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  • 21 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 During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.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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  • 22 guardar

    v.
    1 to keep.
    guarda el vestido en el armario she keeps the dress in the wardrobe
    ¡guarda los juguetes! put your toys away!
    guardo muy buenos recuerdos de mi infancia I have very good memories of my childhood
    Manolo guarda las fotos Manolo keeps the pictures.
    La beata guarda el día santo The pious woman keeps the holy day.
    2 to save.
    guarda un poco de pastel para tu hermano leave o save a bit of cake for your brother
    3 to keep watch over.
    4 to observe (observar) (ley, norma, fiesta).
    guardar cama to stay in bed
    guardar silencio to keep quiet
    guardar las apariencias to keep up appearances
    5 to save (computing).
    6 to put away, to store, to tuck away.
    Ricardo guardó los juguetes Richard put away the toys.
    7 to shut in.
    Ricardo guardó el licor Richard shut the liquor in.
    8 to guard, to watch over.
    La policía guarda el edificio The police guards the building.
    * * *
    1 (cuidar) to keep, watch over, keep an eye on
    2 (conservar) to keep, hold
    3 (la ley) to observe, obey; (un secreto) to keep
    4 (poner en un sitio) to put away
    5 (reservar) to save, keep
    6 (proteger) to protect, save
    ■ ¡Dios salve al rey! God save the King!
    7 INFORMÁTICA to save
    8 guardarse de (precaverse, evitar) to guard against, avoid, be careful not to
    \
    guardar cola to queue up, US wait in line
    guardar conexión con to be connected with
    guardar la derecha to keep to the right
    guardar las formas to be polite
    guardar parecido con to be similar to
    guardar relación con to be related to
    guardar rencor to harbour resentment (a, against)
    guardársela a alguien figurado to have it in for somebody
    * * *
    verb
    2) keep
    •
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) [+ objetos]
    a) (=meter) [en un lugar] to put; [en su sitio] to put away

    si no vas a jugar más, guarda los juguetes — if you're not going to play any more, put the toys away

    b) (=conservar) to keep

    no tira nunca nada, todo lo guarda — he never throws anything away, he hangs on to o keeps everything

    guardar algo para sí — to keep sth for o.s.

    c) (=reservar) to save

    te guardaré un poco de tarta para cuando vengas — I'll save o keep you a bit of cake for when you come

    guárdame un par de entradas — hold o save me a couple of tickets, put aside a couple of tickets for me

    ¿puedes guardarme el sitio en la cola? — can you keep my place in the queue?

    puedo guardarle la habitación solo hasta mañana — I can only keep o hold the room for you till tomorrow

    d) (Inform) [+ archivo] to save
    2) (=mantener) [+ promesa, secreto] to keep; [+ recuerdo] to have

    • guardar el anonimato — to remain anonymous

    • guardar la calma — [en crisis, desastre] to keep calm; [ante una provocación] to remain composed

    • guardar las formas — to keep up appearances

    • guardar la línea — (=mantenerla) to keep one's figure; (=cuidarla) to watch one's figure

    • guardar en secreto — [+ objeto, documento] to keep in secret, keep secretly; [+ actividad, información] to keep secret

    cama 1), silencio 1., 1)
    3) (=tener) [+ relación] to bear; [+ semejanza] to have
    4) (=sentir) [+ rencor] to bear, have; [+ respeto] to have, show

    no le guardo rencor — I have no ill feeling towards him, I bear him no resentment

    5) (=cumplir) [+ ley] to observe
    6) (=cuidar) to guard

    • guardar a algn de algo — to protect sb from sth

    • ¡ Dios guarde a la Reina! — God save the Queen!

    ¡Dios os guarde! — †† may God be with you!

    2.
    VI

    ¡guarda! — Arg, Chile * look out!, watch out!

    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1) ( reservar) to save

    guarda esa botella para Navidad — keep o save that bottle for Christmas

    2)
    a) ( poner en un lugar) <juguetes/libros> to put... away
    b) (conservar, mantener en un lugar) to keep
    3) (liter) (defender, proteger)
    4) < secreto> to keep
    5)
    a) (mostrar, manifestar)
    b) <leyes/fiestas> to observe
    2.
    guardarse v pron
    1) ( quedarse con) to keep
    2) ( reservar) to save, keep
    4) ( cuidarse)

    guardarse de + inf — to be careful not to + inf

    * * *
    = file, house, keep, save, store, store away, guard (against), pack up, lodge, stand + guard over, squirrel away, put away, stow, stash, have in + store, pack, stash away, cache.
    Ex. File boxes can be used and filed on shelves, if appropriate, interfiled with the books.
    Ex. The shared systems are run on an IBM 4341 computer housed at BLCMP.
    Ex. Guard book or scrapbook type arrangement, with possibly a loose-leaf format, is suitable for organising and keeping cuttings, letters and other small items.
    Ex. Whenever this code is entered, the system saves the document or list of documents being displayed and displays a summary of the documents saved up to that point.
    Ex. The records in a computer data base are structured in order to suit the information that is being stored for various applications.
    Ex. This chain will not be processed, but will be stored away for later use.
    Ex. The article 'Sealing criminal history records: shall we let the fox guard the henhouse in the name of privacy?' has once again raised the debate on the consequences of allowing press and public to view such data.
    Ex. Unless the distance was short, the books travelled in sheets, unbound, packed up in chests or barrels.
    Ex. The actual report has been lodged at the British Library but has not been published.
    Ex. Librarians are doomed if they are seen by their patrons as standing guard over information and seemingly barring access to it.
    Ex. The more which can be digitized, and the more rapidly, the more which then can be squirreled away into atmospherically-controlled & inexpensive archives.
    Ex. She took all photos, sorted them out, stuffed them into boxes, and put them away in storage.
    Ex. It is a matter of basic safety for everyone on board, before casting off in the morning for that next heavenly anchorage, to see that everything be properly stowed and secured.
    Ex. When I went to the little boys/girls room to relieve myself I was suprised to see the amount of loo rolls stashed in the corner.
    Ex. The killing was committed in the traditional and extremely gruesome way Islam has in store for women accused of adultery: she was stoned to death.
    Ex. After various selection processes, the books are sorted into broad general categories and packed into consignments of up to 5,000 books.
    Ex. Almost everybody we know had their treasures or some of their personal items stashed away in an old cigar box.
    Ex. Previous studies in which squirrels were provisioned with an abundant supply of food found a reduction in the rate of caching.
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    * ¡el Cielo nos guarde! = heaven forbid.
    * acción de guardar documentos = save.
    * ¡el Cielo nos guarde! = God forbid.
    * fiesta de guardar = holiday of obligation.
    * guardar Algo para otra vez = save for + a rainy day.
    * guardar bajo llave = keep under + lock and key.
    * guardar celosamente = guard + zealously.
    * guardar como un tesoro = treasure.
    * guardar con mucho cariño = treasure.
    * guardar correspondencia = bear + correspondence (to).
    * guardar en reserva = keep in + reserve, hold in + reserve.
    * guardar en secreto = keep + confidential, keep + Nombre + under wraps.
    * guardar la compostura = keep + a stiff upper lip.
    * guardar las apariencias = preserve + appearance, keep up + appearances.
    * guardar las formas = keep up + appearances.
    * guardar los resultados de una búsqueda en un fichero = store + search results + in disc file.
    * guardar muchas esperanzas = get + Posesivo + hopes up.
    * guardar paralelismo = have + parallel.
    * guardar relación con = bear + relation to, stand in + relation to, stand in + relationship to, bear + relationship to, be commensurate with.
    * guardar rencor = bear + a grudge, harbour + resentment, carry + a chip on + Posesivo + shoulder.
    * guardar rencor (hacia) = bear + ill will (toward).
    * guardar resentimiento = carry + a chip on + Posesivo + shoulder.
    * guardarse = keep for + Reflexivo, be on guard (against).
    * guardarse Algo para Uno Mismo = keep + Nombre + to + Reflexivo.
    * guardarse de = beware (of/that), be shy of + Gerundio.
    * guardárselas a Alguien = hold + it against.
    * guardar silencio = keep + silent, keep + silence.
    * guardar sorpresas = hold + surprises.
    * guardar una búsqueda en disco = save + Posesivo + search + to disc.
    * guardar una relación directamente proporcional = vary + proportionately.
    * guardar una relación inversamente proporcional = vary + inversely.
    * guardar un secreto = keep + a secret.
    * hacer guardar silencio = shush.
    * no guardar relación con = be incommensurate with.
    * porche para guardar el coche = car port.
    * que guarde relación con = in keeping with.
    * quien guarda, halla = waste not, want not.
    * sin guardar una correlación = uncorrelated.
    * volver a guardar = rehouse [re-house].
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1) ( reservar) to save

    guarda esa botella para Navidad — keep o save that bottle for Christmas

    2)
    a) ( poner en un lugar) <juguetes/libros> to put... away
    b) (conservar, mantener en un lugar) to keep
    3) (liter) (defender, proteger)
    4) < secreto> to keep
    5)
    a) (mostrar, manifestar)
    b) <leyes/fiestas> to observe
    2.
    guardarse v pron
    1) ( quedarse con) to keep
    2) ( reservar) to save, keep
    4) ( cuidarse)

    guardarse de + inf — to be careful not to + inf

    * * *
    = file, house, keep, save, store, store away, guard (against), pack up, lodge, stand + guard over, squirrel away, put away, stow, stash, have in + store, pack, stash away, cache.

    Ex: File boxes can be used and filed on shelves, if appropriate, interfiled with the books.

