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  • 41 образ

    image, form, manner, way, transform, pattern
    Более общего типа результат формулируется следующим образом. - The following is a more general result of the same kind.
    Выбирая подходящим образом х и у, мы можем (получить и т. п.)... - By suitable choice of x and у it is possible to...
    Еще раз, выбирая подходящим образом L, мы можем... - Again, by making a suitable choice of L, we can...
    Задача формулируется следующим образом. - The problem is specified as follows.
    Из анализа соотношения (1) очевидным образом следует, что... - It is evident from inspection of (1) that...
    Метод, приведенный в этом параграфе, подобным образом может быть применен к... - The method of sections may be applied in a similar way to...
    Мы моделируем ситуацию следующим образом. - We model the situation as follows.
    Мы можем взглянуть на эту ситуацию с более общей точки зрения следующим образом. - We can look at this situation in general terms as follows.
    Мы можем выразить это более формально следующим образом. - A more formal way of saying this is as follows.
    Мы можем дать простое доказательство этой теоремы следующим образом. - We can give a simple proof of this theorem as follows.
    Мы можем получить данный результат следующим образом. - We can obtain the result as follows.
    Наилучшим образом проблема исследуется с использованием теории... - The problem is best approached through the theory of...
    Объяснить это наилучшим образом можно с помощью примеров. - This is best made clear by means of examples.
    Они (= результаты и т. п. ) должны пониматься следующим образом. - They are to be understood as follows.
    Подобные образы ценны как концептуальная помощь, если только мы не... - Such pictures are valuable as conceptual aids so long as we do not...
    Подобным образом можно было бы спросить, действительно ли... - In a similar way, one may ask whether...
    Подобным образом можно показать, что... - In like manner it can be shown that...
    Подобным образом мы легко можем выписать уравнение... - In the same way we can easily write down the equation of...
    Подобным образом мы можем... - In this manner we can... I
    Подобным образом мы можем определить... - We can, in a similar way, define...
    Подобным образом мы определяем (= вводим)... - Likewise, we define...
    Подытожим это следующим образом. - This we summarize by saying that...
    (= оставшиеся) члены, мы получаем... - Transforming the remaining terms in a similar manner, we obtain...
    Различные члены из соотношения (4) интерпретируются следующим образом. - The various terms in (4) are interpreted as follows.
    Действуя подобным образом, мы можем выразить... - Following a similar procedure, we may express...
    Точно таким же образом можно показать, что... - It can be shown by an exactly similar process that...
    Таким образом, важно узнать основные свойства... - Thus, it is important to understand the basic properties of...
    Таким образом, возможно выразить F в терминах... - It is therefore possible to express F in terms of...
    Таким образом, данный результат доказан. - The result is therefore established.
    Таким образом, имеется близкая аналогия между... и.... - There is thus a close analogy between... and....
    Таким образом, мы можем обобщить результаты из первого параграфа и сообщить, что... - Thus, we can generalize the results of Section 1 and state that...
    Таким образом, мы подготовили (все) для... - In this way the stage was set for...
    Таким образом, мы получаем выражения... - In this way we obtain the expressions...
    Таким образом, мы пренебрегаем различием между... - We thus ignore the distinction between...
    Таким образом, наша задача сводится к вычислению... - Our problem becomes, therefore, one of evaluating...
    Таким образом, наше обсуждение свелось к
    (= ограничилось)... - Thus far our discussion has been limited to...
    Таким образом, проблема становится задачей выбора... - The problem thus becomes one of choosing...
    Таким образом, теорема может быть переформулирована следующим образом. - Thus the theorem can be rephrased as follows.
    То же самое можно сказать еще следующим образом:... - Another way of putting it is that...
    Чтобы упорядочить все эти идеи нужным образом, мы... - In order to place these ideas in their proper framework, we...
    Эти константы должны быть выбраны таким образом, чтобы... - These constants must be chosen in such a manner that...
    Эти результаты можно очевидным образом обобщить (на случай и т. п.)... - These results can be extended in an obvious way to...
    Это достигается следующим образом. - This is achieved as follows.
    Это естественным образом приводило к различным схемам для... - It led naturally to various schemes for...
    Это могло бы быть сделано следующим образом. - This may be done as follows.
    Это могло бы быть формально выражено следующим образом. - This may be expressed formally as follows.
    Это может быть получено следующим образом. - This can be obtained as follows.
    Это можно доказать следующим образом. - This may be proved as follows.
    Это обозначение распространяется обычным образом на... - This notation is extended in an obvious manner for...
    Это очевидным образом вытекает из того факта, что... - This is clearly borne out by the fact that...
    Это строится следующим образом. - It is constructed as follows.
    Этот метод очевидным образом может быть распространен на (случай)... - This process can clearly be extended to...

    Русско-английский словарь научного общения > образ

  • 42 применять

    (= применить, использовать) apply, adapt, employ, use, make use of
    В основном они спроектированы для того, чтобы применять... - These are generally designed to make use of...
    В последний раз мы не применяли (= не обращались, не прибегали к) теорему 3.2. - Last time we were not appealing to Theorem 3.2.
    В таком случае мы обязаны применить чисто численную технику. - In that case, we must resort to a purely numerical technique.
    Важно, чтобы мы умели бы применять идею... - It is important that we be able to apply the concept of...
    Возможно, что безопасно применить метод... к... - It is probably safe to apply the method of... to...
    Давайте применим наше правило к простому случаю... - Let us now apply our rule to the simple case of...
    Данное рассуждение можно одинаково хорошо применить к/в... - The argument can be applied equally well to...
    Данный метод невозможно применить, когда/ если... - The method is not applicable when...
    Данный метод одинаково успешно можно применять к... - The method can equally well be applied to...
    Для... можно применить несколько методов. - Several methods are available for...
    Метод, приведенный в этом параграфе, подобным образом может быть применен к... - The method of sections may be applied in a similar way to...
    Мы должны тщательно следить за тем, чтобы не применялось (что-л)... - We must be careful not to imply that...
    Мы могли бы применить эти рассуждения, например, к... - We may apply these considerations, for example, to...
    Мы можем применить некоторые результаты этой главы для того, чтобы проиллюстрировать... - We may apply some of the results of this chapter to illustrate...
    Мы можем сразу применить данную теорему, чтобы найти... - We can at once apply this theorem to find...
    Мы можем, конечно, применить теорему 1 к случаю, где/ когда... - We can, of course, apply Theorem 1 to the case where...
    Мы применим наши результаты к одному простому случаю. - We shall apply our results to a simple case.
    Мы применяем метод асимптотических разложений, использованный в главе 1, к... - We apply the asymptotic expansion method used in Ch. 1 to...
    Мы рекомендуем не применять мягкие пластики в этом случае. - We advise against the use of soft plastics in this application.
    Мы считаем, что метод... можно применять к/в... - We believe that the method of... is applicable to...
    Мы уже применили здесь один специальный случай (чего-л). - We have used here a special case of...
    Однако оба этих процесса легко могут быть применены в/к... - However, both of these processes may easily be adapted to...
    Подобное рассуждение можно применить к/в... - A similar argument may be applied to...
    Подобный алгоритм можно применить для решения уравнения (1). - A similar process can be applied to (1).
    Полученные соотношения можно было бы также применить в/к... - The relations obtained may also be applied to...
    Поэтому мы применяем слегка модифицированный метод. - We therefore adopt a slightly different method.
    Проблема, которую мы обязаны позднее рассмотреть, чтобы применять данную идею, состоит в том, что... - A problem that we must eventually face in making use of this concept is...
    Смит [1] применил этот метод к... - Smith [1] has applied this method to...
    Соответствующий анализ можно применить в/к... - A corresponding analysis can be applied to...
    Тот же метод можно применять в/к... - The same method may be applied to...
    Эйнштейн применил точно те же самые идеи к... - Einstein applied precisely the same ideas to...
    Эти методы нельзя применять в случае, когда... - These methods are not applicable in the case of...
    Это рассуждение можно одинаково хорошо применить к... - The argument can be applied equally well to...
    Этот обобщение нельзя применять в случае... - This generalization cannot be applied to the case of...
    Этот принцип был применен при производстве... - This principle has been applied to the manufacture of...

    Русско-английский словарь научного общения > применять

  • 43 Saat

    f; -, en; AGR.
    1. (Säen) sowing
    2. (Saatgut) seed(s Pl.); (Same) seed (auch fig.); die Saat geht auf the seed is coming up; fig. the results are beginning to show; die Saat der Gewalt ( geht auf) the seeds of violence (are bearing fruit)
    3. (Getreide) crops Pl.; junge Saat young crops
    * * *
    die Saat
    (Saatgut) seed;
    (Vorgang) sowing
    * * *
    [zaːt]
    f -, -en
    1) (= das Säen) sowing
    2) (= Samen, Saatgut) seed(s) (auch fig)

    die Sáát ist aufgegangen (lit)the seed has begun to grow; (fig) the seeds have borne fruit

    die Sáát für etw legen (fig)

    wie die Sáát, so die Ernte (prov) ohne Sáát keine Ernte (prov) — ohne Sáát keine Ernte (prov) as you sow, so shall you reap (Prov)

    3) (= junges Getreide) young crop(s pl), seedlings pl
    * * *
    <-, -en>
    [za:t]
    f
    1. kein pl (das Säen)
    die \Saat sowing
    bei der \Saat sein to be sowing
    2. (Saatgut) seed[s pl]
    3. (gesprießte Halme) young crop[s pl], seedlings pl
    * * *
    die; Saat, Saaten
    1) (das Gesäte) [young] crops pl.
    2) o. Pl. (das Säen) sowing
    3) (Samenkörner) seed[s pl.]
    * * *
    Saat f; -, en; AGR
    1. (Säen) sowing
    2. (Saatgut) seed(s pl); (Same) seed (auch fig);
    die Saat geht auf the seed is coming up; fig the results are beginning to show;
    die Saat der Gewalt (geht auf) the seeds of violence (are bearing fruit)
    3. (Getreide) crops pl;
    junge Saat young crops
    * * *
    die; Saat, Saaten
    1) (das Gesäte) [young] crops pl.
    2) o. Pl. (das Säen) sowing
    3) (Samenkörner) seed[s pl.]
    * * *
    -en f.
    seed n.
    sowing n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Saat

  • 44 Historical Portugal

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

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 45 приводить

    reduce, reduce to, bring, cite, deduce, list, adduce, enter
    Были приведены дальнейшие аргументы, показавшие, что... - Further arguments were given which showed that...
    Было бы легко привести значительно больше примеров... - It would be easy to give many more examples of...
    В основном, различные подходы приводят к... - Different approaches will, in general, lead to...
    В свою очередь это может привести к тому, что... - This in turn can lead to...
    В таблице 1 мы приводим вместе все данные относительно... - In Table 1 we summarize the...
    В этом приложении мы приводим результаты... - In this appendix we present the results of...
    Все эти данные приводили к очевидному требованию, что... - All this evidence led to a clear requirement that...
    Дальнейшее рассуждение затем привело бы к идее... - Further argument would then lead to the idea of...
    Данная процедура может быть продолжена, она приводит к... - The procedure can be continued, yielding...
    Здесь мы приводим другой пример (чего-л). - We give here another example of...
    Здесь мы приводим некоторые формулы для... - Неге we give some formulae for...
    Исследование каждого случая отдельно приводит к... - Examination of each individual case leads to...
    Можно привести еще одно замечание. - One further observation may be made.
    Мы можем привести геометрическую интерпретацию для... -It is possible to give a geometric interpretation of...
    Мы не можем привести здесь полный ответ. - We cannot give a complete answer here.
    Мы не приводим это рассуждение со всеми подробностями по следующим причинам. - We do not present this argument in detail for the following reasons.
    Мы приводим ниже значения для... - We quote below the values of...
    Мы теперь приведем приложение уравнения (5). - We now give an application of (5).
    Это привело нас к предложению, что... - We are led to the suggestion that...
    Наши рассуждения в предыдущем параграфе могли бы привести нас к предположению, что... - Our work in the previous section might lead us to suspect that...
    Однако здесь можно привести очень грубый довод. - A very rough reason, however, can be given here.
    Описанный здесь метод всегда приводит... - The procedure described here always yields...
    Перед тем как продолжить приводить примеры, мы приведем важное замечание, что... - Before proceeding to give examples, we make the important observation that...
    Подобные повреждения могут привести к потере... - Such injuries can result in a loss of...
    Понятно, что только один этот процесс не мог бы привести к... - Clearly such a process alone could not lead to...
    Предыдущее обсуждение приводит к идее, что... - The preceding discussion leads to the idea that...
    Приведем более полное доказательство, данное Гильбертом [2]. - A fuller proof, given by Hilbert [2], is as follows.
    Приведем исключения, которые указывает Смит [1]. - Smith [1] points out certain exceptions as follows.
    Приведем некоторый основной критерий для... - Let us list some major criteria for...
    Приведем соответствующие численные величины:... - The corresponding numerical values are as follows:...
    Приведем теперь пример, в котором... - We now give an example in which...
    Процесс приводит к замене в... - The process leads to a change in...
    Следовательно, мы обязаны попытаться развить теорию, которая приводит к... - Hence, we must try to develop a theory that leads to...
    Смит [1] приводит убедительный пример существования... - Smith [l] makes a persuasive case for the existence of...
    Сначала мы приведем некоторый дополнительный материал относительно... - We begin with some additional material relating to...
    Сначала мы приведем один результат из... - We first quote a result from...
    Такая практика приводит к серьезным недоразумениям. - This practice leads to serious confusion.
    Тем не менее эта формальная работа привела к конкретному результату. - Nevertheless, this formal work has produced a concrete result. I
    Тем самым нас довольно настойчиво приводит к идее, что... - This suggests quite strongly that...
    Теперь мы приведем некоторые экспериментальные данные относительно... - We shall now give some experimental data concerning...
    Теперь мы приведем список наиболее важных тождеств, включающих... - We shall now list the most important identities involving...
    Теперь мы приведем явную характеристику... - We now give an explicit characterization of...
    Теперь приведем несколько конкретных примеров. - A few concrete examples are in order.
    Чтобы привести еще более простой пример, мы можем рассмотреть... - То take an even simpler example, we can consider...
    Элегантное доказательство, которое мы здесь приводим, в основном принадлежит Гильберту. - The elegant proof we give is essentially due to Hilbert.
    Эти кажущиеся тривиальными результаты приводят к... - These seemingly trivial results lead to...
    Эти результаты мы приводим в таблице 1 для трех значений г. - The results are set out in Table 1 for three values of r.
    Это выражение можно привести к более удобному виду. - This expression can be put in a more convenient form.
    Это доказательство слишком сложное, чтобы приводить его здесь. - The proof is too complicated to give here.
    Это естественным образом приводило к различным схемам для... - It led naturally to various schemes for...
    Это заключение базируется на тех же самых идеях, которые приводят к... - This conclusion is based on the same ideas that lead to...
    Это могло бы также привести к лучшему пониманию... - This could also lead to a better understanding of...
    Это не приведет к ошибке, потому что... - This will not give rise to confusion because...
    Это не приводит ни к каким концептуальным трудностям, однако... - This introduces no conceptual difficulties, but...
    Это нестрогое рассуждение приводит нас к... - This crude argument leads to...
    Это позволяет нам привести уравнение (1) к следующему виду... - This enables us to reduce (1) to the form...
    Это привело нескольких авторов к заключению, что... - This has led several authors to believe that...
    Это приводит к возникновению так называемого... - This gives rise to the so-called...
    Это приводит к возрастанию... - This involves an increase in...
    Это приводит к выводу, что... - This carries the implication that...
    Это приводит к концепции... - This leads to a conception in which...
    Это приводит к новым концепциям. - This leads to new conceptions.
    Это приводит к полезным методам обращения с... - This leads to useful ways of dealing with...
    Это приводит к противоречию, и, следовательно, доказательство закончено. - This gives a contradiction, and the proof is complete.
    Это приводит к рассмотрению темы... - This leads into the topic of...
    Это приводит к следующему определению. - This motivates the following definition.
    Это приводит к тому, что известно как... - This leads to what is known as...
    Это приводит нас к важному свойству... - This leads us to an important property of...
    Это приводит нас к идее постулировать существование... - This leads us to postulate the existence of...
    Этот результат автоматически приводит к необходимости изучения... - This result automatically leads to a study of...

    Русско-английский словарь научного общения > приводить

  • 46 cojear

    v.
    1 to limp (person).
    Ricardo cojea cuando mendiga Richard limps when he goes begging.
    2 to wobble (forniture).
    3 to be faulty (argumento).
    4 to falter, to totter.
    Su decisión cojeó al verla His decision faltered upon seeing her.
    * * *
    1 (persona) to limp, hobble
    2 (muebles) to wobble
    \
    cojear del mismo pie familiar to have the same faults
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    VI
    1) [persona] (=estar cojo) to limp, hobble (along); (=ser cojo) to be lame

    cojea de la pierna izquierda[temporalmente] she's limping on her left leg; [permanentemente] she's lame in her left leg, she has a limp in her left leg

    2) [mueble] to wobble, be wobbly
    * * *
    verbo intransitivo
    1)
    a) persona/animal (por herida, dolor) to limp; ( permanentemente) to be lame

    entró cojeandohe limped o hobbled in

    b) silla/mesa to wobble, rock
    2) (fam) explicación/definición to fall short
    * * *
    = limp, walk with + a hobble, hobble (along).
    Ex. Both elements must be present; having commitment without resources -- or the reverse -- necessarily results in a lopsided effort that limps along ineffectively.
    Ex. Later she requires another operation because her feet are curling up which causes her to walk with a hobble.
    Ex. He went from hobbling to trotting, to running to climbing staircases.
    * * *
    verbo intransitivo
    1)
    a) persona/animal (por herida, dolor) to limp; ( permanentemente) to be lame

    entró cojeandohe limped o hobbled in

    b) silla/mesa to wobble, rock
    2) (fam) explicación/definición to fall short
    * * *
    = limp, walk with + a hobble, hobble (along).

    Ex: Both elements must be present; having commitment without resources -- or the reverse -- necessarily results in a lopsided effort that limps along ineffectively.

    Ex: Later she requires another operation because her feet are curling up which causes her to walk with a hobble.
    Ex: He went from hobbling to trotting, to running to climbing staircases.

    * * *
    cojear [A1 ]
    vi
    A
    1
    «persona/animal»: cojea del pie derecho (ahora) she's limping on her right foot; (permanentemente) she's lame in her right leg
    entró cojeando he limped o hobbled in
    pie1 m A 2. (↑ pie (1))
    2 «silla/mesa» to wobble, rock
    B ( fam)
    «explicación/definición»: así la explicación cojea as it stands, the explanation falls short o doesn't stand up o is lacking
    * * *

    cojear ( conjugate cojear) verbo intransitivo
    a) (por herida, dolor) to limp;

    ( permanentemente) to be lame;
    entró cojeando he limped o hobbled in

    b) [silla/mesa] to wobble

    c) (fam) [explicación/definición] to fall short

    cojear verbo intransitivo
    1 (caminar defectuosamente) to limp, hobble
    2 (bailar un mueble) to wobble
    ♦ Locuciones: familiar cojear del mismo pie, to have the same faults
    familiar saber de qué pie cojea (alguien), to know someone's weak spots
    ' cojear' also found in these entries:
    English:
    hobble
    - lame
    - limp
    * * *
    cojear vi
    1. [persona, animal] [ser cojo] to be lame;
    [temporalmente] to limp;
    cojea desde el accidente she's had a limp since the accident;
    el perro cojea de una pata the dog is lame in one leg;
    saber de qué pie cojea alguien to know sb's weak points;
    los dos cojean del mismo pie they both have the same problem
    2. [mueble] to wobble
    3. [razonamiento, frase] to be faulty;
    su teoría cojea en varios puntos his theory has several weak points
    * * *
    v/i
    1 de persona limp, hobble
    2 de mesa, silla wobble
    * * *
    cojear vi
    1) : to limp
    2) : to wobble, to rock
    3)
    cojear del mismo pie : to be two of a kind
    * * *
    cojear vb
    2. (mueble) to be wobbly

    Spanish-English dictionary > cojear

  • 47 desigual

    adj.
    1 different (diferente).
    2 changeable.
    3 unequal, irregular, different, asymmetric.
    4 rough, uneven, up-and-down.
    * * *
    1 (gen) unequal, uneven
    2 (diferente) different, unequal
    3 (irregular) uneven, irregular
    4 (no liso) uneven, rough
    5 (variable) changeable
    * * *
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=diferente) different

    los ciudadanos reciben un trato desigual — people are treated differently, people are not treated equally o the same

    2) [lucha, batalla] unequal
    3) (=irregular) [terreno, calidad] uneven; [letra] erratic
    4) (=variable) [tiempo] changeable; [carácter] unpredictable
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( diferente)
    b) ( desequilibrado) < lucha> unequal; < fuerzas> unevenly-matched
    2) ( irregular) <terreno/superficie> uneven; < letra> uneven, irregular; < calidad> variable, varying (before n); < rendimiento> inconsistent, erratic
    * * *
    = patchy [patchier -comp., patchiest -sup.], uneven, unequal, asymmetric, inequal, inequitable, spotty, ragged, asymmetrical, craggy [craggier -comp., craggiest -sup.], lumpy [lumpier -comp., lumpiest -sup.], unbalanced, imbalanced.
    Ex. The retrospective bibliographic control mechanism is somewhat patchy but there are some large scale works.
    Ex. Not surprisingly this can lead to gaps in coverage, and uneven coverage of subjects.
    Ex. However, problems arose as a result of combining headings of unequal importance and the multiplicity of languages involved.
    Ex. These graphs are represented in the form of similarity matrices which are asymmetric.
    Ex. Statistics show the inequal geographical distribution of these libraries, with 74% of university libraries to be found in the north and central regions, while only 26% are found in the south.
    Ex. Librarianship is an occupation dominated by women and subject to inequitable compensation.
    Ex. Enforcement of library policies is spotty at best.
    Ex. Even in more mainstream publishing, despite the ubiquity of word processors, which can so easily produce justified text, ragged right margins are becoming more common, even fashionable.
    Ex. MPEG is more expensive and complicated but more powerful and better suited to asymmetrical applications such as CD-ROM data bases.
    Ex. This is a series of meditative poems in which the author chronicles an encounter with the craggy Atlantic coastline of Brittany.
    Ex. Between 9 and 12 months, lumpy or chopped foods, such as vegetables, meats, or cottage cheese, may be introduced.
    Ex. Another problem with the main classes is that are unbalanced.
    Ex. The article includes two great maps, which show regions in which there may be a danger of imbalanced markets.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( diferente)
    b) ( desequilibrado) < lucha> unequal; < fuerzas> unevenly-matched
    2) ( irregular) <terreno/superficie> uneven; < letra> uneven, irregular; < calidad> variable, varying (before n); < rendimiento> inconsistent, erratic
    * * *
    = patchy [patchier -comp., patchiest -sup.], uneven, unequal, asymmetric, inequal, inequitable, spotty, ragged, asymmetrical, craggy [craggier -comp., craggiest -sup.], lumpy [lumpier -comp., lumpiest -sup.], unbalanced, imbalanced.

