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to strike the decisive blow

  • 1 strike

    I 1. [straɪk]
    1) sciopero m.

    to be on strike — essere in o fare sciopero

    to come out on strike — entrare o mettersi in sciopero

    2) (attack) attacco m. (on, against contro) (anche mil.)
    3) min. (discovery) scoperta f. (di un giacimento)

    lucky strike — fig. colpo di fortuna

    2.
    modificatore [committee, notice] di sciopero; [ leader] degli scioperanti
    II 1. [straɪk]
    1) (hit) [person, stick] colpire [person, object, ball]; [ missile] colpire, centrare [ target]; [ship, car] colpire, urtare [rock, tree]

    to strike sth. with — battere qcs. con [stick, hammer]

    to be struck by lightning — [tree, person] essere colpito da un fulmine

    to strike sb. a blow — dare un colpo a qcn.

    to strike sb. dead — [ lightning] fulminare qcn.

    2) (afflict) [disease, storm, disaster] abbattersi su, colpire [area, people]

    to strike terror into sb. o sb.'s heart — terrorizzare qcn

    3) (make impression on) [idea, thought] venire in mente a; [ resemblance] colpire

    to strike sb. as odd — sembrare o parere strano a qcn.

    how does the idea strike you? — che cosa ne pensi o te ne pare di questa idea?

    I was struck with him — colloq. mi ha colpito

    4) (discover) scoprire, trovare [ gold]; finire su, trovare [ road]
    5) (achieve) concludere [ bargain]
    6) (ignite) accendere [ match]
    7) [ clock] battere [ time]
    8) (delete) cancellare [word, sentence]
    9) (dismantle) smontare [ tent]

    to strike camp — levare il campo, togliere le tende

    10) econ. (mint) battere [ coin]
    2.
    1) (deliver blow) colpire
    2) (attack) [army, animal] attaccare; [ killer] aggredire; [disease, storm] colpire

    Henry strikes again! — colloq. scherz. Henry colpisce o ha colpito ancora!

    3) [ worker] scioperare, fare sciopero
    4) [ match] accendersi
    5) [ clock] battere, suonare

    to strike across — prendere per [ field]; attraversare [ country]

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    1. past tense - struck; verb
    1) (to hit, knock or give a blow to: He struck me in the face with his fist; Why did you strike him?; The stone struck me a blow on the side of the head; His head struck the table as he fell; The tower of the church was struck by lightning.) battere, colpire
    2) (to attack: The enemy troops struck at dawn; We must prevent the disease striking again.) attaccare
    3) (to produce (sparks or a flame) by rubbing: He struck a match/light; He struck sparks from the stone with his knife.) accendere, far sprizzare
    4) ((of workers) to stop work as a protest, or in order to force employers to give better pay: The men decided to strike for higher wages.) scioperare
    5) (to discover or find: After months of prospecting they finally struck gold/oil; If we walk in this direction we may strike the right path.) trovare
    6) (to (make something) sound: He struck a note on the piano/violin; The clock struck twelve.) suonare
    7) (to impress, or give a particular impression to (a person): I was struck by the resemblance between the two men; How does the plan strike you?; It / The thought struck me that she had come to borrow money.) colpire, impressionare
    8) (to mint or manufacture (a coin, medal etc).) coniare
    9) (to go in a certain direction: He left the path and struck (off) across the fields.) prendere, tagliare
    10) (to lower or take down (tents, flags etc).) abbassare; levare
    2. noun
    1) (an act of striking: a miners' strike.) sciopero
    2) (a discovery of oil, gold etc: He made a lucky strike.) scoperta
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    - striking
    - strikingly
    - be out on strike
    - be on strike
    - call a strike
    - come out on strike
    - come
    - be within striking distance of
    - strike at
    - strike an attitude/pose
    - strike a balance
    - strike a bargain/agreement
    - strike a blow for
    - strike down
    - strike dumb
    - strike fear/terror into
    - strike home
    - strike it rich
    - strike lucky
    - strike out
    - strike up
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    strike /straɪk/
    n.
    1 (econ.) sciopero: to be on strike, essere in sciopero; to go on strike, scendere in sciopero; scioperare; to call a strike, proclamare uno sciopero; general strike, sciopero generale; dock strike, sciopero dei portuali; strike to the last, sciopero a oltranza; a wave of strikes, un'ondata di scioperi; unofficial strike, sciopero non dichiarato (o spontaneo)
    3 (ind. min.) scoperta di un giacimento ( minerario); (fig.) colpo di fortuna, buon colpo ( anche in Borsa, ecc.)
    4 (mil.) attacco; (spec.) attacco aereo, incursione
    6 ( baseball) ‘strike’: Three strikes put the batter out, dopo tre strike il battitore viene eliminato
    8 ( calcio) tiro a rete (o in porta); botta, staffilata, stangata, zampata, mazzata (fig.); gol di prepotenza
    9 ( calcio, ecc.) attacco; incursione; percussione
    ● (mil.) strike aircraft, aereo da combattimento □ all-out strike, sciopero totale □ strike ban, proibizione di scioperare; precettazione □ strike benefit = strike pay ► sotto □ strike call, proclamazione d'uno sciopero □ strike epidemics, conflittualità permanente □ (geol.) strike fault, faglia longitudinale □ strike force, (mil.) forza d'urto; ( calcio, ecc.) capacità di percussione, potenza d'attacco □ strike pay, sussidio ( pagato dai sindacati) durante uno sciopero □ (geol.) strike-slip fault, faglia trascorrente □ (fam. USA, dal baseball) to have two strikes against one, avere due punti a sfavore (o due handicap); ( anche) avere già subìto due gravi condanne: I have two strikes against me for getting the job: I don't have much experience and I haven't finished school, vorrei ottenere questo lavoro ma ho due punti a sfavore, la poca esperienza e la mancanza di un diploma; (polit., leg. USA) Three strikes and you're out, alla terza condanna, ti becchi l'ergastolo NOTE DI CULTURA: three strikes: in alcuni Stati americani alla terza condanna per reati commessi con la violenza è obbligatorio l'ergastolo. Il nome popolare di queste leggi, three strikes and you're out oppure la three-strikes law, è ripreso dal baseball, nel quale alla terza palla sbagliata ( strike) il battitore viene eliminato.
    ♦ (to) strike /straɪk/
    (pass. struck, p. p. struck, raro stricken)
    A v. t.
    1 battere; colpire; percuotere; picchiare; (fig.) impressionare: to strike a nail with the hammer, battere un chiodo col martello; He struck his fist on the desk, batté il pugno sulla scrivania; The tree was struck by lightning, l'albero è stato colpito dal fulmine; What struck me was her generosity, ciò che mi colpì (o mi fece impressione) fu la sua generosità
    2 assestare; appioppare: I struck him a violent blow, gli assestai (o diedi) un forte colpo
    3 sbattere; urtare: to strike one's foot against a stone, sbattere un piede contro un sasso; inciampare in un sasso; I struck my elbow against the table, urtai la tavola col gomito
    4 battere, suonare ( le ore): The tower clock was striking midnight, l'orologio della torre batteva la mezzanotte
    5 coniare; stampare; (fin.) battere: to strike a new coin [a medal], coniare una moneta nuova [una medaglia]; The Royal Mint strikes coins, la Zecca Reale batte moneta
    6 accendere; strofinare; far sprizzare ( battendo o strofinando): to strike a match, accendere (strofinare) un fiammifero; to strike a light, accendere una luce; far luce ( con una candela, lampada, ecc.); to strike fire out of flint, accendere il fuoco battendo sulla pietra focaia
    7 arrivare a; raggiungere: I struck the highway late in the morning, nel tardo mattino arrivai alla strada maestra
    8 (spec. ind. min.) scoprire; trovare: to strike a coal seam, scoprire uno strato di carbone; to strike gold [water], trovare l'oro [l'acqua]
    9 (mil., naut.) abbassare; ammainare: to strike one's flag, ammainare la bandiera; (fig.) arrendersi; to strike sails, ammainare le vele
    10 abbattere; levare; togliere: to strike the tents, levar le tende
    11 investire; urtare contro; (naut.) urtare ( uno scoglio, ecc.) con la chiglia: The car struck a lamppost, l'automobile ha urtato contro un lampione; The landing plane struck the tree-tops, l'aereo in atterraggio ha urtato contro le cime degli alberi
    12 configgere; conficcare; infiggere; piantare
    13 venire in mente, passare per la testa a (q.): A doubt struck me, mi è venuto un dubbio; Suddenly it struck me that he had left no message for me, all'improvviso mi venne fatto di pensare che non aveva lasciato alcun messaggio per me
    14 fare una certa impressione a (q.); sembrare, parere a (q.) (impers.): Her plan struck me as extremely complicated, il suo piano mi parve assai complicato; How does that strike you?, che impressione ti fa?; che ne pensi?; How does the idea strike you?, che te ne pare dell'idea?
    15 pareggiare ( cereali, ecc.) con la rasiera; rasierare
    16 (mus.) toccare ( un tasto); pizzicare ( una corda)
    17 ( calcio, ecc.) colpire, calciare (il pallone); battere ( una punizione, un rigore)
    19 ( tennis, ecc.) colpire ( la palla)
    B v. i.
    1 assestar colpi; menar botte
    2 (mil.) attaccare: The enemy struck at dawn, il nemico ha attaccato all'alba
    3 batter le ore; suonare: The clock is striking, l'orologio batte l'ora; Four o'clock had just struck, erano appena suonate le quattro
    4 colpire; cozzare; urtare; sbattere contro: The ball struck against the wall [the goalpost], la palla ha colpito il muro [il palo della porta]
    5 ( di fiammiferi e sim.) accendersi; prendere fuoco: This match won't strike, questo fiammifero non si accende
    6 (econ.) scioperare: The railwaymen have been striking for two weeks, i ferrovieri scioperano da due settimane; to strike for higher wages, scioperare per ottenere un aumento di salario
    7 filtrare; infiltrarsi; penetrare; inoltrarsi: We struck into the forests of the interior, ci siamo inoltrati nei boschi dell'interno
    8 prendere ( una direzione); dirigersi, volgere i passi; voltare; uscire: to strike for the borderline, dirigersi verso il confine; Go straight on and then strike to the right, va' dritto e poi volta a destra!
    9 (mil.) ammainare la bandiera; (fig.) arrendersi
    10 ( di pianta) attecchire; mettere radici
    11 (naut.) andare in secco; incagliarsi
    12 ( sport) dare una bracciata (o un colpo di gambe; nuotando)
    13 ( canottaggio) fare ( un certo numero di battute) al minuto: Oxford were striking 38, l'armo di Oxford stava facendo 38 battute al minuto
    ● to strike an attitude, assumere un atteggiamento □ to strike an average, fare una media □ (rag.) to strike a balance, (rag.) fare il bilancio, far quadrare i conti; (fig.) raggiungere un accordo, fare un compromesso □ to strike a bargain, concludere un affare; fare un buon affare □ to strike sb. blind, accecare q. ( con un colpo o fig.) □ to strike blows, assestare (o portare) colpi □ (fig.) to strike ( a blow) for freedom, combattere (una battaglia) per la libertà; battersi per la libertà □ (naut.) to strike the bottom, arenarsi; incagliarsi □ (mil., ecc.) to strike camp, levare il campo □ (agric.) to strike a cutting, piantare una talea □ to strike sb. dead, fulminare q.; fare schiattare q. □ to strike sb. deaf, assordare q. ( con un colpo o di colpo) □ to strike a deal, concludere (o fare) un affare; raggiungere un accordo; fare un patto (o un compromesso) □ ( boxe e fig.) to strike the decisive blow, assestare il colpo decisivo □ to strike sb. for his (o her) autograph, chiedere un autografo a q. □ ( di un atleta, ecc.) to strike form, entrare in piena forma □ to strike st. from sb. 's hand, far saltar qc. di mano a q. (con un sol colpo); strappare qc. a q. □ (fig.) to strike it rich, arricchire di colpo; trovare l'America (fig.) □ (fam. ingl.) to strike it lucky, avere un colpo di fortuna □ (leg.) to strike a jury, formare una giuria ( cancellando nomi, ecc.) □ (fig.) to strike a note of caution, far squillare il campanello d'allarme □ to strike oil, trovare il petrolio; (fig.) arricchire di colpo, trovare l'America □ to strike a pose, assumere una posa □ ( anche fig.) to strike the right track, trovare la pista buona (o la strada giusta) □ (bot. e fig.) to strike root(s), attecchire; metter radici □ (naut.) to strike soundings, fare degli scandagli □ (mus.) to strike a tone, far vibrare una nota □ (fig.) to strike a warning note, far squillare il campanello d'allarme □ ( pesca) to strike a whale, colpire (o arpionare) una balena □ ( calcio, ecc.) to strike the woodwork, colpire il legno ( della porta); colpire un palo (o la traversa) □ (fam.) to be struck all of a heap, rimanere sbigottito; restar di sale □ to be struck dumb, ammutolire; restare senza parola □ (fam.) to be struck on sb., essere (innamorato) cotto di q. □ (fig.) to be struck with, esser colpito da; ricevere una forte impressione da □ to be struck with dizziness, avere un improvviso capogiro □ The wind struck cold, tirava un vento freddo e tagliente □ ( anche fig.) The hour has struck, l'ora è suonata □ ( slang) Strike me dead!, peste mi colga; mi venga un accidente! possa morire ( se non è vero, ecc.) □ (prov.) Strike while the iron is hot, bisogna battere il ferro finché è caldo.
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    I 1. [straɪk]
    1) sciopero m.

