como candidato

    • to stand for Parliament — presentarse como candidato a diputado

    15) (Econ)

    there is £50 standing to your credit — usted tiene 50 libras en el haber

    * * *
    [stænd]
    I
    1)
    a) ( position) lugar m, sitio m
    b) ( attitude) postura f, posición f

    to take a stand on something — adoptar una postura or posición (con) respecto a algo

    c) ( resistance) resistencia f

    to make a stand against something — oponer* resistencia a algo

    2)
    a) (pedestal, base) pie m, base f
    b) ( for sheet music) atril m
    c) (for coats, hats) perchero m
    3) (at fair, exhibition) stand m, caseta f; ( larger) pabellón m

    newspaper stand — puesto m de periódicos

    a hot-dog stand — (esp AmE) un puesto de perritos calientes

    4) ( for spectators) (often pl) tribuna f
    5) ( witness box) (AmE) estrado m

    II
    1.
    (past & past p stood) intransitive verb
    1)
    a) (be, remain upright) \<\<person\>\> estar* de pie, estar* parado (AmL)
    b) ( rise) levantarse, ponerse* de pie, pararse (AmL)

    her hair stood on end — se le pusieron los pelos de punta, se le pararon los pelos (AmL); see also stand up

    c) ( in height)

    the tower stands 30 meters high — la torre tiene or mide 30 metros de altura

    2) (move, take up position) ponerse*, pararse (AmL)

    stand over there — ponte or (AmL tb) párate allí

    he stood on a chair — se subió a or (AmL tb) se paró en una silla

    to stand aside — hacerse* a un lado, apartarse

    can you stand on your head? — ¿sabes pararte de cabeza or (Esp) hacer el pino?

    3)
    a) (be situated, located)

    where do you stand on this issue? — ¿cuál es tu posición en cuanto a este problema?

    c) (be mounted, fixed)

    a hut standing on wooden piles — una choza construida or que descansa sobre pilotes de madera

    4)
    a) (stop, remain still) \<\<person\>\>

    can't you stand still for two minutes? — ¿no puedes estarte quieto un minuto?

    no standing — (AmE) estacionamiento prohibido, prohibido estacionarse

    to stand firm o fast — mantenerse* firme

    b) ( remain undisturbed) \<\<batter/water\>\>
    c) (survive, last)
    5) (remain unchanged, valid) \<\<law/agreement\>\> seguir* vigente or en vigor
    6)
    a) (be)

    to stand AT something: unemployment stands at 17% el desempleo alcanza el 17%; receipts stand at $150,000 — el total recaudado asciende a 150.000 dólares

    to stand to + INF: he stands to lose a fortune puede llegar a perder una fortuna; what does she stand to gain out of this? — ¿qué es lo que puede ganar con esto ?

    7) (for office, election) (BrE) presentarse (como candidato)

    to stand FOR something: she is standing for the presidency — se va a presentar como candidata a la presidencia


    2.
    vt
    1) ( place) poner*; (carefully, precisely) colocar*

    he stood the ladder against the wall — puso or colocó or apoyó la escalera contra la pared

    2)
    a) (tolerate, bear) (with can, can't, won't) \<\<pain/noise\>\> aguantar, soportar

    I can't stand him — no lo aguanto or soporto, no lo trago (fam)

    I can't stand it any longer! — no puedo más!, no aguanto más!

    to stand -ING: she can't stand being interrupted — no soporta or no tolera que la interrumpan

    b) ( withstand) \<\<heat/strain\>\> soportar, resistir
    3) ( pay for) \<\<drink/dinner\>\> invitar a
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    Phrasal Verbs:

    English-spanish dictionary > stand

  • 5 reach

    I 1. [riːtʃ]
    1) (physical range) portata f.

    "keep out of reach of children" — "tenere fuori dalla portata dei bambini"

    the book is beyond o out of my reach non arrivo a prendere il libro; within (arm's) reach a portata di mano; within easy reach of — [ place] in prossimità di, a poca distanza da [shops, facility]

    beyond o out of reach for sb. al di sopra delle capacità di qcn.; within reach for sb. — alla portata di qcn

    2.
    nome plurale reaches
    2) geogr. (of river)
    II 1. [riːtʃ]
    1) (arrive at) [train, river, product] arrivare a [ place]; [ person] arrivare a, giungere a [ place]; arrivare da [ person]; [news, letter] arrivare a [person, place]
    2) (attain) raggiungere, arrivare a [age, level, point]
    3) (come to) raggiungere [compromise, agreement]; arrivare a, giungere a [decision, conclusion]; dir. raggiungere [ verdict]
    4) (by stretching) arrivare a [object, shelf, switch]
    5) (contact) contattare

    to reach sb. at 514053, by telephone — contattare qcn. al numero 514053, telefonicamente

    6) (make impact on) colpire [audience, market]
    7) (in height, length) arrivare (fino) a [floor, ceiling]
    2.

    to reach up, down — allungarsi, abbassarsi ( to do per fare)