    Ex: The retrospective bibliographic control mechanism is somewhat patchy but there are some large scale works.

    Ex: Not surprisingly this can lead to gaps in coverage, and uneven coverage of subjects.
    Ex: However, problems arose as a result of combining headings of unequal importance and the multiplicity of languages involved.
    Ex: These graphs are represented in the form of similarity matrices which are asymmetric.
    Ex: Statistics show the inequal geographical distribution of these libraries, with 74% of university libraries to be found in the north and central regions, while only 26% are found in the south.
    Ex: Librarianship is an occupation dominated by women and subject to inequitable compensation.
    Ex: Enforcement of library policies is spotty at best.
    Ex: Even in more mainstream publishing, despite the ubiquity of word processors, which can so easily produce justified text, ragged right margins are becoming more common, even fashionable.
    Ex: MPEG is more expensive and complicated but more powerful and better suited to asymmetrical applications such as CD-ROM data bases.
    Ex: This is a series of meditative poems in which the author chronicles an encounter with the craggy Atlantic coastline of Brittany.
    Ex: Between 9 and 12 months, lumpy or chopped foods, such as vegetables, meats, or cottage cheese, may be introduced.
    Ex: Another problem with the main classes is that are unbalanced.
    Ex: The article includes two great maps, which show regions in which there may be a danger of imbalanced markets.

    * * *
    A
    1
    (diferente): las mangas me quedaron desiguales one sleeve turned out longer ( o wider etc) than the other
    reciben un trato muy desigual they are treated very differently
    2 (desequilibrado) ‹lucha› unequal; ‹fuerzas› unevenly-matched
    B (irregular) ‹terreno/superficie› uneven; ‹letra› uneven, irregular; ‹calidad› variable, varying ( before n)
    su rendimiento ha sido desigual his performance has been variable o irregular o inconsistent
    * * *

    desigual adjetivo
    1

    las mangas quedaron desiguales one sleeve turned out longer (o wider etc) than the other


    fuerzas unevenly-matched
    2 ( irregular) ‹terreno/superficie uneven;
    letra uneven, irregular;
    calidad variable, varying ( before n);
    rendimiento inconsistent, erratic
    desigual adjetivo
    1 (irregular, poco igualado) uneven
    2 (descompensado) unequal
    3 (variable, cambiante) changeable
    ' desigual' also found in these entries:
    English:
    irregular
    - patchy
    - ragged
    - rough
    - unequal
    - variable
    - bumpy
    - erratic
    - mixed
    - one
    - uneven
    * * *
    1. [diferente] different;
    recibieron un trato desigual they weren't treated the same, they were treated differently;
    un triángulo de lados desiguales a triangle with unequal sides
    2. [irregular] [terreno, superficie] uneven;
    [alumno, actuación] inconsistent, erratic;
    su filmografía es de desigual calidad his movies o Br films are of varying quality;
    ha publicado varias novelas con desigual fortuna he has published several novels, with mixed results
    3. [poco equilibrado] [lucha, competición] unequal;
    [fuerzas, rivales] unevenly matched
    4. [variable] [tiempo] changeable;
    [temperaturas] variable; [persona, humor] changeable
    * * *
    adj
    1 reparto unequal
    2 terreno uneven, irregular
    * * *
    1) : unequal
    2) disparejo: uneven
    * * *
    1. (distinto) different
    2. (combate) unequal
    3. (tiempo, carácter) changeable
    4. (superficie, terreno) uneven

    Spanish-English dictionary > desigual

  • 48 esperar

    v.
    1 to wait (for).
    te esperaremos en el aeropuerto we'll meet you at the airport, we'll be waiting for you at the airport
    esperar a que alguien haga algo to wait for somebody to do something
    espera, que ya voy wait a minute, I'm coming
    Elsa espera pacientemente Elsa waits patiently.
    espero poder ayudar I hope I can be of some help
    esperar que to hope that
    espero que sí/no I hope so/not
    esperar hacer algo to hope to do something
    Esperamos que suceda lo mejor We hope for the best.
    no esperábamos esta reacción we didn't expect this reaction
    esperar algo de alguien to expect something from somebody, to hope for something from somebody
    como era de esperar as was to be expected
    Elsa espera un milagro Elsa expects a miracle.
    4 to await, to be in store for (ser inevitable).
    le esperan dificultades many difficulties await him
    ¡me espera una buena en casa! (informal) I'm in for it when I get home!
    5 to wait for, to await, to wait.
    Elsa espera el tren Elsa waits for the train.
    6 to expect to, to look forward to, to hope to, to be expecting to.
    Ellos esperan llegar pronto They hope to arrive soon.
    7 to await for, to expect, to watch for.
    Ellos esperan la noticia They await for the news.
    Me espera una sorpresa A surprise awaits for me.
    * * *
    1 (tener esperanza) to hope for, expect
    2 (contar, creer) to expect
    3 (aguardar) to wait for, await
    4 (desear) to hope
    5 (ser inevitable) to await, be ahead
    6 figurado (bebé) to expect
    1 to wait
    1 (aguardar) to wait
    2 (creer, contar) to expect
    3 (desear) to hope
    \
    en espera de noticias tuyas we hope to hear from you soon
    ¡espérate sentado! don't hold your breath!, you'll be waiting till the cows come home!
    espero que no I hope not
    espero que sí I hope so
    hacer esperar a alguien to keep somebody waiting
    hacerse esperar to keep people waiting
    quien espera desespera a watched pot never boils
    * * *
    verb
    1) to wait for, await
    3) hope
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=aguardar) [+ tren, persona] to wait for

    esperaban noticias de los rehenesthey were waiting for o awaiting news of the hostages

    ¡la que te espera cuando llegues a casa! — you're (in) for it when you get home!

    un lío de aquí te espero* a tremendous row *

    2) (=desear) to hope

    - ya nos pagará -espero que sea así — "he'll pay us, you'll see" - "I hope you're right o I hope so"

    -¿vienen a la fiesta? -espero que sí — "are they coming to the party?" - "I hope so"

    -¿crees que se enfadará? -espero que no — "do you think she will be angry?" - "I hope not"

    3) (=contar con) to expect

    ¿esperas visita? — are you expecting someone?

    ¿acaso esperas que pague yo? — you're not expecting me to pay, are you?

    ¿qué esperas, que encima te lo agradezca? — don't expect me to thank you for it as well

    ¿qué puedes esperar de él, después de cómo se ha comportado? — what do you expect from him, after the way he has behaved?

    era de esperar — it was to be expected

    no esperaba menos de ti — I expected nothing o no less of you

    4) [+ bebé]
    2. VI
    1) (=aguardar) to wait

    ¡espera un momento, este no es mi libro! — hold on o wait a minute, this isn't my book!

    espera en la puerta, ahora mismo voy — wait at the door, I'm just coming

    esperar a o hasta que algn haga algo — to wait for sb to do sth

    hacer esperar a algn — keep sb waiting

    2)

    esperar en algn — to put one's hopes o trust in sb

    3.
    See:
    ESPERAR Esperar tiene en inglés varias traducciones, entre las que se encuentran wait (for), await, hope y expect. Se traduce por wait ( for ) cuando esperar se refiere al hecho de aguardar la llegada de alguien o de un suceso: Hice el examen hace dos meses y todavía estoy esperando los resultados I took the exam two months ago and I'm still waiting for the results La esperó media hora y después se fue a casa He waited half an hour for her and then went home ► El verbo await es un verbo de uso similar a wait for, aunque no requiere el uso de la preposición y no es muy corriente en inglés moderno: Esperaban ansiosamente la llegada del Rey They eagerly awaited the arrival of the King ► Se traduce por hope cuando deseamos que algo suceda, pero no estamos seguros de si ocurrirá o no: Espero que no se enfade mucho conmigo I hope (that) she won't be very annoyed with me Después de terminar la carrera espero conseguir un buen trabajo I hope to get a good job when I finish university ► Traducimos esperar por expect cuando estamos muy seguros de que algo va a suceder o cuando hay una razón lógica para que algo suceda: Espero aprobar porque el examen me salió muy bien I expect to pass o I expect I'll pass because the exam went very well Ha resultado mejor de lo que esperábamos It was better than we expected Está esperando un niño She's expecting (a baby) Para otros usos y ejemplos ver la entrada
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <autobús/persona/acontecimiento> to wait for

    ¿qué estás esperando para decírselo? — tell him! what are you waiting for?

    b) ( recibir) to meet
    c) sorpresa to await

    ya verás la que te espera en casa! — (fam) you'll catch it o you'll be for it when you get home! (colloq)

    2)
    a) (contar con, prever) to expect

    esperar que + subj: ¿esperabas que te felicitara? did you expect me to congratulate you?; era de esperar que el proyecto fracasara the project was bound to fail; no esperes que cambie de idea don't expect me to change my mind; esperar algo de alguien/algo to expect something of somebody/something; esperaba otra cosa de ti I expected more of you; de ella no puedes esperar ayuda — don't expect her to help

    b) <niño/bebé> to be expecting
    3) ( con esperanza) to hope

    eso espero or espero que sí — I hope so

    esperar + inf — to hope to + inf

    esperar que + subj: espero que no llueva/que te guste I hope it doesn't rain/you like it; espero que tengas suerte I wish you luck; esperemos que no sea nada grave — let's hope it's nothing serious

    2.
    a) ( aguardar) to wait

    espera, que bajo contigo — wait a minute o (colloq) hold on, I'll come down with you

    esperar a + inf: espera a estar seguro wait until you're sure; esperar (a) que + subj: esperaron (a) que él se fuera para entrar they waited for him to go before they went in; espera (a) que te llamen wait until they call you; esperar sentado (fam): si piensa que lo voy a llamar puede esperar sentado if he thinks I'm going to call him he's got another think coming (colloq); ¿que él cambie de idea? mejor espera sentada him change his mind? some hope!; quien espera desespera — waiting's the worst part

    ¿para cuándo espera? — when's the baby due?

    3.
    esperarse v pron
    1) (fam) ( aguardar) to hang on (colloq), to hold on (colloq)

    espérate ¿no ves que estoy ocupada? — wait a minute! can't you see I'm busy?

    2) (fam) ( prever) to expect
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <autobús/persona/acontecimiento> to wait for

    ¿qué estás esperando para decírselo? — tell him! what are you waiting for?

    b) ( recibir) to meet
    c) sorpresa to await

    ya verás la que te espera en casa! — (fam) you'll catch it o you'll be for it when you get home! (colloq)

    2)
    a) (contar con, prever) to expect

    esperar que + subj: ¿esperabas que te felicitara? did you expect me to congratulate you?; era de esperar que el proyecto fracasara the project was bound to fail; no esperes que cambie de idea don't expect me to change my mind; esperar algo de alguien/algo to expect something of somebody/something; esperaba otra cosa de ti I expected more of you; de ella no puedes esperar ayuda — don't expect her to help

    b) <niño/bebé> to be expecting
    3) ( con esperanza) to hope

    eso espero or espero que sí — I hope so

    esperar + inf — to hope to + inf

    esperar que + subj: espero que no llueva/que te guste I hope it doesn't rain/you like it; espero que tengas suerte I wish you luck; esperemos que no sea nada grave — let's hope it's nothing serious

    2.
    a) ( aguardar) to wait

    espera, que bajo contigo — wait a minute o (colloq) hold on, I'll come down with you

    esperar a + inf: espera a estar seguro wait until you're sure; esperar (a) que + subj: esperaron (a) que él se fuera para entrar they waited for him to go before they went in; espera (a) que te llamen wait until they call you; esperar sentado (fam): si piensa que lo voy a llamar puede esperar sentado if he thinks I'm going to call him he's got another think coming (colloq); ¿que él cambie de idea? mejor espera sentada him change his mind? some hope!; quien espera desespera — waiting's the worst part

    ¿para cuándo espera? — when's the baby due?

    3.
    esperarse v pron
    1) (fam) ( aguardar) to hang on (colloq), to hold on (colloq)

    espérate ¿no ves que estoy ocupada? — wait a minute! can't you see I'm busy?

    2) (fam) ( prever) to expect
    * * *
    esperar1
    1 = await, wait, wait for, hang on, be in store, tarry.

    Ex: Comment published so far is favourable, but the code still awaits widespread adoption.

    Ex: Otherwise documents will have to wait in cataloguing departments until the record does become available.
    Ex: Please accept this from the person who was probably the biggest sceptic in the State of Ohio at the beginning -- if we had waited for this from the start, I think we never would have started.
    Ex: ' Hang on a sec, okay?' the senior assistant librarian in charge of serials said as she put the phone down.
    Ex: A worse fate is in store for those whose integrated library sustem vendor goes out of business or is bought by another vendor.
    Ex: And arming himself with patience and piety he tarried awhile until the hubbub was stilled.
    * de aquí te espero = tremendous, humongous [humungous], massive, enormous, gianormous.
    * esperamos su repuesta = look forward to + hearing from you.
    * esperar con impaciencia = kick + Posesivo + heels.
    * esperar el turno de Uno = wait + Posesivo + turn.
    * esperar en el futuro = be in store for + Nombre + in the future, future + have in store.
    * esperar entre bastidores = wait in + the wings, lurk in + the wings.
    * esperar impacientemente = kick + Posesivo + heels.
    * esperar sin nada que hacer = kick + Posesivo + heels.
    * esperar su momento = wait in + the wings, stand in + the wings, lurk in + the wings.
    * esperar su oportunidad = wait in + the wings, stand in + the wings, lurk in + the wings.
    * esperar una sorpresa desagradable = rude awakening + be in store, be in for a rude awakening.
    * hacer esperar = cool + Posesivo + heels.
    * hacer + Pronombre + esperar = keep + Pronombre + waiting.
    * lo que espera a = what is on store for.
    * lo que nos espera = things to come.
    * protesta + no hacerse esperar = cry + ring out.
    * ser lo que nos espera = be the shape of things to come.

    esperar2
    2 = call on/upon, expect, hope, count on, look to, bank on.

    Ex: The difference is only that an indexer is not usually called upon to appreciate the subtleties of the subject to the same extent as an abstractor.

    Ex: In a journal most formal items including articles, essays, discussions and reviews can be expected to be accompanied by an abstract.
    Ex: It is hoped that a new ISDS manual and guidelines for bibliographic description will be published in 1986.
    Ex: Bookstores can no longer count on customers buying books if there is a more attractive entertainment option.
    Ex: Those with more faith than I look to gigantic electronic archives maintained by governments and private companies that will ensure the indefinite survival of the electronic records of humankind.
    Ex: Don't bank on it, there can be bright sunshine, hailstones, drizzle, pouring rain and snowflurries in any given hour of the day.
    * como cabe esperar = unsurprisingly, as one might expect, as expected.
    * como cabía esperar = as expected.
    * como cabría esperar = as might be expected, as one might expect.
    * como era de esperar = as expected.
    * como es de esperar = predictably, not surprisingly, as expected.
    * cuando menos te lo esperes = on any given Sunday.
    * decir + esperar = express + hope.
    * es de esperar = hopefully.
    * esperamos sus noticias = look forward to + hearing from you.
    * esperando que = in hopeful expectation that.
    * esperar con ansiedad = hope for, hold + Posesivo + breath.
    * esperar con ansiedad (+ Infinitivo) = look forward to (+ Gerundio).
    * esperar con interés (+ Infinitivo), = look forward to (+ Gerundio).
    * esperar impacientemente (+ Infinitivo) = look forward to (+ Gerundio).
    * esperar lo imposible = shoot (for) + the moon, cry for + the moon, ask for + the moon, reach for + the moon.
    * esperar lo peor = expect + the worst.
    * esperarse = hold + Posesivo + horses.
    * esperarse Algo = come as + no surprise.
    * esperar una (gran) sorpresa = be in for a (big) surprise.
    * llegar a esperar = come to + expect.
    * mucha gente + esperar que = be widely expected.
    * que espera demasiado = over expectant.
    * salir de donde menos Uno se lo espera = come out of + the woodwork.
    * sin esperarlo = out of the blue, like a bolt out of the blue, like a bolt from the blue.

