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81 безопасность пищевых продуктов
безопасность пищевых продуктов
Местные власти могут проявлять повышенное внимание к вопросам безопасности пищевых продуктов и проблемам, связанных с продолжительным функционированием временных точек общепита. Рекомендуется проводить упреждающую политику в этом вопросе в отношениях с местными властями, комитетами и собраниями, и своевременно обсуждать с ними свои планы и существующие проблемы.
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food safety
Local authorities may have a heightened concern on all issues relating to food safety and the challenges of operating temporary food premises for extended periods. It is best to be pro-active with the local authorities, committees and forums to discuss plans and issues.
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Русско-английский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > безопасность пищевых продуктов
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82 муниципальные власти
1) General subject: municipal officials2) Law: city government, municipal government3) Economy: municipal authorities4) Business: municipal administration5) Makarov: the municipal authoritiesУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > муниципальные власти
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83 депортируемое лицо
Лицо, которое на законном основании было допущено на территорию государства его полномочными органами или которое въехало в государство незаконно и которому спустя некоторое время полномочные органы официально предписывают покинуть данное государство.A person who had legally been admitted to a State by its authorities or who had entered a State illegally, and who at some later time is formally ordered by the competent authorities to leave that State.(AN 9)Official definition added to AN 9 by Amdt 19 (24/11/2005).Русско-английский словарь международной организации гражданской авиации > депортируемое лицо
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84 प्राच् _prāc _प्राञ्च् _prāñc
प्राच् प्राञ्च् a. (-ची f.)1 Turned towards the front, in front, foremost.-3 Eastern, easterly.-3 Prior, previous, former. -m. (pl.) The people of the east.-2 Eastern grammarians.-Comp. -अग्र a. (प्रागग्र) having the point turned towards the east.-अनुरागः (प्रागनुरागः) former affection.-अभावः (प्रागभावः) 1 antecedent non-existence, non-existence of a thing previous to its production, as of an effect previous to its production; प्रागभावस्तथा ध्वंसो$प्यत्यन्ताभाव एव च । एवं त्रैविध्यमापन्नः संसर्गाभाव इष्यते ॥ Bhāṣā. P.-2 (in law) non-possession of property (that may be possessed).-अभिहित (प्रागभिहित) a. mentioned before.-अवस्था (प्रागवस्था) the former state; न तर्हि प्रागवस्थायाः परिहीयसे Māl.4. 'you are none the worse for it'.-आयत (प्रागायत) a. extending towards the east.-उक्तिः f. (प्रागुक्तिः) previous utterance.-उत्तर (प्रागुत्तर) a. north-eastern.-उत्पत्तिः (प्रागुत्पत्तिः) first appearance (of a disease).-उदञ्च् a. (प्रागुदञ्च्) north-eastern.-उदीची (प्रागुदीची) f. the north-east.-कर्मन् (प्राक्- कर्मन्) n.1 an action done in a former life.-2 a preliminary medical treatment.-3 a preliminary action in general.-कालः (प्राक्कालः) a former age.-कालीन (प्राक्कालीन) a. belonging to the former times, old, ancient.-कूल (प्राक्कूल) a. having the points turned towards the east (said of Kuśa grass); प्राक्कूलान् पर्युपासीनः पवित्रैश्चैव पावितः Ms.2.75. (-लम्) the point of a blade of such Kuśa grass.-कृतम् (प्राक्कृतम्) an act done in a former life.-केवल a. (प्राक्केवल) manifested from the first in a distinct form.-गामिन् a.(प्राग्- गामिन्) 1 going before, preceding.-2 a precursor, forerunner.-3 going eastward.-चरणा a. (प्राक्चरणा) the female organ of generation.-चिरम् (प्राक्चिरम्) ind. in due or good time, before too late.-जन्मन् (प्राग्जन्मन्) n.,-जातिः (प्राग्जातिः) f. a former birth.-ज्योतिषः (प्राग्ज्योतिषः) 1 N. of country, also called Kāmarūpa.-2 (pl.) the people of this country (-षम्) N. of a city. ˚ज्येष्ठः an epithet of Viṣṇu.-दक्षिण a. (प्राग्दक्षिण) south-eastern.-देशः (प्राग्देशः) the east- ern country.-द्वार, -द्वारिक a. (प्राग्द्वार &c.) having doors facing the east.-न्यायः (प्राङ्न्यायः) the plea of a former trial, res judicata; आचारेणावसन्नो$पि पुनर्लेखय- ते यदि । सो$भिधेयो जितः पूर्वं प्राङ्न्यायस्तु स उच्यते ॥-पदम् (प्राक्पदम्) the first member of a compound.-प्रहारः (प्राक्प्रहारः) the first blow.-फलः (प्राक्फलः) the bread-fruit tree.-फ(फा)ल्गुनी (प्राक्फल्गुनी) the eleventh lunar mansion, (पूर्वा). ˚भवः1 the planet Jupiter.-2 N. of Bṛihaspati.-फाल्गुनः, -फाल्गुनेयः (प्राक्फाल्गुनः &c.) the planet Jupiter.-भक्तम् (प्राग्- भक्तम्) taking medicine before meals.-भवः (प्राग्भवः) a previous life.-भागः (प्राग्भागः) 1 the front.-2 the fore-part.-भारः (प्राग्भारः) 1 the top summit of a mountain; प्राग्भारेषु शिखण्डिताण्डवविधौ मेघैर्वितानाय्यते Māl.9. 15.-2 the front part, fore-part or end (of anything); क्रन्दत्फेरवचण्डडात्कृतिभृतप्राग्भारभीमैस्तटैः Māl.5.19.-3 a large quantity, heap, multitude, flood; तिमिरप्राग्भार- मुच्चाटयन्......विजयते ज्ञानप्रदीपो हरः Bh.3.129; Māl.5.29.-भावः (प्राग्भावः) 1 previous existence.-2 excellence, superiority.-मुख (प्राङ्मुख) a.1 turned towards or facing the east; तां प्राङ्मुखीं तत्र निवेश्य तन्वीम् Ku.7.13; Ms.2.51;8.87.-2 inclined towards, wishing, desirous of.-रूपम् (प्राग्रूपम्) Previous symptom (of disease).-लग्नम् (प्राग्लग्नम्) horoscope.-वंशः (प्राग्वंशः) 1 a kind of sacrificial room having its columns turned towards the east; श्लाघ्यस्त्यागो$पि वैदेह्याः पत्युः प्राग्वंशवासिनः R.15.61. (प्राचीनस्थूणो यज्ञशालाविशेषः Malli.; but some interpret the word to mean 'a room in which the friends and family of the sacrificer assemble'); केचिद् बभञ्जुः प्राग्वंशं पत्नीशालां तथा$परे Bhāg.4.5.14.-2 a former dynasty or generation.-वचनम् (प्राग्वचनम्) anything formerly decided; statement by the ancient authorities; प्रागिदं वचनं पोक्तम् अतः प्रग्वचनं विदुः Mb.-वृत्तम् = प्राङ्न्यायः q. v.-वृत्तान्तः (प्राग्वृत्तान्तः) a former event.-शिरस्, -स, -शिरस्क (प्राक्शिरस् &c.) a. having the head turned towards the east.-संध्या (प्राक्संध्या) the morning twilight.-सवनम् (प्राक्सवनम्) a morning libation or sacrifice.-स्रोतस् (प्राक्स्रोतस्) a. flowing eastward. (-f.) a river. -
85 haut
haut, e [ˈo, ˈot]━━━━━━━━━1. adjective5. adverb6. compounds━━━━━━━━━1. <a. high ; [herbe, arbre, édifice] tall• avoir une haute opinion de soi-même to have a high opinion of o.s.• être haut en couleur ( = rougeaud) to have a high colour ; ( = coloré, pittoresque) to be colourfulb. ( = ancien) le haut Moyen Âge the Early Middle Ages2. <a. ( = hauteur) le mur a 3 mètres de haut the wall is 3 metres high• combien fait-il de haut ? how high is it?b. ( = partie supérieure) top• « haut » "this way up"c. ( = vêtement) topd. (locutions)• être au plus haut (dans les sondages) [personne] to be riding high ; [cote, popularité] to be at its peak• voir les choses de haut ( = avec détachement) to take a detached view of things• prendre qch de haut ( = avec mépris) to react indignantly to sth• prendre qn de haut to look down on sb► de haut en bas, du haut en bas [couvrir, fouiller] from top to bottom ; [s'ouvrir] from the top downwards• du haut en bas de la hiérarchie at all levels of the hierarchy► du haut [tiroir, étagère, dents] top• des ordres qui viennent d'en haut orders from above► en haut ( = au sommet) at the top ; (dans un immeuble) upstairs• en haut de [+ immeuble, escalier, côte, écran] at the top of3. <4. <5. <a. ( = en hauteur) [monter, sauter, voler] high• haut les mains ! hands up!b. ( = fort) lire tout haut to read aloudc. ( = dans les aigus) monter haut to hit the top notese. ( = en arrière) voir plus haut see above6. <* * *
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haute ’o, ’ot adjectif1) [montagne, mur, talon] high; [arbre, monument] tall; [herbe] long, tallattention, la première marche est haute — be careful, the first step is steep
2) ( situé en altitude) high3) ( dans une échelle de valeurs) [température, salaires, précision] high; [note, ton] high, high-pitched4) ( dans une hiérarchie) (before n) [personnage, poste] high-ranking; [clergé, magistrat] senior; [société] high; [responsabilités] big; [dirigeant, responsable] senior, high-rankinghaut Comité/Conseil — National Committee/Council
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1) ( à un niveau élevé) [monter, voler] high2) ( dans le temps) far back3) ( dans un texte)4) ( fort) loudlyparler haut et clair — fig to speak unambiguously
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nom masculin1) ( partie élevée) top2) ( hauteur)faire 50 mètres de haut — to be 50 metres [BrE] high
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en haut locution ( à l'étage supérieur) upstairs; ( à un étage supérieur) on an upper floor; (de rideau, mur, page) at the top; (le ciel, le paradis) abovepasser par en haut — ( par la route) to take the top road
les voleurs sont entrés par en haut — ( par l'étage) the thieves got in upstairs
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hauts nom masculin pluriel Géographie heightsPhrasal Verbs:••voir les choses de haut — ( avec sérénité) to have a detached view of things
avoir or connaître des hauts et des bas — to have one's ups and downs
l'emporter or gagner or vaincre haut la main — to win hands down
prendre quelqu'un de haut — to look down one's nose at somebody; cri, pavé
* * *'o, 'ot haut, -e1. adj1) (situation) highplus haut (en altitude, sur un mur) — higher up, further up, (dans un texte) above
2) (dimensions) (immeuble) tall, (paroi) high3) (son, ton, voix) high, high-pitchedà haute voix — aloud, out loud
haut en couleur (chose) — colourful Grande-Bretagne colorful USA brightly coloured Grande-Bretagne brightly colored USA (personnage) colourful Grande-Bretagne colorful USA
2. adv1) [situé, placé] highen haut (dans une armoire, sur une pente) — at the top, (dans une maison) upstairs
La salle de bain est en haut. — The bathroom is upstairs.
Le nid est tout en haut de l'arbre. — The nest is right at the top of the tree.
tomber de haut — to fall from a height, figto come back to earth with a bump
dire qch tout haut — to say sth aloud, to say sth out loud
4)haut les mains! — hands up!, stick 'em up! *
3. nm1) (partie supérieure) topLe haut de l'immeuble a été endommagé. — The top of the building was damaged., The upper floors of the building were damaged.
