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  • 1 Socialist Party / Partido Socialista

    (PS)
       Although the Socialist Party's origins can be traced back to the 1850s, its existence has not been continuous. The party did not achieve or maintain a large base of support until after the Revolution of 25 April 1974. Historically, it played only a minor political role when compared to other European socialist parties.
       During the Estado Novo, the PS found it difficult to maintain a clandestine existence, and the already weak party literally withered away. Different groups and associations endeavored to keep socialist ideals alive, but they failed to create an organizational structure that would endure. In 1964, Mário Soares, Francisco Ramos da Costa, and Manuel Tito de Morais established the Portuguese Socialist Action / Acção Socialista Português (ASP) in Geneva, a group of individuals with similar views rather than a true political party. Most members were middle-class professionals committed to democratizing the nation. The rigidity of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) led some to join the ASP.
       By the early 1970s, ASP nuclei existed beyond Portugal in Paris, London, Rome, Brussels, Frankfurt, Sweden, and Switzerland; these consisted of members studying, working, teaching, researching, or in other activities. Extensive connections were developed with other foreign socialist parties. Changing conditions in Portugal, as well as the colonial wars, led several ASP members to advocate the creation of a real political party, strengthening the organization within Portugal, and positioning this to compete for power once the regime changed.
       The current PS was founded clandestinely on 19 April 1973, by a group of 27 exiled Portuguese and domestic ASP representatives at the Kurt Schumacher Academy of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Bad Munstereifel, West Germany. The founding philosophy was influenced by nondogmatic Marxism as militants sought to create a classless society. The rhetoric was to be revolutionary to outflank its competitors, especially the PCP, on its left. The party hoped to attract reform-minded Catholics and other groups that were committed to democracy but could not support the communists.
       At the time of the 1974 revolution, the PS was little more than an elite faction based mainly among exiles. It was weakly organized and had little grassroots support outside the major cities and larger towns. Its organization did not improve significantly until the campaign for the April 1975 constituent elections. Since then, the PS has become very pragmatic and moderate and has increasingly diluted its socialist program until it has become a center-left party. Among the party's most consistent principles in its platform since the late 1970s has been its support for Portugal's membership in the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Union (EU), a view that clashed with those of its rivals to the left, especially the PCP. Given the PS's broad base of support, the increased distance between its leftist rhetoric and its more conservative actions has led to sharp internal divisions in the party. The PS and the Social Democratic Party (PSD) are now the two dominant parties in the Portuguese political party system.
       In doctrine and rhetoric the PS has undergone a de-Marxification and a movement toward the center as a means to challenge its principal rival for hegemony, the PSD. The uneven record of the PS in general elections since its victory in 1975, and sometimes its failure to keep strong legislative majorities, have discouraged voters. While the party lost the 1979 and 1980 general elections, it triumphed in the 1983 elections, when it won 36 percent of the vote, but it still did not gain an absolute majority in the Assembly of the Republic. The PSD led by Cavaco Silva dominated elections from 1985 to 1995, only to be defeated by the PS in the 1995 general elections. By 2000, the PS had conquered the commanding heights of the polity: President Jorge Sampaio had been reelected for a second term, PS prime minister António Guterres was entrenched, and the mayor of Lisbon was João Soares, son of the former socialist president, Mário Soares (1986-96).
       The ideological transformation of the PS occurred gradually after 1975, within the context of a strong PSD, an increasingly conservative electorate, and the de-Marxification of other European Socialist parties, including those in Germany and Scandinavia. While the PS paid less attention to the PCP on its left and more attention to the PSD, party leaders shed Marxist trappings. In the 1986 PS official program, for example, the text does not include the word Marxism.
       Despite the party's election victories in the mid- and late-1990s, the leadership discovered that their grasp of power and their hegemony in governance at various levels was threatened by various factors: President Jorge Sampaio's second term, the constitution mandated, had to be his last.
       Following the defeat of the PS by the PSD in the municipal elections of December 2001, Premier Antônio Guterres resigned his post, and President Sampaio dissolved parliament and called parliamentary elections for the spring. In the 17 March 2002 elections, following Guterres's resignation as party leader, the PS was defeated by the PSD by a vote of 40 percent to 38 percent. Among the factors that brought about the socialists' departure from office was the worsening post-September 11 economy and disarray within the PS leadership circles, as well as charges of corruption among PS office holders. However, the PS won 45 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections of 2005, and the leader of the party, José Sócrates, a self-described "market-oriented socialist" became prime minister.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Socialist Party / Partido Socialista

  • 2 правила социалистического общежития

    3) leg.N.P. rules of life in the socialist community

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > правила социалистического общежития

  • 3 familia

    f.
    family.
    de buena familia from a good family
    no te dé vergüenza, que estamos en familia (figurative) don't be shy — you're among friends
    ser como de la familia to be like one of the family
    venir de familia to run in the family
    familia nuclear nuclear family
    familia numerosa large family
    la familia Real the Royal Family
    * * *
    1 family
    2 (prole) children plural, family
    \
    en familia (con la familia) with the family 2 (con muy poca gente) in private
    estar en familia to be among friends
    sentirse como en familia to feel at home, feel like one of the family
    ser como de la familia to be like one of the family
    ser de buena familia to come from a good family
    ser de familia humilde to be of humble origin
    venir algo de familia to run in the family
    familia numerosa large family
    la Sagrada Familia the Holy Family
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=parentela) family

    ¿cómo está la familia? — how is the family?

    familia numerosa, tiene una familia numerosa — he has a large family

    2) (=hijos)

    ¿cuándo pensáis tener familia? — when are you thinking of starting a family?

    ¿tenéis ya mucha familia? — do you already have lots of children?

    3) (=pariente)

    ¿sois familia? — are you related?

    4) (=comunidad) family
    5) (Bot, Ling, Zool) family
    6) (Tip) fount
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( parientes) family

    es de buena familia or de familia bien — he's from a good family

    b) ( hijos) children
    2) (Bot, Zool) family
    * * *
    = family, home, household.
    Ex. Proper names, for example, names of persons, names of families, names of places.
    Ex. It is recommended for a variety of applications, amongst which are records of suppliers, staff, household possessions and so on, and is likely to find users in both the home and business worlds.
    Ex. For the two-car family, living in the countryside can present few problems, but most households are not in such an advantageous position.
    ----
    * biógrafo de familias = family historian.
    * cabeza de familia = head of the household, head of the family.
    * conciliación del trabajo y la familia = reconciliation of work and family.
    * crear una familia = have + a family.
    * desintegración de la familia = family breakdown.
    * el que mantiene a la familia = breadwinner [bread winner].
    * enano de la familia, el = runt of the litter, the.
    * entre los miembros de la familia = intergenerational.
    * familia adoptiva = foster care home, foster family, adoptive family.
    * familia analfabeta = illiterate home.
    * familia biológica = biological family.
    * familia, cabeza de familia = householder.
    * familia casi analfabeta = subliterate home.
    * familia con dos coches = two-car family.
    * familia con dos sueldos = two-income family.
    * familia de acogida = foster care home, foster home.
    * familia de agricultores = farming family.
    * familia de bajos ingresos = low-income family.
    * familia de la madrastra = stepfamily.
    * familia del padrastro = stepfamily.
    * familia dividida = divided family.
    * familia en la que los dos miembros trabajan = two-parent working family.
    * familia en la que los dos padres trabajan = dual-income family.
    * familia hacendada = landholding family.
    * familia monoparental = one parent family, single parent, single-parent working family, single-parent family, lone-parent family.
    * familia nuclear = nuclear family, nuclear family.
    * familia política = in-laws.
    * familia problemática = problem family.
    * familia real = royal family.
    * familia rota = broken family, broken home.
    * joyas de la familia = family jewels.
    * juzgado de familia = divorce court, family court.
    * lectura en familia = family reading.
    * médico de familia = family practitioner, general practitioner (GP), family doctor.
    * miembro de la familia = family member.
    * orientado hacia la familia = family-oriented.
    * oveja negra de la familia, la = black sheep of the family, the.
    * padre de familia = pater familias, family man.
    * principal sostén de la familia = breadwinner [bread winner].
    * reliquia de familia = heirloom.
    * residencia para familias = family residence.
    * secreto de familia = skeleton in the closet.
    * vengador de la familia = avenger of blood.
    * violencia en la familia = family violence.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( parientes) family

    es de buena familia or de familia bien — he's from a good family

    b) ( hijos) children
    2) (Bot, Zool) family
    * * *
    = family, home, household.

    Ex: Proper names, for example, names of persons, names of families, names of places.

    Ex: It is recommended for a variety of applications, amongst which are records of suppliers, staff, household possessions and so on, and is likely to find users in both the home and business worlds.
    Ex: For the two-car family, living in the countryside can present few problems, but most households are not in such an advantageous position.
    * biógrafo de familias = family historian.
    * cabeza de familia = head of the household, head of the family.
    * conciliación del trabajo y la familia = reconciliation of work and family.
    * crear una familia = have + a family.
    * desintegración de la familia = family breakdown.
    * el que mantiene a la familia = breadwinner [bread winner].
    * enano de la familia, el = runt of the litter, the.
    * entre los miembros de la familia = intergenerational.
    * familia adoptiva = foster care home, foster family, adoptive family.
    * familia analfabeta = illiterate home.
    * familia biológica = biological family.
    * familia, cabeza de familia = householder.
    * familia casi analfabeta = subliterate home.
    * familia con dos coches = two-car family.
    * familia con dos sueldos = two-income family.
    * familia de acogida = foster care home, foster home.
    * familia de agricultores = farming family.
    * familia de bajos ingresos = low-income family.
    * familia de la madrastra = stepfamily.
    * familia del padrastro = stepfamily.
    * familia dividida = divided family.
    * familia en la que los dos miembros trabajan = two-parent working family.
    * familia en la que los dos padres trabajan = dual-income family.
    * familia hacendada = landholding family.
    * familia monoparental = one parent family, single parent, single-parent working family, single-parent family, lone-parent family.
    * familia nuclear = nuclear family, nuclear family.
    * familia política = in-laws.
    * familia problemática = problem family.
    * familia real = royal family.
    * familia rota = broken family, broken home.
    * joyas de la familia = family jewels.
    * juzgado de familia = divorce court, family court.
    * lectura en familia = family reading.
    * médico de familia = family practitioner, general practitioner (GP), family doctor.
    * miembro de la familia = family member.
    * orientado hacia la familia = family-oriented.
    * oveja negra de la familia, la = black sheep of the family, the.
    * padre de familia = pater familias, family man.
    * principal sostén de la familia = breadwinner [bread winner].
    * reliquia de familia = heirloom.
    * residencia para familias = family residence.
    * secreto de familia = skeleton in the closet.
    * vengador de la familia = avenger of blood.
    * violencia en la familia = family violence.

    * * *
    A
    1 (parientes) family
    es de buena familiaor de familia bien he's from a good family
    sus hijos, nietos y demás familia her children, grandchildren and other members of the family
    somos como de la familia we're just like family
    le viene de familia it runs in the family
    pasa hasta en las mejores familias it can happen to the best of us
    hemos pasado las fiestas en familia we spent the holidays with the family
    2
    (hijos): aún no tienen familia they don't have any children o a family yet
    Compuestos:
    foster family
    extended family
    single-parent family
    nuclear family
    (literal) large family; ( Servs Socs) (en Esp) family with more than four children ( entitled to special benefits)
    family of separated parents who arrange for continued family interaction to benefit the children
    B ( Bot, Zool) family
    * * *

     

    familia sustantivo femenino


    mi familia política my wife's/husband's family, my in-laws (colloq);
    es de buena familia or de familia bien he's from a good family;
    somos como de la familia we're just like family;
    le viene de familia it runs in the family


    familia sustantivo femenino family: somos familia numerosa, we are large family
    todos tienen un aire de familia, they all have a family likeness
    ♦ Locuciones: estar en familia, to be among friends
    (con poca gente) en la conferencia de ayer estábamos en familia, there were just a few of us at the conference yesterday
    venir de familia, to run in the family
    ' familia' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abusar
    - acoger
    - alma
    - besucón
    - besucona
    - botadura
    - cabeza
    - derecha
    - derrumbarse
    - deshonrar
    - desprecio
    - desunión
    - familiar
    - garbanzo
    - gente
    - honrosa
    - honroso
    - incluso
    - juntar
    - materna
    - materno
    - mía
    - miembro
    - mío
    - nacida
    - nacido
    - pecosa
    - pecoso
    - plena
    - pleno
    - política
    - político
    - proceder
    - recurrir
    - recurso
    - reliquia
    - renegar
    - resto
    - ruin
    - sagrada
    - sagrado
    - sangre
    - seno
    - sí
    - sostén
    - sostener
    - supeditar
    - sustentar
    - tal
    - ultramar
    English:
    black
    - bosom
    - breadwinner
    - comfortable
    - crest
    - desert
    - disgrace
    - eldest
    - family
    - family film
    - folk
    - foster
    - foster child
    - go back
    - greet
    - have
    - honour
    - household
    - immediate
    - in-laws
    - keep
    - large
    - let down
    - likeness
    - maintain
    - middle
    - offshoot
    - plan
    - portrait
    - provide for
    - relationship
    - remember
    - repudiate
    - reunion
    - run
    - seat
    - side
    - such
    - support
    - sustain
    - with
    - average
    - before
    - brains
    - bread
    - bring
    - dot
    - expect
    - fulfillment
    - head
    * * *
    1. [grupo de personas] family;
    un asunto de familia a family matter;
    el director es familia mía the director is a relative of mine;
    ser como de la familia to be like one of the family;
    venir de familia to run in the family;
    en familia [con la familia] with one's family;
    pasamos el fin de año en familia we spent New Year with the family;
    estábamos en familia [casi solos] there were only a few of us;
    no te dé vergüenza, que estamos en familia don't be shy – you're among friends
    familia adoptiva adoptive family;
    familia desestructurada dysfunctional family;
    familia monoparental single parent family;
    familia nuclear nuclear family;
    familia numerosa large family;
    2. [hijos]
    no tuvieron familia they never had children
    3. [linaje] family;
    de buena familia from a good family
    4. [de plantas, animales] family;
    una familia de plantas a family of plants
    5. Ling family;
    una familia de lenguas a family of languages
    * * *
    f family;
    ser de la familia be one of the family;
    de buena familia from a good family
    * * *
    1) : family
    2)
    * * *
    familia n family [pl. families]

    Spanish-English dictionary > familia

  • 4 bloque socialista, el

    = socialist bloc, the, Soviet bloc, the
    Ex. A systematic co-operation in building up of library networks in the countries of the socialist bloc started in the 60s.
    Ex. To date the feedback from the academic community has been very positive with many libraries in the former Soviet bloc welcoming this initiative.

    Spanish-English dictionary > bloque socialista, el

  • 5 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

  • 6 internacional

    adj.
    international.
    * * *
    1 international
    1 PLÍTICA the Internationale
    * * *
    adj.
    * * *
    1.
    2.

    la Internacional — (=himno) the Internationale

    * * *
    I
    adjetivo international

    las noticias internacionales — the foreign o international news

    II
    masculino y femenino (Dep) international
    * * *
    = international, long-distance, transnational, cross-country, cross-national [cross national], multi-country [multicountry].
    Ex. National agencies creating MARC records use national standards within their own country, and re-format records to UNIMARC for international exchange.
    Ex. To get into these national and international networks which are suitable for long-distance communication, a telephone link must be used to access the closest node.
    Ex. This article examines problems and practices relating to transborder data flows in the light of the growing trend to transnational venturing in the electronic information services sector.
    Ex. There is significant cross-country variation in these figures.
    Ex. This suggests an approach which includes cross-cultural as well as cross-national comparison.
    Ex. In 1993, South Africa also became a member of the multi-country library consortium eIFL Direct.
    ----
    * acuerdo internacional = modus vivendi.
    * aguas internacionales = international waters.
    * Asociación Internacional de Archivos Sonoros (IASA) = International Association of Sound Archives (IASA).
    * Asociación Internacional de Bibliotecarios y Documentalistas de Agricultura = International Association of Agricultural Librarians and Documentalists (IAALD).
    * Asociación Internacional de Editores (IPA) = International Publishers Association (IPA).
    * Ayuda Internacional de Libros (BAI) = Book Aid International (BAI).
    * banca internacional = international banking.
    * bibliografía internacional = international bibliography.
    * carnet de conducir internacional = international driving permit, international driving licence.
    * Centro Internacional para la Descripción Bibliográfica del UNISIST = UNIBID.
    * Coalición Internacional de Consorcios de Bibliotecas (ICOLC) = International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC).
    * código para llamadas internacionales = outgoing international code.
    * comercio internacional = world trade, international trade, international business.
    * Comité Internacional del Escudo Azul (ICBS) = International Committee of the Blue Shield (ICBS).
    * comunidad internacional, la = international community, the.
    * Consejo Internacional de Museos (ICOM) = International Council of Museums (ICOM).
    * Consejo Internacional de Museos y Lugares de Interés (ICOMS) = International Council of Museums and Sites (ICOMOS).
    * control bibliográfico internacional = international bibliographical control.
    * de prestigio internacional = of international renown.
    * derecho internacional = international law.
    * de renombres internacional = internationally renowned.
    * Descripción Bibliográfica Normalizada Internacional para Publicaciones Seria = ISBD(S) (International Standard Bibliographic Description - Serials).
    * día internacional de los trabajadores = Labour Day.
    * día internacional del trabajo = Labour Day.
    * economía internacional = international economy.
    * Federación Internacional de Documentación (FID) = International Federation for Documentation (FID).
    * Federación Internacional de Libreros (IBF) = International Booksellers Federation (IBF).
    * foro internacional = international forum.
    * giro postal internacional = international money order.
    * IFLA (Federación Internacional de Asociaciones de Bibliotecarios y Bibliotec = IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions).
    * intercambio internacional = international exchange.
    * ISBD(A) (Descripción Bibliográfica Normalizada Internacional - material anti = ISBD(A) (International Standard Bibliographic Description - Antiquarian).
    * ISBD (Descripción Bibliográfica Normalizada Internacional) = ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Description).
    * ISBN (Número Internacional Normalizado para Libros) = ISBN (International Standard Book Number).
    * ISDS (Sistema Internacional de Datos sobre Publicaciones Seriadas) = ISDS (International Serials Data System).
    * ISSN (Número Internacional Normalizado para Publicaciones Seriadas) = ISSN (International Standard Serial Number).
    * línea internacional de cambio de fecha, la = International Date Line, the.
    * mercado internacional = international trade, international market.
    * negocio internacional = international business.
    * Norma General Internacional para la Descripción de Archivos (ISAD-G) = General International Standard Archival Description (ISAD(G)).
    * Norma Internacional para la Descripción de Archivos (ISAD) = International Standard Archival Description (ISAD).
    * Norma Internacional para los Lenguajes de Instrucción = International Standard for Command Languages.
    * organismo intergubernamental internacional = international intergovernmental body.
    * Organización Internacional de Normalización = ISO.
    * permiso de circulación internacional = international driving permit, international driving licence.
    * permiso de conducir internacional = international driving permit, international driving licence.
    * política internacional = international politics.
    * préstamo internacional = international lending.
    * relación internacional = international relation.
    * Resúmenes Internacionales de Farmacia (IPA) = International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA).
    * Sistema Internacional de Unidades, el = International System of Units, the.
    * terrorismo internacional = international terrorism.
    * * *
    I
    adjetivo international

    las noticias internacionales — the foreign o international news

    II
    masculino y femenino (Dep) international
    * * *
    = international, long-distance, transnational, cross-country, cross-national [cross national], multi-country [multicountry].

    Ex: National agencies creating MARC records use national standards within their own country, and re-format records to UNIMARC for international exchange.