    * * *
    esperar [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 ‹autobús/persona/acontecimiento› to wait for
    esperaba el tren/a un amigo he was waiting for the train/a friend
    podrías haber esperado un momento más oportuno you could have waited for a better moment
    espérame, ya voy wait for me, I'm just coming
    la esperé dos horas/en el bar I waited for her for two hours/in the bar
    esperaban con impaciencia la llegada de sus amigos they were really looking forward to their friends coming, they couldn't wait for o they were dying for their friends to arrive ( colloq)
    le encanta hacerse esperar he loves to keep people waiting
    esperar algo/a algn PARA + INF:
    ¿qué estás esperando para decírselo? tell him! what are you waiting for?
    no me esperes para cenar eat without me o don't wait for me to eat
    2 (recibir) to meet
    la fuimos a esperar al aeropuerto we went to meet her at the airport
    ¿dónde van a esperar el Año Nuevo? where will you be seeing the New Year in?
    3 «sorpresa» to await
    la reacción del gobierno no se hizo esperar the government was swift to react
    como no salgamos temprano ya sabes lo que nos espera a la salida de Madrid if we don't leave early, you know what problems we'll have o you know what it'll be like trying to leave Madrid
    le espera un futuro difícil he has a difficult future ahead of him
    ¡ya verás la que te espera en casa! ( fam); you'll catch it o you'll be for it when you get home! ( colloq)
    B
    1 (contar con, prever) to expect
    tal como esperábamos just as we expected
    cuando uno menos lo espera when you least expect it
    ven a cenar, te espero alrededor de las nueve come to dinner, I'll expect you around nine
    estoy esperando una llamada de Nueva York I'm expecting a call from New York
    esperan un lleno completo they expect a full house
    tuvo mayor aceptación de lo que se esperaba it proved to be more popular than had been expected
    esperar QUE + SUBJ:
    se espera que más de un millón de personas visite la exposición over a million people are expected to visit the exhibition
    ¿qué esperabas, que te felicitara? what did you expect me to do? congratulate you?
    era de esperar que el proyecto fracasara the project was bound to fail, it was only to be expected that the project would fail
    no esperes que cambie de idea don't expect me to change my mind
    esperar algo DE algn/algo to expect sth OF sb/sth
    esperaba otra cosa de ti I expected more of you
    no hay que esperar mucho de las conversaciones we shouldn't expect too much of the talks
    de ella no puedes esperar ayuda don't expect her to help, you can't expect to get any help from her
    2 ‹niño/bebé› to be expecting
    esperan el primer hijo para mayo they're expecting their first child in May
    está esperando familia she's expecting
    C (con esperanza) to hope
    ¿te vienen a recoger? — eso espero are they coming to collect you? — I hope so
    ¿quedarán entradas? — espero que sí will there be any tickets left? — I hope so
    ¿habrá perdido el tren? — espero que no do you think he's missed the train? — I hope not
    esperar + INF:
    espero poder llegar a la cumbre esta vez I hope to be able to reach the summit this time
    espero no haberme olvidado de nada I hope I haven't forgotten anything
    esperar QUE + SUBJ:
    espero que no llueva/que haga buen tiempo I hope it doesn't rain/the weather's nice
    espero que tengas suerte I wish you luck
    espero que no me haya mentido I hope he hasn't lied to me
    esperemos que no sea nada grave let's hope it's nothing serious
    ¡y yo que esperaba que estuviera todo listo! and there was I hoping that everything would be ready!
    ■ esperar
    vi
    A
    1 (aguardar) to wait
    lo siento, no podemos esperar más I'm sorry, we can't wait any longer
    mientras esperaba corregí los exámenes I corrected the tests while I was waiting
    espera, que bajo contigo wait a minute o ( colloq) hold on, I'll come down with you
    espere un momento, por favor wait a moment, please
    espera un momento ¿tú qué haces aquí? just a moment, what are you doing here?
    vamos, que el tren no espera come on, the train won't wait for us
    esperar A + INF:
    espera a estar seguro antes de hablar con ella wait until you're sure before you talk to her
    mejor espero a tener un poco más de dinero ahorrado I'd better wait until I've saved a bit more money
    esperar ( A) QUE + SUBJ:
    el profesor esperó (a) que hubiera silencio the teacher waited for them to be quiet
    tiene que esperar (a) que lo llamen you have to wait for them to call you o until they call you
    esperaron (a) que él se fuera para entrar they waited for him to go before they went in
    esperar sentado ( fam): si piensa que lo voy a llamar puede esperar sentado if he thinks I'm going to call him he's got another think coming ( colloq)
    ¿que él cambie de idea? mejor espera sentada him change his mind? some hope! o don't hold your breath! o we could be waiting till the cows come home! ( colloq)
    quien espera desespera waiting's the worst part, the waiting gets you down
    2
    «embarazada»: no sabía que estaba esperando I didn't know she was expecting
    ¿para cuándo espera? when's the baby due?
    quedar esperando ( Chi); to get pregnant
    A ( fam) (aguardar) to hang on ( colloq), to hold on ( colloq)
    espérate ¿no ves que estoy ocupada? wait a minute o hang on o hold on! can't you see I'm busy?
    B ( fam) (prever) to expect
    ¿qué te esperabas por ese precio? what did you expect for that price?
    no me esperaba esa reacción I hadn't expected her to react like that
    ¿quién se iba a esperar que saliera elegido él? who would have thought he would be elected?
    * * *

     

    esperar ( conjugate esperar) verbo transitivo
    1
    a)autobús/persona/acontecimiento to wait for;

    ¿qué estás esperando para decírselo? tell him! what are you waiting for?





    2
    a) (contar con, prever) to expect;


    cuando uno menos lo espera when you least expect it;
    te espero alrededor de las nueve I'll expect you around nine;
    ¿esperabas que te felicitara? did you expect me to congratulate you?;
    era de esperar que el proyecto fracasara the project was bound to fail
    b)niño/bebé to be expecting

    3 ( con esperanza) to hope;
    eso espero or espero que sí I hope so;

    esperar hacer algo to hope to do sth;
    espero que no llueva I hope it doesn't rain;
    esperemos que no sea nada grave let's hope it's nothing serious
    verbo intransitivo


    espera a estar seguro wait until you're sure;
    esperaron (a) que él se fuera para entrar they waited for him to go before they went in
    b) [ embarazada]:


    esperarse verbo pronominal
    1 (fam) ( aguardar) to hang on (colloq), to hold on (colloq)
    2 (fam) ( prever) to expect;
    ¡quién se lo iba a esperar! who would have thought it!

    esperar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (aguardar) to wait for: espera un momento, ¿seguro que hablas del mismo Pedro?, wait a minute, are you sure you're talking about the same Peter?
    2 (tener esperanza) to hope: espero que todo salga bien, I hope everything turns out well ➣ Ver nota en hope 3 (desear, suponer) to expect
    4 fig (un hijo) to expect ➣ Ver nota en expect
    II verbo intransitivo to wait: no puedo esperar más, I can't wait any longer
    ♦ Locuciones: familiar de aquí te espero, incredible, massive: afuera hay un follón de aquí te espero, there's an incredible mess outside
    esperar sentado, to have a long wait in store: si creéis que voy a participar en esa locura podéis esperar sentados, if you think that I'm going to have any part of that madness, you'll have to wait a long time
    Esperar tiene tres significados básicos, que corresponden a tres verbos ingleses:
    Aguardar, en sentido general, se traduce por to wait: Llevo media hora esperándote, I've been waiting for you for half an hour.
    Tener esperanza, desear, se traduce por to hope: Espero que vengas mañana. I hope you will come tomorrow. Espero que sí. I hope so.
    Suponer, esperar algo sabiendo que es muy probable que ocurra, se traduce por to expect: Espero la visita de un amigo (sabemos que va a venir). I'm expecting a friend to call.
    ' esperar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acecho
    - aguardar
    - amabilidad
    - cruzarse
    - ser
    - esperanza
    - pelaje
    - pendiente
    - prometerse
    - satisfacción
    - como
    - esperado
    - exigir
    - favor
    - hacer
    - mucho
    - preferir
    English:
    aim
    - anticipate
    - await
    - bargain for
    - bargain on
    - daydream
    - eruption
    - expect
    - hang about
    - hang around
    - hang on
    - hold off
    - hold on
    - hope
    - magic wand
    - sit up
    - to
    - trust
    - wait
    - wait about
    - wait around
    - wind
    - would
    - bear
    - bide
    - count
    - dark
    - delay
    - duly
    - else
    - hang
    - hold
    - mind
    - unprepared
    - unrealistic
    * * *
    vt
    1. [aguardar] to wait for;
    esperar el autobús to wait for the bus;
    te esperaremos en el aeropuerto we'll meet you at the airport, we'll be waiting for you at the airport;
    espéranos un minuto wait for us a minute;
    ¡espérame, que voy contigo! wait for me, I'm coming with you!;
    ¿a qué estás esperando? what are you waiting for?;
    esperar a que alguien haga algo to wait for sb to do sth;
    esperaré a que vuelva I'll wait till she gets back
    2. [tener esperanza de]
    todos esperamos la victoria we all hope for victory;
    esperamos salir al campo el domingo we are hoping to go on a trip to the countryside on Sunday;
    espero poder ayudar I hope I can be of some help;
    esperar que… to hope that…;
    espero que sí/no I hope so/not;
    espero que no te hayas ofendido I hope you didn't take offence;
    esperamos que no sea nada let's hope it's nothing serious;
    ser de esperar: es de esperar que no ocurra ninguna desgracia let's hope nothing terrible happens;
    era de esperar que ocurriría esto you could have predicted this would happen;
    como era de esperar as was to be expected;
    como era de esperar, llovió mucho as was to be expected o as you might expect, there was a lot of rain
    3. [tener confianza en] to expect;
    no esperábamos esta reacción we didn't expect this reaction;
    espero que venga esta noche I expect (that) she'll come tonight;
    esperar algo de alguien to expect sth from sb, to hope for sth from sb;
    espero discreción de usted I expect discretion from you, I expect you to be discreet;
    ¿y qué esperabas (de alguien así)? what did you expect (from someone like that)?;
    no esperaba menos de él I expected no less of him
    4. [ser inminente para] to await, to be in store for;
    nos esperan un buen baño y una cama there's a nice warm bath and a bed waiting for us;
    le esperan dificultades he's in for some problems, there are problems in store for him;
    Fam
    ¡me espera una buena en casa! I'm in for it when I get home!;
    Fam
    ¡no sabes la o [m5] lo que te espera! you don't know what you're in for!
    vi
    1. [aguardar] to wait;
    espera en este despacho wait in this office;
    espera, que ya voy wait a minute, I'm coming;
    espera un instante o [m5]momento, ¿no es el famoso Pedro Valverde? hang on o wait a minute, isn't that the famous Pedro Valverde?;
    no creo que puedas hacerlo – espera y verás I don't think you'll be able to do it – just (you) wait and see;
    su enfado no se hizo esperar it didn't take long for her anger to surface;
    Fam
    si crees que te voy a dejar dinero, puedes esperar sentado if you think I'm going to lend you some money, you've got another think coming;
    hacer esperar a alguien to keep sb waiting, to make sb wait;
    me hiciste esperar una hora you kept me waiting (for) an hour;
    quien espera desespera a watched pot never boils
    2. [estar embarazada] to be expecting;
    está esperando desde hace cuatro meses she's four months pregnant
    * * *
    I v/t
    1 ( aguardar) wait for;
    hacerse esperar keep people waiting
    2 con esperanza hope;
    (así) lo espero I hope so, hopefully;
    espero que no I hope not, hopefully not;
    es de esperar que it is to be hoped that
    3 ( suponer, confiar en) expect
    4
    :
    esperar un hijo be expecting a baby
    5
    :
    de aquí te espero fam incredible fam
    II v/i ( aguardar) wait;
    puedes esperar sentado you’re in for a long wait
    * * *
    1) aguardar: to wait for, to await
    2) : to expect
    3) : to hope
    espero poder trabajar: I hope to be able to work
    espero que sí: I hope so
    : to wait
    * * *
    1. (aguardar) to wait / to wait for
    ¿hace mucho que esperas? have you been waiting long?
    2. (creer, imaginar) to expect
    3. (tener esperanza, desear) to hope

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  • 50 глава

    (см. также абзац, параграф, книга, обзор) chapter
    Более прямой метод получения величины F рассматривается в главе 9. - A more direct procedure for obtaining F is considered in Chapter 9.
    Большая часть материала, представленного в данной главе, имела дело с... - Much of the material presented in this chapter has dealt with...
    В дальнейших главах излагается методология для... - The following chapters outline the methodology involved in...
    В данной главе мы будем заниматься подобными процессами. - This chapter will be concerned with such processes.
    В данной главе мы будем рассматривать лишь... - In this chapter we shall be concerned only with...
    В данной главе мы заложим теоретические основания для... - In this chapter we lay the theoretical foundations for...
    В данной главе мы предлагаем обсудить... - In this chapter we propose to discuss...
    В данной главе мы представим некоторые избранные материалы... - In the present chapter we shall give a selection of...
    В данной главе мы продолжим наше изучение (проблемы и т. п.)... - In this chapter, we will continue our study of...
    В данной главе мы разовьем теорию... - In this chapter we shall develop the theory of...
    В данной главе мы рассмотрим путь, которым... - In this chapter, we consider the way in which...
    В данной главе мы сформулируем метод для... - In this chapter, we shall formulate the procedure for...
    В данной главе мы уделим некоторое внимание (чвму-л)... - In this chapter we shall devote some attention to...
    В данной главе мы, главным образом, интересуемся... - We are concerned mainly in this chapter with...
    В данной главе позднее станет очевидно, что... - It will become evident later in this chapter that...
    В данной главе рассматривается... - It is the object of the present chapter to...
    В данной главе рассматривается еще один подход... - This chapter is concerned with yet another approach to...
    В предшествующих главах мы видели, что... - We have seen in preceding chapters that...
    В следующей главе мы (еще) вернемся к этому выражению. - We shall return to this expression in the next chapter.
    В следующей главе мы дадим количественное представление... - In the next chapter we give a more quantitative account of...
    В следующей главе мы увидим, что... - We shall see in the next chapter that...
    В следующих четырех главах мы будем рассматривать исключительно... - In the next four chapters we shall be concerned exclusively with...
    В соответствии с методом, намеченным в Главе 1, мы... - In accordance with the method outlined in Chapter 1, we...
    В третьей главе (= В главе 3) мы встретим другое обобщение той же самой основной идеи. - In Chapter 3 we shall meet another generalization of the same basic idea.
    В этой вводной главе мы сделаем обзор... - In this introductory chapter we shall review...
    В этой главе будут описываться два подхода к... - This chapter will describe two approaches to...
    В этой главе мы даем эффективный метод... - In this chapter we give an efficient method for...
    В этой главе мы рассматриваем различные случаи... - In this chapter we consider various cases of...
    В этой главе мы сосредоточимся на (проблеме, вопросе и т. п.)... - In this chapter we concentrate on...
    В этой главе не делалось попыток обсудить очень сложную проблему... -In this chapter no attempt has been made to discuss the very difficult problem of...
    В этой главе основное внимание будет направлено на... - In this chapter we will direct most of the attention toward...
    В этой главе рассматривается... - This chapter is concerned with...
    В этой главе формулируются основные положения... - This chapter provides an outline of...
    Данная глава будет посвящена описанию... - This chapter will be devoted to an exposition of...
    Данная глава начинается с описания... - This chapter begins with a description of...
    Данная глава завершается обсуждением... - The chapter concludes with a discussion of...
    Данная глава, в основном, посвящена объяснению... - This chapter is devoted primarily to explaining...
    Данная методика будет использоваться в последующих главах. - This procedure will be followed in subsequent chapters.
    Заключим данную главу несколькими словами относительно... - We conclude this chapter with a few words on...
    Значительная часть настоящей главы посвящена... - A large proportion of the present chapter is concerned with...
    Из содержания предыдущих глав мы уже знаем, что... - We already know from earlier chapters that...
    Книга состоит из восьми глав. - The book is divided into eight chapters.
    Многие идеи и результаты последней главы могут быть распространены на случай... - Many of the ideas and results of the last chapter can now be extended to the case of...
    Многие идеи, рассматриваемые в данной главе,... - Many of the ideas appearing in this chapter are...
    Мы (еще) вернемся к этой аналогии во второй главе. - We shall return later to this analogy in Chapter 2.
    Мы завершаем данную главу демонстрацией того, что... - We end this section by showing that...
    Мы можем применить некоторые результаты этой главы, чтобы проиллюстрировать... - We may apply some of the results of this chapter to illustrate...
    Мы обсудим этот эффект в другой главе. - We shall discuss this effect in a later chapter.
    Мы откладываем обсуждение этого явления до главы 5. - We defer discussion of this phenomenon until Chapter 5.
    Мы продолжим это (исследование) в главе 4. - We shall go further into this in Chapter 4.
    Мы также уже обсудили эту задачу в главе 2. - We have also discussed this problem in Chapter 2.
    Некоторые дальнейшие замечания могут быть найдены в главе 2. - Some further remarks may be found in Chapter 2.
    Некоторые из этих вопросов будут развиваться в следующей главе. - Some of these points will be developed further in the next chapter.
    Основная часть этой работы была проделана в главе 2. - The bulk of the work was done in Chapter 2.
    Основным вопросом данной главы является... - Our main business in this chapter is to...
    Остальная часть этой главы посвящена... - The rest of the chapter deals with... (
    Первые четыре главы данной книги должны быть доступны... - The first four chapters of this book should be accessible to...
    Всюду в данной главе мы будем предполагать, что... - Throughout this chapter we have assumed that...
    Позднее в этой главе мы узнаем, что... - Later in this chapter we will learn that...
    Пример его (метода) использования уже приведен в Главе 2. - An example of its use has already been given in Chapter 2.
    Рассуждение, приведенное в конце последней главы, показывает, что... - The argument at the end of the last chapter shows that...
    Результаты данной главы позволяют нам... - The results of the present chapter enable us to...
    Строгое обсуждение будет дано в главе 2. - A rigorous discussion will be given in Chapter 2.
    Теперь возвратимся к вопросу, поставленному в начале этой главы. - We now return to the question posed at the beginning of the chapter.
    Целью данной главы является представление... - It is the purpose of this chapter to present...
    Целью данной главы является разработка... - The aim of this chapter is to develop...
    Мы собираемся сделать в этой главе... - What we seek to do in this chapter is to...
    Что такое тензоры объясняется подробно в главе 3. - The subject of tensors is explained at length in Chapter 3.
    Эта глава почти полностью посвящается... - This chapter has been almost wholly concerned with...
    Эта глава представляет один подход к решению... - This chapter presents one approach to the solution of...
    Эта тема будет развиваться в следующей главе. - This subject will be developed in the following chapter.
    Эти данные будут использованы в следующей главе. - This information will be put into use in the next chapter.
    Эти явления обсуждаются в главе 5. - These phenomena are discussed in Chapter 5.
    Это будет темой следующей главы. - This will be the theme of the next chapter.
    Далее это обсуждается в главе 4 в связи с... - This is further discussed in Chapter 4 in conjunction with...
    Это не согласуется с терминологией главы 1. - This is at variance with the terminology of Chapter 1.
    Этот факт был отмечен без доказательства в главе 4. - This fact was noted without proof in Chapter 4.
    Этот эффект будет обсуждаться в главе 2, где будет показано, что... - This effect will be discussed in Chapter 2, where it will be shown that...

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  • 51 идея

    idea, notion, concept
    (Все) эти теории имеют общую идею (= концепцию), что... - These theories have in common the idea that...
    Безусловно, читатель знаком с идеей, что... - The reader is no doubt familiar with the idea that...
    В третьей главе мы увидим другое обобщение той же основной идеи. - In Chapter 3 we shall meet another generalization of the same basic idea.
    Важно уметь применять идею (= концепцию)... - It is important that we be able to apply the concept of...
    Введенные в этой главе идеи подведут нас ближе к... - The ideas introduced in this chapter will bring us closer to...
    Вернемся кратко к идее (чего-л). - Let us return briefly to the idea of...
    Высказанные ранее идеи теперь могут быть обобщены. - The preceding ideas can now be generalized.
    Дальнейшее рассуждение затем привело бы к идее... - Further argument would then lead to the idea of...
    Данная идея получила свое начало при исследовании... - The idea originated with the study of...
    Идея состоит в следующем. - The idea is as follows.
    Имеется мнжество подтверждений идеи, что... - There is a great deal of evidence for the idea that...
    Имеется много других примеров, иллюстрирующих основную идею (чего-л). - There are many other examples which illustrate the basic idea of...
    Лежащая в основе этого идея состоит в том, что... - The underlying idea is that...
    Лежащие в основе (этого) идеи настолько просты, что... - The ideas involved here are so simple that...
    Много идей было выдвинуто для объяснения... - Many ideas were put forward to explain...
    Многие идеи и результаты последней главы могут быть распространены на случай... - Many of the ideas and results of the last chapter can now be extended to the case of...
    Многие идеи, рассматриваемые в данной главе, (являются)... - Many of the ideas appearing in this chapter are...
    Мы будем предполагать, что читатель обладает очевидной интуитивной идеей... - We shall assume that the reader has a clear intuitive idea of...
    Мы могли бы обобщить эти идеи. - We may extend these ideas.
    Мы можем обобщить эту идею, вводя... - We can generalize this idea by introducing...
    Мы можем также использовать (= приложить) здесь идею... - We may also apply the concept of...
    На самом деле, подобные неопределенные идеи ничего нам не говорят. - Such vague ideas really tell us nothing.
    Проще всего понять эту идею можно, рассматривая... - The idea is most easily understood by examining...
    Один из ответов на данный вопрос находится в идее... - One answer to this question lies in the concept of...
    Однако в общем случае эта идея имеет небольшую область приложений. - However, this idea has little application in general.
    Основная идея состоит в том, что... - The basic idea is that...
    Основной идеей этого параграфа является то, что... - The main idea of this section is that...
    Основные идеи, намеченные в данном параграфе, могут быть проиллюстрированы (чем-л). - The points made in this section can be illustrated by...
    Полная идея становится точной (путем, если и т. п.)... - The whole idea is made precise by...
    Последняя идея потеряла большую часть своей значимости, потому что... - The latter idea lost much of its significance because...
    Похоже, что большинство физиков одобряет идею, что... - Most physicists seem to accept the notion that...
    Предыдущее обсуждение приводит к идее, что... - The preceding discussion leads to the idea that...; The foregoing discussion gives an idea of...
    Приведем теперь идею доказательства теорем 2 и 3. - Let us now give an idea on how to prove Theorems 2 and 3.
    Проблема, которую мы обязаны позднее рассмотреть для применения данной идеи, состоит в том, что... - A problem that we must eventually face in making use of this concept is...
    Простейшее доказательство базируется на идее, что... - The simplest proof rests on the concept of...
    С самого начала физики приняли идею, что... - Prom the beginning, physicists have accepted the notion that...; From the outset, physicists have accepted the notion that...
    Сделаем эти идеи более понятными, рассматривая... - Let us make these ideas clearer by considering...
    Сейчас мы кратко изложим основную идею (чего-л). - Let us present in a nutshell the main idea behind...
    Следовательно, мы могли бы принять за аксиому идею, что... - Therefore we may take as axiomatic the idea that...
    Следовательно, следующим естественным шагом является идея, что... - It is thus a natural step to think of...
    Следующим шагом было применение идеи... - The next step was to apply the idea of...
    Смит [1] убедительно аргументирует против идеи, что... - Smith [1] argues effectively against the notion that...
    Центральная идея, лежащая в основе этих утверждений, состоит в том, что... - The essential idea underlying these statements is that of...
    Центральной идеей здесь является то, что... - The essential idea here is that...
    Так лее просто эти идеи могут быть сформулированы (и) для... - These ideas can be formulated just as easily for...
    Только что изложенная идея была использована, чтобы... - The idea just outlined has been used to...
    Центральной идеей, на которой основывался подход Смита [1], была... - The essential idea behind Smith's approach was that...
    Чрезвычайно близкие идеи используются для (= в)... - Precisely similar ideas are applicable to...
    Чтобы конкретизировать эту идею, давайте... - То make this idea more concrete, let...
    Чтобы упорядочить все эти идеи подходящим образом, мы... - In order to place these ideas in their proper framework, we...
    Эйнштейн использовал (- применил) точно те же самые идеи в (= при рассмотрении)... - Einstein applied precisely the same ideas to...
    Эта идея (= мысль) выражается более точно в... - This idea is expressed more precisely in...
    Эта идея будет объясняться ниже. - This idea will be clarified below.
    Эта идея одновременно самодостаточна и привлекательна, однако... - This idea is both self-contained and attractive, but...
    Эта идея удивительно близка к... - This idea is remarkably close to...
    Эта идея уже была использована Смитом [1], который предлагает, что(бы)... - This idea has been exploited by Smith [1], who suggests that...
    Эта простая, но все же глубокая идея... - This simple yet profound idea...
    Эти идеи были развиты целым рядом авторов. - The material has been developed by a number of contributors.
    Эти идеи получают немедленно приложение к/в... - These ideas have immediate application in...
    Этим путем мы приходим к мысли (= идее) о... - In this way we arrive at the idea of...
    Это весьма настойчиво подталкивает нас к идее, что... - This suggests quite strongly that...
    Это заключение базируется на тех же идеях, которые приводят к... - This conclusion is based on the same ideas that lead to...
    Это очевидным образом связано с известной и интуитивной идеей, что... - This is obviously related to the familiar and intuitive idea that...
    Это приводит нас к идее постулировать существование... - This leads us to postulate the existence of...
    Это фундаментальная идея, лежащая в основании (решения, процесса и т. п.)... - This is the fundamental idea behind...
    Эту идею легко понять, однако... - The idea is easily understood, but...

