Перевод: со всех языков на все языки

со всех языков на все языки

they+assumed+that+it+was+true

  • 1 asumir

    v.
    1 to assume.
    el descontento asumió caracteres alarmantes the discontent began to take on alarming proportions
    Ricardo asume la fidelidad de María Richard assumes Ann's faithfulness.
    Pedro asume poses afectadas Peter assumes affected poses.
    Pedro asume un aire de presunción Peter assumes a grandiose air.
    2 to accept.
    asumir la responsabilidad de algo to take on responsibility for something
    * * *
    1 to assume, take on, take upon oneself
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=responsabilizarse de) [+ reto, tarea] to take on; [+ cargo] to take up; [+ mando] to take over, assume más frm

    asumió la presidencia en 1999 — he took up o assumed más frm the presidency in 1999

    ha asumido la dirección de la empresa en un momento muy difícil — he has taken control of o has taken over the company at a very difficult time

    2) (=aceptar) [+ consecuencias] to take, accept; [+ crítica] to accept; [+ problema, enfermedad, derrota] to come to terms with, accept

    ya he asumido que no podré volver a esquiar — I've already come to terms with o accepted the fact that I won't be able to ski again

    3) (=adoptar) to adopt, take

    asumieron una actitud crítica — they adopted o took a critical stance

    4) (=adquirir) to assume
    5) (=suponer)
    2.
    VI (Pol) to take office, take up office
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <cargo/tarea/responsabilidad> to take on, assume (frml)
    b) ( adquirir) <importancia/dimensiones> to assume (frml)
    c) ( adoptar) < actitud> to assume (liter)
    d) ( aceptar) to come to terms with
    2) (AmL) ( suponer) to assume
    * * *
    = assume, assume, come to + grips with, take over, get to + grips with, take on.
    Ex. The foregoing discussion concerning analytical entries assumes implicitly a conventional catalogue format, that is, card, microform or other printed catalogue.
    Ex. A pseudonym is the name assumed by an author to conceal or obscure his or her identity.
    Ex. Right now the management team is beginning to come to grips with our annual budget process, as it does every year.
    Ex. We need to replace those aspects of traditional public library service which have been taken over by other media or rendered redundant by social change.
    Ex. The Treasure has made good use of a number of methodologies in getting to grips with the principles and applications of information management.
    Ex. If we decide to take on making up a subject file there'd be a lot of footwork even if we use that list as a basis = Si decidimos aceptar crear un fichero ordenado por materias habría mucho trabajo incluso si usamos esta lista como base.
    ----
    * asumir Algo = take (+ Nombre) + on board (+ Nombre).
    * asumir el papel = dress + the part.
    * asumir el papel de = step into + the role of.
    * asumir el papel de Alguien = step into + the shoes of, stand in + Posesivo + shoes.
    * asumir la dirección = take over + the leadership (from).
    * asumir la responsabilidad = assume + responsibilitiy (for).
    * asumir las consecuencias = take + the consequences, live with + the consequences.
    * asumir poder = assume + power.
    * asumir prioridad = assume + priority.
    * asumir responsabilidad = take over, take + responsibility.
    * asumir una apariencia + Adjetivo = take on + Adjetivo + aspect.
    * asumir una característica + Adjetivo = take on + Adjetivo + character.
    * asumir una forma = assume + form.
    * asumir una función = take upon + Reflexivo + role.
    * asumir una nueva faceta = take on + new dimension.
    * asumir una tarea = assume + duty.
    * asumir un papel = assume + role.
    * asumir un riesgo = bear + risk, take + risks.
    * asumir un significado = take on + meaning.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <cargo/tarea/responsabilidad> to take on, assume (frml)
    b) ( adquirir) <importancia/dimensiones> to assume (frml)
    c) ( adoptar) < actitud> to assume (liter)
    d) ( aceptar) to come to terms with
    2) (AmL) ( suponer) to assume
    * * *
    = assume, assume, come to + grips with, take over, get to + grips with, take on.

    Ex: The foregoing discussion concerning analytical entries assumes implicitly a conventional catalogue format, that is, card, microform or other printed catalogue.

    Ex: A pseudonym is the name assumed by an author to conceal or obscure his or her identity.
    Ex: Right now the management team is beginning to come to grips with our annual budget process, as it does every year.
    Ex: We need to replace those aspects of traditional public library service which have been taken over by other media or rendered redundant by social change.
    Ex: The Treasure has made good use of a number of methodologies in getting to grips with the principles and applications of information management.
    Ex: If we decide to take on making up a subject file there'd be a lot of footwork even if we use that list as a basis = Si decidimos aceptar crear un fichero ordenado por materias habría mucho trabajo incluso si usamos esta lista como base.
    * asumir Algo = take (+ Nombre) + on board (+ Nombre).
    * asumir el papel = dress + the part.
    * asumir el papel de = step into + the role of.
    * asumir el papel de Alguien = step into + the shoes of, stand in + Posesivo + shoes.
    * asumir la dirección = take over + the leadership (from).
    * asumir la responsabilidad = assume + responsibilitiy (for).
    * asumir las consecuencias = take + the consequences, live with + the consequences.
    * asumir poder = assume + power.
    * asumir prioridad = assume + priority.
    * asumir responsabilidad = take over, take + responsibility.
    * asumir una apariencia + Adjetivo = take on + Adjetivo + aspect.
    * asumir una característica + Adjetivo = take on + Adjetivo + character.
    * asumir una forma = assume + form.
    * asumir una función = take upon + Reflexivo + role.
    * asumir una nueva faceta = take on + new dimension.
    * asumir una tarea = assume + duty.
    * asumir un papel = assume + role.
    * asumir un riesgo = bear + risk, take + risks.
    * asumir un significado = take on + meaning.

    * * *
    asumir [I1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 ‹cargo/tarea› to take on, assume ( frml)
    no quiere asumir la responsabilidad del cuidado de los niños he doesn't want to take on o assume responsibility for looking after the children
    debe asumir las consecuencias de sus errores he must accept the consequences of his mistakes
    asumió el mando del regimiento he assumed command of the regiment
    han asumido el compromiso de reconstruir la ciudad they have undertaken to rebuild the city
    asumió la defensa del presunto asesino he took on the defense of the alleged murderer
    no estaban dispuestos a asumir ese riesgo they were not prepared to take that risk
    2 (adquirir) ‹características›
    la situación ha asumido una gravedad inusitada the situation has assumed o taken on an unwonted gravity ( frml), the situation has become unusually serious
    el incendio asumió grandes proporciones it turned into a major fire
    3 (adoptar) ‹aire/actitud› to adopt, assume ( liter)
    asumió un aire de indiferencia he adopted o assumed an air of indifference
    4 (aceptar) to come to terms with
    todavía no han logrado asumir esta nueva realidad they have not come to terms with this new situation yet
    ya tengo totalmente asumido el problema I've learned to live with o I've come to terms with o I've come to accept the problem now
    B ( AmL) (suponer) to assume
    aun asumiendo que estos datos fueran ciertos even supposing o even assuming that these figures were correct, even if we assume that these figures are correct
    * * *

     

    asumir ( conjugate asumir) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) ‹cargo/tarea/responsabilidad› to take on, assume (frml);

    ‹ riesgo› to take
    b) ( adoptar) ‹ actitud› to assume (frml)


    2 (AmL) ( suponer) to assume
    asumir verbo transitivo to assume
    ' asumir' also found in these entries:
    English:
    assume
    - blame
    - face up to
    - take on
    - take over
    - take up
    - take upon
    - undertake
    - grip
    - take
    - under
    * * *
    asumir vt
    1. [hacerse cargo de] [puesto] to take up;
    [papel] to take on; [inversión] to make; [gasto] to cover;
    asumir la responsabilidad de algo to take on responsibility for sth;
    asumir el mando/control (de) to take charge/control (of);
    cuando murió su padre, él asumió el papel de cabeza de familia when his father died he took over as head of the family;
    el general asumió la presidencia del país the general took over the presidency of the country;
    el presidente asumió el compromiso de ayudar a las víctimas the president gave a commitment to help the victims;
    asumieron el riesgo de viajar sin mapa they took the risk of travelling without a map;
    el Estado asumirá las pérdidas de la empresa the State will cover the company's losses
    2. [adquirir] to take on;
    el descontento asumió caracteres alarmantes the discontent began to take on alarming proportions;
    3. [aceptar] to accept;
    el equipo ha asumido su papel de favorito the team has accepted the mantle o role of favourites;
    asumieron su reacción como algo normal they accepted her reaction as something that was to be expected;
    no asume la muerte de su esposa he can't come to terms with his wife's death;
    eso lo tengo completamente asumido I've fully come to terms with that
    * * *
    v/t
    1 assume
    2 ( aceptar) accept, come to terms with
    * * *
    asumir vt
    1) : to assume, to take on
    asumir el cargo: to take office
    2) suponer: to assume, to suppose

    Spanish-English dictionary > asumir

  • 2 supuesto

    adj.
    supposed, hypothetical, assumed, alleged.
    m.
    supposition, assumption.
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: suponer.
    * * *
    1 (suposición) supposition, assumption
    2 (hipótesis) hypothesis
    ————————
    1→ link=suponer suponer
    1 (que se supone) supposed, assumed
    2 (pretendido) so-called, self-styled
    1 (suposición) supposition, assumption
    2 (hipótesis) hypothesis
    \
    dar algo por supuesto,-a to take something for granted
    en el supuesto de que... supposing that...
    nombre supuesto assumed name
    * * *
    1. (f. - supuesta)
    adj.
    2. noun m.
    * * *
    1.
    PP de suponer
    2. ADJ
    1) (=falso) [nombre] assumed, false
    2) (=no demostrado) supposed
    3)

    ¡por supuesto! — of course!

    -¿puedo usar su teléfono? -¡por supuesto! — "can I use your phone?" - "of course (you can)!"

    4)
    5)

    supuesto que — frm (=dando por sentado que) assuming; (=en caso de que) in the event of

    3.
    SM (=hipótesis) assumption
    * * *
    I
    - ta adjetivo
    a) ( falso) false

    el supuesto electricista — the so-called o supposed electrician

    c)

    ¿lo sabías? - por supuesto que sí! — did you know? - of course I did!

    dar algo por supuesto — to take something for granted

    II
    masculino supposition

    en el supuesto de que tenga un accidente — should you have an accident, in the event of an accident

    * * *
    I
    - ta adjetivo
    a) ( falso) false

    el supuesto electricista — the so-called o supposed electrician

    c)

    ¿lo sabías? - por supuesto que sí! — did you know? - of course I did!

    dar algo por supuesto — to take something for granted

    II
    masculino supposition

    en el supuesto de que tenga un accidente — should you have an accident, in the event of an accident

    * * *
    supuesto1
    1 = assumption, construct, presumption, presupposition [pre-supposition].

    Ex: Also, in controlled indexing language data bases, there is often an assumption that a user will be prepared to chase strings of references or to consult a sometimes complex thesaurus.

    Ex: Often they use rather fancy words, such as 'theoretical models' or ' constructs' or 'paradigms' to describe what are, very frequently, no more than hypothetical ideas or categorisations which have little empirical evidence to back them up.
    Ex: Some of these presumptions have served only to perpetuate misconceptions of collection.
    Ex: Computers hold pre-defined and fixed presuppositions, whilst those of humans are unpredictable.
    * ¡por supuesto que no! = God forbid.
    * por supuesto = of course, surely, to be sure, certainly.
    * ¡por supuesto que no! = heaven forbid.
    * supuesto práctico = case.

    supuesto2
    2 = alleged, perceived, so-called, assumed, imagined, imaginary example, presumable, putative, reputed, presumptive, apparent.

    Ex: Meanwhile the ALA and others are making wildly improbable statements about the supposedly numerous opportunities for library school graduates due to the alleged shortage of librarians.

    Ex: The arrangements should also negotiate resistance to perceived 'American dominance', erode price differentials between Europe and the US, and permit each country to support its own online services.
    Ex: DOBIS/LIBIS contains a so-called 'help' capability.
    Ex: This article discusses the advantages of storing information on discs which have an assumed life span of 20 years.
    Ex: In recent years, then, there has been much less scaremongering about the imagined horrors of drowning in a sea of paper.
    Ex: An imaginary example for a distributed fact retrieval process, based on current tools and systems, is analysed in order to clarify the requirements of such an intermediary system.
    Ex: A study was made of 8 indexes and abstracts of presumable interest to students of communication.
    Ex: Not all putative delegates were able to attend the conference -- some, e.g., were refused visas.
    Ex: Another doctor confirmed Karr's reputed plans for sex-change surgery.
    Ex: Thirty patients with a diagnosis of presumptive bacterial conjunctivitis were assessed in a randomized trial.
    Ex: Victim of an apparent assassination attempt, his face was left permanently disfigured and pockmarked.

    * * *
    supuesto1 -ta
    1 (falso) false
    actuaba bajo un nombre supuesto he worked under a false o an assumed name
    el supuesto electricista resultó ser un ladrón the so-called o supposed electrician proved to be a thief
    2
    (que se rumorea): la radio desmintió su supuesta muerte reports of his death were denied on the radio
    su supuesta enfermedad her supposed illness
    3
    por supuesto of course
    ¿vendrás? — ¡por supuesto! are you going to come? — of course!
    ¿lo sabías? — ¡por supuesto que sí! did you know? — of course I did!
    dar algo por supuesto to take sth for granted
    supposition
    su teoría descansa en un supuesto fundamental his theory rests on one fundamental supposition
    ¿y en el supuesto de que no acepten? and supposing they don't accept?, what if they don't accept?
    partiendo del supuesto de que no sabían nada working on the assumption that they knew nothing
    en el supuesto de que tenga un accidente should you have an accident, in the event of an accident
    * * *

     

    Del verbo suponer: ( conjugate suponer)

    supuesto es:

    el participio

    Multiple Entries:
    suponer    
    supuesto
    suponer ( conjugate suponer) verbo transitivo
    1

    ◊ supongamos que lo que dice es cierto let's suppose o assume what he says is true;

    suponiendo que todo salga bien assuming everything goes OK
    b) ( imaginar):


