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  • 61 mirada

    f.
    look.
    apartar la mirada to look away
    dirigir o lanzar la mirada a to glance at
    echar una mirada (a algo) to glance o to have a quick look (at something)
    fulminar con la mirada a alguien to look daggers at somebody
    levantar la mirada to look up
    past part.
    past participle of spanish verb: mirar.
    * * *
    1 (gen) look; (vistazo) glance
    \
    aguantar la mirada a alguien to stare somebody out
    apartar la mirada to look away
    clavar la mirada en algo/alguien to stare at something/somebody, fix one's eye on something/somebody
    echar una mirada a algo/alguien to take a look at something/somebody
    fulminar a alguien con la mirada to look daggers at somebody
    levantar la mirada to look up
    mirada asesina evil look
    mirada perdida/vaga far-away look
    mirada de soslayo sideways glance
    * * *
    noun f.
    look, glance, glare, gaze
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=forma de mirar) look
    2) (=acto) [rápida] glance; [detenida] gaze

    le dirigió una mirada de sospechahe gave her a suspicious look o glance, he looked o glanced at her suspiciously

    le echó una mirada por encima del hombro — she gave him a condescending look, she looked at him condescendingly

    era capaz de aguantarle o resistirle la mirada a cualquiera — he could outstare anybody, he could stare anybody out

    echar una mirada de reojo o de soslayo a algo/algn — to look out of the corner of one's eye at sth/sb, cast a sidelong glance at sth/sb

    mirada perdida, tenía la mirada perdida en el horizonte — she was gazing into the distance

    3) (=vista)

    apartar la mirada (de algn/algo) — to look away (from sb/sth)

    bajar la mirada — to look down

    clavar la mirada en algo/algn — to fix one's eyes on sth/sb

    desviar la mirada (de algn/algo) — (lit) to look away (from sb/sth), avert one's eyes (from sb/sth); (fig) to turn one's back (on sb/sth)

    dirigir la mirada a o hacia algn/algo — (lit) to look at sb/sth; (fig) to turn one's attention to sb/sth

    echar una mirada a algn/algo — [varias veces] to keep an eye on sb/sth, check on sb/sth; [una sola vez] to have a look at sb/sth

    échale una miradita al arroz de vez en cuandokeep an eye o check on the rice every now and then

    le echó una última mirada a la casa antes de irseshe had a o one last look at the house before leaving

    levantar la mirada — to look up, raise one's eyes

    al vernos entrar levantó la mirada — on seeing us enter, he looked up o raised his eyes

    tener la mirada puesta en algo — (lit) to have one's gaze fixed on sth; (fig) to be looking towards sth, have one's sights set on sth

    seguir algo/a algn con la mirada — to follow sth/sb with one's eyes

    volver la mirada — to look back

    si volvemos la mirada hacia atrás, nos daremos cuenta de nuestros errores — if we look back we will realize our mistakes

    volvió su mirada a Ameliashe looked round at Amelia o turned her eyes towards Amelia

    volvió la mirada a su izquierda — he looked round to his left, he turned his eyes to the left

    devorar 1)
    4) pl miradas (=atención)

    me fui, huyendo de las miradas de todo el pueblo — I left, fleeing from the prying eyes of the whole village

    * * *
    a) ( modo de mirar) look

    hay miradas que matan — if looks could kill...

    b) ( acción de mirar) look

    le dirigió or lanzó una mirada reprobatoria — he looked at her disapprovingly

    c) ( vista)

    recorrió la habitación con la mirada — she cast her eyes over the room/she looked around the room

    su mirada se posó en ella — (liter) his gaze settled on her (liter)

    bajar/levantar la mirada — to look down/up

    d) ( mira) sights (pl)
    * * *
    = gaze, glance, look, glimpse, peek, peep.
    Ex. A girl strokes its keys languidly and looks about the room and sometimes at the speaker with a disquieting gaze.
    Ex. After a glance at the 10 titles, the searcher decides to look closer at item 5.
    Ex. Your exaggerated coughs and annoyed looks and the oh so dramatic flailing about of your hands and arms when he lights up drive him up a wall.
    Ex. The article is entitled 'A glimpse into the crystal ball: academic libraries in the year 2000'.
    Ex. The article 'Fifty years of silent service: a peek inside the CIA Library' describes the library of the Central Intelligence Agency.
    Ex. A peep into her mind would have revealed that she was quite apprehensive about the immensity of the assignment.
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    * agachar la mirada = look down.
    * cambio de mirada = gaze-shift.
    * con la mirada en = with an eye toward(s).
    * con la mirada en blanco = blankly.
    * con la mirada perdida = stare into + space, gaze into + space.
    * con la mirada puesta en = with an eye on, in + Posesivo + sights.
    * conseguir ser el blanco de todas las miradas = grab + the limelight.
    * conseguir ser el blanco de todas las miradas = capture + spotlight, grab + the spotlight.
    * cruzar una mirada = exchange + glance.
    * dirigir la mirada hacia = look toward(s).
    * dirigir + Posesivo + mirada = turn + Posesivo + thoughts.
    * echar una mirada = take + a look at, take + a peek, peek, have + a look, cast + a glance over, look through, glance at, take + a gander.
    * echar una mirada furtiva a = steal + a glance at.
    * echar una mirada mortal = look + daggers at.
    * esquivar la mirada de Alguien = avert + Posesivo + eyes.
    * fulminar a Alguien con la mirada = look + daggers at.
    * fulminar con la mirada = glower, scowl (at).
    * hay miradas que matan = if looks could kill....
    * la mirada en = eye(s) on.
    * lanzar una mirada de = give + a look of.
    * mantenerse alejado de la mirada del público = shun + the public eye, keep out of + the public eye.
    * mantenerse alejado de la mirada pública = shun + the public eye, keep out of + the public eye.
    * matar con la mirada = look + daggers at.
    * mirada a escondidas = sneak peek.
    * mirada a hurtadillas = sneak peek.
    * mirada con el ceño fruncido = scowl, glower.
    * mirada de cerca = close look.
    * mirada de disgusto = scowl.
    * mirada de enfado = scowl.
    * mirada fija = stare.
    * mirada fría = icy glare.
    * mirada inexpresiva = blank look, blank expression.
    * mirada más de cerca = closer look.
    * miradas curiosas = prying eyes.
    * miradas indiscretas = prying eyes.
    * mirada vacía = blank look, blank expression.
    * ser el centro de todas las miradas = cut + a dash.
    * si las miradas mataran... = if looks could kill....
    * tener la mirada perdida = stare into + space, gaze into + space.
    * * *
    a) ( modo de mirar) look

    hay miradas que matan — if looks could kill...

    b) ( acción de mirar) look

    le dirigió or lanzó una mirada reprobatoria — he looked at her disapprovingly

    c) ( vista)

    recorrió la habitación con la mirada — she cast her eyes over the room/she looked around the room

    su mirada se posó en ella — (liter) his gaze settled on her (liter)

    bajar/levantar la mirada — to look down/up

    d) ( mira) sights (pl)
    * * *
    = gaze, glance, look, glimpse, peek, peep.

    Ex: A girl strokes its keys languidly and looks about the room and sometimes at the speaker with a disquieting gaze.

    Ex: After a glance at the 10 titles, the searcher decides to look closer at item 5.
    Ex: Your exaggerated coughs and annoyed looks and the oh so dramatic flailing about of your hands and arms when he lights up drive him up a wall.
    Ex: The article is entitled 'A glimpse into the crystal ball: academic libraries in the year 2000'.
    Ex: The article 'Fifty years of silent service: a peek inside the CIA Library' describes the library of the Central Intelligence Agency.
    Ex: A peep into her mind would have revealed that she was quite apprehensive about the immensity of the assignment.
    * agachar la mirada = look down.
    * cambio de mirada = gaze-shift.
    * con la mirada en = with an eye toward(s).
    * con la mirada en blanco = blankly.
    * con la mirada perdida = stare into + space, gaze into + space.
    * con la mirada puesta en = with an eye on, in + Posesivo + sights.
    * conseguir ser el blanco de todas las miradas = grab + the limelight.
    * conseguir ser el blanco de todas las miradas = capture + spotlight, grab + the spotlight.
    * cruzar una mirada = exchange + glance.
    * dirigir la mirada hacia = look toward(s).
    * dirigir + Posesivo + mirada = turn + Posesivo + thoughts.
    * echar una mirada = take + a look at, take + a peek, peek, have + a look, cast + a glance over, look through, glance at, take + a gander.
    * echar una mirada furtiva a = steal + a glance at.
    * echar una mirada mortal = look + daggers at.
    * esquivar la mirada de Alguien = avert + Posesivo + eyes.
    * fulminar a Alguien con la mirada = look + daggers at.
    * fulminar con la mirada = glower, scowl (at).
    * hay miradas que matan = if looks could kill....
    * la mirada en = eye(s) on.
    * lanzar una mirada de = give + a look of.
    * mantenerse alejado de la mirada del público = shun + the public eye, keep out of + the public eye.
    * mantenerse alejado de la mirada pública = shun + the public eye, keep out of + the public eye.
    * matar con la mirada = look + daggers at.
    * mirada a escondidas = sneak peek.
    * mirada a hurtadillas = sneak peek.
    * mirada con el ceño fruncido = scowl, glower.
    * mirada de cerca = close look.
    * mirada de disgusto = scowl.
    * mirada de enfado = scowl.
    * mirada fija = stare.
    * mirada fría = icy glare.
    * mirada inexpresiva = blank look, blank expression.
    * mirada más de cerca = closer look.
    * miradas curiosas = prying eyes.
    * miradas indiscretas = prying eyes.
    * mirada vacía = blank look, blank expression.
    * ser el centro de todas las miradas = cut + a dash.
    * si las miradas mataran... = if looks could kill....
    * tener la mirada perdida = stare into + space, gaze into + space.

    * * *
    su mirada era triste/dulce he had a sad/tender look in his eyes
    tiene una mirada penetrante he has a penetrating gaze
    hay miradas que matan if looks could kill …
    los vi intercambiar una mirada de soslayo I saw them exchange a sidelong glance
    lo fulminó con la mirada she looked daggers at him, she gave him a withering look
    le dirigió or lanzó una mirada reprobatoria he looked at her disapprovingly, he gave o threw her a disapproving look
    quería huir de las miradas curiosas de los vecinos he wanted to get away from the neighbors' prying eyes
    echa una mirada a ver si no nos dejamos nada take o have a quick look to make sure we haven't left anything behind
    sólo le eché una miradita por encima I just had a quick glance at it
    le voy a echar una mirada a tu trabajo I'm going to cast an eye over o take a look at your essay
    échale una miradita al arroz have a little o quick look at the rice
    voy a echarle una mirada a Gabriela a ver si sigue dormida I'm going to look in on Gabriela to see if she's still asleep
    3
    (vista): tenía la mirada fija en el suelo she was staring at the ground, she had her eyes fixed on the ground
    con la mirada perdida en el horizonte (with) his eyes o gaze fixed on the horizon
    recorrió la habitación con la mirada she cast her eyes over o she looked around the room
    su mirada se posó en ella ( liter); his gaze settled on her ( liter)
    ni siquiera se molestó en levantar la mirada cuando le hablé he didn't even bother to look up when I spoke to him
    seguía con la mirada los movimientos de la madre she followed her mother's movements with her eyes
    4 (mira) sights (pl)
    trabajar con la mirada puesta en el porvenir to work with one's sights set on the future
    * * *

     

    mirada sustantivo femenino


    su mirada era triste he had a sad look in his eyes;
    lo fulminó con la mirada she looked daggers at him
    b) (vistazo, ojeada) glance;