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  • 52 основной

    (= центральный, определяющий, доминирующий) basic, basis, fundamental, principal, main, key, primary, essential, general, major, dominant, chief
    Безусловно, это следует сделать точно, однако в основном это означает, что... - This has to be made precise of course, but essentially it means that...
    В основном мы следуем процедуре (= методу)... - In essence we follow the procedure of...
    В основном он используется в/ при... - It is principally used in...
    В основном имеется лишь один способ, чтобы... - There is essentially only one way to...
    В основном мы занимаемся (чем-л). - We are concerned, for the most part, with...
    В основном существуют два типа... - There are basically two types of...
    В основном это обобщение (чего-л). - This is essentially a generalization of...
    В основном это проблема (чего-л). - - This is essentially a matter of...
    В третьей главе мы увидим/встретим другое обобщение той же самой основной идеи. - In Chapter 3 we shall meet another generalization of the same basic idea.
    В этой книге мы будем заниматься в основном... - In this book we shall be concerned essentially with...
    Возвращаясь теперь к доказательству основной теоремы, мы... - Returning now to the proof of the main theorem, we...
    Основная часть вопрос... все еще остается без ответа, хотя... - The question of... is still largely unanswered, although...
    Вычисления в основном являются такими же, как... - The calculations are essentially the same as...
    Здесь мы, в основном, интересуемся... - Here we are mainly interested in...
    Имеется много других примеров, иллюстрирующих основную идею (чего-л). - There are many other examples which illustrate the basic idea of...
    Имеются два основных типа (уравнений и т. п.). - There are two major types of...
    Кажется, имеются две основные причины (для)... - There seem to be two principle causes for...
    Напротив, метеоролог рассуждает в основном в терминах... - The meteorologist, on the other hand, thinks mainly in terms of...
    Наш основной результат состоит в следующем. - Our main result is the following.
    Наш основной результат состоит в том, что... - Our main result will be that...
    Нашей основной целью является описание систематических методов для... - Our first concern is to describe systematic methods for...
    Однако в приложениях в основном более полезно думать о... - In application, however, it is generally more useful to think of...
    Основная проблема состоит в том, чтобы определить... - The main problem is to determine...
    Основное (= существенное) требование, предъявляемое к... состоит в том, чтобы... - The essential feature required of... is that...
    Основное преимущество данного метода заключается в том, что... - The chief advantage of the method is that...
    Основной идеей здесь является то, что... - The essential idea here is that...
    Основной идеей этого параграфа является то, что... - The main idea of this section is that...
    Основной слабостью метода является... - The main weakness of the method is...
    Основной упор в данном параграфе будет сделан на... - The main emphasis in this section will be on...
    Основной целью данной книги является... - The principal aim of the present book is to...
    Основным вопросом данной главы является... - Our main business in this chapter is to...
    Основным моментом (здесь) является то, что... - The fundamental point is that...
    Основным пунктом является то, что... - The main point is that...
    Пример 3 иллюстрирует основной принцип... - Example 3 illustrates the general principle that...
    Существует несколько основных причин для... - There are several basic reasons for...
    Существуют три основных критерия, управляющих... - There are three major criteria governing...
    Существуют три основных способа сделать это. - There are three principal ways in which this can be done.
    Таким образом, важно узнать основные свойства... - Thus, it is important to understand the basic properties of...
    Таким образом, получен следующий основной результат:... - The following key results are therefore obtained:...
    Элегантное доказательство, которое мы здесь приводим, в основном принадлежит Гильберту. - The elegant proof we give is essentially due to Hilbert
    Эти две основные возможности иллюстрируются на рис. 1. - The two main possibilities are illustrated in Figure 1.
    Это делается в основном потому, что... - This is done, essentially, because...
    Этот результат в основном согласуется с... - This result is broadly consistent with...

    Русско-английский словарь научного общения > основной

  • 53 bailar

    v.
    1 to dance.
    bailar una rumba to dance a rumba
    es difícil bailar esta música it's difficult to dance to this music
    ¿bailas? would you like to dance?
    sacar a alguien a bailar to ask somebody to dance o for a dance
    es otro que tal baila (informal figurative) he's just the same, he's no different
    María ascendió a la cima Mary climbed to the top.
    2 to be loose.
    le baila un diente he has a loose tooth
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ AISLAR], like link=aislar aislar
    1 to dance
    2 (hacer girar) to spin
    1 to dance
    ¿bailas? do you want to dance?, would you like to dance?
    2 (girar) to spin
    3 (ser grande) to be too big
    4 (moverse; cosa) to wobble; (persona) to move about, fidget
    5 (estar suelto) to be loose
    \
    bailar al son que le tocan to swim with the tide
    ir a bailar to go dancing
    otro,-a que tal baila he's (she's) no different
    que me (te, le, etc) quiten lo bailado they can't take the memories away from me (you, him, her, etc)
    sacar a alguien a bailar to ask somebody to dance
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VI
    1) (=danzar) to dance

    sacar a algn a bailar — to ask sb to dance, ask sb for a dance

    - ¡que me quiten lo bailado o bailao!

    bailar con la más fea —

    bailar al son que tocan —

    2) [peonza] to spin (round)
    3) [mueble] to be wobbly, be unsteady
    4) * [ropa, calzado] to be miles too big *
    2. VT
    1) (=danzar) to dance

    bailar el vals — to waltz, dance the waltz

    2) [+ peonza] to spin
    3) LAm
    * (=timar)
    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1) (Mús) to dance

    que me quiten lo bailado! — (fam) I'm going to enjoy myself while I can

    2) trompo/peonza to spin
    3) (fam) ( estar flojo) (+ me/te/le etc)
    4) (Méx fam)

    andar/quedar/estar bailando — dinero to be unaccounted for; asunto to be up in the air

    2.
    bailar vt
    1) (Mús) to dance
    2) (Méx fam) (quitar, robar) to swipe (colloq), to pinch (BrE colloq)
    3.
    bailarse v pron (Méx fam)
    * * *
    = execute + Baile, dance, trip the light fantastic, hoof, shake + a leg.
    Ex. Melanie Stanton broke into a gentle laugh as he recalled him executing a shuffling fandango and announcing mischievously, 'Women in the SLA, get ready, here I come!'.
    Ex. I am too old any longer to play games or dance; my social life is restricted; and I cannot, as I used, take much interest in the future of the world, for I shan't live long enough to see what is going to happen in it.
    Ex. The article is entitled ' Tripping the Light Fantastic with Theodore de Banville'.
    Ex. Another comedy sketch consists of a routine in which a dancer, invisible except for white hat, gloves and shoes, hoofs merrily until suffering a fatal seizure.
    Ex. Small wonder then that western dance classes in the city are brimming with corporates learning to shake a leg and get rid of accumulated stress.
    ----
    * bailar el swing = jive.
    * bailar jazz = jive.
    * bailar la danza del vientre = belly-dance.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1) (Mús) to dance

    que me quiten lo bailado! — (fam) I'm going to enjoy myself while I can

    2) trompo/peonza to spin
    3) (fam) ( estar flojo) (+ me/te/le etc)
    4) (Méx fam)

    andar/quedar/estar bailando — dinero to be unaccounted for; asunto to be up in the air

    2.
    bailar vt
    1) (Mús) to dance
    2) (Méx fam) (quitar, robar) to swipe (colloq), to pinch (BrE colloq)
    3.
    bailarse v pron (Méx fam)
    * * *
    = execute + Baile, dance, trip the light fantastic, hoof, shake + a leg.

    Ex: Melanie Stanton broke into a gentle laugh as he recalled him executing a shuffling fandango and announcing mischievously, 'Women in the SLA, get ready, here I come!'.

    Ex: I am too old any longer to play games or dance; my social life is restricted; and I cannot, as I used, take much interest in the future of the world, for I shan't live long enough to see what is going to happen in it.
    Ex: The article is entitled ' Tripping the Light Fantastic with Theodore de Banville'.
    Ex: Another comedy sketch consists of a routine in which a dancer, invisible except for white hat, gloves and shoes, hoofs merrily until suffering a fatal seizure.
    Ex: Small wonder then that western dance classes in the city are brimming with corporates learning to shake a leg and get rid of accumulated stress.
    * bailar el swing = jive.
    * bailar jazz = jive.
    * bailar la danza del vientre = belly-dance.

    * * *
    bailar [A1 ]
    vi
    A ( Mús) to dance
    salir a bailar to go out dancing
    la sacó a bailar he asked her to dance
    ¿bailas? or ¿quieres bailar? do you want o would you like to dance?
    bailar suelto to dance (without holding on to one's partner, as at a discotheque)
    otro que tal baila ( fam); another one who's just as bad
    ¡que me quiten lo bailado or bailao! ( fam); I'm going to enjoy myself while I can
    feo1 (↑ feo (1))
    B «trompo/peonza» to spin
    C ( fam) (estar flojo) (+ me/te/le etc):
    tus zapatos me quedan bailando your shoes are miles too big for me ( colloq)
    D
    ( Méx fam): andar/quedar/estar bailando «dinero» to be unaccounted for
    mientras tanto la firma del contrato queda bailando meanwhile the contract is still up in the air
    ■ bailar
    vt
    A ( Mús) to dance
    bailar un tango/vals to tango/waltz, to dance a tango/waltz
    B ( Méx fam) (quitar, robar) to swipe ( colloq), to pinch ( BrE colloq)
    me bailaron dos mil pesos I had two thousand pesos pinched
    ( Méx fam): se los bailaron en tres sets they were thrashed in three sets
    * * *

     

    bailar ( conjugate bailar) verbo intransitivo
    1 (Mús) to dance;

    la sacó a bailar he asked her to dance
    2 [trompo/peonza] to spin
    3 (fam) ( quedar grande) (+ me/te/le etc):

    verbo transitivo
    to dance;

    bailar
    I verbo transitivo & verbo intransitivo
    1 to dance: no le gusta bailar, she doesn't like to dance
    II verbo intransitivo
    1 (moverse, no encajar bien) to move, to wobble: esta mesa baila mucho, this table wobbles a lot
    ♦ Locuciones: baila al son que le tocan, she always goes with the flow o she always adapts to the circumstances
    fig fam otro que tal baila, he's just as bad
    familiar ¡que nos quiten lo bailado!, nobody can take away the good times we've had!
    bailarle el agua a alguien, to flatter o to suck up to someone: siempre le está bailando el agua al jefe, he's always sucking up to his boss

    ' bailar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    A
    - cojear
    - dejar
    - encasquetar
    - hartarse
    - hincharse
    - inflarse
    - poema
    - quebrar
    - sacar
    - son
    - sosaina
    - agarrado
    - claqué
    - danzar
    - gracia
    - lindo
    - paso
    - público
    - tango
    - vals
    English:
    also
    - boogie
    - dance
    - fox trot
    - intro
    - sit out
    - straw
    - study
    - tap dance
    - tight
    - waltz
    - as
    - like
    - mood
    - partner
    - perform
    - sit
    - wall
    - whom
    - wobble
    * * *
    vt
    1. [música] to dance;
    bailar una rumba to dance a rumba;
    es difícil bailar esta música it's difficult to dance to this music;
    Fam
    que me quiten lo bailado: aunque nos pusimos perdidos, que nos quiten lo baila(d)o even though we got lost, it didn't spoil our enjoyment
    2. [peonza] to spin
    vi
    1. [danzar] to dance;
    ¿bailas? would you like to dance?;
    bailar agarrado to dance cheek to cheek;
    sacar a alguien a bailar [bailar] to dance with sb;
    [pedir] to ask sb to dance o for a dance; Fam
    es otro que tal baila he's just the same, he's no different;
    el padre era un mujeriego y el hijo es otro que tal baila the father was a womanizer and his son's a chip off the old block;
    bailar con la más fea: siempre me toca a mí bailar con la más fea I always seem to get the short straw;
    bailar al son que tocan: ése baila al son que le tocan los de arriba he does whatever his bosses tell him to do
    2. [no encajar] to be loose;
    le baila un diente he has a loose tooth;
    esta falda me baila this skirt is loose on me o too big for me
    3. [peonza] to spin
    4. [variar] [cifras] to fluctuate;
    los resultados de las encuestas bailan entre el 5 y el 15 por ciento the results of the polls range from 5 to 15 percent
    * * *
    I v/i
    1 dance;
    bailar con la más fea draw the short straw
    2 de zapato be loose
    II v/t dance;
    se lo bailó Méx fam he swiped it fam ;
    bailarle a alguien el agua suck up to s.o.;
    ¡que me quiten lo bailado! nobody can take away the good times I’ve had
    * * *
    bailar vt
    : to dance
    bailar vi
    1) : to dance
    2) : to spin
    3) : to be loose, to be too big
    * * *
    bailar vb to dance
    bailamos un vals we danced a waltz / we waltzed

    Spanish-English dictionary > bailar

  • 54 prisión

    f.
    1 prison, correctional institution, jailhouse, lockup.
    2 imprisonment, confinement, prison, incarceration.
    * * *
    1 prison
    \
    estar en prisión preventiva to be remanded in custody, be on remand
    * * *
    noun f.
    1) jail, prison
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=cárcel) prison

    prisión de alta o máxima seguridad — top-security prison

    2) (=encarcelamiento) imprisonment

    cinco años de prisión — five years' imprisonment, prison sentence of five years

    prisión mayorsentence of more than six years and a day

    prisión menorsentence of less than six years and a day

    3) pl prisiones (=grillos) shackles, fetters
    * * *
    1) ( edificio) prison, jail, penitentiary (AmE)
    2) ( pena) imprisonment
    * * *
    = prison, gaol [jail, -USA], jail [gaol, -UK], correctional institution, imprisonment, correctional facility.
    Ex. For example, in a general index it might be adequate to regard Prisions and Dungeons as one and the same, but in a specialist index devoted to Criminology this would probable not be acceptable.
    Ex. The Stockholm Public Library provides library services in 32 hospitals, 1 gaol, 3 leisure centres for the handicapped and retired, and an institution for social rehabilitation.
    Ex. This article outlines the public library's outreach activities with children of all ages, the jail, and the local juvenile detention centre.
    Ex. The results of the survey indicated that at least some correctional institutions employed paid civilian staff.
    Ex. Penalties that can be imposed range from seizure and forfeiture of the articles and the means by which they were produced to fines or imprisonment.
    Ex. These trends are expected to result in library service to correctional facilities of comparable quality to those services available to the public.
    ----
    * biblioteca de prisión = prison library.
    * bibliotecario de prisiones = prison librarian.
    * castigar con la prisión = punish with + prison.
    * celda de prisión = prison cell.
    * colección de libros de derecho en una prisión = prison law library.
    * decretar prisión preventiva = remand.
    * director de prisión = prison warden.
    * enviar a prisión = send to + jail.
    * escaparse de la prisión = break out of + prison.
    * especialización en bibliotecas de prisiones = prison librarianship.
    * fuga de la prisión = prison break, jailbreak [gaolbreak, UK], gaolbreak [jailbreak, US].
    * funcionario de prisión = prison warder.
    * funcionario de prisiones = gaoler [jailer, -USA].
    * pena de prisión = custodial sentence, jail sentence.
    * prisión militar = military prison.
    * ser condenado a prisión = receive + prison sentence.
    * * *
    1) ( edificio) prison, jail, penitentiary (AmE)
    2) ( pena) imprisonment
    * * *
    = prison, gaol [jail, -USA], jail [gaol, -UK], correctional institution, imprisonment, correctional facility.

    Ex: For example, in a general index it might be adequate to regard Prisions and Dungeons as one and the same, but in a specialist index devoted to Criminology this would probable not be acceptable.

    Ex: The Stockholm Public Library provides library services in 32 hospitals, 1 gaol, 3 leisure centres for the handicapped and retired, and an institution for social rehabilitation.
    Ex: This article outlines the public library's outreach activities with children of all ages, the jail, and the local juvenile detention centre.
    Ex: The results of the survey indicated that at least some correctional institutions employed paid civilian staff.
    Ex: Penalties that can be imposed range from seizure and forfeiture of the articles and the means by which they were produced to fines or imprisonment.
    Ex: These trends are expected to result in library service to correctional facilities of comparable quality to those services available to the public.
    * biblioteca de prisión = prison library.
    * bibliotecario de prisiones = prison librarian.
    * castigar con la prisión = punish with + prison.
    * celda de prisión = prison cell.
    * colección de libros de derecho en una prisión = prison law library.
    * decretar prisión preventiva = remand.
    * director de prisión = prison warden.
    * enviar a prisión = send to + jail.
    * escaparse de la prisión = break out of + prison.
    * especialización en bibliotecas de prisiones = prison librarianship.
    * fuga de la prisión = prison break, jailbreak [gaolbreak, UK], gaolbreak [jailbreak, US].
    * funcionario de prisión = prison warder.
    * funcionario de prisiones = gaoler [jailer, -USA].
    * pena de prisión = custodial sentence, jail sentence.
    * prisión militar = military prison.
    * ser condenado a prisión = receive + prison sentence.