2) (hauteur)de haut en bas (mouvement) — downwards, (en intégralité) from top to bottom
* * *A adj1 ⇒ Les mesures de longueur ( étendu verticalement) [montagne, mur, talon] high; [arbre, monument, bâtiment] tall; [herbe] long, tall; homme de haute taille tall man; un objet plus haut que large an object that is higher than it is wide; un bâtiment haut de 20 étages a building 20 storeys GB ou stories US high, a 20-storey GB ou 20-story US building; un mât haut de 10 mètres a mast ten metresGB high, a ten-metreGB mast; plus haut/moins haut que higher/lower than; l'immeuble dans lequel il habite est très haut he lives in a block of high-rise flats GB ou a high-rise apartment block US; attention, la première marche est haute be careful, the first step is steep;2 ( situé en altitude) high; une haute branche a high branch; la partie haute d'un bâtiment/mur/arbre the top part of a building/wall/tree; l'étagère la plus haute the top shelf; une robe à taille haute a high-waisted dress;3 ( dans une échelle de valeurs) [fréquence, pression, température, prix, capacité, précision] high; [note, ton] high, high-pitched; les hauts salaires/revenus high salaries/incomes; parler à haute voix to speak loudly; dire/lire qch à haute voix to say/read sth out loud; jouer une carte plus haute to play a higher card; être à haut risque to be very risky; être du plus haut ridicule to be highly ridiculous; au plus haut point immensely, intensely; aimer qch au plus haut point to like sth immensely; produit de haute qualité high-quality product; avoir une haute opinion de qn/soi-même to have a high opinion of sb/oneself; tenir qn en haute estime to hold sb in high esteem ou regard;4 ( dans une hiérarchie) (before n) [personnage, situation, poste] high-ranking; [clergé, magistrat] senior; [société, rang] high; [responsabilités] big; [dirigeant, responsable] senior, high-ranking; les plus hautes instances the highest authorities; bénéficier de hautes protections to have friends in high places; le haut Comité/Conseil pour the National Committee/Council for; haute surveillance close supervision;6 Hist dater de la plus haute antiquité to date from earliest antiquity; le haut Moyen Âge the early Middle Ages.B adv1 ( à un niveau élevé) [monter, s'élever, voler, sauter] high; voler très haut dans le ciel to fly high in the sky; un personnage haut placé a person in a high position; viser trop haut to aim too high; la lune est haut dans le ciel the moon is high up in the sky; haut perché sur perched high on; le plus haut the highest; sauter le plus haut to jump the highest; de haut from above;2 ( dans le temps) far back; aussi haut qu'on remonte dans l'antiquité however far back in history we go;3 ( dans un texte) plus haut above; comme indiqué plus haut as noted above; colle-le plus haut sur la page stick it higher up on the page; voir plus haut see above;4 ( fort) loudly; parler haut to talk loudly; parlez moins haut! keep your voice down!; parlez plus haut! speak up!; dire qch bien haut to say sth loud(ly); mettre la radio plus haut to turn the radio up; tout haut out loud; parler haut et clair fig to speak unambiguously; ne dire or n'avoir jamais un mot plus haut que l'autre never to raise one's voice.C nm1 ( partie élevée) top; le haut du mur the top of the wall; le haut du visage the top part of the face; le haut du corps the top half of the body; dans le haut (de) at the top (of); l'appartement/l'étagère du haut the top flat/shelf; les pièces du haut the upstairs rooms; sur le haut de la colline/côte at the top of the hill/slope; commencer par le haut to start at the top; prendre qch par le haut to get hold of the top of sth; du haut de from the top of; de or du haut en bas from top to bottom; parler du haut d'un balcon/d'une tribune to speak from a balcony/a platform; le haut de son maillot de bain the top of her swimsuit;2 ( hauteur) mesurer or faire 50 mètres de haut to be 50 metresGB high; une tour de 35 m de haut a 35 m tower; être à son plus haut to be at its highest level.D en haut loc ( à l'étage supérieur) upstairs; ( à un étage supérieur) on an upper floor; (de rideau, mur, page) at the top; (le ciel, le paradis) above; le bruit vient d'en haut the noise is coming from above; tout en haut right at the top; jusqu'en haut up to the top, right to the top; passer par en haut ( par la route) to take the top road; les voleurs sont entrés par en haut ( par l'étage) the thieves got in upstairs; ordre qui vient d'en haut order from the top; mettez la date en haut de la page à droite put the date in the top right-hand corner of the page.haut en couleur [personnage, tableau, texte] colourfulGB; haut fait heroic deed; haut fonctionnaire senior civil servant; haut lieu de centreGB of ou for; en haut lieu in high places; une décision prise en haut lieu a decision taken at a high level; haut plateau high plateau; haute définition TV high definition; télévision (à) haute définition high definition TV; écran à haute définition graphique Ordinat screen with high resolution graphics; haute école lit, Équit haute école, classical equitation; c'est un exercice de haute école fig it's a very advanced exercise; haute mer Naut open sea; Haute Cour (de Justice) High Court of Justice; hautes eaux high water (sg); hautes sphères high social circles; hautes terres Géog highlands; hautes voiles Naut upper sails; hauts fourneaux blast furnace.marcher la tête haute to walk with one's head held high; prendre or regarder or voir les choses de haut ( sans s'arrêter aux détails) to see things in broad terms; ( avec sérénité) to have a detached view of things; tomber de haut to be dumbfounded; regarder qn de haut en bas to look sb up and down; avoir or connaître des hauts et des bas to have one's ups and downs; haut les mains! hands up!; l'emporter or gagner or vaincre haut la main to win hands down; prendre qn/qch de haut to look down one's nose at sb/sth; ⇒ cri, pavé.les hautes colonnes du temple the lofty ou towering columns of the temple[qui a poussé] high2. [d'une certaine dimension]3. [situé en hauteur] high4. [extrême, intense] highc'est de la plus haute importance it's of the utmost ou greatest importancede haut niveau top-level, high-levella haute coiffure haute coiffure, designer hairdressingde hautes études commerciales/militaires advanced business/military studiesles hauts fonctionnaires top ou top-ranking civil servantsles hauts salaires the highest ou top salaries6. [dans une échelle de valeurs] hightenir quelqu'un/quelque chose en haute estime to hold somebody/something in high esteem9. HISTOIRE————————adverbe1. [dans l'espace] highlevez haut la jambe raise your leg (up) high ou high up2. [dans le temps] far (back)[dans un livre]3. [fort, avec puissance]parlez plus haut speak up, speak louderdites-le haut et clair ou bien haut tell (it to) everyone, say it out loud5. [dans une hiérarchie] highnous l'avons toujours placé très haut dans notre estime (figuré) we've always held him in high regard————————nom masculin1. [partie supérieure] top[sur une caisse, un emballage]‘haut’ ‘(this way ou side) up’2. [vêtement & gén] top[de robe] bodice3. [hauteur]a. [chuter] to fall headlongb. [être déçu] to come down (to earth) with a bumpc. [être surpris] to be flabbergasted————————hauts nom masculin pluriel1. [dans des noms de lieux] heights2. (locution)avoir ou connaître des hauts et des bas to have one's ups and downs————————haute nom fémininde haut locution adverbialeprendre ou regarder ou voir les choses de haut to look at things with an air of detachment2. [avec mépris]3. (locution)a. [être surpris] to be flabbergastedb. [être déçu] to come down (to earth) with a bumpde haut en bas locution adverbiale1. [sans mouvement] from top to bottom3. [avec mépris]regarder ou considérer quelqu'un de haut en bas to look somebody up and downd'en haut locution adverbiale1. [depuis la partie élevée] from abovedu haut locution adjectivalea. [de la partie haute du village] the people up the top end (of the village)b. [des étages supérieurs] the people upstairsdu haut de locution prépositionnelle1. [depuis la partie élevée de - échelle, colline] from the top of2. (figuré)en haut locution adverbiale1. [à l'étage supérieur] upstairs2. [dans la partie élevée] at the topnous sommes passés par en haut [par la route du haut] we came along the high road3. [en l'air] up in the skyen haut de locution prépositionnelle -
86 saisir
saisir [seziʀ]➭ TABLE 21. transitive verba. ( = prendre) to take hold of ; ( = s'emparer de) to seizeb. [+ occasion, prétexte] to seizec. [+ nom, mot] to catch ; [+ explications] to grasp• tu saisis ? (inf) do you get what I mean?d. [peur] to grip ; [malaise] to come overe. [+ biens, documents, drogue, personne] to seizef. [+ juridiction] to refer a case to• la cour a été saisie de l'affaire or du dossier the case has been referred to the courtg. (en cuisant) [+ viande] to seal2. reflexive verb• se saisir de qch/qn to seize sth/sb* * *seziʀ
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1) ( prendre fermement) to grab [objet, personne, bras]saisir au vol — lit to catch [balle]; fig to jump at [affaire]
3) ( profiter de) to seize [occasion]‘affaire à saisir’ — ‘amazing bargain'
4) ( comprendre) to understandtu saisis? — (colloq) do you get it? (colloq)
5) ( entendre) to catch [bribes de conversation]6) ( s'emparer de) [émotion, froid] to grip [personne]7) ( impressionner) to strike [personne]8) ( confisquer) [police, douane] to seize [drogue]9) Droit to seize [biens]10) Informatique to capture [données]; to keyboard [texte]
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se saisir verbe pronominal* * *seziʀ vt1) (= prendre, agripper) to take hold of, to grab, fig, [occasion] to seize2) (= comprendre) to grasp3) (= entendre) to get, to catch4) [émotion] to take hold of, to come overêtre saisi de (= frappé de) [doute, panique, sentiment] — to be overcome with
5) INFORMATIQUE to key6) CUISINE, [viande] to seal7) DROIT, [biens, publication] to seize8) DROIT, ADMINISTRATION, [juridiction]* * *saisir verb table: finirA vtr1 ( prendre fermement) to seize, to grab [objet]; to grab [personne, bras]; saisir qn par le bras/la main/la manche/les cheveux to grab ou seize sb by the arm/the hand/the sleeve/the hair;2 ( attraper) [animal] to seize [proie]; saisir au vol lit to catch [balle]; fig to jump at [affaire]; ( prendre) to snatch [sth] up; ⇒ bond;3 ( profiter de) to seize [occasion]; elle saisira le moindre prétexte pour le renvoyer○ she'll use the slightest excuse to sack○ him; ‘affaire à saisir’ ‘amazing bargain';4 ( comprendre) to understand; il n'a pas l'air de saisir la gravité de la situation I don't think he understands how serious the situation is; tu saisis? do you understand?, do you get it○?;5 ( entendre) to catch [bribes de conversation];6 ( s'emparer de) [émotion, froid, envie, terreur] to grip [personne]; elle a été saisie par le froid en entrant dans l'eau she was gripped by the cold as she went into the water; elle a été saisie d'une envie de rire she was seized with a desire to laugh;7 ( impressionner) to strike [personne]; j'ai été saisi par leur maigreur I was struck by how thin they were; il a été saisi par la beauté du paysage he was struck by the beauty of the landscape;8 ( confisquer) [police, douane] to seize [drogue];9 Jur to seize, to distrain [biens]; saisir la justice to go to law; saisir la justice d'une affaire to refer ou submit a matter to a court; la Cour Suprême a été saisie de l'affaire the matter was referred to the Supreme Court;11 Culin to sear [viande].[sezir] verbe transitif[pour s'approprier] to snatchsaisir quelqu'un aux épaules to grab ou to grip somebody by the shoulderssaisir l'occasion de faire quelque chose to seize ou to grasp the opportunity to do somethingje n'ai pas su saisir ma chance I missed (out on) my chance, I didn't seize the opportunityelle a été saisie d'un malaise, un malaise l'a saisie she suddenly felt faint[tribunal] to submit ou to refer a case tola justice, saisie de l'affaire, annonce que... the judicial authorities, apprised of the case, have indicated that...————————se saisir de verbe pronominal plus préposition2. (soutenu) [étudier] to examine -