    Ex: To get into these national and international networks which are suitable for long-distance communication, a telephone link must be used to access the closest node.
    Ex: This article examines problems and practices relating to transborder data flows in the light of the growing trend to transnational venturing in the electronic information services sector.
    Ex: There is significant cross-country variation in these figures.
    Ex: This suggests an approach which includes cross-cultural as well as cross-national comparison.
    Ex: In 1993, South Africa also became a member of the multi-country library consortium eIFL Direct.
    * acuerdo internacional = modus vivendi.
    * aguas internacionales = international waters.
    * Asociación Internacional de Archivos Sonoros (IASA) = International Association of Sound Archives (IASA).
    * Asociación Internacional de Bibliotecarios y Documentalistas de Agricultura = International Association of Agricultural Librarians and Documentalists (IAALD).
    * Asociación Internacional de Editores (IPA) = International Publishers Association (IPA).
    * Ayuda Internacional de Libros (BAI) = Book Aid International (BAI).
    * banca internacional = international banking.
    * bibliografía internacional = international bibliography.
    * carnet de conducir internacional = international driving permit, international driving licence.
    * Centro Internacional para la Descripción Bibliográfica del UNISIST = UNIBID.
    * Coalición Internacional de Consorcios de Bibliotecas (ICOLC) = International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC).
    * código para llamadas internacionales = outgoing international code.
    * comercio internacional = world trade, international trade, international business.
    * Comité Internacional del Escudo Azul (ICBS) = International Committee of the Blue Shield (ICBS).
    * comunidad internacional, la = international community, the.
    * Consejo Internacional de Museos (ICOM) = International Council of Museums (ICOM).
    * Consejo Internacional de Museos y Lugares de Interés (ICOMS) = International Council of Museums and Sites (ICOMOS).
    * control bibliográfico internacional = international bibliographical control.
    * de prestigio internacional = of international renown.
    * derecho internacional = international law.
    * de renombres internacional = internationally renowned.
    * Descripción Bibliográfica Normalizada Internacional para Publicaciones Seria = ISBD(S) (International Standard Bibliographic Description - Serials).
    * día internacional de los trabajadores = Labour Day.
    * día internacional del trabajo = Labour Day.
    * economía internacional = international economy.
    * Federación Internacional de Documentación (FID) = International Federation for Documentation (FID).
    * Federación Internacional de Libreros (IBF) = International Booksellers Federation (IBF).
    * foro internacional = international forum.
    * giro postal internacional = international money order.
    * IFLA (Federación Internacional de Asociaciones de Bibliotecarios y Bibliotec = IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions).
    * intercambio internacional = international exchange.
    * ISBD(A) (Descripción Bibliográfica Normalizada Internacional - material anti = ISBD(A) (International Standard Bibliographic Description - Antiquarian).
    * ISBD (Descripción Bibliográfica Normalizada Internacional) = ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Description).
    * ISBN (Número Internacional Normalizado para Libros) = ISBN (International Standard Book Number).
    * ISDS (Sistema Internacional de Datos sobre Publicaciones Seriadas) = ISDS (International Serials Data System).
    * ISSN (Número Internacional Normalizado para Publicaciones Seriadas) = ISSN (International Standard Serial Number).
    * línea internacional de cambio de fecha, la = International Date Line, the.
    * mercado internacional = international trade, international market.
    * negocio internacional = international business.
    * Norma General Internacional para la Descripción de Archivos (ISAD-G) = General International Standard Archival Description (ISAD(G)).
    * Norma Internacional para la Descripción de Archivos (ISAD) = International Standard Archival Description (ISAD).
    * Norma Internacional para los Lenguajes de Instrucción = International Standard for Command Languages.
    * organismo intergubernamental internacional = international intergovernmental body.
    * Organización Internacional de Normalización = ISO.
    * permiso de circulación internacional = international driving permit, international driving licence.
    * permiso de conducir internacional = international driving permit, international driving licence.
    * política internacional = international politics.
    * préstamo internacional = international lending.
    * relación internacional = international relation.
    * Resúmenes Internacionales de Farmacia (IPA) = International Pharmaceutical Abstracts (IPA).
    * Sistema Internacional de Unidades, el = International System of Units, the.
    * terrorismo internacional = international terrorism.

    * * *
    1 ‹organización/torneo/tratado› international
    de fama internacional of international fame o repute, internationally famous
    2 ‹vuelo› international
    [ S ] salidas internacionales international departures
    las noticias internacionales the foreign o international news
    la política internacional de este gobierno this government's foreign policy
    A ( Dep) international
    B
    la Internacional feminine (asociación) the International; (himno) the Internationale
    la Internacional Socialista the Socialist International
    * * *

    internacional adjetivo
    international;
    ‹ noticia› foreign ( before n), international ( before n);
    ‹ política› foreign ( before n);


    ( on signs) salidas internacionales international departures
    internacional adjetivo international
    ' internacional' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    F.M.I.
    - FMI
    - INTERPOL
    - nacional
    - proyección
    - SMI
    - cuestión
    - funcionario
    - información
    - sede
    - vuelo
    English:
    division
    - IMF
    - international
    - International Monetary Fund
    - Interpol
    - spade
    - test
    - world
    * * *
    ♦ adj
    1. [de las naciones] international
    2. [aeropuerto, vuelo] international
    3. [mercado, noticias] international
    4. [deportista] international;
    fue diez veces internacional por México he was capped ten times for Mexico
    ♦ nmf
    [deportista] international
    ♦ nf
    1.
    la Internacional [himno] the Internationale
    2.
    la Internacional [organización] the International;
    la I/II Internacional the First/Second International
    la Internacional Socialista the Socialist International
    * * *
    I adj international
    II m/f DEP international
    III f POL himno Internationale
    * * *
    : international
    * * *
    internacional adj international

    Spanish-English dictionary > internacional

  • 7 Art

       Portugal did not produce an artist of sufficient ability to gain recognition outside the country until the 19th century. Domingos Antônio Segueira (1768-1837) became well known in Europe for his allegorical religious and historical paintings in a neoclassical style. Portuguese painting during the 19th century emphasized naturalism and did not keep abreast of artistic innovations being made in other European countries. Portugal's best painters lived abroad especially in France. The most successful was Amadeo Souza- Cardoso who, while living in Paris, worked with the modernists Modigliani, Georges Braque, and Juan Gris. Souza-Cardoso introduced modernism into Portuguese painting in the early 20th century. A sustained modernist movement did not develop in Portugal, however. Naturalism remained the dominant school, and Portugal remained isolated from international artistic trends, owing to Portugal's conservative artistic climate, which prevented new forms of art from taking root, and the lack of support from an artistically sophisticated, art-buying elite supported by a system of galleries and foundations.
       Interestingly, it was during the conservative Estado Novo that modernism began to take root in Portugal. As Prime Minister Antônio de Oliveira Salazar's secretary for national propaganda, Antônio Ferro, a writer, journalist, and cultural leader who admired Mussolini, encouraged the government to allow modern artists to create the heroic imagery of the Estado Novo following the Italian model that linked fascism with futurism. The most important Portuguese artist of this period was Almada Negreiros, who did the murals on the walls of the legendary café A Brasileira in the Chiado district of Lisbon, the paintings at the Exposition of the Portuguese World (1940), and murals at the Lisbon docks. Other artists of note during this period included Mário Eloy (1900-51), who was trained in Germany and influenced by George Grosz and Otto Dix; Domingos Alvarez (1906-42); and Antônio Pedro (1909-66).
       During the 1950s, the Estado Novo ceased to encourage artists to collaborate, as Portuguese artists became more critical of the regime. The return to Portugal of Antônio Pedro in 1947 led to the emergence of a school of geometric abstract painting in Oporto and the reawakening of surrealism. The art deco styles of the 1930s gave way to surrealism and abstract expression.
       In the 1960s, links between Portugal's artistic community and the international art world strengthened. Conscription for the wars against the nationalist insurgencies in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea- Bissau (1961-75) resulted in a massive exodus of Portugal's avante-garde artists to Europe to avoid military service. While abroad, artists such as Joaquin Rodrigo (1912-93), Paula Rego (1935-), João Cutileiro (1947-), and others forged links with British, French, Italian, and Spanish artistic communities.
       The Revolution of 25 April 1974 created a crisis for Portugal's artists. The market for works of art collapsed as left-wing governments, claiming that they had more important things to do (eliminate poverty, improve education), withdrew support for the arts. Artists declared their talents to be at the "service of the people," and a brief period of socialist realism prevailed. With the return of political stability and moderate governments during the 1980s, Portugal's commercial art scene revived, and a new period of creativity began. Disenchantment with the socialist realism (utopianism) of the Revolution and a deepening of individualism began to be expressed by Portuguese artists. Investment in the arts became a means of demonstrating one's wealth and social status, and an unprecedented number of art galleries opened, art auctions were held, and a new generation of artists became internationally recognized. In 1984, a museum of modern art was built by the Gulbenkian Foundation adjacent to its offices on the Avenida de Berna in Lisbon. A national museum of modern art was finally built in Oporto in 1988.
       In the 1980s, Portugal's new generation of painters blended post-conceptualism and subjectivism, as well as a tendency toward decon-structionism/reconstructionism, in their work. Artists such as Cabrita Reis (1956-), Pedro Calapez (1953-), José Pedro Croft (1957-), Rui Sanches (1955-), and José de Guimarães (1949-) gained international recognition during this period. Guimarães crosses African art themes with Western art; Sarmento invokes images of film, culture, photography, American erotica, and pulp fiction toward sex, violence, and pleasure; Reis evolved from a painter to a maker of installation artist using chipboard, plaster, cloth, glass, and electrical and plumbing materials.
       From the end of the 20th century and during the early years of the 21st century, Portugal's art scene has been in a state of crisis brought on by a declining art trade and a withdrawal of financial support by conservative governments. Although not as serious as the collapse of the 1970s, the current situation has divided the Portuguese artistic community between those, such as Cerveira Pito and Leonel Moura, who advocate a return to using primitive, strongly textured techniques and others such as João Paulo Feliciano (1963-), who paint constructivist works that poke fun at the relationship between art, money, society, and the creative process. Thus, at the beginning of the 21st century, the factors that have prevented Portuguese art from achieving and sustaining international recognition (the absence of a strong art market, depending too much on official state support, and the individualistic nature of Portuguese art production) are still to be overcome.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Art

  • 8 Social Democratic Party / Partido Social Democrático

    (PSD)
       One of the two major political parties in democratic Portugal. It was established originally as the Popular Democratic Party / Partido Popular Democrático (PPD) in May 1974, following the Revolution of 25 April 1974 that overthrew the Estado Novo. The PPD had its roots in the "liberal wing" of the União Nacional, the single, legal party or movement allowed under the Estado Novo during the last phase of that regime, under Prime Minister Marcello Caetano. A number of future PPD leaders, such as Francisco Sá Carneiro and Francisco Balsemão, hoped to reform the Estado Novo from within, but soon became discouraged. After the 1974 Revolution, the PPD participated in two general elections (April 1975 and April 1976), which were crucial for the establishment and consolidation of democracy, and the party won sufficient votes to become the second largest political party after the Socialist Party (PS) in the number of seats held in the legislature, the Assembly of the Republic. The PPD voting results in those two elections were 26.4 percent and 24.4 percent, respectively.
       After the 1976 elections, the party changed its name from Partido Popular Democrático to Partido Social Democrático (PSD). As political opinion swung from the left to the center and center-right, and with the leadership of Francisco Sá Carneiro, the PSD gained greater popularity and strength, and from 1979 on, the party played an important role in government. After Sá Carneiro died in the air crash of December 1980, he was replaced as party chief and then prime minister by Francisco Balsemão, and then by Aníbal Cavaco Silva. As successors, these two leaders guided the PSD to a number of electoral victories, especially beginning in 1985. After 1987, the PSD held a majority of seats in parliament, a situation that lasted until 1995, when the Socialist Party (PS) won the election.
       The PSD's principal political program has featured the de-Marxi-fication of the 1976 Constitution and the economic system, a free-market economy with privatization of many state enterprises, and close ties with the European Economic Community (EEC) and subsequently the European Union (EU). After the PSD lost several general elections in 1995 and 1999, and following the withdrawal from office of former prime minister Cavaco Silva, a leadership succession crisis occurred in the party. The party leadership shifted from Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa to Manuel Durão Barroso, and, in 2004, Pedro Santana Lopes.
       During 2000 and 2001, as Portugal's economic situation worsened, the PS's popularity waned. In the December 2001 municipal elections, the PSD decisively defeated the PS and, as a result, Prime Minister António Guterres resigned. Parliamentary elections in March 2002 resulted in a Social Democratic victory, although its margin of victory over the PS was small (40 percent to 38 percent). Upon becoming premier in the spring of 2002, then, PSD leader Durão Barroso, in order to hold a slim majority of seats in the Assembly of the Republic, was obliged to govern in a coalition with the Popular Party (PP), formerly known as the Christian Democratic Party (CDS). Although the PSD had ousted the PS from office, the party confronted formidable economic and social problems. When Durão Barroso resigned to become president of the EU Commission, Pedro Santana Lopes became the PSD's leader, as prime minister in July 2004. Under Santana Lopes's leadership, the PSD lost the parliamentary elections of 2005 to the PS. Since then, the PSD has sought to regain its dominant position with the Portuguese electorate. It made some progress in doing so when its former leader, Cavaco Silva, was elected president of the Republic of 2006.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Social Democratic Party / Partido Social Democrático

  • 9 bloque socialista

    el bloque socialista
    = socialist bloc, the, Soviet bloc, the

    Ex: A systematic co-operation in building up of library networks in the countries of the socialist bloc started in the 60s.

    Ex: To date the feedback from the academic community has been very positive with many libraries in the former Soviet bloc welcoming this initiative.

    Spanish-English dictionary > bloque socialista

  • 10 servir

    v.
    1 to serve.
    ¿te sirvo más patatas? would you like some more potatoes?
    ¿me sirve un poco más, por favor? could I have a bit more, please?
    ¿en qué puedo servirle? what can I do for you?
    la polémica está servida the gloves are off
    La ley sirve su propósito The law serves its purpose..
    No servimos a los menores de edad We do not serve kids under age.
    Este lugar sirve buen pescado This restaurant serves good fish.
    María sirvió y llamó a comer Mary served and called us to eat.
    Esto sirve This serves.
    2 to serve (prestar servicio).
    servir en el Ejército to serve in the Army
    3 to be in service (como criado).
    4 to suit someone's purposes, to suit, to serve someone's purposes.
    El estante sirve The shelf suits one's purposes.
    5 to serve the ball.
    El tenista sirvió The tennis player served the ball.
    6 to be useful for.
    Este sistema me sirve This system is useful for me.
    7 to process, to fill.
    El chico sirve la órden de compra The boy processes the purchase order.
    * * *
    (e weakens to i in certain persons of certain tenses)
    Present Indicative
    sirvo, sirves, sirve, servimos, servís, sirven.
    Past Indicative
    serví, serviste, sirvió, servimos, servisteis, sirvieron.
    Present Subjunctive
    Imperfect Subjunctive
    Future Subjunctive
    Imperative
    sirve (tú), sirva (él/Vd.), sirvamos (nos.), servid (vos.), sirvan (ellos/Vds.).
    * * *
    verb
    3) work
    •
    - servirse de
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) [+ persona, intereses, causa] to serve

    ¿en qué puedo servirle? — how can I help you?

    2) [para comer]
    a) [en la mesa] [+ comida] to serve; [+ bebida] to serve, pour

    ¿a qué hora sirven el desayuno? — what time is breakfast served?

    ¿me ayudas a servir la mesa? — can you help me serve (the food)?

    la cena está servida — dinner's on the table, dinner is served frm

    ¿te sirvo un poco más? — would you like some more?, can I give you some more?

    b) (=proporcionar) to give, serve frm

    sirvieron unos canapés tras la inauguración — after the opening ceremony there were canapés, canapés were served after the opening ceremony frm

    3) (Com) [+ pedido] to process
    4) (Tenis) to serve
    5) (Mec) [+ máquina, cañón] to man
    6) (Naipes) [+ cartas] to deal
    2. VI
    1) (=ser útil) to be useful

    siempre que lo he necesitado me ha servido — whenever I've needed it, it's done the job

    • eso no sirve — that's no good o use

    ya no me sirve — it's no good o use to me now

    • servir para algo, puede servir para limpiar el metal — it can be used for o it is suitable for cleaning metal

    ¿para qué sirve? — what is it for?

    ¿para qué sirve este aparato? — what's this gadget for?

    2)

    • servir de algo, la legislación italiana puede servirnos de guía — we can use Italian law as a guide, Italian law can serve a guide

    • no sirve de nada quejarse — it's no good o use complaining, there's no point in complaining

    no sirve de nada que vaya él — it's no good o use him going *, there's no point in him going

    • ¿de qué sirve mentir? — what's the good o use of lying?, what's the point in lying?

    precedente 2.
    3) [en el servicio doméstico] to work as a servant

    • ponerse a servir — to become a servant

    4) [camarero] to serve
    5) (Mil) to serve frm

    yo serví en la Marina — I was in the Navy, I served in the Navy frm

    6) (Tenis) to serve
    7) (Naipes) (tb: servir del palo) to follow suit
    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1) ( ser útil)

    tíralo, ya no me sirve — throw it away, it's (of) no use to me anymore

    servir para algo: ¿para qué sirve este aparato? what's this device for?; no lo tires, puede servir para algo don't throw it away, it might come in useful for something; este cuchillo no sirve para cortar pan this knife is no good for cutting bread; no sirves para nada you're useless; no creo que sirva para este trabajo I don't think he's right o suitable for this job; yo no sirvo para mentir I'm a hopeless liar, I'm not good at lying; servir de algo: de nada sirve llorar it's no use o good crying; ¿de qué sirve hablarle si no te escucha? what's the point in o the use of talking to him if he doesn't listen to you?; esto te puede servir de mesa — you can use this as a table

    2)
    a) ( en la mesa) to serve
    b) ( trabajar de criado) to be in (domestic) service
    c) (Mil) to serve (frml)
    3) (Dep) ( en tenis) to serve
    2.
    servir vt
    1) < comida> to serve; < bebida> to serve, pour

    servir la comida — to serve (out) o (colloq) dish out the food

    2)

    servir a algo/alguien — to serve something/somebody

    ¿en qué puedo servirle? — (frml) how can I help you?

    b) (Com) < pedido> to process; < cliente> to serve; < mercancías> to send
    3.
    servirse v pron
    1) (refl) < comida> to help oneself to; < bebida> to pour oneself, help oneself to
    2) (frml) ( hacer uso)

    servirse de algo — to make use of something, use something

    3) (frml) ( hacer el favor de)

    servirse + inf: sírvase rellenar la solicitud please fill in the application form; les rogamos se sirvan enviarnos esta información — we would ask you to send us this information (frml)

    * * *
    = be of use, do, serve, do + the trick, host, dish out, serve up.
    Ex. Libraries sometimes also find it useful to prepare leaflets which deal with a particular category of information source which might be of use to various users.
    Ex. It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, 'memex' will do.
    Ex. This broader consideration of descriptive cataloguing problems serves to set a context for the consideration of cataloguing problems associated with nonbook materials.
    Ex. We are currently in the process of looking at two products that seem to do the trick.
    Ex. Most computer bureaux which host the factual data bases have their own world-wide networks.
    Ex. One has only to turn on the television to see that educated people still have little influence on the trash dished out to the uneducated masses.
    Ex. A watering hole in Spain is serving up free beer and tapas to recession-weary customers who insult its bartenders as a way to let off steam.
    ----
    * ¿para qué sirve... ? = what's the use of... ?.
    * no servir de nada = be of no avail, be to no avail.
    * no servir de nada que + Subjuntivo = no use + Ving.
    * no servir para nada = be good for nothing, pissing into the wind, be of no avail, be to no avail, all + be for + naught.
    * por si sirve de algo = for what it's worth [FWIW].
    * servir a = be of service to.
    * servir al mismo tiempo como = double up as.
    * servir al mismo tiempo de = double as.
    * servir a los usuarios = serve + patrons.
    * servir a un público de = serve + a population of.
    * servir como = serve as.
    * servir de apoyo a = inform.
    * servir de ayuda = be of assistance.
    * servir de catalizador = serve as + a catalyst.
    * servir de contrapeso = counterpoise.
    * servir de experiencia = chart + the waters.
    * servir de factor de predicción de = be predictive of.
    * servir de guía = carry + the torch.
    * servir de introducción = set + the backdrop, set + the framework, set + the context.
    * servir de introducción a = provide + a background to.
    * servir de modelo = serve as + a model.
    * servir de poco = be of little use.
    * servir de poco o nada = be of little or no avail.
    * servir de puente = act as + a bridge.
    * servir de puente entre = serve as + a bridge between.
    * servir de punto de partida = point + the way to.
    * servir de telón de fondo = set + the backdrop.
    * servir los intereses = serve + interests.
    * servir muy bien = take + Nombre + a long way.
    * servir para = be instrumental in/to.
    * servir para nada = count + for nothing.
    * servir repetidamente = ply + Nombre + with + Bebida.
    * servirse = help + Reflexivo.
    * servirse de la experiencia = draw on/upon + background.
    * servirse de la experiencia de = draw on/upon + experience of.
    * servirse de la formación de Uno = draw on/upon + background.
    * servir una Bebida = pour + Bebida.
    * servir un documento = deliver + document.
    * servir un fin = serve + end.
    * servir un pedido = fulfil + order, fill + order.
    * utensilio para servir = serving utensil.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo
    1) ( ser útil)

    tíralo, ya no me sirve — throw it away, it's (of) no use to me anymore

    servir para algo: ¿para qué sirve este aparato? what's this device for?; no lo tires, puede servir para algo don't throw it away, it might come in useful for something; este cuchillo no sirve para cortar pan this knife is no good for cutting bread; no sirves para nada you're useless; no creo que sirva para este trabajo I don't think he's right o suitable for this job; yo no sirvo para mentir I'm a hopeless liar, I'm not good at lying; servir de algo: de nada sirve llorar it's no use o good crying; ¿de qué sirve hablarle si no te escucha? what's the point in o the use of talking to him if he doesn't listen to you?; esto te puede servir de mesa — you can use this as a table

    2)
    a) ( en la mesa) to serve
    b) ( trabajar de criado) to be in (domestic) service
    c) (Mil) to serve (frml)
    3) (Dep) ( en tenis) to serve
    2.
    servir vt
    1) < comida> to serve; < bebida> to serve, pour

    servir la comida — to serve (out) o (colloq) dish out the food

    2)

    servir a algo/alguien — to serve something/somebody

    ¿en qué puedo servirle? — (frml) how can I help you?

    b) (Com) < pedido> to process; < cliente> to serve; < mercancías> to send
    3.
    servirse v pron
    1) (refl) < comida> to help oneself to; < bebida> to pour oneself, help oneself to
    2) (frml) ( hacer uso)

    servirse de algo — to make use of something, use something

    3) (frml) ( hacer el favor de)

    servirse + inf: sírvase rellenar la solicitud please fill in the application form; les rogamos se sirvan enviarnos esta información — we would ask you to send us this information (frml)

    * * *
    = be of use, do, serve, do + the trick, host, dish out, serve up.