    * * *
    A (edificio) prison, jail, penitentiary ( AmE)
    Compuestos:
    open prison
    high-security prison
    maximum-security o top-security prison
    B (pena) imprisonment
    fue condenado a seis años de prisión he was sentenced to six years' imprisonment o six years in prison, he was given a six-year prison sentence
    Compuestos:
    long-term prison sentence ( 6 to 12 years)
    medium-term prison sentence ( 6 months to 6 years)
    prisión preventiva or provisional
    preventive detention
    el juez decretó la prisión preventiva or provisional the judge ordered him to be remanded in custody
    está detenido en régimen de prisión preventiva or provisional he is being held in preventive detention, he is in custody awaiting trial, he is being held on remand ( BrE)
    * * *

    prisión sustantivo femenino
    1 ( edificio) prison, jail, penitentiary (AmE)
    2 ( pena) prison sentence;

    prisión sustantivo femenino
    1 (lugar) prison, jail
    2 (condena) imprisonment
    prisión preventiva, protective custody
    ' prisión' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    preventiva
    - preventivo
    - talego
    - arresto
    - cárcel
    - dirección
    - director
    - ingresar
    - módulo
    - recluir
    - seguridad
    English:
    breakout
    - carry
    - confinement
    - convict
    - correctional facility
    - demonstrate
    - escape
    - eventual
    - fact
    - guardhouse
    - jail
    - maximum
    - prison
    - remand
    - sentence
    - stockade
    - community
    - imprisonment
    - -like
    - penitentiary
    - suspended
    * * *
    1. [cárcel] prison
    prisión de máxima seguridad top-security prison;
    2. [encarcelamiento] imprisonment;
    fue condenado a veinte años de prisión he was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment
    prisión incondicional remand without bail;
    prisión mayor = prison sentence of between six years and twelve years;
    prisión menor = prison sentence of between six months and six years;
    prisión preventiva preventive custody
    * * *
    f prison, jail
    * * *
    1) cárcel: prison, jail
    2) encarcelamiento: imprisonment
    * * *
    prisión n prison

    Spanish-English dictionary > prisión

  • 55 trozo

    m.
    piece (pedazo).
    hacer algo a trozos to do something bit by bit
    cortar algo en trozos to cut something into pieces
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: trozar.
    * * *
    1 piece, chunk
    * * *
    noun m.
    1) piece, bit, chunk
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=pedazo) piece, bit
    2) (Literat, Mús) passage

    trozos escogidos — selected passages, selections

    * * *
    a) (de pan, pastel) piece, bit, slice; (de madera, papel, tela) piece, bit; (de vidrio, cerámica) piece, fragment
    b) (Lit, Mús) passage
    * * *
    = chunk, length, piece, portion, shred, slice, gobbet, fragment, snippet, morsel, broken piece, hunk.
    Ex. So there is at least that big chunk of a file which is already a rather coherent catalog.
    Ex. A motion picture is a length of film, with or without recorded sound, bearing a sequence of images that create the illusion of movement when projected in rapid succession.
    Ex. Within one main class the same piece of notation may be used to signify different concepts.
    Ex. An extract is one o more portions of a document selected to represent the whole document.
    Ex. The article ' Shreds and patches: macrostatistics on libraries in the European Community' is a summary of the results of a study to compile economic and statistical data.
    Ex. A number of identical integrated circuits are usually made side by side on a single slice of silicon.
    Ex. This material includes case studies, games, and model making kits, each containing a pre-digested gobbet of information.
    Ex. During his stay in Laputa, Captain Gulliver was very impressed by a book-writing machine which produced fragments of sentences which were dictated to scribes and later pieced together.
    Ex. Automation in libraries can only provide snippets of information, not knowledge.
    Ex. The three monkeys used in this study chose the left arm as the leading arm to reach out and pull back a spring-loaded drawer containing a food morsel.
    Ex. Using charred bits of wood from campfires, broken pieces of clay pots, and stone spearpoints and arrowheads, the archaeologist investigates the past.
    Ex. This is especially good if you cut a turkey breast in hunks and marinade overnight then grill.
    ----
    * a trozos = piecewise.
    * compuesto de trozos = piecewise.
    * con trozos = piecewise.
    * cortar en trozos = cut + Nombre + up.
    * dividir en trozos = split into + bits.
    * hecho de trozos = piecewise.
    * trozo de = scrap of.
    * trozo de carne = cut of meat.
    * trozo de césped arrancado = divot [divet].
    * trozo de información = tidbit [titbit, -USA], titbit [tidbit, -UK].
    * trozo de papel = slip.
    * trozo de piel = skin.
    * trozo de tela = strip of cloth.
    * trozo de vasija = potsherd, potsherd.
    * trozos = odds and ends, bits and pieces, bits and bobs.
    * un trozo de = a piece of, a snatch of, a stretch of.
    * * *
    a) (de pan, pastel) piece, bit, slice; (de madera, papel, tela) piece, bit; (de vidrio, cerámica) piece, fragment
    b) (Lit, Mús) passage
    * * *
    = chunk, length, piece, portion, shred, slice, gobbet, fragment, snippet, morsel, broken piece, hunk.

    Ex: So there is at least that big chunk of a file which is already a rather coherent catalog.

    Ex: A motion picture is a length of film, with or without recorded sound, bearing a sequence of images that create the illusion of movement when projected in rapid succession.
    Ex: Within one main class the same piece of notation may be used to signify different concepts.
    Ex: An extract is one o more portions of a document selected to represent the whole document.
    Ex: The article ' Shreds and patches: macrostatistics on libraries in the European Community' is a summary of the results of a study to compile economic and statistical data.
    Ex: A number of identical integrated circuits are usually made side by side on a single slice of silicon.
    Ex: This material includes case studies, games, and model making kits, each containing a pre-digested gobbet of information.
    Ex: During his stay in Laputa, Captain Gulliver was very impressed by a book-writing machine which produced fragments of sentences which were dictated to scribes and later pieced together.
    Ex: Automation in libraries can only provide snippets of information, not knowledge.
    Ex: The three monkeys used in this study chose the left arm as the leading arm to reach out and pull back a spring-loaded drawer containing a food morsel.
    Ex: Using charred bits of wood from campfires, broken pieces of clay pots, and stone spearpoints and arrowheads, the archaeologist investigates the past.
    Ex: This is especially good if you cut a turkey breast in hunks and marinade overnight then grill.
    * a trozos = piecewise.
    * compuesto de trozos = piecewise.
    * con trozos = piecewise.
    * cortar en trozos = cut + Nombre + up.
    * dividir en trozos = split into + bits.
    * hecho de trozos = piecewise.
    * trozo de = scrap of.
    * trozo de carne = cut of meat.
    * trozo de césped arrancado = divot [divet].
    * trozo de información = tidbit [titbit, -USA], titbit [tidbit, -UK].
    * trozo de papel = slip.
    * trozo de piel = skin.
    * trozo de tela = strip of cloth.
    * trozo de vasija = potsherd, potsherd.
    * trozos = odds and ends, bits and pieces, bits and bobs.
    * un trozo de = a piece of, a snatch of, a stretch of.

    * * *
    1 (de pan, pastel) piece, bit, slice; (de madera, papel, tela) piece, bit; (de vidrio, cerámica) piece, fragment
    cortar la zanahoria en trocitos dice the carrot, chop the carrot into small pieces
    la pintura me quedó a trozos the paint dried all patchy
    2 ( Lit, Mús) passage
    * * *

     

    trozo sustantivo masculino
    a) (de pan, pastel) piece, bit, slice;

    (de madera, papel, tela) piece, bit;
    (de vidrio, cerámica) piece, fragment;

    b) (Lit, Mús) passage

    trozo sustantivo masculino piece
    ' trozo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bloque
    - bocado
    - de
    - hebra
    - jirón
    - papel
    - parte
    - tragar
    - algodón
    - cortar
    - cristal
    - fierro
    - otro
    - palo
    - pedazo
    - piedra
    English:
    bit
    - cut
    - fleck
    - flint
    - gob
    - hunk
    - joint
    - length
    - lump
    - nugget
    - piece
    - slab
    - slice
    - take
    - wedge
    - chunk
    - fall
    - fish
    - shred
    - snippet
    * * *
    trozo nm
    1. [de pan, tela, metal] piece;
    cortar algo en trozos to cut sth into pieces
    2. [de camino] stretch;
    hacer algo a trozos to do sth bit by bit
    3. [de obra] extract;
    [de película] snippet
    * * *
    m piece
    * * *
    trozo nm
    1) pedazo: piece, bit, chunk
    2) : passage, extract
    * * *
    trozo n piece

    Spanish-English dictionary > trozo

  • 56 usar

    v.
    1 to use.
    ¿sabes usar esta máquina? do you know how to use this machine?
    sin usar unused
    Antonio usa grapas Anthony uses staples.
    El timador usó a las personas The swindler used the people.
    2 to wear (ropa, lentes, maquillaje).
    estos guantes están sin usar these gloves haven't been worn
    Antonio usa corbata Anthony wears ties.
    * * *
    1 to use
    2 (prenda) to wear
    1 to use (de, -)
    1 (estar de moda) to be used, be in fashion
    \
    de usar y tirar throwaway
    sin usar brand-new
    * * *
    verb
    2) wear
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=utilizar) [+ aparato, transporte, sustancia, expresión] to use

    usar algo/a algn como — to use sth/sb as

    de usar y tirar[envase, producto] disposable

    literatura que algunos llaman de "usar y tirar" — so-called "pulp fiction"

    2) (=llevar) [+ ropa, perfume] to wear

    ¿qué número usa? — what size do you take?

    3) (=soler)
    2.
    VI

    usar de[+ derecho, poder] to exercise

    usar del derecho al voto — to exercise one's right to vote, use one's vote

    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) (emplear, utilizar) to use

    ¿cómo se usa esto? — < máquina> how does this work?; <diccionario/herramienta> how do you use this?

    usar algo/a alguien de or como algo — to use something/somebody as something

    b) <instalaciones/servicio> to use
    c) <producto/combustible> to use
    2) ( llevar) <alhajas/ropa> to wear; < perfume> to use, wear

    estos zapatos están sin usar — these shoes are unworn, these shoes have never been worn

    3) (esp AmL) < persona> to use
    2.
    usar vi
    1) ver abusar 2)
    2) usar de (frml) ( hacer uso de) <influencia/autoridad> to use
    3.
    usarse v pron (en 3a pers) (esp AmL) ( estar de moda) color/ropa to be in fashion
    * * *
    = adopt, call on/upon, deploy, employ, make + use of, rely on/upon, take, use, utilise [utilize, -USA], draw on/upon, use up, mobilise [mobilize, -USA].
    Ex. The concept of corporate authorship was first formulated in the BM code and has been adopted in all subsequent English language codes.
    Ex. It can only be a matter of time before we have in effect a complete set of MARC records to call on for details of any item we require.
    Ex. The article presents the results of trials in which the model was deployed to classify aspects of the construction industry, such as construction norms and regulations.
    Ex. The size of the collections in which the LCC is currently employed is likely to be a significant factor in its perpetuation.
    Ex. The example search in figure 8.3 shows how the statements in an online search make use of Boolean logic operators.
    Ex. When BNB began publication in 1950 it relied upon the fourteenth edition of DC.
    Ex. A common standard serial interface is the RS232C which takes a 24-pin plug and is commonly used to connect many peripherals including printers and modems.
    Ex. A study of bibliographic classification could concentrate solely upon the major, and some of the more minor bibliographic classification schemes used today.
    Ex. Clearly both tools record controlled indexing languages, but they are utilised in different environments.
    Ex. Bay's essay was produced to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Gesner's birth and draws upon a mass of contemporary source material.
    Ex. Plug-in programs have grown widely, they add functionality to a WWW browser but also use up drive storage space or conflict with other types of programs.
    Ex. It is time for all librarians to change their attitudes and become involved, to seek funds and mobilise civic organisations and businesses in cooperative efforts.
    ----
    * al usarse = in use.
    * aparato para usar Internet = Internet appliance.
    * capaz de usar el correo electrónico = e-mail literate.
    * cuchillo de usar y tirar = disposable knife.
    * de usar y tirar = disposable, throwaway, single-use.
    * fácil de usar = easy-to-use, user friendly.
    * hacer que no se use = render + unused.
    * listo para usar = off-the-rack.
    * listo para usarse = on tap.
    * plato de usar y tirar = disposable plate.
    * que puede ser usado a través de la web = web-compliant.
    * seleccionar en pantalla usando el contraste de colores = highlight.
    * servilleta de usar y tirar = disposable napkin.
    * tenedor de usar y tirar = disposable fork.
    * usando = by use of.
    * usando el tiempo de un modo eficaz = time efficient [time-efficient].
    * usar Algo bien = put to + good use.
    * usar Algo con buen provecho = use + Nombre + to good advantage.
    * usar Algo de un modo muy diluido = spread + Nombre + thinly.
    * usar como gasto deducible = write off.
    * usar como modelo = use + as a model.
    * usar con mesura = eke out.
    * usar con precaución = use + with caution.
    * usar de forma general = widely applied.
    * usar de manera general = be in general use.
    * usar de un modo descuidado = bandy (about/around).
    * usar de un modo despreocupado = bandy (about/around).
    * usar eficazmente = tap.
    * usar enchufes = pull + strings.
    * usar en exceso = overuse.
    * usar excesivamente = overuse.
    * usar fuera de contexto = use + out of context.
    * usar indistintamente = use + interchangeably.
    * usar mal = abuse, misuse.
    * usarse = be in use.
    * usarse en = be at home in.
    * usar sobre la zona afectada = use + topically.
    * usar superficialmente = nibble at.
    * úsese = Use.
    * úsese en lugar de (UF) = UF (use for).
    * volver a usar = reuse [re-use].
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) (emplear, utilizar) to use

    ¿cómo se usa esto? — < máquina> how does this work?; <diccionario/herramienta> how do you use this?

    usar algo/a alguien de or como algo — to use something/somebody as something

    b) <instalaciones/servicio> to use
    c) <producto/combustible> to use
    2) ( llevar) <alhajas/ropa> to wear; < perfume> to use, wear

    estos zapatos están sin usar — these shoes are unworn, these shoes have never been worn

    3) (esp AmL) < persona> to use
    2.
    usar vi
    1) ver abusar 2)
    2) usar de (frml) ( hacer uso de) <influencia/autoridad> to use
    3.
    usarse v pron (en 3a pers) (esp AmL) ( estar de moda) color/ropa to be in fashion
    * * *
    = adopt, call on/upon, deploy, employ, make + use of, rely on/upon, take, use, utilise [utilize, -USA], draw on/upon, use up, mobilise [mobilize, -USA].

    Ex: The concept of corporate authorship was first formulated in the BM code and has been adopted in all subsequent English language codes.

    Ex: It can only be a matter of time before we have in effect a complete set of MARC records to call on for details of any item we require.
    Ex: The article presents the results of trials in which the model was deployed to classify aspects of the construction industry, such as construction norms and regulations.
    Ex: The size of the collections in which the LCC is currently employed is likely to be a significant factor in its perpetuation.
    Ex: The example search in figure 8.3 shows how the statements in an online search make use of Boolean logic operators.
    Ex: When BNB began publication in 1950 it relied upon the fourteenth edition of DC.
    Ex: A common standard serial interface is the RS232C which takes a 24-pin plug and is commonly used to connect many peripherals including printers and modems.
    Ex: A study of bibliographic classification could concentrate solely upon the major, and some of the more minor bibliographic classification schemes used today.
    Ex: Clearly both tools record controlled indexing languages, but they are utilised in different environments.
    Ex: Bay's essay was produced to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Gesner's birth and draws upon a mass of contemporary source material.
    Ex: Plug-in programs have grown widely, they add functionality to a WWW browser but also use up drive storage space or conflict with other types of programs.
    Ex: It is time for all librarians to change their attitudes and become involved, to seek funds and mobilise civic organisations and businesses in cooperative efforts.
    * al usarse = in use.
    * aparato para usar Internet = Internet appliance.
    * capaz de usar el correo electrónico = e-mail literate.
    * cuchillo de usar y tirar = disposable knife.
    * de usar y tirar = disposable, throwaway, single-use.
    * fácil de usar = easy-to-use, user friendly.
    * hacer que no se use = render + unused.
    * listo para usar = off-the-rack.
    * listo para usarse = on tap.
    * plato de usar y tirar = disposable plate.
    * que puede ser usado a través de la web = web-compliant.
    * seleccionar en pantalla usando el contraste de colores = highlight.
    * servilleta de usar y tirar = disposable napkin.
    * tenedor de usar y tirar = disposable fork.
    * usando = by use of.
    * usando el tiempo de un modo eficaz = time efficient [time-efficient].
    * usar Algo bien = put to + good use.
    * usar Algo con buen provecho = use + Nombre + to good advantage.
    * usar Algo de un modo muy diluido = spread + Nombre + thinly.
    * usar como gasto deducible = write off.
    * usar como modelo = use + as a model.
    * usar con mesura = eke out.
    * usar con precaución = use + with caution.
    * usar de forma general = widely applied.
    * usar de manera general = be in general use.
    * usar de un modo descuidado = bandy (about/around).
    * usar de un modo despreocupado = bandy (about/around).
    * usar eficazmente = tap.
    * usar enchufes = pull + strings.
    * usar en exceso = overuse.
    * usar excesivamente = overuse.
    * usar fuera de contexto = use + out of context.
    * usar indistintamente = use + interchangeably.
    * usar mal = abuse, misuse.
    * usarse = be in use.
    * usarse en = be at home in.
    * usar sobre la zona afectada = use + topically.
    * usar superficialmente = nibble at.
    * úsese = Use.
    * úsese en lugar de (UF) = UF (use for).
    * volver a usar = reuse [re-use].

    * * *
    usar [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 (emplear, utilizar) to use
    ¿cómo se usa esta calculadora? how does this calculator work?
    es una expresión poco usada it's not a very common expression, it's not an expression that's used a lot
    usó mal esa palabra he didn't use the word correctly
    usa preservativos use condoms
    usó toda su diplomacia para convencerlos she used all her tact to convince them
    usar algo/a algn DEor COMO algo to use sth/sb AS sth
    no uses el plato de or como cenicero don't use the plate as an ashtray
    ¿te puedo usar de or como testigo? can I use you as a witness?
    2 ‹instalaciones/servicio› to use
    hay una excelente biblioteca pero nadie la usa there's an excellent library but nobody uses it o nobody makes use of it
    3 (consumir) ‹producto/ingredientes/combustible› to use
    ¿qué champú usas? what shampoo do you use?
    no uses todos los huevos don't use all the eggs (up)
    B (llevar) ‹alhajas/ropa› to wear; ‹perfume› to use, wear
    estos zapatos están sin usar these shoes are unworn, these shoes have never been worn
    C ( esp AmL) (explotar, manipular) ‹persona› to use
    me sentí usada I felt used
    D usar de ( frml) (hacer uso de) ‹influencia/autoridad› to use
    usarse
    ( esp AmL) (estar de moda): el fucsia es el color que más se va a usar esta temporada fuchsia is set to be the most popular color o ( colloq) the in-color this season
    cuando se usaba la maxifalda when long skirts were in fashion
    se usan muchísimo las prendas de cuero leather clothing is very popular
    ya no se usa hacer fiestas de compromiso it's not very common to have an engagement party nowadays
    * * *

     

    usar ( conjugate usar) verbo transitivo

    ¿qué champú usas? what shampoo do you use?;

    usar algo/a algn de or como algo to use sth/sb as sth
    b) ( llevar) ‹alhajas/ropa/perfume to wear;


    usarse verbo pronominal (en 3a pers) (esp AmL) ( estar de moda) [color/ropa] to be in fashion, to be popular;

    usar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (hacer uso, emplear) to use: no uses mi maquinilla, don't use my razor
    siempre usa el mismo método, she uses always the same method
    2 (llevar ropa, perfume, etc) to wear
    II vi (utilizar) to use

    ' usar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    alquilar
    - apellido
    - baja
    - bajo
    - bastante
    - bien
    - calor
    - casarse
    - cerrarse
    - como
    - don
    - doña
    - enferma
    - enfermo
    - error
    - fácil
    - fresca
    - fresco
    - fuerza
    - gastar
    - gritar
    - gustar
    - histórica
    - histórico
    - infante
    - irse
    - mucha
    - mucho
    - padre
    - parecerse
    - poder
    - soler
    - telefonear
    - toda
    - todo
    - ver
    - viaje
    - abusar
    - aprovechar
    - aspereza
    - emplear
    - estrenar
    - manejar
    - ocupar
    - someter
    English:
    absent
    - accustom
    - advise
    - apply
    - appreciate
    - averse
    - bed
    - begin
    - delay
    - dread
    - engine driver
    - eventual
    - excuse
    - feel
    - female
    - get
    - go
    - go on
    - hate
    - help out
    - liberty
    - love
    - male-dominated
    - mention
    - mind
    - miss
    - must
    - object
    - off
    - oven
    - overdo
    - possess
    - print
    - quite
    - ready
    - Scotch
    - shall
    - sparing
    - start
    - still
    - storey
    - study
    - take
    - teach
    - try
    - ultimately
    - unused
    - use
    - walking frame
    - work
    * * *
    vt
    1. [aparato, herramienta, término] to use;
    ¿sabes usar esta máquina? do you know how to use this machine?;
    una cafetera sin usar an unused coffee pot;
    un método muy usado en literatura a widely used method in literature;
    usar algo como o [m5]de: un cobertizo pequeño que se usa como o [m5] de almacén a small shed which is used as a store;
    de usar y tirar [producto] disposable
    2. [ropa, lentes] to wear;
    no uso maquillaje I don't wear make-up;
    estos guantes están sin usar these gloves haven't been worn;
    siempre uso la talla 40 I always wear size 40
    3. Am [persona] to use;
    cuídate de ella, suele usar a la gente que se deja watch out with her, she tends to use people if they let her
    vi
    usar de to use, to make use of;
    quien siempre usa de la verdad whoever abides by the truth
    * * *
    I v/t
    1 use
    2 ropa, gafas wear
    II v/i
    :
    listo para usar ready to use
    * * *
    usar vt
    1) emplear, utilizar: to use, to make use of
    2) consumir: to consume, to use (up)
    3) llevar: to wear
    4)
    de usar y tirar : disposable
    * * *
    usar vb
    1. (emplear) to use
    2. (llevar) to wear [pt. wore; pp. worn]

    Spanish-English dictionary > usar

  • 57 velero

    adj.
    swift-sailing, sailing.
    m.
    1 sailing boat or ship.
    2 sailing ship, sailer, sailboat, sailing boat.
    3 sailmaker.
    * * *
    1 sailing
    nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 sailing ship, sailing boat
    ————————
    1 sailing ship, sailing boat
    * * *
    1.
    ADJ [barco] manoeuvrable, maneuverable (EEUU)
    2. SM
    1) (Náut) (grande) sailing ship; (pequeño) sailing boat, sailboat (EEUU)
    2) (Aer) glider
    3) (=persona) sailmaker
    * * *
    a) (Náut) ( grande) sailing ship; ( pequeño) sailboat (AmE), sailing boat (BrE)
    b) (Aviac) glider
    * * *
    = sailing yacht, sail ship, sailing ship, square-rigged ship, sailboat, sailing boat.
    Ex. The results indicate that recreational boating is the main component of all boat traffic, being composed chiefly by sailing yachts, with a small contribution of jet-skis and speedboat.
    Ex. M Asthana, the Commanding Officer for the last leg of the voyage around the world, describes the sail-ship as 'the building block' of India's naval training.
    Ex. Every sailing ship has a hull, rigging and at least one mast to hold up the sails that use the wind to power the ship.
    Ex. The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.
    Ex. Proceeding upwind with a sailboat is called tacking, and involves moving into the wind with a series of zigzag maneuvers.
    Ex. Contrary to the beliefs of landlubbers, sailing boats are not compelled to travel with the wind.
    ----
    * barco velero = sail ship, sailing ship, square-rigged ship, sailboat, sailing boat.
    * * *
    a) (Náut) ( grande) sailing ship; ( pequeño) sailboat (AmE), sailing boat (BrE)
    b) (Aviac) glider
    * * *
    = sailing yacht, sail ship, sailing ship, square-rigged ship, sailboat, sailing boat.