    to reach (up, down) to — arrivare (fino) a

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    * * *
    [ri: ] 1. verb
    1) (to arrive at (a place, age etc): We'll never reach London before dark; Money is not important when you reach my age; The noise reached our ears; Has the total reached a thousand dollars yet?; Have they reached an agreement yet?) arrivare a, raggiungere
    2) (to (be able to) touch or get hold of (something): My keys have fallen down this hole and I can't reach them.) raggiungere
    3) (to stretch out one's hand in order to touch or get hold of something: He reached (across the table) for another cake; She reached out and took the book; He reached across/over and slapped her.) (allungare la mano)
    4) (to make contact with; to communicate with: If anything happens you can always reach me by phone.) contattare
    5) (to stretch or extend: My property reaches from here to the river.) estendersi
    2. noun
    1) (the distance that can be travelled easily: My house is within (easy) reach (of London).) portata
    2) (the distance one can stretch one's arm: I keep medicines on the top shelf, out of the children's reach; My keys are down that hole, just out of reach (of my fingers); The boxer has a very long reach.) portata
    3) ((usually in plural) a straight part of a river, canal etc: the lower reaches of the Thames.) tratto
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    reach /ri:tʃ/
    n.
    1 [uc] portata ( di mano); distanza: No help was within reach, non c'era alcun aiuto a portata di mano; The medicine is to be kept out of the reach of children, tenere il medicinale fuori dalla portata dei bambini; Their farm is within easy reach of Bristol, la loro fattoria è a poca distanza (o si raggiunge facilmente) da Bristol
    2 [uc] atto di allungare la mano: He made a reach for the gun, allungò la mano per afferrare la pistola
    3 [uc] campo (o raggio) d'azione: (mecc.) the reach of the crane, il campo d'azione della gru
    5 (spesso al pl.) tratto, distesa ( d'acqua, di mare, ecc.); ( di fiume) tronco, tratto: the upper reaches of the Amazon, il tratto superiore del Rio delle Amazzoni
    6 ( boxe) allungo: He has a long reach, ha un buon allungo
    7 [u] ( radio, TV) uditorio; pubblico
    8 (naut., = beam reach) lasco: broad reach, gran lasco
    ● out of sb. 's reach ( anche fig.), fuori dalla portata di q.: The ball was out of his reach, il pallone era fuori dalla sua portata; Designer clothes are out of my reach, gli abiti firmati non sono alla mia portata □ within sb. 's reach ( anche fig.), alla portata di q.: Make sure all the things within the baby's reach are safe, assicurati che tutte le cose alla portata del bambino non siano pericolose; Foreign holidays are now within the reach of the majority, le vacanze all'estero sono ormai alla portata della maggior parte della gente.
    ♦ (to) reach /ri:tʃ/
    A v. t.
    1 ( spesso to reach out) allungare: I reached out my hand for the book, ho allungato la mano per prendere il libro
    2 raggiungere; giungere a: to reach an agreement [a compromise], raggiungere un accordo [un compromesso]; Can you reach the window?, ci arrivi alla finestra?; We reached the town late in the evening, siamo arrivati alla città a sera inoltrata; He died before he reached the age of 30, è morto prima dei trent'anni; Your letter reached me yesterday, la tua lettera mi è arrivata ieri; The water reached his knees, l'acqua gli arrivava alle ginocchia; Our message is not reaching the right people, il nostro messaggio non arriva alle persone giuste; The programme reaches over 5 million viewers every week, il programma è seguito da oltre 5 milioni di spettatori ogni settimana
    3 (fam.) allungare; passare: Reach me the salt, please, allungami il sale, per favore
    4 mettersi in contatto con (q., per telefono, ecc.): We've been trying to reach them all day, abbiamo cercato di metterci in contatto con loro tutto il giorno; DIALOGO → - Signing on with an agency- You can reach me on my mobile or landline, può contattarmi al mio cellulare o al numero di casa
    5 ( sport: calcio, ecc.) arrivare a prendere; arrivare su (fam.): Our keeper reached the ball but failed to stop it, il nostro portiere è arrivato sulla palla ma non è riuscito a trattenerla
    B v. i.
    1 arrivarci: I cannot reach so high, non ci arrivo (fin lassù)
    2 estendersi; arrivare: The Roman empire reached from Gibraltar to Asia Minor, l'impero romano si estendeva da Gibilterra all'Asia Minore; My garden reaches as far as the river, il mio giardino arriva fino al fiume
    ● to reach down, chinarsi; ( di una tenda, una gonna, ecc.) arrivare a; tirare giù (qc. che è in alto): She reached down to grab a handful of pebbles, si chinò per raccogliere una manciata di sassolini; Her dress reached down to her ankles, il vestito le arrivava fino alle caviglie; I reached down the old lady's suitcase, ho tirato giù la valigia dell'anziana signora □ to reach for, allungare la mano per prendere: I reached for my wallet but it wasn't in my bag, ho allungato la mano per prendere il portafoglio, ma non era nella borsa □ to reach for the moon, volere la luna □ ( slang USA) reach for the sky!, mani in alto! □ to reach into, infilare la mano in: He reached into his pocket for the money, ha infilato la mano in tasca per prendere i soldi □ to reach to, arrivare a: This ladder won't reach to the first floor, questa scala non arriva fino al primo piano □ to reach up, protendersi verso l'alto: He reached up and picked a ripe peach from the branch, si è proteso verso l'alto e ha colto una pesca matura dal ramo □ (naut.) to reach land, toccare terra □ to reach the mark, andare a segno □ as far as the eye can reach, fin dove giunge lo sguardo.
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    I 1. [riːtʃ]
    1) (physical range) portata f.

    "keep out of reach of children" — "tenere fuori dalla portata dei bambini"

    the book is beyond o out of my reach non arrivo a prendere il libro; within (arm's) reach a portata di mano; within easy reach of — [ place] in prossimità di, a poca distanza da [shops, facility]

    beyond o out of reach for sb. al di sopra delle capacità di qcn.; within reach for sb. — alla portata di qcn

    2.
    nome plurale reaches
    2) geogr. (of river)
    II 1. [riːtʃ]
    1) (arrive at) [train, river, product] arrivare a [ place]; [ person] arrivare a, giungere a [ place]; arrivare da [ person]; [news, letter] arrivare a [person, place]
    2) (attain) raggiungere, arrivare a [age, level, point]
    3) (come to) raggiungere [compromise, agreement]; arrivare a, giungere a [decision, conclusion]; dir. raggiungere [ verdict]
    4) (by stretching) arrivare a [object, shelf, switch]
    5) (contact) contattare

    to reach sb. at 514053, by telephone — contattare qcn. al numero 514053, telefonicamente

    6) (make impact on) colpire [audience, market]
    7) (in height, length) arrivare (fino) a [floor, ceiling]
    2.

    to reach up, down — allungarsi, abbassarsi ( to do per fare)