87 potere
1. v/i can, be able tonon posso andare I can't gonon ho potuto farlo I couldn't do it, I was unable to do itposso fumare? do you mind if I smoke?formale may I smoke?può essere perhaps, maybepuò darsi perhaps, maybe2. m powerpotere d'acquisto purchasing poweressere al potere be in power* * *potere v.servile1 (possibilità materiale o dipendente dalla capacità del sogg.) can (indic. e cong.pres.); could (indic. e cong.pass., cond.); to be* able: puoi venire quando vuoi, you can come when you like; può frequentare qualsiasi tipo di scuola, he can attend any kind of school; posso camminare per ore senza stancarmi, I can walk for hours without getting tired; non possiamo andare avanti così, we can't go on like this; non sempre si può fare ciò che si vuole, you can't always do what you like; come puoi pensare una cosa simile?, how can (o could) you think such a thing?; che cosa posso fare per te?, what can I do for you?; non poteva fare di più, he couldn't do any more; faremo quello che potremo, we'll do what we can; non potrà giocare perché si è infortunato, he can't play (o he won't be able to play) because he's been injured; stanotte non ho potuto dormire, I couldn't (o I wasn't able to) sleep last night; a quel punto, non potevano fare più nulla, at that point there was no more they could do (o they couldn't do anything else); non potè dire altro, he couldn't say anything else; come hai potuto farmi un torto simile?, how could you do this to me?; non può aver detto questo, he can't have said that; potrebbe tornare più tardi?, could you come back later?; potresti farmi un favore?, could you do me a favour?; ti aiuterei se potessi, I would help you if I could; se l'avessi saputo prima, avrei potuto aiutarti, if I'd known it before, I could have helped you; potevi almeno telefonarmi, you could at least have phoned me; in quella situazione che altro potevo fare?, what else could I have done in that situation?; potendo, lascerei la città e andrei a vivere in campagna, I'd leave the city and go and live in the country, if I could (o if I could, I'd leave...); non avendo potuto parlargli, gli lasciai un messaggio, not having been able (o having been unable) to speak to him, I left him a message; prometto di fare tutto ciò che posso, I promise I'll do all I can (o I'll do my best); vorrei poterti aiutare, I wish I could help you2 ( possibilità dipendente dalla volontà altrui) may (indic. e cong. pres.), might (indic.pass. nel discorso indiretto e cond.) ( entrambe le forme sono spesso sostituite nell'uso corrente da can, could, to be* able); to be* allowed, to be* permitted: posso fumare?, may I smoke (o is it all right if I smoke?); non si può fumare nei locali pubblici, smoking is not allowed (o permitted) in public places; se posso esprimere un parere..., if I may express an opinion...; posso farle una domanda?, may (o can) I ask you a question?; ''Possiamo entrare?'' ''No, è vietato l'ingresso al pubblico'', ''May (o Can) we come (o go) in?'' ''No, members of the public are not allowed to enter (o are not admitted o form. may not enter)''; potete pagare in contanti o in assegno, you can (o may) pay cash or by cheque; gli interessati possono presentare domanda di trasferimento, those concerned (o interested) may request a transfer; non puoi vedere quel film, è vietato ai minori, you can't see (o you aren't allowed to see) that film, it's an X certificate; non ci si può comportare così!, you can't (o you mustn't) behave like that!; chiese se poteva vederlo, he asked if he could (o form. might o might be permitted to) see him; disse che potevamo usare la sua macchina fotografica, he said we could (o form. might) use his camera; non abbiamo potuto passare dal centro perché era chiuso al traffico, we couldn't (o we were unable to o not allowed to) go through the centre, because it was closed to traffic; nessuno potrà assentarsi senza autorizzazione, no one can leave without permission; i certificati si possono ritirare solo in orario d'ufficio, certificates can (o may) only be collected during office hours; non puoi dire questo!, you can't (o you mustn't) say that!; non può che essere un errore, it must be a mistake; non può non rendersi conto che..., he must realise that...; non posso fare a meno di ammettere che..., I must (o have to) admit that... ∙ Come si nota dagli esempi, in questo significato l'uso di may, might è più formale di can, could; in espressioni negative con valore enfatico viene spesso usato must3 ( per esprimere eventualità) may, might; can, could; ( probabilità) to be* likely; to be* possible: posso, potrei sbagliarmi, I may, could (o might) be wrong; potresti aver ragione, you may (o could) be right; potrebbe arrivare domani, ma ne dubito, he might (o could) arrive tomorrow, but I doubt it; tutti possono sbagliare, anyone can make a mistake; potrei non giungere in tempo, I might not arrive in time; potrebbe esserci un errore, there might (o could) be a mistake; può essere utile sapere che..., it may help to know that...; può, potrebbe piovere, it may, might (o could) rain (o it's likely to rain); potevano essere circa le 3, it could (o might) have been about 3 o'clock; potrà sembrarti buffo, ma io la ritengo una cosa seria, you may (o might) think it's funny, but I think it's serious; ''Che cosa può essergli successo?'' ''Potrebbe aver perso il treno'', ''What can have happened to him?'' ''He may (o might) have missed the train''; cosa pensi che possa accadere?, what do you think is likely to (o might o could) happen?; chi potrebbe essere a quest'ora?, who could it be at this hour?; non è escluso che possa ancora vincere, he may (o might o could) still win // può essere, può darsi, maybe: ''Mi sembri di cattivo umore, oggi'' ''Può essere'', ''You look as if you're in a bad mood today'' ''Maybe''; ''Ti vedrò stasera?'' ''Può darsi'', ''Shall I see you this evening?'' ''Maybe'' // può darsi che, may (costr. pers.); maybe: può darsi che ti abbia scritto, maybe he has (o he may have) written to you; potrebbe darsi che avesse perso l'indirizzo, maybe he had (o he may have) lost the address; poteva darsi che non avesse capito, maybe he hadn't understood (o he may not have understood)4 (al cong., per esprimere augurio o forte desiderio) may, might; could: ( che) possiate essere felici!, may you be happy!; possa egli vivere cent'anni!, may he live a hundred years!; potessimo stare un po' tranquilli!, if only we might have a bit of peace!; ( magari) potessi aiutarlo!, if only I could help him!5 (al cond., per esprimere consiglio o esortazione) might, could: potresti almeno rispondere quando ti parlo!, you could (o might) at least answer when I speak to you!; avrebbe potuto per lo meno ringraziare!, he might (o could) at least have said thank you; potrebbero essere più gentili!, they might (o could) be more polite!; non era una prova facile, ma avresti potuto almeno tentare!, it wasn't an easy test, but you could (o might) at least have tried!◆ v.tr. (avere potere, forza, influenza) to have an influence, to have an effect (on): l'esempio di un padre può molto sui figli, a father's example has a great influence on his children; le mie parole hanno potuto assai poco, my words had little effect // è uno che può, ( che ha denaro) he is a man of means; ( che ha potere) he's got a lot of pull.◆ FRASEOLOGIA: a più non posso, all out: stava lavorando a più non posso, he was working all out // non ne posso più, ( sono sfinito) I'm exhausted, ( sono al limite della sopportazione) I'm at the end of my tether (o I can't take any more); non ne posso più di quell'uomo, I can't put up with that man any longer (o I've had enough of that man) // volere è potere, where there's a will there's a way // si salvi chi può, every man for himself // non posso fare a meno di pensare che..., I can't help thinking that... // non posso fare a meno di lui, I can't do without him; ( mi è indispensabile nel lavoro) I can't spare him // non posso farci niente, I can't help it (o I can't do anything about it) // non possiamo permetterci quel viaggio, we can't afford that trip // portane più che puoi, bring as much (o as many) as you can; vieni più in fretta che puoi, come as fast as you can; vieni più presto che puoi, come as soon as you can.potere s.m.1 power (anche fig.): potere assoluto, absolute power: avere potere assoluto su un popolo, to hold complete sway over a people; potere esecutivo, legislativo, executive, legislative power; potere centrale, periferico, central, local authority; la divisione del potere in uno stato democratico, the division of power in a democratic state; conflitto di potere tra l'autorità giudiziaria e quella politica, power struggle between the courts and the political authorities; i poteri governativi, governmental powers; il potere temporale del Papa, the temporal power of the Pope; abuso di potere, abuse of power; sete di potere, thirst for power; non ho il potere di decidere su questo punto, I have no power to decide on this point; ho il potere di scegliere ciò che voglio, I have the power to choose what I want; non ho potere su di loro, I have no power over them; avere poteri magici, to have magic powers // al potere, in power: i militari sono al potere, the military are in power; rimanere al potere, to remain in power; si impadronì del potere con un colpo di stato, he came into power through a coup d'état; la sua ascesa al potere fu rapida, his rise to power was rapid; salì al potere nel 1731, he rose to power in 1731; perse il potere nel 1930, he lost power in 1930 // in mio, tuo potere, in my, your power: cadde in suo potere, he fell into his power (o into his hands); la città è caduta in potere del nemico, the city fell into enemy hands; potere decisionale, decision-making power // potere operaio, workers' power // Quarto Potere, ( la stampa) Fourth Estate // Quinto Potere, ( la radio e la televisione) the broadcasting media (o the networks) // (econ.): potere contrattuale, bargaining power; potere di spesa, spending power; potere d'acquisto, purchasing (o buying) power; potere monopolistico, monopoly power; potere economico, economic power; potere di contrarre debiti, borrowing power // (fin.): potere finanziario, financial power; potere liberatorio, ( della moneta) debt-paying power2 (spec. pl.) ( potestà, diritti) powers: i poteri di un ministro, the powers of a minister: dare, conferire a qlcu. il potere di fare qlco., to give s.o. the authority (o the power) to do sthg.; vorrei definire i miei poteri, I should like to define my powers // pieni poteri, full powers; ambasciatore con pieni poteri, (ambassador) plenipotentiary; agire con, avere pieni poteri, to act, to be invested with full powers; nell'azienda gode di pieni poteri, he has full control over the company; dare, conferire pieni poteri, to grant full powers: dare, conferire pieni poteri a qlcu. di fare qlco., to empower s.o. to do sthg.3 ( possibilità) power, possibility; ( capacità) power, capacity: non ha il potere di agire in altro modo, he isn't able to act in any other way4 (fis.) power: potere assorbente, dispersivo, absorbent, dispersive power; potere calorifico, heating power; potere emissivo, emittance; potere rotatorio, rotatory power5 ( influenza) influence, sway: ha un grande potere su di me, he has great influence over me; le tue parole non hanno potere su di me, what you say has no effect on me (o form. your words have no power over me).* * *I [po'tere] sm(gen) poweravere il potere di fare qc — (capacità) to have the power o ability to do sth, (autorità) to have the authority o power to do sth
il quarto potere — (stampa) the fourth estate
non ho nessun potere su di lui — I have no power o influence over him
II [po'tere]essere al potere Pol — to be in power o in office
1. vb irreg aus nei tempi composti prende l'ausiliare del verbo che accompagna1) (possibilità, capacità) can, (sogg : persona) can, to be able tonon è potuto venire — he couldn't come, he was unable to come
non ho potuto farlo — I couldn't o wasn't able o was unable to do it
a più non posso — (correre) as fast as one can, (urlare) as loud as one can
2) (permesso) can, mayposso entrare? — can o may I come in?