    Ex: The shared systems are run on an IBM 4341 computer housed at BLCMP.
    Ex: Guard book or scrapbook type arrangement, with possibly a loose-leaf format, is suitable for organising and keeping cuttings, letters and other small items.
    Ex: Whenever this code is entered, the system saves the document or list of documents being displayed and displays a summary of the documents saved up to that point.
    Ex: The records in a computer data base are structured in order to suit the information that is being stored for various applications.
    Ex: This chain will not be processed, but will be stored away for later use.
    Ex: The article 'Sealing criminal history records: shall we let the fox guard the henhouse in the name of privacy?' has once again raised the debate on the consequences of allowing press and public to view such data.
    Ex: Unless the distance was short, the books travelled in sheets, unbound, packed up in chests or barrels.
    Ex: The actual report has been lodged at the British Library but has not been published.
    Ex: Librarians are doomed if they are seen by their patrons as standing guard over information and seemingly barring access to it.
    Ex: The more which can be digitized, and the more rapidly, the more which then can be squirreled away into atmospherically-controlled & inexpensive archives.
    Ex: She took all photos, sorted them out, stuffed them into boxes, and put them away in storage.
    Ex: It is a matter of basic safety for everyone on board, before casting off in the morning for that next heavenly anchorage, to see that everything be properly stowed and secured.
    Ex: When I went to the little boys/girls room to relieve myself I was suprised to see the amount of loo rolls stashed in the corner.
    Ex: The killing was committed in the traditional and extremely gruesome way Islam has in store for women accused of adultery: she was stoned to death.
    Ex: After various selection processes, the books are sorted into broad general categories and packed into consignments of up to 5,000 books.
    Ex: Almost everybody we know had their treasures or some of their personal items stashed away in an old cigar box.
    Ex: Previous studies in which squirrels were provisioned with an abundant supply of food found a reduction in the rate of caching.
    * ¡el Cielo nos guarde! = heaven forbid.
    * acción de guardar documentos = save.
    * ¡el Cielo nos guarde! = God forbid.
    * fiesta de guardar = holiday of obligation.
    * guardar Algo para otra vez = save for + a rainy day.
    * guardar bajo llave = keep under + lock and key.
    * guardar celosamente = guard + zealously.
    * guardar como un tesoro = treasure.
    * guardar con mucho cariño = treasure.
    * guardar correspondencia = bear + correspondence (to).
    * guardar en reserva = keep in + reserve, hold in + reserve.
    * guardar en secreto = keep + confidential, keep + Nombre + under wraps.
    * guardar la compostura = keep + a stiff upper lip.
    * guardar las apariencias = preserve + appearance, keep up + appearances.
    * guardar las formas = keep up + appearances.
    * guardar los resultados de una búsqueda en un fichero = store + search results + in disc file.
    * guardar muchas esperanzas = get + Posesivo + hopes up.
    * guardar paralelismo = have + parallel.
    * guardar relación con = bear + relation to, stand in + relation to, stand in + relationship to, bear + relationship to, be commensurate with.
    * guardar rencor = bear + a grudge, harbour + resentment, carry + a chip on + Posesivo + shoulder.
    * guardar rencor (hacia) = bear + ill will (toward).
    * guardar resentimiento = carry + a chip on + Posesivo + shoulder.
    * guardarse = keep for + Reflexivo, be on guard (against).
    * guardarse Algo para Uno Mismo = keep + Nombre + to + Reflexivo.
    * guardarse de = beware (of/that), be shy of + Gerundio.
    * guardárselas a Alguien = hold + it against.
    * guardar silencio = keep + silent, keep + silence.
    * guardar sorpresas = hold + surprises.
    * guardar una búsqueda en disco = save + Posesivo + search + to disc.
    * guardar una relación directamente proporcional = vary + proportionately.
    * guardar una relación inversamente proporcional = vary + inversely.
    * guardar un secreto = keep + a secret.
    * hacer guardar silencio = shush.
    * no guardar relación con = be incommensurate with.
    * porche para guardar el coche = car port.
    * que guarde relación con = in keeping with.
    * quien guarda, halla = waste not, want not.
    * sin guardar una correlación = uncorrelated.
    * volver a guardar = rehouse [re-house].

    * * *
    guardar [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    (reservar): guárdale un pedazo de pastel save him a piece of cake
    guarda esa botella para Nochevieja keep o save that bottle for New Year's Eve, put that bottle aside for New Year's Eve
    guárdame un sitio save me a seat, keep me a place
    si pido la excedencia, no me guardan el puesto if I ask for leave of absence, they won't keep o hold my job open for me
    B
    1 (poner en un lugar) to put … away
    guarda los juguetes put your toys away
    los guardé en un sitio seguro I put them (away) in a safe place
    ya he guardado toda la ropa de invierno I've already put away all my winter clothes
    guarda todos los recibos she keeps o ( colloq) hangs on to all her receipts
    2 (conservar, mantener en un lugar) to keep
    guardo los huevos en la nevera I keep the eggs in the fridge
    lo tuvo guardado durante años she kept it for years
    los tengo guardados en el desván I've got them stored away o I've got them in the attic
    siempre guarda las medicinas bajo llave she always keeps the medicines locked away o under lock and key
    los tesoros que guarda el mar ( liter); the treasures which lie hidden beneath the waves ( liter)
    C ( liter)
    (defender, proteger): la muralla que guarda el castillo the walls which defend o protect the castle
    los perros guardaban la entrada a la mansión the dogs were guarding the entrance to the mansion
    Dios guarde al rey ( fr hecha); God save the King
    Dios guarde a Vd muchos años ( frml); ≈ yours respectfully ( frml), may God preserve you ( arch)
    D ‹secreto› to keep
    no le guardo ningún rencor I don't bear a grudge against o feel any resentment toward(s) him
    guardo muy buenos recuerdos de aquel viaje I have very good memories of that trip
    ¡ésta se la guardo! ( fam); I'll remember this!, I won't forget this!
    E
    1
    (mostrar, manifestar): le guardaron el debido respeto he was treated with due respect
    hay que guardar la debida compostura en la Iglesia you must show proper respect when in church
    guardar las apariencias to keep up appearances
    2 ‹leyes/fiestas› to observe fiesta
    A (quedarse con) to keep
    guárdate tus consejos keep your advice to yourself
    B ( enf) (reservar) to save, keep
    C
    (poner en un lugar): se guardó el cheque en el bolsillo he put the check (away) in his pocket
    guárdatelo bien put it somewhere safe o look after it carefully
    D (cuidarse) guardarse DE + INF to be careful not to + INF
    se guardó mucho de mostrarles el documento she was very careful not to show them the document
    ya te guardarás de contar lo que pasó you'd better not tell anyone o you'd better make sure you don't tell anyone what happened
    * * *

     

    guardar ( conjugate guardar) verbo transitivo
    1 ( reservar) to save, keep;
    ◊ guarda algo para después save o keep sth for later

    2
    a) ( poner en un lugar) ‹juguetes/libros› to put … away;


    b) (conservar, mantener) to keep;


    guardar las apariencias to keep up appearances
    c) ‹ secreto› to keep;

    ‹ rencor› to bear, harbor( conjugate harbor);

    guardarse verbo pronominal
    1


    2 ( poner en un lugar):

    guardar verbo transitivo
    1 (preservar) to keep: ¿puedes guardármelo?, can you look after it for me?
    todavía guardo sus cosas, I still keep his things
    2 (un secreto, recuerdo) to keep: guardaron silencio, they remained silent
    guardemos un minuto de silencio, let's observe a minute's silence
    guarden silencio, por favor, be quiet, please
    3 (en un sitio) to put away: guarda las tazas en ese armario, put the cups away in that cupboard
    4 (reservar) to keep
    5 Inform to save
    ♦ Locuciones: guardar cama, to stay in bed
    ' guardar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    apariencia
    - apartar
    - arca
    - archivar
    - ayuno
    - cama
    - conservar
    - continencia
    - forma
    - recoger
    - rencor
    - reposo
    - reservar
    - rincón
    - secreta
    - secreto
    - callar
    - compostura
    - dejar
    - huevera
    - panera
    - separar
    - silencio
    English:
    aside
    - commensurate
    - cookie jar
    - counsel
    - distance
    - file
    - hold
    - hold against
    - house
    - keep
    - lay up
    - leave out
    - lock away
    - maintain
    - observe
    - pack away
    - pertinent
    - reminiscent
    - retain
    - save
    - secret
    - set aside
    - silent
    - skeleton
    - stay
    - storage space
    - store
    - stow
    - treasure
    - wrap
    - appearance
    - bread
    - cake
    - convenient
    - face
    - guard
    - hang
    - harbor
    - holy
    - leave
    - lock
    - mind
    - put
    - reserve
    - set
    - storage
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [conservar] to keep;
    guarda el vestido en el armario she keeps the dress in the wardrobe;
    esta caja guarda documentos muy antiguos this box contains some very old documents;
    guardo muy buenos recuerdos de mi infancia I have very good memories of my childhood
    2. [poner en su sitio] to put away;
    ¡guarda los juguetes! put your toys away!
    3. [vigilar] to keep watch over;
    [proteger] to guard;
    guarda un rebaño de ovejas he tends a flock of sheep;
    el perro guarda la casa the dog guards the house;
    guarda a tu hijo del peligro keep your child away from danger;
    ¡Dios guarde al rey! God save the King!
    4. [mantener] [secreto, promesa] to keep;
    guardó su palabra she kept her word;
    guardar cama to stay in bed;
    guardar silencio to keep quiet;
    guardar las apariencias to keep up appearances;
    también Fig
    guardar las distancias to keep one's distance
    5. [reservar, ahorrar] to save (a o para alguien for sb);
    ¿me guardas un sitio? will you save a place for me?;
    guarda un poco de pastel para tu hermano leave o save a bit of cake for your brother;
    he guardado parte de la paga para las vacaciones I've put by o saved part of my wages for my Br holidays o US vacation;
    el carnicero siempre me guarda la mejor carne the butcher always saves o keeps the best meat for me
    6. [observar] [ley, norma, fiesta] to observe
    7. Informát to save;
    guardar cambios to save changes
    * * *
    v/t
    1 keep;
    guardar silencio remain silent, keep silent
    2 poner en un lugar put (away)
    3 recuerdo have
    4 apariencias keep up
    5 INFOR save
    6
    :
    guardar cama stay in bed
    * * *
    1) : to guard
    2) : to maintain, to preserve
    3) conservar: to put away
    4) reservar: to save
    5) : to keep (a secret or promise)
    * * *
    1. (en general) to keep [pt. & pp. kept]
    ¿sabes guardar un secreto? can you keep a secret?
    2. (recoger) to put away [pt. & pp. put]
    3. (meter) to put
    4. (reservar) to save / to keep
    ¿me guardas un sitio? will you save me a seat?
    guardar rencor a alguien to bear somebody a grudge [pt. bore; pp. borne]

    Spanish-English dictionary > guardar

  • 23 actuar

    v.
    1 to act (obrar, producir efecto).
    actúa de o como escudo it acts o serves as a shield
    este tranquilizante actúa directamente sobre los centros nerviosos this tranquilizer acts directly on the nerve centers
    Juana actúa como reina Johanna acts like a queen.
    Actué bien I acted [behaved] well.
    Ricardo actuó en el incendio Richard acted=took action during the fire.
    2 to undertake proceedings (law).
    3 to perform, to act.
    en esta película actúa Victoria Abril Victoria Abril appears in this film
    4 to perform on, to act out.
    5 to perform judicial acts, to prosecute, to litigate, to bring an action.
    El juez actúa legalmente The judge performs judicial acts legally.
    * * *
    (stressed ú in certain persons of certain tenses)
    Present Indicative
    actúo, actúas, actúa, actuamos, actuáis, actúan.
    Present Subjunctive
    actúe, actúes, actúe, actuemos, actuéis, actúen.
    Imperative
    actúa (tú), actúe (él/Vd.), actuemos (nos.), actuad (vos.), actúen (ellos/Vds.).
    * * *
    verb
    to act, perform
    * * *
    1. VI
    1) [actor] to act; [cantante, banda, compañía, equipo] to perform

    actuar en una película — to act o be in a film

    2) (=obrar) to act

    actúa como o de mediador en el conflicto — he's acting as a mediator in the conflict

    actúa de manera rara — he's acting o behaving strangely

    3) (Jur) (=proceder) to institute (legal) proceedings; [abogado] to act
    4) (=tener efecto) to act
    2.
    VT (=hacer funcionar) to work, operate
    * * *
    verbo intransitivo
    a) persona ( obrar) to act

    forma de actuar — behavior*

    b) < medicamento> to work, act
    c) actor to act; torero to perform

    ¿quién actúa en esa película? — who's in the movie?