    to reach (up, down) to — arrivare (fino) a

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  • 6 Historical Portugal

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

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  • 7 Angola

    (and Enclave of Cabinda)
       From 1575 to 1975, Angola was a colony of Portugal. Located in west-central Africa, this colony has been one of the largest, most strategically located, and richest in mineral and agricultural resources in the continent. At first, Portugal's colonial impact was largely coastal, but after 1700 it became more active in the interior. By international treaties signed between 1885 and 1906, Angola's frontiers with what are now Zaire and Zambia were established. The colony's area was 1,246,700 square kilometers (481,000 square miles), Portugal's largest colonial territory after the independence of Brazil. In Portugal's third empire, Angola was the colony with the greatest potential.
       The Atlantic slave trade had a massive impact on the history, society, economy, and demography of Angola. For centuries, Angola's population played a subordinate role in the economy of Portugal's Brazil-centered empire. Angola's population losses to the slave trade were among the highest in Africa, and its economy became, to a large extent, hostage to the Brazilian plantation-based economic system. Even after Brazil's independence in 1822, Brazilian economic interests and capitalists were influential in Angola; it was only after Brazil banned the slave trade in 1850 that the heavy slave traffic to former Portuguese America began to wind down. Although slavery in Angola was abolished, in theory, in the 1870s, it continued in various forms, and it was not until the early 1960s that its offspring, forced labor, was finally ended.
       Portugal's economic exploitation of Angola went through different stages. During the era of the Atlantic slave trade (ca. 1575-1850), when many of Angola's slaves were shipped to Brazil, Angola's economy was subordinated to Brazil's and to Portugal's. Ambitious Lisbon-inspired projects followed when Portugal attempted to replace the illegal slave trade, long the principal income source for the government of Angola, with legitimate trade, mining, and agriculture. The main exports were dyes, copper, rubber, coffee, cotton, and sisal. In the 1940s and 1950s, petroleum emerged as an export with real potential. Due to the demand of the World War II belligerents for Angola's raw materials, the economy experienced an impetus, and soon other articles such as diamonds, iron ore, and manganese found new customers. Angola's economy, on an unprecedented scale, showed significant development, which was encouraged by Lisbon. Portugal's colonization schemes, sending white settlers to farm in Angola, began in earnest after 1945, although such plans had been nearly a century in the making. Angola's white population grew from about 40,000 in 1940 to nearly 330,000 settlers in 1974, when the military coup occurred in Portugal.
       In the early months of 1961, a war of African insurgency broke out in northern Angola. Portugal dispatched armed forces to suppress resistance, and the African insurgents were confined to areas on the borders of northern and eastern Angola at least until the 1966-67 period. The 13-year colonial war had a telling impact on both Angola and Portugal. When the Armed Forces Movement overthrew the Estado Novo on 25 April 1974, the war in Angola had reached a stalemate and the major African nationalist parties (MPLA, FNLA, and UNITA) had made only modest inroads in the northern fringes and in central and eastern Angola, while there was no armed activity in the main cities and towns.
       After a truce was called between Portugal and the three African parties, negotiations began to organize the decolonizat ion process. Despite difficult maneuvering among the parties, Portugal, the MPLA, FNLA, and UNITA signed the Alvor Agreement of January 1975, whereby Portugal would oversee a transition government, create an all-Angola army, and supervise national elections to be held in November 1975. With the outbreak of a bloody civil war among the three African parties and their armies, the Alvor Agreement could not be put into effect. Fighting raged between March and November 1975. Unable to prevent the civil war or to insist that free elections be held, Portugal's officials and armed forces withdrew on 11 November 1975. Rather than handing over power to one party, they transmitted sovereignty to the people of Angola. Angola's civil war continued into the 21st century.

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  • 8 shake

    I [ʃeɪk]
    1) scossa f., scrollata f., scrollone m.
    2) (anche milk-shake) frappè m.
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    in a shake o in two shakes colloq. in un batter d'occhio, in quattro e quattr'otto; to be no great shakes colloq. non valere (un) granché, non essere niente di speciale; to have the shakes — colloq. (from fear) avere la tremarella; (from cold, fever) avere i brividi; (from alcohol) tremare

    II 1. [ʃeɪk]
    verbo transitivo (pass. shook; p.pass. shaken)
    1) [ person] scuotere; [blow, earthquake] fare tremare

    "shake before use" — "agitare prima dell'uso"

    to shake salt over the dish — spargere sale sul piatto, cospargere il piatto di sale

    to shake one's fist at sb. — mostrare i pugni a qcn.

    to shake hands with sb. to shake sb.'s hand stringere la mano a qcn., dare una stretta di mano a qcn.; shake hands on the deal suggellare l'affare con una stretta di mano; to shake hands on it — (after argument) fare pace dandosi la mano

    2) fig. (shock) fare vacillare [belief, confidence, faith]; scuotere, sconvolgere [ person]
    3) AE (get rid of) liberarsi di
    2.
    verbo intransitivo (pass. shook; p.pass. shaken)
    1) (tremble) [person, hand, voice, leaf, building, windows] tremare

    to shake with — tremare per [cold, emotion]; trasalire o tremare per [ fear]; torcersi o sbellicarsi da [ laughter]

    they shook on it — (on deal, agreement) conclusero l'affare, l'accordo con una stretta di mano; (after argument) fecero la pace dandosi la mano

    "shake!" — "qua la mano!"

    3.
    verbo riflessivo (pass. shook; p.pass. shaken)