    échales una mirada a los niños have a look at the children
    c) ( vista):


    recorrió la habitación con la mirada she cast her eyes over the room;
    bajar/levantar la mirada to look down/up
    mirada sustantivo femenino
    1 (efecto de mirar) glance: lo abarcas con la mirada, you can take it in at a glance
    2 (modo de mirar) look: tiene una mirada cruel, he has a cruel look
    3 (vistazo) look, glance: déjame echar una mirada, let me have a look
    ♦ Locuciones: sostener la mirada, to stare
    ' mirada' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    apagada
    - apagado
    - concentrar
    - desnudar
    - desprenderse
    - desviar
    - dirigir
    - dura
    - duro
    - fiel
    - fulminar
    - glacial
    - gustillo
    - hielo
    - inexpresiva
    - inexpresivo
    - lanzar
    - ojo
    - penetrante
    - realzar
    - seductor
    - seductora
    - seguir
    - significativa
    - significativo
    - tierna
    - tierno
    - torva
    - torvo
    - volver
    - ablandar
    - acusador
    - alzar
    - angustioso
    - anhelante
    - arrebatador
    - ausente
    - codicioso
    - coqueto
    - delator
    - devorar
    - errante
    - feroz
    - fijar
    - franco
    - frialdad
    - fulminante
    - furtivo
    - hipnotizador
    - huidizo
    English:
    angry
    - approving
    - backward
    - cast
    - cursory
    - direct
    - dirty look
    - distant
    - doubtful
    - dour
    - downward
    - feminine
    - fix
    - fond
    - forlorn
    - frosty
    - furtive
    - gaze
    - glance
    - glance up
    - glare
    - glassy
    - glazed
    - glower
    - grave
    - indignant
    - intense
    - look
    - look away
    - magnetic
    - murderous
    - pained
    - passing
    - penetrating
    - piercing
    - searching
    - shifty
    - shoot
    - sidelong
    - sideways
    - stare
    - steady
    - stony
    - telling
    - vacant
    - vacantly
    - venomous
    - wander
    - wild
    - withering
    * * *
    mirada nf
    1. [acción de mirar] look;
    fue el blanco de todas las miradas all eyes were on her;
    apartar la mirada to look away;
    dirigir o [m5] lanzar la mirada a to glance at;
    fulminar con la mirada a alguien to look daggers at sb;
    levantar la mirada to look up;
    siguió con la mirada todos sus movimientos his eyes followed her every movement;
    sostener la mirada de alguien to hold sb's gaze;
    si las miradas mataran if looks could kill
    2. [manera de mirar] [con cariño, placer, admiración] gaze;
    me dirigió una mirada asesina she looked daggers at me;
    mirada fija stare;
    caminaba con la mirada fija en el suelo he walked along staring at the ground;
    le lanzó una mirada furtiva he looked at her out of the corner of his eye;
    mirada perdida distant look;
    tenía la mirada perdida she was staring into space
    3. [vistazo, ojeada] look;
    echar una mirada (a algo) to glance o to have a quick look (at sth);
    ¿le podrías echar una mirada a esta carta que he escrito? could you have a look at this letter I've written?;
    echa una mirada a ver si está lloviendo have a look and see if it's raining
    4. [intención, propósito]
    tener puestas las miradas en algo to have one's sights set on sth
    * * *
    f look;
    echar una mirada take a look (a at);
    ser el centro de todas las miradas be the center o Br centre of attention
    * * *
    mirada nf
    1) : look, glance, gaze
    2) expresión: look, expression
    una mirada de sorpresa: a look of surprise
    * * *
    1. (en general) look
    2. (vistazo) glance

    Spanish-English dictionary > mirada

  • 62 في

    في \ a; an; each; every: twice a day; 80 miles an hour. at: (showing where): at home; at the office, (showing a point of time) at midday; at 4 o’clock; He was married at 18, (after an adj) good at English; quick at sums. by: during: We travelled by night. in: showing where: In bed; in London; in the box; in his speech, showing condition In a hurry; in trouble, showing a direction; into He fell in the river. He put his hand in his pocket, showing when; during In the past; in January 1980; in the evening, showing what sth. contains or includes There are 60 minutes in an hour. Is he in your team?, showing what sb. wears He was in his best suit, showing a shape or arrangement They stood in a row, showing employment or activity or an event He’s in the navy. She was killed in the accident. on: showing when: on Monday; on May the 6th. showing the state of sb.:: Are you here on business or on holiday?. per: for each: He earns $8000 per annum (for each year). \ في (أيّ مَكَان)‏ \ anywhere: in or to any place: Are you going anywhere?. \ See Also إلى( إلى)‏ \ في \ home: to or at one’s house: Go home! Is your son home yet?. \ See Also إلى البيت \ في \ inside: on (or to) the inside. \ See Also إلى الداخل \ في \ inland: away from the sea: We crossed the coast and flew inland. \ See Also إلى داخل البلاد \ في \ indoors: into (or in) a building: He went (or He stayed) indoors because of the rain. \ See Also إلى داخل البيت \ في \ on board: on (or onto) a ship or aeroplane: There are 70 men on board. Can I go on board the aircraft?. \ See Also إلى دَاخِل الطَّائِرَة \ في \ upstairs: on, at or to a higher floor; up the stairs; at the top of the stairs: She went upstairs because her room is upstairs. She has an upstairs bedroom. \ See Also إلى الدَّور الأَعْلى \ في \ low: to or in a low position: The sun had sunk low in the sky. \ See Also إلى وَضْع مُنْخفِض \ في \ whereabouts: in or near which place: Whereabouts did you find this ring?. \ See Also قرب أيّ مكان؟ \ في \ upstream: against the flow of the stream; up the river: They rowed (the boat) upstream. \ See Also نَحْوَ أعلى النَّهر \ في الاتجاه المعاكس \ backward(s): towards the back: He fell over backwards. \ في أَثَر \ after: following, in search of: I ran after him but could not catch him. The police are after him. \ في أثناء الخِدْمَة (خارج أوقات الخِدمة)‏ \ on duty, (off duty): at work (not at work): The night nurse has 12 hours on duty, then 12 hours off duty. She went on duty at 18.00 and came off duty at 06.00. \ في أثناء ذلك \ meanwhile, meantime: (in) the time between: You’ll have to wait till he’s ready; but you can read this (in the) meanwhile. \ في إجازة \ off: free from work: My employer gave me the afternoon off. \ See Also عطلة (عُطْلَة)‏ \ في أَحْسَن الأَحْوَال \ at best: in the most hopeful conditions: At best, we can’t be ready till Tuesday. \ في آخر \ eventually: in the end: The car kept stopping, but we got home eventually. ultimately: in the end: We must all, ultimately, die. \ See Also نهاية الأمر \ في آخر رَمَق \ on one’s last legs: (of a person or thing) not expected to last much longer; worn out; almost in ruins: That company is on its last legs. \ في آخر لحظة \ in the nick of time: just in time; almost too late: She saved him in the nick of time from falling over the cliff. \ في أَرْجَاء \ about: from place to place in: We wandered about the town. round: (also around) from place to place: He wandered (a)round (the town). We travelled (a)round (the country). \ في أَسْفَل \ under: (also underneath), in a lower position. underneath: (of position) below: It was hidden underneath the floor boards. \ See Also الأسفل (الأَسْفَل)‏ \ في الأَصْل \ originally: in the beginning: This school was originally a rich man’s home. \ في الأَعْلَى \ up: in or to higher position: She lives up in the hills. \ في أغلب الظَّنّ \ doubtless: probably: It will doubtless rain on the day of the garden party. \ في أَفْضَل حَالَة \ at one’s best: in one’s best state: My garden is at its best in spring. \ في أقلّ مِن \ within: in less than: He will arrive within an hour. I live within a mile of the sea. \ في الأمام \ in front: at the front: You go in front and I’ll follow. \ في أَوَاخِر \ late: near the end of a period of time: Late in the year; in the late afternoon. \ في الأوْج \ in full swing: (of an activity) at its highest point; very busy: The party was in full swing when I arrived. \ في أوجِ الإزْهَار \ in bloom: flowering: The roses are in bloom now. \ في أيّ مَكَان \ anywhere: in no matter what place: Put it down anywhere. \ في أيّ وقت \ ever: (esp. in a negative sentence or a question) at any time: Nobody ever writes to me. Have you ever been to Rome? If you ever go there, you must see St. Peter’s cathedral. \ في أيّ وقت مَضَى \ ever: (in a comparative sentence) at any time: He’s working harder than ever. This is the best book I’ve ever read. \ في بادئ الأمر \ at first: at the beginning: At first the new school seemed strange, but then we got used to it. \ في البَدْء \ primarily: mainly; in the first place: This book is written primarily for foreigners. \ See Also أصلا (أَصْلاً)، أساسا (أساسًا)‏ \ في بعض الوقت \ part-time: for only part of the usual working time: She’s a part-time teacher. \ في البيت \ at home: in one’s house: He’s at home in the evenings. \ في البيت المُجَاوِر \ next, next door: in the next house: He lives next door. He is my nextdoor neighbour. \ في تَحَسُّن (من النّاحية الصحّية)‏ \ on the mend: getting better in health (after an illness). \ في تِلْكَ الحالةِ \ in that case: if that happens, or has happened: He may be late. In that case, we shall go without him, if that happens, or has happened He may be late. In that case, we shall go without him. \ في تِلْكَ اللَّحظة \ just: (with continuous tenses; always directly before the present participle) at this moment; at that moment: We’re just starting dinner. We were just starting dinner when he arrived. \ في التَّوّ \ straight away: at once. \ في جانب \ in favour of: supporting: I’m in favour of your plans. \ في الجَانِب الآخَر مِن \ across: on the other side of: My home is across the river. \ في جانب \ for: in favour of: Are you for this idea or against it?. \ See Also صف (صَفّ)‏ \ في جزء أدنى مِن \ down: at a lower level: My house is a little way down the hill. \ في الجِوَار \ about: around; near: There’s a lot of illness about. I went out early, when no one was about (when no one else was out). \ في الحَال \ at once: without delay: Stop that at once!. away: right away; straight away. immediately: at once. instantly: at once. on the spot: in that place and at that moment: He gave me the bill and I paid it on the spot. readily: without delay: The book you need is not readily obtainable. straight away: at once. \ في حَالَةِ \ at: (showing a state): at war; at play. on: showing the state of sth.: The house is on fire. \ في حَالَة حَسَنَة \ well, (better, best): the opposite of ill and unwell; in good health: Don’t you feel well? You’ll soon get better if you drink this medicine. How are you? Very well, thank you. I feel best in the early morning (better than at any other time). \ في حَالَة سَيِّئَة \ in a bad way: in a bad state. \ في حَالَة عَدَم توفُّر \ failing: giving a second choice of action, if the first choice fails: Ask John to do it. Failing him, ask Michael. \ في حَالَة فَوْضَى \ chaotic: in a state of chaos: The young teacher had a chaotic classroom. \ في حَالَةِ وُجُود \ in case of: in the event of; if there is: In case of fire, ring the bell. \ في حَالَةِ ما إِذَا \ in case: because of the possibility of sth. happening: Take a stick, in case you meet a snake. \ في حركة دائِمة \ on the move: moving; travelling: He’s always on the move and never settles for long. \ في الحَقِيقَة \ as a matter of fact, in fact: really; in truth: The dog seemed dead but in fact it was only asleep. As a matter of fact, I don’t like Michael. in point of fact: actually, in fact. in reality: in fact. really: truly; in fact: Is he really your son? He does not look like you!. \ في حَيْرَة من أَمْره \ at one’s wits’ end: too worried by difficulties to know what to do. \ في حين \ whereas: but: They are looking for a house, whereas we would rather live in a flat. \ في حينه \ round: following a regular course: Wait till your turn comes round. \ في الخَارِج \ abroad: in or to another country: I spent my holiday abroad. out: in (or into) the open; away from shelter; in (or into) view: Don’t stand out in the rain. The ship was far out at sea. out of door, outdoors: in the open air; not in a house: I like sleeping out of doors under the stars. outside: not within; in the open air; on the outer side: It’s raining outside. The cup is blue outside, and white inside. overseas: across the sea; (to the British, the mainland of Europe is abroad but it is not overseas): She is working overseas, in South America. \ في خِدمَة... \ at one’s service: ready to fulfil one’s needs: The hotel car is at your service if you want to go anywhere. \ في خَريف العُمر \ middle-aged: neither young nor old; aged between about 40 and 65. \ في خطٍّ مُستقيم \ as the crow flies: in a straight line: It is 5 miles away by road, but only 2 miles as the crow flies. \ فِي الخَفَاء \ stealth: by stealth using secret and quiet action: He got into the house by stealth, not by force. \ في خِلال \ in: showing a space of time before sth. will happen; after: I’ll come in a few days (or in a minute). in the course of: during: In the course of the morning I had seven visitors. \ في الدّاخل \ in: in a building, esp. at home, work or where one is expected to be: Is anyone in? I’m afraid Mr. Jones is out, but he’ll be in at 5 o’clock. \ في داخِل \ in: showing a direction; into: He fell in the river. He put his hand in his pocket. inside: on (or to) the inside of: Please wait inside the room. \ في داخِل النَّفْس \ inwardly: secretly; as regards one’s inner feelings: I was inwardly delighted, but I pretended not to care. \ في دَرَجَة الغَلَيان \ on the boil: boiling; at this heat. \ في ذلك المكان \ there: at that place: I live there. \ في رأيي \ to my mind: in my opinion: To my mind, this is most dishonest. \ في سَبِيل \ in the process of: to be doing: I am in the process of painting my house. sake, for the sake, of, for sb.’s sake: for the good of; so as to help: Soldiers die for the sake of their county (or for their country’s sake). Don’t take any risks for my sake, for the desire of Why ruin your health for the sake of a little pleasure?. \ في سِنّ المُرَاهَقَة \ teenage: in one’s teens: a teenage girl. \ في شكّ \ in doubt: uncertain: When in doubt, ask your father. \ في صحَّة جيِّدة \ fit: healthy: We take exercise so as to keep fit. \ في صَفّ \ in single file: in one line, one behind the other: We had to ride in single file down the narrow path. \ في الطّابِق الأَسْفل \ downstairs: at the bottom of the stairs; in a room at that level: I’ll wait for you downstairs. \ في الطّابِق الفوقانيّ \ overhead: above one’s head: a noise in the room overhead; clouds in the sky overhead. \ في طَرَف \ up: along (up and down are both used like this, although the course may be quite level): He lives just up the road. \ في طريق النُّور \ in sb.’s light: preventing light from reaching him: I can’t read if you stand in my light. \ في الظّاهر \ outwardly: as regards the appearance (compared with the hidden facts or inner feelings): She was outwardly calm but inwardly full of anger. \ في العَام \ annual: happening every year; of a year: an annual feast; the annual production of oil. \ في عَجلة من أمره \ in a hurry: Ants are always in a hurry. \ في العَرَاء \ in the open: outside in the air: I like to sleep out in the open, under she stars. outdoors, out of doors: the open air; not in a building: Go outdoors and play football. \ في (عُرض) البَحْر \ at sea: on the sea; far from land: a storm at sea. \ في عُطلة \ on holiday, on vacation: having a holiday: The schools are on holiday. We’re going on vacation to the sea. \ See Also إجازة( إجازة)‏ \ في غابر الأزمان (كان يا ما كان...)‏ \ once upon a time: (used at the beginning of stories). \ في الغَالِب \ mainly: chiefly; mostly. \ في غالِب الظنّ \ probably: almost certainly; with little doubt: You’re probably right. \ في غاية الجُنون \ raving mad: noisily and violently mad. \ في غَمْضَة عَيْن \ in no time: very quickly; very soon: If you follow this path, you’ll get there in no time. \ في غِيَابِه \ behind sb.’s back: when someone is not present: He tells untrue stories about me behind my back. \ في كُلٍّ \ a; an; each; every: twice a day. 80 miles an hour. ten pence a packet. \ في كل مكان \ everywhere: in all places: I’ve looked for it everywhere. \ في كل وقت \ ever: at all times; always: I shall stay there for ever. \ في لحظة خاطفة \ in a flash: very quickly and suddenly: He seized the money and was gone in a flash. \ في اللحظة المناسبة \ in the nick of time: just in time; almost too late: She saved him in the nick of time from falling over the cliff. \ في اللَّيْل \ at night: during the night. overnight: for the night: I shall stay at a hotel overnight and come back tomorrow, on the night before; during the night I packed my suitcase overnight, so as to be ready to leave at sunrise. His car was stolen overnight. \ في المائَة \ per cent: for, out, of, each hundred: Six per cent of the boys failed the exam, (one part) of each hundred I’m a 100 per cent in agreement with you. About 70 per cent (written as 70%) of the people are farmers. \ في المُتَنَاوَل \ forthcoming: supplied when needed: We wanted a new school clock, but the money was not forthcoming. \ في مُتَناوَل \ within: inside; not beyond; within reach; within one’s powers. \ في متناول اليَد \ at hand: near; within reach: Help was at hand. handy: near; easily reached when wanted: Keep that book handy so that you can look at it often. \ في مَجْمُوعَة بين \ among(st): in the middle of; mixed with; surrounded by: I found this letter among my books. There is a secret enemy amongst us. \ في مِحْنة خَطَر \ in distress: (of a ship or aeroplane) in dangerous trouble; needing help. \ في المُدّة الأخيرة \ lately: not long ago; in the near past: Have you seen her lately?. \ في المرَّة التالية \ next: the next time: I’ll give it to you when I next see you. \ See Also القادمة \ في مُقَابِل \ for: showing that something is as a return or in place of: I gave him $5 for his help. Will you change this old car for a new one?. in return (for): in exchange or payment for: Give her some flowers in return for her kindness. \ في المقام الأوّل \ firstly: as the first reason, fact, etc: I need a hot drink. Firstly, because I’m cold; secondly, because I’m thirsty. \ في المقدمة \ in front: at the front: You go in front and I’ll follow. \ في مَكَان \ in sb,’s stead: in sb.’s place; instead of sb.. \ See Also بدلا من (بدلاً من)‏ \ في مَكَان آخَر \ elsewhere: in some other place. \ في المَكَان \ in position: in the correct position. \ See Also المَوضِع الصَّحيح \ في مَكَان قَريب \ by: near: He stood by and watched them. \ في مَكَانٍ ما \ somewhere: in or to some place (but usu. anywhere in negative sentences and questions): I’ve met him somewhere before. Let’s go somewhere peaceful (to some peaceful place). \ في المكان والزّمان المذكورين \ on the spot: in that place and at that moment: Fortunately a doctor was on the spot when she broke her leg. \ في مكانه \ belong: to be in the right place: This book belongs on the top shelf. \ See Also موضِعِه المناسب \ في مَلْعَبِه \ at home: (of a match) on one’s own field: Our team are playing at home tomorrow. \ في مُنْتَصَف الطَّريق \ midway: halfway; in the middle: The station is midway between the two villages. \ في مَوعِد لاَ يَتَجَاوَز \ by: before; not later than: Can you finish this by Tuesday? They ought to be here by now. \ في المَوْعِد المحدَّد \ on time: exactly at the appointed moment: The bus always leaves on time. \ في مياه أعمق من قَامَته \ out of one’s depth: in water that is too deep to stand up in: Don’t go out of your depth unless you can swim. \ في النّادِر \ rarely: not often; hardly at all: She rarely smokes. \ في نظر \ in the eyes of: in the opinion of: In his mother’s eyes he can do no wrong. \ في نَظَري \ to my mind: in my opinion: To my mind, this is most dishonest. \ في النّهايَة \ at last: in the end, after much delay: The train was very slow, but we got there at last. at length: at last; in the end: He waited two hours. At length he went home. finally: lastly; in the end. \ في نِهايَة الأمْر \ in the long run: after a period of time; in the end: It’ll be cheaper in the long run to buy good quality shoes. \ See Also عَلَى المدى الطويل \ في هذا الوقت \ now: (in a written account) at the time that is being described: The war was now over. \ في هَذا المَكَان \ about: here: Is anyone about?. \ في هذه الأَثْنَاء \ meanwhile, meantime: (in) the time between: You’ll have to wait till he’s ready; but you can read this (in the) meanwhile. \ في هذه الأَيَّام \ nowadays: in these times (compared with the past): Travel is much easier nowadays. today: the present time: the scientists of today. \ في هذه الحالة \ all right: (also alright), in that case: You don’t want it? All right, I’ll give it to someone else. \ في هذه اللَّحْظَة \ just: (with continuous tenses; always directly before the present participle) at this moment; at that moment: We’re just starting dinner. We were just starting dinner when he arrived. just now: at this moment: I’m busy just now. \ في الهواء الطَّلْق \ in the open: outside in the air: I like to sleep out in the open, under the stars. out of doors, outdoors: in the open air; not in a house: I like sleeping out of doors under the stars. outdoors, out of doors: the open air; not in a building: Go outdoors and play football. \ في الوَاقِع \ in reality: in fact. \ في الوَاقِع \ actually: in fact; really: She looks about thirty, but actually she’s thirty-nine. as a matter of fact, in fact: really; in truth: The dog seemed dead but in fact it was only asleep. As a matter of fact, I don’t like Michael. in point of fact: actually, in fact. truly: really: Are you truly sorry for your crimes?. virtually: actually but not officially: He was virtually a prisoner in his home, as he did not dare to go out while the police were watching. \ في الوَسَط \ halfway: between two places and at an equal distance from them: His house is halfway between yours and mine. \ في وَسْط المسافة \ halfway: between two places and at an equal distance from them: His house is halfway between yours and mine. \ في وَضَح (النهار)‏ \ broad: (of daylight) full; complete: The bank was robbed in broad daylight. \ في وَضع لا يجوز فيه رَكْل الكُرة \ offside: (of a player in football, etc.) breaking a rule by being in a position in which play is not allowed. \ في الوَقْت الحَاضِر \ at present: now; at the present time: At present I have no job, but I shall get one soon. for the time being: for the present: I have no job, but I’m helping my father for the time being. now: at the present time: Where are you working now? Now is the time to plant those seeds. today: the present time: the scientists of today. \ في وَقْتٍ لاَحِق \ after: later: She came first and he arrived soon after. \ في وقتٍ ما \ sometime: (often two words, some time) at a time not exactly known or stated: Come again sometime. He left sometime after dinner. \ في وقتٍ متأخر \ late: after the proper or usual time; not early: We always go to bed very late. He arrived too late for dinner. \ في وقتٍ متأخر مِن \ late: near the end of a period of time: Late in the year; in the late afternoon. \ في الوَقْتِ المُقَرَّر \ round: following a regular course: Wait till your turn comes round. \ في وَقْتٍ من الأوقات \ ever: (esp. in a negative sentence or a question) at any time: Nobody ever writes to me. Have you ever been to Rome? If you ever go there, you must see St. Peter’s cathedral. \ في الوَقْتِ المناسب \ early: in good time for one’s purpose; before the fixed time: We arrived early and got the best seats. in due course: later; after a reasonable delay: He will get better in due course. in good time: slightly early: He came in good time for the meeting. \ في وقت واحد \ at a time: together: They arrived three at a time (in groups of three). \ في يوم من الأيام \ once upon a time: (used at the beginning of stories). \ See Also كان يا ما كان