3)può anche esser vero — it may o might o could even be truepuò darsi che non venga — he may not o might not come
può essere che non voglia — he may not o might not want to
4)potessimo trovare un po' di pace! — if only we could get a little peace!5)potresti almeno ringraziare! — you could o might at least say thank you!avresti potuto dirmelo! — you could o might have told me!
2. vt irreg* * *I [po'tere]verbo modale (the use of the auxiliary essere or avere in compound tenses depends on the verb in the infinitive that follows)1) (riuscire, essere in grado di) can, to be* able tose potrò permettermelo, comprerò una macchina — if I can afford it, I'll buy a car
2) (per esprimere possibilità) can, may; (più remota) could, might; (per esprimere probabilità, opportunità) may, to be* likely; (più remota) mightpotrebbe essere Andy — it may be Andy; (meno probabile) it might be Andy
potrebbe essere che... — it could be that...
potrebbe capitare che io parta — I could o might leave
può darsi — maybe, perhaps, possibly
può darsi che sia così, ma... — that's as may be, but...
può darsi che i prezzi aumentino — prices may o might rise
"vieni?" - "può darsi" — "will you come" - "I might"
3) (per esprimere permesso, autorizzazione) can, to be* allowed to, may form.gli studenti non possono uscire dall'edificio senza autorizzazione — pupils can't o may not leave o are not allowed to leave the school without permission
4) (nelle richieste) can; (più cortese) would, couldpotreste fare silenzio, per favore? — would you please be quiet?
5) (nelle offerte) can6) (per suggerire, dare un consiglio) can, could7) (essere nella condizione, posizione di) cannon può non o che accettare he has no option but to accept; (per esprimere rimprovero) come hai potuto! how could you! avrebbero potuto o potevano avvertirci they could have warned us; non potevi dirmelo subito? why couldn't you have told me that right away? why didn't you tell me that right away? (per esprimere sorpresa) che può mai volere da me? — what can she possibly want from me?
una persona che può — (che ha denaro) a person of means; (che ha potere) a very influential person
lui può — iron. he's got a lot of pull
10) a più non posso [ correre] as fast as one can; [ lavorare] as hard as one can, flat out; [ mangiare] as much as one can; [ gridare] at the top of one's voice••II [po'tere]volere è potere — prov. where there's a will, there's a way
sostantivo maschile1) (capacità) ability, capability, power-i magici, soprannaturali — magic, supernatural powers
2) (influenza, autorità) power (su over)esercitare un potere su qcn. — to hold sway over sb.
non avere nessun potere su qcn. — to have no power o influence over sb.
3) pol. powerprendere o assumere il potere to take power; rimanere al potere to stay in power; dare pieni -i a qcn. to give sb. full powers; avere pieni -i to have all powers; il quarto potere the fourth estate; il quinto potere — = the broadcasting media
•potere d'acquisto — purchasing o spending power
* * *potere2/po'tere/sostantivo m.1 (capacità) ability, capability, power; avere il potere di fare to be able to do; -i magici, soprannaturali magic, supernatural powers2 (influenza, autorità) power (su over); la tiene in suo potere he's got her in his power; esercitare un potere su qcn. to hold sway over sb.; non avere nessun potere su qcn. to have no power o influence over sb.; non ho il potere di prendere una decisione simile I'm not the one who decides3 pol. power; potere assoluto absolute power; gioco di potere power game; essere al potere to be in power; prendere o assumere il potere to take power; rimanere al potere to stay in power; dare pieni -i a qcn. to give sb. full powers; avere pieni -i to have all powers; il quarto potere the fourth estate; il quinto potere = the broadcasting mediapotere d'acquisto purchasing o spending power; potere esecutivo executive power; potere giudiziario judiciary; potere legislativo legislative power; - i straordinari emergency power. -
88 East Timor
Colony of Portugal from the 16th century to December 1975, with an area of 40,000 square kilometers (18,989 square miles). East Timor is located on the eastern portion of the island of Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. From 1975 to August 1999, when it was forcibly annexed and occupied by Indonesia, until May 2002, when it achieved full independence, East Timor was, in effect, a ward of the United Nations.In the 16th century, the Portuguese established trading posts on the island, but for centuries few Portuguese settled there, and the "colony" remained isolated and neglected. After the Dutch won control of Indonesia, there was a territorial dispute with Portugal as to who "owned" what on the island of Timor. In 1859, this question was decided as the Dutch and Portuguese governments formally divided the island into a Dutch portion (west) and the Portuguese colony (east) and established the frontier. From the late 19th century to World War I, Portugal consolidated its control of East Timor by means of military campaigns against the Timorese tribes. In addition to colonial officials, a few Portuguese missionaries and merchants occupied East Timor, but few Portuguese ever settled there.East Timor's geographic location close to the north coast of Australia and its sharing of one island in the Dutch colony catapulted it into world affairs early in World War II. To forestall a Japanese invasion of Timor, a joint Dutch-Australian expedition landed on 17 December 1941; the Portuguese authorities neither resisted nor cooperated. In February 1942, when Japanese troops landed in Timor, the small allied force fled to the hills and later was evacuated to Australia. Japan occupied all of Timor and the remainder of the Dutch East Indies until Japan's surrender in September 1945. Portugal soon reassumed control.After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, East Timorese nationalist parties hoped for rapid decolonization and independence with Lisbon's cooperation. But on 28 November 1975, before a preoccupied Portugal could work out a formal transfer of power, the Revolutionary Front of Independent East Timor (FRETILIN), then in control of the former colony's capital, declared independence, and, on 7 December 1975, Indonesian armed forces swiftly invaded, occupied, and annexed East Timor. In the following years, a tragic loss of life occurred. Portugal refused to recognize Indonesia's sovereignty over East Timor and claimed legal sovereignty before the United Nations.As Indonesia persistently and brutally suppressed Timorese nationalist resistance, world media attention focused on this still remote island. Several sensational international and Indonesian events altered the status of occupied East Timor, following the continuation of FRETILIN guerrilla resistance. In November 1991, world media disseminated information on the Indonesian forces' slaughter of East Timorese protesters at a cemetery demonstration in the capital of Dili. In 1996, two East Timorese, Bishop Belo and José Ramos Horta, each a symbol of East Timorese resistance and the desire for independence, shared the Nobel Peace Prize. Then, in 1998, in Indonesia, the Suharto regime collapsed and was replaced by a more democratic government, which in January 1999 pledged a free referendum in East Timor. On 30 August 1999, the referendum was held, and nearly 80 percent of the East Timorese voters voted for independence from Indonesia.However, Indonesian armed forces and militias reacted brutally, using intimidation, murder, mayhem, and razing of buildings to try to reverse the people's will. Following some weeks of confusion, a United Nations (UN) armed forces, led by Australia, took control of East Timor and declared it a UN protectorate, to last until East Timor was secure from Indonesian aggression and prepared for full independence. East Timor had changed from a Portuguese colony to an Indonesian protectorate/colony to a fledgling nation-in-the-making.The status of East Timor as a ward of the UN was made official on 25 October 1999, as the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor began to prepare the country for independence. Appalling conditions prevailed: 70 percent of the country's buildings had been destroyed and nearly half of the population of 800,000 had been driven out of East Timor into uneasy refuge in West Timor, under Indonesian control. A territory without an economy, East Timor lacked police, civil servants, schools, and government records.With UN assistance, general elections were held in the spring of 2002; the majority of parliamentary seats were won by FRETILIN, and José "Xanana" Gusmão was elected the first president. On 20 May 2002, East Timor became independent. World luminaries adorned the independence celebrations: UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, former U.S. president Bill Clinton, and other celebrities attended. But East Timor's travails continued with civil strife and uncertainty. -
89 Anschütz, Ottomar
SUBJECT AREA: Photography, film and optics[br]b. 1846 Lissa, Prussia (now Leszno, Poland) d. 1907[br]German photographer, chronophotographer ana inventor.[br]The son of a commercial photographer, Anschütz entered the business in 1868 and developed an interest in the process of instantaneous photography. The process was very difficult with the contemporary wet-plate process, but with the introduction of the much faster dry plates in the late 1870s he was able to make progress. Anschütz designed a focal plane shutter capable of operating at speeds up to 1/1000 of a second in 1883, and patented his design in 1888. it involved a vertically moving fabric roller-blind that worked at a fixed tension but had a slit the width of which could be adjusted to alter the exposure time. This design was adopted by C.P.Goerz, who from 1890 manufactures a number of cameras that incorporated it.Anschütz's action pictures of flying birds and animals attracted the attention of the Prussian authorities, and in 1886 the Chamber of Deputies authorized financial support for him to continue his work, which had started at the Hanover Military Institute in October 1885. Inspired by the work of Eadweard Muybridge in America, Anschütz had set up rows of cameras whose focal-plane shutters were released in sequence by electromagnets, taking twenty-four pictures in about three-quarters of a second. He made a large number of studies of the actions of people, animals and birds, and at the Krupp artillery range at Meppen, near Essen, he recorded shells in flight. His pictures were reproduced, and favourably commented upon, in scientific and photographic journals.To bring the pictures to the public, in 1887 he created the Electro-Tachyscope. The sequence negatives were printed as 90 x 120 mm transparencies and fixed around the circumference of a large steel disc. This was rotated in front of a spirally wound Geissler tube, which produced a momentary brilliant flash of light when a high voltage from an induction coil was applied to it, triggered by contacts on the steel disc. The flash duration, about 1/1000 of a second, was so short that it "froze" each picture as it passed the tube. The pictures succeeded each other at intervals of about 1/30 of a second, and the observer saw an apparently continuously lit moving picture. The Electro-Tachyscope was shown publicly in Berlin at the Kulturministerium from 19 to 21 March 1887; subsequently Siemens \& Halske manufactured 100 machines, which were shown throughout Europe and America in the early 1890s. From 1891 his pictures were available for the home in the form of the Tachyscope viewer, which used the principle of the zoetrope: sequence photographs were printed on long strips of thin card, perforated with narrow slots between the pictures. Placed around the circumference of a shallow cylinder and rotated, the pictures could be seen in life-like movement when viewed through the slots.In November 1894 Anschütz displayed a projector using two picture discs with twelve images each, which through a form of Maltese cross movement were rotated intermittently and alternately while a rotating shutter allowed each picture to blend with the next so that no flicker occurred. The first public shows, given in Berlin, were on a screen 6×8 m (20×26 ft) in size. From 22 February 1895 they were shown regularly to audiences of 300 in a building on the Leipzigstrasse; they were the first projected motion pictures seen in Germany.[br]Further ReadingJ.Deslandes, 1966, Histoire comparée du cinéma, Vol. I, Paris. B.Coe, 1992, Muybridge and the Chronophotographers, London.BC -