    to shake oneself — [person, animal] scuotersi

    * * *
    [ʃeik] 1. past tense - shook; verb
    1) (to (cause to) tremble or move with jerks: The explosion shook the building; We were shaking with laughter; Her voice shook as she told me the sad news.) far tremare
    2) (to shock, disturb or weaken: He was shaken by the accident; My confidence in him has been shaken.) scuotere, turbare
    2. noun
    1) (an act of shaking: He gave the bottle a shake.) scossa, scrollata
    2) (drink made by shaking the ingredients together vigorously: a chocolate milk-shake.) frappé
    •
    - shaky
    - shakily
    - shakiness
    - shake-up
    - no great shakes
    - shake one's fist at
    - shake one's head
    - shake off
    - shake up
    * * *
    shake /ʃeɪk/
    n.
    1 scossa; scrollata; scrollo; scrollone: Give him a shake, dagli una scossa (o una scrollata); He gave the tree a good shake, diede uno scrollone all'albero; a shake of the head, una scrollata di capo; un cenno di diniego
    3 (fam.) scossa di terremoto; terremoto
    4 fenditura, fessura ( nel legno, nella roccia)
    5 (fam.) attimo; momento; istante: I'll be back in a shake, torno in un attimo; vado e vengo
    6 (pl.) – the shakes, febbre con brividi; tremore; forte tremito ( da alcol o droga); delirium tremens
    7 (fam.) tremarella
    8 spolverizzata; spruzzata: a few shakes of pepper, una spolverizzata di pepe
    9 (= milkshake) frullato di latte; frappé
    10 (mus.) trillo
    11 shake ( ballo)
    ● shake-out, (econ.) rallentamento dell'attività, ristagno; ( Borsa) eliminazione dal mercato ( degli investitori più deboli); (metall.) sformatura; = shake-up, rimescolamento; scossone (fig.); movimento ( di funzionari); riorganizzazione, ristrutturazione, ridimensionamento ( di un'azienda); rimpasto ( del personale, del governo, ecc.); ( sport) lotta, battaglia: the title shake-up, la lotta per il titolo □ to be all of a shake, tremare come una foglia □ (fam. USA) fair shake, trattamento equo; buona occasione; chance: to give sb. a fair shake, trattare q. con equità; to get a fair shake, essere trattato con giustizia; ( anche) avere qualche chance □ (fam.) to give sb. the shakes, far venire la tremarella a q. □ (fam.) in two shakes ( of a lamb's tail), in un secondo; in un baleno; in un batter d'occhio □ (fam.) no great shakes, che non vale molto; non un gran che; niente di straordinario: He's a good bowler, but he's no great shakes as batsman, è un bravo lanciatore, ma come battitore non vale molto.
    ♦ (to) shake /ʃeɪk/
    (pass. shook, p. p. shaken)
    A v. t.
    1 scuotere; agitare; scrollare; fare sbattere: to shake one's head, scuotere il capo ( per disapprovare, ecc.); The wind shook the branches [the window-shutters], il vento scuoteva i rami [faceva sbattere le imposte]; to shake one's fist at sb., agitare il pugno contro q.; to shake sb. 's faith, scuotere la fede di q.
    2 scuotere (fig.); turbare; impressionare: He was badly shaken by the news, fu molto scosso dalla notizia
    3 far tremare; far vacillare: The blast shook the house, l'esplosione fece tremare la casa
    4 (fig.) inficiare, infirmare ( una testimonianza, ecc.)
    5 (fam.) liberarsi di; distanziare; seminare (fam.); togliersi ( un'idea, ecc.) dalla testa: He succeeded in shaking his pursuers, è riuscito a seminare gli inseguitori; I can't shake the feeling that I met him somewhere before, non riesco a togliermi dalla testa la sensazione di averlo già incontrato da qualche parte
    B v. i.
    1 tremare; tremolare; barcollare; traballare; vibrare: The earth was shaking, la terra tremava; I was shaking like a leaf ( o a jelly), tremavo come una foglia; He was shaking with rage, tremava dalla rabbia; The house shakes whenever a train passes by, la casa vibra ogni volta che passa il treno; His hands are shaking, gli tremano le mani
    2 (mus.) trillare
    3 darsi (o stringersi) la mano: Shake!, datevi la mano!
    ● to shake sb. by the hand, dare (o stringere) la mano a q. □ to shake sb. 's composure, far perdere la calma a q. □ to shake one's finger at sb., minacciare (o rimproverare) q. scuotendo l'indice □ to shake hands, darsi (o stringersi) la mano: We shook hands, ci stringemmo la mano; They reached an agreement and shook hands on it, si sono messi d'accordo e hanno sugellato l'intesa con una stretta di mano □ to shake hands with sb., stringere (o dare) la mano a q. □ (fam.) to shake a leg, far quattro salti; ballare; sbrigarsi: Shake a leg!, sbrigati! □ (mecc.: di dado, ecc.) to shake loose, allentarsi per effetto delle vibrazioni □ (fam.) to shake the money tree, fare grossi guadagni □ to shake oneself, scuotersi; darsi una scossa □ (fam.) Let's shake on it!, qua la mano! ( per suggellare un accordo) □ (fam.) to be shaking in one's shoes (o boots), avere una gran fifa; essere mezzo morto dalla paura.
    * * *
    I [ʃeɪk]
    1) scossa f., scrollata f., scrollone m.
    2) (anche milk-shake) frappè m.
    ••

    in a shake o in two shakes colloq. in un batter d'occhio, in quattro e quattr'otto; to be no great shakes colloq. non valere (un) granché, non essere niente di speciale; to have the shakes — colloq. (from fear) avere la tremarella; (from cold, fever) avere i brividi; (from alcohol) tremare

    II 1. [ʃeɪk]
    verbo transitivo (pass. shook; p.pass. shaken)
    1) [ person] scuotere; [blow, earthquake] fare tremare

    "shake before use" — "agitare prima dell'uso"

    to shake salt over the dish — spargere sale sul piatto, cospargere il piatto di sale

    to shake one's fist at sb. — mostrare i pugni a qcn.

    to shake hands with sb. to shake sb.'s hand stringere la mano a qcn., dare una stretta di mano a qcn.; shake hands on the deal suggellare l'affare con una stretta di mano; to shake hands on it — (after argument) fare pace dandosi la mano

    2) fig. (shock) fare vacillare [belief, confidence, faith]; scuotere, sconvolgere [ person]
    3) AE (get rid of) liberarsi di
    2.
    verbo intransitivo (pass. shook; p.pass. shaken)
    1) (tremble) [person, hand, voice, leaf, building, windows] tremare

    to shake with — tremare per [cold, emotion]; trasalire o tremare per [ fear]; torcersi o sbellicarsi da [ laughter]

    they shook on it — (on deal, agreement) conclusero l'affare, l'accordo con una stretta di mano; (after argument) fecero la pace dandosi la mano

    "shake!" — "qua la mano!"

    3.
    verbo riflessivo (pass. shook; p.pass. shaken)