    d) (Der) to act
    * * *
    = act, be at work, behave, function, perform, step in, work, conduct + Reflexivo, come into + play, get in + the act, undertake + action, step up.
    Ex. AACR2 defines a corporate body thus: 'a corporate body is an organisation or group of persons that is identified by a particular name and that acts, or may act, as an entity'.
    Ex. All these influences are at work before a child goes to school, yet until quite recently we have behaved as though good teaching in good schools was enough to compensate for the disabilities of verbally impoverished children.
    Ex. Although the system behaves simply, it incorporates some complex retrieval techniques, developed from information retrieval research.
    Ex. The DOBIS/LIBIS allows both the library and the computer center to function efficiently and at a lower cost by sharing one system.
    Ex. 'There's no question,' he said, 'but an individual's past performance is a good indicator of how he or she will perform in the future'.
    Ex. Furthermore, children can be misled by group influences into reading truly pernicious material (hard core ponography, for example) and when this happens adults have a clear responsibility to step in and do something about it.
    Ex. Files only work effectively for a limited number of documents.
    Ex. At the next division and department head meeting, Kobitsky was reprimanded and told that she should learn to be an administrator and conduct herself accordingly = En la siguiente reunión de directores de división y departamento, Kobitsky fue amonestada y se le dijo que debería aprender a ser una administradora y actuar consecuentemente.
    Ex. There are, of course, all sorts of other considerations which come into play in determining the income which a publisher might obtain from a book.
    Ex. Even the U.S. military got in the act, when in 1984 they abolished happy hours at military base clubs.
    Ex. Members will not undertake actions that may unfairly or unlawfully jeopardise a candidate's employment.
    Ex. Another growing group in this annual pro-life event is women who are stepping up to proclaim their regret for their own abortions.
    ----
    * actuar a posteriori = be reactive.
    * actuar autoritariamente = flex + Posesivo + muscles.
    * actuar como si + ser + Dios = play + God.
    * actuar con cautela = play it + safe.
    * actuar con fineza = finesse.
    * actuar con irresponsabilidad hacia = play + fast and loose with.
    * actuar con poca consideración hacia = play + fast and loose with.
    * actuar consecuentemente = act + accordingly.
    * actuar convencido de que = operate under + the impression that.
    * actuar correctamente = do + the right thing, get on + the right side of.
    * actuar de = serve as.
    * actuar de abogado del diablo = be the/a devil's advocate.
    * actuar de acuerdo con los principios de Uno = act on + Posesivo + principles.
    * actuar de buena fe = act in + good faith.
    * actuar de capitán = skipper, captain.
    * actuar de cara a la galería = play to + the gallery.
    * actuar de contrapeso = counterpoise.
    * actuar de forma negligente = be remiss.
    * actuar de juez = don + Posesivo + judge's wig, officiate.
    * actuar del modo que se considere más adecuado = exercise + discretion.
    * actuar de mediador = mediate.
    * actuar de mirón = lurk in + the wings.
    * actuar de otro modo = do + otherwise.
    * actuar de puente = act as + a bridge.
    * actuar de un modo despiadado = play + hardball.
    * actuar de un modo determinado = follow + pattern.
    * actuar de un modo diferente = strike out on + a different path.
    * actuar de un modo enérgico = turn on + the heat.
    * actuar de un modo implacable = play + hardball.
    * actuar de un modo independiente = go it alone.
    * actuar de un modo intransigente = play + hardball.
    * actuar duro = play + hardball.
    * actuar en colusión = connive.
    * actuar en complicidad = connive.
    * actuar en conciencia = act in + good conscience.
    * actuar en connivencia = collude, connive.
    * actuar en consecuencia = act + accordingly.
    * actuar en defensa de la profesión = advocacy.
    * actuar en defensa de los intereses de las bibliotecas y bibliotecarios = library advocacy.
    * actuar en la clandestinidad = go into + hiding.
    * actuar en segundo plano = lurk in + the wings.
    * actuar en sinergia = synergize.
    * actuar independientemente = fly + solo.
    * actuar lento = be slow off the mark, be slow off the blocks.
    * actuar motivado por + Nombre = act out of + Nombre.
    * actuar negligentemente = be remiss.
    * actuar para el bien de todos = acting-for-the-best.
    * actuar por encima de + Posesivo + capacidades = punch above + Posesivo + weight.
    * actuar por impulso = act on + impulse.
    * actuar rápido = be quick off the mark, be quick off the blocks.
    * actuar según = act on/upon.
    * actuar sin demora = act + promptly.
    * actuar sin pensar = shoot from + the hip.
    * actuar sumisamente = take + Nombre + lying down.
    * al actuar de este modo = by so doing, in so doing, by doing so.
    * empezar a actuar = swing into + action.
    * encontrar su propio modo de actuar = find + Posesivo + own way.
    * forma de actuar = discourse.
    * manera de actuar = line of attack.
    * modo de actuar = arrangement, course of action, practice, rationale.
    * no actuar correctamente = be remiss.
    * no actuar debidamente = be remiss.
    * organismo que actúa en representación de otros = umbrella.
    * para actuar = for action.
    * que actúa de soporte = supporting.
    * * *
    verbo intransitivo
    a) persona ( obrar) to act

    forma de actuar — behavior*

    b) < medicamento> to work, act
    c) actor to act; torero to perform

    ¿quién actúa en esa película? — who's in the movie?

    d) (Der) to act
    * * *
    = act, be at work, behave, function, perform, step in, work, conduct + Reflexivo, come into + play, get in + the act, undertake + action, step up.

    Ex: AACR2 defines a corporate body thus: 'a corporate body is an organisation or group of persons that is identified by a particular name and that acts, or may act, as an entity'.

    Ex: All these influences are at work before a child goes to school, yet until quite recently we have behaved as though good teaching in good schools was enough to compensate for the disabilities of verbally impoverished children.
    Ex: Although the system behaves simply, it incorporates some complex retrieval techniques, developed from information retrieval research.
    Ex: The DOBIS/LIBIS allows both the library and the computer center to function efficiently and at a lower cost by sharing one system.
    Ex: 'There's no question,' he said, 'but an individual's past performance is a good indicator of how he or she will perform in the future'.
    Ex: Furthermore, children can be misled by group influences into reading truly pernicious material (hard core ponography, for example) and when this happens adults have a clear responsibility to step in and do something about it.
    Ex: Files only work effectively for a limited number of documents.
    Ex: At the next division and department head meeting, Kobitsky was reprimanded and told that she should learn to be an administrator and conduct herself accordingly = En la siguiente reunión de directores de división y departamento, Kobitsky fue amonestada y se le dijo que debería aprender a ser una administradora y actuar consecuentemente.
    Ex: There are, of course, all sorts of other considerations which come into play in determining the income which a publisher might obtain from a book.
    Ex: Even the U.S. military got in the act, when in 1984 they abolished happy hours at military base clubs.
    Ex: Members will not undertake actions that may unfairly or unlawfully jeopardise a candidate's employment.
    Ex: Another growing group in this annual pro-life event is women who are stepping up to proclaim their regret for their own abortions.
    * actuar a posteriori = be reactive.
    * actuar autoritariamente = flex + Posesivo + muscles.
    * actuar como si + ser + Dios = play + God.
    * actuar con cautela = play it + safe.
    * actuar con fineza = finesse.
    * actuar con irresponsabilidad hacia = play + fast and loose with.
    * actuar con poca consideración hacia = play + fast and loose with.
    * actuar consecuentemente = act + accordingly.
    * actuar convencido de que = operate under + the impression that.
    * actuar correctamente = do + the right thing, get on + the right side of.
    * actuar de = serve as.
    * actuar de abogado del diablo = be the/a devil's advocate.
    * actuar de acuerdo con los principios de Uno = act on + Posesivo + principles.
    * actuar de buena fe = act in + good faith.
    * actuar de capitán = skipper, captain.
    * actuar de cara a la galería = play to + the gallery.
    * actuar de contrapeso = counterpoise.
    * actuar de forma negligente = be remiss.
    * actuar de juez = don + Posesivo + judge's wig, officiate.
    * actuar del modo que se considere más adecuado = exercise + discretion.
    * actuar de mediador = mediate.
    * actuar de mirón = lurk in + the wings.
    * actuar de otro modo = do + otherwise.
    * actuar de puente = act as + a bridge.
    * actuar de un modo despiadado = play + hardball.
    * actuar de un modo determinado = follow + pattern.
    * actuar de un modo diferente = strike out on + a different path.
    * actuar de un modo enérgico = turn on + the heat.
    * actuar de un modo implacable = play + hardball.
    * actuar de un modo independiente = go it alone.
    * actuar de un modo intransigente = play + hardball.
    * actuar duro = play + hardball.
    * actuar en colusión = connive.
    * actuar en complicidad = connive.
    * actuar en conciencia = act in + good conscience.
    * actuar en connivencia = collude, connive.
    * actuar en consecuencia = act + accordingly.
    * actuar en defensa de la profesión = advocacy.
    * actuar en defensa de los intereses de las bibliotecas y bibliotecarios = library advocacy.
    * actuar en la clandestinidad = go into + hiding.
    * actuar en segundo plano = lurk in + the wings.
    * actuar en sinergia = synergize.
    * actuar independientemente = fly + solo.
    * actuar lento = be slow off the mark, be slow off the blocks.
    * actuar motivado por + Nombre = act out of + Nombre.
    * actuar negligentemente = be remiss.
    * actuar para el bien de todos = acting-for-the-best.
    * actuar por encima de + Posesivo + capacidades = punch above + Posesivo + weight.
    * actuar por impulso = act on + impulse.
    * actuar rápido = be quick off the mark, be quick off the blocks.
    * actuar según = act on/upon.
    * actuar sin demora = act + promptly.
    * actuar sin pensar = shoot from + the hip.
    * actuar sumisamente = take + Nombre + lying down.
    * al actuar de este modo = by so doing, in so doing, by doing so.
    * empezar a actuar = swing into + action.
    * encontrar su propio modo de actuar = find + Posesivo + own way.
    * forma de actuar = discourse.
    * manera de actuar = line of attack.
    * modo de actuar = arrangement, course of action, practice, rationale.
    * no actuar correctamente = be remiss.
    * no actuar debidamente = be remiss.
    * organismo que actúa en representación de otros = umbrella.
    * para actuar = for action.
    * que actúa de soporte = supporting.

    * * *
    actuar [ A18 ]
    vi
    1 «persona» (obrar) to act
    actuó de or como mediador he acted as a mediator
    no entiendo tu forma de actuar I don't understand the way you're behaving o acting
    2 «medicamento» to work, act
    dejar actuar a la naturaleza let nature take its course
    3 «actor» to act; «torero» to perform
    ¿quién actúa en esa película? who's in that movie?
    4 ( Der) to act
    actúa por la parte demandada el abogado Sr. Ruiz Sr. Ruiz is acting for the defendant
    * * *

     

    actuar ( conjugate actuar) verbo intransitivo
    a) [ persona] ( obrar) to act;



    c) [ actor] to act;

    [ torero] to perform;
    ◊ ¿quién actúa en esa película? who's in the movie?

    actuar verbo intransitivo
    1 to act: el agua actuó como disolvente, the water acted as a solvent
    actuará de fiscal en la causa, he will act as public prosecutor in the trial
    2 Cine Teat to perform, act
    ' actuar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    clandestinidad
    - constreñimiento
    - cumplir
    - diplomacia
    - enrollarse
    - estilo
    - flojear
    - hacer
    - judicialmente
    - necesaria
    - necesario
    - operar
    - política
    - proceder
    - reflexión
    - servir
    - tapujo
    - trabajar
    - atropellar
    - brusquedad
    - coherencia
    - consecuencia
    - fanfarrón
    - fanfarronear
    - fe
    - libertad
    - ligereza
    - ligero
    - obrar
    - precaución
    - separar
    - tonto
    English:
    abruptly
    - act
    - act on
    - appear
    - as
    - bone
    - camp up
    - deputize
    - do
    - galvanize
    - guinea pig
    - hand
    - inconsiderate
    - jury duty
    - operate
    - perform
    - play
    - reasonably
    - sting
    - work
    - connive
    - defend
    - liaise
    - move
    - self
    * * *
    actuar vi
    1. [obrar, producir efecto] to act;
    actuó según sus convicciones she acted in accordance with her convictions;
    actúa de o [m5] como escudo it acts o serves as a shield;
    actúa de secretario he acts as a secretary;
    este tranquilizante actúa directamente sobre los centros nerviosos this tranquilizer acts directly on the nerve centres;
    los carteristas actúan principalmente en el centro de la ciudad the pickpockets are mainly active Br in the city centre o US downtown
    2. Der to undertake proceedings
    3. [en película, teatro] to perform, to act;
    en esta película actúa Cantinflas Cantinflas appears in this film
    * * *
    v/i
    1 ( obrar, ejercer), TEA act;
    actuar de act as
    2 MED work, act
    * * *
    actuar {3} vi
    : to act, to perform
    * * *
    actuar vb
    1. (en general) to act
    2. (artista) to perform