    to be on strike — essere in o fare sciopero

    to come out on strike — entrare o mettersi in sciopero

    2) (attack) attacco m. (on, against contro) (anche mil.)
    3) min. (discovery) scoperta f. (di un giacimento)

    lucky strike — fig. colpo di fortuna

    2.
    modificatore [committee, notice] di sciopero; [ leader] degli scioperanti
    II 1. [straɪk]
    1) (hit) [person, stick] colpire [person, object, ball]; [ missile] colpire, centrare [ target]; [ship, car] colpire, urtare [rock, tree]

    to strike sth. with — battere qcs. con [stick, hammer]

    to be struck by lightning — [tree, person] essere colpito da un fulmine

    to strike sb. a blow — dare un colpo a qcn.

    to strike sb. dead — [ lightning] fulminare qcn.

    2) (afflict) [disease, storm, disaster] abbattersi su, colpire [area, people]

    to strike terror into sb. o sb.'s heart — terrorizzare qcn

    3) (make impression on) [idea, thought] venire in mente a; [ resemblance] colpire

    to strike sb. as odd — sembrare o parere strano a qcn.

    how does the idea strike you? — che cosa ne pensi o te ne pare di questa idea?

    I was struck with him — colloq. mi ha colpito

    4) (discover) scoprire, trovare [ gold]; finire su, trovare [ road]
    5) (achieve) concludere [ bargain]
    6) (ignite) accendere [ match]
    7) [ clock] battere [ time]
    8) (delete) cancellare [word, sentence]
    9) (dismantle) smontare [ tent]

    to strike camp — levare il campo, togliere le tende

    10) econ. (mint) battere [ coin]
    2.
    1) (deliver blow) colpire
    2) (attack) [army, animal] attaccare; [ killer] aggredire; [disease, storm] colpire

    Henry strikes again! — colloq. scherz. Henry colpisce o ha colpito ancora!

    3) [ worker] scioperare, fare sciopero
    4) [ match] accendersi
    5) [ clock] battere, suonare

    to strike across — prendere per [ field]; attraversare [ country]

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    English-Italian dictionary > strike