    to shake oneself — [person, animal] scuotersi

    English-Italian dictionary > shake

  • 9 down

    1. down [daʊn] adv
    1) (in/ to a lower position) hinunter, hinab;
    ( towards sb) herunter, herab;
    the baby falls \down constantly das Baby fällt ständig hin;
    get \down off that table! komm sofort von diesem Tisch herunter!;
    the leaflet slipped \down behind the wardrobe die Broschüre ist hinter dem Kleiderschrank hinuntergerutscht;
    you'll have to come further \down [the steps] du musst noch ein Stück treppab gehen;
    “\down!” ( to dog) „Platz!“;
    to be [or lie] face \down auf dem Bauch [o mit dem Gesicht nach unten] liegen;
    to put \down sth etw hinstellen
    2) inv ( in the south) im Süden, unten ( fam) ( towards the south) in den Süden, runter ( fam)
    things are much more expensive \down [in the] south unten im Süden ist alles viel teurer;
    how often do you come \down to Cornwall? wie oft kommen Sie nach Cornwall runter? ( fam)
    3) inv ( away from centre) außerhalb;
    my parents live \down in Worcestershire, but they come up to London occasionally meine Eltern leben außerhalb in Worcestershire, aber sie kommen gelegentlich nach London;
    he has a house \down by the harbour er hat ein Haus draußen am Hafen;
    \down our way hier in unserem Viertel [o unserer Gegend];
    4) (in/ to a weaker position) unten;
    she's certainly come \down in the world! da muss es mit ihr ganz schön bergab gegangen sein! ( fam)
    to be \down on one's luck eine Pechsträhne haben;
    she's been \down on her luck recently in letzter Zeit ist sie vom Pech verfolgt;
    to be \down to sth nur noch etw haben;
    to be \down with sth an etw dat erkrankt sein;
    she's \down with flu sie liegt mit einer Grippe im Bett;
    to come [or go] \down with sth an etw dat erkranken, etw bekommen ( fam)
    to hit [or kick] sb when he's \down jdn treten, wenn er schon am Boden liegt ( fig)
    5) sports im Rückstand;
    Milan were three goals \down at half-time zur Halbzeit lag Mailand [um] drei Tore zurück;
    he quit the poker game when he was only $50 \down er hörte mit dem Pokerspiel auf, als er erst 50 Dollar verloren hatte
    6) ( in time)
    Joan of Arc's fame has echoed \down [through] the centuries Jean d'Arcs Ruhm hat die Jahrhunderte überdauert;
    \down to the last century bis ins vorige Jahrhundert [hinein];
    to come \down myths überliefert werden;
    to pass [or hand] sth \down etw weitergeben [o überliefern];
    7) (at/ to a lower amount) niedriger;
    the pay offer is \down 2% from last year das Lohnangebot liegt 2 % unter dem vom Vorjahr;
    the number of students has gone \down die Zahl der Studierenden ist gesunken;
    to get the price \down den Preis drücken [o herunterhandeln];
    8) (in/ to a weaker condition) herunter;
    let the fire burn \down lass das Feuer herunterbrennen;
    settle \down, you two gebt mal ein bisschen Ruhe ihr zwei;
    to turn the music/radio \down die Musik/das Radio leiser stellen [o machen];
    to water a drink \down ein Getränk verwässern
    9) ( including) bis einschließlich;
    from sb/sth \down to sb/ sth von jdm/etw bis hin zu jdm/etw;
    the entire administration has come under suspicion, from the mayor \down das gesamte Verwaltungspersonal, angefangen beim Bürgermeister, ist in Verdacht geraten
    to have sth \down in writing [or on paper] etw schriftlich haben;
    do you have it \down in writing or was it just a verbal agreement? haben Sie das schwarz auf weiß oder war es nur eine mündliche Vereinbarung? ( fam)
    to copy sth \down etw niederschreiben [o zu Papier bringen];
    to get [or put] sb \down for sth jdn für etw akk vormerken;
    we've got you \down for five tickets wir haben fünf Karten für Sie vorbestellt;
    to put sth \down etw aufschreiben [o niederschreiben];
    to write sth \down etw niederschreiben [o schriftlich niederlegen];
    11) ( swallowed) hinunter;
    to get sth \down etw [hinunter]schlucken;
    she couldn't get the pill \down sie brachte die Tablette nicht hinunter ( fam)
    you'll feel better once you've got some hot soup \down du wirst dich besser fühlen, wenn du ein bisschen heiße Suppe gegessen hast;
    to keep sth \down med etw bei sich dat behalten
    12) ( thoroughly) gründlich;
    to nail sth \down etw festnageln;
    to wash/wipe sth \down etw von oben bis unten waschen/wischen;
    he washed the car \down with soapy water er wusch den Wagen gründlich mit Seifenlauge
    13) ( already finished) vorbei;
    two lectures \down, eight to go zwei Vorlesungen haben wir schon besucht, es bleiben also noch acht
    14) ( as initial payment) als Anzahlung;
    to pay [or put] £100 \down 100 Pfund anzahlen
    to be \down to sth auf etw akk zurückzuführen sein;
    the problem is \down to her inexperience, not any lack of intelligence es liegt an ihrer Unerfahrenheit, nicht an mangelnder Intelligenz;
    to be [or (Am a.) come] \down to sb jds Sache sein;
    it's all \down to you now to make it work nun ist es an Ihnen, die Sache in Gang zu bringen
    to come \down to sth auf etw akk hinauslaufen;
    what the problem comes \down to is this:... die entscheidende Frage ist:...;
    well, if I bring it \down to its simplest level,... also, stark vereinfacht könnte man sagen,...
    18) (sl: okay)
    to be \down with sth mit etw dat o.k. gehen ( fam)
    PHRASES:
    \down to the ground völlig, ganz und gar, total ( fam)
    that suits me \down to the ground das ist genau das Richtige für mich prep
    \down sth etw hinunter [o herunter];
    my uncle's in hospital after falling \down some stairs mein Onkel ist im Krankenhaus, nachdem er die Treppe heruntergefallen ist;
    up and \down the stairs die Treppe rauf und runter;
    she poured the liquid \down the sink sie schüttete die Flüssigkeit in den Abfluss
    2) ( downhill) hinunter, hinab;
    to go \down the hill/ mountain den Hügel/Berg hinuntergehen;
    I walked \down the hill ich ging den Hügel hinab
    3) ( along)
    \down sth etw hinunter [o entlang];
    go \down the street towards the river gehen Sie die Straße entlang zum Fluss;
    her office is \down the corridor on the right ihr Büro ist weiter den Gang entlang auf der rechten Seite;
    we drove \down the motorway as far as Bristol wir fuhren die Schnellstraße hinunter bis nach Bristol;
    they sailed the boat \down the river sie segelten mit dem Boot flussabwärts;
    I ran my finger \down the list of ingredients ich ging mit dem Finger die Zutatenliste durch;
    her long red hair reached most of the way \down her back ihre langen roten Haare bedeckten fast ihren ganzen Rücken;
    \down town stadteinwärts;
    I went \down town ich fuhr in die Stadt hinein;
    \down one's way in jds Gegend;
    they speak with a peculiar accent \down his way in seiner Ecke haben die Leute einen besonderen Akzent;
    up and \down sb/ sth bei jdm/etw auf und ab
    \down sth durch etw hindurch, über etw hinweg;
    \down the generations über Generationen hinweg;
    \down the centuries durch die Jahrhunderte hindurch;
    \down the ages von Generation zu Generation;
    \down the road [or line] [or track] auf der ganzen Linie ( fig), voll und ganz ( fig)
    5) (Brit, Aus) (fam: to)
    \down sth zu [o in] etw dat;
    I went \down the pub with my mates ich ging mit meinen Freunden in die Kneipe;
    to go \down the shops einkaufen gehen
    6) food ( inside)
    sth \down sb etw in jdm;
    you'll feel better once you've got some hot soup \down you du fühlst dich gleich besser, wenn du ein bisschen heiße Suppe gegessen hast
    PHRASES:
    to go \down the drain [or toilet] [or tube[s]] [or plughole] [or (Brit a.) pan] [or ( Aus) gurgler] für die Katz sein;
    we don't want all their hard work to go \down the drain ich möchte nicht, dass ihre harte Arbeit ganz umsonst ist adj <more \down, most \down>
    1) inv ( moving downward) abwärtsführend, nach unten nach n;
    the \down escalator die Rolltreppe nach unten
    2) pred (fam: unhappy, sad) niedergeschlagen, deprimiert, down ( fam)
    I've been feeling a bit \down this week diese Woche bin ich nicht so gut drauf ( fam)
    3) (fam: unhappy with)
    to be \down on sb jdn auf dem Kieker haben ( fam)
    4) pred, inv ( not functioning) außer Betrieb;
    the computer will be \down for an hour der Computer wird für eine Stunde abgeschaltet;
    I'm afraid the [telephone] lines are \down ich fürchte, die Telefonleitungen sind tot
    5) inv ( Brit) (dated: travelling away from the city) stadtauswärts fahrend attr;
    \down platform Bahnsteig m für stadtauswärts fahrende Züge
    6) ( sunk to a low level) niedrig;
    the river is \down der Fluss hat [o ( geh) führt] Niedrigwasser vt
    1) boxing, sports ( knock down)
    to \down sb jdn zu Fall bringen; boxing jdn niederschlagen [o (sl) auf die Bretter schicken];
    to \down sth etw abschießen [o ( fam) runterholen];
    3) ( esp Brit)
    to \down tools ( cease work) mit der Arbeit aufhören;
    ( have a break) die Arbeit unterbrechen;
    ( during strike) die Arbeit niederlegen;
    the printers are threatening to \down tools die Drucker drohen mit Arbeitsniederlegungen
    4) (Am, Aus) sports ( defeat)
    to \down sb jdn schlagen [o ( fam) fertigmachen];
    5) (swallow [quickly])
    to \down sth food etw verschlingen [o herunterschlingen]; drink etw hinunterschlucken [o ( fam) hinunterkippen] [o ( fam) runterschütten];
    he'd \downed four beers er hatte vier Bier gekippt ( fam) n
    1) ( bad fortune) Tiefpunkt m, schlechte Zeit;
    ups and \downs Auf und Ab nt;
    well, we've had our ups and \downs wir haben schon Höhen und Tiefen durchgemacht
    2) (fam: dislike) Groll m;
    to have a \down on sb jdn auf dem Kieker haben ( fam)
    why do you have a \down on him? was hast du gegen ihn?
    3) (Am) fball Versuch m;
    it's second \down and seven yards to go es ist der zweite Versuch, und es sind noch sieben Yards interj
    \down with taxes! weg mit den Steuern!;
    \down with the dictator! nieder mit dem Diktator!
    2. down [daʊn] n
    1) ( soft feathers) Daunen fpl, Flaumfedern fpl
    2) ( soft hair or fluff) [Bart]flaum m, feine Härchen n
    modifier Daunen-;
    \down jacket/ quilt Daunenjacke f /-decke f
    3. down [daʊn] n
    ( esp Brit) Hügelland nt, [baumloser] Höhenzug;
    the \downs pl die Downs (an der Südküste Englands)