    Ex: The results indicate that recreational boating is the main component of all boat traffic, being composed chiefly by sailing yachts, with a small contribution of jet-skis and speedboat.

    Ex: M Asthana, the Commanding Officer for the last leg of the voyage around the world, describes the sail-ship as 'the building block' of India's naval training.
    Ex: Every sailing ship has a hull, rigging and at least one mast to hold up the sails that use the wind to power the ship.
    Ex: The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.
    Ex: Proceeding upwind with a sailboat is called tacking, and involves moving into the wind with a series of zigzag maneuvers.
    Ex: Contrary to the beliefs of landlubbers, sailing boats are not compelled to travel with the wind.
    * barco velero = sail ship, sailing ship, square-rigged ship, sailboat, sailing boat.

    * * *
    1 ( Náut) (grande) sailing ship; (pequeño) sailboat ( AmE), sailing boat ( BrE)
    2 ( Aviac) glider
    * * *

    velero sustantivo masculino
    a) (Náut) ( grande) sailing ship;

    ( pequeño) sailboat (AmE), sailing boat (BrE)
    b) (Aviac) glider

    velero sustantivo masculino sailing boat o ship
    ' velero' also found in these entries:
    English:
    ship
    - around
    - sailboat
    - sailing
    - yacht
    * * *
    velero nm
    [pequeño] sailing boat; [grande] sailing ship
    * * *
    m MAR sailing ship
    * * *
    velero nm
    1) : sailing ship
    2) : sailboat
    * * *
    velero n sailing boat

    Spanish-English dictionary > velero

  • 58 suite

    suite [syit]
    feminine noun
       a. ( = nouvel épisode) following episode ; ( = second roman, film) sequel ; ( = rebondissement d'une affaire) follow-up ; ( = reste) rest
    la suite du film/du repas était moins bonne the rest of the film/the meal was not so good
    suite et fin concluding or final episode
    attendons la suite (d'un repas) let's wait for the next course ; (d'un discours) let's see what comes next ; (d'un événement) let's see how it turns out
    prendre la suite de [+ directeur] to take over from ; [+ entreprise] to take over
       b. ( = aboutissement) result
    suites ( = prolongements) [de maladie] effects ; [d'accident] results ; [d'affaire, incident] consequences
    cet incident a eu des suites fâcheuses/n'a pas eu de suites the incident has had annoying consequences/has had no repercussions
    il est mort des suites de ses blessures/d'un cancer he died as a result of his injuries/died of cancer
       c. ( = succession) series
       d. ( = cohérence) il a de la suite dans les idées (réfléchi, décidé) he's very single-minded ; (ironic entêté) he's not easily put off
       e. ( = appartement) suite
       f. (Music) suite
       g. ( = escorte) suite
       h. (locutions)
    suite à votre lettre/notre entretien further to your letter/our conversation
    à la suite de (objet, personne) behind
    sans suite [propos, mots] disjointed
    rester sans suite [affaire, résolution] not to be followed up
    * * *
    sɥit
    1.
    1) ( reste) rest

    la suite des événements — ( à venir) what happens next; ( déjà survenue) what happened next

    2) ( partie suivante) ( de récit) continuation; ( de feuilleton) next instalment [BrE]; ( de repas) next course

    suite page 10/au prochain numéro — continued on page 10/in the next issue

    3) (nouveau film, roman) sequel (à, de to); (émission, article de suivi) follow-up (à, de to)
    4) ( résultat) result

    les suites — (d'acte, de décision) the consequences; (d'affaire, incident) the repercussions; (de maladie, d'opération) the after-effects

    donner suite àto follow up [plainte, affaire]; to pursue [projet]; to act on [requête]; to respond to [lettre]; Commerce to deal with [commande]

    rester sans suite[demande] not to be followed up; [projet] to be dropped

    faire suite àto follow on from [paragraphe]; to follow upon [incident]

    7) ( cohérence) coherence

    avoir de la suite dans les idées — ( savoir ce que l'on veut) to be single-minded; ( être entêté) iron not to be easily deterred

    8) ( série) (de sommets, d'incidents) series (+ v sg); ( de malheurs) string, series (+ v sg); ( de succès) run
    9) ( dans un hôtel) suite
    10) ( entourage) suite
    11) Mathématique series (+ v sg)
    12) Musique suite
    13) Linguistique string

    2.
    de suite locution adverbiale
    1) ( d'affilée) in succession, in a row
    2) ( immédiatement) straight ou right away

    3.
    par la suite locution adverbiale ( après) afterwards; ( plus tard) later

    4.
    par suite locution adverbiale consequently, as a result

    5.
    par suite de locution prépositive due to

    par suite d'encombrement, votre appel ne peut aboutir — all lines are engaged GB ou busy, please try later


    6.
    à la suite de locution prépositive
    1) (en conséquence, après) following
    2) ( derrière) behind

    à la suite les uns des autres, l'un à la suite de l'autre — one behind the other

    entraîner quelqu'un à sa suite — ( derrière soi) to drag somebody along behind one; ( dans une chute) lit, fig to drag somebody down with one


    7.
    suite à locution prépositive
    * * *
    sɥit
    1. nf
    1) (= continuation) [histoire] rest, [feuilleton] next instalment, [film] sequel

    Je vous raconterai la suite de l'histoire demain. — I'll tell you the rest of the story tomorrow.

    attendre la suite des événements — to wait and see what happens, to see what happens

    2) (= série)

    une suite de — a series of, a succession of

    3) (= logique)

    sans suite (propos) — incoherent, disjointed

    5) MUSIQUE suite
    6) (= escorte) retinue, suite

    de suite (= d'affilée) — in succession, in a row

    Il a commis la même erreur trois fois de suite. — He made the same mistake three times in succession., He made the same mistake three times in a row., (= immédiatement) at once

    par la suite — afterwards, subsequently

    Il s'est avéré par la suite qu'il était coupable. — He subsequently turned out to be guilty.

    par suite de — owing to, as a result of

    tout de suite — straightaway, straight away

    J'y vais tout de suite. — I'll go straightaway., I'll go straight away.

    donner suite à [requête, projet]to follow up

    Suite aux événements du mois dernier,... — Following the events of last month,...

    prendre la suite de [successeur] — to succeed, to take over from

    2. suites nfpl
    (= conséquences) consequences

    mort des suites d'une longue maladie — dead as the result of a long illness, dead after a long illness

    * * *
    A nf
    1 ( reste) rest; je te raconterai la suite plus tard I'll tell you the rest later; la suite des événements ( à venir) what happens next; ( déjà survenue) what happened next; on connaît la suite we all know what happened next; la suite des événements montra que subsequent events showed that; lis la suite pour comprendre read on and then you'll understand;
    2 ( partie suivante) ( de récit) continuation; ( de feuilleton) next instalmentGB; ( de repas) next course; attendre la suite ( du repas) to wait for the next course; ( du spectacle) to see what comes next; ( des événements) to wait and see; suite page 10/au prochain numéro/de la première page continued on page 10/in the next issue/from page one; ‘résultats des examens (suite)’ ‘examination results (continued)’; ‘suite et fin’ ‘concluded’;
    3 (nouveau film, roman) sequel (à, de to); (émission, article de suivi) follow-up (à, de to); j'ai une idée pour une suite au film I have an idea for a sequel to the film; dans une émission qui est une suite à celle d'hier in a follow-up to yesterday's programmeGB;
    4 ( résultat) result; les suites (d'acte, de décision) the consequences; (d'affaire, incident) the repercussions; (de maladie, d'opération) the after-effects; la suite logique/naturelle de the logical/natural result of; leur négligence aurait pu avoir des suites fâcheuses their negligence could have had serious consequences; l'incident n'a pas eu de suites the incident had no repercussions; mourir des suites d'une chute to die as a result of a fall;
    5 ( réponse produite) donner suite à to follow up [plainte, affaire]; to pursue [projet]; to act on [requête]; to respond to, to follow up [lettre]; Comm to deal with [commande]; ne pas donner suite à une lettre to take no action concerning a letter; rester sans suite [demande, plainte] not to be followed up; [projet] to be dropped; ma plainte est restée sans suite no action was taken about my complaint; ‘classé sans suite’ Admin ‘no action’;
    6 ( indiquant la position) faire suite à to follow on from [paragraphe]; to follow upon [incident]; un vote fit suite au débat a vote followed the debate; la pièce qui fait suite au bureau the room which leads off the study; prendre la suite d'une affaire to take over a business; prendre la suite de qn to take over from sb;
    7 ( cohérence) coherence; ça manque de suite it's not very coherent; marmonner des phrases sans suite to mutter incoherently; avoir de la suite dans les idées ( savoir ce que l'on veut) to be single-minded; iron ( être entêté) not to be easily deterred; n'avoir aucune suite dans les idées to flit from one thing to another;
    8 ( série) (de sommets, d'incidents) series (sg); ( de malheurs) string, series (sg); ( de succès) run; article sans suite discontinued line;
    9 ( dans un hôtel) suite;
    10 ( entourage) suite;
    11 Math series (+ v sg);
    12 Mus suite; suite d'orchestre orchestral suite;
    13 Ling string;
    14 Jeux ( aux cartes) run; suite à pique run in spades.
    B de suite loc adv
    1 ( d'affilée) in succession, in a row; trois fois de suite three times in succession ou a row; il a plu trois jours de suite it rained for three days running; venir trois jours de suite to come three days running; dormir/travailler dix heures de suite to sleep/to work for ten hours solid; sur dix pages de suite over ten consecutive pages; et ainsi de suite and so on; incapable d'aligner deux mots de suite incapable of stringing two words together;
    2 ( immédiatement) straight ou right away; je reviens de suite I'll be right back.
    C par la suite loc adv ( après) afterwards; ( plus tard) later; qu'a-t-il fait par la suite? what did he do afterwards ?
    D par suite loc adv consequently, as a result.
    E par suite de loc prép due to; par suite d'encombrement, votre appel ne peut aboutir all lines are engaged GB ou busy, please try again later.
    F à la suite de loc prép
    1 (en conséquence, après) following; à la suite d'un incident following an incident, as a result of an incident;
    2 ( derrière) behind; rangés à la suite des autres placed behind the others; à leur suite venait la fanfare behind them came the band; à la suite les uns des autres, l'un à la suite de l'autre one after the other; entraîner qn à sa suite ( derrière soi) to drag sb along behind one; ( dans une chute) lit, fig to drag sb down with one; se mettre à la suite (de la file d'attente) to join (the end of) the queue GB ou line US.
    G suite à loc prép suite à ma lettre/notre conversation further to my letter/our conversation; suite à votre lettre Comm with reference to your letter; suite à l'article d'hier Presse following yesterday's article.
    [sɥit] nom féminin
    1. [prolongation - généralement] continuation ; [ - d'un film, d'un roman] sequel ; [ - d'une émission] follow-up
    a. [du discours] listen to what comes next
    b. [de mon histoire] listen to what happened next
    prendre la suite de quelqu'un to take over from somebody, to succeed somebody
    2. [série] series, succession
    une suite de malheurs a run ou series of misfortunes
    3. [cortège] suite, retinue
    4. [dans un hôtel] suite
    5. [répercussion] consequence
    la suite logique/naturelle de mon adhésion au parti the logical/natural consequence of my joining the party
    a. [commande, lettre, réclamation] to follow up (separable) , to deal with (inseparable)
    b. [projet] to carry on with
    6. [lien logique] coherence
    8. LINGUISTIQUE & MATHÉMATIQUES sequence
    ————————
    à la suite locution adverbiale
    1. [en succession] one after the other
    2. [après]
    à la suite de locution prépositionnelle
    1. [derrière - dans l'espace] behind ; [ - dans un écrit] after
    2. [à cause de] following
    à la suite de son discours télévisé, sa cote a remonté following her speech on TV, her popularity rating went up
    ————————
    de suite locution adverbiale
    1. (familier) [immédiatement] straightaway, right away
    ————————
    par la suite locution adverbiale
    [dans le passé] afterwards, later
    [dans le futur] later
    ————————
    par suite locution adverbiale
    par suite de locution prépositionnelle
    ————————
    sans suite locution adjectivale
    1. [incohérent] disconnected
    suite à locution prépositionnelle
    suite à votre lettre further to ou in response to ou with reference to your letter

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > suite

  • 59 conocer

    v.
    conocer algo a fondo to know something well
    conocer bien un tema to know a lot about a subject
    darse a conocer to make oneself known
    dieron a conocer la noticia a través de la prensa they announced the news through the press
    Ellos conocen el lugar They know the place.
    ¿conoces a mi jefe? do you know o have you met my boss?
    conocer a alguien de vista to know somebody by sight
    conocer a alguien de oídas to have heard of somebody
    ¿de qué la conoces? how do you know her?
    María conoció a Ricardo en verano Mary met Richard in the summer.
    3 to get to know, to visit for the first time (lugar, país) (descubrir).
    no conozco Rusia I've never been to Russia
    me gustaría conocer Australia I'd like to go to o visit Australia
    * * *
    (c changes to zc before a and o)
    Present Indicative
    conozco, conoces, conoce, conemos, conocéis, conocen.
    Present Subjunctive
    Imperative
    conoce (tú), conozca (él/Vd.), conozcamos (nos.), conoced (vos.), conozcan (ellos/Vds.).
    * * *
    verb
    2) meet
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) [+ persona]
    a) (=saber quién es) to know

    ¿de qué lo conoces? — where do you know him from?

    ¿conoces a Pedro? — have you met Pedro?, do you know Pedro?

    no me conoce de nadahe doesn't know me from Adam

    la conozco de oídas — I've heard of her, I know of her

    lo conozco de vistaI know him by sight

    b) (=ver por primera vez) to meet
    c) (=saber cómo es) to get to know
    d) (=reconocer) to recognize, know

    te he conocido por el modo de andarI recognized o knew you from the way you walk

    2) (=tener conocimiento de) [+ método, resultado] to know; [+ noticia] to hear
    3) [+ país, ciudad]

    no conozco Buenos Aires — I've never been to Buenos Aires, I don't know Buenos Aires

    4) (=dominar) to know

    conoce cuatro idiomasshe speaks o knows four languages

    5) (=experimentar)
    6) (=distinguir) to know, tell

    conoce cuáles son buenos y cuáles maloshe knows o can tell which are good and which are bad

    7)

    dar a conocer — [+ información] to announce; [+ declaración, informe, cifras] to release

    dio a conocer sus intenciones — she announced her intentions, she made her intentions known

    darse a conocer — [persona] to become known, make a name for o.s.

    darse a conocer a algn — to make o.s. known to sb

    8) (Jur) [+ causa] to try
    2. VI
    1) (=saber)

    conocer de algo, ¿alguien conoce de algún libro sobre el tema? — does anybody know (of) a book on the subject?

    2) (Jur)

    conocer de o en una causa — to try a case

    3.
    See:
    CONOCER ► Conocer, aplicado a personas o cosas, se traduce generalmente por know: No conozco muy bien a su familia I don't know his family very well Nos conocemos desde que éramos pequeños We have known each other since we were little Conoce Manchester como la palma de la mano He knows Manchester like the back of his hand ► Sin embargo, cuando queremos indicar que se trata del primer encuentro, se debe utilizar meet: La conocí en una fiesta I (first) met her at a party ¿Conoces a Carmen? Ven que te la presento Have you met Carmen? Come and I'll introduce you Para otros usos y ejemplos ver la entrada
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1) < persona> to know; ( por primera vez) to meet; <ciudad/país> to know

    ¿conoces a Juan? — do you know o have you met Juan?

    lquiero que conozcas a mi novi — oI want you to meet my boyfrien; ( aprender cómo es) <persona/ciudad> to get to know

    d¿conoces Irlanda — do you know o? have you been to Ireland

    2) (estar familiarizado con, dominar) <tema/autor/obra> to know, be familiar with; < lengua> to speak, know
    3)
    a) ( saber de la existencia de) to know, know of

    conocían sus actividadesthey knew of o about his activities

    b)

    dar a conocer — (frml) <noticia/resultado> to announce; <identidad/intenciones> to reveal

    darse a conocer persona to make oneself known

    4) ( reconocer) to recognize*
    5) ( experimentar) < crisis> to experience; <desarrollo/cambio> to undergo; < revolución> to see
    7) (Der) <causa/caso> to try
    8) (arc) ( tener trato carnal con) to know (arch)
    2.
    1) ( saber)

    conocer de algode tema/materia to know about something

    2) (Der)
    3.
    conocerse v pron
    1) (recípr) ( tener cierta relación con) to know each other; ( por primera vez) to meet; ( aprender cómo se es) to get to know each other
    2) (refl)
    a) ( aprender cómo se es) to get to know oneself
    b) ( saber cómo se es) to know oneself
    3) (enf) (fam) ( estar familiarizado con) to know
    * * *
    = be aware of, be cognisant of, know, learn, get to know, make + aware, become + cognisant of, gain + a sense of, be privy to, find out.
    Ex. Although this may seem an obvious statement, there are many instances when the searcher is not fully aware of what can or might be retrieved.
    Ex. The second aspect of institutional behavior we need to be cognizant of involves the notion the further institutions move into their life-cycles, the more they demonstrate the characteristics of a closed system.
    Ex. However, in general, it is unreasonable to expect a user to know the ISBN of a book.
    Ex. 'I'd be disappointed to learn that my boss or subordinates -- or peers for that matter -- told tales out of school about me to others'.
    Ex. She still had more than two weeks in which to return to Deuxville, settle in and find an apartment, and get to know the city.
    Ex. Libraries need to be made aware of all possible networking options, the benefits of the lesser known OSI suite of protocols and the requirements for establishing an OSI environment.
    Ex. Becoming cognizant of these retail promotional tools is the first step -- the fun part is adopting successful ones!.
    Ex. The best way of gaining some sense of what life used to be like is through the literature of the time.
    Ex. Even individual models vary from others by the same manufacturer; but that isn't something I can advise on, I' m not privy to the information.
    Ex. For example, a person can consult the system holdings files to find out whether a library in the network owns a copy of the document.
    ----
    * ayudar a conocer mejor = advance + understanding.
    * conocer a Alguien = meet + Alguien.
    * conocer a ciencia cierta = know for + certain, know for + sure, know for + a fact.
    * conocer al dedillo = know + Nombre + off pat.
    * conocer Algo al dedillo = know + Nombre + inside-out, learn + Nombre + inside-out.
    * conocer Algo como la palma de + Posesivo + mano = know + Algo + like the back of + Posesivo + hand.
    * conocer Algo de cabo a rabo = know + Nombre + inside-out.
    * conocer bien = be knowledgeable about, be alert to.
    * conocer como = designate as.
    * conocer cómo piensa Alguien = get + inside the mind of.
    * conocer con certeza = know for + certain, know for + sure.
    * conocer de algún modo = know + on some grounds.
    * conocer de antemano = foreknow.
    * conocer de carretilla = know + Nombre + off pat.
    * conocer de lo que Alguien o Algo es capaz = have + Nombre + figured out.
    * conocer de memoria = know + Nombre + off pat.
    * conocer de primera mano = know + first-hand.
    * conocer + desafortunadamente = be painfully aware of.
    * conocer de seguro = know for + certain, know for + sure.
    * conocer (el) mundo = travel around + the world.
    * conocer la noticia = learn + the news.
    * conocer la verdad = discern + the truth.
    * conocer lo que Alguien o Algo es capaz de hacer = have + Nombre + figured out.
    * conocer mejor = gain + a better understanding, gain + a greater understanding.
    * conocer muy bien = be fully aware of.
    * conocer muy bien la materia = know + Posesivo + stuff.
    * conocer personalmente = meet + in person, meet + face to face.
    * conocer por experiencia = know (by/from) + experience.
    * conocerse como = call, be known as, dub.
    * conocérsele así por = get + Posesivo + name from.
    * conocer vida = see + the world.
    * conócete a ti mismo = know + thyself.
    * dar a conocer = bring to + the attention, communicate, publicise [publicize, -USA], report, articulate, make + known.
    * dar Algo a conocer = get + the word out.
    * no conocer a Alguien de nada = not know + Pronombre + from Adam.
    * no conocer a Alguien para nada = not know + Pronombre + from Adam.
    * No importa lo que se conoce, sino a quién se conoce = It's not what you know, but who you know.
    * quedar mucho por conocer = there + be + a great deal yet to be learned, there + be + still a great deal to be learned.
    * sin conocer = ignorant of.
    * tal como lo conocemos = as we know it.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1) < persona> to know; ( por primera vez) to meet; <ciudad/país> to know