  • 2 blow

    ̈ɪbləu I сущ.
    1) удар at a blow, at one blow, with one blow ≈ одним ударом;
    перен. сразу a blow on/to the head ≈ удар по голове without striking a blow ≈ без борьбы The boxer took several blows to the head. ≈ Боксер получил несколько ударов по голове. He took a blow to the chin. ≈ Он получил удар по челюсти. to rain indiscriminate blows on smb. ≈ обрушивать на кого-л. град беспорядочных ударов to reel under crushing blows ≈ зашататься/дрогнуть от сокрушительных ударов body blow ≈ удар по корпусу crushing, hard, heavy, powerful, resounding, severe, staggering blow ≈ сильный удар, сокрушающий удар decisive blow ≈ решающий удар fatal, mortal blow ≈ смертельный удар glancing, light blow ≈ скользящий удар indiscriminate blows ≈ беспорядочные удары an exchange of blows ≈ обмен ударами;
    перен. обмен "уколами" (колкостями в адрес друг друга) to deal a blow, strike a blow, deliver a blow ≈ наносить удар to aim a blow ≈ (at) замахнуться на to strike a blow for ≈ помогать to strike a blow against ≈ противодействовать to heap blows on, rain blows on ≈ заваливать( кого-л.) ударами to cushion a blow ≈ смягчать удар to deflect blow, parry blow, ward off blow ≈ отражать, парировать удар to dodge a blow ≈ избегать удара, уклоняться, увертываться от удара Syn: box, knock
    1., punch II
    1., stroke
    1.
    2) конфликт, столкновение to come to blows, fall to blows, go to blows, exchange blows ≈ приходить в столкновение;
    вступить в драку;
    дойти до рукопашной Syn: combat
    1.
    3) несчастье, удар Failure to land the job came as a blow. ≈ Неудача с получением работы оказалась настоящим несчастьем. His death will be a terrible blow. ≈ Его смерть будет страшным ударом. Syn: calamity II
    1. сущ.
    1) а) дуновение, порыв ветра to get a blow ≈ подышать свежим воздухом Syn: waft
    1., whiff I
    1., blast
    1. б) звук музыкального инструмента;
    встреча с целью музицирования The musicians might come together now and again for a blow, but it's finished as a regular aggregation. ≈ Музыканты могут изредка собираться, чтобы поиграть вместе, но единым оркестром они уже не выступают. в) звук при сморкании
    2) а) хвастовство Syn: boasting, bragging, brag, vaunt
    1. б) амер.;
    диал. хвастун Syn: boaster I
    3) тех. дутье;
    бессемерование
    4) кладка яиц( мухами или другими насекомыми)
    5) сл. кокаин Syn: cocaine
    2. гл.;
    прош. вр. - blew, прич. прош. вр. - blown
    1) веять, дуть( о ветре) to blow great guns ≈ реветь, выть( о буре) blow open
    2) а) пыхтеть, тяжело дышать The horse blew heavily. ≈ Лошадь тяжело дышала. Syn: puff
    2., pant
    1., gasp
    2. б) загнать( обыкн. о лошади)
    3) пускать, выбрасывать фонтан( о ките)
    4) разг. а) хвастать Syn: boast I
    2., brag
    2. б) горячиться, бушевать Syn: fume
    2., storm
    2.
    5) а) выдыхать He blew a whiff from his pipe. ≈ Он выпустил дымок из трубки. She blew him a kiss. ≈ Она послала ему воздушный поцелуй. б) курить to blow a cloud ≈ курить трубку в) сл. транжирить, выкидывать на ветер (деньги) He blew $50 on lunch. ≈ Он выкинул 50 баксов на завтрак. Syn: squander
    2. г) сл. продуть, проиграть;
    упустить (возможность, шанс) ;
    напортить He blew his chance. ≈ Он упустил свой шанс. Syn: ruin
    2., spoil
    2.
    6) а) гнать;
    развевать( о ветре, о струе воздуха) б) быть гонимым (ветром) ;
    развеваться;
    амер.;
    разг. носиться (как бы подгоняемый ветром) в) амер.;
    сл. поспешно уходить, убегать
    7) а) играть( на духовом инструменте) ;
    свистеть в свисток б) играть мелодию и т. п.( на духовом инструменте) в) давать сигнал( подъема, тревоги и т. п. с помощью трубы, горна и т. п.) г) амер.;
    разг. исполнять джазовые произведения Dave Milton is a school librarian who also blows jazz tenor with the New Jazz Orchestra. ≈ Дейв Милтон работает школьным библиотекарем и кроме того играет джазовые теноровые партии в Новом джаз-оркестре.
    8) а) издавать звук, звучать( о духовом инструменте) ;
    гудеть, свистеть ( о гудке, свистке) б) звучать (о звуке, мелодии) Let the mournful martial music blow. ≈ Пусть звучит похоронная военная музыка. Syn: sound I
    2.
    9) дуть на что-л., чтобы высушить, согреть или охладить The winter was cold and he blew his fingers. ≈ Зима была холодной, и он дул на пальцы, чтобы согреть их.
    10) раздувать (огонь, мехи)
    11) а) перегорать( о предохранителях) б) пережигать( предохранители)
    12) продувать, прочищать, очищать с помощью воздуха (от слизи и т. п.) to blow eggs ≈ продувать яйца to blow gas (water) pipes ≈ прочищать газовые (водяные) трубы to blow one's nose ≈ сморкаться
    13) выдувать to blow bubbles ≈ пускать мыльные пузыри to blow glass ≈ выдувать стекло
    14) взрывать( обыкн. blow up) to blow open ≈ взрывать, взламывать( с помощью взрывчатки) to blow open a safe ≈ взломать сейф That was a good aim;
    the target has been blown to pieces. ≈ Прицел был точен - мишень разнесло в щепки. Then the bomb went off, and two of our officers were blown to glory. ≈ А затем бомба взорвалась, и двоих наших офицеров разнесло в клочья. to blow ( a person's) mind ≈ вызывать галлюцинации с помощью наркотиков, особ. ЛСД;
    вызывать приятные или неприятные ощущения to blow something to stoms, blow something to bits, blow something to places, blow something to smithereens ≈ разрывать что-л. на куски при взрыве, разносить в щепки, разносить в клочья to blow someone to blazes, blow someone to glory, blow someone to kingdom ≈ взрывать кого-л., разносить кого-л. в клочья to blow one's top ≈ взорваться( от гнева и т. п.)
    15) сл. осведомлять, доносить;
    распространять( слухи и т. п.) to blow the gab, to blow the gaff ≈ выдавать секрет, проболтаться They're anxious you should take no risk of being blown. ≈ Они озабочены тем, что есть риск, что вас выдадут. If Mr. Morell has blown - has told the story of Taffany's, every boat will be watched. ≈ Если мистер Морелл раструбил всем историю Тэффани, за каждой лодкой будет установлено наблюдение.
    16) откладывать яйца (о мухах или других насекомых)
    17) прич. прош. вр. ≈ blowed;
    груб. проклинать I'm absolutely blowed if I know what to do. ≈ Будь я проклят, если я знаю, что делать. blow! ≈ проклятье!
    18) амер.;
    сл. приглашать Tell Dad, we want to blow him to a good meal. ≈ Скажи отцу, что мы хотим пригласить его пообедать.
    19) сл.;
    груб. заниматься оральным сексом ∙ blow about blow around blow away blow the cobwebs away blow back blow down blow in blow into blow off blow off steam blow on blow out blow over blow round blow up blow upon to blow out one's brains ≈ пустить пулю в лоб blow high, blow low ≈ что бы ни случилось to blow hot and cold ≈ колебаться, постоянно менять точку зрения blow me down blow the whistle on III
    1. сущ.
    1) цвет, цветение;
    время цветения;
    перен. расцвет in blow ≈ в цвету in full blow ≈ в полном расцвете She is not out of blow yet. ≈ Она все еще в расцвете. Syn: flowering
    1., florescence, bloom I
    1.
    2) яркое проявление( чего-л.) It exhibits no rich blow of colour. ≈ В ней не видно ярких цветов.
    2. гл.;
    прош. вр. - blew, прич. прош. вр. - blown
    1) цвести Syn: flower
    2., bloom I
    2., blossom
    2.
    2) расцветать Syn: flourish
    2., bloom I
    2., flower
    2.,
    удар;
    - retaliatory * ответный удар;
    возмездие;
    - illegal * (спортивное) запрещенный удар;
    - at a * одним ударом;
    сразу;
    - to administer a * наносить удар;
    причинять вред;
    - to come to *s вступить в драку, дойти до рукопашной;
    - to exchange *s драться;
    - to rain *s upon smb. осыпать кого-л градом ударов - to strike a * for помогать;
    - to strike a * against противодействовать;
    - to aim a * at smb's authority подрывать чей-л авторитет;
    - without striking a * без усилий несчастье, удар судьбы;
    - it came as a crushing * to us для нас это был страшный удар (горное) горный удар;
    обрушение кровли > the first * is half the battle (пословица) хорошее начало полдела откачало;
    лиха беда начало дуновение;
    порыв ветра;
    - to get oneself a * подышать свежим воздухом звук духового инструмента звук при сморкании фонтан кита( разговорное) хвастовство (разговорное) хвастун продувка бессемерование (геология) выход рудной жилы на дневную поверхность (сленг) (военное) передышка( сленг) отдых, перерыв, чтобы перекусить;
    перекур надувать - to * one's cheeks надуть щеки кладка яиц мухами (сленг) кокаин дуть, веять (о ветре) - it was *ing hard дул сильный ветер;
    - it is *ing a gale будет буря гнать (ветром) ;
    развевать;
    - the wind blew the tent over ветер перевернул палатку;
    - many trees were *n down ветер свалил много деревьев;
    - a lot of dust was *n in нанесло /нагнало/ много пыли нестись, быть гонимым ветром (часто * away) - to * away an obstacle( военное) снести препятствие артиллерийским огнем играть (на инструменте) ;
    дуть (в свисток) ;
    издавать звук (о духовом инструменте) ;
    свистеть (о сирене, свистке и т. п.) - stop work when the whistle *s прекратите работу по свистку дуть на что-л, студить;
    - to * on one's coffee (по) дуть на горячий кофе согревать, сушить или охлаждать дыханием;
    - to * on one's fingers дуть на застывшие пальцы раздувать (огонь, мехи) выдувать (стеклянные изделия и т.д.) ;
    - * glass выдувать стекло;
    - * bottles выдувать бутылки;
    - * bubbles пускать пузыри продувать, прочищать;
    - to have the pipes *n прочистить трубы очищать от содержимого( воздухом или газом) - to * an egg выпить яйцо (через дырочку) - * your nose well хорошенько высморкайся взрывать;
    - they blew the door in and entered они взорвали дверь и вошли внутрь;
    - the gates were *n up with dynamit ворота были взорваны динамитом взрываться;
    - the gun blew (up) орудие взорвалось лопаться( о вакуумной трубке, камере, покрышке и т. п.) ;
    разорваться от внутреннего давления;
    - this tin has *n эта консервная банка вздулась пыхтеть;
    тяжело дышать;
    - the old man was puffing and *ing старик пыхтел и отдувался загнать (лошадь) перегорать (о предохранителях) пережигать( предохранители) ;
    - he's *n the fuse (out) он пережег пробки распространять (новости, слухи) ;
    - the rumour has widely *n about, that... широко распространился слух, что... бушевать, разражаться гневом разоблачать;
    - the spy's cover was *n шпиона разоблачили (разговорное) хвастаться транжирить;
    - he blew his last money on a show он потратил свои последние деньги на театр( разговорное) угощать;
    - he blew me to a dinner он угостил меня обедом (сленг) уходить, удирать( сленг) проиграть;
    проворонить( сленг) ликвидировать;
    похерить (разговорное) хандрить (театроведение) (жаргон) забыть текст, реплику ( сленг) мастерски делать что-л;
    - he *s great conversation он мастер на разговоры, он любит много говорить( эвфмеизм) ругать, проклинать;
    - * it! черт возьми! - I'm *ed if I know провалиться мне на этом месте, если я знаю класть яйца( о мухах) выпускать фонтан (о ките) (разговорное) курить или вдыхать наркотик (устаревшее) разжигать( страсти) (американизм) (сленг) заниматься минетом, феллацио подавать дутье( техническое) парить( о сальнике, фланце) - to blow smth. to some state приводить что-л в какое-л состояние;
    - to * shut захлопнуть;
    - the wind blew the door shut дверь захлопнуло ветром;
    - to * open распахивать;
    распахиваться;
    - when the door blew open the crowd rushed in когда дверь распахнулась, толпа бросилась внутрь;
    - to * to pieces разбить вдребезги;
    разорвать на куски;
    - to * one's hair dry высушить волосы феном > to * one's brains пустить пулю в лоб;
    > to * a kiss послать воздушный поцелуй;
    > to * hopes sky-high разбить надежды в прах;
    > to * sky-high сильно выбранить, выругать;
    > to * one's own horn хвастаться;
    > to * great guns дуть, бушевать (о буре) ;
    > to * hot and cold постоянно менять свои взгляды;
    > * high, * low что бы ни случилось;
    > to * one's cool потерять самообладание, выйти из себя;
    > to * smb. mind волновать, возбуждать;
    захватить врасплох, поставить в тупик;
    испытывать наркотическое возбуждение, быть в трансе > to * the whistle on smth. положить конец чему-л;
    > it's about time someone blew the whistle on his dishonest practices пора прекратить его бесчестные махинации;
    > to * the lid off smth. (американизм) (разговорное) разоблачить, обнародовать что-л, > to * the cobwebs away проветрить мозги;
    > to * a fuse (американизм) (сленг) раздражаться;
    взрываться от гнева;
    > to * smb.'s head off изругать кого-л;
    > you'll get your head *n off не сносить тебе головы цвет, цветение расцвет цвести;
    расцветать
    to deal (или to strike, to deliver) a ~ наносить удар;
    to aim a blow (at) замахнуться
    ~ удар;
    at a blow, at one blow одним ударом;
    сразу;
    to come to blows вступить в бой, в драку, дойти до рукопашной
    ~ удар;
    at a blow, at one blow одним ударом;
    сразу;
    to come to blows вступить в бой, в драку, дойти до рукопашной
    blow взрывать (обыкн. blow up) ;
    to blow open взрывать, взламывать (с помощью взрывчатки) ;
    to blow open a safe взломать сейф ~ дуновение;
    to get a blow подышать свежим воздухом ~ (blew;
    blown) дуть, веять ~ тех. дутье;
    бессемерование ~ звучать (о трубе) ~ играть (на духовом инструменте) ~ кладка яиц (мухами) ~ класть яйца (о мухах) ~ несчастье, удар (судьбы) ~ вчт. программировать ППЗУ ~ (р. p. blowed) разг. проклинать;
    I'll be blowed if I know провалиться мне на месте, если я знаю;
    blow about, blow abroad распространять (слух, известие) ~ пыхтеть, тяжело дышать ~ развевать;
    гнать (о ветре) ~ раздувать (огонь, мехи;
    тж. перен.) ;
    выдувать (стеклянные изделия) ;
    продувать (трубку и т. п.) ;
    пускать (пузыри) ;
    to blow bubbles пускать мыльные пузыри;
    to blow one's nose сморкаться ~ свистеть, гудеть ~ транжирить (деньги;
    тж. blow off) ;
    расщедриться ~ удар;
    at a blow, at one blow одним ударом;
    сразу;
    to come to blows вступить в бой, в драку, дойти до рукопашной ~ разг. хвастать ~ хвастовство ~ (blew;
    blown) цвести ~ цвет, цветение
    ~ (р. p. blowed) разг. проклинать;
    I'll be blowed if I know провалиться мне на месте, если я знаю;
    blow about, blow abroad распространять (слух, известие)
    ~ (р. p. blowed) разг. проклинать;
    I'll be blowed if I know провалиться мне на месте, если я знаю;
    blow about, blow abroad распространять (слух, известие)
    ~ раздувать (огонь, мехи;
    тж. перен.) ;
    выдувать (стеклянные изделия) ;
    продувать (трубку и т. п.) ;
    пускать (пузыри) ;
    to blow bubbles пускать мыльные пузыри;
    to blow one's nose сморкаться
    to ~ out one's brains пустить пулю в лоб;
    blow high, blow low что бы ни случилось, во что бы то ни стало
    to ~ hot and cold колебаться, постоянно менять точку зрения
    to ~ out one's brains пустить пулю в лоб;
    blow high, blow low что бы ни случилось, во что бы то ни стало
    ~ off тех. продувать;
    to blow off steam выпустить пар;
    перен. дать выход избытку энергии;
    разрядиться ~ off разг. мотать, транжирить ( деньги)
    ~ off тех. продувать;
    to blow off steam выпустить пар;
    перен. дать выход избытку энергии;
    разрядиться
    ~ раздувать (огонь, мехи;
    тж. перен.) ;
    выдувать (стеклянные изделия) ;
    продувать (трубку и т. п.) ;
    пускать (пузыри) ;
    to blow bubbles пускать мыльные пузыри;
    to blow one's nose сморкаться nose: ~ нос;
    to blow one's nose сморкаться;
    to speak through one's (или the) nose гнусавить;
    говорить в нос
    blow взрывать (обыкн. blow up) ;
    to blow open взрывать, взламывать (с помощью взрывчатки) ;
    to blow open a safe взломать сейф
    blow взрывать (обыкн. blow up) ;
    to blow open взрывать, взламывать (с помощью взрывчатки) ;
    to blow open a safe взломать сейф
    to ~ out one's brains пустить пулю в лоб;
    blow high, blow low что бы ни случилось, во что бы то ни стало
    to ~ the gaff (или the gab) sl. выдать секрет;
    проболтаться gaff: ~ разг. ерунда, вздор;
    to blow the gaff проболтаться
    ~ up разг. бранить, ругать ~ up взлетать на воздух( при взрыве) ~ up взрывать;
    to blow up the hell перевернуть все вверх дном ~ up разг. выходить из себя ~ up раздувать ~ up разрушать ~ up фото увеличивать
    ~ up взрывать;
    to blow up the hell перевернуть все вверх дном
    ~ upon лишать свежести, интереса ~ upon наговаривать;
    доносить ~ upon ронять во мнении
    ~ удар;
    at a blow, at one blow одним ударом;
    сразу;
    to come to blows вступить в бой, в драку, дойти до рукопашной
    to deal (или to strike, to deliver) a ~ наносить удар;
    to aim a blow (at) замахнуться
    ~ дуновение;
    to get a blow подышать свежим воздухом
    ~ (р. p. blowed) разг. проклинать;
    I'll be blowed if I know провалиться мне на месте, если я знаю;
    blow about, blow abroad распространять (слух, известие)
    to strike a ~ for помогать;
    to strike a blow against противодействовать
    to strike a ~ for помогать;
    to strike a blow against противодействовать