    Spanish-English dictionary > actuar

  • 24 захищати

    = захистити
    1) ( від нападу) to defend; to protect; ( прикривати) to shelter, to shield

    захищати дисертацію — to defend a thesis, to uphold a thesis

    захищати —

    2) ( відстоювати) to uphold, to maintain; to speak in support (of), to advocate

    захищати когось — to stand up for, to stick up for; to take up the cudgels for

    3) юр., тк. недок. to defend, to plead for

    Українсько-англійський словник > захищати

  • 25 guardare

    1. v/t look at
    (osservare, stare a vedere) watch
    ( custodire) watch, look after
    ( esaminare) check
    2. v/i look
    ( controllare) check
    di finestra overlook (su something)
    di porta lead (su to)
    guardare a sud face south
    * * *
    guardare v.tr.
    1 (anche intr.) to look at (s.o., sthg.); (osservare) to watch, to look, to observe: guarda!, look!; guardatemi, look at me; guardate a destra, look to the right; guardate quella casa, quel bambino, look at that house, at that child; molti guardavano il paesaggio, many people were looking at the view; guarda che luna!, look at the moon!; guardare l'orologio, to look at the time (o at one's watch); guardare la televisione, un film, to watch television, a film; guardate come faccio io, watch how I do it; invece di stare a guardare, aiutami, instead of standing and looking (o watching), come and give me a hand; hai guardato se abbiamo preso tutto?, have you looked to see if we've taken everything? // guardare avanti, to look ahead // guardare dentro, to look in; guardare dentro a qlco., to look into sthg.; guardare fuori, to look out; guardava (fuori) dalla finestra, he was looking out of the window; guardare in un telescopio, to look through a telescope // guardare qlcu. con diffidenza, to look at s.o. with distrust // guardare qlcu. dall'alto in basso, to look s.o. up and down, (disprezzare) to look down on s.o. // guardare qlcu. di buon occhio, di mal occhio, to look favourably, unfavourably on s.o. // guardare qlcu. di traverso, to scowl (o frown) at s.o. // guardare qlcu. in faccia, to look s.o. in the face: guardò la morte in faccia, he looked death in the face // non guardare in faccia a nessuno, not to worry about other people: quando si tratta di denaro, non guarda in faccia a nessuno, when it's a question of money, he doesn't have any regard for anyone // tutti per strada guardavano come era vestita, everybody in the street looked at the way she was dressed; nessuno lo guarda, nobody takes any notice to him; farsi guardare, to attract attention (o notice) // guardare e non toccare è una cosa da imparare, (prov.) children must learn to look and not to touch
    2 (fissamente) to gaze at, (up)on (s.o., sthg.); to stare: la madre guardava il suo bimbo con grande tenerezza, the mother was gazing on her child with great tenderness; smettila di guardarmi così, stop staring at me like that
    3 (di sfuggita) to glance at (s.o., sthg.); to send* a glance (at sthg.)
    4 (furtivamente) to peep; to peep at; (dall'interno) to peep out; (dall'esterno) to peep in: lo vidi guardare dal buco della serratura, I saw him peeping through the keyhole
    5 (con bramosia) to ogle
    6 (scrutare) to eye: mi guardarono sospettosamente, they eyed me with suspicion
    7 (cercare) to search, to look: ho guardato dappertutto, per tutta la casa, I looked (o searched) everywhere, all over the house; guarda nella borsa, take a look in the bag
    8 (custodire, sorvegliare) to watch over (s.o., sthg.), to look after (s.o., sthg.), to mind: chi guarderà il bambino mentre sarò fuori?, who will look after (o mind) the baby while I am out?; guardare qlcu. a vista, to keep a close watch on s.o.; guarda il latte, keep an eye on the milk
    9 (proteggere) to protect; (difendere) to defend, to guard: i soldati guardavano il ponte, the soldiers defended the bridge // guardare le spalle a qlcu., to watch (o protect) s.o.'s rear // guardare qlcu. da un pericolo, to protect s.o. against a danger // dagli amici mi guardi Iddio che dai nemici mi guardo io, (prov.) God defend me from my friends and I'll look after my enemies
    10 (considerare) to consider, to view, to look at (s.o., sthg.): cercate di guardare la questione dal nostro punto di vista, try to consider (o to look at) the question from our point of view
    11 (esaminare) to look over (sthg.), to have a look at (sthg.): l'insegnante guardò la traduzione, the teacher looked over the translation // guardare qlco. per il sottile, to be particular about sthg.
    ◆ v. intr.
    1 → v.tr. 1
    2 (essere orientato) to face; (aprirsi) to look out on (sthg.): guarda a sud, it faces south; la casa guarda a mezzogiorno, the house faces (to the) south; la mia finestra guarda sul cortile, my window looks out on the courtyard
    3 (considerare) to look (up)on (s.o., sthg.); to regard (s.o., sthg.): non guardiamo a ciò come all'unica via d'uscita, don't let us look upon it as the only way out; tutti guardavano a lui come al nuovo presidente, everyone looked on him as the next president
    4 (cercare) to try: guarda di accontentarlo, try to please him; guarda di studiare, try to study
    5 (badare) to see* to (sthg.), to look to (sthg.), to take* care, to mind; (fare attenzione) to be careful: guarda bene che ciò non accada più, take care (o mind) that this does not happen any more; non guardare a spese, to spare no expense; guarda di non farti male, be careful not to hurt yourself; ma perché non guardi dove vai?, why don't you look where you are going?; guarda che il tavolo è bagnato!, mind, the table is wet! // guarda anche al tuo interesse, oltre che al suo!, look after your own interests, as well as his! // guarda solo ai risultati, he's only interested in results // a guardare bene, on second thoughts.
    ◘ guardarsi v.rifl.
    1 to look at oneself: egli continuava a guardare intorno, he kept looking about him; si guardò allo specchio, she looked at herself in the mirror
    2 (stare in guardia) to beware (of s.o., sthg.); (fare attenzione) to mind (sthg.): guardatevi bene dal perderlo!, mind you don't lose it!; guardatevi dai borsaioli, beware of pickpockets; guardati dai cattivi compagni, beware of bad company; guardati dall'offenderlo!, be careful not to offend him! // me ne guardo bene!, I shall do no such thing! (o I wouldn't dream of it!)
    3 (astenersi) to forbear*; (da cibo o bevande) to abstain: guardatevi dal fare troppe domande, forbear from asking too many questions; guardare dalle parole inutili, to refrain from useless words
    ◆ v.rifl.rec. to look at each other (one another); to gaze at each other (one another): si guardavano negli occhi, they looked each other in the eyes // non si guardano più!, (fig.) they cut each other dead!
    * * *
    [ɡwar'dare]
    1. vt
    1) (oggetto, paesaggio) to look at, (persona, cosa in movimento) to watch

    guarda chi c'è o chi si vede! — look who's here!

    e guarda caso... — as if by coincidence...

    2) (rapidamente) to glance at, (a lungo) to gaze at

    guardare qc di buon/mal occhio — to look on o view sth favourably Brit o favorably Am /unfavourably Brit o unfavorably Am

    3) (esaminare) to (have a) look at, check

    guardare una parola sul dizionario — to look sth up o check a word in the dictionary

    4) (custodire) to look after, take care of, (proteggere) to guard

    guardare a vista qn — (prigioniero) to keep a close watch on sb

    2. vi (aus avere)
    1)
    2)

    (badare) guardare a — to mind, be careful about, pay attention to

    3)

    (essere rivolto) guardare a — to face

    guardare su — to give o look onto

    4)

    (fraseologia) guardare dalla finestra — to look out of the window

    guarda un po' lì — (cerca) take a look over there

    1) (uso reciproco) to look at each other
    2) (in vetrina, specchio) to look at o.s.

    guardarsi allo specchio — to look at o.s. in the mirror

    3)

    guardarsi da — (astenersi) to refrain from, (stare in guardia) to be wary of, beware of

    guardarsi dal fare qc — to take care o be careful not to do sth

    PAROLA CHIAVE: guardare non si traduce mai con la parola inglese guard
    * * *
    [gwar'dare] 1.
    verbo transitivo

    guardare qcn., qcs. — to look at sb., sth.

    guardare qcs. dalla finestra — to look out of the window at sth.

    guardare male qcn. — to frown at sb.

    2) (osservare con attenzione) to watch, to look at [persona, scena]; to look at [quadro, diapositive, paesaggio]; to watch [film, televisione]; (fisso) to stare at; (a lungo) to gaze at

    guardare qcn. fare — to watch sb. doing

    guardare qcn. negli occhi — to look sb. in the eye

    3) (sorvegliare) to look after, to take* care of; (proteggere) [soldati, guardie] to keep* watch on [confine, edificio]
    4) (esaminare, considerare) to take* a (close) look at [statistiche, situazione]

    guarda Sara, non si lamenta mai — take Sara, she never complains

    2.
    verbo intransitivo (aus. avere)

    guardare dalla finestra — to look out of o through the window

    guardare al futuro con ottimismo — to look to o to view the future with optimism

    2) (cercare) to look; (in libro, dizionario) to look up
    4) (badare) to mind, to look to; (fare attenzione)

    guardare su — [casa, stanza] to look onto, to overlook, to face (towards) [mare, strada]

    guardare a — [ finestra] to face [ nord]

    3.
    verbo pronominale guardarsi
    2) (reciprocamente) to look at each other, one another

    mi guarderò bene dal farlo — I'll be careful o I'll take good care not to do it

    ••

    guarda, guarda! — well, well, well!

    guarda,... — look here,...

    guarda caso, quel giorno il tempo era brutto — strangely enough, the weather that day was bad

    ••
    Note:
    v. la nota della voce 1. vedere
    * * *
    guardare
    /gwar'dare/ [1]
    v. la nota della voce 1. vedere.
     1 (volgere lo sguardo su) guardare qcn., qcs. to look at sb., sth.; guardare qcs. dalla finestra to look out of the window at sth.; guarda chi arriva! look who's coming! guardare male qcn. to frown at sb.; guarda che disordine! look at this mess!
     2 (osservare con attenzione) to watch, to look at [persona, scena]; to look at [quadro, diapositive, paesaggio]; to watch [film, televisione]; (fisso) to stare at; (a lungo) to gaze at; guardare qcn. fare to watch sb. doing; cos'hai da guardare? what are you staring at? guardare qcn. negli occhi to look sb. in the eye
     3 (sorvegliare) to look after, to take* care of; (proteggere) [soldati, guardie] to keep* watch on [confine, edificio]
     4 (esaminare, considerare) to take* a (close) look at [statistiche, situazione]; guarda Sara, non si lamenta mai take Sara, she never complains; le ragazze non lo guardano girls take no notice of him
     5 (fare attenzione a) guarda dove metti i piedi look where you're walking
     (aus. avere)
     1 (dirigere lo sguardo) to look; guardare dalla finestra to look out of o through the window; guarda dietro di te look behind you; guardare al futuro con ottimismo to look to o to view the future with optimism; guardare al passato to look back; stare a guardare to look on
     2 (cercare) to look; (in libro, dizionario) to look up
     3 (considerare) tutti guardano a lui come a un eroe everyone looks on him as a hero
     4 (badare) to mind, to look to; (fare attenzione) guarda di non farti male mind you don't get hurt
     5 (essere rivolto) guardare su [ casa, stanza] to look onto, to overlook, to face (towards) [ mare, strada]; guardare a [ finestra] to face [ nord]
    III guardarsi verbo pronominale
     1 (se stesso) - rsi allo specchio to look at oneself in the mirror; - rsi le mani to look at one's hands; guardare attorno to look around
     2 (reciprocamente) to look at each other, one another; - rsi dritto negli occhi to look into each other's eyes
     3 (stare in guardia) - rsi da to beware of
     4 (astenersi) me ne guardo bene! Heaven forbid! mi guarderò bene dal farlo I'll be careful o I'll take good care not to do it
    ma guarda (un po')! fancy that! guarda, guarda! well, well, well! guarda,... look here,...; guarda caso, quel giorno il tempo era brutto strangely enough, the weather that day was bad.