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  • 63 cerca

    adv.
    near, close.
    ¿está o queda cerca? is it near o nearby?
    cerca de near, close to; (en el espacio) nearly, about (aproximadamente)
    de cerca closely; (examinar, mirar) deeply; (afectar) first-hand (vivir)
    ver algo/a alguien de cerca to see something/somebody close up
    si no costó dos millones, andará cerca it can't have cost much less than two million
    f.
    1 fence (valla).
    2 picket fence.
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: cercar.
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    1 (lugar y tiempo) near, close
    \
    cerca de (cercano a) near, close 2 (aproximadamente) nearly, about, around
    cerca de la estación near the station, close to the station
    de cerca closely
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    1 (vallado) fence, wall
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    1. adv.
    close, near, nearby
    2. noun f.
    2) wall
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    I
    SF (=valla) [de madera, alambre] fence; [de piedra, ladrillo] wall

    cerca eléctrica — electrified fence, electric fence

    II
    1. ADV
    1) [indicando proximidad] [de aquí o allí] near, nearby; [entre objetos, personas] close

    está aquí cercait's very o just near here

    ¿está cerca la estación? — is the station near here o nearby?

    las casas están tan cerca que se pueden oír las conversaciones de los vecinos — the houses are so close (to each other) that you can hear what the neighbours are saying

    las vacaciones están ya cerca — the holidays are nearly here, the holidays are not far off now

    cerca de — near (to), close to

    2)

    de cerca —

    a) (=a poca distancia) [ver] close up; [seguir, observar, vigilar] closely

    no veo bien de cerca — I can't see things close up, I'm long-sighted

    visto de cerca, parece mayor — when you see him close up o at close quarters, he seems older

    el coche iba a gran velocidad, seguido de cerca por su escolta — the car was travelling at a high speed, followed closely by its escort

    b) (=en persona) in person

    no conoce de cerca los problemas de la poblaciónhe does not have first-hand o personal knowledge of the people's problems

    3)

    cerca de(=casi) nearly

    cerca de 2.500 personas — nearly 2,500 people

    estar cerca de hacer algo — to come close to doing sth

    estuvimos tan cerca de conseguir la victoria... — we were so close to obtaining victory...