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > blow

  • 3 blow

    [bləu] I 1. гл.; прош. вр. blew, прич. прош. вр. blown
    1) веять, дуть ( о ветре)

    A cold breeze was blowing hard. — Дул сильный, холодный ветер.

    Outside, the weather was blowing a gale. — На улице бушевал шторм.

    2)
    а) гнать ( ветром); уносить ( о ветре)

    The violent wind was blowing broken glass about in the city streets. — Ураган разносил по городу осколки битого стекла.

    The wind was so strong that people were nearly blown away. — Был такой сильный ветер, что людей едва не сносило.

    The storm blew the ship off its course. — Из-за шторма корабль отклонился от курса.

    б) = blow away быть гонимым ( ветром), нестись ( по ветру)

    Quick, catch my hat before it blows away! — Хватайте шляпу, пока её не унесло!

    I opened the door and a pile of leaves blew in. — Я открыл дверь, и порывом ветра внесло целую кучу листьев.

    3)
    а) выдыхать; выпускать (воздух, дым)

    He blew a whiff from his pipe. — Он выпустил дымок из трубки.

    б) пускать, выбрасывать фонтан ( о ките)
    4)
    а) пыхтеть, тяжело дышать

    He blew heavily through his nostrils. — Он тяжело, шумно дышал.

    Syn:
    puff 2., pant 1., gasp 2.
    5)
    а) раздувать (огонь, мехи)
    б) выдувать (стекло, мыльные пузыри)
    в) = blow out / up надувать ( шар); накачивать ( шину)

    Help me to blow up these tyres, will you? — Ты не поможешь мне накачать шины?

    The child blew the paper bag out and then burst it. — Ребёнок надул бумажный пакет, а затем ударил по нему, так что тот с шумом лопнул.

    Syn:
    6)

    Dave Milton is a school librarian who also blows jazz tenor with the New Jazz Orchestra. — Дейв Милтон работает школьным библиотекарем и, кроме того, играет на тенор-саксофоне в Новом джаз-оркестре.

    б) играть, звучать ( о духовом инструменте); свистеть ( о свистке)
    7) амер.; муз.; жарг. играть (на любом музыкальном инструменте, особенно в рамках совместной импровизации; о джазовых и рок-музыкантах) см. тж. jam session
    8) ( blow on) дуть на (что-л., чтобы высушить, согреть или охладить)

    The winter was cold and he blew on his fingers. — Зима была холодной, и он дул на пальцы, чтобы согреть их.

    9) = blow out / through продувать, прочищать, очищать ( с помощью воздуха)

    to blow one's nose — прочистить нос, высморкаться

    We shall have to blow the pipe out, it seems to be blocked. — Надо прочистить трубу, она, кажется, забилась.

    10) = blow up

    to blow open — взрывать; взламывать ( с помощью взрывчатки)

    to blow smth. to bits / places / smithereens — разнести что-л. в щепки, в клочья

    That was a good aim; the target has been blown to pieces. — Прицел был точен - мишень разнесло в щепки.

    The explosion blew the door open. — Взрывной волной вынесло дверь.

    The bomb blew the windows out. — От взрыва бомбы вылетели стёкла.

    The soldiers blew up the enemy bridge. — Солдаты взорвали мост противника.

    б) = blow down / in взорваться

    A chemical factory blew up in the North of England. — На химическом заводе на севере Англии произошёл взрыв.

    11)
    б) = blow out пережигать ( электроприборы), выводить из строя ( технику)

    The damaged wire blew out the cooker. — Из-за неисправности в проводке сгорела плита.

    12) ( blow into) разг.; = blow in внезапно появиться, объявиться (где-л.)

    Guess who's just blown into town? — Угадай, кто сейчас объявился в городе?

    Tom just blew in; we weren't expecting him till Tuesday. — Том просто свалился нам на голову, мы не ждали его раньше вторника.

    Syn:
    13) шотл.; австрал.; новозел. хвастаться
    Syn:
    boast I 2., brag 2.
    14) разг.; = blow in транжирить, выкидывать на ветер ( деньги)

    He blew $50 on lunch. — Он выкинул 50 баксов на ланч.

    The company blew in $52,000. — Руководство компании растранжирило 52 тыс. долларов.

    Syn:
    15) разг. упустить (возможность, шанс)

    He blew his chance. — Он упустил свой шанс.

    16) ( blow (up)on) позорить, бесчестить, дискредитировать (кого-л. / что-л.)

    He used to have a good name but it has been blown upon recently. — Когда-то у него была хорошая репутация, но теперь она изрядно подпорчена.