    ¿va a venir hoy? — supongo que sí is she coming today? — I should think so o I suppose so;
    es de supuesto que se lo habrán dicho presumably o I should think he's been told;
    se supone que empieza a las nueve it's supposed to start at nine
    2 (significar, implicar) to mean;

    supuesto 1
    ◊ -ta adjetivo

    a) ( falso) false;


    el supuesto mendigo the supposed beggar

    c)


    dar algo por supuesto to take sth for granted
    supuesto 2 sustantivo masculino
    supposition
    suponer verbo transitivo
    1 (creer, imaginar) to suppose: supongamos que..., let's assume o suppose that...
    supongo que me llamarán, I presume they're going to phone me
    supongo que sí, I suppose so
    se supone que acaba a las seis, it's supposed to finish at six
    se supone que él es el entendido, he's supposed to be the expert
    te suponía en París, I thought you were in Paris
    2 (conllevar, significar) to mean, involve: no supone ningún riesgo, it doesn't involve any risk
    (la amistad, el aprecio) to mean ➣ Ver nota en mean
    ♦ Locuciones: ser de suponer: es de suponer que se lo han contado, presumably o I would imagine she's been told
    ser un suponer, to be conjecture
    supuesto,-a
    I adj pey (presumiendo: falsedad) ese supuesto artista, that so-called artist
    (: inocencia) alleged
    el supuesto asesino, the alleged murderer
    II m (conjetura) assumption
    en el supuesto de que, on the assumption that: en el supuesto de que te pregunten, supposing you are asked
    ♦ Locuciones: dar por supuesto, to take sthg for granted
    por supuesto, of course
    supuesto que, since, inasmuch that
    ' supuesto' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    dar
    - supuesta
    - partir
    - presupuesto
    English:
    assumption
    - boon
    - course
    - ostensible
    - professed
    - reputed
    - so-called
    - supposed
    - would-be
    - go
    - means
    - naturally
    - so
    - sure
    - surely
    * * *
    supuesto, -a
    ♦ participio
    ver suponer
    ♦ adj
    1. [hipotético] supposed;
    [culpable, asesino] alleged;
    no se ha confirmado el supuesto ataque al corazón del presidente there has been no confirmation of the president's supposed o alleged heart attack
    2. [falso] false;
    actuó bajo un nombre supuesto he acted under a false o assumed name
    ♦ nm
    supposition, assumption;
    en el supuesto de que venga assuming (that) he comes;
    esto no es más que un supuesto this is no more than a supposition;
    en estos supuestos no es válido el principio general in these cases the general rule does not apply;
    partimos del supuesto de que todo va a salir bien we're working on the assumption that everything will turn out right;
    supuestos de cancelación grounds for cancellation
    ♦ por supuesto loc adv
    of course;
    ¿te gusta? – por supuesto do you like it? – of course;
    ¿la invitarás? – por supuesto que sí/no are you going to invite her? – of course I am/of course not;
    por supuesto que puedes venir of course you can come;
    por supuesto que si te deja de interesar, te puedes retirar of course if you lose interest, you can always back out;
    dar algo por supuesto to take sth for granted;
    doy por supuesto que te interesa I take it for granted that you're interested
    * * *
    I part → suponer
    II adj supposed, alleged;
    supuesto que (ya que) since; (en caso de que) if;
    por supuesto of course;
    dar algo por supuesto take sth as read
    III m assumption
    * * *
    supuesto, -ta adj
    1) : supposed, alleged
    2)
    por supuesto : of course, absolutely
    * * *
    1. (presunto) alleged
    2. (falso) supposed / assumed

    Spanish-English dictionary > supuesto

  • 3 suponer

    v.
    1 to suppose.
    supongo que ya habrán llegado I suppose o expect (that) they'll have arrived by now
    supongo que sí/no I suppose o expect so/not
    supongamos que me niego supposing I refuse
    es de suponer que se disculparán I would expect them to apologize
    suponiendo que… supposing o assuming that…
    María supone bien Mary supposes well.
    Esto supone un riesgo This entails a risk.
    2 to involve, to entail.
    Supone muchos peligros It involves much danger.
    3 to mean.
    4 to imagine.
    lo suponía I guessed as much
    te suponía mayor I thought you were older
    5 to be important.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ PONER], like link=poner poner (pp supuesto,-a)
    1 (gen) to suppose, assume
    2 (significar) to mean
    3 (conllevar) to mean, entail, require
    4 (adivinar) to guess; (imaginar) to imagine, think
    5 (creer) to think
    1 familiar supposition
    \
    como es de suponer as is to be expected
    ser de suponer to be likely
    * * *
    verb
    1) to suppose, presume
    * * *
    ( pp supuesto)
    1. VT
    1) (=imaginar) to imagine

    estoy muy satisfecho, como puedes suponer — I'm very pleased, as you can imagine

    ya puedes suponer lo que pasó — you can guess o imagine what happened

    le pagaron, supongamos, diez millones — he was paid, say, ten million

    • es de suponer, es de suponer que haya protestas — I would imagine there will be protests, presumably there will be protests

    están muy apenados, como es de suponer — they are very upset, as you would expect

    como era de suponer, llegaron tarde — as was to be expected, they arrived late

    2)

    • suponer que — [intentando adivinar] to imagine that, suppose that, guess that *; [como hipótesis] to suppose that; [dando por sentado] to assume that, presume that

    supongo que necesitaréis unas vacaciones — I imagine o suppose you'll need a holiday, I guess you'll need a holiday *

    sí, supongo que tienes razón — yes, I suppose you're right, yes, I guess you're right *

    supón que tuvieras mucho dinero, ¿qué harías? — suppose o supposing you had a lot of money, what would you do?

    suponiendo que todo salga según lo previsto — assuming o presuming everything goes according to plan

    • supongo que no, -¿crees que llegará tarde? -no lo sé, supongo que no — "do you think he'll be late?" - "I don't know, I don't suppose so"

    -no será fácil -no, supongo que no — "it won't be easy" - "no, I suppose not"

    • supongo que sí — I suppose so, I imagine so, I guess so *

    3) (=atribuir)
    [con objeto indirecto de persona]

    os suponía informados de este asunto — I assumed o presumed you had been informed about this matter

    le supongo unos 60 años — I would say o guess he's about 60

    se le supone una gran antigüedad — it is thought o believed to be very old

    4) (=implicar) to mean
    2.
    See:
    3.
    SM

    • un suponer, a ver, un suponer, si tú fueras su marido, ¿qué harías? — OK, just supposing you were her husband, what would you do?

    si te ofrecen el puesto, es un suponer, ¿lo aceptarías? — supposing o suppose they were to offer you the job, would you accept?

    supongamos, es solo un suponer, que eso sea verdad — let us suppose, for the sake of argument, that it is true

    * * *
    I

    si quebraran, es un suponer,... — suppose o supposing they were to go bankrupt,...

    si, es un suponer, perdieses tu trabajo... — just supposing for the sake of argument that you were to lose your job

    II
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( tomar como hipótesis) to suppose, assume

    supongamos que lo que dice es cierto — let's suppose o assume what he says is true

    supongamos que los dos ángulos son iguales — let us suppose o assume that both angles are equal

    b) ( imaginar)

    nada hacía suponer que... — there was nothing to suggest that...

    ¿va a venir hoy? - supongo que sí — is she coming today? - I should think so o I imagine so

    es de suponer que se lo habrán dicho — presumably o I should think o I would imagine he's been told

    c) ( atribuir) (+ me/te/le etc)

    le suponía más edad — I imagined o thought he was older

    se le suponía un valor aproximado de... — it was thought to be worth approximately...

    2) (significar, implicar) to mean

    eso supondría tener que empezar desde el principio — that would mean having to start from the beginning again; (+ me/te/le etc)

    * * *
    = assume, entail, guess, involve, mean, presume, surmise, suppose, gather, account for.
    Ex. The foregoing discussion concerning analytical entries assumes implicitly a conventional catalogue format, that is, card, microform or other printed catalogue.
    Ex. Secondly, the admission of rules incompatible with the general ideology adopted inevitably entails subsequent remedial revision.
    Ex. 'Anything wrong?' 'Oh, I'm okay, I guess,' volunteered Datto cautiously.
    Ex. Generating author indexes or catalogues involves creating headings from author's names, that is the names of persons or organisations.
    Ex. These changes have meant modifications, some very time-consuming, to serials catalogues in libraries.
    Ex. We presumed this principle of organization in the case of searching the public library for a document about programmed instruction.
    Ex. One is to read a portion of the newspaper and to surmise under what headings it has been indexed.
    Ex. Suppose we are searching for information about the subject 'The use of television in remedial teaching in primary schools'.
    Ex. The script was improvised on an outline which, I gathered, was the result of three sessions' hard talking to decide whose ideas out of the many suggested should be used.
    Ex. The major four categories of physical forms outlined so far account for most of the published indexes and catalogues.
    ----
    * como cabría suponer = as might be expected.
    * es de suponer que = presumably.
    * gastos que no suponen un gran desembolso de dinero = out-of-pocket costs.
    * no suponer gran cosa = not add up to much.
    * no suponer nada = add up to + nothing.
    * que supone = associated with.
    * según cabe suponer = presumably, supposedly.
    * según sabe suponer = allegedly.
    * suponer la diferencia entre el éxito o el fracaso = make or break.
    * suponer peligro = hold + danger.
    * suponerse que + Subjuntivo = be alleged + Infinitivo.
    * suponer una avance sobre = move + one away from.
    * suponer una diferencia sobre = move + one away from.
    * suponer un avance = be a step forward.
    * suponer un cambio = bring about + change.
    * supongo que = I daresay that.
    * * *
    I

    si quebraran, es un suponer,... — suppose o supposing they were to go bankrupt,...

    si, es un suponer, perdieses tu trabajo... — just supposing for the sake of argument that you were to lose your job

    II
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( tomar como hipótesis) to suppose, assume

    supongamos que lo que dice es cierto — let's suppose o assume what he says is true

    supongamos que los dos ángulos son iguales — let us suppose o assume that both angles are equal

    b) ( imaginar)

    nada hacía suponer que... — there was nothing to suggest that...

    ¿va a venir hoy? - supongo que sí — is she coming today? - I should think so o I imagine so

    es de suponer que se lo habrán dicho — presumably o I should think o I would imagine he's been told

    c) ( atribuir) (+ me/te/le etc)

    le suponía más edad — I imagined o thought he was older

    se le suponía un valor aproximado de... — it was thought to be worth approximately...

    2) (significar, implicar) to mean

    eso supondría tener que empezar desde el principio — that would mean having to start from the beginning again; (+ me/te/le etc)

    * * *
    = assume, entail, guess, involve, mean, presume, surmise, suppose, gather, account for.

    Ex: The foregoing discussion concerning analytical entries assumes implicitly a conventional catalogue format, that is, card, microform or other printed catalogue.

    Ex: Secondly, the admission of rules incompatible with the general ideology adopted inevitably entails subsequent remedial revision.
    Ex: 'Anything wrong?' 'Oh, I'm okay, I guess,' volunteered Datto cautiously.
    Ex: Generating author indexes or catalogues involves creating headings from author's names, that is the names of persons or organisations.
    Ex: These changes have meant modifications, some very time-consuming, to serials catalogues in libraries.
    Ex: We presumed this principle of organization in the case of searching the public library for a document about programmed instruction.
    Ex: One is to read a portion of the newspaper and to surmise under what headings it has been indexed.
    Ex: Suppose we are searching for information about the subject 'The use of television in remedial teaching in primary schools'.
    Ex: The script was improvised on an outline which, I gathered, was the result of three sessions' hard talking to decide whose ideas out of the many suggested should be used.
    Ex: The major four categories of physical forms outlined so far account for most of the published indexes and catalogues.
    * como cabría suponer = as might be expected.
    * es de suponer que = presumably.
    * gastos que no suponen un gran desembolso de dinero = out-of-pocket costs.
    * no suponer gran cosa = not add up to much.
    * no suponer nada = add up to + nothing.
    * que supone = associated with.
    * según cabe suponer = presumably, supposedly.
    * según sabe suponer = allegedly.
    * suponer la diferencia entre el éxito o el fracaso = make or break.
    * suponer peligro = hold + danger.
    * suponerse que + Subjuntivo = be alleged + Infinitivo.
    * suponer una avance sobre = move + one away from.
    * suponer una diferencia sobre = move + one away from.
    * suponer un avance = be a step forward.
    * suponer un cambio = bring about + change.
    * supongo que = I daresay that.

    * * *
    imagínate que te toca la lotería, es un suponer, ¿qué harías? imagine you won the lottery, just supposing, what would you do?
    si la empresa quebrara, es un suponer, … just suppose o just supposing the company were to go bankrupt, …, if the company were to go bankrupt, just for the sake of argument, …
    suponer2 [ E22 ]
    vt
    A
    supongamos que lo que dice es cierto let's suppose o assume what he says is true
    suponiendo que todo salga como está previsto assuming everything goes according to plan
    supongamos que los dos ángulos son iguales let us suppose o assume that both angles are equal
    ni aun suponiendo que fuera verdad, no tiene derecho a hablar así even supposing it were true, he has no right to talk like that
    2
    (imaginar): supuse que ibas a comprarlo tú I thought o presumed o assumed you were going to buy it
    supongo que tienes razón I suppose you're right
    nada hacía suponer que ocurriría una cosa así there was nothing to suggest o there was no reason to suppose that something like that would happen
    ¿va a venir hoy? — supongo que sí is she coming today? — I should think so o I imagine so
    es de suponer que se lo habrán dicho presumably o I should think o I would assume o I would imagine he's been told
    era de suponer que se lo iban a dar it was to be expected that they would give it to him
    se supone que tendría que empezar a las nueve it's supposed to start at nine
    ¿dónde se supone que vamos? where are we supposed o meant to be going?
    3 (atribuir) (+ me/te/le etc):
    le suponía más edad I imagined o thought he was older
    se le suponen propiedades medicinales it is believed o held to have medicinal qualities
    al cuadro se le suponía un valor aproximado de … the painting was thought to be worth approximately …
    B (significar, implicar) to mean
    el proyecto supondrá una inversión de cinco millones de dólares the project will mean an investment of five million dollars
    la preparación del congreso supuso cinco meses de trabajo the preparation for the convention involved o took five months' work
    eso supondría tener que empezar desde el principio that would mean having to start from the beginning again
    (+ me/te/le etc): ese negocio no le supuso ningún beneficio that deal didn't make him any profit
    no me supone problema ninguno/ninguna molestia it's no trouble at all
    el traslado nos va a suponer muchos inconvenientes the move will cause us a great deal of inconvenience, the move will mean o will involve a great deal of inconvenience
    * * *

     

    suponer ( conjugate suponer) verbo transitivo
    1

    ◊ supongamos que lo que dice es cierto let's suppose o assume what he says is true;

    suponiendo que todo salga bien assuming everything goes OK
    b) ( imaginar):


    ¿va a venir hoy? — supongo que sí is she coming today? — I should think so o I suppose so;
    es de suponer que se lo habrán dicho presumably o I should think he's been told;
    se supone que empieza a las nueve it's supposed to start at nine
    2 (significar, implicar) to mean;

    suponer verbo transitivo
    1 (creer, imaginar) to suppose: supongamos que..., let's assume o suppose that...
    supongo que me llamarán, I presume they're going to phone me
    supongo que sí, I suppose so
    se supone que acaba a las seis, it's supposed to finish at six
    se supone que él es el entendido, he's supposed to be the expert
    te suponía en París, I thought you were in Paris
    2 (conllevar, significar) to mean, involve: no supone ningún riesgo, it doesn't involve any risk
    (la amistad, el aprecio) to mean ➣ Ver nota en mean
    ♦ Locuciones: ser de suponer: es de suponer que se lo han contado, presumably o I would imagine she's been told
    ser un suponer, to be conjecture
    ' suponer' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    condicionamiento
    - creer
    - esperar
    - hacer
    - imaginar
    - imaginarse
    - jugar
    - significar
    - asumir
    - supuse
    English:
    assume
    - entail
    - expect
    - guess
    - imagine
    - imply
    - involve
    - mean
    - pose
    - presumably
    - presume
    - suppose
    - surmise
    - take
    - say
    * * *
    ♦ nm
    imagino que nos invitarán – eso es un suponer I imagine they'll invite us – that's pure conjecture o you can't say for sure;
    imagina, y es un suponer, que te quedas sin dinero imagine, for the sake of argument, that you didn't have any money
    ♦ vt
    1. [creer, presuponer] to suppose;
    supongo que ya habrán llegado I suppose o expect (that) they'll have arrived by now;
    supongo que tienes razón I suppose o guess you're right;
    supongo que sí/no I suppose o expect so/not;
    supongamos que me niego supposing I refuse;
    es de suponer que se disculparán I would expect them to apologize;
    es de suponer una nueva bajada de los tipos de interés a further drop in interest rates seems likely, we can expect a further drop in interest rates;
    al final lo perdí todo – era de suponer in the end I lost everything – it was only to be expected o that's hardly surprising;
    nada hacía suponer que… there was nothing to suggest that…;
    todo hacía suponer que se llegaría a un acuerdo everything pointed to an agreement;
    suponiendo que… supposing o assuming that…;
    suponiendo que no te moleste as long as o assuming it doesn't bother you
    2. [implicar] to involve, to entail;
    una dieta así supone mucho sacrificio a diet like that involves a lot of sacrifices;
    esto nos supone un cambio de planes this involves o entails o means a change of plan for us;
    no me supuso ningún esfuerzo it was no trouble (for me)
    3. [significar] to mean;
    supone mucho para mí it means a lot to me;
    este descubrimiento supone un importante avance para la ciencia this discovery constitutes a major advance for science
    4. [conjeturar] to imagine;
    lo suponía I guessed as much;
    te suponía mayor I thought you were older
    * * *
    <part supuesto> v/t suppose, assume;
    supongamos que … let’s suppose o assume that …;
    supongo que sí I suppose so
    * * *
    suponer {60} vt
    1) presumir: to suppose, to assume
    supongo que sí: I guess so, I suppose so
    se supone que van a llegar mañana: they're supposed to arrive tomorrow
    2) : to imply, to suggest
    3) : to involve, to entail
    el éxito supone mucho trabajo: success involves a lot of work
    * * *
    1. (creer) to suppose / to expect
    2. (significar) to mean [pt. & pp. meant]
    3. (implicar, conllevar) to involve / to be
    supongamos que... supposing...