    English-German students dictionary > down

  • 10 solid

    'solid
    1. adjective
    1) (not easily changing shape; not in the form of liquid or gas: Water becomes solid when it freezes; solid substances.) sólido
    2) (not hollow: The tyres of the earliest cars were solid.) macizo
    3) (firm and strongly made (and therefore sound and reliable): That's a solid piece of furniture; His argument is based on good solid facts/reasoning.) sólido
    4) (completely made of one substance: This bracelet is made of solid gold; We dug till we reached solid rock.) macizo
    5) (without breaks, gaps or flaws: The policemen formed themselves into a solid line; They are solid in their determination to strike.) de una sola pieza
    6) (having height, breadth and width: A cube is a solid figure.) sólido
    7) (consecutive; without a pause: I've been working for six solid hours.) seguido, ininterrumpido

    2. adverb
    (without interruption; continuously: She was working for six hours solid.) ininterrumpidamente

    3. noun
    1) (a substance that is solid: Butter is a solid but milk is a liquid.) sólido
    2) (a shape that has length, breadth and height.) sólido
    •
    - solidify
    - solidification
    - solidity
    - solidness
    - solidly
    - solid fuel
    solid adj
    1. sólido
    2. macizo
    tr['sɒlɪd]
    1 (not liquid or gas) sólido,-a
    2 (not hollow) macizo,-a
    3 (dense, compact) compacto,-a
    4 (unmixed) puro,-a, macizo,-a
    5 (strong) sólido,-a, fuerte
    6 (reliable) sólido,-a, de confianza, de fiar
    7 (unanimous) unánime
    8 (continuous) seguido,-a, entero,-a; (unbroken) continuo,-a
    9 SMALLTECHNICAL/SMALL (three-dimensional) tridimensional
    1 (substance) sólido
    ■ solids, liquids and gasses sólidos, líquidos y gases
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    as solid as a rock firme como una roca
    to become solid solidificarse
    solid figure cuerpo sólido
    solid geometry geometría del espacio
    solid ['sɑləd] adj
    1) : macizo
    a solid rubber ball: una bola maciza de caucho
    2) cubic: tridimensional
    3) compact: compacto, denso
    4) sturdy: sólido
    5) continuous: seguido, continuo
    two solid hours: dos horas seguidas
    a solid line: una línea continua
    6) unanimous: unánime
    7) dependable: serio, fiable
    8) pure: macizo, puro
    solid gold: oro macizo
    : sólido m
    adj.
    • compacto, -a adj.
    • consistente adj.
    • denso, -a adj.
    • duro, -a adj.
    • enterizo, -a adj.
    • fijo, -a adj.
    • firme adj.
    • macizo, -a adj.
    • sólido, -a adj.
    • unánime adj.
    n.
    • macizo s.m.
    • sólido s.m.