    Syn:
    17) амер.; разг. поспешно уходить, убегать
    18) разг.
    а) разглашать ( информацию); выбалтывать ( секрет)

    to blow the gab брит. / gaff амер. — выдать секрет, проболтаться

    If Mr. Morell has blown - has told the story of Taffany's, every boat will be watched. — Если мистер Морелл раструбил всем историю Тэффани, за каждой лодкой будет установлено наблюдение.

    б) выдавать, предавать (кого-л.); разоблачать

    They're anxious you should take no risk of being blown. — Они озабочены тем, чтобы вас не разоблачили.

    19) разг.; = blow up горячиться, бушевать, выходить из себя
    20) амер.; нарк. курить ( наркотик)
    21) прич. прош. вр. blowed; груб. проклинать

    blow!, blow it! — проклятье!

    I'm absolutely blowed if I know what to do! — Будь я проклят, если я знаю, что делать!

    22) груб. заниматься оральным сексом
    •
    - blow around
    - blow down
    - blow in
    - blow out
    - blow over
    - blow round
    - blow up
    ••

    to blow smb. / smth. to blazes / to glory / to kingdom — взрывать кого-л. / что-л., разносить кого-л. / что-л. в клочья

    Then the bomb went off, and two of our officers were blown to glory. — А затем бомба взорвалась, и двоих наших офицеров разнесло в клочья.

    - blow one's top
    - blow a fuse
    - blow smb. a kiss
    - blow kisses to smb.
    - blow out smb.'s brains
    - blow smb.'s mind
    - blow the whistle on smth.     2. сущ.
    1) дуновение, порыв ветра; поток воздуха
    Syn:
    waft 2., whiff I 1., blast 1.
    2) звук ( духового инструмента); свист (свистка и т. п.)
    Syn:
    4) шотл.; австрал.; новозел. хвастовство, бахвальство
    Syn:
    brag, vaunt 1.

    Give your nose a good blow. — Высморкайся хорошенько.

    6) метал.
    7) горн.
    8) нарк.
    а) брит. марихуана
    Syn:
    б) амер. кокаин
    Syn:
    II сущ.

    crushing / powerful / resounding blow — сокрушительный удар

    hard / heavy / severe blow — сильный, тяжёлый удар

    fatal / mortal blow — смертельный удар

    at a blow, at one blow, with one blow — одним ударом; сразу

    blow on / to the head — удар по голове

    to come / fall / go to blows — вступить в драку; дойти до рукопашной

    to reel under crushing blows — зашататься, дрогнуть от сокрушительных ударов

    to deflect / parry / ward off a blow — отражать, парировать удар

    to deal / strike / deliver a blow — наносить удар

    to heap / rain blows on smb. — осыпать кого-л. градом ударов

    The boxer took several blows to the head. — Боксёр получил несколько ударов по голове.

    He took a blow to the chin. — Он получил удар в челюсть.

    - aim a blow
    - cushion a blow
    - dodge a blow
    - strike a blow for smth.
    - strike a blow against smth.
    Syn:
    punch I 1., stroke 1., knock 2.
    2) удар, (неожиданное) несчастье или жизненная невзгода

    Losing his job came as a horrible blow to him. — Потеря работы оказалась для него огромной бедой.

    His death will be a terrible blow. — Его смерть будет страшным ударом.

    Syn:
    III 1. гл.; книжн.; прош. вр. blew, прич. прош. вр. blown
    •
    Syn:
    flourish 1., bloom I 2., flower 2.
    2. сущ.; книжн.
    а) цвет, цветение

    She is not out of blow yet. (M. Edgeworth, Helen, 1834) — Она пока ещё не отцвела.

    •
    Syn:

    Англо-русский современный словарь > blow

  • 4 Schlag

    m; -(e)s, Schläge
    1. mit der Faust: blow, punch; dumpfer: thump; mit der offenen Hand: blow, whack umg.; klatschender: slap; bes. bei Kindern: smack; leichter: tap; mit dem Stock: whack; mit der Peitsche: lash of the whip; fig. (Schicksalsschlag, Unglück) blow; er schlug ihn mit einem einzigen Schlag k.o. he knocked him out with a single blow ( oder punch); ein dumpfer Schlag a dull thump; Schläge bekommen auch fig. get a (good) hiding ( oder drubbing); Schlag ins Gesicht auch fig. slap in the face; ein Schlag unter die Gürtellinie auch fig. a blow below the belt; jemandem einen Schlag versetzen deal s.o. a blow; fig. auch hit s.o. hard; zum entscheidenden Schlag ausholen auch fig. move in for the kill; ihr Tod war ein harter Schlag für ihn her death was a heavy blow for him; Schlag ins Wasser umg., fig. (belly-)flop, washout; Schlag ins Kontor umg., fig. nasty shock ( oder surprise); Schlag auf Schlag fig. in quick succession; dann ging es Schlag auf Schlag fig. then things started happening (fast); auf einen oder mit einem Schlag fig. (auf einmal) in one go; (plötzlich) suddenly, from one moment to the next; er tat keinen Schlag umg., fig. he didn’t lift a finger; sie hat einen Schlag ( weg) umg., fig. she’s got a screw loose
    2. MED., umg. stroke; kleiner Schlag minor stroke; einen Schlag bekommen have a stroke; sie waren wie vom Schlag getroffen they were thunderstruck; (verblüfft sein) they just stood gaping; mich trifft der Schlag! well I’ll be blowed (oder bes. Am. damned)!; ich dachte, mich trifft der Schlag I didn’t know what hit me
    3. ETECH. (electric) shock; (Blitzschlag) flash; einen tödlichen Schlag bekommen receive a fatal (electric) shock, be electrocuted; ein kalter Schlag a flash of cold lightning
    4. Rudern, Schwimmen: stroke; Golf, Tennis etc.: shot, stroke
    5. (Geräusch) dumpf: thud; einer Glocke: chime; einer Uhr: auch stroke; (Herz-, Puls-, Trommelschlag) beat; Donnern: clap (of thunder); der Nachtigall: song; Schlag sechs Uhr on the stroke of six
    6. MIL. (Angriff) strike; der entscheidende / ein vernichtender Schlag the decisive / a crushing blow
    7. nur Sg.; fig. (Art) sort; auch ZOOL.: stock, breed; vom gleichen Schlag sein be made of the same stuff; pej. be tarred with the same brush; Leute seines Schlages men of his stamp ( oder type); Männer vom gleichen Schlag birds of a feather; vom alten Schlag of the old school; die Schotten sind ein eigener Schlag umg. the Scots are a strange lot
    8. umg. (Portion) helping; kann ich noch einen Schlag Kartoffelbrei haben? can I have another dollop of mashed potato (Am. potatoes Pl.)?
    9. nur Sg.; österr. (Sahne) (whipping) cream; geschlagen: whipped cream
    10. eine Hose mit Schlag (a pair of) flared trousers ( oder flares)
    11. Schlag bei Frauen haben umg. have a way with women
    12. MOT. etc. (Tür) door; Hühnerschlag, Taubenschlag
    * * *
    der Schlag
    beat; blow; shock; hit; stroke; tap; pat; chop; flap; knock; slap; punch; buffet; coup; dollop; stinger; wham; sort; spank
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    [ʃlaːk]
    m -(e)s, -e
    ['ʃlɛːgə]
    1) (lit, fig) blow (gegen against); (= Faustschlag auch) punch; (mit der Handfläche) smack, slap; (leichter) pat; (= Handkantenschlag, AUCH JUDO ETC) chop (inf); (= Ohrfeige) cuff, clout (inf), slap; (mit Rohrstock etc) stroke; (= Peitschenschlag) stroke, lash; (= einmaliges Klopfen) knock; (dumpf) thump, thud; (= leichtes Pochen) tap; (= Glockenschlag) chime; (= Standuhrschlag) stroke; (von Metronom) tick, beat; (= Gehirnschlag, Schlaganfall, Kolbenschlag, Ruderschlag, AUCH SCHWIMMEN, TENNIS) stroke; (= Herzschlag, Pulsschlag, Trommelschlag, Wellenschlag) beat; (= Blitzschlag) bolt, stroke; (= Donnerschlag) clap; (= Stromschlag) shock; (= Militärschlag) strike

    man hörte die Schläge des Hammers/der Trommeln — you could hear the clanging of the hammer/beating of the drums

    zum entscheidenden Schlág ausholen (fig) — to strike the decisive blow

    Schlág auf Schlág (fig) — in quick succession, one after the other

    Schlág acht Uhr (inf) — at eight on the dot (inf), on the stroke of eight

    jdm/einer Sache einen schweren Schlág versetzen (fig) — to deal a severe blow to sb/sth

    ein Schlág ins Gesicht (lit, fig) — a slap in the face

    ein Schlág ins Kontor (dated inf) — a nasty shock or surprise

    ein Schlág ins Wasser (inf) — a washout (inf), a letdown (inf)

    ein Schlág aus heiterem Himmel — a bolt from the blue

    mit einem or auf einen Schlág (inf) — all at once

    mit einem Schlág berühmt werden — to become famous overnight

    die haben keinen Schlág getan (inf) — they haven't done a stroke (of work)

    ihn hat der Schlág getroffen (Med) — he had a stroke

    ich dachte, mich rührt or trifft der Schlág (inf) — I was flabbergasted (inf) or thunderstruck

    ich glaube, mich trifft der Schlág — I don't believe it

    wie vom Schlág gerührt or getroffen sein — to be flabbergasted (inf) or thunderstruck (inf)

    2) (inf = Wesensart) type (of person etc)

    vom Schlág der Südländer sein — to be a Southern type

    vom gleichen Schlág sein — to be cast in the same mould (Brit) or mold (US); (pej) to be tarred with the same brush

    vom alten Schlág — of the old school

    3) (= Vogelschlag) song
    4) (dated = Wagenschlag) door
    5) (= Taubenschlag) cote, pigeon cage
    6) (Aus = Schlagsahne) cream
    7) (inf = Portion) helping
    8) (= Hosenschlag) flare

    eine Hose mit Schlág — flared trousers pl (esp Brit) or pants pl (esp US), flares pl (inf)