    Spanish-English dictionary > suponer

  • 4 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

  • 5 richtig

    I Adj.
    1. right; (fehlerfrei) auch correct; (wahr) true; die richtige Antwort the right answer; richtige Aussprache / Übersetzung correct pronunciation / translation; es war richtig von dir, dass du... you did right ( oder it was right of you) to...; das finde ich nicht richtig I don’t think it’s right; das ist schon richtig, aber... that’s quite right ( oder true), but...; so ist’s richtig! umg. that’s the idea
    2. (echt, wirklich) real, genuine; (ordentlich) proper; das ist nicht ihr richtiger Name that is not her real name; ein richtiger Engländer a real ( oder true) Englishman; seine richtige Mutter his real ( oder birth) mother; er ist ein richtiger Cowboy he is a regular cowboy; wir hatten keinen richtigen Sommer we didn’t have any proper ( oder decent) summer; ein richtiger Feigling / Idiot umg. a proper coward / idiot
    3. (angemessen) appropriate; (geeignet) suitable; im richtigen Augenblick at the right moment; das ist der richtige Mann! he’s just the man we etc. need; ist diese Farbe richtig für mich? does this colo(u)r suit me?
    4. (gerecht) fair, right; Kopf 5
    II Adv.
    1. properly, correctly; geht deine Uhr richtig? is your watch right?; eine richtig gehende Uhr a watch that gives the right time; das Telefon etc. funktioniert nicht richtig the telephone isn’t working properly; richtig gerechnet lohnt es sich nicht if you work it out properly, you can see it’s not worth it; nicht richtig aussprechen / schreiben not pronounce / spell s.th. correctly; du hörst gar nicht richtig zu you’re not listening (properly); ich habe nicht richtig aufgepasst I wasn’t really paying attention; sehe ich das richtig? am I right?; du kommst gerade richtig! you’ve come at just the right moment; iro. you’re the last person I ( oder we) need; Sie sind der Chef? - richtig! umg. so you’re the boss? - you’ve got it!; ach ja, richtig yes, of course ( oder you’re right); mal wieder richtig ausschlafen have a really good sleep for once; jetzt aber richtig! umg. and now do it properly!
    2. (auf die richtige Weise) the right way; mach es richtig! do it properly; eine Sache richtig anpacken go about s.th. the right way; schlag richtig zu! hit it really hard!
    3. umg. (völlig) thoroughly, really; (wirklich) really; noch nicht richtig gar not properly cooked, not cooked right (Am. all the way) through; nicht richtig heiß not really hot; Catcher tun sich nicht richtig weh all-in (Am. WWF) wrestlers don’t really hurt one another; ich fand ihn richtig nett umg. I thought he was really nice; sie tat mir richtig Leid I was really sorry for her; es tat richtig weh it really hurt; sie wurde richtig verlegen she was really embarrassed; da wurde ich erst richtig böse then I really got angry; jetzt sitzen wir erst richtig in der Tinte oder Scheiße umg. now we’re really in a mess
    4. richtig liegen (tendenziell) be on the right track; (völlig Recht haben) be absolutely right; mit deiner Vermutung liegst du richtig you guessed right, your hunch was right; bei mir liegen Sie richtig you’ve come to the right person; er liegt immer richtig he always backs the right horse; mit Pralinen liegst du ( bei ihr) immer richtig you can’t go wrong with chocolates (for her)
    5. richtig stellen put s.th. right, correct, rectify; auch set the record straight; lassen Sie mich eines richtig stellen let me just correct one point
    III subst.: das Richtige the right thing; zum richtigen Zeitpunkt das Richtige tun do the right thing at the right time; nichts Richtiges gelernt haben have not learnt (Am. learned) any proper trade; ich habe den ganzen Tag noch nichts Richtiges gegessen umg. I haven’t had anything proper to eat all day; er ist der Richtige he’s the right man; sie ist nicht die Richtige für ihn she’s not right for him; du bist mir der Richtige! umg. you’re a fine one; ich hatte drei Richtige im Lotto I got three numbers right ( oder I matched three numbers) in the lottery; einzig II
    * * *
    rightly (Adv.);
    (korrekt) correct (Adj.); right (Adj.);
    (wirklich) real (Adj.); proper (Adj.)
    * * *
    rịch|tig ['rIçtɪç]
    1. adj
    1) right no comp; (= zutreffend) correct, right

    eine richtige Erkenntnis/Voraussetzung etc — a correct realization/presupposition etc

    ich halte es für richtig/das Richtigste,... — I think it would be right/best...

    nicht ganz richtig ( im Kopf) sein (inf) — to be not quite right (in the head) (inf)

    der Junge ist richtig (inf) — that boy's all right (inf) or OK (inf)

    2) (= wirklich, echt) real, proper

    ein richtiger Idiot — a real or proper or right (inf) idiot

    2. adv
    1) (= korrekt) correctly, right; passen, funktionieren, liegen etc properly, correctly, right

    habe ich richtig gehört? (iro) — do my ears deceive me?, am I hearing things?; (Gerücht betreffend) is it right what I've heard?

    wenn man es richtig nimmt (inf) — really, actually, properly speaking

    du kommst gerade richtig! — you're just in time; (iro) you're just what I need

    2) (inf = ganz und gar) really, real (esp US inf); sich schämen, verlegen thoroughly, really, real (esp US inf)
    3) (= wahrhaftig) right, correct

    du bist doch Konrads Schwester – richtig! — you're Konrad's sister – (that's) right

    das ist doch Paul! – ach ja, richtig — that's Paul – oh yes, so it is

    wir dachten, es würde gleich regnen, und richtig, kaum... — we thought it would soon start raining and, sure enough, scarcely...

    * * *
    2) (free from faults or errors: This sum is correct.) correct
    3) (right; not wrong: Did I get the correct idea from what you said?; You are quite correct.) correct
    4) (correctly or rightly: She can't pronounce his name properly.) properly
    5) (right, correct, or suitable: That isn't the proper way to clean the windows; You should have done your schoolwork at the proper time - it's too late to start now.) proper
    6) ((right-wing) (having opinions which are) of this sort.) right
    7) (correct: Put that book back in the right place; Is that the right answer to the question?) right
    8) (morally correct; good: It's not right to let thieves keep what they have stolen.) right
    9) (suitable; appropriate: He's not the right man for this job; When would be the right time to ask him?) right
    10) (correctly: Have I done that right?; I don't think this sum is going to turn out right.) right
    11) (correctly; accurately: They rightly assumed that he would refuse to help.) rightly
    12) (to understand, do, say etc (something) correctly: Did I get the answer right?) get right
    * * *
    rich·tig
    [ˈrɪçtɪç]
    I. adj
    1. (korrekt) correct, right
    die \richtige Antwort the right [or correct] answer
    die \richtige Lösung the correct solution
    2. (angebracht) right
    die \richtige Handlungsweise the right course of action
    zur \richtigen Zeit at the right time
    es war \richtig, dass du gegangen bist you were right to leave
    ▪ irgendwo/bei jdm \richtig sein to be at the right place/address
    „ja, kommen Sie rein, bei mir sind Sie genau \richtig“ “yes, come in, you've come to [exactly] the right place”
    ist das hier \richtig zu/nach...? is this [or am I going] the right way to...?
    4. (echt, wirklich) real
    ich bin nicht deine \richtige Mutter I'm not your real mother
    5. (fam: regelrecht) real
    du bist ein \richtiger Idiot! you're a real idiot!
    6. (passend) right
    sie ist nicht die \richtige Frau für dich she's not the right woman for you
    7. (ordentlich) real, proper
    es ist lange her, dass wir einen \richtigen Winter mit viel Schnee hatten it's been ages since we've had a proper winter with lots of snow
    8. (fam: in Ordnung) all right, okay
    ▪ \richtig sein to be all right [or okay]
    unser neuer Lehrer ist \richtig our new teacher is okay; s.a. Kopf
    II. adv
    1. (korrekt) correctly
    Sie haben irgendwie nicht \richtig gerechnet you've miscalculated somehow
    \richtig gehend accurate
    eine \richtig gehende Uhr an accurate watch
    höre ich \richtig? did I hear right?, are my ears deceiving me? fig
    ich höre doch wohl nicht \richtig? excuse me? fam, you must be joking!
    sehr \richtig! quite right!
    2. (angebracht) correctly; (passend a.) right
    der Blumentopf steht da nicht richtig the flowerpot is not in the right place there
    irgendwie sitzt die Bluse nicht richtig somehow the blouse doesn't fit properly
    3. (fam: regelrecht) really
    ich fühle mich von ihr \richtig verarscht I feel she has really taken the piss out of me
    er hat sie \richtig ausgenutzt he has really used her
    \richtig, das war die Lösung right, that was the solution
    * * *
    1.
    1) right; (zutreffend) right; correct; correct < realization>; accurate <prophecy, premonition>

    ja richtig! — yes, that's right

    2) (ordentlich) proper

    nicht ganz richtig [im Kopf od. (ugs.) im Oberstübchen] sein — be not quite right in the head (coll.) or not quite all there (coll.)

    3) (wirklich, echt) real

    du bist ein richtiger Esel — you're a right or proper idiot (coll.)

    2.
    1) right; correctly

    richtig sitzen od. passen — < clothes> fit properly

    richtig liegen — (ugs.) be right

    2) (ordentlich) properly
    3) (richtiggehend) really
    * * *
    A. adj
    1. right; (fehlerfrei) auch correct; (wahr) true;
    die richtige Antwort the right answer;
    richtige Aussprache/Übersetzung correct pronunciation/translation;
    es war richtig von dir, dass du … you did right ( oder it was right of you) to …;
    das finde ich nicht richtig I don’t think it’s right;
    das ist schon richtig, aber … that’s quite right ( oder true), but …;
    so ist’s richtig! umg that’s the idea
    2. (echt, wirklich) real, genuine; (ordentlich) proper;
    das ist nicht ihr richtiger Name that is not her real name;
    ein richtiger Engländer a real ( oder true) Englishman;
    seine richtige Mutter his real ( oder birth) mother;
    er ist ein richtiger Cowboy he is a regular cowboy;
    wir hatten keinen richtigen Sommer we didn’t have any proper ( oder decent) summer;
    ein richtiger Feigling/Idiot umg a proper coward/idiot
    3. (angemessen) appropriate; (geeignet) suitable;
    im richtigen Augenblick at the right moment;
    das ist der richtige Mann! he’s just the man we etc need;
    ist diese Farbe richtig für mich? does this colo(u)r suit me?
    4. (gerecht) fair, right; → Kopf 5
    B. adv
    1. properly, correctly;
    geht deine Uhr richtig? is your watch right?;
    eine richtig gehende Uhr a watch that gives the right time;
    funktioniert nicht richtig the telephone isn’t working properly;
    richtig gerechnet lohnt es sich nicht if you work it out properly, you can see it’s not worth it;
    nicht richtig aussprechen/schreiben not pronounce/spell sth correctly;
    du hörst gar nicht richtig zu you’re not listening (properly);
    ich habe nicht richtig aufgepasst I wasn’t really paying attention;
    sehe ich das richtig? am I right?;
    du kommst gerade richtig! you’ve come at just the right moment; iron you’re the last person I ( oder we) need;
    Sie sind der Chef? - richtig! umg so you’re the boss? - you’ve got it!;
    ach ja, richtig yes, of course ( oder you’re right);
    mal wieder richtig ausschlafen have a really good sleep for once;
    jetzt aber richtig! umg and now do it properly!
    2. (auf die richtige Weise) the right way;
    mach es richtig! do it properly;
    eine Sache richtig anpacken go about sth the right way;
    schlag richtig zu! hit it really hard!
    3. umg (völlig) thoroughly, really; (wirklich) really;
    noch nicht richtig gar not properly cooked, not cooked right (US all the way) through;
    nicht richtig heiß not really hot;
    Catcher tun sich nicht richtig weh all-in (US WWF) wrestlers don’t really hurt one another;
    ich fand ihn richtig nett umg I thought he was really nice;
    sie tat mir richtig leid I was really sorry for her;
    es tat richtig weh it really hurt;
    sie wurde richtig verlegen she was really embarrassed;
    da wurde ich erst richtig böse then I really got angry;
    Scheiße umg now we’re really in a mess
    das Richtige the right thing;
    zum richtigen Zeitpunkt das Richtige tun do the right thing at the right time;
    nichts Richtiges gelernt haben have not learnt (US learned) any proper trade;
    ich habe den ganzen Tag noch nichts Richtiges gegessen umg I haven’t had anything proper to eat all day;
    er ist der Richtige he’s the right man;
    sie ist nicht die Richtige für ihn she’s not right for him;
    du bist mir der Richtige! umg you’re a fine one;
    ich hatte drei Richtige im Lotto I got three numbers right ( oder I matched three numbers) in the lottery; → einzig B
    * * *
    1.
    1) right; (zutreffend) right; correct; correct < realization>; accurate <prophecy, premonition>

    ja richtig! — yes, that's right

    2) (ordentlich) proper

    nicht ganz richtig [im Kopf od. (ugs.) im Oberstübchen] sein — be not quite right in the head (coll.) or not quite all there (coll.)

    3) (wirklich, echt) real

    du bist ein richtiger Esel — you're a right or proper idiot (coll.)