    I 'sɑːləd, 'sɒlɪd
    adjective -er, - est
    1)
    a) ( not liquid or gaseous) sólido

    solid food — alimentos mpl sólidos

    to become solid — solidificarse*

    b) ( not hollow) <rubber ball/tire> macizo
    c) ( Math) tridimensional
    2)
    a) ( unbroken) <line/row> continuo, ininterrumpido
    b) ( continuous) (colloq) <month/year> seguido
    3)
    a) ( physically sturdy) <furniture/house> sólido; < meal> consistente
    b) (substantial, valuable) <knowledge/reason> sólido
    c) (firm, definite) < offer> en firme
    4)
    a) ( pure) <metal/wood> macizo, puro; < rock> vivo
    b) ( unanimous) <support/agreement> unánime

    II
    1)
    a) (Chem, Phys) sólido m
    b) ( Math) sólido m
    2) solids pl
    a) (in, from liquid) sólidos mpl, sustancias fpl sólidas
    b) ( food) alimentos mpl sólidos

    III
    adverb (colloq)

    to be packed/jammed solid — estar* lleno hasta el tope or hasta los topes

    ['sɒlɪd]
    1. ADJ
    1) (=not liquid) sólido

    • to become solid — solidificarse

    • solid food — alimentos mpl sólidos

    • to freeze solid — congelarse por completo

    • to be frozen solid — estar completamente congelado

    • to go solid — solidificarse

    2) (=firm) [masonry, building, understanding, basis] sólido; [argument] sólido, bien fundamentado; [relationship] sólido, firme

    • get a good solid grip on the handle — agarra bien el mango

    • solid ground — tierra f firme

    to have solid grounds for thinking that... — tener bases sólidas para creer que...

    3) (=not hollow) [rock] sólido; [wood, steel] macizo, puro; [tyre, ball, block] macizo

    • solid gold — oro m puro

    4) (=compact, dense) [layer, crowd] compacto

    • flights to Israel are booked solid — los vuelos a Israel están completamente llenos

    • a man of solid build — un hombre fornido or de constitución robusta

    • a solid mass of colour — una masa sólida de color

    • he's six feet of solid muscle — mide uno ochenta y es todo músculo

    • the streets were packed solid with people — las calles estaban abarrotadas de gente

    • the bolts have rusted solid — los tornillos están tan oxidados que es imposible girarlos

    • the traffic was solid going into town — había una caravana tremenda en dirección a la ciudad *

    5) (=continuous) [line, rain] ininterrumpido

    • we waited two solid hours — esperamos dos horas enteras

    I've been working on this for eight hours solid — he estado trabajando sobre esto durante ocho horas ininterrumpidas, llevo trabajando sobre esto ocho horas sin parar

    6) (=reliable) [person, relationship] serio; [evidence, reason, values] sólido; [information] fiable; [work] concienzudo; [citizen] responsable; [advice] útil

    • he's a good solid worker — es un trabajador responsable

    7) (=substantial)
    8) (=unanimous)
    9) (Geom) [figure] tridimensional
    2. N
    1) (Phys, Chem) sólido m
    2) (Geom) sólido m
    3) solids (=solid food) (alimentos mpl) sólidos mpl

    is he on solids yet? — ¿come ya alimentos sólidos?

    3.
    CPD

    solid angle N — (Geom) ángulo m sólido

    solid compound N — (Ling) compuesto que se escribe como una sola palabra

    solid fuel N — combustible m sólido

    solid geometry N — geometría f de los cuerpos sólidos

    * * *

    I ['sɑːləd, 'sɒlɪd]
    adjective -er, - est
    1)
    a) ( not liquid or gaseous) sólido

    solid food — alimentos mpl sólidos

    to become solid — solidificarse*

    b) ( not hollow) <rubber ball/tire> macizo
    c) ( Math) tridimensional
    2)
    a) ( unbroken) <line/row> continuo, ininterrumpido
    b) ( continuous) (colloq) <month/year> seguido
    3)
    a) ( physically sturdy) <furniture/house> sólido; < meal> consistente
    b) (substantial, valuable) <knowledge/reason> sólido
    c) (firm, definite) < offer> en firme
    4)
    a) ( pure) <metal/wood> macizo, puro; < rock> vivo
    b) ( unanimous) <support/agreement> unánime

    II
    1)
    a) (Chem, Phys) sólido m
    b) ( Math) sólido m
    2) solids pl
    a) (in, from liquid) sólidos mpl, sustancias fpl sólidas
    b) ( food) alimentos mpl sólidos

    III
    adverb (colloq)

    to be packed/jammed solid — estar* lleno hasta el tope or hasta los topes

    English-spanish dictionary > solid

  • 11 understand

    1. transitive verb,

    understand something by something — etwas unter etwas (Dat.) verstehen

    2) (have heard) gehört haben

    I understand him to be a distant relation — ich glaube, er ist ein entfernter Verwandter

    3) (take as implied)

    it was understood that... — es wurde allgemein angenommen, dass...

    do I understand that...? — gehe ich recht in der Annahme, dass...? See also academic.ru/31215/give">give 1. 5); make 1. 6)

    2. intransitive verb,
    1) (have understanding) verstehen
    2) (gather, hear)