    * * *
    der
    1) (a regular stroke or its sound: I like the beat of that song.) beat
    2) (the sound made when such a thing moves: We could hear the flap of the flag blowing in the wind.) flap
    3) (a blow or knock: a bang on the head from a falling branch.) bang
    4) (a blow: a crack on the jaw.) crack
    5) (the act of hitting: That was a good hit.) hit
    6) (an act of knocking or striking: She gave two knocks on the door; He had a nasty bruise from a knock he had received playing football.) knock
    7) (the striking of one hard object against another: A gun is fired by means of percussion.) percussion
    8) ((often electric shock) the effect on the body of an electric current: He got a slight shock when he touched the live wire.) shock
    9) (a song, show etc that is a great success: This play was a smash hit in New York.) smash hit
    10) (a strong blow: He gave his opponent a smash on the jaw.) smash
    11) (a slap of this kind.) spank
    12) (an act of hitting, or the blow given: He felled the tree with one stroke of the axe; the stroke of a whip.) stroke
    13) (a sudden occurrence of something: a stroke of lightning; an unfortunate stroke of fate; What a stroke of luck to find that money!) stroke
    14) (a single pull of an oar in rowing, or a hit with the bat in playing cricket.) stroke
    15) (a movement of the arms and legs in swimming, or a particular method of swimming: He swam with slow, strong strokes; Can you do breaststroke/backstroke?) stroke
    16) (an effort or action: I haven't done a stroke (of work) all day.) stroke
    17) (an act of swatting: He gave the wasp a swat.) swat
    18) ((the sound of) a heavy blow or hit: They heard a thump on the door; He gave him a thump on the head.) thump
    19) (a blow: His father gave him a whack across the ear.) whack
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    <-[e]s, Schläge>
    [ʃla:k, pl ˈʃlɛ:gə]
    m
    1. (Hieb) blow (auf/gegen/in/vor + akk to, on), knock ( auf + akk on, gegen/in/vor + akk in), wallop (auf/gegen/vor + akk on, in + akk in), sock fam (auf/gegen/vor + akk on, in + akk in), clout fam (auf/gegen/vor + akk on, in + akk in); (mit Faust a.) punch ( auf + akk on, gegen/vor + akk on, to, in + akk in); (dumpfer) thump; (mit Handfläche) slap, smack (auf/gegen/vor + akk on, in + akk in); (leichter) pat ( auf + akk on); (mit Peitsche) lash; SPORT stroke; (Golf a.) shot
    jdm Schläge androhen to threaten sb with a beating [or fam clobbering]
    gern Schläge austeilen to be fond of one's fists
    [von jdm] Schläge bekommen [o (fam) beziehen] [o (fam) kriegen] to get a beating [or fam clobbering] [or to get beaten up] [or fam clobbered]
    ein \Schlag ins Gesicht (a. fig) a slap in the face also fig
    ein \Schlag unter die Gürtellinie sein (fig fam) to be below the belt
    einen \Schlag [weg]haben (fig fam) to have a screw loose fam
    \Schlag mit etw dat blow with sth
    \Schlag mit der Axt blow [or stroke] of the axe
    \Schlag mit der Faust punch/thump
    \Schlag mit der Peitsche lash of the whip
    \Schlag gegen das Ohr blow to/punch on/slap [or clip] on [or BRIT also round] the ear
    jdm einen \Schlag auf den Rücken geben (aufmuntern) to pat sb [or give sb a pat] on the back; (stärker) to thump sb [or give sb a thump] on the back
    ein tödlicher \Schlag a fatal blow
    jdm Schläge verabreichen [o (fam) verpassen] to give sb a beating [or fam clobbering]
    jdm einen \Schlag [auf/gegen/in/vor etw akk] versetzen to hit [or strike] sb [on/in sth], to deal sb a blow [to/on sth], to wallop sb [or give sb a wallop] [on/in sth], to clout sb [or give sb a clout] [on/in/ BRIT also round sth] fam
    ein \Schlag ins Wasser (fig) a [complete] washout [or flop] fam
    2. (Aktion) blow (für/gegen + akk for/against); MIL ALSO attack
    zum entscheidenden \Schlag ausholen to make ready [or to prepare] for the decisive blow/attack
    ein vernichtender \Schlag a crushing blow
    einen vernichtenden \Schlag gegen jdn führen to deal sb a crushing blow
    3. (Geräusch) bang (an + dat on); (dumpfer) thud; (leichter) bump; (mit Faust) thump (an + dat on); (Klopfen) knock (an + dat on
    4. (Rhythmus) beating no pl; (dumpfer a.) thudding no pl, thumping no pl; (heller a.) knocking no pl; eines Pendels swinging no pl; (einzeln) beat; (dumpfer a.) thud, thump; (heller a.) knock; eines Pendels swing; eines Kolbens, Ruders stroke
    ein unregelmäßiger \Schlag des Pulses an irregular pulse [beat]
    5. (Töne) einer Uhr striking no pl; einer Glocke ringing no pl; (lauter) peal, pealing no pl; einer Trommel beating no pl; eines Gongs clanging no pl; (einzeln) einer Uhr stroke; einer Glocke ring; (lauter) peal; einer Trommel beat; eines Gongs clang
    \Schlag Mitternacht/acht [Uhr] on the stroke of midnight/eight [or at 8 o'clock sharp
    6. kein pl (Gesang) song
    7. (Blitz) lightning no art, no pl, bolt [or flash] of lightning
    ein kalter/zündender \Schlag schlug ein lightning struck without causing/and caused a fire
    ein \Schlag ins Kontor [für jdn/etw] (fig fam) a real blow [to sb/sth]
    8. (Stromstoß) [electric] shock
    einen \Schlag [an etw dat] bekommen [o (fam) kriegen] to get an electric shock [through sth]
    9. (fam: Anfall) stroke
    einen \Schlag bekommen/haben to suffer/have a stroke
    10. (Unglück) blow ( für + akk to)
    die Schläge des Lebens life's buffetings
    ein \Schlag des Schicksals a stroke of fate
    jdm einen \Schlag versetzen to be [or come as] a blow to sb
    11. (Taubenstall) [pigeon] loft, cote; (für weiße Tauben) [dove]cote
    12. (Typ) type, kind, stamp
    vom alten \Schlag[e] from [or of] the old school
    vom gleichen \Schlag sein to be made of the same stuff, to be birds of a feather
    13. (Rasse) race; eines Tiers breed, stock
    14. (fam: Portion) helping, portion
    ein \Schlag Eintopf/Erbsen/Kartoffeln a portion of stew/peas/potatoes
    ein zweiter \Schlag Eintopf/Erbsen/Kartoffeln a second helping of stew/peas/potatoes
    15. kein pl ÖSTERR (fam: Sahne) whipped cream
    Kuchen mit/ohne \Schlag cake with/without whipped cream
    16. FORST (Fällen) felling no indef art, no pl, clearing no indef art, no pl; (Stelle) felling area [or site]; (abgeschlossen) clearing
    einige Schläge sind geplant there are plans to clear a number of sites
    17. AGR field
    ein \Schlag Mais/Roggen/Weizen a maize BRIT [or AM corn]/rye/wheat field
    falscher/kurzer/langer \Schlag false/short/long tack spec
    19. NAUT (Knoten) hitch
    halber \Schlag half hitch
    20. MODE
    eine Hose mit \Schlag flared trousers npl, flares npl
    etw auf \Schlag nähen to flare sth
    21. (veraltend: Tür) door
    22.
    ▶ \Schlag auf \Schlag in rapid succession
    alles geht \Schlag auf \Schlag everything's going [or happening] so fast
    \Schlag auf \Schlag kommen to come thick and fast
    ▶ auf einen \Schlag [o mit einem \Schlag[e]] (fam) suddenly, all at once
    mit einem \Schlag berühmt werden to become famous overnight
    ▶ wie vom \Schlag getroffen [o gerührt] sein to be thunderstruck [or fam flabbergasted]
    ▶ jd hat bei jdm [einen] \Schlag (fam) sb is popular [or fam well in] [or BRIT fam also matey] with sb
    ▶ etw hat bei jdm [einen] \Schlag sth is popular with sb
    dieser Wein hat keinen \Schlag bei mir this wine leaves me cold
    ▶ jdn rührt [o trifft] der \Schlag (fam) sb is dumbfounded [or thunderstruck] [or fam flabbergasted] [or BRIT fam also gobsmacked]
    mich trifft der \Schlag! I'm lost for words!, well, blow me down [or I'll be blowed] [or dated strike me pink]! BRIT fam
    ich dachte, mich trifft der \Schlag, als... I couldn't believe my eyes/ears when...
    mich traf fast der \Schlag, als... I nearly had a fit when...
    ▶ der \Schlag soll dich treffen! (sl) go to hell! fam
    ▶ keinen \Schlag tun (fam) to not/never do a stroke of work [or lift a finger [or hand]]
    * * *
    der; Schlag[e]s, Schläge
    1) blow; (FaustSchlag) punch; blow; (Klaps) slap; (leichter) pat; (als Strafe für ein Kind) smack; (Peitschenhieb) lash; (TennisSchlag, GolfSchlag) stroke; shot