    Ex: Libraries sometimes also find it useful to prepare leaflets which deal with a particular category of information source which might be of use to various users.

    Ex: It needs a name, and, to coin one at random, 'memex' will do.
    Ex: This broader consideration of descriptive cataloguing problems serves to set a context for the consideration of cataloguing problems associated with nonbook materials.
    Ex: We are currently in the process of looking at two products that seem to do the trick.
    Ex: Most computer bureaux which host the factual data bases have their own world-wide networks.
    Ex: One has only to turn on the television to see that educated people still have little influence on the trash dished out to the uneducated masses.
    Ex: A watering hole in Spain is serving up free beer and tapas to recession-weary customers who insult its bartenders as a way to let off steam.
    * ¿para qué sirve... ? = what's the use of... ?.
    * no servir de mucho = be little more than an interesting exercise.
    * no servir de nada = be of no avail, be to no avail.
    * no servir de nada que + Subjuntivo = no use + Ving.
    * no servir para nada = be good for nothing, pissing into the wind, be of no avail, be to no avail, all + be for + naught.
    * por si sirve de algo = for what it's worth [FWIW].
    * servir a = be of service to.
    * servir al mismo tiempo como = double up as.
    * servir al mismo tiempo de = double as.
    * servir a los usuarios = serve + patrons.
    * servir a un público de = serve + a population of.
    * servir como = serve as.
    * servir de apoyo a = inform.
    * servir de ayuda = be of assistance.
    * servir de catalizador = serve as + a catalyst.
    * servir de contrapeso = counterpoise.
    * servir de experiencia = chart + the waters.
    * servir de factor de predicción de = be predictive of.
    * servir de guía = carry + the torch.
    * servir de introducción = set + the backdrop, set + the framework, set + the context.
    * servir de introducción a = provide + a background to.
    * servir de modelo = serve as + a model.
    * servir de poco = be of little use.
    * servir de poco o nada = be of little or no avail.
    * servir de puente = act as + a bridge.
    * servir de puente entre = serve as + a bridge between.
    * servir de punto de partida = point + the way to.
    * servir de telón de fondo = set + the backdrop.
    * servir los intereses = serve + interests.
    * servir muy bien = take + Nombre + a long way.
    * servir para = be instrumental in/to.
    * servir para nada = count + for nothing.
    * servir repetidamente = ply + Nombre + with + Bebida.
    * servirse = help + Reflexivo.
    * servirse de la experiencia = draw on/upon + background.
    * servirse de la experiencia de = draw on/upon + experience of.
    * servirse de la formación de Uno = draw on/upon + background.
    * servir una Bebida = pour + Bebida.
    * servir un documento = deliver + document.
    * servir un fin = serve + end.
    * servir un pedido = fulfil + order, fill + order.
    * utensilio para servir = serving utensil.

    * * *
    servir [ I14 ]
    vi
    A
    (ser útil): esta caja no sirve, trae una más grande this box won't do o is no good, can you bring a bigger one?
    tíralo, ya no me sirve throw it away, it's (of) no use to me o it's no good to me any more
    servir PARA algo:
    ¿para qué sirve este aparato? what's this device for?, what does this device do?
    ¿esto sirve para algo? is this any use?
    no lo tires, puede servir para algo don't throw it away, it might come in useful for something
    este cuchillo no sirve para cortar pan this knife is no good for cutting bread
    no creo que sirva para este trabajo I don't think he's right o suitable for this job
    yo no sirvo para mentir I'm a hopeless liar, I'm no good at lying
    servir DE algo:
    de nada sirve llorar/que me lo digas ahora it's no use o good crying/telling me now
    ¿de qué sirve hablarle si no te escucha? what's the point in o the use of talking to him if he doesn't listen to you?
    esto te puede servir de manto para el disfraz you can use this as a cloak for your fancy dress costume
    B
    1 (en la mesa) to serve
    en este restaurante no saben servir the service is very poor in this restaurant
    se sirve a los invitados primero guests are served first
    no esperes a que te sirva help yourself, don't wait
    2 (trabajar de criado) to be in (domestic) service
    empezó a servir a los catorce años she went into service at the age of fourteen
    3 ( Mil) to serve ( frml)
    sirvió en Infantería he was in o he served in the Infantry
    C ( Dep) (en tenis) to serve
    ■ servir
    vt
    A ‹comida› to serve; ‹bebida› to serve, pour
    los alumnos mayores ayudan a servir la comida the older pupils help serve o serve out o ( colloq) dish out the food
    a mí no me sirvas salsa no sauce for me, thanks o I won't have any sauce, thank you
    sírvele otro jerez a Pilar will you pour Pilar another sherry?
    ¿te sirvo un poco más de arroz? can I give you a little more rice?, can I help you to a little more rice?
    la cena está servida dinner is served
    servir frío/a temperatura ambiente serve cold/at room temperature
    B
    1 (estar al servicio de) servir A algo/algn to serve sth/sb
    servir a la patria/la comunidad/Dios to serve one's country/the community/God
    ella se sienta y espera que la sirvan she sits down and expects to be waited on
    para servir a usted ( frml); at your service ( frml)
    ¿en qué puedo servirla? ( frml); how can I help you?
    2 ( Com) ‹pedido› to process; ‹cliente› to serve; ‹mercancías› to send
    serviremos el pedido a la mayor brevedad we will process your order as soon as possible
    C ( Agr) to service
    A ( refl) ‹comida› to help oneself to; ‹bebida› to pour oneself, help oneself to
    sírvete otro trozo help yourself to another piece
    B ( frml) (hacer uso) servirse DE algo to make use of sth, use sth
    C ( frml) (hacer el favor de) servirse + INF:
    si el señor se sirve firmar aquí … if you would be kind enough to o would care to sign here, Sir … ( frml)
    sírvase rellenar la solicitud que se adjunta please fill in the enclosed application form
    sírvase pasar por caja donde le harán efectivo el pago if you would like to go over to the cashier, they will give you the money
    les rogamos se sirvan enviarnos esta información a la brevedad we would ask you to send us this information at your earliest convenience ( frml)
    * * *

     

    servir ( conjugate servir) verbo intransitivo
    1 ( ser útil):
    ◊ esta caja no sirve this box won't do o is no good;

    ya no me sirve it's (of) no use to me anymore;
    ¿para qué sirve este aparato? what's this device for?;
    no lo tires, puede servir para algo don't throw it away, it might come in useful for something;
    este cuchillo no sirve para cortar pan this knife is no good for cutting bread;
    no sirves para nada you're useless;
    no creo que sirva para este trabajo I don't think he's right o suitable for this job;
    servir de algo: de nada sirve llorar it's no use o good crying;
    ¿de qué sirve? what's the point o the use?;
    esto te puede servir de mesa you can use this as a table
    2


    c) (Mil) to serve (frml)

    3 (Dep) ( en tenis) to serve
    verbo transitivo
    1 ‹ comida› to serve;
    ‹ bebida› to serve, pour
    2 ( estar al servicio de) ‹persona/a la patria› to serve;
    ◊ ¿en qué puedo servirla? (frml) how can I help you?

    servirse verbo pronominal ( refl) ‹ comida› to help oneself to;
    ‹ bebida› to pour oneself, help oneself to
    servir
    I verbo intransitivo
    1 to serve
    servir a la patria, to serve one's country
    2 (ser útil) to be useful, be suitable: su fracaso no me sirve de consuelo, his failure is no consolation to me
    el cine te servirá de distracción, the film will keep you amused
    ahora ya no sirve para nada, it's no use at all
    ¿para qué sirve?, what is it (used) for?
    3 (ropa, objetos) los pantalones ya no le sirven, the trousers don't fit him now
    4 (tener capacidad) este muchacho sirve para estudiar, this boy is good at studying
    5 (actuar como sustituto) esta cacerola me servirá de casco, this pot will serve as a helmet
    II verbo transitivo
    1 to serve
    ¿en qué puedo servirle?, what can I do for you? o may I help you?
    2 (comida) to serve
    (bebida) to pour
    ' servir' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bar
    - cafetera
    - cuchara
    - fuente
    - pala
    - carrito
    - echar
    - hacer
    - helado
    - huevera
    - jarra
    - jarro
    - lechera
    - panera
    - poner
    - servicio
    - tetera
    - valer
    English:
    act
    - attend
    - disagree
    - dish
    - dish out
    - dish up
    - do
    - fix
    - help
    - off-chance
    - pour
    - pour out
    - purpose
    - rim
    - serve
    - serve out
    - serve up
    - server
    - tablespoon
    - venue
    - wait
    - wait on
    - deterrent
    - duty
    - fat
    - serving
    - spatula
    - table
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [comida, bebida] to serve;
    todavía no nos han servido we haven't been served yet;
    la cena se servirá o [m5] será servida a las ocho dinner will be served at eight;
    sírvanos dos cervezas two beers, please;
    ¿te sirvo más patatas? would you like some more potatoes?;
    ¿me sirve un poco más, por favor? could I have a bit more, please?;
    servir mesas Br to wait at table, US to wait tables;
    la polémica está servida the gloves are off
    2. [prestar servicio a] to serve;
    ¿en qué puedo servirle? [en tienda, mostrador] what can I do for you?;
    servir a la patria/a Dios to serve one's country/God;
    Formal
    para servirle, para servir a usted [como respuesta] at your service
    3. [suministrar] [mercancías] to supply;
    le serviremos el pedido en el acto we'll bring you your order immediately;
    nuestra empresa sirve a toda la zona our company serves o supplies the whole area
    4.
    voy servido [en naipes] stick, I'm sticking;
    Fig [tengo de sobra] I've got plenty
    ♦ vi
    1. [prestar servicio] to serve;
    sirvió de ministro en el gobierno socialista he served as o was a minister in the socialist government;
    servir en el ejército to serve in the Army
    2. [valer, ser útil]
    esta batidora ya no sirve/aún sirve this mixer is no good any more/can still be used;
    esta mesa no me sirve, necesito una mayor this table's no good o use to me, I need a bigger one;
    servir de algo [cumplir la función de] to serve as sth;
    el desván le sirve de oficina he uses the attic as an office, the attic serves as his office;
    la radio me servía de distracción the radio kept me entertained o served to entertain me;
    servir de guía to act as a guide;
    servir para [utensilio, máquina, objeto] to be for;
    ¿para qué sirve esto? what's this for?;
    este líquido sirve para limpiar la plata this liquid is for cleaning silver;
    ¿te sirven estos papeles para algo? are these papers any use to you?;
    este pegamento no sirve para la madera this glue is no good for wood;
    yo no serviría para sacerdote I wouldn't be any good as a priest;
    no sirve para estudiar he's no good at studying;
    no servir de o [m5] para nada to be useless;
    nuestro esfuerzo no sirvió de o [m5] para nada our effort was in vain;
    de nada sirve que se lo digas it's no use telling him;
    ¿de qué sirve quejarse si no nos hacen caso? what's the point in o what's the good of complaining if they never take any notice of us?
    3. [como criado] to be in service;
    tuvo que ponerse a servir she had to go into service;
    servir en palacio/en una casa to be a servant at a palace/in a household
    4. [en tenis, squash] to serve
    * * *
    I v/t serve;
    ¿le sirven ya? are you being served?;
    ¿en qué puedo servirle? what can I do for you?;
    ¡para servirle! at your service!
    II v/i
    1 be of use;
    servir de serve as;
    esta habitación sirve de trastero we use this room as a junk room;
    servir para be (used) for;
    ¿para qué sirve esto? what is this (used) for?;
    no servir de nada be no use at all
    2 MIL, DEP serve
    3 fig
    :
    ir servido fam have another think coming
    * * *
    servir {54} vt
    1) : to serve, to be of use to
    2) : to serve, to wait
    3) surtir: to fill (an order)
    servir vi
    1) : to work
    mi radio no sirve: my radio isn't working
    2) : to be of use, to be helpful
    esa computadora no sirve para nada: that computer's perfectly useless
    * * *
    servir vb
    1. (atender, poner comida) to serve
    ¿ya le sirven? are you being served?
    2. (poner bebida) to pour
    ¿sirvo yo? shall I pour?
    3. (trabajar) to serve / to work
    4. (en tenis) to serve
    5. (hacer las veces) to serve
    6. (ser útil) to be useful
    7. (valer) to do
    8. (emplearse) to be for
    ¿para qué sirve esto? what's this for?
    9. (ser apto) to be good

    Spanish-English dictionary > servir

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       Early Portuguese communism was a mix of communist ideological strands accustomed to a spirited internal debate, a lively external debate with its rivals, and a loose organizational structure. The PCP, during its early years, was weak in grassroots membership and was basically a party of "notables." It was predominantly a male organization, with minuscule female participation. It was also primarily an urban party concentrated in Lisbon. The PCP membership declined from 3,000 in 1923 to only 40 in 1928.
       In 1929, the party was reorganized so that it could survive clandestinely. As its activity progressed in the 1930s, a long period of instability dominated its leadership organs as a result of repression, imprisonments, and disorganization. The CI continued to intervene in party affairs through the 1930s, until the PCP was expelled from the CI in 1938-39, apparently because of its conduct during police arrests.
       The years of 1939-41 were difficult ones for the party, not only because of increased domestic repression but also because of internal party splits provoked by the Nazi-Soviet pact and other foreign actions. From 1940 to 1941, two Communist parties struggled to attract the support of the CI and accused each other of "revisionism." The CI was disbanded in 1943, and the PCP was not accepted back into the international communist family until its recognition by the Cominform in 1947.
       The reorganization of 1940-41 finally put the PCP under the firm control of orthodox communists who viewed socialism from a Soviet perspective. Although Soviet support was denied the newly reorganized party at first, the new leaders continued its Stalinization. The enforcement of "democratic centralism" and insistence upon the "dictatorship of the proletariat" became entrenched. The 1940s brought increased growth, as the party reached its membership apex of the clandestine era with 1,200 members in 1943, approximately 4,800 in 1946, and 7,000 in 1947.
       The party fell on hard times in the 1950s. It developed a bad case of paranoia, which led to a witch hunt for infiltrators, informers, and spies in all ranks of the party. The lower membership figures who followed the united antifascist period were reduced further through expulsions of the "traitors." By 1951, the party had been reduced to only 1,000 members. It became a closed, sectarian, suspicious, and paranoiac organization, with diminished strength in almost every region, except in the Alentejo, where the party, through propaganda and ideology more than organizational strength, was able to mobilize strikes of landless peasants in the early 1950s.
       On 3 January 1960, Álvaro Cunhal and nine other political prisoners made a spectacular escape from the Peniche prison and fled the country. Soon after this escape, Cunhal was elected secretary-general and, with other top leaders, directed the PCP from exile. Trotskyite and Maoist fractions emerged within the party in the 1960s, strengthened by the ideological developments in the international communist movement, such as in China and Cuba. The PCP would not tolerate dissent or leftism and began purging the extreme left fractions.
       The PCP intensified its control of the labor movement after the more liberal syndical election regulations under Prime Minister Mar- cello Caetano allowed communists to run for leadership positions in the corporative unions. By 1973, there was general unrest in the labor movement due to deteriorating economic conditions brought on by the colonial wars, as well as by world economic pressures including the Arab oil boycott.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, the PCP enjoyed a unique position: it was the only party to have survived the Estado Novo. It emerged from clandestinity as the best organized political party in Portugal with a leadership hardened by years in jail. Since then, despite the party's stubborn orthodoxy, it has consistently played an important role as a moderating force. As even the Socialist Party (PS) was swept up by the neoliberal tidal wave, albeit a more compassionate variant, increasingly the PCP has played a crucial role in ensuring that interests and perspectives of the traditional Left are aired.
       One of the most consistent planks of the PCP electoral platform has been opposition to every stage of European integration. The party has regularly resisted Portuguese membership in the European Economic Community (EEC) and, following membership beginning in 1986, the party has regularly resisted further integration through the European Union (EU). A major argument has been that EU membership would not resolve Portugal's chronic economic problems but would only increase its dependence on the world. Ever since, the PCP has argued that its opposition to membership was correct and that further involvement with the EU would only result in further economic dependence and a consequent loss of Portuguese national sovereignty. Further, the party maintained that as Portugal's ties with the EU increased, the vulnerable agrarian sector in Portugal would risk further losses.
       Changes in PCP leadership may or may not alter the party's electoral position and role in the political system. As younger generations forget the uniqueness of the party's resistance to the Estado Novo, public images of PCP leadership will change. As the image of Álvaro Cunhal and other historical communist leaders slowly recedes, and the stature of Carlos Carvalhas (general secretary since 1992) and other moderate leaders is enhanced, the party's survival and legitimacy have strengthened. On 6 March 2001, the PCP celebrated its 80th anniversary.
        See also Left Bloc.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Portuguese Communist Party

  • 12 общество

    society, community
    (среда) company
    първобитно общество a primitive community/society
    социалистическо/безкласово/комунистическо общество a socialist/classless/communist society
    висше общество high life/society
    намирам си общество find congenial company, find o.'s level
    добро/лошо общество good/bad company
    движа се в добро/лошо общество keep good/bad company
    избягвам общество тона avoid the society of
    в интереса на обществото in the public interest, in the interest of the community
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    общество̀,
    ср., -а̀ society, community; ( среда) company; в интереса на \обществоото in the public interest, in the interest of the community; висше \обществоо high life/society; влизам в \обществоото enter society; гражданско \обществоо civil society; движа се в добро/лошо \обществоо keep good/bad company; движа се във висшето \обществоо move in fashionable circles; избягвам \обществоото на avoid the society of; издигам се в \обществоото rise in the world; намирам си \обществоо find congenial company, find o.’s level; не сме се срещали в \обществоото we haven’t met socially; първобитно \обществоо истор. a primitive community/society.
    * * *
    society: join a общество - присъединявам се към общество; community;
    * * *
    1. (среда) company 2. society, community 3. в интереса на ОБЩЕСТВОто in the public interest, in the interest of the community 4. висше ОБЩЕСТВО high life/society 5. влизам в ОБЩЕСТВОто enter society 6. движа се в добро/лошо ОБЩЕСТВО keep good/bad company 7. движа се във висшето ОБЩЕСТВО move in fashionable circles 8. добро/лошо ОБЩЕСТВО good/bad company 9. избягвам ОБЩЕСТВО тона avoid the society of 10. издигам се в ОБЩЕСТВО то rise in the world 11. намирам си ОБЩЕСТВОfind congenial company, find o.'s level 12. първобитно ОБЩЕСТВО a primitive community/society 13. социалистическо/ безкласово/ комунистическо ОБЩЕСТВО a socialist/classless/communist society