    he is, I understand, no longer here — er ist, wie ich höre, nicht mehr hier

    * * *
    1. past tense, past participle - understood; verb
    1) (to see or know the meaning of (something): I can't understand his absence; Speak slowly to foreigners so that they'll understand you.) verstehen
    2) (to know (eg a person) thoroughly: She understands children/dogs.) sich verstehen auf
    3) (to learn or realize (something), eg from information received: At first I didn't understand how ill she was; I understood that you were planning to leave today.) annehmen
    •
    - understandable
    - understanding 2. noun
    1) (the power of thinking clearly: a man of great understanding.) der Verstand
    2) (the ability to sympathize with another person's feelings: His kindness and understanding were a great comfort to her.) das Verständnis
    3) (a (state of) informal agreement: The two men have come to / reached an understanding after their disagreement.) die Einigung
    •
    - make oneself understood
    - make understood
    * * *
    under·stand
    <-stood, -stood>
    [ˌʌndəˈstænd, AM -ɚˈ-]
    I. vt
    1. (perceive meaning)
    ▪ to \understand sth/sb etw/jdn verstehen
    the pub was so noisy I couldn't \understand a word he said in der Kneipe ging es so laut zu, dass ich kein Wort von dem, was er sagte, verstehen konnte
    to \understand one another [or each other] sich akk verstehen
    to make oneself understood sich akk verständlich machen
    2. (comprehend significance)
    ▪ to \understand sb/sth jdn/etw begreifen [o verstehen]
    ▪ to \understand what/why/when/how... begreifen, was/warum/wann/wie...
    ▪ to \understand that... verstehen, dass...
    ▪ to \understand sb/sth für jdn/etw Verständnis haben
    I can \understand your feeling upset about what has happened ich kann verstehen, dass du wegen des Vorfalls betroffen bist
    ▪ to \understand sb sich akk in jdn einfühlen können
    Jack really \understands horses Jack kann wirklich mit Pferden umgehen
    5. (be informed)
    ▪ to \understand [that]... hören, dass...
    I \understand [that] you are interested in borrowing some money from us Sie sollen an einem Darlehen von uns interessiert sein
    to give sb to \understand that... jdm zu verstehen geben, dass...
    when he said 3 o'clock, I understood him to mean in the afternoon als er von 3 Uhr sprach, ging ich davon aus, dass der Nachmittag gemeint war
    a secret buyer is understood to have paid £3 million for the three pictures ein ungenannter Käufer soll 3 Millionen Pfund für die drei Bilder bezahlt haben
    as I \understand it, we either agree to a pay cut or get the sack so, wie ich es sehe, erklären wir uns entweder mit einer Gehaltskürzung einverstanden oder man setzt uns vor die Tür
    ▪ to \understand that... annehmen, dass...
    7. (be generally accepted)
    ▪ to be understood that... klar sein, dass...
    in the library it is understood that loud talking is not permissible es dürfte allgemein bekannt sein, dass lautes Sprechen in der Bibliothek nicht gestattet ist
    when Alan invites you to dinner, it's understood that it'll be more of an alcohol than a food experience wenn Alan zum Dinner einlädt, dann ist schon klar, dass der Alkohol im Mittelpunkt steht
    in this context, ‘America’ is understood to refer to the United States in diesem Kontext sind mit ‚Amerika‘ selbstverständlich die Vereinigten Staaten gemeint
    II. vi
    1. (comprehend) verstehen
    she explained again what the computer was doing but I still didn't \understand sie erklärte nochmals, was der Computer machte, aber ich kapierte immer noch nicht
    ▪ to \understand about sth/sb etw/jdn verstehen
    Jane's dad never understood about how important her singing was to her Janes Vater hat nie verstanden, wie wichtig das Singen für sie war
    ▪ to \understand from sth that... aus etw dat schließen, dass...
    ▪ to \understand from sb that... von jdm hören, dass...
    I've been promoted — so I \understand ich bin befördert worden — ich habe davon gehört
    * * *
    ["ʌndə'stnd] pret, ptp understood
    1. vt
    1) language, painting, statement, speaker verstehen; action, event, person, difficulty also begreifen

    I don't understand Russian —

    I can't understand his agreeing to do it — ich kann nicht verstehen or es ist mir unbegreiflich, warum er sich dazu bereit erklärt hat

    what do you understand by "pragmatism"? — was verstehen Sie unter "Pragmatismus"?

    2) (= comprehend sympathetically) children, people, animals, doubts, fears verstehen
    3)

    (= believe) I understand that you are going to Australia — ich höre, Sie gehen nach Australien

    I understand that you've already met her — Sie haben sich, soviel ich weiß, schon kennengelernt

    I understood (that) he was abroad/we were to have been consulted — ich dachte, er sei im Ausland/wir sollten dazu befragt werden

    am I/are we to understand that...? — soll das etwa heißen, dass...?

    as I understand it,... — soweit ich weiß,...

    did I understand him to say that...? — habe ich richtig verstanden, dass er sagte,...?

    but I understood her to say that she agreed — aber soweit ich sie verstanden habe, hat sie zugestimmt

    to give sb to understand that... — jdm zu verstehen geben, dass...

    I was given to understand that... — man hat mir bedeutet, dass...

    I understood from his speech that... — ich schloss aus seiner Rede, dass...

    4) (GRAM: supply) word sich (dat) denken, (im Stillen) ergänzen → also understood
    See:
    → also understood
    2. vi
    1) (= comprehend) verstehen

    (do you) understand? — (hast du/haben Sie das) verstanden?

    but you don't understand, I must have the money now — aber verstehen Sie doch, ich brauche das Geld jetzt!

    2)

    (= believe) so I understand — es scheint so

    he was, I understand, a widower — wie ich hörte, war er Witwer

    * * *
    A v/t
    1. verstehen:
    a) begreifen
    b) einsehen
    c) wörtlich etc auffassen
    d) (volles) Verständnis haben für:
    understand each other sich oder einander verstehen, auch zu einer Einigung gelangen;
    give sb to understand that … jemandem zu verstehen geben, dass …;
    make o.s. understood sich verständlich machen;
    do I ( oder am I to) understand that …? soll das heißen, dass …?;
    what do you understand by …? was verstehen Sie unter … (dat)?
    2. sich verstehen auf (akk), sich auskennen in (dat), wissen ( how to do sth wie man etwas macht);
    he understands horses er versteht sich auf Pferde;
    she understands children sie kann mit Kindern umgehen
    3. voraussetzen, (als sicher oder gegeben) annehmen:
    that is understood das versteht sich (von selbst);
    it is understood that … auch JUR es gilt als vereinbart, dass …; es wird davon ausgegangen, dass …;
    an understood thing eine aus- oder abgemachte Sache
    4. erfahren, hören:
    I understand that … ich hör(t)e oder man sagt(e) mir, dass …;
    I understand him to be ( oder that he is) an expert wie ich höre, ist er ein Fachmann;
    it is understood es heißt, wie verlautet
    5. (from) entnehmen (dat oder aus), schließen oder heraushören (aus):
    6. besonders LING bei sich oder sinngemäß ergänzen, hinzudenken:
    in this phrase the verb is understood in diesem Satz muss das Verb (sinngemäß) ergänzt werden
    B v/i
    1. verstehen:
    a) begreifen
    b) (volles) Verständnis haben:
    (do you) understand? verstanden?;
    he will understand er wird es oder mich etc (schon) verstehen;
    you are too young to understand du bist zu jung, um das zu verstehen
    2. Verstand haben
    3. Bescheid wissen ( about sth über eine Sache):
    not understand about nichts verstehen von
    4. hören:
    …, so I understand wie ich höre, …
    * * *
    1. transitive verb,
    2) (have heard) gehört haben

    I understand him to be a distant relation — ich glaube, er ist ein entfernter Verwandter

    it was understood that... — es wurde allgemein angenommen, dass...

    do I understand that...? — gehe ich recht in der Annahme, dass...? See also give 1. 5); make 1. 6)

    2. intransitive verb,
    2) (gather, hear)

    he is, I understand, no longer here — er ist, wie ich höre, nicht mehr hier

    * * *
    v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: understood)
    = begreifen v.
    einsehen v.
    fassen v.
    kapieren v.
    nachvollziehen v.
    verstehen v.

    English-german dictionary > understand

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