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > guardare

  • 26 Д-443

    ДО ПОСЛЕДНЕГО дыхАния
    ИЗДЫХАНИЯ obs, ВЗДОХА) lit
    PrepP these forms only adv fixed WO
    1. to the end of one's life, all one's life
    till (to) one's dying day
    till (to) the end of onefe days.
    "Я до последнего дыхания её (Россию) любить буду» (Гроссман 2). "I'll love Russia till my dying day" (2a).
    2. биться, сражаться, защищать кого-что и т. п. - (to fight, defend s.o. or sth.) to the point of sacrificing one's life: (right up) to one's dying (last) breath
    to the (one's) death to the bitter end.
    «Долг наш защищать крепость до последнего нашего издыхания об этом и говорить нечего. Но надобно подумать о безопасности женщин» (Пушкин 2). "...It is our duty to defend the fort to our last breath, that goes without saying. But we must think of the safety of the women" (2a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > Д-443

  • 27 до последнего вздоха

    [PrepP; these forms only; adv; fixed WO]
    =====
    1. to the end of one's life, all one's life:
    - till <to> one's dying day;
    - till (to) the end of one's days.
         ♦ "Я до последнего дыхания её [Россию] любить буду" (Гроссман 2). "I'll love Russia till my dying day" (2a).
    2. биться, сражаться, защищать кого-что и т.п. до последнего вздоха (to fight, defend s.o. or sth.) to the point of sacrificing one's life:
    - (right up) to one's dying < last> breath;
    - to the < one's> death;
    - to the bitter end.
         ♦ "Долг наш защищать крепость до последнего нашего издыхания; об этом и говорить нечего. Но надобно подумать о безопасности женщин" (Пушкин 2)....It is our duty to defend the fort to our last breath; that goes without saying. But we must think of the safety of the women" (2a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > до последнего вздоха

  • 28 до последнего дыхания

    [PrepP; these forms only; adv; fixed WO]
    =====
    1. to the end of one's life, all one's life:
    - till <to> one's dying day;
    - till (to) the end of one's days.
         ♦ "Я до последнего дыхания её [Россию] любить буду" (Гроссман 2). "I'll love Russia till my dying day" (2a).
    2. биться, сражаться, защищать кого-что и т.п. до последнего дыхания (to fight, defend s.o. or sth.) to the point of sacrificing one's life:
    - (right up) to one's dying < last> breath;
    - to the < one's> death;
    - to the bitter end.
         ♦ "Долг наш защищать крепость до последнего нашего издыхания; об этом и говорить нечего. Но надобно подумать о безопасности женщин" (Пушкин 2)....It is our duty to defend the fort to our last breath; that goes without saying. But we must think of the safety of the women" (2a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > до последнего дыхания

  • 29 до последнего издыхания

    [PrepP; these forms only; adv; fixed WO]
    =====
    1. to the end of one's life, all one's life:
    - till <to> one's dying day;
    - till (to) the end of one's days.
         ♦ "Я до последнего дыхания её [Россию] любить буду" (Гроссман 2). "I'll love Russia till my dying day" (2a).
    2. биться, сражаться, защищать кого-что и т.п. до последнего издыхания (to fight, defend s.o. or sth.) to the point of sacrificing one's life:
    - (right up) to one's dying < last> breath;
    - to the < one's> death;
    - to the bitter end.
         ♦ "Долг наш защищать крепость до последнего нашего издыхания; об этом и говорить нечего. Но надобно подумать о безопасности женщин" (Пушкин 2)....It is our duty to defend the fort to our last breath; that goes without saying. But we must think of the safety of the women" (2a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > до последнего издыхания

  • 30 hand

    1 [lichaamsdeel] hand
    2 [handschrift, stijl] hand ⇒ (hand)writing
    3 [figuurlijk] [kant] hand ⇒ side
    ♦voorbeelden:
    1   op handen en voeten kruipen • crawl on all fours
         zich met handen en voeten verweren • 〈 figuurlijk〉 defend oneself tooth and nail
         aan/met handen en voeten gebonden zijn • 〈 ook figuurlijk〉 be tied hand and foot
         in andere handen komen • change hands
         blote handen • bare hands
         die zaak is in goede/slechte handen • that matter is in good/bad hands
         in goede/verkeerde handen vallen • 〈 figuurlijk〉 fall into the right/wrong hands
         〈 figuurlijk〉 gouden handen hebben • be good with one's hands
         〈 figuurlijk〉 met harde hand opvoeden • bring up the hard way
         iemand de helpende hand bieden • lend someone a (helping) hand
         〈 figuurlijk〉 bevelen van hoger hand • orders from above
         〈 figuurlijk〉 de laatste hand aan iets leggen • put the finishing touches to something
         niet met lege handen komen • not come empty-handed
         〈 figuurlijk〉 uit de losse hand • roughly, in an improvised way
         〈 figuurlijk〉 iets uit de losse hand doen • do something off the cuff
         iets met vaste hand doen • do something with a sure touch
         〈 figuurlijk〉 met vaste/krachtige hand regeren • rule with a firm/iron hand
         hij is in veilige handen • he is in safe hands
         iemand (de) handen vol werk geven • give someone no end of work/trouble
         de handen vol hebben aan iemand/iets • have one's hands full with someone/something
         hij heeft de handen meer dan vol • he has enough/too much on his plate
         dat kost handen vol geld • that costs lots of money
         iets aan vreemde handen toevertrouwen • entrust something to strangers
         hij heeft de handen niet vrij • he does not have a free hand
         〈 figuurlijk〉 iemand de vrije hand laten • give someone a free hand
         〈 figuurlijk〉 de vrije hand hebben/krijgen • have/acquire a free hand
         ergens zijn handen niet aan vuil willen maken • refuse to soil one's hands with something
         〈 figuurlijk〉 met zachte hand • with a light touch
         de handen van iemand aftrekken • 〈 figuurlijk〉 wash one's hands of someone
         hij mag zijn handen dichtknijpen • 〈 figuurlijk〉 he may call himself lucky
         〈 figuurlijk〉 ik draai er mijn hand niet voor om • 〈 ik heb er geen moeite mee〉 I think nothing of it; 〈 het kan me niet schelen〉 I don't care a rap (for it)
         iemand de hand drukken/geven/schudden • give someone one's hand, shake hands with someone
         dan kunnen we elkaar de hand geven • we're in the same boat
         elkaar de hand geven 〈 om kring te vormen〉 • link hands
         de hand in iets hebben • 〈 figuurlijk〉 have a hand in something
         〈 figuurlijk〉 iemand de hand boven het hoofd houden • 〈 aan zijn kant staan〉 stand by someone; 〈 iemand beschermen die iets misdaan heeft〉 protect someone
         ergens streng de hand aan houden 〈 regel, voorschrift〉 • adhere strictly to something
         de handen ineenslaan • 〈 van verbazing〉 clasp/throw up one's hands; 〈 figuurlijk〉 join hands/forces
         mijn handen jeuken • 〈 figuurlijk〉 I'm itching to give (someone) a good hiding
         〈 figuurlijk〉 de handen op elkaar krijgen • earn/get applause
         〈 figuurlijk〉 de hand op iets/iemand leggen • lay hands on someone/something
         iemands hand lezen • read someone's palm
         de hand lichten met het reglement • disregard the regulations
         de hand ophouden • 〈 figuurlijk〉 hold out one's hand for a tip; beg
         elkaar de hand reiken • hold out a hand to each other 〈 ook figuurlijk〉; 〈 figuurlijk〉 reach out to each other
         handen schudden • shake hands
         〈 figuurlijk〉 de hand aan zichzelf slaan • take one's own life
         hij steekt geen/nooit een hand uit • he never does a stroke of work
         zijn handen uit de mouwen steken • 〈 figuurlijk〉 put one's shoulder to the wheel
         〈 figuurlijk〉 de hand in eigen boezem steken • acknowledge blame
         de hand over het hart strijken • 〈 figuurlijk〉 be lenient/soft-hearted
         hij kan zijn handen niet thuishouden • he can't keep his hands to himself
         zijn hand uitsteken • 〈 in het verkeer〉 indicate
         〈 figuurlijk〉 zijn handen in onschuld wassen • have clean hands
         daar wordt vaak de hand mee gelicht • that is often skimped/not taken seriously
         (mijn) hand erop! • you have/here's my hand on it!
         handen omhoog! (of ik schiet) • hands up!/ 〈 informeel〉stick 'em up! (or I'll shoot)
         handen thuis! • hands off!
         〈 figuurlijk〉 iets aan de hand hebben • 〈 met iets bezig zijn〉 have something going/on; 〈 bij iets betrokken zijn〉 be involved in something
         〈 handel〉 goederen die aan de hand blijven • goods that are left on one's hands
         〈 figuurlijk〉 iemand iets aan de hand doen • get someone something
         aan de hand van deze berekeningen • on the basis of these calculations
         iemand een middel aan de hand doen tegen huiduitslag • put someone on to a good remedy for a rash
         niks aan de hand! • there's nothing the matter
         aan de hand van deze ervaringen concludeer ik … • in view of these experiences I conclude …
         iets achter de hand hebben • 〈 figuurlijk〉 have something to fall back on; 〈 heimelijk〉 have something up one's sleeve
         iets achter de hand houden • 〈 figuurlijk〉 keep something in reserve
         wat geld achter de hand houden • keep some money for a rainy day
         ik heb mijn gummetje altijd vlak bij de hand • I always have my rubber near at hand
         zo iets heb ik wel meer bij de hand gehad • 〈 figuurlijk〉 I am an old hand at this
         in de handen klappen • clap one's hands
         goed/gemakkelijk in de hand liggen • 〈 stuk gereedschap〉 have a handy grip; 〈 boek〉 be nice to hold
         iemand in handen vallen • 〈 figuurlijk〉 fall into the hands of someone
         iemand iets in handen spelen • put something someone's way
         iemand iets in de hand duwen/stoppen • slip/thrust something into someone's hands; 〈 figuurlijk〉 palm/fob someone off with something
         〈 figuurlijk〉 een auto goed in de hand hebben • have a good control of a car
         〈 figuurlijk〉 iets in de hand hebben • have something under control
         〈 figuurlijk〉 iets zelf in de hand hebben • have something in one's own hands
         een bewijs in handen hebben • have evidence
         het onderzoek is in handen van N. • the investigation is being conducted by N.
         de markt in handen hebben • control/have control of the market
         de politie heeft de zaak nu in handen • the police have the case in hand
         iets in handen krijgen • get hold of something; 〈 toevallig〉 chance on something
         de macht in handen hebben • have power
         de toestand in de hand hebben • have the situation in hand
         in handen vallen van de politie/de vijand • fall into the hands of the police/enemy
         hand in hand gaan met 〈 ook figuurlijk〉 • go hand in hand with 〈 ook figuurlijk〉
         〈 figuurlijk〉 met de handen in het haar zitten • be at one's wits' end
         〈 figuurlijk〉 iets met beide handen aangrijpen • jump at something; 〈 aanbod, gelegenheid ook〉 seize (upon) something
         zich met hand en tand verzetten • 〈 figuurlijk〉 fight tooth and nail
         met de hand wassen 〈 tegenover in de machine〉 • wash by hand
         met de hand gemaakt/geschreven • hand-made/handwritten
         〈 figuurlijk〉 met de hand op het hart iets verklaren • swear to something faithfully
         〈 figuurlijk〉 iemand naar zijn hand zetten • force/mould/bend someone to one's will, manage someone, twist someone round one's (little) finger
         〈 figuurlijk〉 hij zet alles naar zijn hand • he has it all his own way
         iets om handen hebben • have something to do
         〈 figuurlijk〉 iets onder handen hebben • be at work on something
         〈 figuurlijk〉 iemand onder handen nemen • take someone in hand/to task
         iemand op de handen kijken • 〈 figuurlijk〉 breathe down someone's neck
         iemand op (de) handen dragen • 〈 figuurlijk〉 worship/idolize someone
         hand over hand toenemen • increase hand over fist, gain ground rapidly
         iemand iets ter hand stellen • hand something (over) to someone
         iets ter hand nemen • take something up, take something in hand, undertake something
         〈 figuurlijk〉 iets uit handen geven • part with something
         er komt niets uit zijn handen • he doesn't get anything done
         uit de hand lopen • get out of hand
         〈 figuurlijk〉 ik heb die informatie uit de eerste hand • I have this information at first hand
         iemand het werk uit (de) handen nemen • take work off someone's hands
         iets van de hand doen • sell/part with/dispose of something
         van hand tot hand gaan • be passed from hand to hand
         goed/duur van de hand gaan • sell well/at high prices 〈 van koopwaren〉
         dat ligt voor de hand • 〈 figuurlijk〉 that speaks for itself
         dat is de meest voor de hand liggende conclusie • that is the most obvious conclusion
         geen hand voor iemand/iets uitsteken • not lift a finger for someone/something
         hij heeft er geen hand naar uitgestoken • 〈 niets aan gedaan〉 he hasn't done a stroke of work on it; 〈 niets van gegeten〉 he hasn't touched it
         geen hand voor ogen kunnen zien • 〈 figuurlijk〉 not be able to see one's hand in front of one('s face)
         〈 informeel〉 het zijn twee handen op één buik • 〈 figuurlijk〉 they are hand in glove
         ik heb maar twee handen! • I have only (got) one pair of hands!
         〈 figuurlijk〉 handen te kort komen • not have enough hands
         〈 spreekwoord〉 vele handen maken licht werk • many hands make light work
    2   een brief van dezelfde hand • a letter from the same hand
         een verhaal van de hand van • a story (written) by
    3   de zieke is aan de beterende hand • the patient is on the mend/getting better
         aan mijn rechter/linker hand • on my right/left (hand/side)
         aan de winnende hand zijn • be winning
         〈 figuurlijk〉 iemand op zijn hand hebben/krijgen • have/get someone on one's side
    ¶   wat is er daar aan de hand? • what's going on there?
         〈 figuurlijk〉 alsof er niets aan de hand was • as if nothing had happened/was wrong
         er is iets aan de hand • there's something the matter/up
         iets/iemand in de hand werken • encourage something/someone; 〈 iets ook〉 make for something; 〈 iemand ook〉 play into someone's hands
         elkaar in de hand werken • 〈van dingen/situaties〉 reinforce one another
         〈 van personen〉 zwaar op de hand zijn • be heavy/ponderous
         op handen zijn • be (near) at hand/imminent/forthcoming
         van de hand in de tand leven • live from hand to mouth
         een verzoek/voorstel van de hand wijzen • refuse a request 〈 verzoek〉; turn down a proposal 〈 voorstel〉