    Български-английски речник > общество

  • 13 Chronology

      15,000-3,000 BCE Paleolithic cultures in western Portugal.
      400-200 BCE Greek and Carthaginian trade settlements on coast.
      202 BCE Roman armies invade ancient Lusitania.
      137 BCE Intensive Romanization of Lusitania begins.
      410 CE Germanic tribes — Suevi and Visigoths—begin conquest of Roman Lusitania and Galicia.
      714—16 Muslims begin conquest of Visigothic Lusitania.
      1034 Christian Reconquest frontier reaches Mondego River.
      1064 Christians conquer Coimbra.
      1139 Burgundian Count Afonso Henriques proclaims himself king of Portugal; birth of Portugal. Battle of Ourique: Afonso Henriques defeats Muslims.
      1147 With English Crusaders' help, Portuguese seize Lisbon from Muslims.
      1179 Papacy formally recognizes Portugal's independence (Pope Alexander III).
      1226 Campaign to reclaim Alentejo from Muslims begins.
      1249 Last Muslim city (Silves) falls to Portuguese Army.
      1381 Beginning of third war between Castile and Portugal.
      1383 Master of Aviz, João, proclaimed regent by Lisbon populace.
      1385 April: Master of Aviz, João I, proclaimed king of Portugal by Cortes of Coimbra. 14 August: Battle of Aljubarrota, Castilians defeated by royal forces, with assistance of English army.
      1394 Birth of "Prince Henry the Navigator," son of King João I.
      1415 Beginning of overseas expansion as Portugal captures Moroccan city of Ceuta.
      1419 Discovery of Madeira Islands.
      1425-28 Prince D. Pedro, older brother of Prince Henry, travels in Europe.
      1427 Discovery (or rediscovery?) of Azores Islands.
      1434 Prince Henry the Navigator's ships pass beyond Cape Bojador, West Africa.
      1437 Disaster at Tangier, Morocco, as Portuguese fail to capture city.
      1441 First African slaves from western Africa reach Portugal.
      1460 Death of Prince Henry. Portuguese reach what is now Senegal, West Africa.
      1470s Portuguese explore West African coast and reach what is now Ghana and Nigeria and begin colonizing islands of São Tomé and Príncipe.
      1479 Treaty of Alcáçovas between kings of Portugal and Spain.
      1482 Portuguese establish post at São Jorge da Mina, Gold Coast (now Ghana).
      1482-83 Portuguese navigator Diogo Cão reaches mouth of Congo River and Angola.
      1488 Navigator Bartolomeu Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, and finds route to Indian Ocean.
      1492-93 Columbus's first voyage to West Indies.
      1493 Columbus visits Azores and Portugal on return from first voyage; tells of discovery of New World. Treaty of Tordesillas signed between kings of Portugal and Spain: delimits spheres of conquest with line 370 leagues west of Cape Verde Islands (claimed by Portugal); Portugal's sphere to east of line includes, in effect, Brazil.
       King Manuel I and Royal Council decide to continue seeking all-water route around Africa to Asia.
       King Manuel I expels unconverted Jews from Portugal.
      1497-99 Epic voyage of Vasco da Gama from Portugal around Africa to west India, successful completion of sea route to Asia project; da Gama returns to Portugal with samples of Asian spices.
      1500 Bound for India, Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral "discovers" coast of Brazil and claims it for Portugal.
      1506 Anti-Jewish riots in Lisbon.
       Battle of Diu, India; Portugal's command of Indian Ocean assured for some time with Francisco de Almeida's naval victory over Egyptian and Gujerati fleets.
       Afonso de Albuquerque conquers Goa, India; beginning of Portuguese hegemony in south Asia.
       Portuguese conquest of Malacca; commerce in Spice Islands.
      1519 Magellan begins circumnavigation voyage.
      1536 Inquisition begins in Portugal.
      1543 Portuguese merchants reach Japan.
      1557 Portuguese merchants granted Chinese territory of Macau for trading factory.
      1572 Luís de Camões publishes epic poem, Os Lusíadas.
      1578 Battle of Alcácer-Quivir; Moroccan forces defeat army of King Sebastião of Portugal; King Sebastião dies in battle. Portuguese succession crisis.
      1580 King Phillip II of Spain claims and conquers Portugal; Spanish rule of Portugal, 1580-1640.
      1607-24 Dutch conquer sections of Asia and Brazil formerly held by Portugal.
      1640 1 December: Portuguese revolution in Lisbon overthrows Spanish rule, restores independence. Beginning of Portugal's Braganza royal dynasty.
      1654 Following Dutch invasions and conquest of parts of Brazil and Angola, Dutch expelled by force.
      1661 Anglo-Portuguese Alliance treaty signed: England pledges to defend Portugal "as if it were England itself." Queen Catherine of Bra-ganza marries England's Charles II.
      1668 February: In Portuguese-Spanish peace treaty, Spain recognizes independence of Portugal, thus ending 28-year War of Restoration.
      1703 Methuen Treaties signed, key commercial trade agreement and defense treaty between England and Portugal.
      1750 Pombal becomes chief minister of King José I.
      1755 1 November: Massive Lisbon earthquake, tidal wave, and fire.
      1759 Expulsion of Jesuits from Portugal and colonies.
      1761 Slavery abolished in continental Portugal.
      1769 Abandonment of Mazagão, Morocco, last Portuguese outpost.
      1777 Pombal dismissed as chief minister by Queen Maria I, after death of José I.
      1791 Portugal and United States establish full diplomatic relations.
      1807 November: First Napoleonic invasion; French forces under Junot conquer Portugal. Royal family flees to colony of Brazil and remains there until 1821.
      1809 Second French invasion of Portugal under General Soult.
      1811 Third French invasion of Portugal under General Masséna.
      1813 Following British general Wellington's military victories, French forces evacuate Portugal.
      1817 Liberal, constitutional movements against absolutist monarchist rule break out in Brazil (Pernambuco) and Portugal (Lisbon, under General Gomes Freire); crushed by government. British marshal of Portugal's army, Beresford, rules Portugal.
       Liberal insurrection in army officer corps breaks out in Cadiz, Spain, and influences similar movement in Portugal's armed forces first in Oporto.
       King João VI returns from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and early draft of constitution; era of constitutional monarchy begins.
      1822 7 September: João VI's son Pedro proclaims independence of
       Brazil from Portugal and is named emperor. 23 September: Constitution of 1822 ratified.
       Portugal recognizes sovereign independence of Brazil.
       King João VI dies; power struggle for throne ensues between his sons, brothers Pedro and Miguel; Pedro, emperor of Brazil, abdicates Portuguese throne in favor of his daughter, D. Maria II, too young to assume crown. By agreement, Miguel, uncle of D. Maria, is to accept constitution and rule in her stead.
      1828 Miguel takes throne and abolishes constitution. Sections of Portugal rebel against Miguelite rule.
      1831 Emperor Pedro abdicates throne of Brazil and returns to Portugal to expel King Miguel from Portuguese throne.
      1832-34 Civil war between absolutist King Miguel and constitutionalist Pedro, who abandons throne of Brazil to restore his young daughter Maria to throne of Portugal; Miguel's armed forces defeated by those of Pedro. Miguel leaves for exile and constitution (1826 Charter) is restored.
      1834-53 Constitutional monarchy consolidated under rule of Queen Maria II, who dies in 1853.
      1851-71 Regeneration period of economic development and political stability; public works projects sponsored by Minister Fontes Pereira de Melo.
      1871-90 Rotativism period of alternating party governments; achieves political stability and less military intervention in politics and government. Expansion of colonial territory in tropical Africa.
       January: Following territorial dispute in central Africa, Britain delivers "Ultimatum" to Portugal demanding withdrawal of Portugal's forces from what is now Malawi and Zimbabwe. Portugal's government, humiliated in accepting demand under threat of a diplomatic break, falls. Beginning of governmental and political instability; monarchist decline and republicanism's rise.
       Anglo-Portuguese treaties signed relating to delimitation of frontiers in colonial Africa.
      1899 Treaty of Windsor; renewal of Anglo-Portuguese defense and friendship alliance.
      1903 Triumphal visit of King Edward VII to Portugal.
      1906 Politician João Franco supported by King Carlos I in dictatorship to restore order and reform.
      1908 1 February: Murder in Lisbon of King Carlos I and his heir apparent, Prince Dom Luís, by Portuguese anarchists. Eighteen-year-old King Manuel II assumes throne.
      1910 3-5 October: Following republican-led military insurrection in armed forces, monarchy falls and first Portuguese republic is proclaimed. Beginning of unstable, economically troubled, parliamentary republic form of government.
       May: Violent insurrection in Lisbon overturns government of General Pimenta de Castro; nearly a thousand casualties from several days of armed combat in capital.
       March: Following Portugal's honoring ally Britain's request to confiscate German shipping in Portuguese harbors, Germany declares war on Portugal; Portugal enters World War I on Allied side.
       Portugal organizes and dispatches Portuguese Expeditionary Corps to fight on the Western Front. 9 April: Portuguese forces mauled by German offensive in Battle of Lys. Food rationing and riots in Lisbon. Portuguese military operations in Mozambique against German expedition's invasion from German East Africa. 5 December: Authoritarian, presidentialist government under Major Sidónio Pais takes power in Lisbon, following a successful military coup.
      1918 11 November: Armistice brings cessation of hostilities on Western Front in World War I. Portuguese expeditionary forces stationed in Angola, Mozambique, and Flanders begin return trip to Portugal. 14 December: President Sidónio Pais assassinated. Chaotic period of ephemeral civil war ensues.
      1919-21 Excessively unstable political period, including January
      1919 abortive effort of Portuguese monarchists to restore Braganza dynasty to power. Republican forces prevail, but level of public violence, economic distress, and deprivation remains high.
      1921 October: Political violence attains peak with murder of former prime minister and other prominent political figures in Lisbon. Sectors of armed forces and Guarda Nacional Republicana are mutinous. Year of financial and corruption scandals, including Portuguese bank note (fraud) case; military court acquits guilty military insurrectionists, and one military judge declares "the country is sick."
       28 May: Republic overthrown by military coup or pronunciamento and conspiracy among officer corps. Parliament's doors locked and parliament closed for nearly nine years to January 1935. End of parliamentary republic, Western Europe's most unstable political system in this century, beginning of the Portuguese dictatorship, after 1930 known as the Estado Novo. Officer corps assumes reins of government, initiates military censorship of the press, and suppresses opposition.
       February: Military dictatorship under General Óscar Carmona crushes failed republican armed insurrection in Oporto and Lisbon.
       April: Military dictatorship names Professor Antônio de Oliveira Salazar minister of finance, with dictatorial powers over budget, to stabilize finances and rebuild economy. Insurrectionism among military elements continues into 1931.
      1930 Dr. Salazar named minister for colonies and announces balanced budgets. Salazar consolidates support by various means, including creation of official regime "movement," the National Union. Salazar engineers Colonial Act to ensure Lisbon's control of bankrupt African colonies by means of new fiscal controls and centralization of authority. July: Military dictatorship names Salazar prime minister for first time, and cabinet composition undergoes civilianization; academic colleagues and protégés plan conservative reform and rejuvenation of society, polity, and economy. Regime comes to be called the Estado Novo (New State). New State's constitution ratified by new parliament, the National Assembly; Portugal described in document as "unitary, corporative Republic" and governance influenced by Salazar's stern personality and doctrines such as integralism, Catholicism, and fiscal conservatism.
      1936 Violent instability and ensuing civil war in neighboring Spain, soon internationalized by fascist and communist intervention, shake Estado Novo regime. Pseudofascist period of regime features creation of imitation Fascist institutions to defend regime from leftist threats; Portugal institutes "Portuguese Youth" and "Portuguese Legion."
      1939 3 September: Prime Minister Salazar declares Portugal's neutrality in World War II. October: Anglo-Portuguese agreement grants naval and air base facilities to Britain and later to United States for Battle of the Atlantic and Normandy invasion support. Third Reich protests breach of Portugal's neutrality.
       6 June: On day of Allies' Normandy invasion, Portugal suspends mining and export of wolfram ore to both sides in war.
       8 May: Popular celebrations of Allied victory and Fascist defeat in Lisbon and Oporto coincide with Victory in Europe Day. Following managed elections for Estado Novo's National Assembly in November, regime police, renamed PIDE, with increased powers, represses opposition.
      1947 Abortive military coup in central Portugal easily crushed by regime. Independence of India and initiation of Indian protests against Portuguese colonial rule in Goa and other enclaves.
      1949 Portugal becomes founding member of NATO.
      1951 Portugal alters constitution and renames overseas colonies "Overseas Provinces." Portugal and United States sign military base agreements for use of air and naval facilities in Azores Islands and military aid to Lisbon. President Carmona dies in office, succeeded by General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58). July: Indians occupy enclave of Portuguese India (dependency of Damão) by means of passive resistance movement. August: Indian passive resistance movement in Portuguese India repelled by Portuguese forces with loss of life. December: With U.S. backing, Portugal admitted as member of United Nations (along with Spain). Air force general Humberto Delgado, in opposition, challenges Estado Novo's hand-picked successor to Craveiro Lopes, Admiral Américo Tomás. Delgado rallies coalition of democratic, liberal, and communist opposition but loses rigged election and later flees to exile in Brazil. Portugal joins European Free Trade Association (EFTA).
       January and February: Estado Novo rocked by armed African insurrection in northern Angola, crushed by armed forces. Hijacking of Portuguese ocean liner by ally of Delgado, Captain Henrique Galvão. April: Salazar defeats attempted military coup and reshuffles cabinet with group of younger figures who seek to reform colonial rule and strengthen the regime's image abroad. 18 December: Indian army rapidly defeats Portugal's defense force in Goa, Damão, and Diu and incorporates Portugal's Indian possessions into Indian Union. January: Abortive military coup in Beja, Portugal.
      1965 February: General Delgado and his Brazilian secretary murdered and secretly buried near Spanish frontier by political police, PIDE.
      1968 August and September: Prime Minister Salazar, aged 79, suffers crippling stoke. President Tomás names former cabinet officer Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor. Caetano institutes modest reforms in Portugal and overseas.
      1971 Caetano government ratifies amended constitution that allows slight devolution and autonomy to overseas provinces in Africa and Asia. Right-wing loyalists oppose reforms in Portugal. 25 April: Military coup engineered by Armed Forces Movement overthrows Estado Novo and establishes provisional government emphasizing democratization, development, and decolonization. Limited resistance by loyalists. President Tomás and Premier Caetano flown to exile first in Madeira and then in Brazil. General Spínola appointed president. September: Revolution moves to left, as President Spínola, thwarted in his program, resigns.
       March: Military coup by conservative forces fails, and leftist response includes nationalization of major portion of economy. Polarization between forces and parties of left and right. 25 November: Military coup by moderate military elements thwarts leftist forces. Constituent Assembly prepares constitution. Revolution moves from left to center and then right.
       March: Constitution ratified by Assembly of the Republic. 25 April: Second general legislative election gives largest share of seats to Socialist Party (PS). Former oppositionist lawyer, Mário Soares, elected deputy and named prime minister.
      1977-85 Political pendulum of democratic Portugal moves from center-left to center-right, as Social Democratic Party (PSD) increases hold on assembly and take office under Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. July
      1985 elections give edge to PSD who advocate strong free-enterprise measures and revision of leftist-generated 1976 Constitution, amended modestly in 1982.
      1986 January: Portugal joins European Economic Community (EEC).
      1987 July: General, legislative elections for assembly give more than 50 percent to PSD led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva. For first time, since 1974, Portugal has a working majority government.
      1989 June: Following revisions of 1976 Constitution, reprivatization of economy begins, under PS government.
       January: Presidential elections, Mário Soares reelected for second term. July: General, legislative elections for assembly result in new PSD victory and majority government.
       January-July: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the European Economic Community (EEC). December: Tariff barriers fall as fully integrated Common Market established in the EEC.
       November: Treaty of Maastricht comes into force. The EEC officially becomes the European Union (EU). Portugal is signatory with 11 other member-nations.
       October: General, legislative elections for assembly result in PS victory and naming of Prime Minister Guterres. PS replace PSD as leading political party. November: Excavations for Lisbon bank uncover ancient Phoenician, Roman, and Christian ruins.
       January: General, presidential elections; socialist Jorge Sampaio defeats PSD's Cavaco Silva and assumes presidency from Dr. Mário Soares. July: Community of Portuguese Languages Countries (CPLP) cofounded by Portugal and Brazil.
       May-September: Expo '98 held in Lisbon. Opening of Vasco da Gama Bridge across Tagus River, Europe's longest (17 kilometers/ 11 miles). June: National referendum on abortion law change defeated after low voter turnout. November: National referendum on regionaliza-tion and devolution of power defeated after another low voter turnout.
       October: General, legislative elections: PS victory over PSD lacks clear majority in parliament. Following East Timor referendum, which votes for independence and withdrawal of Indonesia, outburst of popular outrage in streets, media, and communications of Portugal approves armed intervention and administration of United Nations (and withdrawal of Indonesia) in East Timor. Portugal and Indonesia restore diplomatic relations. December: A Special Territory since 1975, Colony of Macau transferred to sovereignty of People's Republic of China.
       January-June: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the EU; end of Discoveries Historical Commemoration Cycle (1988-2000).
       United Nations forces continue to occupy and administer former colony of East Timor, with Portugal's approval.
       January: General, presidential elections; PS president Sampaio reelected for second term. City of Oporto, "European City of Culture" for the year, hosts arts festival. December: Municipal elections: PSD defeats PS; socialist prime minister Guterres resigns; President Sampaio calls March parliamentary elections.
       1 January: Portugal enters single European Currency system. Euro currency adopted and ceases use of former national currency, the escudo. March: Parliamentary elections; PSD defeats PS and José Durão Barroso becomes prime minister. Military modernization law passed. Portugal holds chairmanship of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
       May: Municipal law passed permitting municipalities to reorganize in new ways.
       June: Prime Minister Durão Barroso, invited to succeed Romano Prodi as president of EU Commission, resigns. Pedro Santana Lopes becomes prime minister. European Parliament elections held. Conscription for national service in army and navy ended. Mass grave uncovered at Academy of Sciences Museum, Lisbon, revealing remains of several thousand victims of Lisbon earthquake, 1755.
       February: Parliamentary elections; PS defeats PSD, socialists win first absolute majority in parliament since 1975. José Sócrates becomes prime minister.
       January: Presidential elections; PSD candidate Aníbal Cavaco Silva elected and assumes presidency from Jorge Sampaio. Portugal's national soccer team ranked 7th out of 205 countries by international soccer association. European Union's Bologna Process in educational reform initiated in Portugal.
       July-December: Portugal holds presidency of the Council of the European Union. For reasons of economy, Portugal announces closure of many consulates, especially in France and the eastern US. Government begins official inspections of private institutions of higher education, following scandals.
      2008 January: Prime Minister Sócrates announces location of new Lisbon area airport as Alcochete, on south bank of Tagus River, site of air force shooting range. February: Portuguese Army begins to receive new modern battle tanks (Leopard 2 A6). March: Mass protest of 85,000 public school (primary and secondary levels) teachers in Lisbon schools dispute recent educational policies of minister of education and prime minister.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Chronology

  • 14 biblioteca de barrio

    (n.) = district library, community library
    Ex. The cooperation with public libraries, for example, takes place at the level of district libraries and includes a joint preparation of a bibliography on the development of socialist agriculture in Western Bohemia.
    Ex. This article reviews the development of community libraries and community information centres in South Africa and their potential role in information provision.
    * * *
    (n.) = district library, community library

    Ex: The cooperation with public libraries, for example, takes place at the level of district libraries and includes a joint preparation of a bibliography on the development of socialist agriculture in Western Bohemia.

    Ex: This article reviews the development of community libraries and community information centres in South Africa and their potential role in information provision.