90 Behr, Fritz Bernhard
[br]b. 9 October 1842 Berlin, Germanyd. 25 February 1927[br]German (naturalized British in 1876) engineer, promoter of the Lartigue monorail system.[br]Behr trained as an engineer in Britain and had several railway engineering appointments before becoming associated with C.F.M.-T. Lartigue in promoting the Lartigue monorail system in the British Isles. In Lartigue's system, a single rail was supported on trestles; vehicles ran on the rail, their bodies suspended pannier-fashion, stabilized by horizontal rollers running against light guide rails fixed to the sides of the trestles. Behr became Managing Director of the Listowel \& Ballybunion Railway Company, which in 1888 opened its Lartigue system line between those two places in the south-west of Ireland. Three locomotives designed by J.T.A. Mallet were built for the line by Hunslet Engine Company, each with two horizontal boilers, one either side of the track. Coaches and wagons likewise were in two parts. Technically the railway was successful, but lack of traffic caused the company to go bankrupt in 1897: the railway continued to operate until 1924.Meanwhile Behr had been thinking in terms far more ambitious than a country branch line. Railway speeds of 150mph (240km/h) or more then lay far in the future: engineers were uncertain whether normal railway vehicles would even be stable at such speeds. Behr was convinced that a high-speed electric vehicle on a substantial Lartigue monorail track would be stable. In 1897 he demonstrated such a vehicle on a 3mile (4.8km) test track at the Brussels International Exhibition. By keeping the weight of the motors low, he was able to place the seats above rail level. Although the generating station provided by the Exhibition authorities never operated at full power, speeds over 75mph (120 km/h) were achieved.Behr then promoted the Manchester-Liverpool Express Railway, on which monorail trains of this type running at speeds up to 110mph (177km/h) were to link the two cities in twenty minutes. Despite strong opposition from established railway companies, an Act of Parliament authorizing it was made in 1901. The Act also contained provision for the Board of Trade to require experiments to prove the system's safety. In practice this meant that seven miles of line, and a complete generating station to enable trains to travel at full speed, must be built before it was known whether the Board would give its approval for the railway or not. Such a condition was too severe for the scheme to attract investors and it remained stillborn.[br]Further ReadingH.Fayle, 1946, The Narrow Gauge Railways of Ireland, Greenlake Publications, Part 2, ch. 2 (describes the Listowel \& Ballybunion Railway and Behr's work there).D.G.Tucker, 1984, "F.B.Behr's development of the Lartigue monorail", Transactions ofthe Newcomen Society 55 (covers mainly the high speed lines).See also: Brennan, LouisPJGR -
91 Galilei, Galileo
SUBJECT AREA: Photography, film and optics[br]b. 15 February 1564 Pisa, Italyd. 8 January 1642 Arcetri, near Florence, Italy[br]Italian mathematician, astronomer and physicist who established the principle of the pendulum and was first to exploit the telescope.[br]Galileo began studying medicine at the University of Pisa but soon turned to his real interests, mathematics, mechanics and astronomy. He became Professor of Mathematics at Pisa at the age of 25 and three years later moved to Padua. In 1610 he transferred to Florence. While still a student he discovered the isochronous property of the pendulum, probably by timing with his pulse the swings of a hanging lamp during a religious ceremony in Pisa Cathedral. He later designed a pendulum-controlled clock, but it was not constructed until after his death, and then not successfully; the first successful pendulum clock was made by the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens in 1656. Around 1590 Galileo established the laws of motion of falling bodies, by timing rolling balls down inclined planes and not, as was once widely believed, by dropping different weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa. These and other observations received definitive treatment in his Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienzi attenenti alla, meccanica (Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences…) which was completed in 1634 and first printed in 1638. This work also included Galileo's proof that the path of a projectile was a parabola and, most importantly, the development of the concept of inertia.In astronomy Galileo adopted the Copernican heliocentric theory of the universe while still in his twenties, but he lacked the evidence to promote it publicly. That evidence came with the invention of the telescope by the Dutch brothers Lippershey. Galileo heard of its invention in 1609 and had his own instrument constructed, with a convex object lens and concave eyepiece, a form which came to be known as the Galilean telescope. Galileo was the first to exploit the telescope successfully with a series of striking astronomical discoveries. He was also the first to publish the results of observations with the telescope, in his Sidereus nuncius (Starry Messenger) of 1610. All the discoveries told against the traditional view of the universe inherited from the ancient Greeks, and one in particular, that of the four satellites in orbit around Jupiter, supported the Copernican theory in that it showed that there could be another centre of motion in the universe besides the Earth: if Jupiter, why not the Sun? Galileo now felt confident enough to advocate the theory, but the advance of new ideas was opposed, not for the first or last time, by established opinion, personified in Galileo's time by the ecclesiastical authorities in Rome. Eventually he was forced to renounce the Copernican theory, at least in public, and turn to less contentious subjects such as the "two new sciences" of his last and most important work.[br]Bibliography1610, Sidereus nuncius (Starry Messenger); translation by A.Van Helden, 1989, Sidereus Nuncius, or the Sidereal Messenger; Chicago: University of Chicago Press.1623, Il Saggiatore (The Assayer).1632, Dialogo sopre i due massimi sistemi del mondo, tolemaico e copernicano (Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican); translation, 1967, Berkeley: University of California Press.1638, Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienzi attenenti allameccanica (Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences…); translation, 1991, Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books (reprint).Further ReadingG.de Santillana, 1955, The Crime of Galileo, Chicago: University of Chicago Press; also 1958, London: Heinemann.H.Stillman Drake, 1980, Galileo, Oxford: Oxford Paperbacks. M.Sharratt, 1994, Galileo: Decisive Innovator, Oxford: Blackwell.J.Reston, 1994, Galileo: A Life, New York: HarperCollins; also 1994, London: Cassell.A.Fantoli, 1994, Galileo: For Copemicanism and for the Church, trans. G.V.Coyne, South Bend, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.LRD -
92 Junkers, Hugo
SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace[br]b. 3 February 1859 Rheydt, Germanyd. 3 February 1935 Munich, Germany[br]German aircraft designer, pioneer of all-metal aircraft, including the world's first real airliner.[br]Hugo Junkers trained as an engineer and in 1895 founded the Junkers Company, which manufactured metal products including gas-powered hot-water heaters. He was also Professor of Thermodynamics at the high school in Aachen. The visits to Europe by the Wright brothers in 1908 and 1909 aroused his interest in flight, and in 1910 he was granted a patent for a flying wing, i.e. no fuselage and a thick wing which did not require external bracing wires. Using his sheet-metal experience he built the more conventional Junkers J 1 entirely of iron and steel. It made its first flight in December 1915 but was rather heavy and slow, so Junkers turned to the newly available aluminium alloys and built the J 4 bi-plane, which entered service in 1917. To stiffen the thin aluminium-alloy skins, Junkers used corrugations running fore and aft, a feature of his aircraft for the next twenty years. Incidentally, in 1917 the German authorities persuaded Junkers and Fokker to merge, but the Junkers-Fokker Company was short-lived.After the First World War Junkers very rapidly converted to commercial aviation, and in 1919 he produced a single-engined low-wing monoplane capable of carrying four passengers in an enclosed cabin. The robust all-metal F 13 is generally accepted as being the world's first airliner and over three hundred were built and used worldwide: some were still in service eighteen years later. A series of low-wing transport aircraft followed, of which the best known is the Ju 52. The original version had a single engine and first flew in 1930; a three-engined version flew in 1932 and was known as the Ju 52/3m. This was used by many airlines and served with the Luftwaffe throughout the Second World War, with almost five thousand being built.Junkers was always ready to try new ideas, such as a flap set aft of the trailing edge of the wing that became known as the "Junkers flap". In 1923 he founded a company to design and manufacture stationary diesel engines and aircraft petrol engines. Work commenced on a diesel aero-engine: this flew in 1929 and a successful range of engines followed later. Probably the most spectacular of Junkers's designs was his G 38 airliner of 1929. This was the world's largest land-plane at the time, with a wing span of 44 m (144 ft). The wing was so thick that some of the thirty-four passengers could sit in the wing and look out through windows in the leading edge. Two were built and were frequently seen on European routes.[br]Bibliography1923, "Metal aircraft construction", Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, London.Further ReadingG.Schmitt, 1988, Hugh Junkers and His Aircraft, Berlin.1990, Jane's Fighting Aircraft of World War I, London: Jane's (provides details of Junkers's aircraft).J.Stroud, 1966, European Transport Aircraft since 1910, London.P. St J.Turner and H.J.Nowarra, 1971, Junkers: An Aircraft Album, London.JDS -
93 Marey, Etienne-Jules