    ¿conoces a Juan? — do you know o have you met Juan?

    lquiero que conozcas a mi novi — oI want you to meet my boyfrien; ( aprender cómo es) <persona/ciudad> to get to know

    d¿conoces Irlanda — do you know o? have you been to Ireland

    2) (estar familiarizado con, dominar) <tema/autor/obra> to know, be familiar with; < lengua> to speak, know
    3)
    a) ( saber de la existencia de) to know, know of

    conocían sus actividadesthey knew of o about his activities

    b)

    dar a conocer — (frml) <noticia/resultado> to announce; <identidad/intenciones> to reveal

    darse a conocer persona to make oneself known

    4) ( reconocer) to recognize*
    5) ( experimentar) < crisis> to experience; <desarrollo/cambio> to undergo; < revolución> to see
    7) (Der) <causa/caso> to try
    8) (arc) ( tener trato carnal con) to know (arch)
    2.
    1) ( saber)

    conocer de algode tema/materia to know about something

    2) (Der)
    3.
    conocerse v pron
    1) (recípr) ( tener cierta relación con) to know each other; ( por primera vez) to meet; ( aprender cómo se es) to get to know each other
    2) (refl)
    a) ( aprender cómo se es) to get to know oneself
    b) ( saber cómo se es) to know oneself
    3) (enf) (fam) ( estar familiarizado con) to know
    * * *
    = be aware of, be cognisant of, know, learn, get to know, make + aware, become + cognisant of, gain + a sense of, be privy to, find out.

    Ex: Although this may seem an obvious statement, there are many instances when the searcher is not fully aware of what can or might be retrieved.

    Ex: The second aspect of institutional behavior we need to be cognizant of involves the notion the further institutions move into their life-cycles, the more they demonstrate the characteristics of a closed system.
    Ex: However, in general, it is unreasonable to expect a user to know the ISBN of a book.
    Ex: 'I'd be disappointed to learn that my boss or subordinates -- or peers for that matter -- told tales out of school about me to others'.
    Ex: She still had more than two weeks in which to return to Deuxville, settle in and find an apartment, and get to know the city.
    Ex: Libraries need to be made aware of all possible networking options, the benefits of the lesser known OSI suite of protocols and the requirements for establishing an OSI environment.
    Ex: Becoming cognizant of these retail promotional tools is the first step -- the fun part is adopting successful ones!.
    Ex: The best way of gaining some sense of what life used to be like is through the literature of the time.
    Ex: Even individual models vary from others by the same manufacturer; but that isn't something I can advise on, I' m not privy to the information.
    Ex: For example, a person can consult the system holdings files to find out whether a library in the network owns a copy of the document.
    * ayudar a conocer mejor = advance + understanding.
    * conocer a Alguien = meet + Alguien.
    * conocer a ciencia cierta = know for + certain, know for + sure, know for + a fact.
    * conocer al dedillo = know + Nombre + off pat.
    * conocer Algo al dedillo = know + Nombre + inside-out, learn + Nombre + inside-out.
    * conocer Algo como la palma de + Posesivo + mano = know + Algo + like the back of + Posesivo + hand.
    * conocer Algo de cabo a rabo = know + Nombre + inside-out.
    * conocer bien = be knowledgeable about, be alert to.
    * conocer como = designate as.
    * conocer cómo piensa Alguien = get + inside the mind of.
    * conocer con certeza = know for + certain, know for + sure.
    * conocer de algún modo = know + on some grounds.
    * conocer de antemano = foreknow.
    * conocer de carretilla = know + Nombre + off pat.
    * conocer de lo que Alguien o Algo es capaz = have + Nombre + figured out.
    * conocer de memoria = know + Nombre + off pat.
    * conocer de primera mano = know + first-hand.
    * conocer + desafortunadamente = be painfully aware of.
    * conocer de seguro = know for + certain, know for + sure.
    * conocer (el) mundo = travel around + the world.
    * conocer la noticia = learn + the news.
    * conocer la verdad = discern + the truth.
    * conocer lo que Alguien o Algo es capaz de hacer = have + Nombre + figured out.
    * conocer mejor = gain + a better understanding, gain + a greater understanding.
    * conocer muy bien = be fully aware of.
    * conocer muy bien la materia = know + Posesivo + stuff.
    * conocer personalmente = meet + in person, meet + face to face.
    * conocer por experiencia = know (by/from) + experience.
    * conocerse como = call, be known as, dub.
    * conocérsele así por = get + Posesivo + name from.
    * conocer vida = see + the world.
    * conócete a ti mismo = know + thyself.
    * dar a conocer = bring to + the attention, communicate, publicise [publicize, -USA], report, articulate, make + known.
    * dar Algo a conocer = get + the word out.
    * no conocer a Alguien de nada = not know + Pronombre + from Adam.
    * no conocer a Alguien para nada = not know + Pronombre + from Adam.
    * No importa lo que se conoce, sino a quién se conoce = It's not what you know, but who you know.
    * quedar mucho por conocer = there + be + a great deal yet to be learned, there + be + still a great deal to be learned.
    * sin conocer = ignorant of.
    * tal como lo conocemos = as we know it.

    * * *
    conocer [E3 ]
    ■ conocer (verbo transitivo)
    A
    1 saber cómo es
    2 estar familiarizado con
    3 dominar
    B saber de la existencia de
    C
    1 conocer por primera vez
    2 aprender cómo es
    3 dar a conocer
    D reconocer
    E experimentar
    F verbo impersonal
    G Derecho: una causa
    H tener trato carnal con
    ■ conocer (verbo intransitivo)
    A conocer de algo
    B Derecho: de una causa
    C conocer: enfermo
    ■ conocerse (verbo pronominal)
    A
    1 tener cierta relación con
    2 conocerse por primera vez
    3 aprender cómo se es
    B
    1 llegar a saber cómo se es
    2 conocerse a uno mismo
    C estar familiarizado con
    vt
    A
    1 (saber cómo es, tener cierta relación con) to know
    ¿conoces a Juan? — no, mucho gusto do you know o have you met Juan? — no, pleased to meet you
    no lo conozco de nada I don't know him at all, I don't know him from Adam ( colloq)
    dijo que te conocía de oídas he said he'd heard of you
    lo conozco de nombre I know the name
    te conozco como si te hubiera parido ( fam); I can read you like a book
    conoce sus limitaciones he is aware of o he knows his limitations
    su generosidad es de todos conocida her generosity is well known
    trabajamos juntos dos años pero nunca llegué a conocerlo we worked together for two years but I never really got to know him
    conozco muy bien a ese tipo de persona I know that sort of person only too well
    2 (estar familiarizado con) ‹tema/autor/obra› to know, be familiar with
    ¿conoces su música? are you familiar with o do you know his music?
    ¿conoces Irlanda? do you know o have you been to Ireland?
    conozco el camino I know the way
    3
    (dominar): conoce muy bien su oficio she's very good at her job
    conoce tres idiomas a la perfección she's completely fluent in three languages, she speaks three languages fluently
    B (saber de la existencia de) to know, know of
    ¿conoces algún método para quitar estas manchas? do you know (of) any way of getting these stains out?
    no se conoce ningún remedio there is no known cure
    no conocía esa faceta de su carácter I didn't know that side of his character
    ¡qué vestido tan bonito, no te lo conocía! what a lovely dress! I've never seen you in it before
    no le conozco ningún vicio he doesn't have any vices as far as I know
    conocían sus actividades, pero no había pruebas they knew of o about his activities but there was no proof
    C
    1 (por primera vez) ‹persona› to meet
    quiero que conozcas a mis padres I want you to meet my parents
    2 (aprender cómo es) ‹persona/ciudad› to get to know
    quiere viajar y conocer mundo she wants to travel and see the world
    es la mejor manera de conocer la ciudad it's the best way to get to know the city
    me encantaría conocer tu país I'd love to visit your country
    más vale malo conocido que bueno por conocer better the devil you know than the devil you don't
    3
    dar a conocer ( frml); ‹noticia/resultado› to announce;
    ‹identidad/intenciones› to reveal
    todavía no se han dado a conocer los resultados the results have still not been announced o released
    estuvo allí pero no se dio a conocer he was there but he didn't tell people who he was o but he didn't make himself known
    el libro que lo dio a conocer como poeta the book which established his reputation as a poet
    D (reconocer) to recognize*
    te conocí por la voz I recognized your voice, I knew it was you by your voice
    E
    (experimentar): una de las peores crisis que ha conocido el país one of the worst crises the country has known
    una industria que ha conocido un desarrollo desigual an industry which has undergone a period of uneven development
    la primera revolución de las que conocería el siglo veinte the first revolution that the twentieth century was to see
    F ( impers)
    (notar): se conoce que no están en casa they're obviously not at home
    se conoce que ya llevaba algún tiempo enfermo apparently he'd been ill for some time
    se conoce que ha estado llorando you can tell o see he's been crying
    G ( Derecho) ‹causa/caso› to try
    ■ conocer
    vi
    A (saber) conocer DE algo to know ABOUT sth
    conoce del tema she knows about the subject
    B ( Der):
    conocer de or en una causa/un caso to try a case
    C
    «enfermo»: está muy mal, ya no conoce he's in a bad way, he's not recognizing people
    A ( recípr)
    1 (tener cierta relación con) to know each other
    nos conocemos desde niños we've known each other since we were children
    ya nos conocemos we already know each other, we've already met
    3 (aprender cómo se es) to get to know each other
    B ( refl)
    1 (llegar a saber cómo se es) to get to know oneself
    2 (a uno mismo) to know oneself, know what one is like
    se conoce todas las discotecas de la ciudad he knows every disco in town
    * * *

     

    conocer ( conjugate conocer) verbo transitivo
    1 persona to know;
    ( por primera vez) to meet;
    ciudad/país to know;
    ¿conoces a Juan? do you know/have you met Juan?;

    te conocía de oídas he'd heard of you;
    lo conozco de nombre I know the name;
    conocer a algn de vista to know sb by sight;
    es de todos conocido he's well known;
    quiero que conozcas a mi novio I want you to meet my boyfriend;
    nunca llegué a conocerlo bien I never really got to know him;
    ¿conoces Irlanda? do you know Ireland? o have you been to Ireland?;
    quiere conocer mundo she wants to see the world;
    me encantaría conocer tu país I'd love to visit your country
    2 (estar familiarizado con, dominar) ‹tema/autor/obra to know, be familiar with;
    lengua to speak, know
    3

    conocían sus actividades they knew of o about his activities

    b)

    dar a conocer (frml) ‹noticia/resultado to announce;


    identidad/intenciones to reveal;

    intentó no darse a conocer he tried to keep his identity a secret
    4 ( reconocer) to recognize( conjugate recognize);

    5 ( impers) ( notar):

    se conoce que ya llevaba algún tiempo enfermo apparently he'd been ill for some time
    verbo intransitivo ( saber) conocer de algo ‹de tema/materia› to know about sth
    conocerse verbo pronominal
    1 ( recípr) ( tener cierta relación con) to know each other;
    ( por primera vez) to meet;
    ( aprender cómo se es) to get to know each other
    2 ( refl)


    conocer verbo transitivo
    1 to know
    2 (por primera vez) to meet
    3 (reconocer) to recognize
    ♦ Locuciones: dar a conocer, (hacer público) to make known
    darse a conocer, to make one's name
    ' conocer' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    dar
    - dominar
    - ensombrecerse
    - notoriamente
    - paño
    - percal
    - pormenor
    - sacar
    - conozca
    - dedillo
    - desconocer
    - malo
    - palma
    - palmo
    - presentar
    English:
    acquaint
    - acquaintance
    - announce
    - devil
    - familiar
    - hear of
    - know
    - meet
    - name
    - sight
    - survey
    - acquainted
    - come
    - disclaim
    - fit
    - get
    - hand
    - high
    - taste
    - wander
    * * *
    vt
    1. [saber cosas acerca de] to know;
    conoce la mecánica del automóvil he knows a lot about car mechanics;
    conoce el ruso a la perfección he's fluent in Russian;
    conocen todo lo que pasa en el pueblo they know (about) everything that goes on in the village;
    ¿conoces alguna forma más rápida de hacerlo? do you know a quicker way to do it?;
    no conozco bien este tema I'm not familiar with this subject;
    Fam
    conoce el tema al dedillo she knows the subject inside out;
    conocer algo a fondo to know sth well;
    dieron a conocer la noticia a través de la prensa they announced the news through the press;
    su segunda película lo dio a conocer o [m5] se dio a conocer con su segunda película como el gran director que es his second movie o Br film achieved recognition for him as the great director that he is;
    Juan enseguida se dio a conocer a mi amiga Juan immediately introduced himself to my friend;
    fue, como es de todos conocido, una difícil decisión it was, as everyone knows, a difficult decision;
    su amabilidad es de todos conocida everyone knows how kind he is, he is well-known for his kindness
    2. [lugar, país] [descubrir] to get to know, to visit for the first time;
    [desde hace tiempo] to know;
    no conozco Rusia I've never been to Russia;
    me gustaría conocer Australia I'd like to go to o visit Australia;
    conoce la región como la palma de su mano she knows the region like the back of her hand;
    a los veinte años se marchó a conocer mundo at the age of twenty he went off to see the world;
    ¿te acompaño? – no hace falta, conozco el camino shall I go with you? – there's no need, I know the way
    3. [a una persona] [por primera vez] to meet;
    [desde hace tiempo] to know;
    ¿conoces a mi jefe? do you know o have you met my boss?;
    lo conocí cuando era niño I first met him when he was a child;
    tienes que conocer a mi hermana I must introduce you to my sister;
    conocer a alguien a fondo to know sb well;
    conocer a alguien de nombre to know sb by name;
    conocer a alguien de oídas to have heard of sb;
    conocer a alguien de vista to know sb by sight;
    ¿de qué la conoces? how do you know her?;
    no la conozco de nada I've never met her before, I don't know her at all
    4. [reconocer]
    conocer a alguien (por algo) to recognize sb (by sth);
    lo conocí por su forma de andar I recognized him by the way he walked
    5. [experimentar]
    ésta es la peor sequía que ha conocido África this is the worst drought Africa has ever had o known;
    el último conflicto que ha conocido la región the latest conflict witnessed by the region;
    la empresa ha conocido un crecimiento espectacular the company has seen o experienced spectacular growth
    6. Anticuado o Hum [sexualmente]
    conocer carnalmente a to have carnal knowledge of;
    hasta los treinta años no conoció varón she had never been with a man until she was thirty
    7. Der [causa] to try;
    el tribunal que conoce el caso se pronunciará mañana the court trying the case will announce its verdict tomorrow
    vi
    1.
    conocer de [saber] to know about;
    no te preocupes, que conoce del tema don't worry, he knows (about) the subject
    2. Der
    conocer de to try;
    conocer de una causa to try a case;
    será juzgado por el tribunal que conoce de casos de terrorismo he will be tried by the court that deals with cases relating to terrorism
    * * *
    I v/t
    1 know;
    dar a conocer make known;
    darse a conocer reveal one’s identity; de artista become famous
    2 por primera vez meet
    3 tristeza, amor etc experience, know
    4 ( reconocer) recognize
    II v/i
    :
    conocer de know about
    * * *
    conocer {18} vt
    1) : to know, to be acquainted with
    ya la conocí: I've already met him
    2) : to meet
    3) reconocer: to recognize
    * * *
    1. (en general) to know [pt. knew; pp. known]
    ¿conoces a Marc? do you know Marc?
    ¿conoces Bilbao? do you know Bilbao? / have you ever been to Bilbao?
    2. (por primera vez persona) to meet [pt. & pp. met]
    3. (reconocer) to recognize

    Spanish-English dictionary > conocer

  • 60 fin

    m.
    1 end (final).
    dar o poner fin a algo to put an end to something
    tocar a su fin to come to a close
    a fines de at the end of
    al o por fin at last, finally
    a fin de cuentas after all
    al fin y al cabo after all
    al fin del mundo to the end of the earth (and back)
    en fin anyway
    en fin, lo volveremos a intentar well o anyway, we can try again
    sin fin endless
    fin de fiesta grand finale
    fin de semana weekend
    2 aim, goal (objetivo).
    un fin en sí mismo an end in itself
    el fin justifica los medios the end justifies the means
    con este fin with this aim, to this end
    a fin de in order to
    a fin de contener la inflación (in order) to keep inflation down
    3 purpose, objective, end, aim.
    * * *
    1 (final) end
    2 (objetivo) purpose, aim
    \
    a fin de in order to, so as to
    a fin de que so that
    a fines de at the end of
    al fin y al cabo when all's said and done
    ¡al fin! at last!
    con buen fin with good intentions
    con el fin de with the intention of
    con este fin with this aim
    dar fin a to put an end to
    en fin anyway
    llegar a su fin to come to an end
    no tener fin to be endless
    poner fin a to put an end to
    ¡por fin! at last!
    sin fin endless
    tocar a su fin to come to an end
    fin de fiesta grand finale
    fin de semana (tiempo) weekend 2 (bolsa) weekend bag
    (noche de) Fin de Año New Year's Eve
    * * *
    noun m.
    1) end
    2) aim, purpose
    - por fin
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=final) end

    fin de la cita — end of quote, unquote

    dar fin a — [+ ceremonia, actuación] to bring to a close; [+ obra, libro] to finish; [+ guerra, conflicto] to bring to an end

    llegar a buen fin — [aventura] to have a happy ending; [plan] to turn out well

    llevar algo a buen fin — to bring sth to a successful conclusion

    poner fin a algo — to end sth, put an end to sth

    esta ley pondrá fin a la discriminación sexual en el trabajothis law will end o will put an end to sexual discrimination in the workplace

    sin fin — endless

    fin de fiesta — (Teat) grand finale

    2)

    a fines deat the end of

    la crisis de fines del XIX — the crisis at the end of the 19th century, the late 19th century crisis

    3) [otras locuciones]
    a)

    al fin, por fin — [gen] finally; [con más énfasis] at last

    tras varios días de marcha, por fin llegamos a la primera aldea — after several days' walk, we finally came to the first village

    ¡al fin solos! — alone at last!