    2.
    1) right; correctly

    richtig sitzen od. passen — < clothes> fit properly

    richtig liegen — (ugs.) be right

    2) (ordentlich) properly
    3) (richtiggehend) really
    * * *
    adj.
    accurate adj.
    appropriate adj.
    correct adj.
    exact adj.
    okay adj.
    proper adj.
    right adj.
    true adj.
    unmitigated adj. adv.
    aright adv.
    correctly adv.
    duly adv.
    justly adv.
    properly adv.
    right adv.
    rightfully adv.
    rightly adv. ausdr.
    O.K. expr.
    OK expr.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > richtig

  • 6 falso

    adj.
    1 false, fake, dummy, counterfeit.
    2 false, delusory, misleading.
    3 false, liar, deceitful, fake.
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: falsar.
    * * *
    1 (no verdadero) false, untrue
    2 (moneda) false, counterfeit; (cuadro, sello) forged
    3 (persona) insincere, false; (sonrisa) false
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 (persona) insincere person
    \
    dar un paso en falso (tropezar) to trip, stumble 2 (cometer un error) to make a mistake, make a wrong move
    en falso (con falsedad) falsely 2 (sin apoyo) without proper support
    jurar en falso to commit perjury
    falsa alarma false alarm
    * * *
    (f. - falsa)
    adj.
    1) false, untrue
    2) fake
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) [acusación, creencia, rumor] false

    falso testimonio — perjury, false testimony

    2) [firma, pasaporte, joya] false, fake; [techo] false; [cuadro] fake; [moneda] counterfeit
    3) (=insincero) [persona] false, insincere; [sonrisa] false
    4) [caballo] vicious
    5)

    en falso: coger a algn en falso — to catch sb in a lie

    dar un paso en falso — (lit) to trip; (fig) to take a false step

    2.
    SM CAm, Méx false evidence
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo
    1)
    a) < billete> counterfeit, forged; < cuadro> forged; < documento> false, forged; <diamante/joya> fake; <cajón/techo> false
    b) ( insincero) < persona> insincere, false; <sonrisa/promesa> false
    2)
    a) ( no cierto) <dato/nombre/declaración> false

    eso es falso — that is not true, that is untrue

    b)

    en falso: jurar en falso to commit perjury; golpear en falso — to miss the mark

    •
    * * *
    = dummy, false, sham, spurious, unauthentic, faked, untrue, bogus, deceitful, pseudo, fake, two-faced, inauthentic, phony [phoney], meretricious, counterfeit, insincere, hocus pocus, specious, dishonest, mendacious, delusional.
    Ex. DOBIS/LIBIS, therefore, assigns them the dummy master number zero.
    Ex. The concept 'Senses' constitutes a false link in the chain.
    Ex. A sham catalog is a disservice to the user, and participating in the creation of a sham catalog is personally degrading to a professional.
    Ex. Examples would include giving a spurious impression of busyness at the reference desk.
    Ex. So, in the bicentennial spirit here's a three-point bill of particulars or grievances (in addition to what was mentioned previously with respect to offensive or unauthentic terms).
    Ex. Libri was accused of stealing manuscripts of unique importance and rarity from French provincial libraries in the 1840s and inserting faked notes of provenance, substituting Italian place names for French ones.
    Ex. Public library collections are of little use to scholars and have failed to provide the communications links that might prove this hypothesis untrue.
    Ex. The article 'A bogus and dismal science, or the eggplant that ate library schools' discusses the reasons for the perennial professional indentity crisis amongst librarians.
    Ex. Again, on the matter of the sources already consulted by the enquirer, the implication is not that he is unreliable or deceitful, but that in looking up the Encyclopedia Americana he may not be aware of the existence of the index.
    Ex. Sometimes authors write ' pseudo abstracts' to meet deadlines for articles or for talks to be delivered.
    Ex. This article deals with the detection of fake letters and documents.
    Ex. This course looks at this two-faced society with guided field trips to cemeteries and to the architecture of Edinburgh's underworld below the great banks and public buildings.
    Ex. Much of the culture of Western democracies has increasingly become inauthentic or phony.
    Ex. Much of the culture of Western democracies has increasingly become inauthentic or phony.
    Ex. The responsibility of the critic must be to maintain rigorous standards, and strive to alert the public to the implications for the future of a market flooded with meretricious productions.
    Ex. Criminal charges are to be brought against 3 people after the seizure of counterfeit copies of British Telecom's PhoneDisc, a CD-ROM database containing the company's 100 or so telephone directories.
    Ex. There is a point when participation may become mere meddling and insincere.
    Ex. The final section of her paper calls attention to the ' hocus pocus' research conducted on many campuses.
    Ex. This comparative frame of reference is specious and irrelevant on several counts.
    Ex. Mostly facsimiles are made without dishonest intent, although some have certainly been intended to deceive, and the ease with which they can be identified varies with the reproduction process used.
    Ex. I love movies like that -- where slowly, gradually, bit by bit, all the characters realize that the villain was really disastrously mendacious and criminal.
    Ex. Despite what false patriots tell us, we now have a delusional democracy, not one that citizens can trust to serve their interests.
    ----
    * abeto falso = spruce.
    * alegación falsa = ipse dixit.
    * charlatanería falsa = cant.
    * crear falsas ilusiones = create + false illusions.
    * dar una falsa impresión = keep up + facade, put on + an act.
    * dar un paso en falso = make + a false move.
    * democracia falsa = travesty democracy.
    * diamante falso = rhinestone.
    * erradicar falsas ideas = erase + misconceptions.
    * erradicar una falsa idea = dispel + idea.
    * falsa alabanza = lip service.
    * falsa ilusión = delusion.
    * falsa política de integración de minorías = tokenism.
    * falsa pretensión = false pretence.
    * falsa sensación de seguridad = false sense of security.
    * falso pretexto = false pretence.
    * falso testimonio = perjury.
    * hablar en falso = speak with + a split tongue, speak with + a forked tongue, speak with + a twisted tongue.
    * hacer un movimiento en falso = make + a false move.
    * idea falsa = misconception, bogus idea, illusion.
    * movimiento en falso = false move.
    * nivel jerárquico falso = false link.
    * paso en falso = false move.
    * pista falsa = red herring.
    * resultar falso = prove + false.
    * sonar falso = have + a hollow ring.
    * toma falsa = outtake.
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo
    1)
    a) < billete> counterfeit, forged; < cuadro> forged; < documento> false, forged; <diamante/joya> fake; <cajón/techo> false
    b) ( insincero) < persona> insincere, false; <sonrisa/promesa> false
    2)
    a) ( no cierto) <dato/nombre/declaración> false

    eso es falso — that is not true, that is untrue

    b)

    en falso: jurar en falso to commit perjury; golpear en falso — to miss the mark

    •
    * * *
    = dummy, false, sham, spurious, unauthentic, faked, untrue, bogus, deceitful, pseudo, fake, two-faced, inauthentic, phony [phoney], meretricious, counterfeit, insincere, hocus pocus, specious, dishonest, mendacious, delusional.

    Ex: DOBIS/LIBIS, therefore, assigns them the dummy master number zero.

    Ex: The concept 'Senses' constitutes a false link in the chain.
    Ex: A sham catalog is a disservice to the user, and participating in the creation of a sham catalog is personally degrading to a professional.
    Ex: Examples would include giving a spurious impression of busyness at the reference desk.
    Ex: So, in the bicentennial spirit here's a three-point bill of particulars or grievances (in addition to what was mentioned previously with respect to offensive or unauthentic terms).
    Ex: Libri was accused of stealing manuscripts of unique importance and rarity from French provincial libraries in the 1840s and inserting faked notes of provenance, substituting Italian place names for French ones.
    Ex: Public library collections are of little use to scholars and have failed to provide the communications links that might prove this hypothesis untrue.
    Ex: The article 'A bogus and dismal science, or the eggplant that ate library schools' discusses the reasons for the perennial professional indentity crisis amongst librarians.
    Ex: Again, on the matter of the sources already consulted by the enquirer, the implication is not that he is unreliable or deceitful, but that in looking up the Encyclopedia Americana he may not be aware of the existence of the index.
    Ex: Sometimes authors write ' pseudo abstracts' to meet deadlines for articles or for talks to be delivered.
    Ex: This article deals with the detection of fake letters and documents.
    Ex: This course looks at this two-faced society with guided field trips to cemeteries and to the architecture of Edinburgh's underworld below the great banks and public buildings.
    Ex: Much of the culture of Western democracies has increasingly become inauthentic or phony.
    Ex: Much of the culture of Western democracies has increasingly become inauthentic or phony.
    Ex: The responsibility of the critic must be to maintain rigorous standards, and strive to alert the public to the implications for the future of a market flooded with meretricious productions.
    Ex: Criminal charges are to be brought against 3 people after the seizure of counterfeit copies of British Telecom's PhoneDisc, a CD-ROM database containing the company's 100 or so telephone directories.
    Ex: There is a point when participation may become mere meddling and insincere.
    Ex: The final section of her paper calls attention to the ' hocus pocus' research conducted on many campuses.
    Ex: This comparative frame of reference is specious and irrelevant on several counts.
    Ex: Mostly facsimiles are made without dishonest intent, although some have certainly been intended to deceive, and the ease with which they can be identified varies with the reproduction process used.
    Ex: I love movies like that -- where slowly, gradually, bit by bit, all the characters realize that the villain was really disastrously mendacious and criminal.
    Ex: Despite what false patriots tell us, we now have a delusional democracy, not one that citizens can trust to serve their interests.
    * abeto falso = spruce.
    * alegación falsa = ipse dixit.
    * charlatanería falsa = cant.
    * crear falsas ilusiones = create + false illusions.
    * dar una falsa impresión = keep up + facade, put on + an act.
    * dar un paso en falso = make + a false move.
    * democracia falsa = travesty democracy.
    * diamante falso = rhinestone.
    * erradicar falsas ideas = erase + misconceptions.
    * erradicar una falsa idea = dispel + idea.
    * falsa alabanza = lip service.
    * falsa ilusión = delusion.
    * falsa política de integración de minorías = tokenism.
    * falsa pretensión = false pretence.
    * falsa sensación de seguridad = false sense of security.
    * falso pretexto = false pretence.
    * falso testimonio = perjury.
    * hablar en falso = speak with + a split tongue, speak with + a forked tongue, speak with + a twisted tongue.
    * hacer un movimiento en falso = make + a false move.
    * idea falsa = misconception, bogus idea, illusion.
    * movimiento en falso = false move.
    * nivel jerárquico falso = false link.
    * paso en falso = false move.
    * pista falsa = red herring.
    * resultar falso = prove + false.
    * sonar falso = have + a hollow ring.
    * toma falsa = outtake.

    * * *
    falso -sa
    A
    1 ‹billete› counterfeit, forged; ‹cuadro› forged
    2 ‹documento› (copiado) false, forged, fake; (alterado) false, forged
    3 (simulado) ‹diamante/joya› fake; ‹bolsillo/cajón/techo› false
    4 (insincero) ‹persona› insincere, false; ‹sonrisa› false; ‹promesa› false
    B
    1 (no cierto) ‹dato/nombre/declaración› false
    eso es falso, nunca afirmé tal cosa that is not true o that is untrue, I never said such a thing
    2
    en falso: jurar en falso to commit perjury
    golpear en falso to miss the mark
    esta tabla está en falso this board isn't properly supported
    la maleta cerró en falso the suitcase didn't shut properly
    el tornillo giraba en falso the screw wouldn't grip
    paso1 m C 1. (↑ paso (1))
    Compuestos:
    feminine false alarm
    feminine false modesty
    masculine ( Der) false testimony, perjury
    no levantar falso testimonio ( Relig) thou shalt not bear false witness
    * * *

     

    falso
    ◊ -sa adjetivo


    ‹ cuadro› forged;
    ‹ documento› false, forged;
    ‹diamante/joya› fake;
    ‹cajón/techo› false

    ‹sonrisa/promesa› false
    c) ( no cierto) ‹dato/nombre/declaración› false;

    ◊ eso es falso that is not true o is untrue;

    falsa alarma false alarm;
    falso testimonio sustantivo masculino (Der) false testimony, perjury
    falso,-a
    I adjetivo
    1 false: eso que dices es falso, what you're saying is wrong
    había un puerta falsa, there was a false door
    nombre falso, assumed name
    2 (persona) insincere: Juan me parece muy falso, I think Juan is insincere
    3 (falsificado) forged
    dinero falso, counterfeit o bogus money
    II m (persona) insincere person, hypocrit
    ♦ Locuciones: en falso, false: jurar en falso, to commit perjury
    ' falso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    cierta
    - cierto
    - falaz
    - falsa
    - fantasma
    - incierta
    - incierto
    - jurar
    - perjurar
    - testimonio
    - colar
    - supuesto
    English:
    absolutely
    - affected
    - bogus
    - counterfeit
    - deceitful
    - disingenuous
    - dud
    - fake
    - false
    - false move
    - faux pas
    - hollow
    - insincere
    - phoney
    - sham
    - slimy
    - spurious
    - two-faced
    - untrue
    - untruthful
    - smooth
    - spruce
    - sycamore
    - trumped-up
    - two
    * * *
    falso, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [afirmación, información, rumor] false, untrue;
    eso que dices es falso what you are saying is not true;
    en falso [falsamente] falsely;
    [sin firmeza] unsoundly;
    si haces un movimiento en falso, disparo one false move and I'll shoot;
    dio un paso en falso y se cayó he missed his footing and fell;
    jurar en falso to commit perjury
    falsa alarma false alarm;
    falso testimonio [en juicio] perjury, false evidence;
    dar falso testimonio to give false evidence
    2. [dinero, firma, cuadro] forged;
    [pasaporte] forged, false; [joyas] fake;
    un diamante falso an imitation diamond
    3. [hipócrita] deceitful;
    no soporto a los falsos amigos que te critican a la espalda I can't stand false friends who criticize you behind your back;
    basta ya de falsa simpatía that's enough of you pretending to be nice;
    Fam Hum
    es más falso que Judas he's a real snake in the grass
    Ling falso amigo false friend;
    falsa modestia false modesty
    4. [simulado] false
    falsa costilla false rib;
    falso estuco [en bricolaje] stick-on plasterwork;
    falso muro false wall;
    falso techo false ceiling
    ♦ nm,f
    [hipócrita] hypocrite
    * * *
    adj
    1 false
    2 joyas fake; documento, firma forged; monedas, billetes counterfeit
    3
    :
    declarar en falso commit perjury
    4 persona false
    * * *
    falso, -sa adj
    1) falaz: false, untrue
    2) : counterfeit, forged
    * * *
    falso adj
    1. (en general) false
    2. (billete, cuadro) forged
    3. (joya) fake
    4. (persona) false / insincere

    Spanish-English dictionary > falso

  • 7 bestätigen

    I v/t
    1. (Aussage, Mitteilung etc.) confirm; (unterstützen) back up; (Vermutung, Theorie etc.) auch bear out, corroborate; ich kann das nur bestätigen I couldn’t agree (with you) more; sich in etw. bestätigt fühlen feel vindicated in s.th.; er sah oder fand sich in seiner Annahme / Meinung bestätigt his assumption was borne out / his opinion was confirmed; jemandem etw. bestätigen give s.o. confirmation of s.th.; Ausnahme
    2. (offiziell bescheinigen) certify; hiermit wird bestätigt, dass... this is to certify that...
    3. WIRTS. (Aufträge) confirm; (Empfang) acknowledge receipt
    4. JUR. (für gültig erklären) Urteil: uphold
    5. jemanden im Amt bestätigen confirm s.o. in office; die Kollegen bestätigten ihn für ein weiteres Jahr ( in seiner Funktion) als Sprecher his colleagues reappointed him as spokesman for another year
    II v/refl be confirmed, be borne out, prove (to be) correct ( oder true); mein Verdacht hat sich nicht bestätigt my suspicion proved ( oder turned out) to be unfounded; er muss sich dauernd selbst bestätigen he constantly has to prove himself
    * * *
    (Gesetz) to ratify;
    (Urteil) to uphold;
    (bekräftigen) to affirm; to corroborate; to confirm;
    (bescheinigen) to certify; to bear witness to; to prove; to bear witness of; to validate; to acknowledge; to verify
    * * *
    be|stä|ti|gen [bə'ʃtɛːtɪgn] ptp bestätigt
    1. vt
    1) Aussage, Verdacht, jdn to confirm; Theorie, Alibi etc to bear out, to corroborate; (JUR ) Urteil to uphold; (COMPUT) Kennwort etc to validate

    bestätigt finden — to be confirmed in sth

    ich hatte angenommen, dass... und fand mich darin bestätigt — I had assumed that... and my assumption was confirmed or borne out

    bestä́tigend — confirmative, confirmatory

    ein bestä́tigendes Kopfnicken — a nod of confirmation

    ... sagte er bestä́tigend —... he said in confirmation

    2) (COMM) Empfang, Brief to acknowledge (receipt of)
    3) (= beurkunden) to confirm, to certify, to attest

    hiermit wird bestätigt, dass... — this is to confirm or certify that...