[br]b. 5 March 1830 Beaune, Franced. 15 May 1904 Paris, France[br]French physiologist and pioneer of chronophotography.[br]At the age of 19 Marey went to Paris to study medicine, becoming particularly interested in the problems of the circulation of the blood. In an early communication to the Académie des Sciences he described a much improved device for recording the pulse, the sphygmograph, in which the beats were recorded on a smoked plate. Most of his subsequent work was concerned with methods of recording movement: to study the movement of the horse, he used pneumatic sensors on each hoof to record traces on a smoked drum; this device became known as the Marey recording tambour. His attempts to study the wing movements of a bird in flight in the same way met with limited success since the recording system interfered with free movement. Reading in 1878 of Muybridge's work in America using sequence photography to study animal movement, Marey considered the use of photography himself. In 1882 he developed an idea first used by the astronomer Janssen: a camera in which a series of exposures could be made on a circular photographic plate. Marey's "photographic gun" was rifle shaped and could expose twelve pictures in approximately one second on a circular plate. With this device he was able to study wing movements of birds in free flight. The camera was limited in that it could record only a small number of images, and in the summer of 1882 he developed a new camera, when the French government gave him a grant to set up a physiological research station on land provided by the Parisian authorities near the Porte d'Auteuil. The new design used a fixed plate, on which a series of images were recorded through a rotating shutter. Looking rather like the results provided by a modern stroboscope flash device, the images were partially superimposed if the subject was slow moving, or separated if it was fast. His human subjects were dressed all in white and moved against a black background. An alternative was to dress the subject in black, with highly reflective strips and points along limbs and at joints, to produce a graphic record of the relationships of the parts of the body during action. A one-second-sweep timing clock was included in the scene to enable the precise interval between exposures to be assessed. The fixed-plate cameras were used with considerable success, but the number of individual records on each plate was still limited. With the appearance of Eastman's Kodak roll-film camera in France in September 1888, Marey designed a new camera to use the long rolls of paper film. He described the new apparatus to the Académie des Sciences on 8 October 1888, and three weeks later showed a band of images taken with it at the rate of 20 per second. This camera and its subsequent improvements were the first true cinematographic cameras. The arrival of Eastman's celluloid film late in 1889 made Marey's camera even more practical, and for over a decade the Physiological Research Station made hundreds of sequence studies of animals and humans in motion, at rates of up to 100 pictures per second. Marey pioneered the scientific study of movement using film cameras, introducing techniques of time-lapse, frame-by-frame and slow-motion analysis, macro-and micro-cinematography, superimposed timing clocks, studies of airflow using smoke streams, and other methods still in use in the 1990s. Appointed Professor of Natural History at the Collège de France in 1870, he headed the Institut Marey founded in 1898 to continue these studies. After Marey's death in 1904, the research continued under the direction of his associate Lucien Bull, who developed many new techniques, notably ultra-high-speed cinematography.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsForeign member of the Royal Society 1898. President, Académie des Sciences 1895.Bibliography1860–1904, Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris.1873, La Machine animale, Paris 1874, Animal Mechanism, London.1893, Die Chronophotographie, Berlin. 1894, Le Mouvement, Paris.1895, Movement, London.1899, La Chronophotographie, Paris.Further Reading1905, Travaux de l'Association de l'Institut Marey, Paris. Brian Coe, 1981, History of Movie Photography, London.——1992, Muybridge and the Chronophotographers, London. Jacques Deslandes, 1966, Histoire comparée du cinéma, Vol. I, Paris.See also: Demenÿ, GeorgesBC / MG -
94 Nobel, Immanuel
[br]b. 1801 Gävle, Swedend. 3 September 1872 Stockholm, Sweden[br]Swedish inventor and industrialist, particularly noted for his work on mines and explosives.[br]The son of a barber-surgeon who deserted his family to serve in the Swedish army, Nobel showed little interest in academic pursuits as a child and was sent to sea at the age of 16, but jumped ship in Egypt and was eventually employed as an architect by the pasha. Returning to Sweden, he won a scholarship to the Stockholm School of Architecture, where he studied from 1821 to 1825 and was awarded a number of prizes. His interest then leaned towards mechanical matters and he transferred to the Stockholm School of Engineering. Designs for linen-finishing machines won him a prize there, and he also patented a means of transforming rotary into reciprocating movement. He then entered the real-estate business and was successful until a fire in 1833 destroyed his house and everything he owned. By this time he had married and had two sons, with a third, Alfred (of Nobel Prize fame; see Alfred Nobel), on the way. Moving to more modest quarters on the outskirts of Stockholm, Immanuel resumed his inventions, concentrating largely on India rubber, which he applied to surgical instruments and military equipment, including a rubber knapsack.It was talk of plans to construct a canal at Suez that first excited his interest in explosives. He saw them as a means of making mining more efficient and began to experiment in his backyard. However, this made him unpopular with his neighbours, and the city authorities ordered him to cease his investigations. By this time he was deeply in debt and in 1837 moved to Finland, leaving his family in Stockholm. He hoped to interest the Russians in land and sea mines and, after some four years, succeeded in obtaining financial backing from the Ministry of War, enabling him to set up a foundry and arms factory in St Petersburg and to bring his family over. By 1850 he was clear of debt in Sweden and had begun to acquire a high reputation as an inventor and industrialist. His invention of the horned contact mine was to be the basic pattern of the sea mine for almost the next 100 years, but he also created and manufactured a central-heating system based on hot-water pipes. His three sons, Ludwig, Robert and Alfred, had now joined him in his business, but even so the outbreak of war with Britain and France in the Crimea placed severe pressures on him. The Russians looked to him to convert their navy from sail to steam, even though he had no experience in naval propulsion, but the aftermath of the Crimean War brought financial ruin once more to Immanuel. Amongst the reforms brought in by Tsar Alexander II was a reliance on imports to equip the armed forces, so all domestic arms contracts were abruptly cancelled, including those being undertaken by Nobel. Unable to raise money from the banks, Immanuel was forced to declare himself bankrupt and leave Russia for his native Sweden. Nobel then reverted to his study of explosives, particularly of how to adapt the then highly unstable nitroglycerine, which had first been developed by Ascanio Sobrero in 1847, for blasting and mining. Nobel believed that this could be done by mixing it with gunpowder, but could not establish the right proportions. His son Alfred pursued the matter semi-independently and eventually evolved the principle of the primary charge (and through it created the blasting cap), having taken out a patent for a nitroglycerine product in his own name; the eventual result of this was called dynamite. Father and son eventually fell out over Alfred's independent line, but worse was to follow. In September 1864 Immanuel's youngest son, Oscar, then studying chemistry at Uppsala University, was killed in an explosion in Alfred's laboratory: Immanuel suffered a stroke, but this only temporarily incapacitated him, and he continued to put forward new ideas. These included making timber a more flexible material through gluing crossed veneers under pressure and bending waste timber under steam, a concept which eventually came to fruition in the form of plywood.In 1868 Immanuel and Alfred were jointly awarded the prestigious Letterstedt Prize for their work on explosives, but Alfred never for-gave his father for retaining the medal without offering it to him.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsImperial Gold Medal (Russia) 1853. Swedish Academy of Science Letterstedt Prize (jointly with son Alfred) 1868.BibliographyImmanuel Nobel produced a short handwritten account of his early life 1813–37, which is now in the possession of one of his descendants. He also had published three short books during the last decade of his life— Cheap Defence of the Country's Roads (on land mines), Cheap Defence of the Archipelagos (on sea mines), and Proposal for the Country's Defence (1871)—as well as his pamphlet (1870) on making wood a more physically flexible product.Further ReadingNo biographies of Immanuel Nobel exist, but his life is detailed in a number of books on his son Alfred.CM -
95 קדושה
קְדוּשָּׁהf. (קָדַש) 1) holiness, sanctity, sacredness; chastity. Yeb.II, 3, a. e. איסור ק׳, v. אִיסּוּר. Kidd.55a, a. fr. קְדוּשַּׁת הגוף an object which is consecrated as such (irredeemable), opp. ק׳ דמים that which is consecrated for its value (redeemable). Tem.10b משום דמפרש ק׳ על הולד because he has pronounced sanctity on the embryo (by dedicating the mother). Ib.a אין ק׳ חלה על עיברין no sanctification takes effect on embryos (by the dedication of the mothers). Naz.VII, 1 נזיר שאין קְדוּשָּׁתוֹ קדושת עולם the Nazarite whose sanctification is not an everlasting one (it ceasing with the expiration of his vow). Ḥag.3b ק׳ ראשונה קִדְּשָׁהּ לשעתה as to the first consecration (of the holy land by Joshua), he consecrated it only for the time being (as long as inhabited and ruled by Israelites); Meg.10b, sq.; Zeb.60b; a. e.Hor.13a זה גדל עמנו בק׳ וזה לאוכ׳ the one (the nathin, v. נָתִין) has grown up with us in holiness (under the influences of the Jewish religion), and the other (the proselyte) has not Snh.58a לידתו בק׳ born in holiness (after his mothers conversion); Yeb.98a, v. הוֹרָת; a. v. fr. 2) sanctification, proclaiming the holiness of the Lord, solemn public act connected with the idea of Israels priesthood. Meg.23b; Ber.21b כל דבר שבק׳ לא יהאוכ׳ no sacred public act should be performed with less than ten persons.Esp. קְדוּשַּׁת הַשֵּׁם a) sanctification of the Name, fidelity to the Jewish faith, martyrdom. Ib. 20a מסרי נפשייהו אק׳ה׳, v. מְסַר. Snh.74b מצווה על ק׳ה׳ bound to sanctify the Name (with his life); a. fr.b) ק׳ השם, or קדושה the third section of the Prayer of Benedictions (תְּפִלָּה), praising the holiness of the Lord; the appeal to the congregation to join in the ‘holy, holy (v. קָדוֹש). R. Hash. IV, 5 סדר ברכות … וק׳ה׳ the order of the benedictions (for the New Years Day) is: Aboth (v. אָב), Gburoth (v. גְּבוּרָה) and the sanctification. Ber.21b עד שלא יגיע … ק׳ before the reader reaches the ḳdushshah. Ib. אין היחיד אומר ק׳ one praying alone should not recite the ḳdushshah; a. fr. קדושת היום (ק׳ שבת, ק׳ יום טוב), also ק׳ declaration of the sanctity of the day ( the Sabbath) in prayer or at meals. R. Hash. l. c. ק׳ היום that section of the Prayer of Benedictions which closes with the benediction ‘who sanctifiest the day Bets.15b לוו עלי וקדשו ק׳ היוםוכ׳ borrow on my (the Lords) account and celebrate the sanctity of the day, and trust me Ber.33b בין ק׳ שבת לק׳יו״ט הבדלת thou hast made a distinction between the way of sanctifying the Sabbath and that of sanctifying the Holy Day. Pes.105a ק׳ על הכוס the proclamation of the sanctity of the Day over a cup of wine (קִידּוּש); a. fr.Pl. קְדוּשּׁוֹת. Kel. I, 6 עשר ק׳ הן there are ten degrees of territorial sanctity. Y.Ber.IX, 13a top; Tanḥ. Kdosh. 4 (ref. to Josh. 24:19) שהוא קדוש בכל מיני ק׳וכ׳ he is holy in all kinds of holy acts, for all his doings are in holiness, his speech is in holiness Lev. R. s. 24 שלש ק׳ three times ‘holy, v. כָּתַר; Yalk. Is. 272. Ber.33a אנשי … ק׳ והבדלות the men of the Great Assembly instituted for Israel blessings (on enjoyments of food), daily prayers, sanctification of sacred days (over wine), and the blessing at the exit of sacred days (v. הַבְדָּלָה); a. fr. 3) a title, his holiness. Y.Ned.VI, end, 40a; Y.Snh.I, 19a top (in irony) לקדושת חנניה to his holiness Hanania (who had usurped the functions of the Palestine authorities). -
96 קְדוּשָּׁה