    ¡por fin te decides a hacer algo! — at last you've decided to do something!

    al fin y al caboafter all

    tengo derecho a estar aquí: al fin y al cabo, soy parte de la familia — I have a right to stay here: after all, I am part of the family

    al fin y al cabo, lo que importa es que seguimos juntos — at the end of the day, what matters is that we're still together

    b)

    en fin — [quitando importancia] anyway, oh, well; [para resumir] in short

    en fin, otro día seguiremos hablando del tema — anyway o oh, well, we will carry on discussing this another day

    ¡en fin, qué se le va a hacer! — anyway o oh, well, there's nothing we can do about it!

    hemos tenido bastantes problemas este año, pero en fin, seguimos adelante — we've had quite a few problems this year, but still o anyway, we're still going

    en fin, que no he tenido un momento de descanso — in short, I haven't had a moment's rest

    4) (=intención) aim

    ¿con qué fin se ha organizado esto? — what has been the aim in organizing this?

    a fin de hacer algo — in order to do sth

    a fin de que+ subjun so that, in order that frm

    se le ha citado como testigo a fin de que explique sus relaciones con el acusado — he has been called as a witness in order to explain o in order that he explain frm o so that he can explain his relationship with the defendant

    con el fin de hacer algo — in order to do sth

    a tal fin — with this aim in mind, to this end

    5) (=propósito) purpose

    con fines experimentales/militares/políticos — for experimental/military/political purposes

    * * *
    1)
    a) ( final) end

    hasta el fin de los siglos or tiempos — until the end of time

    no es el fin del mundo — (fam) it's not the end of the world (colloq)

    por or al fin — at last

    en fin qué se le va a hacer! — ah well, what can you do?

    en fin sigamos! — anyway, let's carry on!

    repara electrodomésticos, pone enchufes... en fin un poco de todo — he repairs electrical goods, puts in plugs... a bit of everything, really

    a fin de cuentas in the end, at the end of the day

    tocar a su fin — (liter) to draw to a close o to an end

    2) (objetivo, finalidad) purpose

    el fin de esta visitathe aim o purpose of this visit

    una institución sin fines lucrativos or de lucro — a not-for-profit organization (AmE), a non-profit-making organisation (BrE)

    a fin de que — (frml) in order to

    con este fin or a este fin or a tal fin — (frml) with this aim (frml), to this end (frml)

    con el fin or a fin de — (frml) with the aim o purpose of

    el fin justifica los mediosthe end justifies the means

    * * *
    = aim, end, goal, purpose, quit, STOP, goodbye [good-bye], objective.
    Nota: Acción específica que se pretende llevar a cabo, siendo necesarias varias de ellas para alcanzar una meta.
    Ex. The aim of SWALCAP is to provide integrated computer services for library housekeeping purposes and to keep these services up to date.
    Ex. In our fascination with the versatility of certain tools, we should not forget the ends to which they are to be applied.
    Ex. Karen set the theme in her keynote address that booksellers, publishers and librarians often have different goals and perceptions.
    Ex. Chapters 7 and 8 introduced the problems associated with author cataloguing and have surveyed the purpose of cataloguing codes.
    Ex. The final choice, ' Quit (LOGOFF),' takes you back to the Welcome screen.
    Ex. The command function ' STOP' is used to end the session and logoff.
    Ex. The article 'Books -- is it goodbye?' shows that while there was a sharp increase in fiction in Finland after the 2nd World War, the amount of fiction is now beginning to decline.
    Ex. An objective is an individual act intended to be carried out, and a number o which are required to be carried out in order to reach a goal.
    ----
    * a este fin = to this end.
    * a fin de cuentas = at the end of the day, in the end, in the final count, in the grand scheme of things, when all is said and done, after all is said and done.
    * alcanzar + Posesivo + fin = reach + Posesivo + end.
    * al fin = at last, at long last.
    * al fin y al cabo = in the end, after all, all in all, after all is said and done, when all is said and done.
    * cinta sin fin = endless belt, conveyor belt, conveyor [conveyer].
    * con el fin de = in order to.
    * con ese fin = to that end.
    * con este fin = to this end, to that effect.
    * con fines + Adjetivo = for + Nombre + purposes.
    * con fines lucrativos = profit-making, profit-orientated, profit-oriented, profit-generating.
    * confundir los medios con el fin = confuse + the means with the ends.
    * conseguir un fin = secure + end.
    * construido expresamente para tal fin = purpose-built.
    * dar fin = bring to + a close, draw to + a close, wind down.
    * de fin de año = end of the year.
    * de fin de milenio = millennial.
    * de principio a fin = from start to finish, gavel to gavel, from beginning to end.
    * de principio a fin (documento) = cover to cover.
    * desde principio a fin = throughout.
    * discurso de fin de curso = commencement salutatory.
    * durante el fin de semana = over the weekend.
    * el fin del mundo = the ends of the earth.
    * el fin de semana = over the weekend, at the weekend.
    * el fin de todos los fines = the end of all ends.
    * el fin justifica los medios = the end justifies the means.
    * el principio del fin = the beginning of the end.
    * en el fin de semana = over the weekend, at the weekend.
    * fin de año = EOY (end of year), end of the year.
    * fin de semana = weekend.
    * fines de semana, los = at weekends.
    * fines lucrativos = financial gain.
    * generación del fin del milenio, la = Millennial Generation, the, Millennium Generation, the.
    * hasta el fin del mundo = until the end of the world.
    * leer de principio a fin = read + from cover to cover.
    * llegar a su fin = wind down, draw to + a close, draw to + an end.
    * no llevar a ningún fin = beat + a dead horse, flog + a dead horse, fart + in the wind.
    * no tener fin = there + be + no end to.
    * para este fin = to this end.
    * para fines múltiples = multipurpose [multi-purpose].
    * película sin fin = filmloop [film loop/film-loop].
    * perseguir los mismos fines = work + on the same lines.
    * perseguir un fin = pursue + end.
    * persona nacida en el fin del milenio = Millennial.
    * poner fin = curb, bring to + a close, draw to + a close.
    * poner fin a = put + paid to, put + an end to, put + a stop to, call + a halt on, bring + an end to, bring to + an end, sound + the death knell for, kill off.
    * poner fin a un embarazo = terminate + pregnancy.
    * por fin = at length, at last, finally, at long last.
    * por fin llegó la hora (de) = it's about time (that).
    * seminario de fin de semana = weekend school.
    * ser el fin de = sign + a death warrant (for).
    * ser un fin en sí mismo = be an end in itself.
    * ser un fin en sí mismos = be ends in themselves.
    * ser un medio para llegar a un fin = be the means to an end.
    * servir un fin = serve + end.
    * significar el fin de Algo = mean + an end to.
    * sin fin = never-finishing, never-ending, bottomless, interminably, unending.
    * sin fines lucrativos = non-profit [nonprofit], non-profit making.
    * tecla de fin = End key.
    * tocar a su fin = draw to + a close, draw to + an end, wind down.
    * todo el fin de semana = all weekend long.
    * un medio para alcanzar un fin = a means to an end.
    * un medio para conseguir un fin = a means to an end.
    * un medio para llegar a fin = a means to an end.
    * utilizar para un fin = put to + purpose.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( final) end

    hasta el fin de los siglos or tiempos — until the end of time

    no es el fin del mundo — (fam) it's not the end of the world (colloq)

    por or al fin — at last

    en fin qué se le va a hacer! — ah well, what can you do?

    en fin sigamos! — anyway, let's carry on!

    repara electrodomésticos, pone enchufes... en fin un poco de todo — he repairs electrical goods, puts in plugs... a bit of everything, really

    a fin de cuentas in the end, at the end of the day

    tocar a su fin — (liter) to draw to a close o to an end

    2) (objetivo, finalidad) purpose

    el fin de esta visitathe aim o purpose of this visit

    una institución sin fines lucrativos or de lucro — a not-for-profit organization (AmE), a non-profit-making organisation (BrE)

    a fin de que — (frml) in order to

    con este fin or a este fin or a tal fin — (frml) with this aim (frml), to this end (frml)

    con el fin or a fin de — (frml) with the aim o purpose of

    el fin justifica los mediosthe end justifies the means

    * * *
    = aim, end, goal, purpose, quit, STOP, goodbye [good-bye], objective.
    Nota: Acción específica que se pretende llevar a cabo, siendo necesarias varias de ellas para alcanzar una meta.

    Ex: The aim of SWALCAP is to provide integrated computer services for library housekeeping purposes and to keep these services up to date.

    Ex: In our fascination with the versatility of certain tools, we should not forget the ends to which they are to be applied.
    Ex: Karen set the theme in her keynote address that booksellers, publishers and librarians often have different goals and perceptions.
    Ex: Chapters 7 and 8 introduced the problems associated with author cataloguing and have surveyed the purpose of cataloguing codes.
    Ex: The final choice, ' Quit (LOGOFF),' takes you back to the Welcome screen.
    Ex: The command function ' STOP' is used to end the session and logoff.
    Ex: The article 'Books -- is it goodbye?' shows that while there was a sharp increase in fiction in Finland after the 2nd World War, the amount of fiction is now beginning to decline.
    Ex: An objective is an individual act intended to be carried out, and a number o which are required to be carried out in order to reach a goal.
    * a este fin = to this end.
    * a fin de cuentas = at the end of the day, in the end, in the final count, in the grand scheme of things, when all is said and done, after all is said and done.
    * alcanzar + Posesivo + fin = reach + Posesivo + end.
    * al fin = at last, at long last.
    * al fin y al cabo = in the end, after all, all in all, after all is said and done, when all is said and done.
    * cinta sin fin = endless belt, conveyor belt, conveyor [conveyer].
    * con el fin de = in order to.
    * con ese fin = to that end.
    * con este fin = to this end, to that effect.
    * con fines + Adjetivo = for + Nombre + purposes.
    * con fines lucrativos = profit-making, profit-orientated, profit-oriented, profit-generating.
    * confundir los medios con el fin = confuse + the means with the ends.
    * conseguir un fin = secure + end.
    * construido expresamente para tal fin = purpose-built.
    * dar fin = bring to + a close, draw to + a close, wind down.
    * de fin de año = end of the year.
    * de fin de milenio = millennial.
    * de principio a fin = from start to finish, gavel to gavel, from beginning to end.
    * de principio a fin (documento) = cover to cover.
    * desde principio a fin = throughout.
    * discurso de fin de curso = commencement salutatory.
    * durante el fin de semana = over the weekend.
    * el fin del mundo = the ends of the earth.
    * el fin de semana = over the weekend, at the weekend.
    * el fin de todos los fines = the end of all ends.
    * el fin justifica los medios = the end justifies the means.
    * el principio del fin = the beginning of the end.
    * en el fin de semana = over the weekend, at the weekend.
    * fin de año = EOY (end of year), end of the year.
    * fin de semana = weekend.
    * fines de semana, los = at weekends.
    * fines lucrativos = financial gain.
    * generación del fin del milenio, la = Millennial Generation, the, Millennium Generation, the.
    * hasta el fin del mundo = until the end of the world.
    * leer de principio a fin = read + from cover to cover.
    * llegar a su fin = wind down, draw to + a close, draw to + an end.
    * no llevar a ningún fin = beat + a dead horse, flog + a dead horse, fart + in the wind.
    * no tener fin = there + be + no end to.
    * para este fin = to this end.
    * para fines múltiples = multipurpose [multi-purpose].
    * película sin fin = filmloop [film loop/film-loop].
    * perseguir los mismos fines = work + on the same lines.
    * perseguir un fin = pursue + end.
    * persona nacida en el fin del milenio = Millennial.
    * poner fin = curb, bring to + a close, draw to + a close.
    * poner fin a = put + paid to, put + an end to, put + a stop to, call + a halt on, bring + an end to, bring to + an end, sound + the death knell for, kill off.
    * poner fin a un embarazo = terminate + pregnancy.
    * por fin = at length, at last, finally, at long last.
    * por fin llegó la hora (de) = it's about time (that).
    * seminario de fin de semana = weekend school.
    * ser el fin de = sign + a death warrant (for).
    * ser un fin en sí mismo = be an end in itself.
    * ser un fin en sí mismos = be ends in themselves.
    * ser un medio para llegar a un fin = be the means to an end.
    * servir un fin = serve + end.
    * significar el fin de Algo = mean + an end to.
    * sin fin = never-finishing, never-ending, bottomless, interminably, unending.
    * sin fines lucrativos = non-profit [nonprofit], non-profit making.
    * tecla de fin = End key.
    * tocar a su fin = draw to + a close, draw to + an end, wind down.
    * todo el fin de semana = all weekend long.
    * un medio para alcanzar un fin = a means to an end.
    * un medio para conseguir un fin = a means to an end.
    * un medio para llegar a fin = a means to an end.
    * utilizar para un fin = put to + purpose.

    * * *
    A
    1 (final) end
    el fin de una época the end of an era
    a fines de junio at the end of June
    siempre cobramos a fin de mes we always get paid at the end of the month
    hasta el fin de los siglos or tiempos until the end of time
    el fin del mundo the end of the world
    no es el fin del mundo ( fam); it's not the end of the world ( colloq)
    tuvo un triste fin he came to a sad end
    con esta noticia ponemos fin a la edición de hoy and that's the end of tonight's news, and with that we end tonight's news
    en un intento de poner fin a estos conflictos in an attempt to put an end to these conflicts
    un accidente aéreo puso fin a su vida he was killed in an aircrash
    puso fin a la discusión she put an end to the discussion
    llevó la empresa a buen fin he brought the venture to a successful conclusion
    el verano ya llega a su fin summer is coming to an end
    [ S ] Fin The End
    2 ( en locs):
    por or al fin at last
    ¡al fin lo conseguí! at last I've done it!
    ¡por fin! hace media hora que te estoy llamando at last! I've been trying to reach you for the last half hour
    ¡por fin llegas! llevo horas esperando at last you've arrived! I've been waiting for hours
    en fin well
    en fin ¡qué se le va a hacer! ah well, what can you do?
    en fin que las cosas no andan muy bien all in all, things aren't going very well
    en fin ¡sigamos! anyway, let's carry on!
    a fin de cuentas: a fin de cuentas, lo que importa es el resultado at the end of the day, it's the result that counts
    a fin de cuentas, el que carga con la responsabilidad soy yo when it comes down to it o when all's said and done, I'm the one who has to take responsibility
    a fin de cuentas salimos ganando in the end we did well out of it
    al fin y al cabo: siempre lo disculpa, al fin y al cabo es su único hijo she always forgives him; after all, he is her only son
    es inútil darle consejos, al fin y al cabo hace siempre lo que quiere it's no good giving her advice, in the end she always does as she pleases
    tocar a su fin ( liter); to draw to a close o to an end
    Compuestos:
    New Year's Eve
    grand finale, finale
    2 ( Esp) (maletín) overnight bag o case
    B (objetivo, finalidad) purpose
    para fines pacíficos for peaceful ends o purposes
    el fin de esta visita the aim o objective o purpose of this visit
    esto constituye un fin en sí mismo this constitutes an end in itself
    una colecta con fines benéficos a collection for charity
    una institución sin fines lucrativos or de lucro a not-for-profit organization ( AmE), a non-profit-making organisation ( BrE)
    con este finor a este finor a tal fin ( frml); to this end ( frml), with this aim ( frml)
    con el fin de or a fin de ( frml); with the aim o purpose of
    a fin de que se cumpla el reglamento in order to ensure compliance with the rules
    salvo buen fin subject to clearance
    el fin justifica los medios the end justifies the means
    * * *

     

    fin sustantivo masculino
    1
    a) ( final) end;


    a fin de mes at the end of the month;
    fin de año New Year's Eve;
    fin de semana ( sábado y domingo) weekend;
    puso fin a la discusión she put an end to the discussion
    b) ( en locs) por or al fin at last;


    en fin ¡sigamos! anyway, let's carry on!;
    a fin de cuentas in the end, at the end of the day;
    al fin y al cabo after all
    2
    a) (objetivo, finalidad) purpose;

    el fin de esta visita the aim o purpose of this visit

    b) ( en locs)


    con este fin (frml) with this aim (frml), to this end (frml);
    con el fin or a fin de (frml) with the aim o purpose of
    fin sustantivo masculino
    1 (final, término) end: ponle fin a esta situación, put an end to this situation
    fin de semana, weekend
    noche de Fin de Año, New Year's Eve
    2 (meta) purpose, aim
    con el fin de, with the aim of
    fin último, main aim
    ♦ Locuciones: a fin de, in order to, so as to
    a fin de que, in order that, so that
    al fin y al cabo, when all's said and done
    en fin, anyway
    ¡por o al fin!, at last!
    ' fin' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abonada
    - abonado
    - acción
    - acertar
    - acreditar
    - activa
    - activo
    - ajustar
    - aleta
    - amortización
    - aplazar
    - asiento
    - atraso
    - auditor
    - auditora
    - aunar
    - aval
    - baja
    - balance
    - bancarrota
    - banco
    - beneficio
    - bolsa
    - bono
    - cabo
    - caja
    - cambio
    - capital
    - carga
    - cargo
    - caudal
    - cédula
    - centavo
    - cien
    - cobertura
    - colocar
    - concurrencia
    - corona
    - corredor
    - corredora
    - corriente
    - cotizar
    - cotización
    - cotizarse
    - crac
    - crack
    - crédito
    - crisis
    - cuenta
    - curso
    English:
    account
    - accrue
    - advance
    - all
    - anywhere
    - appreciate
    - appreciation
    - Armageddon
    - arms control
    - asset
    - at
    - back
    - backer
    - backing
    - balance
    - balance sheet
    - bank
    - bankrupt
    - bear
    - beginning
    - bill
    - block
    - blue-chip
    - boil down
    - bond
    - bondholder
    - book
    - bottom line
    - bottom out
    - break
    - break down
    - breakdown
    - brokerage
    - building society
    - bull
    - bullish
    - buoyancy
    - buoyant
    - but
    - buyback
    - buyer
    - capital
    - capital reserves
    - capitalize
    - cause
    - charge
    - city
    - clearance
    - clearing
    - close
    * * *
    nm
    1. [final] end;
    el fin del invierno the end of winter;
    “Fin” [en película] “The End”;
    dar o [m5] poner fin a algo to put an end to sth;
    un infarto puso fin a su vida she died from a heart attack;
    tocar a su fin to come to a close;
    a fines de at the end of;
    a fin de mes at the end of the month;
    conseguir llegar a fin de mes [económicamente] to manage to make ends meet;
    al o [m5] por fin at last, finally;
    ¡al o [m5] por fin hemos llegado! we've arrived, at last!;
    en fin, lo volveremos a intentar well o anyway, we can try again;
    en fin, que si no te interesa, no lo compres well, if you don't want it, don't buy it;
    en fin, para resumir… anyway, to summarize…;
    sin fin endless;
    diversión sin fin no end of fun, endless fun;
    recibió un sin fin de regalos she got hundreds of presents;
    a fin de cuentas, al fin y al cabo, al fin y a la postre after all
    fin de año [Nochevieja] New Year's Eve;
    voy a pasar el fin de año con la familia I'm going to stay with my family over New Year;
    nuestros resultados de fin de año our year end results;
    fin de curso [en colegio] end of the school year;
    [en universidad] end of the academic year;
    fin de fiesta grand finale;
    el fin del mundo the end of the world;
    anímate, no es el fin del mundo cheer up, it isn't the end of the world;
    al fin del mundo to the end of the earth (and back);
    fin de semana weekend
    2. [objetivo] aim, goal;
    el fin justifica los medios the end justifies the means;
    el fin último the ultimate goal;
    con este fin with this aim, to this end;
    una organización con fines benéficos a charity, a charitable organization;
    con fines lucrativos profit-making
    a fin de loc conj
    esfuérzate a fin de aprobar make an effort (in order) to try and pass;
    han subido los intereses a fin de contener la inflación they have raised interest rates (in order) to keep inflation down;
    compórtate bien a fin de que no te puedan reprochar nada behave well so (that) they can't reproach you for anything
    * * *
    m
    1 end;
    al o
    por fin finally, at last;
    a fines de mayo at the end of May;
    sin fin endless, never-ending;
    dar o
    poner fin a end, bring to an end; abuso, disputa put an end to;
    tocar a su fin draw to a close, come to an end
    2 ( objetivo) aim, purpose;
    con el fin de que acabemos a tiempo in order to finish on time, to ensure that we finish on time;
    el fin justifica los medios the end justifies the means;
    a fin de in order to
    :
    al fin y al cabo at the end of the day, after all;
    en fin anyway
    * * *
    fin nm
    1) : end
    2) : purpose, aim, objective
    3)
    en fin : in short
    4)
    fin de semana : weekend
    5)
    por fin : finally, at last
    * * *
    fin n
    1. (final) end
    2. (objetivo) purpose / aim
    a fin de to / in order to
    a fin de cuentas at the end of the day / when all's said and done
    al fin y al cabo in the end / after all
    en fin (bien) well (en resumen) in short / all in all

    Spanish-English dictionary > fin

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