    4) esp Cono Sur

    cerca nuestro/mío — near us/me

    2. SM
    1) (=aspecto)
    2) pl cercas (Arte) foreground sing
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    I
    1)
    a) ( en el espacio) near, close

    ¿hay algún banco cerca? — is there a bank nearby o close by?

    cerca de algo/alguien — near something/somebody

    viven cerca de Tampico/de casa — they live near Tampico/near us

    b)

    de cerca — close up, close to

    2) ( en el tiempo) close

    cerca de algo/+ inf — close to something/-ing

    cerca de — almost, nearly

    cerca de 1.000 — almost o nearly 1,000

    II
    femenino (de alambre, madera) fence; ( de piedra) wall
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    I
    1)
    a) ( en el espacio) near, close

    ¿hay algún banco cerca? — is there a bank nearby o close by?

    cerca de algo/alguien — near something/somebody

    viven cerca de Tampico/de casa — they live near Tampico/near us

    b)

    de cerca — close up, close to

    2) ( en el tiempo) close

    cerca de algo/+ inf — close to something/-ing

    cerca de — almost, nearly

    cerca de 1.000 — almost o nearly 1,000

    II
    femenino (de alambre, madera) fence; ( de piedra) wall
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    cerca1
    1 = picket fence, fence.

    Ex: The barrier between religion & government in the US is described as a picket fence between accommodationists & separationists.

    Ex: I asked why Mr McGregor had a fence around the garden and whether or not Peter needed to go there for food.
    * cerca de alambre = wire fence.
    * cerca de alambre de púas = barbed-wire fence.
    * cerca de tela metálica = wire fence.
    * peldaños para saltar una cerca = stile.

    cerca2
    = near, nearby [near-by], near at hand, close at hand, handy, nigh, within walking distance, in the vicinity, within easy walking distance, within an easy walk.

    Ex: You can restrict the neighborhood even more by using NEAR, which searches for two (or more) terms, in any order, in the same sentence.

    Ex: An earlier leakage had prompted library staff to make arrangements with a nearby firm of book conservation specialists in the event of a further disaster.
    Ex: The firm does not have to be near at hand, but there must be plenty of cooperation and consultation as to selection of stock.
    Ex: Material needed daily should be stored close at hand.
    Ex: The desire soon dies away and the book is forgotten if copies are not handy = El deseo pronto muere y el libro se olvida si no hay ejemplares a mano.
    Ex: The article 'The end is nigh' predicts that the information technology crisis is likely to be worse than predicted because of the need to organize replacement of systems affected by the millennium problem = El artículo "El fin esta cerca' predice que la crisis de la tecnología de la información es probable que sea pero de lo previsto debido a la necesidad de organizar la sustitución de los sistemas afectados por el problema del milenio.
    Ex: The pilot phase focused on the students at schools within walking distance of the Central Library.
    Ex: In general while on desk duty the librarian must be aware of what is happening in the vicinity and notice who is coming and going.
    Ex: For those who wish to make their own arrangements for accommodation, there are many hotels within easy walking distance.
    Ex: A great neighborhood has stores and shops that satisfy everyday needs within an easy walk from home.
    * al examinar Algo de cerca = on closer examination, on closer inspection.
    * cerca de = close to, near [nearer -comp., nearest -sup.], in the vicinity of, in close proximity to, around, a heartbeat away from, in sight of, in the proximity of.
    * cerca de + Fecha/Número = circa + Fecha/Número [ca o c, -abrev.].
    * cerca + Posesivo = at + Posesivo + elbow.
    * cerca uno del otro = in close proximity.
    * conducir demasiado cerca de otro = tailgate.
    * controlado de cerca = closely monitored.
    * de cerca = at close range, at close quarters.
    * demasiado cerca = too close for comfort.
    * estar cerca = be at hand, be around.
    * estar cerca de = be close to.
    * estar muy cerca de = be one step away from, be steps away from, come + very close to.
    * lo suficientemente cerca = within range.
    * lo suficientemente cerca como para oír = within earshot of.
    * más cerca de = more nearly.
    * mirada de cerca = close look.
    * mirada más de cerca = closer look.
    * mucho más cerca = far closer.
    * muy cerca = close-by.
    * muy de cerca = not far behind.
    * peligrosamente cerca = too close for comfort.
    * seguido de cerca = closely followed, closely monitored.
    * seguir de cerca = monitor, stay in + control, keep + track of.
    * ver la muerte de cerca = have + brushes with death.
    * vigilado de cerca = under close guard.
    * vigilar Algo muy de cerca = keep + a watchful eye.
    * visión de cerca = ringside view, ringside seat.
    * vivir cerca = live + locally.

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    A
    1 (en el espacio) near, close
    su casa queda or está muy cerca her house is very near o very close
    ¿hay algún banco cerca? is there a bank nearby o close by?
    vamos a pie, queda aquí cerquita let's walk, it's very near (here) o it's very close
    queda cerquísima it's only just around the corner ( o just down the road etc)
    una de estas tiendas que hay aquí cerca one of these shops just up the road o around the corner o near here
    cerca DE algo/algn:
    viven cerca de casa/de Tampico they live near us/near Tampico
    siéntate cerca de mí or ( crit) cerca mío sit near me
    me siento muy cerca de ti I feel very close to you
    2
    de cerca close up, close to
    me acerqué para verlo de cerca I went nearer so I could see it close up o close to
    no veo bien de cerca I'm longsighted
    seguir algo de cerca to follow sth closely
    los exámenes ya están cerca the exams aren't far away now, the exams are getting quite close now
    cerca DE algo:
    estamos ya cerca de la Navidad Christmas is not far away
    cuando estemos más cerca de la fecha te lo diré I'll tell you closer to o nearer the day
    estás tan cerca de lograrlo you're so close o near to achieving it
    C
    (indicando aproximación): cerca de almost, nearly, close on
    vendieron cerca de 1.000 cabezas de ganado they sold almost o nearly o close on 1,000 head of cattle
    (de alambre, madera) fence; (de piedra) wall
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    Del verbo cercar: ( conjugate cercar)

    cerca es:

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

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
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    cercar
    cerca adverbio

    cerca de algo/algn near sth/sb;
    ¿hay algún banco cerca? is there a bank nearby o close by?;

    está por aquí cerca it's near here (somewhere);
    mirar algo/a algn de cerca to look at sth/sb close up o close to;
    seguir algo de cerca to follow sth closely


    estás tan cerca de lograrlo you're so close to achieving it;
    serán cerca de las dos it must be nearly 2 o'clock


    ■ sustantivo femenino (de alambre, madera) fence;
    ( de piedra) wall
    cercar ( conjugate cercar) verbo transitivo
    a)campo/terreno to enclose, surround;

    ( con valla) to fence in

    c) (Mil) ‹ ciudad to besiege;

    enemigo to surround
    cerca 1 adverbio
    1 (a poca distancia) near, close: el colegio está cerca de la biblioteca, the school is near the library
    estábamos ya muy cerca, cuando..., we were almost there when...
    ponte más cerca de ella, get closer to her
    de cerca, closely: lo examiné de cerca, I examined it close up
    2 (próximo en el tiempo) soon: ya están cerca las vacaciones, the holidays are coming up soon
    ♦ Locuciones: cerca de, (casi, aproximadamente) nearly, around
    cerca de mil personas, about one thousand people
    les esperamos cerca de una hora, we waited for them for about an hour (a punto de) estuve cerca de conseguirlo, I very nearly succeeded
    cerca 2 sustantivo femenino fence, wall
    cercar verbo transitivo
    1 (con una valla) to fence, enclose
    2 (al enemigo) to surround
    ' cerca' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    borde
    - caer
    - encima
    - excavar
    - filo
    - junta
    - junto
    - mayoría
    - ponerse
    - seto
    - tarde
    - topless
    - valla
    - casi
    - encontrar
    - luego
    - portón
    - tapia
    - tocar
    - vecino
    - ventaja
    - ver
    - verja
    English:
    alongside
    - apprehend
    - around
    - avoid
    - by
    - chart
    - circa
    - close
    - closely
    - come up to
    - convenient
    - cricket
    - do
    - early
    - fence
    - go by
    - gunshot
    - hand
    - handy
    - hotly
    - inhibited
    - near
    - nearby
    - on
    - pass by
    - proximity
    - quarter
    - round
    - shadow
    - spitting distance
    - tail
    - thereabout
    - thereabouts
    - village
    - yacht
    - zoom in
    - anywhere
    - ear
    - examination
    - fencing
    - florist
    - follow
    - late
    - lie
    - point
    - range
    - run
    - set
    - somewhere
    - stile
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    nf
    [valla] fence; [muro] wall cerca eléctrica electric fence;
    cerca viva hedge
    adv
    1. [en el espacio] near, close;
    ¿está o [m5] queda cerca? is it near o nearby?;
    no me hace falta un taxi porque voy cerca I don't need a taxi, because I'm not going far;
    cerca de near, close to;
    la tienda está cerca del metro the shop's near the Br underground o US subway;
    está cerca de mí it's near me;
    estuvo cerca de ganar el premio she came close to winning the prize;
    de cerca [examinar, mirar] closely;
    [afectar] deeply; [vivir] first-hand;
    vivió de cerca el problema de las drogas she had first-hand experience of drug addiction;
    no ve bien de cerca he's long-sighted;
    ver algo/a alguien de cerca to see sth/sb close up;
    2. [en el tiempo]
    el verano ya está cerca summer is nearly here, summer isn't far away;
    cerca del principio close to o near the beginning;
    son cerca de las ocho it's about eight (o'clock);
    los hechos ocurrieron cerca de las seis de la tarde the events in question took place at around six o'clock in the evening;
    estamos cerca del final del festival we are nearing o approaching the end of the festival
    3. [indica aproximación]
    cerca de nearly, about;
    acudieron cerca de mil manifestantes there were nearly o about a thousand demonstrators there;
    si no costó 2 millones, andará cerca it can't have cost much less than 2 million
    * * *
    1 f fence
    2 adv
    1 near, close;
    de cerca close up;
    seguir de cerca follow closely;
    vivo muy cerca, me coge muy cerca I live very close by;
    cerca de near, close to
    2 ( casi) nearly
    * * *
    cerca adv
    1) : close, near, nearby
    2)
    cerca de : nearly, almost
    cerca nf
    1) : fence
    2) : (stone) wall
    * * *
    cerca1 adv near / close
    ¿vives cerca de aquí? do you live near here?
    cerca2 n fence

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  • 64 С-605

    В СТОРОНЕ PrepP Invar
    1. \С-605 (от кого-чего) ( adv or Prep (the resulting PrepP is adv) at a relatively small distance away (from s.o. or sth.), somewhat set apart (from s.o. or sth.): some distance away (from)
    (off (away)) to one side somewhat removed (from).
    В стороне от дома был небольшой сарай. There was a small barn some distance away from the house.
    Вернулся... старик Мочёнкин, стоял в стороне хмурый, строго наблюдал (Аксёнов 3). Old Mochenkin returned....Standing to one side, he frowned and observed everything with a critical eye (3a).
    Она понимала, почему брат хочет устроить её возле печи. Тут теплее и в стороне (Абрамов 1). She understood why her brother wanted to get her settled in beside the stove. It was warmer there, and somewhat removed (1a).
    2. ( adv or subj-compl with copula ( subj: concr)) sth. is located far off, in a distant, isolated place
    in a remote place
    in a secluded spot far away from everything.
    Постоялый двор... находился в стороне, в степи, далече от всякого селения... (Пушкин 2). This wayside inn...was in a remote place, in the middle of the steppe, far from any habitation... (2a).
    3. - (от кого) держаться и т. п. (the resulting PrepP is subj-compl with copula (subj: human or animal)) (to remain) separate, isolated from others, not (to associate) with others
    X держится в стороне (от Y-ов) — X keeps his distance (from Ys)
    X remains (holds himself) aloof (from Ys).
    Я с самого начала говорил, что революция достигает чего-нибудь нужного, если совершается в сердцах, а не на стогнах. Но уж раз начали без меня - я не мог быть в стороне от тех, кто начал (Ерофеев 1). From the very first, I said that revolution achieves something essential when it occurs in the heart and not in the town square. But once they began it without me, I could not remain aloof from those who began it (1a).
    4. \С-605 (от кого-чего) держаться, стоять, оставаться и т. п. Also: В СТОРОНКЕ coll (the resulting PrepP is subj-compl with copula (subj: human) (to remain) uninvolved with s.o. or in sth., not to participate in sth.: X остается в стороне = X stays (remains) on the sidelines
    X keeps (stays) out of it (in limited contexts) X remains aloof.
    "Я на тебя все взваливаю, взваливаю, а сам... в сторонке, ты одна обязана колотиться» (Распутин 2). "I keep heaping things on you and then I remain on the sidelines, leaving you to struggle with all the responsibility" (2a).
    «Я вообще считаю, что военных надо держать в стороне. Глупо с ними советоваться» (Эренбург 4). "...As a general rule, my opinion is that military men must be kept out of it. It's folly to take their advice" (4a).
    Я подозреваю, что мужу ее (княгини), мирному абхазскому князю, приходилось терпеть более грубые формы её деспотического темперамента. Так что он на всякий случай старался держаться в сторонке (Искандер 3). ( context transl) I suspect that her (the princess's) husband, a peaceable Abkhazian prince, was forced to bear cruder expressions of her despotic temperament. So, just in case, he tried to keep out of range (3a).
    5. - оставаться, оказываться и т. п. Also: В СТО-РОНКЕ coll
    subj-compl with copula ( subj: abstr or human)) (to be) disregarded, unnoticed, not included
    X остался в стороне - X was ignored (passed over, left out). "О редкостях (в статье) расписали много, а работа коллектива библиотеки осталась в стороне» (Домбровский 1). "А great deal was said (in the article) about rare books but all the library staff's good work was ignored" (1a).
    «Когда я была на заводе, я это почувствовала... Они могут нас считать своими, любить, баловать, но вот придет минута, и мы окажемся в сторонке» (Эренбург 4). "When I was at the factory, I had this feeling. I thought: They may consider us to be on their side, they may like us and spoil us, but there'll come a moment when we'll find ourselves left out'" (4a).