    Spanish-English dictionary > biblioteca de barrio

  • 15 país

    m.
    country, nation, region.
    * * *
    1 country
    \
    del país local
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=nación) country

    los países miembros o participantes — the member countries

    país en desarrollo, país en vías de desarrollo — developing nation

    2) (=tierra) land, region
    3) (Arte) (=paisaje) landscape
    * * *
    a) ( unidad política) country
    b) ( ciudadanos) nation
    c) ( en ficción) land

    en un país lejano — in a distant o faraway land

    * * *
    = country, mainland, economy [economies, -pl.].
    Ex. It is less obviously effective to aim to generate a centralised cataloguing service which will cover all the materials acquired by libraries in a given country.
    Ex. Thus this code was important in catalogues on the mainland of Europe.
    Ex. Post-industrial economies are information-intensive.
    ----
    * afectar a todo el país = sweep + the country.
    * Alicia en el País de las Maravillas = Alice in Wonderland.
    * a lo largo y ancho del país = countrywide [country-wide].
    * código del país = country code.
    * compuesto de varios países = multi-country [multicountry].
    * corazón de un país = heartland.
    * de todo el país = across the land, all around the country, all over the country, from all over the country.
    * de un extremo a otro del país = cross-country.
    * de un país desarrollado = first world.
    * división de país = country division.
    * emigrantes que huyen de su país en barca o patera = boat people.
    * en el país de los ciegos el tuerto es el rey = in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
    * en el país de los ciegos el tuerto es el rey = be a case of the blind leading the blind.
    * en nuestro país = at home.
    * en todo el país = all around the country, all over the country, from all over the country, across the country.
    * entre países = transfrontier, transborder, transnational, cross-country, cross-national [cross national], cross-border.
    * entre varios países = multi-country [multicountry].
    * Liga de los Países †rabes = League of Arab States.
    * nacido en el país = native-born.
    * natural del país = native-born.
    * OPEC, la [Organización de Países Exportadores de Petróleo] = OPEC [Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries].
    * país anfitrión = host country.
    * país capitalista = capitalist country.
    * país con armas nucleares = nuclear state.
    * país cuya lengua oficial no es el inglés = non-English-speaking country.
    * país de adopción = adopted country.
    * país de Europa del Este = Eastern European country.
    * País de Gales = Wales.
    * país de las maravillas = wonderland.
    * país del Golfo Persa = Arab Gulf country, Gulf country, Arabian Gulf state, Persian Gulf country.
    * país del tercer mundo = third world country.
    * país de origen = country of origin, national origin, home country.
    * país de procedencia = country of origin.
    * país desarrollado = developed country, developed nation, advanced economy, first-world nation.
    * país en vías de desarrollo = developing country, transitional nation, transitional economy, developing nation, emerging economy, developing economy, country with developing economy.
    * países ACP = ACP countries.
    * países árabes = Arab countries.
    * Países Bajos, los = Netherlands, the, Low Countries, the.
    * países balcánicos, los = Balkans, the.
    * países bálticos, los = Baltic countries, the, Baltics, the, Baltic States, the.
    * países de la Comunidad Europea = European Communities.
    * países de la costa del Pacífico = Pacific Rim, the.
    * países en vías de desarrollo, los = developing world, the.
    * países industrializados = industrially developed countries.
    * países miembro de la Comunidad = Community partner.
    * países nórdicos, los = Nordic countries, the.
    * país exportador = exporting country.
    * país extranjero = foreign country, overseas country.
    * país extraño = foreign country.
    * país firmante = signatory country.
    * país industrializado = industrialised country, industrialised nation, industrial nation.
    * país miembro = member country.
    * país miembro de la Comunidad = Community member state.
    * país multicultural = rainbow nation.
    * país natal = back home.
    * país productor de información científica = science producer.
    * país socialista = socialist country.
    * país subdesarrollado = undeveloped country, underdeveloped nation, banana republic, mickey mouse country.
    * país subtropical = subtropical country.
    * país tercermundista = third world country, banana republic, mickey mouse country.
    * país tropical = tropical country.
    * reducción de la cuota de los países endeudados = debt relief.
    * transferencia de información entre países = transborder data flow (TBDF).
    * vender en el extranjero a precios inferiores que en el país de origen = dump.
    * visita con conferencia a varios lugares de un país = lecture tour.
    * * *
    a) ( unidad política) country
    b) ( ciudadanos) nation
    c) ( en ficción) land

    en un país lejano — in a distant o faraway land

    * * *
    = country, mainland, economy [economies, -pl.].

    Ex: It is less obviously effective to aim to generate a centralised cataloguing service which will cover all the materials acquired by libraries in a given country.

    Ex: Thus this code was important in catalogues on the mainland of Europe.
    Ex: Post-industrial economies are information-intensive.
    * afectar a todo el país = sweep + the country.
    * Alicia en el País de las Maravillas = Alice in Wonderland.
    * a lo largo y ancho del país = countrywide [country-wide].
    * código del país = country code.
    * compuesto de varios países = multi-country [multicountry].
    * corazón de un país = heartland.
    * de todo el país = across the land, all around the country, all over the country, from all over the country.
    * de un extremo a otro del país = cross-country.
    * de un país desarrollado = first world.
    * división de país = country division.
    * emigrantes que huyen de su país en barca o patera = boat people.
    * en el país de los ciegos el tuerto es el rey = in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
    * en el país de los ciegos el tuerto es el rey = be a case of the blind leading the blind.
    * en nuestro país = at home.
    * en todo el país = all around the country, all over the country, from all over the country, across the country.
    * entre países = transfrontier, transborder, transnational, cross-country, cross-national [cross national], cross-border.
    * entre varios países = multi-country [multicountry].
    * Liga de los Países †rabes = League of Arab States.
    * nacido en el país = native-born.
    * natural del país = native-born.
    * OPEC, la [Organización de Países Exportadores de Petróleo] = OPEC [Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries].
    * país anfitrión = host country.
    * país capitalista = capitalist country.
    * país con armas nucleares = nuclear state.
    * país cuya lengua oficial no es el inglés = non-English-speaking country.
    * país de adopción = adopted country.
    * país de Europa del Este = Eastern European country.
    * País de Gales = Wales.
    * país de las maravillas = wonderland.
    * país del Golfo Persa = Arab Gulf country, Gulf country, Arabian Gulf state, Persian Gulf country.
    * país del tercer mundo = third world country.
    * país de origen = country of origin, national origin, home country.
    * país de procedencia = country of origin.
    * país desarrollado = developed country, developed nation, advanced economy, first-world nation.
    * país en vías de desarrollo = developing country, transitional nation, transitional economy, developing nation, emerging economy, developing economy, country with developing economy.
    * países ACP = ACP countries.
    * países árabes = Arab countries.
    * Países Bajos, los = Netherlands, the, Low Countries, the.
    * países balcánicos, los = Balkans, the.
    * países bálticos, los = Baltic countries, the, Baltics, the, Baltic States, the.
    * países de la Comunidad Europea = European Communities.
    * países de la costa del Pacífico = Pacific Rim, the.
    * países en vías de desarrollo, los = developing world, the.
    * países industrializados = industrially developed countries.
    * países miembro de la Comunidad = Community partner.
    * países nórdicos, los = Nordic countries, the.
    * país exportador = exporting country.
    * país extranjero = foreign country, overseas country.
    * país extraño = foreign country.
    * país firmante = signatory country.
    * país industrializado = industrialised country, industrialised nation, industrial nation.
    * país miembro = member country.
    * país miembro de la Comunidad = Community member state.
    * país multicultural = rainbow nation.
    * país natal = back home.
    * país productor de información científica = science producer.
    * país socialista = socialist country.
    * país subdesarrollado = undeveloped country, underdeveloped nation, banana republic, mickey mouse country.
    * país subtropical = subtropical country.
    * país tercermundista = third world country, banana republic, mickey mouse country.
    * país tropical = tropical country.
    * reducción de la cuota de los países endeudados = debt relief.
    * transferencia de información entre países = transborder data flow (TBDF).
    * vender en el extranjero a precios inferiores que en el país de origen = dump.
    * visita con conferencia a varios lugares de un país = lecture tour.

    * * *
    El País (↑ país a1)
    A
    los países miembros the member countries
    2 (ciudadanos) nation
    se dirigió al país he addressed the nation
    el apoyo de todo el país the support of the whole nation o country
    el país de los sueños the land of Nod
    en un país lejano in a distant o faraway land
    ciego2 (↑ ciego (2))
    Compuestos:
    trading nation
    (de una persona) home country, native land; (de un producto) country of origin
    (UE) candidate countries
    (UE) Central and Eastern European Countries
    satellite, satellite nation
    B (de un abanico) covering
    * * *

     

    país sustantivo masculino



    ( de producto) country of origin;

    el Ppaís de Gales Wales;
    el Ppaís Vasco the Basque Country


    país sustantivo masculino country, land: recorrió países lejanos, he travelled around distant lands
    los países tropicales, the tropical countries
    País Valenciano, Valencia
    País Vasco, Basque Country
    Países Bajos, Netherlands pl
    ' país' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    adelantada
    - adelantado
    - añorar
    - atrasada
    - atrasado
    - atraso
    - ciudad
    - Congo
    - contarse
    - damnificada
    - damnificado
    - desarraigar
    - desarrollada
    - desarrollado
    - descomposición
    - desmembrar
    - dominar
    - dominación
    - economía
    - económica
    - económico
    - ETA
    - exilio
    - fantasma
    - feudo
    - Gales
    - hambre
    - militarista
    - moneda
    - natal
    - percance
    - productor
    - productora
    - promover
    - punta
    - puntera
    - puntero
    - refugio
    - regir
    - representar
    - sacudir
    - salir
    - satélite
    - suelo
    - tierra
    - tiniebla
    - Túnez
    - vasca
    - vasco
    - abatir
    English:
    acclaim
    - acknowledge
    - acute
    - administer
    - administration
    - affair
    - alien
    - America
    - authority
    - backward
    - Basque Country
    - betray
    - brain
    - chapter
    - characteristic
    - conception
    - country
    - cripple
    - defect
    - develop
    - developing
    - distant
    - district
    - drain
    - earthquake
    - election
    - embargo
    - envisage
    - envision
    - equality
    - expatriate
    - flag
    - foreign
    - free
    - governor
    - home
    - homegrown
    - institute
    - land
    - mainland
    - map
    - mess
    - miss
    - nationwide
    - norm
    - open up
    - overcrowded
    - overrun
    - point
    - Postmaster General
    * * *
    país (pl países) nm
    1. [nación] country;
    el país votó “no” en el referéndum the country o nation voted “no” in the referendum;
    en el país de los ciegos, el tuerto es rey in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
    los países no alineados the nonaligned countries;
    los Países Bajos the Netherlands;
    los países bálticos the Baltic States;
    países desarrollados developed countries;
    país natal native country, homeland;
    país neutral neutral country;
    país de origen country of origin;
    país de reciente industrialización newly industrialized country;
    país satélite satellite state;
    países subdesarrollados underdeveloped countries;
    el País Valenciano the autonomous region of Valencia;
    el País Vasco the Basque Country;
    países en vías de desarrollo developing countries
    2. [tierra] land;
    en un país muy lejano… in a distant o far-off land…;
    el país de nunca-jamás never-never land
    * * *
    m country;
    país en vías de desarrollo developing country;
    país productor producer country;
    país comunitario EU country;
    los Países Bajos the Netherlands
    * * *
    país nm
    1) nación: country, nation
    2) región: region, territory
    * * *
    país n country [pl. countries]

    Spanish-English dictionary > país

  • 16 bloque

    m.
    1 block (pieza).
    2 block (edificio).
    un bloque de oficinas an office block
    3 block (computing).
    4 bloc (politics).
    en bloque en masse
    5 cylinder block (Tec).
    6 frame.
    7 package.
    8 application package.
    * * *
    1 block
    2 (papel) pad, notepad
    3 PLÍTICA bloc
    \
    en bloque en bloc
    bloque de pisos block of flats
    * * *
    noun m.
    2) bloc
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=trozo) [de piedra, mármol] block; [de helado] brick

    bloque de casas — block, block of houses

    bloque de pisos — block of flats (Brit), apartment building (EEUU)

    2) (=bloqueo) [en tubo, salida] block, blockage, obstruction
    3) (Pol) bloc
    4) (Inform) block
    * * *
    1) (de piedra, hormigón) block
    2) ( edificio) block; ( manzana de edificios) (esp Esp) block

    un bloque de departamentos (AmL) or (Esp) pisos — an apartment block, a block of flats (BrE)

    3)
    a) (period) ( de noticias) section
    b) (Inf) block
    4) ( fuerza política) bloc

    el bloque del Este — (Hist) the Eastern bloc

    en bloque — (loc adv) en bloc, en masse

    5) (Auto) cylinder block
    * * *
    = bloc, slab, block, tranche.
    Ex. As the world's largest trading bloc the Community has a potent influence over world trade, including that of the United States.
    Ex. What is absolutely certain is that without some preparation by the teacher, a visitor cannot hope to achieve very much; he is in little better a position than cold fish on a marble slab.
    Ex. The technique, however, does not operate with complete messages, but rather with segments of them, broken up into blocks.
    Ex. The first tranche of NATO enlargement -- adding Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic next year -- will help stabilize an historically unstable region.
    ----
    * bloque comunista, el = Communist bloc, the.
    * bloque de apartamentos = apartment block, apartment complex, apartment building, apartment block.
    * bloque de construcción = building block.
    * bloque de datos = data bloc.
    * bloque de estanterías = bank of shelves, tier.
    * bloque de hielo flotante = pack ice.
    * bloque de hormigón = breeze block, cinder block, concrete block.
    * bloque del este, el = Eastern bloc, the.
    * bloque de madera grabada = block.
    * bloque de muchas plantas = high-rise building.
    * bloque de oficinas = office building, office block, office tower.
    * bloque de papel = pad of paper.
    * bloque de piedra = stone block.
    * bloque de pisos = block of flats, block of high-rise flats, tower block, apartment complex, apartment building, apartment block.
    * bloque de tinta = ink-block.
    * bloque funcional de análisis de contenido = subject analysis block.
    * bloque funcional de datos codificados = coded information block.
    * bloque funcional de identificación = identification block.
    * bloque funcional de información descriptiva = descriptive information block.
    * bloque funcional de notas = notes block.
    * bloque funcional de relaciones entre registros = linking entry block.
    * bloque funcional de responsabilidad intelectual = intellectual responsibility block.
    * bloque funcional de títulos relacionados = related title block.
    * bloque funcional para uso internacional = international use block.
    * bloque funcional para uso nacional = national use block.
    * bloque litográfico = letterpress block.
    * bloque mental = writer's block.
    * bloque socialista, el = socialist bloc, the, Soviet bloc, the.
    * bloque xilográfico a contrafibra = end-grain block.
    * diagrama por bloques = block diagram.
    * en bloque = en bloc.
    * reservar en bloque = block book.
    * * *
    1) (de piedra, hormigón) block
    2) ( edificio) block; ( manzana de edificios) (esp Esp) block

    un bloque de departamentos (AmL) or (Esp) pisos — an apartment block, a block of flats (BrE)

    3)
    a) (period) ( de noticias) section
    b) (Inf) block
    4) ( fuerza política) bloc

    el bloque del Este — (Hist) the Eastern bloc

    en bloque — (loc adv) en bloc, en masse

    5) (Auto) cylinder block
    * * *
    = bloc, slab, block, tranche.

    Ex: As the world's largest trading bloc the Community has a potent influence over world trade, including that of the United States.

    Ex: What is absolutely certain is that without some preparation by the teacher, a visitor cannot hope to achieve very much; he is in little better a position than cold fish on a marble slab.
    Ex: The technique, however, does not operate with complete messages, but rather with segments of them, broken up into blocks.
    Ex: The first tranche of NATO enlargement -- adding Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic next year -- will help stabilize an historically unstable region.
    * bloque comunista, el = Communist bloc, the.
    * bloque de apartamentos = apartment block, apartment complex, apartment building, apartment block.
    * bloque de construcción = building block.
    * bloque de datos = data bloc.
    * bloque de estanterías = bank of shelves, tier.
    * bloque de hielo flotante = pack ice.
    * bloque de hormigón = breeze block, cinder block, concrete block.
    * bloque del este, el = Eastern bloc, the.
    * bloque de madera grabada = block.
    * bloque de muchas plantas = high-rise building.
    * bloque de oficinas = office building, office block, office tower.
    * bloque de papel = pad of paper.
    * bloque de piedra = stone block.
    * bloque de pisos = block of flats, block of high-rise flats, tower block, apartment complex, apartment building, apartment block.
    * bloque de tinta = ink-block.
    * bloque funcional de análisis de contenido = subject analysis block.
    * bloque funcional de datos codificados = coded information block.
    * bloque funcional de identificación = identification block.
    * bloque funcional de información descriptiva = descriptive information block.
    * bloque funcional de notas = notes block.
    * bloque funcional de relaciones entre registros = linking entry block.
    * bloque funcional de responsabilidad intelectual = intellectual responsibility block.
    * bloque funcional de títulos relacionados = related title block.
    * bloque funcional para uso internacional = international use block.
    * bloque funcional para uso nacional = national use block.
    * bloque litográfico = letterpress block.
    * bloque mental = writer's block.
    * bloque socialista, el = socialist bloc, the, Soviet bloc, the.
    * bloque xilográfico a contrafibra = end-grain block.
    * diagrama por bloques = block diagram.
    * en bloque = en bloc.
    * reservar en bloque = block book.

    * * *
    A (de piedra, hormigón) block
    B (edificio) block; (conjunto de casas) housing complex (built around central space, lawn, etc)
    un bloque de apartamentos or ( Esp) pisos an apartment block, a block of flats ( BrE)
    un bloque de apartamentos or ( Esp) pisos de alquiler tenement block
    C
    1 ( period) (de noticias) section
    2 ( Inf) block
    el bloque del Este ( Hist) the Eastern bloc
    en bloque ( loc adv) en bloc, en masse
    Compuesto:
    trading bloc
    E ( Auto) cylinder block
    * * *

    Del verbo blocar: ( conjugate blocar)

    bloqué es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) pretérito indicativo

    bloque es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente subjuntivo

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente subjuntivo

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    blocar    
    bloque
    bloque sustantivo masculino
    1 (de piedra, hormigón) block
    2 ( edificio) block;
    un bloque de departamentos (AmL) or (Esp) pisos an apartment block, a block of flats (BrE)
    3 (Inf) block
    4 ( fuerza política) bloc;

    bloque sustantivo masculino
    1 (trozo grande) block
    2 (edificio) block
    3 Pol bloc: el bloque conservador votó en contra de la enmienda, the Conservative Bloc voted against the amendment
    ♦ Locuciones: en bloque: la propuesta fue rechazada en bloque, the proposal was rejected in its entirety
    los ciudadanos respondieron en bloque, people reacted as one
    ' bloque' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    conserje
    - conserjería
    - este
    - vivienda
    English:
    amenities
    - apartment
    - bloc
    - block
    - erect
    - high-rise
    - office block
    - slab
    - strength
    - tower
    * * *
    ♦ nm
    1. [pieza] block
    2. [edificio] block;
    un bloque de apartamentos Br a block of flats, US an apartment block;
    un bloque de oficinas an office block
    3. [de noticias, anuncios] section
    4. Informát block
    5. Pol bloc;
    en bloque en masse
    Hist el bloque del Este the Eastern bloc
    6. Tec
    bloque (de cilindros) cylinder block
    7. Dep [equipo] unit;
    dieron una pobre impresión de bloque they didn't play as a unit
    * * *
    m
    1 de piedra block
    2 POL bloc;
    en bloque en masse
    * * *
    bloque nm
    1) : block
    2) grupo: bloc
    el bloque comunista: the Communist bloc
    * * *
    bloque n block

    Spanish-English dictionary > bloque

  • 17 unión

    f.
    1 union, concord, togetherness.
    2 union, binding, binding together, linkage.
    3 union, labor union, trade union.
    4 link, bonding, join, bond.
    5 union, coalition, league.
    6 union, adherence, cling, coalescence.
    7 junction, bind.
    8 henosis, junctura.
    * * *
    1 union
    \
    en unión de together with
    la unión hace la fuerza there is strength in numbers
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=acción)
    a) [de puntos, extremos] joining together; [de empresas] merger

    la operación consiste en la unión de los extremos del hueso fracturado — the operation consists of joining together the two ends of the fractured bone

    b)

    en unión con o de — (=acompañado de) together with, along with; (=en asociación con) in association with, together with

    la construcción del centro fue concedida a Unitex, en unión con otra empresa — the contract to build the centre was awarded to Unitex, in association with another firm

    2) (=cualidad) unity
    3) (=organización)

    Unión General de Trabajadores — Esp socialist union confederation

    Unión Soviética — ( Hist) Soviet Union

    4) [de pareja] (=matrimonio) union
    5) (Mec) joint
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( acción)
    b) ( agrupación) association
    c) la Unión Americana (Méx) (Period) ( Estados Unidos) the United States
    2) ( relación) union, relationship; ( matrimonio) union, marriage
    3) ( juntura) joint
    * * *
    = coming together, joining together, linkage, confounding, piecing together, union, junction, marriage, togetherness, bringing together, conjoining.
    Ex. Knowledge generally evolves from an identifiable base, and often new subjects arise from the coming together of two previously separate subjects.
    Ex. Such schemes are essentially analytical in nature, but do not permit any synthesis or joining together of concepts that have been divided from one another.
    Ex. We have just stated that the linkage of varying titles and varying forms of entry have to be done on the same basis in an automated situation as in a manual situation.
    Ex. The confounding of opposites is also common though, again, care has to be taken to see that we do not confound two subjects on which extensive literature exists.
    Ex. Progress in research is dependent on the piecing together of items of information from many sources.
    Ex. By such mutual assistance, the wits and endeavours of the world may no longer be as so many scattered coals, or firebrands, which, for want of union are soon quenched, whereas, being but laid together, they would have yielded a comfortable light and heat.
    Ex. People value the public library highly as an educational and community resource and the library acts as an 'information junction' to bind the community together.
    Ex. Multimedia encyclopedias on CD-ROM are a nearly perfect marriage of technology and content.
    Ex. Mayo maintained that workers are motivated by ' togetherness' and crave individual recognition within the group = Mayo mantenía que los trabajadores se motivan por la solidaridad y anhelan el reconocimiento individual dentro del grupo.
    Ex. I have already mentioned that the bringing together of the various editions is the real problem.
    Ex. This sign is in effect a prototypical example of the conjoining of words and images.
    ----
    * falta de unión = disunity.
    * la unión hace la fuerza = strength in numbers, strength in numbers.
    * unión civil = civil union.
    * unión monetaria = monetary union.
    * Unión Monetaria Europea (UME) = European Monetary Union (EMU).
    * unión política = political union.
    * Unión Soviética, la = Soviet Union, the, USSR, the.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( acción)
    b) ( agrupación) association
    c) la Unión Americana (Méx) (Period) ( Estados Unidos) the United States
    2) ( relación) union, relationship; ( matrimonio) union, marriage
    3) ( juntura) joint
    * * *
    = coming together, joining together, linkage, confounding, piecing together, union, junction, marriage, togetherness, bringing together, conjoining.