קְדוּשָּׁהf. (קָדַש) 1) holiness, sanctity, sacredness; chastity. Yeb.II, 3, a. e. איסור ק׳, v. אִיסּוּר. Kidd.55a, a. fr. קְדוּשַּׁת הגוף an object which is consecrated as such (irredeemable), opp. ק׳ דמים that which is consecrated for its value (redeemable). Tem.10b משום דמפרש ק׳ על הולד because he has pronounced sanctity on the embryo (by dedicating the mother). Ib.a אין ק׳ חלה על עיברין no sanctification takes effect on embryos (by the dedication of the mothers). Naz.VII, 1 נזיר שאין קְדוּשָּׁתוֹ קדושת עולם the Nazarite whose sanctification is not an everlasting one (it ceasing with the expiration of his vow). Ḥag.3b ק׳ ראשונה קִדְּשָׁהּ לשעתה as to the first consecration (of the holy land by Joshua), he consecrated it only for the time being (as long as inhabited and ruled by Israelites); Meg.10b, sq.; Zeb.60b; a. e.Hor.13a זה גדל עמנו בק׳ וזה לאוכ׳ the one (the nathin, v. נָתִין) has grown up with us in holiness (under the influences of the Jewish religion), and the other (the proselyte) has not Snh.58a לידתו בק׳ born in holiness (after his mothers conversion); Yeb.98a, v. הוֹרָת; a. v. fr. 2) sanctification, proclaiming the holiness of the Lord, solemn public act connected with the idea of Israels priesthood. Meg.23b; Ber.21b כל דבר שבק׳ לא יהאוכ׳ no sacred public act should be performed with less than ten persons.Esp. קְדוּשַּׁת הַשֵּׁם a) sanctification of the Name, fidelity to the Jewish faith, martyrdom. Ib. 20a מסרי נפשייהו אק׳ה׳, v. מְסַר. Snh.74b מצווה על ק׳ה׳ bound to sanctify the Name (with his life); a. fr.b) ק׳ השם, or קדושה the third section of the Prayer of Benedictions (תְּפִלָּה), praising the holiness of the Lord; the appeal to the congregation to join in the ‘holy, holy (v. קָדוֹש). R. Hash. IV, 5 סדר ברכות … וק׳ה׳ the order of the benedictions (for the New Years Day) is: Aboth (v. אָב), Gburoth (v. גְּבוּרָה) and the sanctification. Ber.21b עד שלא יגיע … ק׳ before the reader reaches the ḳdushshah. Ib. אין היחיד אומר ק׳ one praying alone should not recite the ḳdushshah; a. fr. קדושת היום (ק׳ שבת, ק׳ יום טוב), also ק׳ declaration of the sanctity of the day ( the Sabbath) in prayer or at meals. R. Hash. l. c. ק׳ היום that section of the Prayer of Benedictions which closes with the benediction ‘who sanctifiest the day Bets.15b לוו עלי וקדשו ק׳ היוםוכ׳ borrow on my (the Lords) account and celebrate the sanctity of the day, and trust me Ber.33b בין ק׳ שבת לק׳יו״ט הבדלת thou hast made a distinction between the way of sanctifying the Sabbath and that of sanctifying the Holy Day. Pes.105a ק׳ על הכוס the proclamation of the sanctity of the Day over a cup of wine (קִידּוּש); a. fr.Pl. קְדוּשּׁוֹת. Kel. I, 6 עשר ק׳ הן there are ten degrees of territorial sanctity. Y.Ber.IX, 13a top; Tanḥ. Kdosh. 4 (ref. to Josh. 24:19) שהוא קדוש בכל מיני ק׳וכ׳ he is holy in all kinds of holy acts, for all his doings are in holiness, his speech is in holiness Lev. R. s. 24 שלש ק׳ three times ‘holy, v. כָּתַר; Yalk. Is. 272. Ber.33a אנשי … ק׳ והבדלות the men of the Great Assembly instituted for Israel blessings (on enjoyments of food), daily prayers, sanctification of sacred days (over wine), and the blessing at the exit of sacred days (v. הַבְדָּלָה); a. fr. 3) a title, his holiness. Y.Ned.VI, end, 40a; Y.Snh.I, 19a top (in irony) לקדושת חנניה to his holiness Hanania (who had usurped the functions of the Palestine authorities). -
97 Т-19
ТАК ИЛИ ИНАЧЕ AdvP Invar fixed WO1.advin this or another manner, in some wayin some way or another(in limited contexts) in one form (capacity etc) or another.Это есть действие по отношению к... другим индивидам, так или иначе затрагивающее их интересы (Зиновьев 1). It is an action directed towards...other individuals which, in some way or another, affects their interests (1a).За двадцать лет, что я прожил с Ритой, не было, наверное, ни одной недели, чтобы я так или иначе не касался мыслями этой темы (Трифонов 5). During the whole twenty years that I had lived with Rita, there probably had not been a single week when this thought had not crossed my mind in one form or another (5a).2. (sent advusu. parenth)) whatever the circumstances or situation was or may be, regardless of other (often adverse) circumstancesat any ratein any event anyway be that as it may (in limited contexts) somehow or other.Возможно, вмешательство дяди Сандро в эту знаменитую игру... с точки зрения содержателей европейских игорных домов и покажется недопустимым давлением на психику игрока, я все-таки склонен считать поступок дяди Сандро исторически прогрессивным. Так или иначе он помог сохранить имущество Коли Зархиди, которое, за исключением настенного зеркала, проломанного буфета и других мелочей, полностью перешло в руки советской власти (Искандер 3). From the standpoint of the keeper of a European gambling house, Uncle Sandro's intervention in this famous game...may seem like impermissible pressure on a gambler's psyche. Nevertheless, I am inclined to view Uncle Sandro's deed as historically progressive. At any rate, he helped preserve Kolya Zarhidis' property, which, with the exception of the wall mirror, the broken sideboard, and other trifles, passed intact into the hands of the Soviet authorities (3a).Теперь... мне кажется странным, что эта дешевая «серия Синема -чудо XX века» так увлекла меня, что я... начала думать о театре. Но может быть, эта мысль забрела в мою голову значительно раньше - в тот день, когда, играя героиню Анну, я выходила на сцену?.. Так или иначе, но она явилась, эта чудесная мысль, и что ни день, то все с большей уверенностью принялась распоряжаться моею душой (Каверин 1). Now...it seems strange to me that this cheap series, The Cinema: Miracle of the Twentieth Century, should have carried me away to such an extent that...1 began to think about the theatre. Perhaps, though, the idea had entered my head considerably earlier, that day when, playing the heroine Anna, I had gone out on to the stage.... Any way, this wonderful idea appeared and then with every passing day took command of my heart with greater confidence (1a).Весной началась кампания по сокращению штатов, и я попал под неё... Чтобы замаскировать свою пристрастность ко мне, редактор сократил вместе со мной нашу редакционную уборщицу, хотя сократить следовало двух наших редакционных шофёров... Так или иначе, сокращение состоялось... (Искандер 6). A drive to cut back on personnel was launched that same spring, and I became one of its victims....To avoid being accused of any bias in relation to me, he (the editor) also fired our staff cleaning lady. Actually, he should have fired the two staff chauffeurs....Be that as it may, the staff reduction took place... (6a).Во время одного довольно незначительного застолья, что было особенно обидно, дядя Сандро почувствовал себя плохо. Он почувствовал, что сердце его норовит остановиться. Но он не растерялся. Он ударил себя кулаком по груди, и оно снова заработало, хотя не так охотно, как прежде... Так или иначе, по словам очевидцев, в ту ночь у него хватило мужества и сил в качестве тамады досидеть за столом до утра (Искандер 3). During a certain supper party-to add insult to injury, it was rather a minor one—Uncle Sandro had begun to feel unwell. He felt his heart trying to stop. But he did not get flustered. He struck himself on the chest with his fist, and his heart started working again, although not so willingly as before....Somehow or other, according to eyewitnesses, he had the courage and strength that night to sit at the table as tamada (toastmaster) until morning (3a). -
98 так или иначе
[AdvP; Invar; fixed WO]=====1. [adv]⇒ in this or another manner, in some way:- [in limited contexts] in one form (capacity etc) or another.♦ Это есть действие по отношению к... другим индивидам, так или иначе затрагивающее их интересы (Зиновьев 1). It is an action directed towards...other individuals which, in some way or another, affects their interests (1a).♦ За двадцать лет, что я прожил с Ритой, не было, наверное, ни одной недели, чтобы я так или иначе не касался мыслями этой темы (Трифонов 5). During the whole twenty years that I had lived with Rita, there probably had not been a single week when this thought had not crossed my mind in one form or another (5a).2. [sent adv (usu. parenth)]⇒ whatever the circumstances or situation was or may be, regardless of other (often adverse) circumstances:- at any rate;- in any event;- anyway;- [in limited contexts] somehow or other.♦ Возможно, вмешательство дяди Сандро в эту знаменитую игру... с точки зрения содержателей европейских игорных домов и покажется недопустимым давлением на психику игрока, я всё-таки склонен считать поступок дяди Сандро исторически прогрессивным. Так или иначе он помог сохранить имущество Коли Зархиди, которое, за исключением настенного зеркала, проломанного буфета и других мелочей, полностью перешло в руки советской власти (Искандер 3). From the standpoint of the keeper of a European gambling house, Uncle Sandro's intervention in this famous game...may seem like impermissible pressure on a gambler's psyche. Nevertheless, I am inclined to view Uncle Sandro's deed as historically progressive. At any rate, he helped preserve Kolya Zarhidis' property, which, with the exception of the wall mirror, the broken sideboard, and other trifles, passed intact into the hands of the Soviet authorities (За).♦ Теперь... мне кажется странным, что эта дешёвая "серия Синема - чудо XX века" так увлекла меня, что я... начала думать о театре. Но может быть, эта мысль забрела в мою голову значительно раньше - в тот день, когда, играя героиню Анну, я выходила на сцену?.. Так или иначе, но она явилась, эта чудесная мысль, и что ни день, то всё с большей уверенностью принялась распоряжаться моею душой (Каверин 1). Now...it seems strange to me that this cheap series, The Cinema: Miracle of the Twentieth Century, should have carried me away to such an extent that...I began to think about the theatre. Perhaps, though, the idea had entered my head considerably earlier, that day when, playing the heroine Anna, I had gone out on to the stage.... Any way, this wonderful idea appeared and then with every passing day took command of my heart with greater confidence (1a).=====♦ Весной началась кампания по сокращению штатов, и я попал под неё... Чтобы замаскировать свою пристрастность ко мне, редактор сократил вместе со мной нашу редакционную уборщицу, хотя сократить следовало двух наших редакционных шофёров... Так или иначе, сокращение состоялось... (Искандер 6). A drive to cut back on personnel was launched that same spring, and I became one of its victims....To avoid being accused of any bias in relation to me, he [the editor] also fired our staff cleaning lady. Actually, he should have fired the two staff chauffeurs....Be that as it may, the staff reduction took place... (6a).♦ Во время одного довольно незначительного застолья, что было особенно обидно, дядя Сандро почувствовал себя плохо. Он почувствовал, что сердце его норовит остановиться. Но он не растерялся. Он ударил себя кулаком по груди, и оно снова заработало, хотя не так охотно, как прежде... Так или иначе, по словам очевидцев, в ту ночь у него хватило мужества и сил в качестве тамады досидеть за столом до утра (Искандер 3). During a certain supper party-to add insult to injury, it was rather a minor one - Uncle Sandro had begun to feel unwell. He felt his heart trying to stop. But he did not get flustered. He struck himself on the chest with his fist, and his heart started working again, although not so willingly as before....Somehow or other, according to eyewitnesses, he had the courage and strength that night to sit at the table as tamada [toastmaster] until morning (3a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > так или иначе
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99 Spitze
Spitze f 1. COMP front end (Rechner); 2. GEN (infrml) top of the tree, top, spearhead; 3. WIWI peak • an der Spitze der Entwicklung stehen GEN be at the cutting edge • an der Spitze des Fortschritts GEN in the vanguard of progress; at the cutting edge (ganz vorne dabei) • in der Spitze GEN at the extremes* * *f 1. < Comp> Rechner front end; 2. < Geschäft> top of the tree infrml, top, spearhead; 3. <Vw> peak ■ an der Spitze des Fortschritts < Geschäft> in the vanguard of progress ■ in der Spitze < Geschäft> at the extremes* * *Spitze