    jdn ( im Amt) bestä́tigen — to confirm sb's appointment

    4) (= anerkennen) to acknowledge, to recognize
    2. vr
    to be confirmed, to prove true, to be proved true

    das tut er nur, um sich selbst zu bestä́tigen — he only does it to boost his ego

    * * *
    1) (to say (usually in writing) that one has received (something): He acknowledged the letter.) acknowledge
    2) (to annoy or worry: He badgered the authorities until they gave him a new passport.) badger
    3) (to establish or make quite certain: They confirmed their hotel booking by letter.) confirm
    4) (to support or confirm (evidence etc already given): She corroborated her sister's story.) corroborate
    5) (to approve and agree to formally and officially, especially in writing.) ratify
    6) (to confirm the truth or correctness of (something): Can you verify her statement?) verify
    * * *
    be·stä·ti·gen *
    [bəˈʃtɛ:tɪgn̩]
    vt
    1. (für zutreffend erklären)
    ▪ [jdm] etw \bestätigen to confirm [sb's] sth
    eine Theorie \bestätigen to confirm [or bear out] a theory
    ein Alibi \bestätigen to corroborate an alibi
    die Richtigkeit einer S. gen \bestätigen to testify to sth's correctness, to verify sth
    ein Urteil \bestätigen to uphold [or sustain] a sentence
    das Parlament bestätigte den Vertrag the parliament ratified the treaty
    ▪ jdn [in etw dat] \bestätigen to support sb [in sth]
    jdn in seinem Verdacht/seiner Vermutung \bestätigen to confirm sb's suspicion/speculation
    ▪ \bestätigend in confirmation
    ein \bestätigendes Kopfnicken a nod of confirmation
    „hiermit [o hierdurch] wird bestätigt, dass...“ “we hereby confirm [or certify] that...”
    ▪ [jdm] etw \bestätigen to certify sth [for sb]
    [jdm] den Empfang einer S. gen \bestätigen to acknowledge receipt of sth [for sb]; ADMIN to confirm sth [to sb]
    ▪ jdn in etw dat \bestätigen to confirm sb in sth
    jdn im Amt \bestätigen to confirm sb in office
    jdn in einer Stellung \bestätigen to confirm sb's appointment
    * * *
    1.
    transitives Verb confirm; endorse < document>; acknowledge <receipt of letter, money, goods, etc.>

    ein Urteil bestätigen — (Rechtsw.) uphold a judgement

    jemanden [im Amt] bestätigen — confirm somebody's appointment

    einen Brief/eine Bestellung bestätigen — (Kaufmannsspr.) acknowledge [receipt of] a letter/an order

    2.
    reflexives Verb be confirmed; < rumour> prove to be true
    * * *
    A. v/t
    1. (Aussage, Mitteilung etc) confirm; (unterstützen) back up; (Vermutung, Theorie etc) auch bear out, corroborate;
    ich kann das nur bestätigen I couldn’t agree (with you) more;
    sich in etwas bestätigt fühlen feel vindicated in sth;
    fand sich in seiner Annahme/Meinung bestätigt his assumption was borne out/his opinion was confirmed;
    jemandem etwas bestätigen give sb confirmation of sth; → Ausnahme
    2. (offiziell bescheinigen) certify;
    hiermit wird bestätigt, dass … this is to certify that …
    3. WIRTSCH (Aufträge) confirm; (Empfang) acknowledge receipt
    4. JUR (für gültig erklären) Urteil: uphold
    5.
    jemanden im Amt bestätigen confirm sb in office;
    die Kollegen bestätigten ihn für ein weiteres Jahr (in seiner Funktion) als Sprecher his colleagues reappointed him as spokesman for another year
    B. v/r be confirmed, be borne out, prove (to be) correct ( oder true);
    mein Verdacht hat sich nicht bestätigt my suspicion proved ( oder turned out) to be unfounded;
    er muss sich dauernd selbst bestätigen he constantly has to prove himself
    * * *
    1.
    transitives Verb confirm; endorse < document>; acknowledge <receipt of letter, money, goods, etc.>

    ein Urteil bestätigen — (Rechtsw.) uphold a judgement

    jemanden [im Amt] bestätigen — confirm somebody's appointment

    einen Brief/eine Bestellung bestätigen — (Kaufmannsspr.) acknowledge [receipt of] a letter/an order

    2.
    reflexives Verb be confirmed; < rumour> prove to be true
    * * *
    v.
    to acknowledge v.
    to affirm v.
    to bear out v.
    to certify v.
    to confirm v.
    to countersign v.
    to indorse v.
    to ratify v.
    to validate v.
    to verify v.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > bestätigen

  • 8 случай

    (см. также вариант, версия, факт) case, event, occurrence, incident, occasion, chance
    • Безусловно это можно использовать лишь в случае, если... - Of course this applies only if...
    • Безусловно, в некоторых случаях... - In some cases, of course,...
    • Частным случаем все еще является тот, в котором... - A still more restricted case is that in which...
    • В огромном большинстве случаев... - In the vast majority of cases,...
    • В данном случае единственной возможностью является... - For this case, the only recourse is to...
    • В данном случае значение переменной Q не имеет какого-либо элементарного или очевидного объяснения. - In this case the quantity Q has no elementary or obvious meaning.
    • В данном случае можно использовать другой подход. - In this case a different approach can be used.
    • В зависимости от... возникают три случая. - Three cases arise depending on whether...
    • В зависимости от того, действительно ли..., необходимо различать два случая. - Two cases are to be distinguished, according to whether...
    • В качестве дополнительной иллюстрации рассмотрим случай... - As an additional illustration, consider the case of...
    • В лучшем случае, подобные величины представляют (собой)... - At best such values represent...
    • В любом случае, более удовлетворительным является (использовать и т. п.)... - In any case it is more satisfactory to...
    • В любом случае, возможно, было бы правильным сказать, что... - In any case, it is probably fair to say that...
    • В любом случае, очевидно, что... - At any rate, it is clear that...
    • В некоторых случаях более надежные значения для F могут быть получены из... - In some cases more reliable values for F can be obtained from...
    • В некоторых случаях более полезно... - In some cases it is more useful to...
    • В некоторых случаях возможно... - In some cases it is possible to...
    • В некоторых случаях достаточно... - In some cases, it is sufficient to...
    • В некоторых случаях может оказаться необходимым... - It may be necessary in some cases to...
    • В некоторых случаях эти два ограничения... - In some instances the two bounds fall close together...
    • В общем случае будет невозможно (найти и т. п.)... - It will not in general be possible to...
    • В общем случае будет обнаружено, что... - In the general case it will be found that...
    • В общем случае возможно доказать, что... - In general, it is possible to prove that...
    • В общем случае довольно трудно... - Generally, it is rather difficult to...
    • В общем случае мы считаем наилучшим (вычислить и т. п.)... - In general, we find it best to...
    • В общем случае несправедливо, что... - It is not in general true that...
    • В общем случае предполагается, что... - It is generally assumed that...
    • В общем случае рассуждение делают строгим, используя... - For the general case the argument is made precise by use of...
    • В общем случае следует ожидать, что... - In general it should be anticipated that...
    • В общем случае у нас нет оснований ожидать... - In the general case, we cannot reasonably expect...
    • В общем случае это не будет происходить, если только не... - This will not happen, in general, unless...
    • В общем случае это несправедливо. - In general this is not true.
    • В общем случае, рассматриваемом ниже,... - In the general case to be dealt with below,...
    • В обычном (= типичном) случае, например, можно было бы... - In a typical case, for example, one might...
    • В подобном случае могло бы быть проще уточнить... - In such a case, it might be simpler to specify...
    • В подобных случаях было предложено, чтобы... - In such cases it was suggested that...
    • В последнем случае может быть достаточно (вычислить и т. п.)... - In the latter case it may be sufficient to...
    • В простом специальном случае, когда X имеет форму (2.3), мы можем записать... - In the simple special case that X has the form (2.3) we can write...
    • В различных случаях мы обнаружили, что удобно... - We have found it convenient on various occasions to...
    • В следующей главе мы упростим ситуацию, рассматривая случай... - In the next chapter we simplify matters by considering the case of...
    • В случае (а) неравенство (1) доказывается в [2]. - In the case (a) inequality (1) is proved in [2].
    • В случае, если лекция откладывается, вас известят. - You will be given due notice in the event that the lecture is postponed.
    • В соответствии с природой... возникают четыре разных случая. - Four distinct cases arise according to the nature of...
    • В таком случае естественно сказать, что... - In this case it is natural to say that...
    • В таком случае мы часто говорим, что... - In this situation, we often say that...
    • В частных случаях может произойти (что-л). - In particular cases it may happen that...
    • В этой главе мы рассматриваем различные случаи... - In this chapter we consider various cases of...
    • В этом случае мы могли бы определить (= ввести)... - For this case we may define...
    • В этом случае особенно просто... - In this case it is particularly easy to...
    • В этом случае, невозможно более (использовать и т. п.)... - In this case, it is no longer possible to...
    • Важный случай возникает, когда... - An important case occurs when...
    • Во всех случаях общепризнанно, что... - In all cases it is generally recognized that...
    • Во втором случае говорится о... - In the latter case one speaks of...
    • Во многих случаях необходимо знать скорость (= частоту), при которой... - In many cases it is required to know the rate at which...
    • Во многих случаях необходимо обращаться за помощью к приближенным методам. - In many cases it is necessary to resort to approximate methods.
    • Во многих случаях это будет очевидно из простого наблюдения. - In many cases this will be obvious by inspection.
    • Во многих случаях это не имеет значения. - In many cases this is of no importance.
    • Возвращаясь теперь к более общему случаю, где/ когда... - Returning now to the more general case where...
    • Все случаи такого типа покрываются... - All cases of this kind are covered by...
    • Все это возникает как частные случаи (чего-л). - All of these arise as particular cases of...
    • Выберем специальный случай, когда... - Let us choose the special case where...
    • Давайте представим случай, когда... - Let us imagine a case where...
    • Давайте применим наше правило к простому случаю... - Let us now apply our rule to the simple case of...
    • Давайте рассмотрим некоторые частные случаи (чего-л). - Let us look at some particular cases of...
    • Давайте сейчас проведем данную процедуру в специальном случае... - Let us carry out this procedure here for the special case of...
    • Далее, мы кратко рассматриваем случаи, в которых... - Further, we briefly treat cases in which...
    • Данный метод особенно подходит в случае, когда... - The method is particularly appropriate when...
    • Действительно, наиболее типичным является случай, когда... - Indeed, it is typically the case that...
    • Для простоты мы ограничимся случаем... - For simplicity we shall confine ourselves to the case of...
    • До сих пор мы рассматривали лишь случаи, когда... - So far we have considered only cases in which...
    • Другие случаи молено обсудить в подобной манере. - In a similar manner other cases may be discussed.
    • Другим крайним случаем является... - At the other extreme is the case of...
    • Другим частным случаем является тот из... - Another simple case is that of...
    • Другой случай, представляющий для нас интерес, получается, если/ когда... - Another case of interest is obtained if...
    • Если это тот самый случай, то отсюда следует... - This being the case, it follows that...
    • Еще один интересный случай - это (случай)... - A further case of interest is that of...
    • За исключением специальных простых случаев, во всех остальных не является очевидным, действительно ли... - Except in certain simple cases it will not be obvious whether...
    • Зарегистрированы случаи (чего-л). - There are cases on record of...
    • Здесь будет рассмотрен только последний (= второй) случай. - Only the latter case will be treated here.
    • Здесь мы видим простой случай (чего-л). - Here we see a simple case of...
    • й в данном случае это находится в соответствии с... - Again this is in accordance with...
    • Из симметрии в данном случае очевидно, что... - In this case it is obvious from symmetry that...; From symmetry it is obvious that...
    • Имеются несколько специальных случаев, представляющих для нас большой интерес. - There are several special cases of particular interest to us.
    • Имеются случаи, когда... - There are cases when...
    • Имеются случаи, когда можно (показать и т. п.)... - There are cases when it is possible to...
    • Интересны несколько специальных случаев. - Several special cases are of interest.
    • Интересный случай возникает, когда... - An interesting case occurs when...
    • Интересным является случай, когда... - An interesting special case is when...
    • Исследование каждого случая отдельно приводит к... - Examination of each individual case leads to...
    • Итак, мы ограничимся наиболее важным случаем, который... - We therefore confine ourselves to the most important case, which is...
    • К несчастью, встречаются случаи, когда... - Unfortunately there are occasions when...
    • К сожалению, за исключением простейших случаев, довольно трудно (получить и т. п.)... - With the exception of the simplest cases it is, unfortunately, rather difficult to...
    • Критический случай получается, когда... - The critical case is that in which...
    • Между этими двумя весьма крайними случаями лежит большинство... - Between these two rather extreme cases lies the great majority of...
    • Можно отметить три специальных случая. - Three special cases may be noticed. •'
    • Мы до сих пор не рассматривали случай, когда... - We still have not dealt with the case in which...
    • Мы должны отличать последний случай от случая... - This last case should be distinguished from the case of...
    • Мы имеем здесь дело со случаем, когда... - We deal here with the case in which...
    • Мы можем, конечно, применить теорему 1 к случаю, где/ когда... - We can, of course, apply Theorem 1 to the case where...
    • Мы обсуждаем это в общем случае, когда... - We discuss this in the general case when...
    • Мы ограничим наши рассуждения случаем... - We shall restrict our considerations to the case of...
    • Мы очень просто включим сюда все случаи, сказав, что... - We include all cases very simply by saying that...
    • Мы пренебрегаем случаем, когда х < 0. - We disregard the case when x < 0.
    • Мы применим наши результаты к одному простому случаю. - We shall apply our results to a simple case.
    • Мы проиллюстрируем данный метод для случая... - We shall illustrate the procedure for the case of...
    • Мы рассматриваем каждый из этих двух случаев отдельно. - We consider these two cases separately.
    • Мы увидим, что данное исследование применимо также в случае... - It will be observed that this investigation applies also to the case of...
    • Мы уже применили здесь один специальный случай (чего-л). - We have used here a special case of...
    • Мы уже убедились, что в общем случае мы не можем ожидать... - We have already seen that we cannot, in general, expect...
    • На практике мы почти всегда встречаем случай, когда... - In practice, it is almost invariably the case that...
    • Наиболее важным случаем является тот, в котором... - The most important case is that in which...
    • Наиболее заметным (этот) случай становится, когда... - The most conspicuous case occurs when...
    • Простейший и, одновременно, наиболее широко используемый случай это... - The simplest case, and the most widely used, is that of...
    • Нам не известны случаи (чего-л). - No case of... has come to our notice.
    • Наше задание становится существенно сложнее в случае... - The task at hand is more complicated in the case of...
    • Общий случай рассматривается в упражнении 54. - The general case is considered in Exercise 54.
    • Однако в данном случае проделать это затруднительно. - In the present situation, however, it is not feasible to do this.
    • Однако в общем случае мы заинтересованы в измерении других характеристик... - In general, however, we are interested in measuring other properties of...
    • Однако в общем случае эта идея имеет небольшую область приложений. - However, this idea has little application in general.
    • Однако в случае... эти эффекты относительно малы. - These effects are, however, relatively small in the case of...
    • Однако в специальных случаях это затруднение можно обойти. - In special cases, however, this difficulty may be circumvented.
    • Однако во многих случаях мы не знаем... - But in many cases, we do not know...
    • Однако для этих случаев часто более эффективно... - For these cases it is, however, often more efficient to...
    • Однако из экспериментов мы знаем, что бывают случаи, когда... - Experimentally, however, we know that there are cases when...
    • Однако имеется много случаев, когда... - There are, however, many cases in which...
    • Однако имеется один интересный случай, когда... - There is, however, one interesting case in which...
    • Однако имеются два предельных случая, когда... - There are, however, two limiting cases in which...
    • Однако имеются некоторые специальные случаи, когда... - There are, however, some special cases in which...
    • Однако имеются несколько специальных случаев, в которых/ когда... - There are, however, a few specific cases in which...
    • Однако легко обобщить это исследование на случай, когда... - It is easy, however, to generalize this treatment to the case of...
    • Однако существуют важные специальные случаи, когда... - There are, however, important special cases when...
    • Однако это, несомненно, случай... - But this is by no means the case for...
    • Однако, в общем случае, несправедливо, что... - It is not true in general, however, that...
    • Одним важным исключением является случай... - An important exception is the case of...
    • Основные результаты приводятся ниже, сначала для случая... - The main results are stated below, first for the case of...
    • Особенно важным для наших целей является случай, что... - Particularly important for our purposes is the case of...
    • Особенно это тот случай, когда... - This is particularly the case when...
    • Особый интерес вызывают случаи, когда... - Special interest attaches to cases in which...
    • Оставляя в стороне особые случаи, мы... - Leaving these singular cases aside, we...
    • Оставляя этот случай в стороне, получаем, что... - Leaving this case out of consideration, it follows that...
    • Остается рассмотреть случай, когда... - It remains now to deal with the case when...
    • Очевидно, они неприменимы к случаям, где/ когда... - Clearly they do not apply to cases where...
    • Первым и самым простым из этих случаев является случай, когда... - The first of these, and the simplest, is...
    • Подобные случаи могут быть описаны общим уравнением... - Such cases can be covered by the general equation...
    • Поучительно решить эти уравнения в случае... - It is instructive to work out these equations for the case of...
    • Применение данной теории к частным случаям требует... - The application of the theory to particular cases requires...
    • Простейший пример такой ситуации дается специальным случаем... - The simplest example of such a situation is the special case of...
    • Простейшим случаем является тот, когда/в котором... - The simplest case is that in which...
    • С другой стороны, в общем случае не всегда допустимо... - On the other hand, it is not in general permissible to...
    • Ситуация становится проще в случае, когда... - The situation is slightly simpler in the case where...
    • Следовательно в каждом отдельном из этих случаев необходимо... - In each of these cases, therefore, it is necessary to...
    • Следующим простейшим случаем является тот, в котором... - The next simplest case is that in which...
    • Случаем огромного практического интереса является тот, в котором/где/ когда... - A case of great practical interest is that in which...
    • Случаи, имеющие практический интерес, приводятся ниже. - Cases of practical interest are given below.
    • Случай (чего-л) требует специального рассмотрения. - The case of... requires special consideration.
    • Случай этого сорта возникает, когда... - This kind of case arises when...
    • Случай, вызывающий особый интерес, возникает, когда... - A case of special interest arises when...
    • Сначала мы рассматриваем случай... - We first deal with the case of...
    • Существенно более важным случаем является тот, когда... - By far the most important case is that in which...
    • Существуют два случая, когда это должно быть принято во внимание. - There are two situations where this has to be taken into account:
    • Такая связь является простейшей в случае... - This connection is simplest in the case of...
    • Тем не менее, мы говорим в общем случае, что... - Nevertheless, we generally say that...
    • Теорема 2 может быть расширена на случай параболического уравнения. - Theorem 2 can be extended to deal with parabolic equations.
    • Теперь мы можем обобщить (это) на случай... - We can now generalize to the case of...
    • Теперь мы обнаруживаем, что обязаны различать между двумя случаями. - We have now two cases to distinguish.
    • То, что было сказано выше, применяется, в частности, к случаю... - What has been said above applies in particular to...
    • Только что приведенный пример является специальным случаем... - The example just given is a special case of...
    • Нам не представится случай использовать... - We shall not have occasion to use...
    • Уже сформулированные правила молено распространить на случай... - The rules presented so far can be extended to...
    • Частным случаем этой теоремы является... - A particular case of this theorem is that...
    • Что важно в любом из случаев, это... - What is important in either case is that...
    • Чтобы получить практический результат в подобных случаях, мы... - То obtain a practical result in such cases, we...
    • Чтобы рассмотреть общий случай, давайте... - То deal with the general case, let...
    • Чтобы рассмотреть этот случай, мы... - То cover this case, we...
    • Эти результаты теперь могут быть специализированы для случая... - These results can now be specialized to the case of...
    • Это может рассматриваться как специальный случай... - This may now be regarded as a special case of...
    • Это обычный случай. - This is a common occurrence.
    • Это очевидно для случая, когда/где... - This is obvious in the case of...
    • Это практически важный случай, потому что... - This is an important case in practice because...
    • Это просто частный случай (теоремы и т. п.)... - This is simply a particular case of...
    • Это случай, наиболее часто встречающийся на практике. - This is the case that occurs most frequently in practice.
    • Это существенно отличается от конечномерного случая, где... - This is in marked contrast to the finite dimensional case, where...
    • Это удовлетворительно во многих случаях, однако... - This is satisfactory in many instances; however,...
    • Это хорошо подтверждается в случае... - This is well confirmed in the case of...
    • Этого, очевидно, достаточно, чтобы рассмотреть случай.,. - It is obviously enough to consider the case...
    • Этот случай дает прекрасный пример (чего-л). - This case provides an excellent example of...
    • Этот случай хорошо иллюстрируется (чем-л). - This case is neatly illustrated by...