    Ex: Knowledge generally evolves from an identifiable base, and often new subjects arise from the coming together of two previously separate subjects.

    Ex: Such schemes are essentially analytical in nature, but do not permit any synthesis or joining together of concepts that have been divided from one another.
    Ex: We have just stated that the linkage of varying titles and varying forms of entry have to be done on the same basis in an automated situation as in a manual situation.
    Ex: The confounding of opposites is also common though, again, care has to be taken to see that we do not confound two subjects on which extensive literature exists.
    Ex: Progress in research is dependent on the piecing together of items of information from many sources.
    Ex: By such mutual assistance, the wits and endeavours of the world may no longer be as so many scattered coals, or firebrands, which, for want of union are soon quenched, whereas, being but laid together, they would have yielded a comfortable light and heat.
    Ex: People value the public library highly as an educational and community resource and the library acts as an 'information junction' to bind the community together.
    Ex: Multimedia encyclopedias on CD-ROM are a nearly perfect marriage of technology and content.
    Ex: Mayo maintained that workers are motivated by ' togetherness' and crave individual recognition within the group = Mayo mantenía que los trabajadores se motivan por la solidaridad y anhelan el reconocimiento individual dentro del grupo.
    Ex: I have already mentioned that the bringing together of the various editions is the real problem.
    Ex: This sign is in effect a prototypical example of the conjoining of words and images.
    * falta de unión = disunity.
    * la unión hace la fuerza = strength in numbers, strength in numbers.
    * unión civil = civil union.
    * unión monetaria = monetary union.
    * Unión Monetaria Europea (UME) = European Monetary Union (EMU).
    * unión política = political union.
    * Unión Soviética, la = Soviet Union, the, USSR, the.

    * * *
    A
    1
    (acción): la unión de las dos empresas the merger of the two companies
    con la unión de nuestros esfuerzos by combining our efforts
    la unión de estos factores the combination of these factors
    la unión hace la fuerza united we stand
    2 (agrupación) association
    3
    la Unión Americana ( Méx) (Estados Unidos) the United States, the States ( colloq)
    B (relación) union, relationship; (matrimonio) union, marriage
    de esta unión nacieron dos hijos two children were born of this union
    C (juntura) joint
    Compuestos:
    (homosexual) ≈ civil partnership; (heterosexual) ≈ couple in a stable relationship ( who acquire legal rights and responsibilities)
    ( AmL) unmarried union; cohabitation
    (UE) Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe
    (UE) Economic and Monetary Union
    European Union
    (UE)
    Western European Union
    ( Hist) Soviet Union
    * * *

     

    unión sustantivo femenino
    1
    a) ( acción):


    la unión de estos factores the combination of these factors

    c)


    2 ( relación) union, relationship;
    ( matrimonio) union, marriage
    3 ( juntura) joint
    unión sustantivo femenino
    1 (coalición) union
    Unión Europea, European Union
    2 (asociación) association
    unión de consumidores, consumers' association
    3 (cohesión) unity
    4 (matrimonio, ligazón) union
    5 (juntura) joint
    ' unión' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abogada
    - abogado
    - camaradería
    - cohabitación
    - conflictividad
    - fracturar
    - revigorizar
    - sindical
    - sindicarse
    - sindicato
    - soldadura
    - UE
    - UEFA
    - unidad
    - URSS
    - alianza
    - casamiento
    - conjunción
    - empate
    - enlace
    - gremial
    - gremio
    - llamar
    - sindicalismo
    - sindicalizarse
    - Unión Europea
    - Unión Soviética
    - vínculo
    English:
    connection
    - EMU
    - EU
    - European Union
    - inflame
    - intervene
    - mating
    - membership
    - mismatch
    - rep
    - togetherness
    - trade union
    - trades union
    - union
    - Union Jack
    - belong
    - blue
    - capacity
    - European
    - join
    - joint
    - labor union
    - marriage
    - official
    - rank
    - shop
    - Soviet
    - student
    - trade
    - TUC
    - USSR
    * * *
    unión nf
    1. [asociación] union;
    en unión con o [m5]de together with;
    acudió a la ceremonia en unión de su familia she attended the ceremony together with her family
    unión aduanera customs union;
    Unión Africana African Union;
    Méx la Unión Americana the United States;
    la Unión Europea the European Union;
    Unión Monetaria Monetary Union;
    Antes Unión Soviética Soviet Union
    2. [acción] joining, union;
    un compuesto es el resultado de la unión de dos palabras a compound is the result of the joining of two words;
    la unión de las dos empresas the union o merger of the two companies
    3. [juntura, adherimiento] join, joint
    4. [cohesión] unity;
    hay que potenciar la unión entre los ciudadanos we must foster a sense of unity among citizens;
    la unión hace la fuerza unity is strength
    5. [matrimonio] marriage, union
    unión de hecho unmarried couple
    * * *
    f
    1 union;
    la unión hace la fuerza united we stand
    2 TÉC joint
    * * *
    unión nf, pl uniones
    1) : union
    2) juntura: joint, coupling
    * * *
    1. (enlace) union
    2. (unidad) unity

    Spanish-English dictionary > unión

  • 18 społeczeństwo

    - wa; -wa; loc sg - wie; nt

    społeczeństwo polskie — ( ogół Polaków) the Polish people; ( struktura) Polish society

    * * *
    n.
    society, community, public; społeczeństwo klasowe/bezklasowe class/classless society; społeczeństwo wielorasowe multiracial society; społeczeństwo demokratyczne democratic society; społeczeństwo kapitalistyczne capitalist society; społeczeństwo socjalistyczne socialist society; społeczeństwo burżuazyjne bourgeois society; społeczeństwo feudalne feudal society; społeczeństwo masowe mass society; społeczeństwo obywatelskie civic l. citizen society; społeczeństwo prymitywne primitive l. primeval l. primordial society; społeczeństwo konsumpcyjne consumer society; społeczeństwo niepiśmienne oral society; dobro społeczeństwa social welfare; ogół społeczeństwa the general public, the community l. society l. public at large; wyrzutek społeczeństwa outcast, down-and-out; struktura społeczeństwa social fabric, structure l. fabric of society; być poza nawiasem społeczeństwa be outside l. beyond the pale of society; na marginesie społeczeństwa on the margin of society; sfery społeczeństwa sectors of society; społeczeństwo uprzemysłowione industrial society; społeczeństwo owadów ent. insect community.

    The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > społeczeństwo

  • 19 vida

    f.
    1 life (existencia).
    en vida de during the life o lifetime of
    estar con vida to be alive
    perder la vida to lose one's life
    quitar la vida a alguien to kill somebody
    ¿qué es de tu vida? how's life?
    vida amorosa love life
    vida campestre country life
    la vida estudiantil student life
    vida eterna eternal life
    vida de familia family life
    vida laboral working life
    vida matrimonial married life
    vida privada private life
    vida sana clean living
    vida sentimental love life
    vida sexual sex life
    vida social social life
    vida útil shelf life
    2 life span, life span of person, duration.
    3 livelihood, subsistence.
    4 cost of living.
    5 Vida.
    * * *
    1 (gen) life
    2 (viveza) liveliness
    3 (tiempo) lifetime, life
    4 (modo de vivir) life, way of life
    5 (medios) living, livelihood
    \
    amargarle la vida a alguien to make somebody's life a misery
    ¡así es la vida! such is life!, that's life!
    cambiar de vida to change one's life style
    como si le fuera la vida en ello as if his life depended on it
    costarle algo la vida a alguien to pay with one's life
    dar la vida por to give one's life for, give one's right arm for
    dar vida a (parir) to give birth to 2 (realizar) to bring to life
    darse la gran vida / pegarse la gran vida / darse la vida padre familiar to live it up
    debatirse entre la vida y la muerte to fight for one's life
    de por vida for life
    de toda la vida lifelong
    echarse a la vida familiar to go on the game, become a prostitute
    en la flor de la vida in the prime of life
    en mi (tu, su, etc) vida never in my (your, his, etc) life
    en vida de during the life of
    escapar con vida / salir con vida to come out alive, survive
    estar con vida / estar sin vida to be alive / be dead
    ¡esto es vida! / ¡esto sí que es vida! this is the life!
    ganarse la vida to earn one's living
    hacerle la vida imposible a alguien to make life impossible for somebody
    llevar una vida agitada / llevar una vida tranquila to lead a busy life / lead a quiet life
    pagar alguien con su vida to pay with one's life
    ¿qué es de tu vida? how are things?
    quitarle la vida a alguien to take somebody's life
    ¡vida mía! / ¡mi vida! my love!, darling!
    la otra vida the next life
    señales de vida signs of life
    vida de perros dog's life
    vida familiar family life
    vida íntima private life
    vida sentimental love life
    * * *
    noun f.
    1) life
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=existencia) life

    está escribiendo la vida de Quevedo — he is writing the life o a life o a biography of Quevedo

    ¿qué es de tu vida? — what's new?, how's life?

    • con vida — alive

    escapar o salir con vida — to escape o come out alive

    •en vida de, en vida de mi marido — when my husband was alive, during my husband's lifetime

    ¡en la o mi vida! — never (in all my life)!

    • vida o muerte, una operación a vida o muerte — a life-or-death operation

    • la otra vida — the next life

    • perder la vida — to lose one's life

    • de por vida — for life

    • quitar la vida a algn — to take sb's life

    • quitarse la vida — to take one's own life

    • rehacer la vida — to start a new life

    • sin vida — lifeless

    un cuerpo sin vida — a (dead) body, a corpse

    • toda la vida, un amigo de toda la vida — a lifelong friend

    esperanza
    2) (=forma de vivir) life

    • la vida airada — (=modo de vida) the criminal life; (=hampa) the underworld

    de vida airada — loose-living, immoral

    • mujer de vida alegre — loose woman

    • la vida cotidiana — everyday life

    • doble vida — double life

    llevar una doble vida — to lead o live a double life

    • hacer vida marital — to live together (as man and wife)

    • mala vida, echarse a la mala vida — to go astray

    vida de perros, vida perra — dog's life, wretched life

    3) (=sustento)

    • coste de la vida — cost of living

    • ganarse la vida — to earn o make one's living

    se gana la vida haciendo traducciones — he earns o makes his living doing translations

    • nivel de vida — standard of living

    buscar 3.
    4) [de objeto]

    vida útil — (Com) lifespan; (Téc) useful life

    5)
    - ¡por vida del chápiro verde!

    contar la vida —

    ¡no me cuentes tu vida! — I don't want your life story!

    costarle la vida a algn —

    dar vida a algn —

    - hacer por la vida

    pasarse la vida —

    pasar la vida a tragos — *to have a miserable life

    - tener siete vidas como los gatos
    vivir 2., 1)
    6) (=vitalidad)

    lleno de vida — [ojos] lively; [persona] full of life

    • dar vida a, la música le da vida a estas imágenes — the music brings these images to life

    ¡vida!, ¡vida mía! — my love!, my darling!

    8) euf
    (=prostitución)
    * * *
    1)
    a) (Biol) life

    140 personas perdieron la vida — (period) 140 people lost their lives (journ)

    eso le costó la vida — (period) that cost him his life

    dieron la vida por la patria — they gave o sacrificed their lives for their country

    b) (viveza, vitalidad) life

    le falta vida — it's/she's/he's not very lively

    en la/mi vida: en la or en mi vida he visto cosa igual! I've never seen anything like it in my life!; en la or mi vida haría una cosa así! I'd never dream of doing something like that!; hacerle la vida imposible a alguien to make somebody's life impossible; tener siete vidas — to have nine lives

    3)
    a) (manera de vivir, actividades) life

    ¿qué es de tu vida? — what have you been up to?

    hace or vive su vida — he gets on with o lives his own life

    (así) es la vida! — that's life, such is life

    estar/quedar loco de la vida — (CS fam) to be over the moon (colloq)

    la vida y milagros de alguien — (CS fam) somebody's life story

    pasar a mejor vida — (hum) persona to kick the bucket (colloq); traje/botas to bite the dust (colloq)