remaining margin, head, (Anzeige) lead[ing] story, (Führung) head, lead, (Höchstwert) top[gallant], peak, summit;
• an der Spitze in front, at the top (head) of affairs, at the wheel, paramount, at the top of the ladder;
• Spitzen (Börse) fractional shares, odd lots (US);
• einsame Spitze head and shoulders above the others;
• saisonbedingte Spitze seasonal peak;
• frei verfügbare Spitze free balance;
• Spitze der Behörden top-ranking officials, the leading authorities, heads of government, civic headliners (US);
• Spitzen des Finanz- und Wirtschaftslebens policy-makers of business;
• Spitzen der Gesellschaft cream of society;
• Spitze einer Liste head of a list;
• Spitzen der Ministerialbürokratie administration’s top leaders;
• Spitzen der Stadt principal men of a city, leaders in the community;
• Spitze des Inflationsberges beseitigen to knock the top off its inflation mountain;
• Spitzeerreichen (Verkaufszahlen) to reach the peak;
• in der Spitze 40% erreichen to peak at 40 percent;
• an die Spitze gelangen to zoom to the top;
• beim Börsenschluss meistens an der Spitze liegen to be mostly ahead at the closing bell;
• gemeinsam an der Spitze liegen to come out joint top;
• an der Spitze der Aufwärtsbewegung stehen (Börse) to spearhead the upward trend;
• an der Spitze eines Unternehmens stehen to have control (be on top) of an undertaking, to head a firm;
• zu den Spitzen der Behörde zählen to form the top echelons in civic activities. -
100 Steuer
Steuer f 1. IMP/EXP levy; 2. STEUER tax, duty, imposition; 3. WIWI tax • jmdm. eine Steuer auferlegen STEUER impose a tax on sb • von der Steuer befreit sein STEUER be exempt from taxes, be not subject to taxation • von der Steuer freistellen STEUER exempt sb from tax* * *f 1. <Imp/Exp> levy; 2. < Steuer> tax, duty, imposition; 3. <Vw> tax ■ jmdm. eine Steuer auferlegen < Steuer> impose a tax on sb ■ von der Steuer freistellen < Steuer> exempt sb from tax* * *Steuer
tax, (Abgabe) impost, imposition, assessment, lot (Br.), rate (Br.), (Auto) [steering] wheel, (Zoll) customs duty;
• Steuern und Kosten abgezogen clear;
• abzüglich Steuern less taxes;
• einschließlich Steuer tax included;
• frei von Steuern tax-exempt (-free);
• mit Steuern überladen tax-ridden;
• nach Abzug der Steuern after [deduction for] taxes, tax[es] paid;
• von Steuern erdrückt crushed by (burdened with) taxation;
• vor Steuern pretax, less taxes, grossed;
• vor Berücksichtigung (Abzug) der Steuern prior to deduction of taxes, less taxes;
• zuzüglich Steuer plus tax;
• auf den Verbraucher abgewälzte Steuer tax shifted onto the consumer;
• abzuziehende Steuer tax to be deducted;
• allgemeine Steuern general taxes;
• angefallene Steuern accrued taxes;
• angeglichene Steuer (EU) harmonized tax;
• anteilmäßige Steuer pro-rata (proportional) tax;
• aufgehobene Steuer obsolete tax;
• ausgewiesene Steuern declared taxes;
• mit einem höheren Satz berechnete Steuer higher-rate tax;
• im Abzugswege zu bezahlende Steuer tax payable by deduction;
• zu viel bezahlte Steuer excess tax;
• degressive Steuer degressive tax;
• direkte Steuern tax payable direct, assessed (direct) taxes;
• doppelte Steuer double tax;
• drückende Steuern oppressive taxes;
• einbehaltene Steuern taxes withheld;
• vom Parlament eingeführte (beschlossene) Steuern parliamentary taxes;
• nicht eingegangene Steuern tax-collection shortage;
• einheitliche Steuer uniform tax;
• einmalige Steuer non-recurring tax;
• entstandene Steuern taxes incurred;
• erhobene Steuern taxes levied;
• fortlaufend erhobene Steuer tax by stages;
• jährlich erhobene Steuer annual tax;
• im Veranlagungswege erhobene Steuern assessed taxes;
• erträgliche Steuern reasonable taxation;
• fällige Steuern matured taxes, (Bilanz) accrued taxes payable;
• geschätzte Steuer estimated tax;
• gesparte Steuer duty saved;
• gestaffelte Steuer progressive (graduated) tax;
• nach oben gestaffelte Steuer progressive tax;
• gestundete Steuer deferred tax;
• zu viel gezahlte Steuer excess tax;
• harmonisierte Steuern (EU) harmonized taxes;
• harte Steuern grievous taxes;
• hinterzogene Steuer defrauded (evaded) tax;
• hohe Steuern heavy taxes;
• indirekte Steuern expenditure (indirect, outlay, excise) taxes, excise [duty];
• innerstaatliche Steuern internal taxes;
• kommunale Steuern county rates (Br.), local (municipal) taxes (US);
• latente Steuern (Bilanz) deferred taxes;
• laufende Steuern U.K. taxation (Br.);
• negative Steuern negative taxes;
• örtliche Steuern local rates (taxes, US);
• pauschalierte Steuer composition (lump-sum) tax, all-in-one rate;
• progressive Steuer progressive (graduated) tax;
• prohibitive Steuer prohibitive tax;
• regressive Steuer tax on a descending scale;
• rückständige Steuern tax [in] arrears, arrears of taxes, delinquent (US) (back) taxes;
• rückwirkende Steuer regressive tax;
• sonstige Steuern taxes other than federal income (US);
• städtische Steuern rates (Br.), local (municipal, US) taxes;
• vom Pächter zu tragende Steuern taxes payable by the tenant;
• überfällige Steuern back taxes;
• überhöhte (übermäßige) Steuern excessive taxes;
• überzahlte Steuer excess (overpaid) duty;
• umfassende Steuer blanket tax;
• unerhobene Steuer unlevied tax;
• unwirtschaftliche Steuer nuisance tax;
• veranlagte Steuer assessment, assessed (scheduled) tax;
• verdeckte Steuer stealth tax;
• vereinnahmte Steuer tax suffered;
• verschleierte (versteckte) Steuer hidden tax;
• völkerrechtswidrige Steuer illegal tax;
• im Abzugswege zahlbare Steuern tax payable by deduction;
• in Raten zahlbare Steuer duty payable on instalment;
• zu zahlende Steuer assessment, rating (Br.);
• in Naturalien zu zahlende Steuer tax in kind;
• zurückvergütete Steuer refunded tax;
• zusätzliche Steuer additional tax;
• zweckgebundene Steuern apportioned taxes;
• Steuer auf Abfindungen bei vorzeitiger Pensionierung tax on individual retirement arrangement;
• Steuern und Abgaben taxes and dues;
• inländische Steuern und Abgaben internal revenue taxes (US);
• indirekte Steuern auf die Ansammlung von Kapital indirect taxes on the raising of capital;
• Steuern für Ausgaben im privaten Bereich private expenditure taxes;
• Steuer für Devisenausländer non-resident tax;
• Steuern vom Einkommen, vom Ertrag und vom Vermögen taxes on income and property;
• Steuern auf im Ausland angefallene Einkünfte (Erträge) tax on foreign earnings;
• Steuern und sonstige Einkünfte general fund;
• Steuern auf Einkünfte aus selbstständiger Arbeit tax on income or profits from trade, profession or vocation;
• Steuern der EU-Bediensteten tax paid by European civil servants;
• Steuern und Gebühren taxes and fees
• Steuer auf alkoholische Getränke alcoholic beverage tax (Br.), liquor excise tax (US), liquor excise tax (US);
• Steuer auf nicht ausgeschüttete Gewinne undistributed profits tax, accumulated earnings tax (US);
• Steuer auf Grundbesitz general property tax (US);
• Steuer auf kurzfristige Kursgewinne short-term capital gains tax;
• Steuer mit höherem Satz higher-rate tax;
• Steuer mit normalem Steuertarif basic tax rate;
• Steuer auf selbstständige Tätigkeit tax in respect of any profession or vocation;
• Steuern und Umlagen rates and taxes;
• Steuern vom Vermögen tax on capital;
• Steuer auf das bewegliche (persönliche) Vermögen personal tax (US);
• Steuern auf den Wertzuwachs (Doppelbesteuerungsabkommen) taxes on capital appreciation;
• Steuer auf Wettgewinne tax on racing bets;
• Zölle und Steuern customs and excise entries;
• Steuern, Zölle und Abgaben taxes, duties, imposts and excises (US);
• Steuern abführen to pay taxes;
• Steuer gleich vom Ertrag abführen to pay a tax at the source;
• Steuern an die Finanzverwaltung abführen to hand over a tax to the commissioners of the Inland Revenue (Br.);
• Steuer abschaffen to abolish a tax;
• Steuer in Etappen abschaffen to phase out a tax;
• von der Steuer absetzen to deduct from the tax;
• Steuer auf den Kunden abwälzen to pass on (shift) a tax to the customer;
• Steuer anrechnen to impute a tax, (Doppelbesteuerungsabkommen) to credit taxes;
• in USA gezahlte Steuer in der Bundesrepublik anrechnen to allow United States taxes as credit against Federal Republic taxes;
• neue Steuer auferlegen to impose a new tax on the people;
• Steuer wieder aufheben to withdraw (abandon, back down, eliminate) a tax;
• Steuer aufschlüsseln to break down a tax;
• Steuern ausschreiben to levy taxes, to tax (US);
• von der Steuer befreien to frank (exempt, relieve) from a tax;
• Steuern einfach als Geschäftskosten behandeln to treat taxes simply as business expense;
• mit Steuern belasten (belegen) to lay (impose, burden) taxes upon;
• Höhe einer Steuer berechnen to assess (fix, compute the amount of) a tax;
• Steuern bereitstellen to allow (make provisions) for taxation;
• sich über zu hohe Steuern beschweren to grumble at high taxation;
• Steuer beseitigen to abolish a tax;
• Steuern bezahlen to return taxes to the treasury, to pay one’s taxes;
• Steuern nach dem Vermögen bezahlen to pay scot and lot (Br.);
• bei der Steuer in Abzug bringen to relieve;
• Steuer zum Normalsatz in Abzug bringen to deduct income tax at the standard rate from payment;
• Steuer einbehalten to retain a tax;
• Steuer bei der Lohnzahlung einbehalten to withhold a tax from wage payment (US);
• Steuer an der Quelle einbehalten to deduct a tax at source;
• Steuer einführen to impose a tax on the people;
• sich für niedrigere Steuern einsetzen to fight for lower taxes;
• Steuern eintreiben to collect (exact) taxes;
• Steuern einziehen to collect taxes;
• Steuern erheben to raise revenue, to levy (lay) taxes;
• Steuer an der Quelle erheben to levy a tax at the source;
• Steuern erhöhen to increase (raise) the taxes, to raise tax rates;
• Steuer erlassen to remit (abate) a tax;
• Steuer ermäßigen to reduce (lower, cut down) a tax;
• Steuer erstatten to repay (refund) a tax;
• überzahlte Steuer erstatten to refund an excess of tax;
• Steuern festsetzen to assess (graduate) taxes upon;
• Steuer herabsetzen to reduce (lower, abate, cut down) a tax;
• j. zu einer Steuer heranziehen to assess (tax, US) s. o.;
• Steuern hereinholen to get in taxes;
• Steuern hinterziehen to evade [paying] a tax, to defraud the revenue [authorities];
• Steuer auf etw. legen to impose (levy) a tax on s. th., to put (lay) a duty [up]on s. th.;
• größere Geldbeträge für die Steuer aufbringen müssen to have to fork out a lot of money to the collector of taxes;
• Steuer niederschlagen to drop a tax;
• Steuer pauschalieren to compound for a tax;
• Steuer rückvergüten to refund a tax;
• von Steuern befreit sein to be exempt from taxes;
• von der Steuer erfasst sein to be in the tax net;
• von der Steuer schon erfasst sein to have suffered tax;
• mit Steuern verbunden sein to involve taxes;
• Steuern senken to lighten (lower, cut [down]) the taxes;
• Steuern sparen to save on [income] taxes;
• Steuer stunden to defer payment of taxes;
• Steuer überwälzen to shift (pass on) a tax;
• Steuer umgehen to dodge a tax, to avoid payment of a tax;
• Steuern umlegen to apportion taxes;
• der Steuer unterliegen to be taxable (liable to a tax);
• nicht der Steuer unterliegen to be tax-exempt;
• der Steuer unterwerfen to fiscalize;
• nur in der Stadt selbst getätigte Umsätze der Steuer unterwerfen to allocate only receipts from sales within the city for tax purpose;
• Steuer veranlagen to assess a tax;
• Steuer verlangen to charge duty;
• Steuer vermeiden to avoid (dodge) taxes;
• Steuern verpachten to farm out taxes;
• 500 Euro an Steuern zahlen to pay euro 500 in taxes;
• höhere Steuern zahlen to write bigger tax cheques (Br.) (checks, US);
• zu niedrige Steuern zahlen to underpay taxes;
• für Steuern zurückstellen to allow (make provisions) for taxation;
• in Amerika fällige Steuern auf ausländische Einkünfte bis zur Transfermöglichkeit zurückstellen to defer American tax on income from abroad until it is repatriated;
• gezahlte Steuer zurückverlangen to claim tax back;
• Steuer-ABC taxation primer;
• Steuerabgabe levy.
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