    Русско-английский словарь научного общения > случай

  • 9 Philosophy

       And what I believe to be more important here is that I find in myself an infinity of ideas of certain things which cannot be assumed to be pure nothingness, even though they may have perhaps no existence outside of my thought. These things are not figments of my imagination, even though it is within my power to think of them or not to think of them; on the contrary, they have their own true and immutable natures. Thus, for example, when I imagine a triangle, even though there may perhaps be no such figure anywhere in the world outside of my thought, nor ever have been, nevertheless the figure cannot help having a certain determinate nature... or essence, which is immutable and eternal, which I have not invented and which does not in any way depend upon my mind. (Descartes, 1951, p. 61)
       Let us console ourselves for not knowing the possible connections between a spider and the rings of Saturn, and continue to examine what is within our reach. (Voltaire, 1961, p. 144)
       As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the splitting up of the world into the realms of matter and mind, and the identification of "mind" with conscious thinking. The result of this identification was the shallow rationalism of l'esprit Cartesien, and an impoverishment of psychology which it took three centuries to remedy even in part. (Koestler, 1964, p. 148)
       It has been made of late a reproach against natural philosophy that it has struck out on a path of its own, and has separated itself more and more widely from the other sciences which are united by common philological and historical studies. The opposition has, in fact, been long apparent, and seems to me to have grown up mainly under the influence of the Hegelian philosophy, or, at any rate, to have been brought out into more distinct relief by that philosophy.... The sole object of Kant's "Critical Philosophy" was to test the sources and the authority of our knowledge, and to fix a definite scope and standard for the researches of philosophy, as compared with other sciences.... [But Hegel's] "Philosophy of Identity" was bolder. It started with the hypothesis that not only spiritual phenomena, but even the actual world-nature, that is, and man-were the result of an act of thought on the part of a creative mind, similar, it was supposed, in kind to the human mind.... The philosophers accused the scientific men of narrowness; the scientific men retorted that the philosophers were crazy. And so it came about that men of science began to lay some stress on the banishment of all philosophic influences from their work; while some of them, including men of the greatest acuteness, went so far as to condemn philosophy altogether, not merely as useless, but as mischievous dreaming. Thus, it must be confessed, not only were the illegitimate pretensions of the Hegelian system to subordinate to itself all other studies rejected, but no regard was paid to the rightful claims of philosophy, that is, the criticism of the sources of cognition, and the definition of the functions of the intellect. (Helmholz, quoted in Dampier, 1966, pp. 291-292)
       Philosophy remains true to its classical tradition by renouncing it. (Habermas, 1972, p. 317)
       I have not attempted... to put forward any grand view of the nature of philosophy; nor do I have any such grand view to put forth if I would. It will be obvious that I do not agree with those who see philosophy as the history of "howlers" and progress in philosophy as the debunking of howlers. It will also be obvious that I do not agree with those who see philosophy as the enterprise of putting forward a priori truths about the world.... I see philosophy as a field which has certain central questions, for example, the relation between thought and reality.... It seems obvious that in dealing with these questions philosophers have formulated rival research programs, that they have put forward general hypotheses, and that philosophers within each major research program have modified their hypotheses by trial and error, even if they sometimes refuse to admit that that is what they are doing. To that extent philosophy is a "science." To argue about whether philosophy is a science in any more serious sense seems to me to be hardly a useful occupation.... It does not seem to me important to decide whether science is philosophy or philosophy is science as long as one has a conception of both that makes both essential to a responsible view of the world and of man's place in it. (Putnam, 1975, p. xvii)
       What can philosophy contribute to solving the problem of the relation [of] mind to body? Twenty years ago, many English-speaking philosophers would have answered: "Nothing beyond an analysis of the various mental concepts." If we seek knowledge of things, they thought, it is to science that we must turn. Philosophy can only cast light upon our concepts of those things.
       This retreat from things to concepts was not undertaken lightly. Ever since the seventeenth century, the great intellectual fact of our culture has been the incredible expansion of knowledge both in the natural and in the rational sciences (mathematics, logic).
       The success of science created a crisis in philosophy. What was there for philosophy to do? Hume had already perceived the problem in some degree, and so surely did Kant, but it was not until the twentieth century, with the Vienna Circle and with Wittgenstein, that the difficulty began to weigh heavily. Wittgenstein took the view that philosophy could do no more than strive to undo the intellectual knots it itself had tied, so achieving intellectual release, and even a certain illumination, but no knowledge. A little later, and more optimistically, Ryle saw a positive, if reduced role, for philosophy in mapping the "logical geography" of our concepts: how they stood to each other and how they were to be analyzed....
       Since that time, however, philosophers in the "analytic" tradition have swung back from Wittgensteinian and even Rylean pessimism to a more traditional conception of the proper role and tasks of philosophy. Many analytic philosophers now would accept the view that the central task of philosophy is to give an account, or at least play a part in giving an account, of the most general nature of things and of man. (Armstrong, 1990, pp. 37-38)
       8) Philosophy's Evolving Engagement with Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
       In the beginning, the nature of philosophy's engagement with artificial intelligence and cognitive science was clear enough. The new sciences of the mind were to provide the long-awaited vindication of the most potent dreams of naturalism and materialism. Mind would at last be located firmly within the natural order. We would see in detail how the most perplexing features of the mental realm could be supported by the operations of solely physical laws upon solely physical stuff. Mental causation (the power of, e.g., a belief to cause an action) would emerge as just another species of physical causation. Reasoning would be understood as a kind of automated theorem proving. And the key to both was to be the depiction of the brain as the implementation of multiple higher level programs whose task was to manipulate and transform symbols or representations: inner items with one foot in the physical (they were realized as brain states) and one in the mental (they were bearers of contents, and their physical gymnastics were cleverly designed to respect semantic relationships such as truth preservation). (A. Clark, 1996, p. 1)
       Socrates of Athens famously declared that "the unexamined life is not worth living," and his motto aptly explains the impulse to philosophize. Taking nothing for granted, philosophy probes and questions the fundamental presuppositions of every area of human inquiry.... [P]art of the job of the philosopher is to keep at a certain critical distance from current doctrines, whether in the sciences or the arts, and to examine instead how the various elements in our world-view clash, or fit together. Some philosophers have tried to incorporate the results of these inquiries into a grand synoptic view of the nature of reality and our human relationship to it. Others have mistrusted system-building, and seen their primary role as one of clarifications, or the removal of obstacles along the road to truth. But all have shared the Socratic vision of using the human intellect to challenge comfortable preconceptions, insisting that every aspect of human theory and practice be subjected to continuing critical scrutiny....
       Philosophy is, of course, part of a continuing tradition, and there is much to be gained from seeing how that tradition originated and developed. But the principal object of studying the materials in this book is not to pay homage to past genius, but to enrich one's understanding of central problems that are as pressing today as they have always been-problems about knowledge, truth and reality, the nature of the mind, the basis of right action, and the best way to live. These questions help to mark out the territory of philosophy as an academic discipline, but in a wider sense they define the human predicament itself; they will surely continue to be with us for as long as humanity endures. (Cottingham, 1996, pp. xxi-xxii)
       In his study of ancient Greek culture, The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche drew what would become a famous distinction, between the Dionysian spirit, the untamed spirit of art and creativity, and the Apollonian, that of reason and self-control. The story of Greek civilization, and all civilizations, Nietzsche implied, was the gradual victory of Apollonian man, with his desire for control over nature and himself, over Dionysian man, who survives only in myth, poetry, music, and drama. Socrates and Plato had attacked the illusions of art as unreal, and had overturned the delicate cultural balance by valuing only man's critical, rational, and controlling consciousness while denigrating his vital life instincts as irrational and base. The result of this division is "Alexandrian man," the civilized and accomplished Greek citizen of the later ancient world, who is "equipped with the greatest forces of knowledge" but in whom the wellsprings of creativity have dried up. (Herman, 1997, pp. 95-96)

    Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Philosophy

  • 10 ocultar

    v.
    1 to hide.
    ocultar algo a alguien to hide something from somebody
    le ocultaron la verdad they concealed the truth from him
    Ilse cubre la verdad Ilse covers up the truth.
    2 to cover up (delito).
    3 to hush, to hide.
    Ilse cubre la verdad Ilse covers up the truth.
    * * *
    1 (gen) to hide, conceal
    * * *
    verb
    to conceal, hide
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) [+ objeto, mancha] to hide (a, de from)
    conceal (a, de from)
    2) [+ sentimientos, intenciones] to hide, conceal
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) <noticia/verdad>
    b) <sentimientos/intenciones> to conceal, hide
    c) ( de la vista) to conceal, hide
    2.
    ocultarse v pron
    a) persona to hide
    b) ( estar oculto) to hide, lie hidden
    c) sol to disappear
    * * *
    = bury, cover, disguise, hide, obscure, withhold, ensconce, conceal, mask, secrete, tuck away, dissimulate, whitewash, hide out, blot out, dissemble, cache.
    Ex. All of the early works on rock music are buried under the heading for JAZZ, and the early works on linguistics are buried under the heading LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES.
    Ex. Kitano burst out laughing to cover her obvious blushing embarrassment, and she was soon encircled with laughter.
    Ex. But when the other approaches were examined and analyzed with care, it turned out that another 16 percent were disguised subject searches.
    Ex. These complications were not hidden or implicit; they were clearly set out at the beginning of the volume under 'Rules for the Compilation of the Catalog'.
    Ex. A pseudonym is the name assumed by an author to conceal or obscure his or her identity.
    Ex. It was agreed to withhold supplies from booksellers who offered new books at a discount greater than the 10 per cent usually allowed for cash.
    Ex. The foreman ensconced in one of the cages and the master-printer in the other.
    Ex. He merely said, striving to conceal his anger: 'I'll see what I can do'.
    Ex. The categories available for classifying legal problems simply mask the incoherency and indeterminacy of legal doctrine, inhibit the growth of the law and create injustice by causing unequal situations to be treated as if they were equal.
    Ex. Motion picture loops can be expensive and small enough to secrete.
    Ex. It is rumoured to be, at least in part, tucked away in one of the attics of the Science Library, a forgotten monument to a great but unsuccessful idea = Se rumorea que se encuentra oculto, al menos en parte, en uno de los áticos de la Biblioteca de Ciencias, monumento olvidado a una gran idea pero sin éxito.
    Ex. He highlights the fact that the amount of time spent lying, dissimulating, and conforming in matters of religious faith was a huge issue in the 16th century.
    Ex. A number of volumes whitewashing this fascist wartime state were published in 2001.
    Ex. It tells the story of a young detective who stumbles across a stash of jewel thieves hiding out in an abandoned house.
    Ex. Las Vegas was once notorious for loose morals, fast living and financial transactions murky enough to blot out the desert sun.
    Ex. On Sunday it was Vice President Cheney who dissembled about the impact of the tax cuts on the federal budget deficit and the relative size of the deficit.
    Ex. Previous studies in which squirrels were provisioned with an abundant supply of food found a reduction in the rate of caching.
    ----
    * no ocultar las preferencias de Uno sobre Algo = make + no bones about + Algo.
    * ocultar Algo a = keep + Nombre + a secret from.
    * ocultar la identidad = conceal + identity.
    * ocultar las cosas = sweep + things under the rug.
    * ocultar los sentimientos de Uno = bury + Posesivo + feelings.
    * ocultarse = go into + hiding.
    * ocultarse detrás de = hide behind.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) <noticia/verdad>
    b) <sentimientos/intenciones> to conceal, hide
    c) ( de la vista) to conceal, hide
    2.
    ocultarse v pron
    a) persona to hide
    b) ( estar oculto) to hide, lie hidden
    c) sol to disappear
    * * *
    = bury, cover, disguise, hide, obscure, withhold, ensconce, conceal, mask, secrete, tuck away, dissimulate, whitewash, hide out, blot out, dissemble, cache.

    Ex: All of the early works on rock music are buried under the heading for JAZZ, and the early works on linguistics are buried under the heading LANGUAGE AND LANGUAGES.

    Ex: Kitano burst out laughing to cover her obvious blushing embarrassment, and she was soon encircled with laughter.
    Ex: But when the other approaches were examined and analyzed with care, it turned out that another 16 percent were disguised subject searches.
    Ex: These complications were not hidden or implicit; they were clearly set out at the beginning of the volume under 'Rules for the Compilation of the Catalog'.
    Ex: A pseudonym is the name assumed by an author to conceal or obscure his or her identity.
    Ex: It was agreed to withhold supplies from booksellers who offered new books at a discount greater than the 10 per cent usually allowed for cash.
    Ex: The foreman ensconced in one of the cages and the master-printer in the other.
    Ex: He merely said, striving to conceal his anger: 'I'll see what I can do'.
    Ex: The categories available for classifying legal problems simply mask the incoherency and indeterminacy of legal doctrine, inhibit the growth of the law and create injustice by causing unequal situations to be treated as if they were equal.
    Ex: Motion picture loops can be expensive and small enough to secrete.
    Ex: It is rumoured to be, at least in part, tucked away in one of the attics of the Science Library, a forgotten monument to a great but unsuccessful idea = Se rumorea que se encuentra oculto, al menos en parte, en uno de los áticos de la Biblioteca de Ciencias, monumento olvidado a una gran idea pero sin éxito.
    Ex: He highlights the fact that the amount of time spent lying, dissimulating, and conforming in matters of religious faith was a huge issue in the 16th century.
    Ex: A number of volumes whitewashing this fascist wartime state were published in 2001.
    Ex: It tells the story of a young detective who stumbles across a stash of jewel thieves hiding out in an abandoned house.
    Ex: Las Vegas was once notorious for loose morals, fast living and financial transactions murky enough to blot out the desert sun.
    Ex: On Sunday it was Vice President Cheney who dissembled about the impact of the tax cuts on the federal budget deficit and the relative size of the deficit.
    Ex: Previous studies in which squirrels were provisioned with an abundant supply of food found a reduction in the rate of caching.
    * no ocultar las preferencias de Uno sobre Algo = make + no bones about + Algo.
    * ocultar Algo a = keep + Nombre + a secret from.
    * ocultar la identidad = conceal + identity.
    * ocultar las cosas = sweep + things under the rug.
    * ocultar los sentimientos de Uno = bury + Posesivo + feelings.
    * ocultarse = go into + hiding.
    * ocultarse detrás de = hide behind.

    * * *
    ocultar [A1 ]
    vt
    1 ‹noticia/verdad› ocultarle algo A algn to conceal sth FROM sb
    ¿por qué me lo ocultaste? why did you conceal it from me?
    2 (disimular) ‹sentimientos/intenciones› to conceal, hide
    3 (de la vista) to conceal, hide
    «persona» to hide
    el sol se ocultó detrás de las nubes the sun disappeared behind the clouds
    tras esa sonrisa se oculta una mala intención behind that smile there lie dishonest intentions
    * * *

     

    ocultar ( conjugate ocultar) verbo transitivo ( en general) to conceal, hide;
    ‹ persona› to hide;
    ocultarle algo A algn to conceal o hide sth from sb
    ocultarse verbo pronominal



    ocultar verbo transitivo to conceal, hide: no nos ocultes la verdad, don't hide the truth from us
    ' ocultar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    pantalla
    - silenciar
    - solapar
    - soterrar
    - tapar
    - disfrazar
    - escamotear
    English:
    blot out
    - conceal
    - dark
    - hide
    - hold back
    - impatience
    - keep from
    - mask
    - obscure
    - screen
    - secret
    - secrete
    - suppress
    - withhold
    - cover
    - disguise
    - keep
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [esconder] to conceal, to hide;
    ocultar algo a alguien to conceal o hide sth from sb
    2. [información, noticia] to conceal, to hide;
    ocultar algo a alguien to conceal o hide sth from sb;
    le ocultaron la verdad they concealed the truth from him
    3. [sorpresa, irritación] to conceal, to hide;
    oculté mis verdaderos sentimientos I concealed my true feelings
    4. [delito] to cover up
    * * *
    v/t hide, conceal
    * * *
    esconder: to conceal, to hide
    * * *
    ocultar vb to hide [pt. hid; pp. hidden]

    Spanish-English dictionary > ocultar

  • 11 cover

    1.
    ['kʌvə(r)]noun
    1) (piece of cloth) Decke, die; (of cushion, bed) Bezug, der; (lid) Deckel, der; (of hole, engine, typewriter, etc.) Abdeckung, die

    put a cover on or over — zudecken; abdecken [Loch, Fußboden, Grab, Fahrzeug, Maschine]; beziehen [Kissen, Bett]

    2) (of book) Einband, der; (of magazine) Umschlag, der; (of record) [Platten]hülle, die

    on the [front/back] cover — auf dem [vorderen/hinteren] Buchdeckel; (of magazine) auf der Titelseite/hinteren Umschlagseite

    3) (Post): (envelope) [Brief]umschlag, der

    under plain cover — in neutralem Umschlag

    [send something] under separate cover — [etwas] mit getrennter Post [schicken]

    4) in pl. (bedclothes) Bettzeug, das
    5) (hiding place, shelter) Schutz, der

    take cover [from something] — Schutz [vor etwas (Dat.)] suchen

    [be/go] under cover — (from bullets etc.) in Deckung [sein/gehen]

    under cover — (from rain) überdacht [Sitzplatz]; regengeschützt

    under cover of darkness — im Schutz der Dunkelheit

    6) (Mil.): (supporting force) Deckung, die
    7) (protection) Deckung, die

    give somebody/something cover — jemandem Deckung geben

    8) (pretence) Vorwand, der; (false identity, screen) Tarnung, die

    [insurance] cover — Versicherung, die

    10) (of song etc.)

    cover [version] — Coverversion, die

    2. transitive verb

    the roses are covered with greenfly — die Rosen sind voller Blattläuse

    somebody is covered in or with confusion/shame — (fig.) jmd. ist ganz verlegen/sehr beschämt

    2) (conceal, lit. or fig.) verbergen; (for protection) abdecken
    3) (travel) zurücklegen
    4) in p.p. (having roof) überdacht
    5) (deal with) behandeln; (include) abdecken
    6) (Journ.) berichten über (+ Akk.)
    7)

    £10 will cover my needs for the journey — 10 Pfund werden für die Reisekosten reichen

    8) (shield) decken
    9)

    cover oneself — (fig.) sich absichern; (Insurance)

    10) (aim gun at) in Schach halten (ugs.)
    11) (record new version of) covern
    Phrasal Verbs:
    - academic.ru/85790/cover_for">cover for
    * * *
    1. verb
    1) (to put or spread something on, over or in front of: They covered (up) the body with a sheet; My shoes are covered in paint.) bedecken
    2) (to be enough to pay for: Will 10 dollars cover your expenses?) decken
    3) (to travel: We covered forty miles in one day.) zurücklegen
    4) (to stretch over a length of time etc: His diary covered three years.) sich erstrecken über
    5) (to protect: Are we covered by your car insurance?) decken
    6) (to report on: I'm covering the race for the local newspaper.) berichten über
    7) (to point a gun at: I had him covered.) in Schach halten
    2. noun
    1) (something which covers, especially a cloth over a table, bed etc: a table-cover; a bed-cover; They replaced the cover on the manhole.) die Decke
    2) (something that gives protection or shelter: The soldiers took cover from the enemy gunfire; insurance cover.) die Deckung
    3) (something that hides: He escaped under cover of darkness.) der Schutz
    •
    - coverage
    - covering
    - cover-girl
    - cover story
    - cover-up
    * * *
    cov·er
    [ˈkʌvəʳ, AM -ɚ]
    I. n
    1. (spread) Abdeckung f; (flexible plastic case) Plane f; (for smaller objects) Hülle f; (cloth case) Kleiderhülle f; (protective top) Deckel m; (for bed) [Bett]decke f, Duvet nt SCHWEIZ; (for armchair, sofa) [Schon]bezug m
    cushion \cover Kissenbezug m, Polsterüberzug m ÖSTERR
    manhole \cover Schachtdeckel m
    quilt [or duvet] \cover Bettdeckenbezug m, Duvetbezug m SCHWEIZ
    ▪ the \covers pl das Bettzeug
    Ann burrowed down beneath the \covers Ann zog sich die Decke über den Kopf
    he threw back the \covers er warf die Bettdecke zurück
    3. (of a book) Einband m; of a magazine Titelseite f, Cover nt
    hard \cover gebundenes Buch, Hardcover nt
    soft \cover Taschenbuch nt
    to read a book from \cover to \cover ein Buch vom Anfang bis zum Ende lesen [o in einem durchlesen
    4. (envelope) Briefumschlag m, Couvert nt SCHWEIZ, Kuvert nt ÖSTERR
    under plain \cover in neutralem Umschlag
    under separate \cover mit getrennter Post
    5. no pl (shelter) Schutz m
    not many of the seats are under \cover nicht viele Sitze sind überdacht; (concealed)
    he ordered his men to stay under \cover er befahl seinen Männern, in ihren Verstecken zu bleiben
    under \cover of darkness im Schutz der Dunkelheit
    to take \cover somewhere sich akk irgendwo unterstellen
    I took \cover behind a wall/in a ditch/under the table ich versteckte mich hinter einer Wand/in einem Graben/unter dem Tisch
    6. no pl (for animals to hide) Dickicht nt, Unterholz nt
    to break \cover aus dem [schützenden] Unterholz hervorbrechen
    7. (concealing true identity) Tarnung f
    under \cover as getarnt als
    to blow sb's \cover jdn enttarnen [o auffliegen lassen
    8. no pl MIL Deckung f; (from bombs, gun attacks) Feuerschutz m
    9. no pl esp BRIT (insurance) Versicherungsschutz m, Deckung f
    do you have \cover against theft? sind Sie gegen Diebstahl versichert?
    to ask for additional \cover zusätzliche Deckung verlangen
    full \cover voller Versicherungsschutz
    third-party \cover Haftpflichtversicherung f
    comprehensive \cover Vollkaskoversicherung f
    to have \cover versichert sein, Versicherungsschutz haben
    to operate without adequate \cover keinen ausreichenden Versicherungsschutz haben
    10. ECON, FIN (security) Abdeckung f, Absicherung f
    do you have sufficient \cover for this loan? haben Sie ausreichende Sicherheiten für diesen Kredit?
    11. no pl (substitute) Vertretung f
    to provide \cover for sb jdn vertreten
    to provide emergency \cover einen Notdienst aufrechterhalten, eine Notfallversorgung gewährleisten
    12. MUS (recording) Coverversion f
    13.
    ▶ never judge a book by its \cover man sollte niemals nur nach dem Äußeren urteilen
    II. vt
    ▪ to \cover sth/sb etw/jdn bedecken; (against dust also) etw überziehen
    snow \covered the hills Schnee bedeckte die Hügel
    ▪ to be \covered [in [or with]] sth [mit etw dat] bedeckt sein
    my hands are \covered in ink/mud/paint meine Hände sind voller Tinte/Schlamm/Farbe
    how much of the Earth's surface is \covered by water? wie viel Prozent der Erdoberfläche liegt unter Wasser?
    \covered with blood voll Blut, blutig
    2. (to protect)
    ▪ to \cover sth/sb [with sth] etw/jdn [mit etw dat] abdecken
    they \covered him with a blanket sie deckten ihn mit einer Decke zu
    to \cover one's eyes/face with one's hands die Augen/das Gesicht mit den Händen bedecken
    3. (in order to hide)
    ▪ to \cover sth etw verdecken; ( fig) one's confusion etw überspielen
    4. (extend over)
    ▪ to \cover sth sich akk über etw akk erstrecken
    London \covers 1579 square kilometres [of land] London erstreckt sich über 1579 Quadratkilometer; ( fig)
    the new office will \cover the whole of Scotland das neue Büro ist für ganz Schottland zuständig
    to \cover a lot of ground eine große Strecke zurücklegen; (make progress) gut vorankommen; (be wide-ranging) sehr umfassend sein
    during the meeting we \covered a lot of ground wir sind bei der Sitzung gut vorangekommen
    to \cover 20 kilometres in two hours 20 km in zwei Stunden fahren
    6. (deal with)
    ▪ to \cover sth sich akk mit etw dat befassen, etw behandeln
    this leaflet \covers what we've just discussed in more detail in der Broschüre finden Sie Informationen zu dem, was wir gerade ausführlich besprochen haben
    do these parking restrictions \cover residents as well as visitors? gelten die Parkbeschränkungen sowohl für Anlieger als auch für Besucher?
    the new regulations \cover precisely where and when protest marches can take place in den neuen Regelungen ist genau festgehalten, wo und wann Protestmärsche stattfinden dürfen
    7. (be enough for)
    ▪ to \cover sth etw [ab]decken
    to \cover the costs die Kosten decken
    here's £20, will that \cover it? hier sind 20 Pfund, wird das reichen?
    ▪ to \cover sth über etw akk berichten
    the journalist was in Vietnam, \covering the war er war Kriegsberichterstatter in Vietnam
    9. (insure)
    ▪ to \cover sb/sth [against [or for] sth] jdn/etw [gegen etw akk] versichern
    are we \covered for accidental damage? sind wir gegen Unfallschäden versichert?
    the damage was \covered by the insurance der Schaden wurde von der Versicherung bezahlt
    to be fully \covered vollen Versicherungsschutz haben
    10. (earn enough to pay) etw [ab]decken [o sichern]
    the dividend is \covered four times das Verhältnis Gewinn-Dividende ist 4:1
    ▪ to \cover oneself [against sth] sich akk [gegen etw akk] absichern
    she tried to \cover herself by saying that... sie versuchte sich damit herauszureden, dass...
    12. MIL
    ▪ to \cover sb/sth jdn/etw decken; (give covering fire) jdm/etw Feuerschutz geben
    \cover me! gib mir Deckung!
    to \cover sb's retreat jds Rückzug decken
    13. (aim weapon at)
    ▪ to \cover sb seine Waffe auf jdn/etw richten
    hands up! I've got you \covered! Hände hoch! meine Waffe ist auf Sie gerichtet!
    14. (watch)
    ▪ to \cover sth etw bewachen
    15. (do sb's job)
    ▪ to \cover sth [for sb] etw [für jdn] übernehmen
    could you \cover my shift for me tomorrow? könnten Sie morgen meine Schicht übernehmen?
    16. (adopt song)
    to \cover a song einen Song covern fachspr, von einem Lied eine Coverversion aufnehmen
    17. ZOOL
    to \cover an animal ein Tier decken
    18.
    ▶ to \cover one's back sich absichern fig
    ▶ to \cover oneself with glory sich akk mit Ruhm bedecken
    ▶ to \cover a multitude of sins viel Unschönes verbergen
    ▶ to \cover one's tracks seine Spuren verwischen
    III. vi
    to \cover well/badly paint gut/schlecht decken
    * * *
    ['kʌvə(r)]
    1. n
    1) (= lid) Deckel m; (of lens) (Schutz)kappe f; (= loose cover on chair) Bezug m; (= cloth for typewriter, umbrella etc) Hülle f; (on lorries, tennis court) Plane f; (= sheet over merchandise, shop counter) Decke f, Tuch nt; (= blanket, quilt) (Bett)decke f