    Schläge kriegen — (ugs.) get or be given a thrashing or beating

    keinen Schlag tun — (ugs.) not do a stroke [of work]

    jemandem einen Schlag versetzen — deal somebody a blow; (fig.) be a blow to somebody

    auf einen Schlag — (ugs.) at one go; all at once

    2) (AufSchlag, Aufprall) bang; (dumpf) thud; (Klopfen) knock
    3) o. Pl. (des Herzens, Pulses, der Wellen) beating; (eines Pendels) swinging
    4) (einzelne rhythmische Bewegung) (HerzSchlag, PulsSchlag, TaktSchlag) beat; (eines Pendels) swing; (RuderSchlag, KolbenSchlag) stroke
    5) o. Pl. (Töne) (einer Uhr) striking; (einer Glocke) ringing; (einer Trommel) beating; (eines Gongs) clanging

    Schlag od. (österr., schweiz.) schlag acht Uhr — on the dot or stroke of eight

    7) o. Pl. (Vogelgesang) song
    8) (BlitzSchlag) flash [of lightning]
    9) (Stromstoß) shock
    10) (ugs.): (Schlaganfall) stroke

    jemanden trifft od. rührt der Schlag — (ugs.) somebody is flabbergasted

    wie vom Schlag getroffen od. gerührt — (ugs.) as if thunderstruck

    13) (ugs.): (Portion) helping
    14) o. Pl. (österr.): (Schlagsahne) whipped cream
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    Schlag m; -(e)s, Schläge
    1. mit der Faust: blow, punch; dumpfer: thump; mit der offenen Hand: blow, whack umg; klatschender: slap; besonders bei Kindern: smack; leichter: tap; mit dem Stock: whack; mit der Peitsche: lash of the whip; fig (Schicksalsschlag, Unglück) blow;
    er schlug ihn mit einem einzigen Schlag k.o. he knocked him out with a single blow ( oder punch);
    ein dumpfer Schlag a dull thump;
    Schläge bekommen auch fig get a (good) hiding ( oder drubbing);
    Schlag ins Gesicht auch fig slap in the face;
    ein Schlag unter die Gürtellinie auch fig a blow below the belt;
    jemandem einen Schlag versetzen deal sb a blow; fig auch hit sb hard;
    zum entscheidenden Schlag ausholen auch fig move in for the kill;
    ihr Tod war ein harter Schlag für ihn her death was a heavy blow for him;
    Schlag ins Wasser umg, fig (belly-)flop, washout;
    Schlag ins Kontor umg, fig nasty shock ( oder surprise);
    Schlag auf Schlag fig in quick succession;
    dann ging es Schlag auf Schlag fig then things started happening (fast);
    mit einem Schlag fig (auf einmal) in one go; (plötzlich) suddenly, from one moment to the next;
    er tat keinen Schlag umg, fig he didn’t lift a finger;
    sie hat einen Schlag (weg) umg, fig she’s got a screw loose
    2. MED, umg stroke;
    kleiner Schlag minor stroke;
    einen Schlag bekommen have a stroke;
    sie waren wie vom Schlag getroffen they were thunderstruck; (verblüfft sein) they just stood gaping;
    mich trifft der Schlag! well I’ll be blowed (oder besonders US damned)!;
    ich dachte, mich trifft der Schlag I didn’t know what hit me
    3. ELEK (electric) shock; (Blitzschlag) flash;
    einen tödlichen Schlag bekommen receive a fatal (electric) shock, be electrocuted;
    ein kalter Schlag a flash of cold lightning
    4. Rudern, Schwimmen: stroke; Golf, Tennis etc: shot, stroke
    5. (Geräusch) dumpf: thud; einer Glocke: chime; einer Uhr: auch stroke; (Herz-, Puls-, Trommelschlag) beat; Donnern: clap (of thunder); der Nachtigall: song;
    Schlag sechs Uhr on the stroke of six
    6. MIL (Angriff) strike;
    der entscheidende/ein vernichtender Schlag the decisive/a crushing blow
    7. nur sg; fig (Art) sort; auch ZOOL stock, breed;
    vom gleichen Schlag sein be made of the same stuff; pej be tarred with the same brush;
    Leute seines Schlages men of his stamp ( oder type);
    Männer vom gleichen Schlag birds of a feather;
    vom alten Schlag of the old school;
    die Schotten sind ein eigener Schlag umg the Scots are a strange lot
    8. umg (Portion) helping;
    kann ich noch einen Schlag Kartoffelbrei haben? can I have another dollop of mashed potato (US potatoes pl)?
    9. nur sg; österr (Sahne) (whipping) cream; geschlagen: whipped cream
    10.
    eine Hose mit Schlag (a pair of) flared trousers ( oder flares)
    11.
    Schlag bei Frauen haben umg have a way with women
    12. AUTO etc (Tür) door; → Hühnerschlag, Taubenschlag
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    der; Schlag[e]s, Schläge
    1) blow; (FaustSchlag) punch; blow; (Klaps) slap; (leichter) pat; (als Strafe für ein Kind) smack; (Peitschenhieb) lash; (TennisSchlag, GolfSchlag) stroke; shot

    Schläge kriegen — (ugs.) get or be given a thrashing or beating

    keinen Schlag tun — (ugs.) not do a stroke [of work]

    jemandem einen Schlag versetzen — deal somebody a blow; (fig.) be a blow to somebody

    auf einen Schlag — (ugs.) at one go; all at once

    2) (AufSchlag, Aufprall) bang; (dumpf) thud; (Klopfen) knock
    3) o. Pl. (des Herzens, Pulses, der Wellen) beating; (eines Pendels) swinging
    4) (einzelne rhythmische Bewegung) (HerzSchlag, PulsSchlag, TaktSchlag) beat; (eines Pendels) swing; (RuderSchlag, KolbenSchlag) stroke
    5) o. Pl. (Töne) (einer Uhr) striking; (einer Glocke) ringing; (einer Trommel) beating; (eines Gongs) clanging

    Schlag od. (österr., schweiz.) schlag acht Uhr — on the dot or stroke of eight

    7) o. Pl. (Vogelgesang) song
    8) (BlitzSchlag) flash [of lightning]
    9) (Stromstoß) shock
    10) (ugs.): (Schlaganfall) stroke

    jemanden trifft od. rührt der Schlag — (ugs.) somebody is flabbergasted

    wie vom Schlag getroffen od. gerührt — (ugs.) as if thunderstruck

    13) (ugs.): (Portion) helping
    14) o. Pl. (österr.): (Schlagsahne) whipped cream
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    -¨e m.
    bang n.
    bash n.
    beat n.
    blow n.
    buffet n.
    coup n.
    flap n.
    knock n.
    percussion n.
    shock n.
    stinger n.
    stroke n.
    wham* n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Schlag

  • 5 frapper

    frapper [fʀape]
    ➭ TABLE 1
    1. transitive verb
       a. ( = cogner) (avec le poing, un projectile) to strike ; (avec un couteau) to stab
    • frapper qn à coups de poing/de pied to punch/kick sb
       b. [maladie] to strike (down) ; [coïncidence, détail] to strike
       c. [mesures, impôts] to hit
       d. [+ monnaie, médaille] to strike
    2. intransitive verb
    • frapper dur or fort to hit hard
    3. reflexive verb
       a.
       b. ( = se tracasser) (inf) ne te frappe pas ! don't worry!
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    fʀape
    1.
    1) ( taper sur) gén to hit, to strike

    frapper quelqu'un/quelque chose à coups de pied — to kick somebody/something

    frapper quelqu'un/quelque chose à coups de poing — to punch somebody/something

    frapper un coup — ( à la porte) to knock (once)

    frapper fort or un grand coup — lit to hit hard; ( à la porte) to knock hard; fig to pull out all the stops

    2) Technologie to strike [monnaie, médaille]
    3) ( affecter) [chômage, épidémie, impôt] to hit
    4) ( marquer) to strike

    ce qui me frappe le plus c'est... — what strikes me most is...

    j'ai été frappé de voir que... — I was amazed to see that...

    5) ( rafraîchir) to chill [champagne, vin]

    2.
    verbe intransitif
    1) gén to hit, to strike

    frapper à — to knock on ou at [porte, fenêtre]

    2) ( sévir) to strike
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    fʀape
    1. vt
    1) (= battre, taper) to hit, to strike

    Il l'a frappée au visage. — He hit her in the face.

    2) (= étonner) to strike

    Son air fatigué m'a frappé. — I was struck by how tired he looked.

    3) [monnaie] to strike
    2. vi

    "entrez sans frapper" — "go in without knocking"

    2) (= taper)

    frapper dans ses mains (= applaudir, battre la mesure) — to clap

    L'assassin a encore frappé. — The killer has struck again.