    Van Dale Handwoordenboek Nederlands-Engels > hand

  • 31 правда

    ж
    1) ( істина) truth, verity

    це правда — it is the truth; ( це правильно) it is true

    стояти за правду — to fight for justice, to stand up for ( to defend) a good cause

    3) (як вставне сл.) true, it is true; ( хоч) (al)though
    4)

    ваша правда — right you are; you are ( in the) right

    правда? — indeed?, really?; is that so?, isn't it so?; is it possible?

    по правді кажучи — the truth is, to tell the truth; injustice; in ( all) fairness

    що правда, то правда — it is but too true; there is nothing to say against it

    свята правда — God's truth, gospel truth

    Українсько-англійський словник > правда

  • 32 müdafaa

    defense. - etmek /ı/ to defend. - hakkı law the right to defend oneself before a court. - hattı mil. line of defense.

    Saja Türkçe - İngilizce Sözlük > müdafaa

  • 33 hold

    I [həuld] past tense, past participle held [held]
    1. verb
    1) to have in one's hand(s) or between one's hands:

    He held the mouse by its tail.

    يَحْمِلُ في يده
    2) to have in a part, or between parts, of the body, or between parts of a tool etc:

    Hold the stamp with tweezers.

    يُمْسِكُ ب
    3) to support or keep from moving, running away, falling etc:

    What holds that shelf up?

    Hold his arms so that he can't struggle.

    يَرْفَعُ، يُثَبِّت
    4) to remain in position, fixed etc when under strain:

    I've tied the two pieces of string together, but I'm not sure the knot will hold

    Will the anchor hold in a storm?

    يَصْمُد، يبقى ثابِتا
    5) to keep (a person) in some place or in one's power:

    The police are holding a man for questioning in connection with the murder

    He was held captive.

    يَقْبِض عَلى
    6) to (be able to) contain:

    This drawer holds all my shirts.

    يتَّسِعُ لِ، يَحْمِل
    7) to cause to take place:

    We'll hold the meeting in the hall.

    يَجْري، يَعْقِدُ
    8) to keep (oneself), or to be, in a particular state or condition:

    She holds herself very erect.

    يُبْقي، يَحْتَفِظُ ب

    He held the position of company secretary for five years.

    يُشْغِلُ
    10) to think strongly; to believe; to consider or regard:

    He holds certain very odd beliefs.

    يرى أن، يعتقِد، يَعْتَبِر، يحْتَرِم
    11) to continue to be valid or apply:

    These rules hold under all circumstances.

    يَسْري مَفعوله، ينطبِق
    12) ( with to) to force (a person) to do something he has promised to do:

    I intend to hold him to his promises.

    يُلْزِم ب
    13) to defend:

    They held the castle against the enemy.

    يُدافِع
    14) not to be beaten by:

    The general realized that the soldiers could not hold the enemy for long.

    يوقِف، يَصُد
    15) to keep (a person's attention):

    If you can't hold your pupils' attention, you can't be a good teacher.

    يحافِظ على إنتباه
    16) to keep someone in a certain state:

    Don't hold us in suspense, what was the final decision?

    يُبْقي
    17) to celebrate:

    The festival is held on 24 June.

    يَجْري، يُقام
    18) to be the owner of:

    He holds shares in this company.

    يَمْلُك، يَحْتَفِظُ ب
    19) (of good weather) to continue:

    I hope the weather holds until after the school sports.

    يَسْتَمِر، يَبْقى
    20) ( also hold the line) (of a person who is making a telephone call) to wait:

    Mr Brown is busy at the moment – will you hold or would you like him to call you back?

    يَنْتَظِر
    21) to continue to sing:

    Please hold that note for four whole beats.

    يَسْتَمِر في الغِناء
    22) to keep (something):

    They'll hold your luggage at the station until you collect it.

    يحْتَفِظ، يُبْقي على
    23) (of the future) to be going to produce:

    I wonder what the future holds for me?

    يَجْلِب، يُعْطي، يَحْمِلُ
    2. noun
    1) the act of holding:

    He caught/got/laid/took hold of the rope and pulled

    Keep hold of that rope.

    قَبْضَه، مَسْكَه
    2) power; influence:

    He has a strange hold over that girl.

    قُوَّه، تَأثير
    3) (in wrestling etc) a manner of holding one's opponent:

    The wrestler invented a new hold.

    مَسْكَة في المُصارَعَه II [həuld] noun
    (in ships) the place, below the deck, where cargo is stored.
    عَنْبَر أو مَخْزَن السَّفينَه

    Arabic-English dictionary > hold

  • 34 честь

    жен.

    защищать честь мундира — to defend/uphold the honour of the company

    на его долю выпала честь (делать что-л.) — the honour fell on/to him (to do smth.); he had the honour (to do smth.)

    поддержать честь — (кого-л.) to uphold the honour (of)

    с честью — with honour, honorably

    удостоить чести — to do smb. the honour (of doing smth.), to honour smb. (by doing smth.)

    удостоиться чести — to be given/afforded the honour (of doing smth.)

    честь мундира — франц. esprit de corps

    2) regard, respect (почет, уважение)

    оказывать честь кому-л. — to do smb. the honour (of doing smth.)

    отдавать честь (кому-л.); воен. — to salute

    отдание чести — saluting, salute

    имею честь — I have the honour (of doing smth.)

    выйти с честью из положения — to come out of a situation with credit; to come off with flying colours

    в честь кого-л. — in honour of smb.

    честь и место! разг. — you are very welcome!; please, be seated!

    честь честью — properly, well разг.

    ••

    пора и честь знать — it's high time to (leave, to stop, to quit etc.)

    честь честью — properly, the right way

    Русско-английский словарь по общей лексике > честь

  • 35 входить в раж

    разг.
    get in a rage (passion); fly into a passion; work oneself up into a fury; have the bit in one's teeth

    Милентьевна подняла голову, она, видно, хотела вступиться за своего мужа, но Евгения, опять вошедшая в раж, и рта открыть ей не дала. (Ф. Абрамов, Деревянные кони) — Milentyevna raised her head, evidently she wanted to defend her husband but Yevgenia had the bit in her teeth again and gave her no chance to say a word.

    Стыд! На что только не способны эти бабы, особо когда в раж войдут, а ежели из-за мужика, так они и совсем ничего не замечают. (В. Белов, Привычное дело) — A disgrace. What these women were capable of! When they got in a rage, especially about a man, they'd stop at nothing.

    Обычно малоразговорчивый, сдержанный, войдя в раж, круша и кроша доски и слева и справа, [Семён] что-то дико и беспрестанно кричал. (В. Распутин, Пожар) — Usually taciturn and restrained, he had worked himself up into a fury, smashing and splintering the planks to the left and the right of him and shouting wildly all the time.

    Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > входить в раж

  • 36 flan|ka

    f 1. Wojsk. (skrzydło szyku wojskowego) flank
    - na prawej flance on the right flank
    - atak na flankę a flank attack
    - atak z flanki a flanking attack
    - osłaniać lewą flankę to cover the left flank
    2. Wojsk. (narożnik twierdzy) corner tower; (bok twierdzy) flank
    - bronić północnej flanki to defend the northern flank
    3. Sport wing
    - ustawić zawodnika na flance to put a player on the wing
    - strzelać z flanki to shoot from the wing

    The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > flan|ka

  • 37 запазя

    запа̀зя,
    запа̀звам гл.
    1. ( задържам, съхранявам) keep, preserve, retain, save; ( продукти) preserve; ( място, легло и пр.) reserve, book; ( ред и пр.) maintain; ( тайна) keep; ( работа, пост и пр.) hold down; \запазя в паметта си retain/keep in o.’s memory; \запазя за спомен keep as a souvenir; \запазя здравето си preserve o.’s health; \запазя мнозинството си (за партия и пр.) retain majority; \запазя поданството си hold on to/retain o.’s citizenship; \запазя присъствие на духа keep o.’s presence of mind; \запазя реда си keep o.’s place; \запазя си правото (да) reserve the right (to); \запазя хубавата си фигура/хубостта си keep o.’s figure/o.’s looks;
    2. ( закрилям) guard (от from, against), protect (from), defend, shield (against); \запазя мира safeguard peace;
    \запазя се keep; remain; (за човек) be (well) preserved.

    Български-английски речник > запазя

  • 38 Zahn

    m; -(e)s, Zähne
    1. ANAT. tooth; falsche oder künstliche Zähne false teeth, dentures; die ersten / zweiten Zähne one’s milk ( oder first) / adult ( oder second) teeth; die dritten Zähne hum. false teeth; Zähne bekommen cut one’s teeth; sich (Dat) die Zähne putzen brush one’s teeth; die Zähne zeigen Tier: show ( oder bare) its teeth; umg., fig. show one’s teeth
    2. (Zacke) tooth; an Briefmarke: perforation; an Rad: tooth, cog
    3. fig.: bis an die Zähne bewaffnet armed to the teeth; der Zahn der Zeit the ravages of time; jemandem auf den Zahn fühlen sound s.o. out; etwas für den hohlen Zahn umg. not enough to keep a sparrow alive, a minute portion; mit langen Zähnen essen umg. pick at one’s food, have to force s.th. down; den Zahn hab ich ihm gezogen umg. I soon put him right about that, I knocked that idea on the head straight away; mit Zähnen und Klauen verteidigen umg. defend tooth and nail; ausbeißen, knirschen, zusammenbeißen
    4. umg. (Tempo) lick; einen Zahn zulegen step on it; Autofahrer: auch put one’s foot down; mit einem tollen Zahn at a terrific lick; einen ziemlichen Zahn draufhaben be going at quite a lick; schneller: be going like the clappers (Am. like a bat out of hell)
    5. Jugendspr., altm.: steiler Zahn hot stuff, a bit of all right
    * * *
    der Zahn
    cog; sprocket; tooth
    * * *
    [tsaːn]
    m -(e)s, -e
    ['tsɛːnə]
    1) (ANAT = Zacke) tooth; (von Briefmarke) perforation; (= Radzahn) cog, tooth

    diese Portion reicht or ist für den hohlen Záhn (inf) — that's hardly enough to satisfy a mouse (inf)

    der Záhn der Zeit — the ravages pl of time

    ihm tut kein Záhn mehr weh (inf) — he's gone to join his ancestors

    die Zähne zeigen (Tier) — to bare its teeth; (fig inf) to show one's teeth

    jdm einen Záhn ziehen (lit) — to pull a tooth out, to extract a tooth; (fig) to put an idea out of sb's head

    ich muss mir einen Záhn ziehen lassen — I've got to have a tooth out or extracted

    den Záhn kannst du dir ruhig ziehen lassen! (fig inf) — you can put that idea right out of your head!

    See:
    → bewaffnet, ausbeißen
    2) (inf = Geschwindigkeit)

    einen Záhn draufhaben — to be going like the clappers (inf)

    mit einem unheimlichen Záhn — at an incredible lick (inf)

    See:
    * * *
    der
    1) (any of the hard, bone-like objects that grow in the mouth and are used for biting and chewing: He has had a tooth out at the dentist's.) tooth
    2) (something that looks or acts like a tooth: the teeth of a comb/saw.) tooth
    * * *
    <-[e]s, Zähne>
    [tsa:n, pl tsɛ:nə]
    m
    die ersten Zähne milk [or baby] teeth
    falsche [o künstliche] Zähne false teeth fam, artificial dentures
    fauler \Zahn rotten tooth
    vorstehende Zähne protruding [or goofy] teeth fam, overbite
    die zweiten Zähne one's second set of teeth, adult teeth
    einen Zahn/Zähne bekommen [o (fam) kriegen] to cut a tooth/be teething
    jdm die Zähne einschlagen (fam) to smash sb's face in fam
    jd klappert mit den Zähnen sb's teeth chatter
    mit den Zähnen knirschen to grind one's teeth
    jdm/sich die Zähne putzen to brush sb's/one's teeth
    die Zähne zeigen to show [or bare] one's teeth
    sich dat [von jdm] einen \Zahn ziehen lassen to have a tooth pulled [or extracted] [by sb]
    jdm einen/einen \Zahn ziehen to pull sb's/a tooth
    2. (Zacke) tooth; Blatt point; Zahnrad cog
    einen \Zahn drauf haben (fam) to drive at a breakneck speed
    einen \Zahn zulegen (fam) to step on it
    4. (sl: Mädchen, Frau)
    ein steiler \Zahn (veraltend fam) a knockout fam, looker dated
    5.
    ▶ sich dat an jdm/etw die Zähne ausbeißen to have a tough time of it with sb/sth
    ▶ bis an die Zähne bewaffnet sein (fam) to be armed to the teeth fam
    ▶ jdm auf den \Zahn fühlen (fam) to grill sb fam sl
    ▶ etw/jdn mit Zähnen und Klauen verteidigen (fam) to protect [or defend] sth/sb tooth and nail
    ▶ lange Zähne machen (fam) to pick at one's food
    ▶ das reicht gerade für den hohlen \Zahn that wouldn't keep a sparrow alive, that's just a snack
    ▶ [jdm] die Zähne zeigen (fam) to show one's teeth [to sb], to pick at one's food
    ▶ der \Zahn der Zeit (fam) the ravages pl of time
    ▶ jdm den \Zahn ziehen lassen (fam) to put an idea right out of sb's head
    * * *
    der; Zahn[e]s, Zähne
    1) tooth; (an einer Briefmarke usw.) serration

    sich (Dat.) einen Zahn ziehen lassen — have a tooth out

    2) (fig.)

    der Zahn der Zeit — (ugs.) the ravages pl. of time

    [jemandem] die Zähne zeigen — (ugs.) show [somebody] one's teeth

    die Zähne zusammenbeißen — (ugs.) grit one's teeth

    sich (Dat.) an jemandem/etwas die Zähne ausbeißen — (ugs.) get nowhere with somebody/something

    jemandem auf den Zahn fühlen — (ugs.) sound somebody out

    3) (ugs.): (Tempo)
    * * *
    Zahn m; -(e)s, Zähne
    1. ANAT tooth;
    künstliche Zähne false teeth, dentures;
    die ersten/zweiten Zähne one’s milk ( oder first)/adult ( oder second) teeth;
    die dritten Zähne hum false teeth;
    Zähne bekommen cut one’s teeth;
    sich (dat)
    die Zähne putzen brush one’s teeth;
    die Zähne zeigen Tier: show ( oder bare) its teeth; umg, fig show one’s teeth
    2. (Zacke) tooth; an Briefmarke: perforation; an Rad: tooth, cog
    3. fig:
    bis an die Zähne bewaffnet armed to the teeth;
    der Zahn der Zeit the ravages of time;
    etwas für den hohlen Zahn umg not enough to keep a sparrow alive, a minute portion;
    mit langen Zähnen essen umg pick at one’s food, have to force sth down;
    den Zahn hab ich ihm gezogen umg I soon put him right about that, I knocked that idea on the head straight away;
    4. umg (Tempo) lick;
    einen Zahn zulegen step on it; Autofahrer: auch put one’s foot down;
    mit einem tollen Zahn at a terrific lick;
    einen ziemlichen Zahn draufhaben be going at quite a lick; schneller: be going like the clappers (US like a bat out of hell)
    5. jugendspr, obs:
    steiler Zahn hot stuff, a bit of all right
    * * *
    der; Zahn[e]s, Zähne
    1) tooth; (an einer Briefmarke usw.) serration

    sich (Dat.) einen Zahn ziehen lassen — have a tooth out

    2) (fig.)

    der Zahn der Zeit — (ugs.) the ravages pl. of time

    [jemandem] die Zähne zeigen — (ugs.) show [somebody] one's teeth

    die Zähne zusammenbeißen — (ugs.) grit one's teeth

    sich (Dat.) an jemandem/etwas die Zähne ausbeißen — (ugs.) get nowhere with somebody/something

    jemandem auf den Zahn fühlen — (ugs.) sound somebody out

    3) (ugs.): (Tempo)
    * * *
    ¨-e m.
    sprocket n.
    tooth n.
    (§ pl.: teeth)

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Zahn

  • 39 behaupten

    I v/t
    1. claim, maintain, say; (in einer Diskussion) argue; förm. assert, allege; er behauptet zu wissen,... he claims to know,..., he maintains ( oder says) that he knows...; jemandem gegenüber behaupten, dass tell s.o. that; steif und fest behaupten, dass insist ( oder swear) that; Sie wollen also tatsächlich behaupten, dass... are you trying to tell me that...?, do you (actually) mean to say that...?; das kann man nicht ( gerade) behaupten you can’t exactly say that; es wird von ihm behauptet, dass... he is said to (+ Inf.), it is said ( oder they say) that he...; ich will nicht behaupten, dass... I’m not arguing that...
    2. (erfolgreich verteidigen) defend; (Meinung) maintain; seinen Platz behaupten maintain one’s position; seine Vorteile zu behaupten wissen know how to defend one’s advantages; das Feld behaupten stand one’s ground
    II v/refl
    1. assert o.s.; gegenüber Widerständen: auch hold one’s own, stand one’s ground; bes. MIL. prevail; sich gegen jemanden / etw. behaupten auch stand up against s.o. / s.th.; sich in seiner Stellung behaupten maintain one’s position
    2. SPORT come out on top
    3. WIRTS., Kurse, Preise: remain firm
    * * *
    to claim; to purport; to maintain; to predicate; to certify; to say; to defend; to contend; to assert; to aver; to argue; to allege
    * * *
    be|haup|ten [bə'hauptn] ptp behauptet
    1. vt
    1) (= sagen) to claim; (= bestimmte Aussage aufstellen) to maintain

    steif und fest beháúpten — to insist

    von jdm beháúpten, dass... — to say of sb that...

    es wird behauptet, dass... — it is said or claimed that...