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  • 65 в стороне

    [PrepP; Invar]
    =====
    1. в стороне (от кого-чего) [adv or Prep (the resulting PrepP is adv)]
    at a relatively small distance away (from s.o. or sth.), somewhat set apart (from s.o. or sth.):
    - (off < away>) to one side;
    - somewhat removed (from).
         ♦ В стороне от дома был небольшой сарай. There was a small barn some distance away from the house.
         ♦ Вернулся... старик Мочёнкин, стоял в стороне хмурый, строго наблюдал (Аксёнов 3). Old Mochenkin returned....Standing to one side, he frowned and observed everything with a critical eye (3a).
         ♦ Она понимала, почему брат хочет устроить её возле печи. Тут теплее и в стороне (Абрамов 1). She understood why her brother wanted to get her settled in beside the stove. It was warmer there, and somewhat removed (1a).
    2. [adv or subj-compl with copula (subj: concr)]
    sth. is located far off, in a distant, isolated place:
    - far away from everything.
         ♦ Постоялый двор... находился в стороне, в степи, далече от всякого селения... (Пушкин 2). This wayside inn...was in a remote place, in the middle of the steppe, far from any habitation... (2a).
    3. в стороне (от кого) держаться и т.п. [the resulting PrepP is subj-compl with copula (subj: human or animal)]
    (to remain) separate, isolated from others, not (to associate) with others:
    - X remains < holds himself> aloof (from Ys).
         ♦ Я с самого начала говорил, что революция достигает чего-нибудь нужного, если совершается в сердцах, а не на стогнах. Но уж раз начали без меня - я не мог быть в стороне от тех, кто начал (Ерофеев 1). From the very first, I said that revolution achieves something essential when it occurs in the heart and not in the town square. But once they began it without me, I could not remain aloof from those who began it (1a).
    4. в стороне (от кого-чего) держаться, стоять, оставаться и т.п. Also: В СТОРОНКЕ coll [the resulting PrepP is subj-compl with copula (subj: human)]
    (to remain) uninvolved with s.o. or in sth., not to participate in sth.:
    - X остается в стороне X stays (remains) on the sidelines;
    - X keeps < stays> out of it;
    - [in limited contexts] X remains aloof.
         ♦ "Я на тебя всё взваливаю, взваливаю, а сам... в сторонке, ты одна обязана колотиться" (Распутин 2). "I keep heaping things on you and then I remain on the sidelines, leaving you to struggle with all the responsibility" (2a).
         ♦ "Я вообще считаю, что военных надо держать в стороне. Глупо с ними советоваться" (Эренбург 4). "...As a general rule, my opinion is that military men must be kept out of it. It's folly to take their advice" (4a).
         ♦ Я подозреваю, что мужу ее [княгини], мирному абхазскому князю, приходилось терпеть более грубые формы её деспотического темперамента. Так что он на всякий случай старался держаться в сторонке (Искандер 3). [context transl] I suspect that her [the princess's] husband, a peaceable Abkhazian prince, was forced to bear cruder expressions of her despotic temperament. So, just in case, he tried to keep out of range (3a).
    5. в стороне оставаться, оказываться и т.п. Also: В СТОРОНКЕ coll [subj-compl with copula (subj: abstr or human)]
    (to be) disregarded, unnoticed, not included:
    - X остался в стороне X was ignored <passed over, left out>.
         ♦ "О редкостях [в статье] расписали много, а работа коллектива библиотеки осталась в стороне" (Доморовский 1). " А great deal was said [in the article] about rare books but all the library staff's good work was ignored" (1a).
         ♦ "Когда я была на заводе, я это почувствовала... Они могут нас считать своими, любить, баловать, но вот придёт минута, и мы окажемся в сторонке" (Эренбург 4). "When I was at the factory, I had this feeling. I thought: They may consider us to be on their side, they may like us and spoil us, but there'll come a moment when we'll find ourselves left out'" (4a).

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  • 66 в сторонке

    [PrepP; Invar]
    =====
    1. в сторонке (от кого-чего) [adv or Prep (the resulting PrepP is adv)]
    at a relatively small distance away (from s.o. or sth.), somewhat set apart (from s.o. or sth.):
    - (off < away>) to one side;
    - somewhat removed (from).
         ♦ В стороне от дома был небольшой сарай. There was a small barn some distance away from the house.
         ♦ Вернулся... старик Мочёнкин, стоял в стороне хмурый, строго наблюдал (Аксёнов 3). Old Mochenkin returned....Standing to one side, he frowned and observed everything with a critical eye (3a).
         ♦ Она понимала, почему брат хочет устроить её возле печи. Тут теплее и в стороне (Абрамов 1). She understood why her brother wanted to get her settled in beside the stove. It was warmer there, and somewhat removed (1a).
    2. [adv or subj-compl with copula (subj: concr)]
    sth. is located far off, in a distant, isolated place:
    - far away from everything.
         ♦ Постоялый двор... находился в стороне, в степи, далече от всякого селения... (Пушкин 2). This wayside inn...was in a remote place, in the middle of the steppe, far from any habitation... (2a).
    3. в сторонке (от кого) держаться и т.п. [the resulting PrepP is subj-compl with copula (subj: human or animal)]
    (to remain) separate, isolated from others, not (to associate) with others:
    - X remains < holds himself> aloof (from Ys).
         ♦ Я с самого начала говорил, что революция достигает чего-нибудь нужного, если совершается в сердцах, а не на стогнах. Но уж раз начали без меня - я не мог быть в стороне от тех, кто начал (Ерофеев 1). From the very first, I said that revolution achieves something essential when it occurs in the heart and not in the town square. But once they began it without me, I could not remain aloof from those who began it (1a).
    4. в сторонке (от кого-чего) держаться, стоять, оставаться и т.п. Also: В СТОРОНКЕ coll [the resulting PrepP is subj-compl with copula (subj: human)]
    (to remain) uninvolved with s.o. or in sth., not to participate in sth.:
    - X остается в стороне X stays (remains) on the sidelines;
    - X keeps < stays> out of it;
    - [in limited contexts] X remains aloof.
         ♦ "Я на тебя всё взваливаю, взваливаю, а сам... в сторонке, ты одна обязана колотиться" (Распутин 2). "I keep heaping things on you and then I remain on the sidelines, leaving you to struggle with all the responsibility" (2a).
         ♦ "Я вообще считаю, что военных надо держать в стороне. Глупо с ними советоваться" (Эренбург 4). "...As a general rule, my opinion is that military men must be kept out of it. It's folly to take their advice" (4a).
         ♦ Я подозреваю, что мужу ее [княгини], мирному абхазскому князю, приходилось терпеть более грубые формы её деспотического темперамента. Так что он на всякий случай старался держаться в сторонке (Искандер 3). [context transl] I suspect that her [the princess's] husband, a peaceable Abkhazian prince, was forced to bear cruder expressions of her despotic temperament. So, just in case, he tried to keep out of range (3a).
    5. в сторонке оставаться, оказываться и т.п. Also: В СТОРОНКЕ coll [subj-compl with copula (subj: abstr or human)]
    (to be) disregarded, unnoticed, not included:
    - X остался в стороне X was ignored <passed over, left out>.
         ♦ "О редкостях [в статье] расписали много, а работа коллектива библиотеки осталась в стороне" (Доморовский 1). " А great deal was said [in the article] about rare books but all the library staff's good work was ignored" (1a).
         ♦ "Когда я была на заводе, я это почувствовала... Они могут нас считать своими, любить, баловать, но вот придёт минута, и мы окажемся в сторонке" (Эренбург 4). "When I was at the factory, I had this feeling. I thought: They may consider us to be on their side, they may like us and spoil us, but there'll come a moment when we'll find ourselves left out'" (4a).

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  • 67 separar

    v.
    1 to separate.
    las hojas se han pegado y no las puedo separar the pages have stuck together and I can't separate them o get them apart
    son muchas las cosas que nos separan there are many differences between us
    María separó las galletas Mary separated the cookies.
    2 to move away.
    separa un poco las sillas move the chairs apart a bit
    3 to put aside.
    4 to split, to draw apart, to pull away, to pull apart.
    El adulterio separa a las parejas Adultery splits couples.
    5 to set apart, to put away.
    6 to abduce.
    * * *
    1 (gen) to separate
    2 (hacer grupos) to separate, sort out
    3 (guardar aparte) to set aside, put aside
    4 (apartar) to move away (de, from)
    5 (de empleo, cargo) to remove (de, from), dismiss (de, from)
    6 figurado (mantener alejado) to keep away (de, from)
    1 (tomar diferente camino) to separate, part company
    2 (matrimonio) to separate
    3 (apartarse) to move away (de, from)
    4 (desprenderse) to separate (de, from), come off (de, -)
    5 (de amigo etc) to part company (de, with)
    6 separarse de (dejar algo) to part with
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=apartar) to separate

    la maestra nos separó para que no habláramosthe teacher split us up o separated us so that we wouldn't talk

    si no los llegan a separar se matanif no one had pulled them apart o separated them, they would have killed each other

    separar algn/algo de algn/algo — to separate sb/sth from sb/sth

    al nacer los separaron de sus padresthey were taken (away) o separated from their parents at birth

    los separaron del resto de los pasajerosthey were split up o separated from the rest of the passengers

    2) (=distanciar)

    éramos buenos amigos, pero la política nos separó — we were good friends but politics came between us

    3) (=existir entre)

    el abismo que separa a los ricos de los pobresthe gulf between o separating (the) rich and (the) poor

    4) (=deslindar)

    unas barreras de protección separaban el escenario de la plaza — there were crash barriers separating the stage from the rest of the square

    la frontera que separa realidad y ficción — the dividing line between reality and fiction, the line that separates reality from o and fiction

    5) (=dividir) to divide
    6) (=poner aparte)

    ¿me puedes separar un poco de tarta? — can you put aside some cake for me?