    c) ( biografía) life

    buscarse la vida — (fam) to make a living

    5) ( como apelativo) darling
    * * *
    = life [lives, -pl.], life story, lifeblood, lifetime [life time], living, life's work, lifework, life and limb.
    Ex. We are comfortable with the things we know and can do because they give us a sense of control over our lives.
    Ex. This study attempts to illustrate and illuminate the life story of a remarkable pioneering woman, Tryn Ras, using pictorial sources.
    Ex. Since libraries are the lifeblood of research, it seems only fitting then that the education of librarians should include familiarity with research methodology.
    Ex. Bibliography and Library science reflect the changes that took place in Bliss's lifetime.
    Ex. They seem to regard literature as a secondary experience, more akin to being a peeping Tom, an impotent voyeur, rather than being one of the healthy, active people who get on with real living.
    Ex. Evelyn Bliss devoted his life's work to the study of classification and BC is the results of his efforts.
    Ex. This is an eloquent, moving testament to the lifework of a major artist of unimpeachable technique and passion.
    Ex. This is a special issue devoted partly to the theme: Life and limb: issues of security and safety.
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    * abrirse camino en la vida = get on in + life.
    * acabar + Posesivo + vida útil = run towards + the end of + Posesivo + useful life.
    * acortar + Posesivo + vida = cut + Posesivo + life short.
    * actitud ante la vida = approach to life.
    * a favor de la vida humana = pro-life.
    * agotar + Posesivo + vida útil = run towards + the end of + Posesivo + useful life.
    * ahorros de toda la vida = life-time savings, life savings.
    * ahorros de toda una vida = life savings.
    * alargar la vida = prolong + life, prolong + longevity.
    * alegrar la vida a Alguien = brighten up + Posesivo + life.
    * al igual que con todo en la vida = as with everything in life.
    * amante de la vida al aire libre = outdoor enthusiast.
    * apostarse la vida = bet + Posesivo + life.
    * aprendizaje a lo largo de la vida = lifelong learning.
    * aprendizaje durante toda la vida = lifelong education.
    * arreglar + Posesivo + vida = put + Posesivo + (own) house in order.
    * arriesgar la vida = risk + life and limb, play + Russian roulette, risk + Posesivo + life.
    * arriesgar + Posesivo + vida = put + Posesivo + life on the line.
    * aspectos de la vida = sphere of life.
    * atentar contra la vida de Alguien = attempt on + Posesivo + life.
    * atraído por la promesa de una vida mejor = drawn by the promise of a better life.
    * aunque me fuera la vida ene ello = for the life of me.
    * autoaprendizaje durante toda la vida = lifelong learning.
    * buena vida = good life.
    * calidad de vida = quality of life.
    * cambiar la vida = change + life.
    * cambiar + Posesivo + vida = turn + Posesivo + life around.
    * ciencias de la vida = biosciences.
    * ciencias de la vida, las = life sciences, the.
    * ciencias sobre la vida en el espacio = space life sciences.
    * circunstancias de la vida = accident of birth.
    * cobrarse la vida de Alguien = claim + life.
    * cobrarse muchas vidas = take + a heavy toll of life.
    * cobrar vida = come + alive, come to + life.
    * comenzar una nueva vida = make + a new life for + Reflexivo.
    * como con todo en la vida = as with everything in life.
    * como forma de vida = as a way of life.
    * como si + Pronombre + fuese la vida en ello = like there's no tomorrow.
    * compañero de vida = lifemate.
    * compañía aseguradora de vida = life-insurance company.
    * compañía de seguros de vida = life-insurance company.
    * complicarse la vida = ask for + trouble.
    * condicionar la vida = condition + life.
    * condiciones de vida = living conditions.
    * conocer vida = see + the world.
    * contar + Posesivo + propia vida y milagros = spill + Posesivo + guts.
    * costar la vida = cost + life.
    * coste de la vida = cost of living.
    * coste de vidas humanas = human cost.
    * crearse una vida = build + life.
    * crucial para la vida de una persona = lifesaving.
    * cuerpo sin vida = dead body.
    * cuestión de vida o muerte = life or death issue.
    * culto a la vida = cult of life.
    * dar la vida = lay down + Posesivo + life, give + Posesivo + life.
    * dar nueva vida = give + Nombre + new life, give + a second life.
    * dar + Posesivo + vida = give + Posesivo + all.
    * dar sentido a la vida = give + meaning to life.
    * dar sentido a + Posesivo + vida = make + sense of + Posesivo + life.
    * dar señales de vida = show + signs of life.
    * dar una segunda vida = give + a second life.
    * dar vida = imbue with + life, animate, bring to + life.
    * dar vida a = jazz up, brighten up, give + life to.
    * dar vida a Algo = bring + Nombre + to life.
    * dedicar la vida a = devote + life to.
    * dedicar toda una vida = spend + lifetime.
    * defensor de la vida humana = pro-lifer.
    * de la vida real = real-life.
    * de por vida = lifelong [life-long], lifetime [life-time].
    * derecho a la vida = right to live.
    * desquiciar + Posesivo + vida = turn + Posesivo + life upside down.
    * de toda la vida = lifelong [life-long].
    * de vida enclaustrada = cloistered.
    * de vida o muerte = lifesaving, life threatening.
    * devolver el sentido a la vida = put + meaning + back in + Posesivo + life.
    * devolver la vida = bring + Nombre + back to life.
    * disfrutar de la vida = sail through + life.
    * diversidad de la vida = biodiversity, diversity of life, life-form diversity.
    * durante toda la vida = lifelong [life-long].
    * durante toda una vida = over a lifetime.
    * durar toda una vida = go on + for a lifetime, last + (for) a lifetime.
    * el amor de + Posesivo + vida = the love of + Posesivo + life.
    * empezar una nueva etapa en la vida = turn over + a new page, turn over + a new leaf.
    * encarcelar de por vida = jail for + life.
    * en el transcurso normal de + Posesivo + vida(s) = in the normal course of + Posesivo + life/lives.
    * enfrentarse a la vida = cope with + life, face + life, cope.
    * en la vida real = in real life.
    * en los primeros años de vida = early in life.
    * en + Posesivo + vida = in + Posesivo + time.
    * enriquecer la vida de Alguien = enrich + Posesivo + life.
    * entregar + Posesivo + vida, = give + Posesivo + all.
    * equipo de mantenimiento artificial de la vida = life-support system.
    * esperanza de vida = life expectancy, lifespan [life span].
    * estilo de vida = lifestyle [life style/life-style], style of life, way of life.
    * estilo de vida alternativo = alternative life-style.
    * etapa de la vida = life stage.
    * expectativas de vida = life expectancy.
    * experiencia de la vida = experience of life.
    * facilitarle la vida a todos = simplify + life for everyone.
    * filosofía de vida = philosophy of life.
    * forma de vida = way of life.
    * ganarse la vida = earn + a living, make + a living, earn + income, earn + Posesivo + living, make + Posesivo + living, Verbo + for a living.
    * ganarse la vida a duras penas = eke out + a living, scratch (out) + a living, scrape + a living, eke out + an existence.
    * habilidades necesarias para la vida cotidiana = life skills.
    * hábitos de vida = lifestyle [life style/life-style].
    * hacer frente a la vida = cope.
    * hacer la vida imposible = make + life hell.
    * hacerle la vida más simple a todos = simplify + life for everyone.
    * hacer que la vida sea un infierno = make + life hell.
    * hacerse un hueco en la vida = get on in + life.
    * hacer vida social = socialise [socialize, -USA].
    * historia de vida = life history.
    * índice del coste de (la) vida = cost of living index.
    * índice del costo de (la) vida = cost of living index.
    * infundir nueva vida a = breathe + (new) life into.
    * inmiscuirse en la vida de Alguien = intrude on + Posesivo + privacy.
    * jugarse la vida = play + Russian roulette, risk + Posesivo + life, risk + life and limb, bet + Posesivo + life.
    * la oportunidad de + Posesivo + vida = the opportunity of a lifetime.
    * la vida continúa = the show must go on.
    * la vida + continuar = life + go on.
    * la vida es así = life's like that.
    * ¡la vida no es un camino de rosas! = the course of true love never did run smooth!.
    * la vida + seguir = life + go on.
    * ley de vida = fact of life, laws of nature.
    * lienzo de la vida, el = canvas of life, the.
    * línea de vida = lifeline.
    * lisiado de por vida = lamed for life.
    * lisiar a Alguien de por vida = lame + Nombre + for life.
    * llegar al final de su vida útil = come to + the end of + Posesivo + useful life, reach + the end of + Posesivo + useful life.
    * lleno de vida = vibrant, feisty [feistier -comp., feistiest -sup.], spry [spryer comp., spryest -sup.], sprightly [sprightlier -comp., sprightliest -sup.], spirited, teeming with life, vivacious, ebullient, saucy [saucier -comp., sauciest -sup.].
    * llevar una vida + Ajetivo = lead + an + Adjetivo + existence.
    * llevar una vida arriesgada = live + dangerously, live + dangerously close to the edge.
    * llevar una vida de perros = lead + a dog's life.
    * llevar una vida miserable = live + wretched existence.
    * mantener la vida = sustain + life.
    * mantenimiento artificial de la vida = life support.
    * mejorar la calidad de vida = improve + living standards, raise + living standards.
    * mejorar + Posesivo + calidad de vida = raise + Posesivo + quality of living.
    * mejorar + Posesivo + vida = improve + Posesivo + life.
    * meterse en la vida de Alguien = intrude on + Posesivo + privacy.
    * mientras hay vida hay esperanza = where there's life there's hope.
    * modo de vida = way of life.
    * modo de vida tradicional = folklife.
    * muerto en vida = living dead.
    * nada en la vida es gratuito = you cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs.
    * nivel de vida = standard of living, living standard.
    * no tener vida privada = like being in a (gold)fish bowl.
    * nueva vida = greener pastures, pastures new.
    * oportunidad única en la vida = chance of a lifetime.
    * otra vida, la = afterlife [after-life].
    * para toda la vida = lifelong [life-long], for life.
    * pasar a mejor vida = bite + the dust, give up + the ghost.
    * pasar a vida mejor = lay + Nombre + low.
    * perder la vida = lose + Posesivo + life.
    * pérdida de vidas = loss of life, toll on life.
    * perdonar la vida = spare + life.
    * permanecer con vida = stay + alive.
    * pletórico de vida = teeming with life.
    * poner en peligro la vida = risk + Posesivo + life, risk + life and limb.
    * poner la vida en peligro = put + Posesivo + life at risk.
    * por toda la vida = lifetime [life-time].
    * por toda una vida = lifetime [life-time].
    * posteriormente en + Posesivo + vida = in later life.
    * problemas de la vida = life problems [life-problems].
    * prolongar la vida = prolong + life, prolong + longevity.
    * prolongar la vida útil = extend + the useful life, prolong + useful life, increase + useful life.
    * que cambia la vida = life-changing, life-altering.
    * que da vida = life-giving.
    * que mejora la calidad de vida = life-enhancing.
    * que pone la vida en peligro = life threatening.
    * quitarse la vida = take + Posesivo + (own) life.
    * rebosante de vida y energía = all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
    * reconstruir + Posesivo + vida = rebuild + Posesivo + life.
    * reformar + Posesivo + vida = reform + Posesivo + life.
    * régimen de vida = lifestyle [life style/life-style].
    * rehacer + Posesivo + vida = rebuild + Posesivo + life.
    * salir adelante en la vida, = get on in + life.
    * salvar la vida = save + life.
    * salvar la vida de milagro = have + a close shave with death.
    * secreto de la vida, el = secret of life, the.
    * seguir con + Posesivo + vida normal = get on with + Posesivo + life.
    * seguro de vida = life insurance.
    * seguro de vida a término = term life insurance.
    * seguro de vida vitalicio = whole life insurance.
    * sentido de la vida, el = meaning of life, the.
    * sentido de la vida y al muerte, el = meaning of life and death, the.
    * ser todo vida = be all life.
    * situaciones de la vida = life situations [life-situations].
    * soplo de vida = kiss of life.
    * tener éxito en la vida = succeed in + life, get on in + life.
    * tener una vida larga y próspera = live + long and prosper.
    * toda la vida = from the cradle to the grave, whole lifelong, whole life.
    * toda una vida = a lifetime.
    * toda una vida de experiencia = a lifetime of experience.
    * toda una vida de trabajo = a lifetime of work.
    * trabajo de toda una vida = life's work, lifework.
    * triunfar en la vida = succeed in + life.
    * truncar + Posesivo + vida = snip + Posesivo + life short, cut + Posesivo + life short.
    * una cuestión de vida o muerte = a matter of life and death.
    * una oportunidad única en la vida = once in a lifetime opportunity.
    * una vez en la vida = once in a lifetime.
    * una vez en + Posesivo + vida = once in + Posesivo + lifetime.
    * ver las cosas positivas de la vida = look on + the bright side of life.
    * vida acuática = aquatic life.
    * vida afectiva = love life.
    * vida amorosa = love life.
    * vida animal = animal life.
    * vida a toda pastilla = life in the fast lane.
    * vida + cambiar por completo = turn + Posesivo + life around.
    * vida cívica = civic life.
    * vida civil = civic life.
    * vida como trabajador = working life.
    * vida corporativa = corporate life.
    * vida cotidiana = daily life, everyday living, daily living.
    * vida cotidiana, la = day to day life, the, everyday life.
    * vida cultural = cultural life.
    * vida + dar un giro de 180 grados = turn + Posesivo + life around.
    * vida + dar un vuelco = turn + Posesivo + life upside down.
    * vida de archivo = archival life.
    * vida de, la = life nerve of, the.
    * vida de la ciudad = urban life, city life.
    * vida de la comunidad = community life.
    * vida del mundo literario = literary life.
    * vida de perros = a dog's life.
    * vida desenfrenada = life in the fast lane.
    * vida desequilibrada = unbalanced life, imbalanced life.
    * vida después de la muerte = afterlife [after-life].
    * vida diaria = daily life.
    * vida diaria, la = everyday life.
    * vida dilatada = long life.
    * vida disoluta = life in the fast lane, loose life.
    * vida doméstica = domestic life, home life.
    * vida emocional = emotional life.
    * vida en el campo = rural life.
    * vida en el entorno familiar = family life.
    * vida en el hogar = home life.
    * vida en el trabajo = job life.
    * vida entera, la = whole lifelong, whole life.
    * vida equilibrada = balanced life.
    * vida espiritual = spiritual life.
    * vida + expirar = life + expire.
    * vida extraterrestre = alien life.
    * vida fácil = fast living.
    * vida familiar = family life.
    * vida futura = future life.
    * vida humana = human life.
    * vida laboral = working life.
    * vida literaria = literary life.
    * vida marítima = seafaring.
    * vida media = half-life.
    * vida mejor = better life.
    * vida moderna, la = modern life.
    * vida nocturna = nightlife, night life.
    * vida or muerte = life or death.
    * vida pasada = previous life.
    * vida + pender + de un hilo = live on + the line.
    * vida personal = personal life.
    * vida privada = private life.
    * vida profesional = professional life.
    * vida pública = public life.
    * vida real = real life.
    * vida rural = rural life.
    * vida salvaje = wildlife.
    * vida sana = healthy life.
    * vida sentimental = love life.
    * vida sexual = sex life.
    * vida social = social life.
    * vida urbana = city life, urban life.
    * vida útil = lifetime [life time], life expectancy, lifespan [life span], useful life, shelf life, service life.
    * vida útil de un documento = shelf life.
    * vida vegetal = plant life.
    * vivir la vida al máximo = live + life to the full.
    * volver a la vida normal = get (back) into + the swings of things.
    * vuelta a la vida = resuscitation, resurrection.
    * * *
    1)
    a) (Biol) life

    140 personas perdieron la vida — (period) 140 people lost their lives (journ)

    eso le costó la vida — (period) that cost him his life

    dieron la vida por la patria — they gave o sacrificed their lives for their country

    b) (viveza, vitalidad) life

    le falta vida — it's/she's/he's not very lively

    en la/mi vida: en la or en mi vida he visto cosa igual! I've never seen anything like it in my life!; en la or mi vida haría una cosa así! I'd never dream of doing something like that!; hacerle la vida imposible a alguien to make somebody's life impossible; tener siete vidas — to have nine lives

    3)
    a) (manera de vivir, actividades) life

    ¿qué es de tu vida? — what have you been up to?

    hace or vive su vida — he gets on with o lives his own life

    (así) es la vida! — that's life, such is life

    estar/quedar loco de la vida — (CS fam) to be over the moon (colloq)

    la vida y milagros de alguien — (CS fam) somebody's life story

    pasar a mejor vida — (hum) persona to kick the bucket (colloq); traje/botas to bite the dust (colloq)

    c) ( biografía) life

    buscarse la vida — (fam) to make a living

    5) ( como apelativo) darling
    * * *
    = life [lives, -pl.], life story, lifeblood, lifetime [life time], living, life's work, lifework, life and limb.

    Ex: We are comfortable with the things we know and can do because they give us a sense of control over our lives.

    Ex: This study attempts to illustrate and illuminate the life story of a remarkable pioneering woman, Tryn Ras, using pictorial sources.
    Ex: Since libraries are the lifeblood of research, it seems only fitting then that the education of librarians should include familiarity with research methodology.
    Ex: Bibliography and Library science reflect the changes that took place in Bliss's lifetime.
    Ex: They seem to regard literature as a secondary experience, more akin to being a peeping Tom, an impotent voyeur, rather than being one of the healthy, active people who get on with real living.
    Ex: Evelyn Bliss devoted his life's work to the study of classification and BC is the results of his efforts.
    Ex: This is an eloquent, moving testament to the lifework of a major artist of unimpeachable technique and passion.
    Ex: This is a special issue devoted partly to the theme: Life and limb: issues of security and safety.
    * abrirse camino en la vida = get on in + life.
    * acabar + Posesivo + vida útil = run towards + the end of + Posesivo + useful life.
    * acortar + Posesivo + vida = cut + Posesivo + life short.
    * actitud ante la vida = approach to life.
    * a favor de la vida humana = pro-life.
    * agotar + Posesivo + vida útil = run towards + the end of + Posesivo + useful life.
    * ahorros de toda la vida = life-time savings, life savings.
    * ahorros de toda una vida = life savings.
    * alargar la vida = prolong + life, prolong + longevity.
    * alegrar la vida a Alguien = brighten up + Posesivo + life.
    * al igual que con todo en la vida = as with everything in life.
    * amante de la vida al aire libre = outdoor enthusiast.
    * apostarse la vida = bet + Posesivo + life.
    * aprendizaje a lo largo de la vida = lifelong learning.
    * aprendizaje durante toda la vida = lifelong education.
    * arreglar + Posesivo + vida = put + Posesivo + (own) house in order.
    * arriesgar la vida = risk + life and limb, play + Russian roulette, risk + Posesivo + life.
    * arriesgar + Posesivo + vida = put + Posesivo + life on the line.
    * aspectos de la vida = sphere of life.
    * atentar contra la vida de Alguien = attempt on + Posesivo + life.
    * atraído por la promesa de una vida mejor = drawn by the promise of a better life.
    * aunque me fuera la vida ene ello = for the life of me.
    * autoaprendizaje durante toda la vida = lifelong learning.
    * buena vida = good life.
    * calidad de vida = quality of life.
    * cambiar la vida = change + life.
    * cambiar + Posesivo + vida = turn + Posesivo + life around.
    * ciencias de la vida = biosciences.
    * ciencias de la vida, las = life sciences, the.
    * ciencias sobre la vida en el espacio = space life sciences.
    * circunstancias de la vida = accident of birth.
    * cobrarse la vida de Alguien = claim + life.
    * cobrarse muchas vidas = take + a heavy toll of life.
    * cobrar vida = come + alive, come to + life.
    * comenzar una nueva vida = make + a new life for + Reflexivo.
    * como con todo en la vida = as with everything in life.
    * como forma de vida = as a way of life.
    * como si + Pronombre + fuese la vida en ello = like there's no tomorrow.
    * compañero de vida = lifemate.
    * compañía aseguradora de vida = life-insurance company.
    * compañía de seguros de vida = life-insurance company.
    * complicarse la vida = ask for + trouble.
    * condicionar la vida = condition + life.
    * condiciones de vida = living conditions.
    * conocer vida = see + the world.
    * contar + Posesivo + propia vida y milagros = spill + Posesivo + guts.
    * costar la vida = cost + life.
    * coste de la vida = cost of living.
    * coste de vidas humanas = human cost.
    * crearse una vida = build + life.
    * crucial para la vida de una persona = lifesaving.
    * cuerpo sin vida = dead body.
    * cuestión de vida o muerte = life or death issue.
    * culto a la vida = cult of life.
    * dar la vida = lay down + Posesivo + life, give + Posesivo + life.
    * dar nueva vida = give + Nombre + new life, give + a second life.
    * dar + Posesivo + vida = give + Posesivo + all.
    * dar sentido a la vida = give + meaning to life.
    * dar sentido a + Posesivo + vida = make + sense of + Posesivo + life.
    * dar señales de vida = show + signs of life.
    * dar una segunda vida = give + a second life.
    * dar vida = imbue with + life, animate, bring to + life.
    * dar vida a = jazz up, brighten up, give + life to.
    * dar vida a Algo = bring + Nombre + to life.
    * dedicar la vida a = devote + life to.
    * dedicar toda una vida = spend + lifetime.
    * defensor de la vida humana = pro-lifer.
    * de la vida real = real-life.
    * de por vida = lifelong [life-long], lifetime [life-time].
    * derecho a la vida = right to live.
    * desquiciar + Posesivo + vida = turn + Posesivo + life upside down.
    * de toda la vida = lifelong [life-long].
    * de vida enclaustrada = cloistered.
    * de vida o muerte = lifesaving, life threatening.
    * devolver el sentido a la vida = put + meaning + back in + Posesivo + life.
    * devolver la vida = bring + Nombre + back to life.
    * disfrutar de la vida = sail through + life.
    * diversidad de la vida = biodiversity, diversity of life, life-form diversity.
    * durante toda la vida = lifelong [life-long].
    * durante toda una vida = over a lifetime.
    * durar toda una vida = go on + for a lifetime, last + (for) a lifetime.
    * el amor de + Posesivo + vida = the love of + Posesivo + life.
    * empezar una nueva etapa en la vida = turn over + a new page, turn over + a new leaf.
    * encarcelar de por vida = jail for + life.
    * en el transcurso normal de + Posesivo + vida(s) = in the normal course of + Posesivo + life/lives.
    * enfrentarse a la vida = cope with + life, face + life, cope.
    * en la vida real = in real life.
    * en los primeros años de vida = early in life.
    * en + Posesivo + vida = in + Posesivo + time.
    * enriquecer la vida de Alguien = enrich + Posesivo + life.
    * entregar + Posesivo + vida, = give + Posesivo + all.
    * equipo de mantenimiento artificial de la vida = life-support system.
    * esperanza de vida = life expectancy, lifespan [life span].
    * estilo de vida = lifestyle [life style/life-style], style of life, way of life.
    * estilo de vida alternativo = alternative life-style.
    * etapa de la vida = life stage.
    * expectativas de vida = life expectancy.
    * experiencia de la vida = experience of life.
    * facilitarle la vida a todos = simplify + life for everyone.
    * filosofía de vida = philosophy of life.
    * forma de vida = way of life.
    * ganarse la vida = earn + a living, make + a living, earn + income, earn + Posesivo + living, make + Posesivo + living, Verbo + for a living.
    * ganarse la vida a duras penas = eke out + a living, scratch (out) + a living, scrape + a living, eke out + an existence.
    * habilidades necesarias para la vida cotidiana = life skills.
    * hábitos de vida = lifestyle [life style/life-style].
    * hacer frente a la vida = cope.
    * hacer la vida imposible = make + life hell.
    * hacerle la vida más simple a todos = simplify + life for everyone.
    * hacer que la vida sea un infierno = make + life hell.
    * hacerse un hueco en la vida = get on in + life.
    * hacer vida social = socialise [socialize, -USA].
    * historia de vida = life history.
    * índice del coste de (la) vida = cost of living index.
    * índice del costo de (la) vida = cost of living index.
    * infundir nueva vida a = breathe + (new) life into.
    * inmiscuirse en la vida de Alguien = intrude on + Posesivo + privacy.
    * jugarse la vida = play + Russian roulette, risk + Posesivo + life, risk + life and limb, bet + Posesivo + life.
    * la oportunidad de + Posesivo + vida = the opportunity of a lifetime.
    * la vida continúa = the show must go on.
    * la vida + continuar = life + go on.
    * la vida es así = life's like that.
    * ¡la vida no es un camino de rosas! = the course of true love never did run smooth!.
    * la vida + seguir = life + go on.
    * ley de vida = fact of life, laws of nature.
    * lienzo de la vida, el = canvas of life, the.
    * línea de vida = lifeline.
    * lisiado de por vida = lamed for life.
    * lisiar a Alguien de por vida = lame + Nombre + for life.
    * llegar al final de su vida útil = come to + the end of + Posesivo + useful life, reach + the end of + Posesivo + useful life.
    * lleno de vida = vibrant, feisty [feistier -comp., feistiest -sup.], spry [spryer comp., spryest -sup.], sprightly [sprightlier -comp., sprightliest -sup.], spirited, teeming with life, vivacious, ebullient, saucy [saucier -comp., sauciest -sup.].
    * llevar una vida + Ajetivo = lead + an + Adjetivo + existence.
    * llevar una vida arriesgada = live + dangerously, live + dangerously close to the edge.
    * llevar una vida de perros = lead + a dog's life.
    * llevar una vida miserable = live + wretched existence.
    * mantener la vida = sustain + life.
    * mantenimiento artificial de la vida = life support.
    * mejorar la calidad de vida = improve + living standards, raise + living standards.
    * mejorar + Posesivo + calidad de vida = raise + Posesivo + quality of living.
    * mejorar + Posesivo + vida = improve + Posesivo + life.
    * meterse en la vida de Alguien = intrude on + Posesivo + privacy.
    * mientras hay vida hay esperanza = where there's life there's hope.
    * modo de vida = way of life.
    * modo de vida tradicional = folklife.
    * muerto en vida = living dead.
    * nada en la vida es gratuito = you cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs.
    * nivel de vida = standard of living, living standard.
    * no tener vida privada = like being in a (gold)fish bowl.
    * nueva vida = greener pastures, pastures new.
    * oportunidad única en la vida = chance of a lifetime.
    * otra vida, la = afterlife [after-life].
    * para toda la vida = lifelong [life-long], for life.
    * pasar a mejor vida = bite + the dust, give up + the ghost.
    * pasar a vida mejor = lay + Nombre + low.
    * perder la vida = lose + Posesivo + life.
    * pérdida de vidas = loss of life, toll on life.
    * perdonar la vida = spare + life.
    * permanecer con vida = stay + alive.
    * pletórico de vida = teeming with life.
    * poner en peligro la vida = risk + Posesivo + life, risk + life and limb.
    * poner la vida en peligro = put + Posesivo + life at risk.
    * por toda la vida = lifetime [life-time].
    * por toda una vida = lifetime [life-time].
    * posteriormente en + Posesivo + vida = in later life.
    * problemas de la vida = life problems [life-problems].
    * prolongar la vida = prolong + life, prolong + longevity.
    * prolongar la vida útil = extend + the useful life, prolong + useful life, increase + useful life.
    * que cambia la vida = life-changing, life-altering.
    * que da vida = life-giving.
    * que mejora la calidad de vida = life-enhancing.
    * que pone la vida en peligro = life threatening.
    * quitarse la vida = take + Posesivo + (own) life.
    * rebosante de vida y energía = all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.
    * reconstruir + Posesivo + vida = rebuild + Posesivo + life.
    * reformar + Posesivo + vida = reform + Posesivo + life.
    * régimen de vida = lifestyle [life style/life-style].
    * rehacer + Posesivo + vida = rebuild + Posesivo + life.
    * salir adelante en la vida, = get on in + life.
    * salvar la vida = save + life.
    * salvar la vida de milagro = have + a close shave with death.
    * secreto de la vida, el = secret of life, the.
    * seguir con + Posesivo + vida normal = get on with + Posesivo + life.
    * seguro de vida = life insurance.
    * seguro de vida a término = term life insurance.
    * seguro de vida vitalicio = whole life insurance.
    * sentido de la vida, el = meaning of life, the.
    * sentido de la vida y al muerte, el = meaning of life and death, the.
    * ser todo vida = be all life.
    * situaciones de la vida = life situations [life-situations].
    * soplo de vida = kiss of life.
    * tener éxito en la vida = succeed in + life, get on in + life.
    * tener una vida larga y próspera = live + long and prosper.
    * toda la vida = from the cradle to the grave, whole lifelong, whole life.
    * toda una vida = a lifetime.
    * toda una vida de experiencia = a lifetime of experience.
    * toda una vida de trabajo = a lifetime of work.
    * trabajo de toda una vida = life's work, lifework.
    * triunfar en la vida = succeed in + life.
    * truncar + Posesivo + vida = snip + Posesivo + life short, cut + Posesivo + life short.
    * una cuestión de vida o muerte = a matter of life and death.
    * una oportunidad única en la vida = once in a lifetime opportunity.
    * una vez en la vida = once in a lifetime.
    * una vez en + Posesivo + vida = once in + Posesivo + lifetime.
    * ver las cosas positivas de la vida = look on + the bright side of life.
    * vida acuática = aquatic life.
    * vida afectiva = love life.
    * vida amorosa = love life.
    * vida animal = animal life.
    * vida a toda pastilla = life in the fast lane.
    * vida + cambiar por completo = turn + Posesivo + life around.
    * vida cívica = civic life.
    * vida civil = civic life.
    * vida como trabajador = working life.
    * vida corporativa = corporate life.
    * vida cotidiana = daily life, everyday living, daily living.
    * vida cotidiana, la = day to day life, the, everyday life.
    * vida cultural = cultural life.
    * vida + dar un giro de 180 grados = turn + Posesivo + life around.
    * vida + dar un vuelco = turn + Posesivo + life upside down.
    * vida de archivo = archival life.
    * vida de, la = life nerve of, the.
    * vida de la ciudad = urban life, city life.
    * vida de la comunidad = community life.
    * vida del mundo literario = literary life.
    * vida de perros = a dog's life.
    * vida desenfrenada = life in the fast lane.
    * vida desequilibrada = unbalanced life, imbalanced life.
    * vida después de la muerte = afterlife [after-life].
    * vida diaria = daily life.
    * vida diaria, la = everyday life.
    * vida dilatada = long life.
    * vida disoluta = life in the fast lane, loose life.
    * vida doméstica = domestic life, home life.
    * vida emocional = emotional life.
    * vida en el campo = rural life.
    * vida en el entorno familiar = family life.
    * vida en el hogar = home life.
    * vida en el trabajo = job life.
    * vida entera, la = whole lifelong, whole life.
    * vida equilibrada = balanced life.
    * vida espiritual = spiritual life.
    * vida + expirar = life + expire.
    * vida extraterrestre = alien life.
    * vida fácil = fast living.
    * vida familiar = family life.
    * vida futura = future life.
    * vida humana = human life.
    * vida laboral = working life.
    * vida literaria = literary life.
    * vida marítima = seafaring.
    * vida media = half-life.
    * vida mejor = better life.
    * vida moderna, la = modern life.
    * vida nocturna = nightlife, night life.
    * vida or muerte = life or death.
    * vida pasada = previous life.
    * vida + pender + de un hilo = live on + the line.
    * vida personal = personal life.
    * vida privada = private life.
    * vida profesional = professional life.
    * vida pública = public life.
    * vida real = real life.
    * vida rural = rural life.
    * vida salvaje = wildlife.
    * vida sana = healthy life.
    * vida sentimental = love life.
    * vida sexual = sex life.
    * vida social = social life.
    * vida urbana = city life, urban life.
    * vida útil = lifetime [life time], life expectancy, lifespan [life span], useful life, shelf life, service life.
    * vida útil de un documento = shelf life.
    * vida vegetal = plant life.
    * vivir la vida al máximo = live + life to the full.
    * volver a la vida normal = get (back) into + the swings of things.
    * vuelta a la vida = resuscitation, resurrection.