    2) (= erfolgreich verteidigen) Stellung, Recht to maintain; Meinung to assert; Markt to keep one's share of
    See:
    → Feld
    2. vr
    to assert oneself; (bei Diskussion) to hold one's own or one's ground (gegenüber, gegen against)

    sich auf dem Markt beháúpten — to maintain one's hold on the market

    * * *
    1) (to say, especially in making a legal statement, without giving proof: He alleged that I had been with the accused on the night of the murder.) allege
    2) (to say that something is a fact: He claims to be the best runner in the class.) claim
    3) ((with that) to say or maintain (that).) contend
    4) (to continue to argue or believe (that): I maintain that the theory is true.) maintain
    * * *
    be·haup·ten *
    [bəˈhauptn̩]
    I. vt
    1. (als unbewiesene Äußerung aufstellen)
    ▪ etw [von jdm/etw] \behaupten to claim [or maintain] [or assert] sth [about sb/sth]
    wer das [von ihr] behauptet, lügt! whoever says that [about her] is lying!
    ▪ \behaupten, dass... to claim that...
    ich behaupte ja nicht, dass ich immer Recht habe I don't claim to be right all the time, I'm not claiming that I am always right
    ▪ von jdm \behaupten, dass... to say of sb that...
    ▪ es wird [von jdm] behauptet, dass... it is said [or claimed] [of sb] that...
    etw getrost \behaupten können to be able to safely say sth
    ▪ etw \behaupten to maintain sth
    seinen Vorsprung gegen jdn \behaupten [können] to [manage] to maintain one's lead over sb
    ▪ sich akk [gegen jdn/etw] \behaupten to assert oneself [over sb/sth]
    sich akk gegen die Konkurrenz \behaupten können to be able to survive against one's competitors
    Safin konnte sich gegen Federer \behaupten Safin held his own against Federer; BÖRSE Aktie to steady
    sich akk weiterhin \behaupten to hold its ground, to remain firm
    * * *
    1.
    1) maintain; assert

    behaupten, jemand zu sein/etwas zu wissen — claim to be somebody/know something

    2) (verteidigen) maintain < position>; s. auch Feld 6)
    2.
    1) hold one's ground; (sich durchsetzen) assert oneself; (fortbestehen) survive

    die Kirche/der Dollar konnte sich behaupten — the church/the dollar was able to maintain its position

    2) (Sport) win through
    * * *
    A. v/t
    1. claim, maintain, say; (in einer Diskussion) argue; form assert, allege;
    er behauptet zu wissen, … he claims to know, …, he maintains ( oder says) that he knows …;
    jemandem gegenüber behaupten, dass tell sb that;
    steif und fest behaupten, dass insist ( oder swear) that;
    Sie wollen also tatsächlich behaupten, dass … are you trying to tell me that …?, do you (actually) mean to say that …?;
    das kann man nicht (gerade) behaupten you can’t exactly say that;
    es wird von ihm behauptet, dass … he is said to (+inf), it is said ( oder they say) that he …;
    ich will nicht behaupten, dass … I’m not arguing that …
    2. (erfolgreich verteidigen) defend; (Meinung) maintain;
    seinen Platz behaupten maintain one’s position;
    seine Vorteile zu behaupten wissen know how to defend one’s advantages;
    das Feld behaupten stand one’s ground
    B. v/r
    1. assert o.s.; gegenüber Widerständen: auch hold one’s own, stand one’s ground; besonders MIL prevail;
    sich gegen jemanden/etwas behaupten auch stand up against sb/sth;
    sich in seiner Stellung behaupten maintain one’s position
    2. SPORT come out on top
    3. WIRTSCH, Kurse, Preise: remain firm
    * * *
    1.
    1) maintain; assert

    behaupten, jemand zu sein/etwas zu wissen — claim to be somebody/know something

    2) (verteidigen) maintain < position>; s. auch Feld 6)
    2.
    1) hold one's ground; (sich durchsetzen) assert oneself; (fortbestehen) survive

    die Kirche/der Dollar konnte sich behaupten — the church/the dollar was able to maintain its position

    2) (Sport) win through
    * * *
    v.
    to affirm v.
    to allege v.
    to argue v.
    to assent v.
    to assert v.
    to aver v.
    to claim v.
    to claim kindred with someone expr.
    to purport v.
    to suggest v.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > behaupten

  • 40 leer

    v.
    1 to read.
    leo el francés, pero no lo hablo I can read French, but I can't speak it
    leer el pensamiento a alguien to read somebody's mind
    leer en alto to read aloud
    Ella lee a Thoreau todo el tiempo She reads Thoreau all the time.
    A ella le gusta leer a Cervantes She likes to read Cervantes.
    2 to lecture, to instruct publicly.
    * * *
    (the i ending changes to y before o and e)
    Past Indicative
    leí, leíste, leyó, leímos, leísteis, leyeron.
    Imperfect Subjunctive
    Future Subjunctive
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1.
    2.

    "al que leyere" — "to the reader"

    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) <libro/texto> to read
    b) (Educ) < tesis doctoral> to defend
    c) (Inf) to scan
    2.
    leer vi to read
    3.
    leerse v pron (enf) to read
    * * *
    = read, get through, look over.
    Ex. A user may reject a document because it is in a language that he cannot read or because it was written too long ago.
    Ex. Some children cannot get through a longer story or novel in less time.
    Ex. It would be of enormous help to us if you could put a few things together for us to look over.
    ----
    * capacidad de leer = reading skills.
    * capacidad de saber leer y escribir = literacy skills.
    * con ansias de leer = reading-desirous.
    * continuar leyendo = read on.
    * derecho a leer = right to read.
    * deseoso de leer = reading-desirous.
    * fácil de leer = easy-to-read.
    * gafas para leer = reading glasses.
    * hacer una marca para indicar el lugar donde uno se ha quedado leyen = mark + Posesivo + place.
    * leer con atención = peruse.
    * leer con dificultad = wade through.
    * leer con escáner = scan.
    * leer de aquí y allí = dip into.
    * leer de cabo a rabo = read + from cover to cover.
    * leer de principio a fin = read + from cover to cover.
    * leer el pensamiento = read + Posesivo + mind, read + Posesivo + thoughts.
    * leer en voz alta = read + aloud, read + out loud.
    * leer la mente = read + Posesivo + mind, read + Posesivo + thoughts.
    * leerle la cartilla a Alguien = a good talking to.
    * leer los labios = lip-read.
    * leer mal = misread.
    * leer por encima = browse, skim, skim read.
    * leer rápidamente buscando algo = scan.
    * leer rápidamente por encima = skim through.
    * leer superficialmente = skim, skim read.
    * leer una ponencia = read + paper.
    * máquina para leer = reading machine.
    * necesitar gafas para leer = need + reading glasses.
    * persona que no le gusta leer = aliterate.
    * releer = reread [re-read].
    * saber leer y escribir = be literate.
    * sin leer = unread.
    * valer la pena leer Algo = repay + reading.
    * volver a leer = reread [re-read].
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) <libro/texto> to read
    b) (Educ) < tesis doctoral> to defend
    c) (Inf) to scan
    2.
    leer vi to read
    3.
    leerse v pron (enf) to read
    * * *
    = read, get through, look over.

    Ex: A user may reject a document because it is in a language that he cannot read or because it was written too long ago.

    Ex: Some children cannot get through a longer story or novel in less time.
    Ex: It would be of enormous help to us if you could put a few things together for us to look over.
    * capacidad de leer = reading skills.
    * capacidad de saber leer y escribir = literacy skills.
    * con ansias de leer = reading-desirous.
    * continuar leyendo = read on.
    * derecho a leer = right to read.
    * deseoso de leer = reading-desirous.
    * fácil de leer = easy-to-read.
    * gafas para leer = reading glasses.
    * hacer una marca para indicar el lugar donde uno se ha quedado leyen = mark + Posesivo + place.
    * leer con atención = peruse.
    * leer con dificultad = wade through.
    * leer con escáner = scan.
    * leer de aquí y allí = dip into.
    * leer de cabo a rabo = read + from cover to cover.
    * leer de principio a fin = read + from cover to cover.
    * leer el pensamiento = read + Posesivo + mind, read + Posesivo + thoughts.
    * leer en voz alta = read + aloud, read + out loud.
    * leer la mente = read + Posesivo + mind, read + Posesivo + thoughts.
    * leerle la cartilla a Alguien = a good talking to.
    * leer los labios = lip-read.
    * leer mal = misread.
    * leer por encima = browse, skim, skim read.
    * leer rápidamente buscando algo = scan.
    * leer rápidamente por encima = skim through.
    * leer superficialmente = skim, skim read.
    * leer una ponencia = read + paper.
    * máquina para leer = reading machine.
    * necesitar gafas para leer = need + reading glasses.
    * persona que no le gusta leer = aliterate.
    * releer = reread [re-read].
    * saber leer y escribir = be literate.
    * sin leer = unread.
    * valer la pena leer Algo = repay + reading.
    * volver a leer = reread [re-read].

    * * *
    leer [ E13 ]
    vt
    1 ‹libro/texto› to read
    un libro muy leído a widely-read book
    ¿has leído a García Márquez? have you read García Márquez?
    no habla alemán pero lo lee she can't speak German, but she can read it
    leer los labios to lip-read
    leer la mano de algn to read sb's palm
    2 (adivinar) to read
    justo lo que iba a decir, me has leído el pensamiento just what I was going to say! you must have read my mind
    estás enamorada, lo leo en tus ojos you're in love, I can see it in your eyes
    3 ( Educ) ‹tesis doctoral› to defend
    4 ( Inf) to scan
    ■ leer
    vi
    to read
    no sabe leer he can't read
    leer en voz alta/baja to read aloud/quietly
    ■ leerse
    ( enf) to read
    ¿te lo has leído todo entero? have you read it all?
    * * *

     

    leer ( conjugate leer) verbo transitivo
    a) ‹libro/texto› to read;


    leerle el pensamiento a algn to read sb's mind
    b) (Educ) ‹ tesis doctoral› to defend

    c) (Inf) to scan

    verbo intransitivo
    to read
    leer verbo transitivo to read
    leer los labios, to lip-read
    leer una partitura, to read a score
    ♦ Locuciones: figurado leerle la cartilla a alguien, to tell sb off
    leer entre líneas, to read between the lines
    ' leer' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    cartilla
    - curiosidad
    - deformación
    - despachar
    - edad
    - faltar
    - hábito
    - modular
    - mordaz
    - novelón
    - pensamiento
    - prensa
    - sana
    - sano
    - sinfín
    - analfabeto
    - desde
    - huevo
    - labio
    - leyeron
    - línea
    - luz
    - voz
    English:
    amazing
    - hardly
    - leer
    - lip-read
    - literate
    - make out
    - manage
    - misread
    - nonfiction
    - plough through
    - precocious
    - read
    - read out
    - reading glasses
    - reread
    - scour
    - skim
    - unreadable
    - whip through
    - can
    - cover
    - dirty
    - fail
    - get
    - line
    - lip
    - love
    - must
    - peruse
    - plow
    - reading
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [libro] to read;
    leo el francés, pero no lo hablo I can read French, but I can't speak it;
    leer el pensamiento a alguien to read sb's mind;
    leer la mano a alguien to read sb's palm;
    leer los labios a alguien to read sb's lips;
    todavía no sabe leer la hora he still hasn't learned to tell the time
    2. [tesis]
    leer la tesis Br ≈ to have one's viva, US ≈ to defend one's dissertation
    3. Informát to read
    ♦ vi
    to read;
    leer en alto to read aloud;
    leer de corrido to read fluently;
    leer entre líneas to read between the lines
    * * *
    v/t & v/i read;
    leer en voz alta read aloud, read out loud;
    leer música read music
    * * *
    leer {20} v
    : to read
    * * *
    leer vb to read [pt. & pp. read]
    ¿has leído el periódico de hoy? have you read today's newspaper?
    ¿te gusta leer? do you like reading?

    Spanish-English dictionary > leer

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