    7) (=destituir) [de un cargo] to remove, dismiss

    ser separado del servicio — (Mil) to be discharged

    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) (apartar, alejar) to separate; < boxeadores> to separate, part
    b) ( dividir un todo) to divide
    2)
    a) ( deslindar) to separate, divide
    b) ( despegar)
    3) (frml) ( destituir) to dismiss (frml)

    fue separado de su cargo/sus funciones — he was removed from office/relieved of his duties (frml)

    2.
    separarse v pron
    a) matrimonio to separate

    se separaron hace un mesthey separated o split up a month ago

    b) (apartarse, alejarse) to split up

    no se separen, que los pequeños se pueden perder — please stay together in case the children get lost

    separarse DE algo/alguien: esta niña no se separa del televisor this child is always glued to the television; no me he separado nunca de mis hijos I've never been away o apart from my children; no se separen de su equipaje — do not leave your luggage unattended

    c) (guardar, reservar) to put o set aside
    * * *
    = carry off, cut off, detach, put by, segregate, separate, sift, screen out, tell out into, sort out + Nombre + from + Nombre, drive + a wedge between, hive off, disaggregate, sever, prise + Nombre + apart, unbundle, spread out, sift out, cleave, tease apart, balkanize, sunder, decouple, strip off, splay.
    Ex. The 'sweated' rags were pounded to a pulp (or stuff) by water-powered hammers, impurities being carried off through filters by running water.
    Ex. The stages are not cut off from one another, are not sharply defined.
    Ex. The words from the deleted abstract in the abstract word file will be detached when DOBIS/LIBIS is not busy with other work.
    Ex. The raw material of white paper was undyed linen -- or in very early days hempen -- rags, which the paper-maker bought in bulk, sorted and washed, and then put by in a damp heap for four or five days to rot.
    Ex. In summary, the advantages of the electronic catalog is the ability to segregate the fast searches from the slowest.
    Ex. The description of the component part is separated from that of the host document by a double slash.
    Ex. Thus many non-relevant documents have been retrieved and examined in the process of sifting relevant and non-relevant documents.
    Ex. Most journals rely for a substantial part of their income on advertisements; how would advertisers view the prospect of being selectively screened out by readers?.
    Ex. The finished paper was sorted for imperfections and told out into quires and reams for sale.
    Ex. Ward's study is likely to remain a standard reference source for years to come, but trying to sort out the generalities from the particularities is a very difficult business.
    Ex. While the current problems associated with serial economics have driven a wedge between vendors, librarians and publishers, they should be cooperating and communicating in order to withstand the information explosion.
    Ex. Non-fiction is normally shelved according to the Dewey decimal system with perhaps a major category such as autobiography and biography hived off as a completely separate ad hoc classification.
    Ex. Outcomes can be disaggregated along age, class, ethnic, racial, & gender dimensions.
    Ex. This art is is mass produced, often mechanically, and thus severed from tradition.
    Ex. The symbiotic relationship between scholarly discourse and scholarly publication that has existed for 3 centuries is being prised apart by new technology.
    Ex. It is recommended that CD-ROM producers unbundle the retrieval software from the data.
    Ex. For instance, in reproduction of Renoir's work under the subject IMPRESSIONISM, Renoir's works would not stand together in the catalog but be spread out according to their titles.
    Ex. Whichever he chooses he will still have to sift out and categorize the numerous errors that disfigure all the early texts of the play.
    Ex. Ethnic and racial differences cleaved the American working class.
    Ex. The author and his colleagues embarked on a series of studies to tease apart hereditary and environmental factors thought to be implicated in schizophrenia.
    Ex. The scholarly system has become balkanized into autonomous, even antagonistic, cultures or camps based on differing technological competencies and interests.
    Ex. Both novels tell essentially the same story, that of a woman sundered from her high estate and her betrothed.
    Ex. The physical library will probably become less viable over time and so it is important to decouple the information professional from the library unit.
    Ex. They gathered a whole sackful, stripped off the husks, and filled the sack again.
    Ex. Walk your feet up the wall, then take the belt and place it on your upper arms right above your elbows to keep your arms from splaying.
    ----
    * Hasta que la muerte nos separe = Till death do us part.
    * que se puede separar = detachable.
    * separar aun más = widen + the gap between... and.
    * separar con una cortina = curtain off.
    * separar de = wean from, isolate from, divide from, wean away from.
    * separar el grano de la paja = divide into + Adjetivo + sheep and + Adjetivo + goats, sort the + Adjetivo + sheep from the + Adjetivo + goats, separate + the wheat from the chaff, sort out + the wheat from the chaff, sift + the wheat from the chaff.
    * separar haciendo palanca = pry + Nombre + out, prise + Nombre + out.
    * separar la realidad de la ficción = distinguish + fact from fiction.
    * separar las manos = spread out + hands.
    * separar + Nombre + de + Nombre = discern + Nombre + from + Nombre.
    * separarse = drift apart, part, divorce, go (our/their) separate ways, fork.
    * separarse (de) = become + parted from, move away from, turn away from, secede (from).
    * separarse descendiendo = droop away from.
    * separar una pelea = break up + fight, break up + fight.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) (apartar, alejar) to separate; < boxeadores> to separate, part
    b) ( dividir un todo) to divide
    2)
    a) ( deslindar) to separate, divide
    b) ( despegar)
    3) (frml) ( destituir) to dismiss (frml)

    fue separado de su cargo/sus funciones — he was removed from office/relieved of his duties (frml)

    2.
    separarse v pron
    a) matrimonio to separate

    se separaron hace un mesthey separated o split up a month ago

    b) (apartarse, alejarse) to split up

    no se separen, que los pequeños se pueden perder — please stay together in case the children get lost

    separarse DE algo/alguien: esta niña no se separa del televisor this child is always glued to the television; no me he separado nunca de mis hijos I've never been away o apart from my children; no se separen de su equipaje — do not leave your luggage unattended

    c) (guardar, reservar) to put o set aside
    * * *
    = carry off, cut off, detach, put by, segregate, separate, sift, screen out, tell out into, sort out + Nombre + from + Nombre, drive + a wedge between, hive off, disaggregate, sever, prise + Nombre + apart, unbundle, spread out, sift out, cleave, tease apart, balkanize, sunder, decouple, strip off, splay.

    Ex: The 'sweated' rags were pounded to a pulp (or stuff) by water-powered hammers, impurities being carried off through filters by running water.

    Ex: The stages are not cut off from one another, are not sharply defined.
    Ex: The words from the deleted abstract in the abstract word file will be detached when DOBIS/LIBIS is not busy with other work.
    Ex: The raw material of white paper was undyed linen -- or in very early days hempen -- rags, which the paper-maker bought in bulk, sorted and washed, and then put by in a damp heap for four or five days to rot.
    Ex: In summary, the advantages of the electronic catalog is the ability to segregate the fast searches from the slowest.
    Ex: The description of the component part is separated from that of the host document by a double slash.
    Ex: Thus many non-relevant documents have been retrieved and examined in the process of sifting relevant and non-relevant documents.
    Ex: Most journals rely for a substantial part of their income on advertisements; how would advertisers view the prospect of being selectively screened out by readers?.
    Ex: The finished paper was sorted for imperfections and told out into quires and reams for sale.
    Ex: Ward's study is likely to remain a standard reference source for years to come, but trying to sort out the generalities from the particularities is a very difficult business.
    Ex: While the current problems associated with serial economics have driven a wedge between vendors, librarians and publishers, they should be cooperating and communicating in order to withstand the information explosion.
    Ex: Non-fiction is normally shelved according to the Dewey decimal system with perhaps a major category such as autobiography and biography hived off as a completely separate ad hoc classification.
    Ex: Outcomes can be disaggregated along age, class, ethnic, racial, & gender dimensions.
    Ex: This art is is mass produced, often mechanically, and thus severed from tradition.
    Ex: The symbiotic relationship between scholarly discourse and scholarly publication that has existed for 3 centuries is being prised apart by new technology.
    Ex: It is recommended that CD-ROM producers unbundle the retrieval software from the data.
    Ex: For instance, in reproduction of Renoir's work under the subject IMPRESSIONISM, Renoir's works would not stand together in the catalog but be spread out according to their titles.
    Ex: Whichever he chooses he will still have to sift out and categorize the numerous errors that disfigure all the early texts of the play.
    Ex: Ethnic and racial differences cleaved the American working class.
    Ex: The author and his colleagues embarked on a series of studies to tease apart hereditary and environmental factors thought to be implicated in schizophrenia.
    Ex: The scholarly system has become balkanized into autonomous, even antagonistic, cultures or camps based on differing technological competencies and interests.
    Ex: Both novels tell essentially the same story, that of a woman sundered from her high estate and her betrothed.
    Ex: The physical library will probably become less viable over time and so it is important to decouple the information professional from the library unit.
    Ex: They gathered a whole sackful, stripped off the husks, and filled the sack again.
    Ex: Walk your feet up the wall, then take the belt and place it on your upper arms right above your elbows to keep your arms from splaying.
    * Hasta que la muerte nos separe = Till death do us part.
    * que se puede separar = detachable.
    * separar aun más = widen + the gap between... and.
    * separar con una cortina = curtain off.
    * separar de = wean from, isolate from, divide from, wean away from.
    * separar el grano de la paja = divide into + Adjetivo + sheep and + Adjetivo + goats, sort the + Adjetivo + sheep from the + Adjetivo + goats, separate + the wheat from the chaff, sort out + the wheat from the chaff, sift + the wheat from the chaff.
    * separar haciendo palanca = pry + Nombre + out, prise + Nombre + out.
    * separar la realidad de la ficción = distinguish + fact from fiction.
    * separar las manos = spread out + hands.
    * separar + Nombre + de + Nombre = discern + Nombre + from + Nombre.
    * separarse = drift apart, part, divorce, go (our/their) separate ways, fork.
    * separarse (de) = become + parted from, move away from, turn away from, secede (from).
    * separarse descendiendo = droop away from.
    * separar una pelea = break up + fight, break up + fight.

    * * *
    separar [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 (apartar, alejar) to separate
    dos transeúntes intentaron separarlos two passersby tried to separate o part them
    ha hecho todo lo posible por separarnos he has done everything he can to split us up
    las consonantes dobles no se separan en español in Spanish, double consonants should not be split up
    la maestra las separó porque charlaban mucho the teacher separated them o split them up because they were talking so much
    separa la cama de la pared move the bed away from the wall
    no se aconseja separar a la madre de su ternero it is not advisable to take the calf away from its mother
    separar la yema de la clara separate the white from the yolk
    separar los machos de las hembras to separate the males from the females
    2 (dividir un todo) to divide
    separar las palabras en sílabas divide the words into syllables
    la guerra separó a muchas familias the war divided many families
    3 (guardar, reservar) to put o set aside
    sepárame un trocito para Pablo, que va a venir más tarde can you put o set aside a slice for Pablo, he'll be coming later
    separa la ropa que llevarás puesta put the clothes you're going to wear on one side
    B
    1 (deslindar) to separate, divide
    una valla separa a los hinchas de los dos equipos there is a fence separating the fans of the two teams
    los separan profundas diferencias they are divided by deepseated differences
    separar algo DE algo to separate sth FROM sth
    los Andes separan Argentina de Chile the Andes separate Argentina from Chile
    2
    (despegar): no puedo separar estas dos fotos I can't get these two photographs apart
    separa las lonchas de jamón separate the slices of ham
    no separe la etiqueta antes de rellenarla do not remove o detach the label before filling it in
    C ( frml) (destituir) to dismiss ( frml)
    fue separado de su cargo/sus funciones he was removed from office/relieved of his duties ( frml)
    separar del servicio ( Mil) to discharge
    1 «matrimonio» to separate
    se separaron tras diez años de matrimonio they separated o split up after ten years of marriage
    es hijo de padres separados his parents are separated
    separarse DE algn to separate FROM sb
    se separó de su marido en octubre she separated from her husband in October
    2 (alejarse, apartarse) to split up
    a mitad de camino nos separamos we split up half way
    los socios se separaron en 1996 they dissolved their partnership in 1996 ( frml), the partners split up in 1996
    no se separen, que los pequeños se pueden perder please don't split up o divide up o please stay together in case the children get lost
    separarse DE algo/algn:
    esta niña no se separa del televisor this child is always glued to the television
    no me he separado nunca de mis hijos I've never been away o apart from my children
    no se separen de su equipaje do not leave your luggage unattended
    * * *

     

    separar ( conjugate separar) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) (apartar, alejar) to separate;


    separa la cama de la pared move the bed away from the wall

    c) (guardar, reservar) to put o set aside

    2
    a) ( actuar de división) [valla/línea] to separate;


    b) ( despegar):


    separarse verbo pronominal

    separarse DE algn to separate from sb


    c) (apartarse, alejarse):

    no se separen, que los pequeños se pueden perder please stay together in case the children get lost;

    no me he separado nunca de mis hijos I've never been away o apart from my children
    separar verbo transitivo
    1 (aumentar la distancia física) to move apart
    2 (poner aparte) to separate: separa las rosas de los claveles, separate the roses from the carnations
    3 (reservar) to save
    4 (algo pegado, grapado) to detach
    5 (distanciar, disgregar) to divide
    ' separar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abrir
    - desgajar
    - desunir
    - paja
    - quitar
    - segregar
    - aislar
    - apartar
    - cortar
    - desmontar
    - desprender
    English:
    detach
    - divide
    - divorce
    - fence off
    - part
    - peel off
    - prise
    - pull apart
    - screen off
    - separate
    - sort out
    - space
    - split up
    - twist off
    - wall off
    - fence
    - pull
    - screen
    - sort
    - splay
    - split
    - wall
    * * *
    vt
    1. [alejar, dividir, aislar] to separate (de from);
    lo han separado de sus hijos they've taken his children away from him;
    tuvo que venir la policía para separarlos the police had to be called to break them up o separate them;
    el muro que separa los dos campos the wall separating o that separates the two fields;
    separar algo en grupos/partes iguales to divide sth into groups/equal parts;
    son muchas las cosas que nos separan there are many differences between us;
    quiere separar su vida privada de su vida pública she wants to keep her private life separate from her public life
    2. [apartar, dejar espacio entre] to move away (de from);
    separe el cuerpo del volante keep your body away from the steering wheel;
    separa un poco las sillas move the chairs apart a bit;
    separa bien las piernas open your legs wide
    3. [desunir, quitar]
    las hojas se han pegado y no las puedo separar the pages have stuck together and I can't separate them o get them apart;
    separe la carne del caldo remove the meat from the stock;
    no separaba los ojos del reloj she never took her eyes off the clock
    4. [reservar] to put aside
    5. [destituir]
    separar de to remove o dismiss from;
    fue separado del cargo he was removed (from his post), he was dismissed (from his job);
    separaron al coronel del servicio the colonel was removed from active service
    * * *
    v/t separate
    * * *
    1) : to separate, to divide
    2) : to split up, to pull apart
    separarse vr
    * * *
    1. (en general) to separate
    2. (apartar) to move away