    4) FOOTBALL (= tirer) to shoot
    * * *
    frapper verb table: aimer
    A vtr
    1 ( taper sur) gén to hit, to strike; frapper à la tête lit to hit [sb] on the head [personne]; fig to strike at the leadership of [mouvement, organisation]; le marteau vient frapper la corde du piano the hammer strikes the piano string; le ballon l'a frappé en plein visage the ball hit ou struck him right in the face; frapper le sol du pied to stamp one's foot; frapper qn à coups de matraque to club sb; frapper qn/qch à coups de pied to kick sb/sth; frapper qn/qch à coups de poing to punch sb/sth; frapper les trois coups Théât to give three knocks to signal that the curtain is about to rise;
    2 ( asséner) to strike; frapper un coup ( à la porte) to knock (once); ( dans une bagarre) to strike a blow; frapper fort or un grand coup lit to hit hard; ( à la porte) to knock hard; fig to pull out all the stops; l'horloge venait de frapper les 12 coups de minuit the clock had just struck midnight;
    3 Tech to strike [monnaie, médaille];
    4 ( affecter) [chômage, épidémie, impôt] to hit; les cadres frappés par le chômage the executives hit by unemployment; les régions frappées par la crise/sécheresse areas hit by the recession/drought; le nouvel impôt frappe durement les classes les plus défavorisées the new tax hits the poor very hard; le malheur qui les frappe the misfortune which has befallen them; être frappé par le malheur to be stricken by misfortune; être frappé d'apoplexie/de paralysie to be struck down ou stricken by apoplexy/by paralysis; la maladie l'a frappé dans la force de l'âge he was struck down by illness in the prime of life; être frappé de mutisme to be dumbstruck ou dumbfounded; les taxes qui frappent les produits français/de luxe duties imposed on French/luxury goods;
    5 ( marquer) to strike; ce qui m'a frappé c'est leur arrogance what struck me was their arrogance; être frappé par to be struck by; j'ai été frappé par leur ressemblance I was struck by how alike they were; ce qui me frappe le plus c'est… what strikes me most is…; j'ai été frappé de voir/d'entendre que… I was amazed to see/hear that…; frapper l'imagination de qn to catch sb's imagination;
    6 ( rafraîchir) to chill [champagne, vin].
    B vi
    1 gén to hit, to strike; frapper du poing sur la table to bang one's fist on the table; frapper du pied to stamp one's foot; frapper sur une casserole/un tambour to bang on a saucepan/a drum; frapper dans ses mains to clap one's hands; frapper à to knock on ou at [porte, fenêtre, carreau]; ‘entrez sans frapper’ ‘come straight in’; on a frappé there was a knock at the door;
    2 ( sévir) to strike; les gangsters ont encore frappé○ the gangsters have struck again.
    C se frapper○ vpr ( s'inquiéter) to get worked up○; ⇒ estoc.
    [frape] verbe transitif
    1. [battre - adversaire] to hit, to strike
    2. [donner] to hit, to strike
    3. [percuter] to hit
    être frappé d'une balle au front to be hit ou struck by a bullet in the forehead
    4. [affecter] to strike ou to bring down, to hit
    le deuil/mal qui nous frappe the bereavement/pain we are suffering
    5. [s'appliquer à - suj: loi, sanction, taxe] to hit
    6. [surprendre] to strike
    ce qui me frappe chez lui, c'est sa désinvolture what strikes me about him is his offhandedness
    [impressionner] to upset, to shock
    7. [soumettre à]
    8. [vin] to chill
    9. ART & TEXTILES to emboss
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    [frape] verbe intransitif
    1. [pour entrer] to knock
    frapper à la porte/fenêtre to knock on the door/window
    frapper à la bonne/mauvaise porte (figuré) to go to the right/wrong place
    2. [pour exprimer un sentiment]
    3. [cogner] to strike
    b. (figuré) to hit hard, to act decisively
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    se frapper verbe pronominal
    ————————
    se frapper verbe pronominal
    (emploi réciproque) to hit one another ou each other
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    se frapper verbe pronominal intransitif

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  • 6 Schlag

    Schlag <-[e]s, Schläge> [ʃla:k, pl ʼʃlɛ:gə] m
    1) ( Hieb) blow, wallop ( fam) ( mit der Faust) punch; ( mit der Hand) slap; sport stroke;
    \Schlag mit der Axt blow [or stroke] of the axe;
    ein \Schlag auf den Kopf a blow on the head;
    \Schlag mit der Peitsche lash of the whip;
    jdm Schläge androhen to threaten sb with a beating;
    jdm Schläge verabreichen [o verpassen] to give sb a beating;
    gern Schläge austeilen to be fond of one's fists;
    [von jdm] Schläge kriegen [o bekommen] to get a beating [or ( fam) beaten up] [or ( fam) clobbered];
    jdm einen \Schlag [irgendwohin] versetzen to deal sb a blow [or ( fam) to give sb a clout [or wallop] ] [somewhere];
    ein tödlicher \Schlag a fatal blow
    2) ( dumpfer Hall) thud;
    ein \Schlag an der Tür a bang on the door
    die Schläge des Herzens the beats of the heart;
    der \Schlag der Nachtigall the song of the nightingale;
    der [unregelmäßige] \Schlag des Pulses the [irregular] pulse [beat];
    der \Schlag einer Uhr the striking of a clock;
    die Uhr schlug vom Kirchturm, er zählte zwölf Schläge the church clock struck, he counted twelve;
    \Schlag Mitternacht/ 8 Uhr on the stroke of midnight/at 8 o'clock sharp
    4) (Schicksals\Schlag) blow;
    seine Entlassung war ein schrecklicher \Schlag für ihn being made redundant was a terrible blow to him;
    etw versetzt jdm einen \Schlag sth comes as a blow to sb
    5) (fam: Menschen\Schlag) type;
    vom alten \Schlag[e] from the old school;
    vom gleichen \Schlag sein to be made of the same stuff, to be birds of a feather
    6) (Tauben\Schlag) pigeon loft
    7) kochk (fam: Portion) helping;
    ein \Schlag Kartoffelpüree a portion of mashed potatoes
    8) ( ÖSTERR) (fam: Schlagsahne) [whipped] cream;
    Kuchen mit \Schlag cake with whipped cream
    9) (veraltend: Wagentür) door
    10) ( Stromstoß) shock;
    einen \Schlag kriegen to get an electric shock
    11) mil ( Angriff) attack;
    zum entscheidenden \Schlag ausholen to make ready [or to prepare] for the decisive blow [or attack];
    12) (fam: Schlaganfall) stroke;
    einen \Schlag bekommen/ haben to suffer/have a stroke
    13) forst clearing
    14) agr plot
    15) ( beim Segeln) tack
    16) naut stroke
    eine Hose mit \Schlag flared trousers
    WENDUNGEN:
    ein \Schlag ins Gesicht a slap in the face;
    ein \Schlag unter die Gürtellinie ( fam) a blow [or hit] below the belt ( fig)
    ein \Schlag ins Kontor ( fam) a real blow;
    es war für ihre Ambitionen ein \Schlag ins Kontor it was a [hammer] blow to her ambitions;
    ein \Schlag ins Wasser ( fam) a [complete] washout [or ( fam) flop];
    jd hat bei jdm \Schlag (sl) sb is well-in [or popular] [or [as] thick as thieves]; [or ( fam) matey] with sb;
    etw hat bei jdm \Schlag sth is popular with sb;
    dieser Wein hat keinen \Schlag bei mir this wine leaves me cold;
    jdn rührt [o trifft] der \Schlag ( fam) sb is flabbergasted ( fam) [or dumbfounded] [or thunderstruck] [or (sl) gobsmacked];
    mich trifft der \Schlag! well, blow me down [or I'll be blowed]; [or strike me pink] ! ( fam)
    ich dachte, mich trifft der \Schlag, als ich die Unordnung in dem Zimmer sah I couldn't believe it when I saw what a mess the room was in;
    wie vom \Schlag getroffen [o gerührt] sein to be thunderstruck;
    etw auf einen \Schlag tun ( gleichzeitig) to get things done all at once;
    keinen \Schlag tun ( fam) to not do a stroke of work [or lift a finger];
    \Schlag auf \Schlag in rapid succession;
    alles geht \Schlag auf \Schlag everything's going [or happening] so fast;
    \Schlag auf \Schlag kamen die Botschaften aus der Krisenregion the news came thick and fast from the crisis area;
    mit einem \Schlag[e] [o auf einen \Schlag] ( fam) suddenly, all at once

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  • 7 cios

    m (G ciosu) 1. (uderzenie) blow; (pięścią) punch; (siekierą) blow, stroke; (nożem) thrust, stab
    - cios ręką/ręki a blow with/of the hand
    - cios pałką/siekierą a blow with a truncheon/an axe
    - cios pałki/siekiery the blow of a truncheon/an axe
    - cios w brzuch a blow to a. in the stomach
    - cios w głowę a blow to a. on the head
    - cios w plecy a blow in the back; (nożem) a stab in the back
    - zadać komuś cios w plecy (nożem) to stab sb in the back
    - zadać/wymierzyć komuś cios to strike sb, to give/deliver sb a blow
    - otrzymać a. dostać cios to receive a. get a. take a blow
    - otrzymać od kogoś cios w plecy (nożem) to be stabbed in the back by sb
    - odeprzeć/odparować cios to ward off/parry a blow także przen.
    - zasłonić się przed ciosem to shield oneself from a blow
    - wystawić się na ciosy to expose oneself to attack także przen.
    - powalił go jednym ciosem he knocked him down with one blow
    2. przen. blow
    - utrata pracy to dla niego prawdziwy cios the loss of his job a. losing his job is a real blow to a. for him
    - śmierć matki była dla nich ogromnym ciosem the death of their mother was a tremendous blow for them
    - dosięgnął a. dotknął ich/nas straszny cios they/we have suffered a terrible blow
    3. Archit., Budow. block
    - piaskowcowe ciosy sandstone blocks
    4. Geol. (spękana skała) jointed rock; (blok skalny) joint-block, jointed block 5. Zool. (kieł) tusk
    ■ cios poniżej pasa (w boksie) blow a. punch below the belt, low blow; pot., przen. low blow, blow below the belt
    - zadać (komuś) cios poniżej pasa to hit (sb) below the belt, to deliver a low blow (to sb)
    - taki argument to cios poniżej pasa an argument like that is (way) below the belt
    - iść za ciosem pot., przen. to keep going, to follow sth up
    - po uzyskaniu stopnia magistra poszedł za ciosem i podjął studia doktoranckie after getting his degree, he decided to keep going and started a postgraduate programme
    - trzeba iść za ciosem, bo sytuacja jest teraz bardzo korzystna we should follow up this advantage while we can
    * * *
    - su; -sy; loc sg - sie; m
    * * *
    mi
    1. (= uderzenie) blow, stroke, hit; zadać ostateczny cios deal a decisive blow; jednym ciosem at one go; cios poniżej pasa low blow; zadać komuś/czemuś cios przen. deal sb/sth a blow, destroy sb/sth; iść za ciosem follow through (on) sth, finish what one has started.
    2. techn. ashlar, ashler.
    3. geol. joint.
    4. ciosy zool. (= kły) tusks.
    5. przen. (= nieszczęście) blow.

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  • 8 Historical Portugal

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

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