    * * *
    A
    1 ( Biol) life
    la vida marina marine life
    a los tres meses de vida at three months (old)
    el derecho a la vida the right to life
    no pudieron salvarle la vida they were unable to save his life
    era una cuestión de vida o muerte it was a matter of life and death
    se debate entre la vida y la muerte she's fighting for her life
    140 personas perdieron la vida en el accidente ( period); 140 people lost their lives in the accident ( journ)
    quitarse la vida to take one's (own) life ( frml)
    el accidente que le costó la vida ( period); the accident that cost him his life
    jugarse la vida to risk one's life
    se puso como si le fuera la vida en ello he behaved as if his life depended on it
    sólo tres personas lograron salir con vida only three people escaped alive, there were only three survivors
    encontraron su cuerpo sin vida junto al río ( period); his body was found by the river
    el cuerpo sin vida de su amada ( liter); the lifeless body of his beloved ( liter)
    dieron la vida por la patria they gave o sacrificed their lives for their country
    la mujer que te dio la vida the woman who brought you into this world
    el actor que da vida al personaje de Napoleón the actor who plays o portrays Napoleon
    con la vida en un hilo or pendiente de un hilo: estuvo un mes entero con la vida en un hilo his life hung by a thread for a whole month
    real como la vida misma true, true-life
    es una historia real como la vida misma it's a true o true-life story
    mientras hay vida hay esperanza where there is life there is hope
    2 (viveza, vitalidad) life
    es un niño sano, lleno de vida he's a healthy child, full of life
    la ciudad es bonita, pero le falta vida it's a nice city but it's not very lively o it doesn't have much life
    unas cortinas amarillas le darían vida a la habitación yellow curtains would liven up o brighten up the room
    se pasa la vida viendo la televisión he spends his life watching television
    toda una vida dedicada a la enseñanza a lifetime dedicated to teaching
    a lo largo de su vida throughout his life
    en vida de tu padre when your father was alive
    la corta vida del último gobierno the short life of the last government
    la relación tuvo una vida muy corta the relationship was very short-lived
    la vida de un coche/electrodoméstico the life-span of a car/an electrical appliance
    cuando encuentres al hombre de tu vida when you find the man of your dreams o your Mr Right
    es el amor de mi vida she's the love of my life
    amargarle la vida a algn to make sb's life a misery
    amargarse la vida to make oneself miserable
    complicarle la vida a algn to make sb's life difficult
    complicarse la vida to make life difficult for oneself
    de por vida for life
    de toda la vida loc adj/adv (desde siempre) lifelong
    se conocen de toda la vida they know each other from way back
    un programa/una medicina de toda la vida a run-of-the-mill program*/medicine
    un amigo/votante de toda la vida a lifelong friend/voter
    en la/mi vida: ¡en la or en mi vida he visto cosa igual! I've never seen anything like it in my life!
    ¡en la or mi vida haría una cosa así! I'd never dream of doing something like that!
    en mi perra vida lo he visto (CS fam); I've never seen him in my life
    enterrarse en vida to cut oneself off from the world
    hacerle la vida imposible a algn to make sb's life impossible
    C
    1 (manera de vivir, actividades) life
    lleva una vida muy ajetreada she leads a very busy life
    la medicina/pintura es toda su vida she lives for medicine/painting
    ¿qué tal? ¿qué es de tu vida? how are you? what have you been up to?
    déjalo que haga or viva su vida let him get on with o let him live his own life
    ¡esto sí que es vida! this is the life!
    ¡(así) es la vida! that's life, such is life
    la vida le sonríe fortune has smiled on her
    hacen vida de casados or marital they live together
    comparten la casa pero no hacen vida en común they share the house but they lead separate lives o they live separately
    ¡qué vida ésta! what a life!
    ¡qué vida más cruel! ( hum); it's a hard life! ( hum)
    darse or pegarse una or la gran vida to have an easy life ( colloq), to live the life of Riley ( colloq)
    estar encantado de la vida to be thrilled, to be thrilled to bits ( colloq), to be over the moon ( colloq)
    está encantada de la vida con el nuevo trabajo she's thrilled to bits o she's over the moon with her new job
    ¿podríamos hacer la fiesta en tu casa? — por mí, encantado de la vida could we have the party at your house? — I'd be delighted to o that's absolutely fine by me
    estar/quedar loco de la vida (CS fam); to be over the moon ( colloq), to be thrilled
    la vida y milagros or ( RPI) la vida, obra y misterios ( fam); life story
    se sabe la vida y milagros de todo el mundo he knows everybody's life story
    pasar a mejor vida ( hum) «persona» to kick the bucket ( colloq), to croak ( colloq);
    «vestido/zapatos» to bite the dust ( colloq)
    pegarse la vida padre ( fam); to have an easy life
    vida privada/militar private/military life
    su vida sentimental or amorosa his love life
    la vida y obra de Cervantes the life and works of Cervantes
    las vidas de los santos the lives of the saints
    Compuestos:
    ( euf):
    ser de vida alegre to be in the profession o the life ( AmE), to be on the game ( BrE colloq)
    life of contemplation
    ( fam); dog's life
    tuvo una vida de perros she led a dog's life
    ● vida eterna or perdurable
    la vida eterna or perdurable eternal o everlasting life
    nightlife
    social life
    no hacen mucha vida social they don't socialize much, they don't have much social life
    D
    (necesidades materiales): con ese dinero tiene la vida resuelta with that money she's set up for life
    la vida está carísima everything is so expensive, the cost of living is very high
    ganarse la vida to earn one's o a living
    buscarse la vida ( fam): me busco la vida como puedo one way or another I get by o I make a living
    ¡pues, ahora que se busque la vida! well, now he'll have to stand on his own two feet o get by on his own!
    ¡mi vida! or ¡vida mía! my darling!, darling!
    pero hija de mi vida ¿cómo se te ocurrió hacer eso? but my dear, what made you do that?
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    vida sustantivo femenino
    1
    a) (Biol) life;


    una cuestión de vida o muerte a matter of life and death;
    quitarse la vida to take one's (own) life (frml);
    salir con vida to escape alive
    b) (viveza, vitalidad) life;


    le falta vida it's/she's/he's not very lively
    2 ( extensión de tiempo, existencia) life;

    toda una vida a lifetime;
    la vida de un coche the life-span of a car;
    un amigo de toda la vida a lifelong friend;
    amargarle la vida a algn to make sb's life a misery;
    complicarse la vida to make life difficult for oneself;
    de por vida for life;
    hacerle la vida imposible a algn to make sb's life impossible
    3 (manera de vivir, actividades) life;

    ¿qué es de tu vida? what have you been up to?;
    hace or vive su vida he lives his own life;
    ¡esto sí que es vida! this is the life!;
    ¡(así) es la vida! that's life, such is life;
    vida privada private life;
    su vida sentimental his love life;
    una mujer de vida alegre a woman of easy virtue;
    ¡qué vida de perros! it's a dog's life;
    hacer vida social to socialize;
    estar encantado de la vida to be thrilled, to be over the moon (colloq)
    4 ( necesidades materiales):

    ganarse la vida to earn one's o a living;
    tiene la vida resuelta he's set up for life
    5 ( como apelativo) darling;
    ◊ ¡mi vida! (my) darling!

    vida sustantivo femenino
    1 (existencia) life: no hay vida en Marte, there is no life on Mars
    estar con vida, to be alive
    quitarse la vida, to take one's own life
    2 (periodo vital) life: toda la vida ha sido socialista, he's been a socialist all his life
    de corta vida, short-lived
    toda una vida, a lifetime
    3 (modo de vida) ¿cómo te va la vida?, how's life?
    la literatura es su vida, he lives for literature o literature is his life
    lleva una vida muy desordenada, she lives o leads a very chaotic life
    ♦ Locuciones: familiar ¡esto es vida!, this is the life (situación muy agradable, placentera) ¡esto es vida!, todo el día tumbado sin tener que trabajar, this is the life! lazing around all day without having to work
    fam (resolver un asunto, problema) buscarse la vida: no tengo dinero, - me da igual, ¡búscate la vida!, I haven't got any money, - I couldn't care less, go and sort your own problems out
    figurado Lit Cine Teat (representar un personaje) dar vida: en esa película el actor da vida a Napoleón, in that film the actor plays the part of Napoleon
    dar la vida, to sacrifice o give one's life
    ganarse la vida, to earn one's living
    fig fam (morir) pasar a mejor vida, to pass away
    (independencia) tener/vivir su (propia) vida alguien: ya no está con sus padres, tiene su propia vida, he isn't with his parents anymore, he's living his own life
    a vida o muerte, (situación de alto riesgo) le tuvieron que operar a vida o muerte, it was a life or death operation
    de mi/tu/su... vida: el amor de mi vida, the love of my life
    de por vida, for life
    de toda la vida, lifelong
    en la vida, never in one's life
    Rel la otra vida, the next life
    familiar vida de perros, dog's life
    fam (hechos y anécdotas de un personaje o persona) vida y milagros de alguien, the full details about sb
    ' vida' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    agitada
    - agitado
    - amargarse
    - andar
    - atentar
    - comentar
    - complicarse
    - constante
    - contemplativa
    - contemplativo
    - convivencia
    - conyugal
    - cosa
    - crepúsculo
    - cruzarse
    - delante
    - descansada
    - descansado
    - desengañarse
    - desgraciada
    - desgraciado
    - encarrilar
    - episodio
    - ser
    - ermitaña
    - ermitaño
    - esperanza
    - flor
    - ir
    - ganarse
    - hipótesis
    - ilusión
    - indigna
    - indigno
    - inerte
    - intrepidez
    - jamás
    - juego
    - jugar
    - martirio
    - muerta
    - muerto
    - mujer
    - normalización
    - oportunidad
    - padecer
    - padre
    - pajolera
    - pajolero
    - pantalla
    English:
    abundance
    - account
    - active
    - afterlife
    - alive
    - amenities
    - assurance
    - attempt
    - bang up
    - battle
    - bread
    - breeding ground
    - bright
    - busy
    - carp
    - chapter
    - clean
    - conception
    - cost
    - cost of living
    - crossroads
    - dead
    - dear
    - dedicate
    - destroy
    - dodge
    - dog
    - domestic
    - earn
    - easy
    - eccentric
    - emigrate
    - existence
    - fascination
    - flat
    - give up
    - gracious
    - greed
    - greediness
    - hell
    - herself
    - high life
    - himself
    - hurdle
    - impossible
    - index-linked
    - insurance
    - lead
    - life
    - life expectancy
    * * *
    vida nf
    1. [estado fisiológico, hecho de existir] life;
    ¿hay vida en otros planetas? is there life on other planets?;
    el cuerpo sin vida de un soldado the lifeless body of a soldier;
    el conflicto se cobró muchas vidas many lives were lost in the conflict;
    aquello le costó la vida that cost him his life;
    dar la vida por to give one's life for;
    estar con vida to be alive;
    va a ser una operación a vida o muerte the operation may save his life but it may also kill him;
    estar entre la vida y la muerte to be at death's door;
    perder la vida to lose one's life;
    quitarse la vida to take one's (own) life;
    salir con vida to come out alive;
    como si la vida le fuera en ello as if his/her life depended on it;
    ser una cuestión o [m5] un asunto de vida o muerte to be a matter of life and death;
    enterrarse en vida to forsake the world;
    pasar a mejor vida Euf [persona] to pass away;
    [prenda, aparato, utensilio] to have had it;
    la otra vida the next life;
    tenía la vida pendiente de un hilo her life was hanging by a thread;
    mientras hay vida hay esperanza hope springs eternal
    vida artificial artificial life;
    la vida eterna eternal life;
    vida extraterrestre extraterrestrial life;
    vida intrauterina intrauterine life
    2. [periodo de existencia] life;
    trabajó toda su vida he worked all his life;
    una vida plagada de éxitos a lifetime of success;
    de mi/tu/ etc[m5] vida of my/your/ etc life;
    el amor/la oportunidad de su vida the love/chance of his life;
    un amigo de toda la vida a lifelong friend;
    le conozco de toda la vida I've known him all my life;
    de toda la vida las novias van de blanco brides have worn white since time immemorial, brides have always worn white;
    de por vida for life;
    en vida de during the life o lifetime of;
    eso no lo hubieras dicho en vida de tu padre you would never have said that while your father was alive;
    así no vas a aprobar en la o [m5] tu vida you'll never pass like that;
    ¡en mi o [m5] la vida vi cosa igual! I'd never seen such a thing in all my life!;
    pasarse la vida haciendo algo to spend one's life doing sth;
    se pasa la vida quejándose he does nothing but complain all the time;
    hacer la vida imposible a alguien to make sb's life impossible;
    Am
    toda la vida: [sin duda] [m5]¿prefieres África a Europa? – ¡toda la vida! do you prefer Africa to Europe? – every time! o you bet!;
    la vida da muchas vueltas you never know what life has got in store for you;
    3. Com [de maquinaria, aparato, automóvil] life;
    tiene una vida útil de veinte años it has a useful life of twenty years, it's designed to last for twenty years
    vida en estantería shelf life;
    vida media average life, mean lifetime
    4. [forma de vivir, faceta cotidiana] life;
    su vida es el teatro the theatre is her life;
    ¿cómo es tu vida diaria? what would be a typical day in your life?;
    la vida política del país the country's political life;
    ¿no te gustaría cambiar de vida? wouldn't you like to change your life o the way you live?;
    yo hago o [m5] vivo mi vida como todo el mundo I just get on with my life like everyone else;
    lleva una vida muy tranquila she leads o lives a very peaceful life;
    ¡así es la vida! that's life!, such is life!;
    ¡esto (sí que) es vida! this is the life!;
    una mujer de vida alegre a loose woman;
    ¿qué es de tu vida? how's life?;
    ¡qué vida ésta! what a life!;
    la buena vida the good life;
    darse o [m5]pegarse la gran vida, darse o [m5] pegarse la vida padre to live the life of Riley;
    llevar una vida de perros to lead a dog's life
    vida amorosa love life;
    vida de familia family life;
    vida privada private life;
    vida pública public life;
    vida sentimental love life;
    vida sexual sex life;
    vida social social life;
    hacer vida social (con) to socialize (with)
    5. [animación] life;
    este pueblo tiene mucha vida this town is very lively;
    estar lleno de vida to be full of life;
    Brando da vida al personaje del padre Brando plays the father
    vida nocturna nightlife
    6. [necesidades materiales]
    la vida está muy cara en Japón the cost of living is very high in Japan;
    Fam
    está la vida muy achuchada money's very tight;
    ganarse la vida to earn a living;
    con este trabajo me gano bien la vida I make a good living from this job
    7. [apelativo cariñoso] darling;
    ¡mi vida!, ¡vida mía! my darling!
    * * *
    f life; esp
    TÉC life span;
    de por vida for life;
    toda la vida all one’s life;
    somos amigos de toda la vida we have been friends all our lives;
    en mi vida never (in my life);
    en vida in his/ her etc lifetime;
    ¿qué es de tu vida? how are things?;
    ganarse la vida earn a living;
    vivir su vida live one’s own life;
    hacer la vida imposible a alguien make s.o.’s life impossible;
    a vida o muerte life-or-death;
    estar entre la vida y la muerte be hovering between life and death, be fighting for life;
    la gran vida live high on the hog fam, live the life of Riley fam ;
    pasar a mejor vida pass away;
    quitarse la vida take one’s own life, kill o.s.;
    perder la vida lose one’s life;
    salir con vida come out alive;
    sin vida lifeless;
    la vida y milagros de alguien s.o.’s life story;
    vida en pareja married life, life together;
    vida familiar/sentimental family/love life;
    vida interior inner self;
    así es la vida that’s life;
    vida mía my love;
    mujer de la vida loose woman;
    dar vida a TEA play the part of
    * * *
    vida nf
    1) : life
    la vida cotidiana: everyday life
    2) : life span, lifetime
    3) biografía: biography, life
    4) : way of life, lifestyle
    5) : livelihood
    ganarse la vida: to earn one's living
    6) viveza: liveliness
    7)
    media vida : half-life
    * * *
    vida n
    1. (en general) life [pl. lives]
    2. (sustento) living

    Spanish-English dictionary > vida

  • 20 общественная социалистическая собственность

    leg.N.P. public socialist property, socialist property of the community

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > общественная социалистическая собственность

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