    Spanish-English dictionary > separar

  • 68 muy

    adv.
    1 very.
    muy bueno/cerca very good/near
    es muy hombre he's very manly, he's a real man
    muy de mañana very early in the morning
    ¡muy bien! OK!, all right!; (vale) very good!, well done! (qué bien)
    eso es muy de ella that's just like her
    eso es muy de los americanos that's typically American
    ¡el muy fresco! the cheeky devil!
    ¡la muy tonta! the silly idiot!
    Muy Sr. mío dear Sir
    te cuidarás muy mucho de hacerlo just make absolutely sure you don't do it
    no cabe ahí, es muy grande it won't fit in there, it's too big
    * * *
    1 very
    \
    muy de mañana very early in the morning
    ser muy hombre/mujer familiar to be a real man/woman
    por muy... no matter how..., however...
    * * *
    adv.
    1) very
    * * *
    1. ADJ
    1) (=mucho) very

    muy bien/tarde/mucho — very well/late/much

    muy bien, que venga — all right, he can come (along)

    muy pero que muy guapo — really, really handsome

    muy de, muy de noche — very late at night

    es muy de sentirfrm it is much to be regretted

    el/la muy, el muy tonto de Pedro — that great idiot Pedro

    ¡el muy bandido! — the rascal!

    por muy, por muy cansado que estés — however tired you are, no matter how tired you are

    2) (=demasiado) too
    3) [con participio] greatly, highly
    2.
    SF (=lengua) tongue; (=boca) trap **, mouth
    * * *
    a) very

    muy bien, sigamos adelante — OK o fine, let's go on

    por muy cansado que estéshowever o no matter how tired you are

    b) ( demasiado) too

    quedó muy dulceit's rather o too sweet

    * * *
    = highly, very, eminent + Nombre, deeply, expansively, darn.
    Ex. Even for those items that are designated relevant some may be judged to be highly relevant, whilst others may be regarded as partially relevant or only marginally relevant.
    Ex. I have been very embarrassed at their embarrassment at the kinds of subject headings used.
    Ex. 'I think it makes eminent sense, for the reasons I've outlined,' he said and started toward the door.
    Ex. I have found in reading extracts from Scott's diary of his trip to the South Pole that pupils interrupted all the time to ask questions, until the final entries were reached, when everyone went very quiet, moved deeply by Scott's words and unwilling to bruise the emotion they felt.
    Ex. Their survey is expansively scripted and probes for a variety of information from the interviewee = Su encuesta está muy detallada y obtiene una gran variedad de información de los encuestados.
    Ex. However, as someone else said, people are pretty darn sensitive about terrorism, and the days of left-luggage may be over.
    ----
    * acento muy pronunciado = heavy accent.
    * algo muy agradable de oír = music to + Posesivo + ears.
    * algo muy diferente de = a far cry from.
    * algo muy difícil = a tough sell.
    * algo muy distinto de = a far cry from.
    * algo ya muy conocido y usado = old nag.
    * andar (muy) apurado de dinero = be (hard) pressed for + money.
    * andar (muy) apurado de tiempo = be (hard) pressed for + time.
    * andar (muy) corto de dinero = be (hard) pressed for + money.
    * andar (muy) corto de tiempo = be (hard) pressed for + time.
    * andar (muy) escaso de dinero = be (hard) pressed for + money.
    * andar (muy) escaso de tiempo = be (hard) pressed for + time.
    * andar (muy) falto de dinero = be (hard) pressed for + money.
    * andar (muy) falto de tiempo = be (hard) pressed for + time.
    * apuntar muy alto = reach for + the stars, shoot for + the stars.
    * a un precio muy razonable = at a very reasonable cost, at a very reasonable cost, at very reasonable cost.
    * avanzar muy despacio = creep, creep along.
    * como muy tarde = at the latest.
    * con las manos muy largas = light-fingered.
    * con lazos muy estrechos = close-knit.
    * con medios muy escasos = on a shoestring (budget).
    * con medios muy exiguos = on a shoestring (budget).
    * con muy poca antelación = at (a) very short notice.
    * con muy poca anticipación = at (a) very short notice.
    * con muy poca frecuencia = all too seldom.
    * con muy pocas excepciones = with a few exceptions.
    * con muy pocos medios = on a shoestring (budget).
    * con un plazo de tiempo muy corto = at (a) very short notice.
    * curva muy abierta = sweeping curve.
    * curva muy cerrada = hairpin bend, hairpin curve, hairpin turn.
    * curva muy pronunciada = hairpin bend, hairpin curve, hairpin turn.
    * de forma muy similar a = in much the same way as.
    * de muy lejos = from afar.
    * de ritmo muy acelerado = hard-driving.
    * desde muy antiguo = since olden times.
    * desde muy lejos = from afar.
    * de un modo muy general = crudely, crudely.
    * encontrar muy difícil = be hard-pushed to.
    * en muy poco tiempo = before long.
    * en un pasado muy lejano = in the dim and distant past.
    * estar muy acostumbrado a = be all too familiar with.
    * estar muy agradecido a = be indebted to.
    * estar muy alejado de = be a long way from.
    * estar muy arraigado en = be well embedded in.
    * estar muy bajo = be way down.
    * estar muy cerca de = be one step away from, be steps away from, come + very close to.
    * estar muy convencido de = have + strong feelings about.
    * estar muy emocionado con/por = be excited about.
    * estar muy lejano = be far off.
    * estar muy lejos = be far off.
    * estar muy por delante de = be way out ahead of.
    * estar muy por delante de su tiempo = be years ahead of + Posesivo + time.
    * estar muy separado = set + far apart.
    * estar muy usado = be well thumbed.
    * evaluar muy positivamente según unos criterios establecido = rate + Nombre + high on + criteria.
    * gente muy trabajadora = hard-working people.
    * haber de muy diversos tipos = come in + all/many (sorts of) shapes and sizes.
    * hablar muy bien de = rant and rave.
    * hacer Algo muy bien = do + an excellent job of.
    * hasta hace muy poco = up until recently.
    * ignorancia es muy atrevida, la = ignorance is very daring.
    * ir muy atrasado = be way behind schedule.
    * ir muy por detrás de = be far behind.
    * llegar muy lejos = go + a long way, come + a long way.
    * lo que es muy importante = importantly.
    * muy abreviado = highly-abbreviated.
    * muy activo = afire.
    * muy a diferencia de = in marked contrast to/with.
    * muy + Adjetivo = extremely + Adjetivo, grossly + Adjetivo, rather + Adjetivo, severely + Adjetivo, tightly + Adjetivo, wildly + Adjetivo, extraordinarily + Adjetivo, incredibly + Adjetivo, ludicrously + Adjetivo, seriously + Adjetivo, disappointingly + Adjetivo, not least + Adjetivo, heavily + Adjetivo, much + Adjetivo, mighty + Adjetivo, prohibitively + Adjetivo, sorely + Adjetivo, supremely + Adjetivo, vastly + Adjetivo, vitally + Adjetivo, immensely + Adjetivo, hugely + Adjetivo, significantly + Adjetivo, most + Adjetivo, impressively + Adjetivo, bloody + Adjetivo.
    * muy + Adjetivo/Adverbio = quite + Adjetivo/Adverbio.
    * muy + Adjetivo/Participio = keenly + Adjetivo/Participio.
    * muy admirado = much-admired.
    * muy + Adverbio = ever so + Adverbio.
    * muy agustito = snugly.
    * muy alejado de = a long way removed from.
    * muy al principio = in very early days, at the very outset.
    * muy amado = much-loved.
    * muy a menudo = more often than not, very often, most often than not.
    * muy antiguo = centuries-old.
    * muy anunciado = well-publicised [well-publicized, -USA].
    * muy apartado de = a long way removed from.
    * muy a + Posesivo + pesar = to + Posesivo + chagrin.
    * muy apreciado = highly appreciated, long-revered.
    * muy apreciado desde hace tiempo = long-revered.
    * muy arraigado = deep-rooted, well established, long-established.
    * muy a tiempo = in good time.
    * muy atrás = far behind.
    * muy atrasado = in the backwoods.
    * muy avanzado = well-developed, well-advanced.
    * muy beneficioso = high-payoff.
    * muy bien = nicely.
    * ¡muy bien! = the way to go!.
    * muy bien cuidado = well-kept.
    * muy bien pagado = highly paid.
    * muy bien + podría + Verbo = might + well + Verbo.
    * muy bien + puede + Verbo = may well + Verbo.
    * muy bien remunerado = highly paid.
    * muy bien tramado = carefully crafted.
    * muy bien urdido = carefully crafted.
    * muy caliente = piping hot, baking hot.
    * muy cambiado = much-changed, much-changed.
    * muy caro = high priced [high-priced].
    * muy cerca = close-by.
    * muy claramente = in no uncertain terms.
    * muy completo = populated.
    * muy concurrido = well-used [well used], well attended [well-attended].
    * muy condicionado = well-conditioned.
    * muy condimentado = spicy [spicier -comp., spiciest -sup.].
    * muy conseguido = slick, licked, well-crafted.
    * muy criticado = much-criticised [much-criticized, USA].
    * muy crítico = highly critical.
    * muy custodiado = heavily guarded.
    * muy de cerca = not far behind.
    * muy desarrollado = well-developed.
    * muy despacio = very slowly.
    * muy de tarde en tarde = once in a blue moon.
    * muy diferente de = far different... from, in marked contrast to/with.
    * muy difícil de traducir = defy + translation.
    * muy dispuesto a = all ready to.
    * muy divulgado = well-publicised [well-publicized, -USA].
    * muy documentado = well-informed.
    * muy duro = as hard as nails.
    * muy eficaz = powerful.
    * muy endeudado = heavily indebted.
    * muy escandaloso = highly visible.
    * muy especializado = highly specialised.
    * muy estimado = highly regarded, highly esteemed, highly reputed.
    * muy estrecho = poky [pokier -comp., pokiest -sup.].
    * muy estructurado = highly-structured.
    * muy extendido = commonly-held, widely held.
    * muy famoso = highly acclaimed, widely acclaimed, well-acclaimed.
    * muy frecuentado = heavily used.
    * muy frecuentemente = so often, most often than not.
    * muy frecuente y rápido = rapid-fire.
    * muy gastado = worn-out.
    * muy generalizado = commonly-held, widely held.
    * muy grande = big time.
    * muy iluminado = brightly illuminated.
    * muy importante = critical, very importantly, big time.
    * muy informado = well-informed.
    * muy leído = widely-read.
    * muy lejano = far off.
    * muy lejos = far away, far off.
    * muy lejos de = a long way from, a long way removed from.
    * muy lejos de conseguir = a long way toward.
    * muy lentamente = very slowly.
    * muy lluvioso = rain-soaked.
    * muy logrado = slickly produced.
    * muy mal tiempo = severe weather.
    * muy mayor = over the hill.
    * muy moderno = trendy [trendier -comp., trendiest -sup.].
    * muy motivado = highly-motivated.
    * muy necesario = much needed [much-needed], long overdue.
    * muy nervioso = in a state of agitation, highly-strung.
    * muy nervioso, histérico = high-strung.
    * muy notorio = highly visible.
    * muy parecido a = much like.
    * muy + Participio = badly + Participio.
    * muy + Participio Pasado = widely + Participio Pasado, extensively + Participio Pasado.
    * muy peculiar = highly distinctive.
    * muy pertinente para = central to.
    * muy poblado = heavily populated.
    * muy poco = minimally.
    * muy polémico = highly controversial.
    * muy popular = widely-read, highly popular.
    * muy por delante de = far ahead of.
    * muy por detrás = far behind.
    * muy por el contrario = in marked contrast.
    * muy por encima de = far beyond.
    * muy por encima de todo = over and above all.
    * muy posiblemente = for all you know, for all we know.
    * muy practicado = much practised.
    * muy preciado = much prized, highly prized.
    * muy preciso = much needed [much-needed].
    * muy probablemente = most likely, most probably.
    * muy pronto = before long, pretty soon.
    * muy propio = highly distinctive.
    * muy provechoso = high-payoff.
    * muy pulido = licked, slick.
    * muy querido = much-loved.
    * muy rápidamente = like a house on fire, in short order.
    * muy rara vez = all too seldom, all too seldom, once in a blue moon.
    * muy recomendado = highly recommended.
    * muy reconocido = highly regarded, highly esteemed, highly reputed.
    * muy resistente = heavy-duty.
    * muy respetado = highly regarded, highly esteemed, highly reputed, widely-respected.
    * muy sazonado = spicy [spicier -comp., spiciest -sup.].
    * muy similar a = much like.
    * muy sistemático = highly-structured.
    * muy solicitado = in great demand.
    * muy trabajado = well-crafted.
    * muy trabajador = committed.
    * muy unido = close-knit, tight-knit, closely knit, well-connected, tightly knit.
    * muy usado = shabby [shabbier -comp., shabbiest -sup.], high-use, well-used [well used], well-worn, well-worn, heavily used, much-used.
    * muy útil = highly valuable.
    * muy valioso = highly valuable, highly prized.
    * muy valorado = highly valued, highly appreciated.
    * muy venerado = long-revered.
    * muy venerado desde hace tiempo = long-revered.
    * muy vigilado = heavily guarded.
    * no andar muy equivocado = be in the right realm.
    * no estar muy lejos de = be just one step away from.
    * nombre muy conocido = household name, household word.
    * no muy bien informado = not-too-well-informed.
    * no muy despierto = slow.
    * no muy lejos = within easy travelling distance, not far behind, not far off, not far away, not far, not too far.
    * no tener que ir muy lejos = not have to look far.
    * pasarlo muy mal = have + a tough time, have + a hard time.
    * persona muy trabajadora = hard-working person.
    * poner un precio a Algo muy alto = overprice.
    * por muy + Adjetivo + be = Adjetivo + though + Nombre + be.
    * por muy difícil que parezca = difficult though it may seem, difficult as it may seem.
    * por muy extraño que parezca = strangely enough, strange though it may seem, strange as it may seem, although it may seem strange, funnily enough.
    * por muy increíble que parezca = incredible though it may seem, incredibly, incredibly enough, incredible as it may seem, although it may seem incredible.
    * por muy mentira que parezca = incredibly, incredible though it may seem, strangely enough, incredibly enough, incredible as it may seem, strange though it may seem, strange as it may seem, although it may seem strange, although it may seem incredible.
    * por muy raro que parezca = strangely enough, oddly enough, strange though it may seem, strange as it may seem, although it may seem strange.
    * posibilidades muy variadas = rich possibilities.
    * puede muy bien ser = could well be.
    * puede muy bien ser que = it may well be that.
    * regla muy precisa = finely graduated scale.
    * repasar Algo muy detenidamente = go over + Nombre + with a fine toothcomb.
    * sangre muy diluida = thin blood.
    * sentido muy desarrollado de su propio territorio = territoriality.
    * ser algo muy claro = be a dead giveaway.
    * ser algo muy fácil de conseguir = be there for the taking.
    * ser Algo muy importante = loom + large.
    * ser algo muy obvio = be a dead giveaway.
    * ser algo muy poco frecuente = be a rare occurrence.
    * ser algo muy raro = be a rare occurrence.
    * ser algo muy revelador = be a giveaway.
    * ser muy aconsejable que = be well advised to.
    * ser muy amigo de = be pally with.
    * ser muy antiguo = go back + a long way.
    * ser muy buena señal = bode + well.
    * ser muy conocido por = be well known for.
    * ser muy diferente de = be quite apart from.
    * ser muy difícil, no ser nada fácil = be hard-pushed to.
    * ser muy escaso = be at a premium.
    * ser muy gracioso = be a right laugh.
    * ser muy melindroso = be picky.
    * ser muy necesario = be long overdue.
    * ser muy particular = be picky.
    * ser muy poco probable = be remote.
    * ser muy popular = have + mass appeal.
    * ser muy probable = chances + be.
    * ser muy prometedor = promise + great possibilities, bode + well.
    * ser muy provechoso = pay off + handsomely.
    * ser muy quisquilloso = be picky.
    * ser muy rápido = be quick off + Posesivo + feet.
    * ser muy revelador = speak + volumes, be an eye-opener.
    * ser muy superior a los demás = be way above all the others.
    * ser muy superior a los otros = be way above all the others.
    * ser muy usado = be heavily used.
    * servir muy bien = take + Nombre + a long way.
    * tejido muy delicado = gossamer.
    * tener algo muy vivo en la mente de uno = be strong in + mind.
    * tener muy mala cara = look like + death warmed (over/up).
    * tenerse muy en cuenta por = carry + weight with.
    * tener un día muy largo = have + a long day.
    * tiempo muy malo = severe weather.
    * una probabilidad muy alta = a sporting chance.
    * venir muy bien = fit + the bill.
    * verse muy afectado por = have + a high stake in.
    * vigilar Algo muy de cerca = keep + a watchful eye.
    * * *
    a) very