    he put a cover over her/it — er deckte sie/es zu

    2) (of book) Einband m; (of magazine) Umschlag m; (= dust cover) (Schutz)umschlag m

    to read a book from cover to cover — ein Buch von Anfang bis Ende or von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite lesen

    on the cover — auf dem Einband/Umschlag; (of magazine) auf der Titelseite, auf dem Titel(blatt)

    3) (COMM: envelope) Umschlag m
    4) no pl (= shelter, protection) Schutz m (from vor +dat, gegen); (MIL) Deckung f (from vor +dat, gegen)

    to take cover (from rain) — sich unterstellen, Schutz suchen (from vor +dat ); (Mil) in Deckung gehen (from vor +dat )

    these plants/the car should be kept under cover — diese Pflanzen sollten/das Auto sollte abgedeckt sein or (under roof)

    5) (HUNT) Deckung f

    to break cover — aus der Deckung hervorbrechen

    6) (Brit: place at meal) Gedeck nt

    she laid covers for six — sie deckte für sechs Personen, sie legte sechs Gedecke auf

    7) (Brit) (COMM, FIN) Deckung f; (= insurance cover) Versicherung f
    8) (= assumed identity) Tarnung f; (= front organization also) Deckung f
    9) (MUS) Coverversion f
    2. vt
    1) (= put cover on) bedecken; (= cover over) zudecken; (with loose cover) chair etc beziehen

    a covered wagon/way — ein Planwagen m

    you're all covered with dog hairs — du bist voller Hundehaare

    2) (= hide) surprise verbergen; mistake, tracks also verdecken
    3) (= protect) decken

    he only said that to cover himself — er hat das nur gesagt, um sich abzudecken or zu decken

    4) (= point a gun at etc) door etc sichern; sb decken; (= be on guard near) sichern

    I've got you covered! (with gun etc) — ich hab auf dich angelegt; ( fig, Chess etc ) ich hab dich

    5) (FIN) loan decken; expenses, costs also abdecken; (INSUR) versichern

    will £30 cover the drinks? — reichen £ 30 für die Getränke?

    he gave me £30 to cover the drinks — er gab mir £ 30 für Getränke

    6) (= take in, include) behandeln; (law also) erfassen; (= allow for, anticipate) possibilities, eventualities vorsehen
    7) (PRESS: report on) berichten über (+acc)
    8) (= travel) miles, distance zurücklegen
    9) (salesman etc) territory zuständig sein für
    10) (MUS) song neu interpretieren
    11) (animals = copulate with) decken
    12) (= play a higher card than) überbieten
    * * *
    cover [ˈkʌvə(r)]
    A s
    1. Decke f
    2. weitS. (Pflanzen-, Schnee-, Wolken- etc) Decke f
    3. Deckel m:
    under cover GASTR zugedeckt
    4. a) (Buch) Decke(l) f(m), Einband m:
    from cover to cover von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite
    b) Umschlag- oder Titelseite f
    c) (Schutz)Umschlag m
    5. Umhüllung f, Hülle f, Futteral n, Kappe f
    6. Überzug m, Bezug m
    7. a) TECH Schutzhaube f oder -platte f
    b) Abdeckhaube f (eines Plattenspielers etc)
    c) Schutzmantel m (von elektrischen Röhren)
    d) AUTO (Reifen) Decke f, Mantel m
    8. Briefumschlag m, Kuvert n:
    under same cover mit gleichem Schreiben, beiliegend;
    under separate cover mit getrennter Post;
    under plain cover in neutralem Umschlag
    9. under cover of unter der (Deck)Adresse von ( → A 16)
    10. Faltbrief m
    11. Philatelie: Ganzsache f
    12. Schutz m, Obdach n, Dach n:
    get under cover sich unterstellen
    13. Schutz m ( from gegen, vor dat):
    under cover of night im Schutze der Nacht
    14. MIL
    a) auch allg Deckung f ( from vor dat):
    take cover in Deckung gehen, Deckung nehmen;
    take cover! (in) Deckung!
    b) Sicherung f, Abschirmung f
    15. JAGD
    a) Lager n (von Wild)
    b) (schützendes) Dickicht:
    break cover ins Freie treten
    16. fig Tarnung f, Deckmantel m, Vorwand m:
    under cover of unter dem Deckmantel (gen), getarnt als ( → A 9);
    blow one’s cover auffliegen umg (Agent etc)
    17. Gedeck n (bei Tisch)
    18. WIRTSCH Deckung f, Sicherheit f:
    cover funds Deckungsmittel;
    cover ratio Deckungsverhältnis n (einer Währung)
    19. Versicherungsrecht: Abdeckung f, Versicherungsschutz m ( against gegen)
    B v/t
    1. ab-, be-, zudecken ( alle:
    with mit):
    covered with voll von;
    covered with dust staubbedeckt;
    covered in sweat schweißbedeckt, -gebadet;
    remain covered den Hut aufbehalten;
    cover o.s. with glory fig sich mit Ruhm bedecken oder bekleckern;
    cover a roof ein Dach decken; → glory A 1
    2. eine Fläche bedecken, einnehmen, sich über eine Fläche, auch eine Zeitspanne erstrecken
    3. Papier, Seiten vollschreiben
    4. überziehen, umwickeln, umhüllen, umspinnen:
    covered buttons überzogene Knöpfe
    5. einhüllen, -wickeln, -schlagen ( alle:
    in, with in akk)
    6. a) verdecken, -bergen (auch fig)
    b) oft cover up fig verhüllen, -hehlen, bemänteln:
    cover (up) one’s mistakes;
    cover up a scandal einen Skandal vertuschen
    7. auch fig (o.s. sich) decken, schützen ( beide:
    from, against vor dat, gegen):
    cover o.s. fig sich absichern
    8. MIL
    a) den Rückzug etc decken, schützen, abschirmen, sichern
    b) auch allg jemanden decken, jemandem Deckung geben
    c) ein Gebiet beherrschen, im Schussfeld haben
    d) ein Gelände bestreichen, (mit Feuer) belegen
    9. zielen auf (akk), in Schach halten:
    10. WIRTSCH Kosten decken, bestreiten:
    cover a loss einen Verlust decken;
    cover debts Schulden (ab)decken
    11. WIRTSCH versichern, abdecken ( beide:
    against gegen):
    be covered Versicherungsschutz haben oder genießen
    12. decken, genügen oder ausreichen für:
    13. umfassen, umschließen, einschließen, beinhalten, enthalten, behandeln:
    14. (statistisch, mit Radar, Werbung etc) erfassen
    15. ein Thema erschöpfend behandeln
    16. Presse, RADIO, TV berichten über (akk):
    17. eine Strecke zurücklegen:
    cover the ground fig alles (gründlich) durchnehmen oder bearbeiten oder behandeln;
    a) eine große Strecke zurücklegen,
    b) fig viel umfassen, weit gehen oder reichen
    18. einen Bezirk bereisen, bearbeiten:
    19. ein Gebiet versorgen, operieren in (dat):
    20. SPORT einen Gegenspieler decken
    21. jemanden beschatten, beobachten
    22. ZOOL ein Weibchen decken, bespringen, eine Stute beschälen
    23. BIBEL eine Sünde vergeben, auslöschen
    C v/i
    1. TECH decken:
    2. SPORT decken
    3. cover for einspringen für, vertreten
    * * *
    1.
    ['kʌvə(r)]noun
    1) (piece of cloth) Decke, die; (of cushion, bed) Bezug, der; (lid) Deckel, der; (of hole, engine, typewriter, etc.) Abdeckung, die

    put a cover on or over — zudecken; abdecken [Loch, Fußboden, Grab, Fahrzeug, Maschine]; beziehen [Kissen, Bett]

    2) (of book) Einband, der; (of magazine) Umschlag, der; (of record) [Platten]hülle, die

    on the [front/back] cover — auf dem [vorderen/hinteren] Buchdeckel; (of magazine) auf der Titelseite/hinteren Umschlagseite

    3) (Post): (envelope) [Brief]umschlag, der

    [send something] under separate cover — [etwas] mit getrennter Post [schicken]

    4) in pl. (bedclothes) Bettzeug, das
    5) (hiding place, shelter) Schutz, der

    take cover [from something] — Schutz [vor etwas (Dat.)] suchen

    [be/go] under cover — (from bullets etc.) in Deckung [sein/gehen]

    under cover — (from rain) überdacht [Sitzplatz]; regengeschützt

    6) (Mil.): (supporting force) Deckung, die
    7) (protection) Deckung, die

    give somebody/something cover — jemandem Deckung geben

    8) (pretence) Vorwand, der; (false identity, screen) Tarnung, die

    [insurance] cover — Versicherung, die

    10) (of song etc.)

    cover [version] — Coverversion, die

    2. transitive verb

    somebody is covered in or with confusion/shame — (fig.) jmd. ist ganz verlegen/sehr beschämt

    2) (conceal, lit. or fig.) verbergen; (for protection) abdecken
    3) (travel) zurücklegen
    4) in p.p. (having roof) überdacht
    5) (deal with) behandeln; (include) abdecken
    6) (Journ.) berichten über (+ Akk.)
    7)

    £10 will cover my needs for the journey — 10 Pfund werden für die Reisekosten reichen

    8) (shield) decken
    9)

    cover oneself — (fig.) sich absichern; (Insurance)

    10) (aim gun at) in Schach halten (ugs.)
    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    n.
    Abdeckung f.
    Decke -n f.
    Deckel - m.
    Hülle -- f.
    Schutz m.
    Titel -- m.
    Umschlag -¨e m.
    Zeitungsmantel m.
    Überzug -¨e m. v.
    bedecken v.
    bespannen (mit Stoff...) v.
    decken v.
    umfassen v.
    überziehen v.

    English-german dictionary > cover

См. также в других словарях:

  • True name — A true name is a name of a thing or being that expresses, or is somehow identical with, its true nature. The notion that language, or some specific sacred language, refers to things by their true names has been central to magic, religious… …   Wikipedia

  • True History of the Kelly Gang — infobox Book | name = True History of the Kelly Gang title orig = translator = image caption = author = Peter Carey illustrator = cover artist = country = Australia language = English series = genre = Crime, historical novel publisher =… …   Wikipedia

  • All That Fall — is a one act radio play by Samuel Beckett produced following a request [It has been reported that Beckett wrote this play following a commission from the BBC. This is not correct. Hugh Kenner advises that Beckett had written only some of his… …   Wikipedia

  • Ethan Haas Was Right — Mezin redirects here. For the commune in France, see Mézin. Ethan Haas Was Right (EHWR) is a viral marketing campaign developed by Mind Storm Labs to promote its role playing game Alpha Omega: The Beginning and The End. It involves an apocalypse… …   Wikipedia

  • The Religion of Shakespeare (Was Shakespeare Catholic?) —     The Religion of Shakespeare     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Religion of Shakespeare     Of both Milton and Shakespeare it was stated after their deaths, upon Protestant (Protestantism) authority, that they had professed Catholicism. In… …   Catholic encyclopedia

  • Chappaquiddick incident — Location Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Date July 18, 1969 (1969 07 18) Result Ted Kennedy pleaded guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of the ac …   Wikipedia

  • Battle of Leyte Gulf — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of Leyte Gulf caption=The light aircraft carrier Princeton afire, east of Luzon, 24 October 1944. partof=the Pacific War, World War II date=23 October 1944 ndash; 26 October 1944 place=Leyte Gulf, The… …   Wikipedia

  • Socrates — /sok reuh teez /, n. 469? 399 B.C., Athenian philosopher. * * * born с 470, Athens died 399 BC, Athens Greek philosopher whose way of life, character, and thought exerted a profound influence on ancient and modern philosophy. Because he wrote… …   Universalium

  • Singular they — is a popular, non technical expression for uses of the pronoun they (and its inflected forms) when plurality is not required by the context. The Chicago Manual of Style notes: On the one hand, it is unacceptable to a great many reasonable readers …   Wikipedia

  • As I was going to St Ives — Roud #19772 Written by Traditional Published c. 1730 Written England Language English Form Nursery rhyme/riddle As I was going to St Ives is a traditional English language nursery rhyme which is generally thought to be a …   Wikipedia

  • Thomas Pynchon — Infobox Writer name = Thomas Pynchon imagesize = 155px caption = Thomas Pynchon in 1957, one of the few photographs of him ever to be published pseudonym = birthdate = Birth date and age|1937|5|8|mf=y birthplace = Glen Cove, New York, USA… …   Wikipedia

Поделиться ссылкой на выделенное

Прямая ссылка:
… Нажмите правой клавишей мыши и выберите «Копировать ссылку»