    muy bien, sigamos adelante — OK o fine, let's go on

    por muy cansado que estéshowever o no matter how tired you are

    b) ( demasiado) too

    quedó muy dulceit's rather o too sweet

    * * *
    = highly, very, eminent + Nombre, deeply, expansively, darn.

    Ex: Even for those items that are designated relevant some may be judged to be highly relevant, whilst others may be regarded as partially relevant or only marginally relevant.

    Ex: I have been very embarrassed at their embarrassment at the kinds of subject headings used.
    Ex: 'I think it makes eminent sense, for the reasons I've outlined,' he said and started toward the door.
    Ex: I have found in reading extracts from Scott's diary of his trip to the South Pole that pupils interrupted all the time to ask questions, until the final entries were reached, when everyone went very quiet, moved deeply by Scott's words and unwilling to bruise the emotion they felt.
    Ex: Their survey is expansively scripted and probes for a variety of information from the interviewee = Su encuesta está muy detallada y obtiene una gran variedad de información de los encuestados.
    Ex: However, as someone else said, people are pretty darn sensitive about terrorism, and the days of left-luggage may be over.
    * acento muy pronunciado = heavy accent.
    * algo muy agradable de oír = music to + Posesivo + ears.
    * algo muy diferente de = a far cry from.
    * algo muy difícil = a tough sell.
    * algo muy distinto de = a far cry from.
    * algo ya muy conocido y usado = old nag.
    * andar (muy) apurado de dinero = be (hard) pressed for + money.
    * andar (muy) apurado de tiempo = be (hard) pressed for + time.
    * andar (muy) corto de dinero = be (hard) pressed for + money.
    * andar (muy) corto de tiempo = be (hard) pressed for + time.
    * andar (muy) escaso de dinero = be (hard) pressed for + money.
    * andar (muy) escaso de tiempo = be (hard) pressed for + time.
    * andar (muy) falto de dinero = be (hard) pressed for + money.
    * andar (muy) falto de tiempo = be (hard) pressed for + time.
    * apuntar muy alto = reach for + the stars, shoot for + the stars.
    * a un precio muy razonable = at a very reasonable cost, at a very reasonable cost, at very reasonable cost.
    * avanzar muy despacio = creep, creep along.
    * como muy tarde = at the latest.
    * con las manos muy largas = light-fingered.
    * con lazos muy estrechos = close-knit.
    * con medios muy escasos = on a shoestring (budget).
    * con medios muy exiguos = on a shoestring (budget).
    * con muy poca antelación = at (a) very short notice.
    * con muy poca anticipación = at (a) very short notice.
    * con muy poca frecuencia = all too seldom.
    * con muy pocas excepciones = with a few exceptions.
    * con muy pocos medios = on a shoestring (budget).
    * con un plazo de tiempo muy corto = at (a) very short notice.
    * curva muy abierta = sweeping curve.
    * curva muy cerrada = hairpin bend, hairpin curve, hairpin turn.
    * curva muy pronunciada = hairpin bend, hairpin curve, hairpin turn.
    * de forma muy similar a = in much the same way as.
    * de muy lejos = from afar.
    * de ritmo muy acelerado = hard-driving.
    * desde muy antiguo = since olden times.
    * desde muy lejos = from afar.
    * de un modo muy general = crudely, crudely.
    * encontrar muy difícil = be hard-pushed to.
    * en muy poco tiempo = before long.
    * en un pasado muy lejano = in the dim and distant past.
    * estar muy acostumbrado a = be all too familiar with.
    * estar muy agradecido a = be indebted to.
    * estar muy alejado de = be a long way from.
    * estar muy arraigado en = be well embedded in.
    * estar muy bajo = be way down.
    * estar muy cerca de = be one step away from, be steps away from, come + very close to.
    * estar muy convencido de = have + strong feelings about.
    * estar muy emocionado con/por = be excited about.
    * estar muy lejano = be far off.
    * estar muy lejos = be far off.
    * estar muy por delante de = be way out ahead of.
    * estar muy por delante de su tiempo = be years ahead of + Posesivo + time.
    * estar muy separado = set + far apart.
    * estar muy usado = be well thumbed.
    * evaluar muy positivamente según unos criterios establecido = rate + Nombre + high on + criteria.
    * gente muy trabajadora = hard-working people.
    * haber de muy diversos tipos = come in + all/many (sorts of) shapes and sizes.
    * hablar muy bien de = rant and rave.
    * hacer Algo muy bien = do + an excellent job of.
    * hasta hace muy poco = up until recently.
    * ignorancia es muy atrevida, la = ignorance is very daring.
    * ir muy atrasado = be way behind schedule.
    * ir muy por detrás de = be far behind.
    * llegar muy lejos = go + a long way, come + a long way.
    * lo que es muy importante = importantly.
    * muy abreviado = highly-abbreviated.
    * muy activo = afire.
    * muy a diferencia de = in marked contrast to/with.
    * muy + Adjetivo = extremely + Adjetivo, grossly + Adjetivo, rather + Adjetivo, severely + Adjetivo, tightly + Adjetivo, wildly + Adjetivo, extraordinarily + Adjetivo, incredibly + Adjetivo, ludicrously + Adjetivo, seriously + Adjetivo, disappointingly + Adjetivo, not least + Adjetivo, heavily + Adjetivo, much + Adjetivo, mighty + Adjetivo, prohibitively + Adjetivo, sorely + Adjetivo, supremely + Adjetivo, vastly + Adjetivo, vitally + Adjetivo, immensely + Adjetivo, hugely + Adjetivo, significantly + Adjetivo, most + Adjetivo, impressively + Adjetivo, bloody + Adjetivo.
    * muy + Adjetivo/Adverbio = quite + Adjetivo/Adverbio.
    * muy + Adjetivo/Participio = keenly + Adjetivo/Participio.
    * muy admirado = much-admired.
    * muy + Adverbio = ever so + Adverbio.
    * muy agustito = snugly.
    * muy alejado de = a long way removed from.
    * muy al principio = in very early days, at the very outset.
    * muy amado = much-loved.
    * muy a menudo = more often than not, very often, most often than not.
    * muy antiguo = centuries-old.
    * muy anunciado = well-publicised [well-publicized, -USA].
    * muy apartado de = a long way removed from.
    * muy a + Posesivo + pesar = to + Posesivo + chagrin.
    * muy apreciado = highly appreciated, long-revered.
    * muy apreciado desde hace tiempo = long-revered.
    * muy arraigado = deep-rooted, well established, long-established.
    * muy a tiempo = in good time.
    * muy atrás = far behind.
    * muy atrasado = in the backwoods.
    * muy avanzado = well-developed, well-advanced.
    * muy beneficioso = high-payoff.
    * muy bien = nicely.
    * ¡muy bien! = the way to go!.
    * muy bien cuidado = well-kept.
    * muy bien pagado = highly paid.
    * muy bien + podría + Verbo = might + well + Verbo.
    * muy bien + puede + Verbo = may well + Verbo.
    * muy bien remunerado = highly paid.
    * muy bien tramado = carefully crafted.
    * muy bien urdido = carefully crafted.
    * muy caliente = piping hot, baking hot.
    * muy cambiado = much-changed, much-changed.
    * muy caro = high priced [high-priced].
    * muy cerca = close-by.
    * muy claramente = in no uncertain terms.
    * muy completo = populated.
    * muy concurrido = well-used [well used], well attended [well-attended].
    * muy condicionado = well-conditioned.
    * muy condimentado = spicy [spicier -comp., spiciest -sup.].
    * muy conseguido = slick, licked, well-crafted.
    * muy criticado = much-criticised [much-criticized, USA].
    * muy crítico = highly critical.
    * muy custodiado = heavily guarded.
    * muy de cerca = not far behind.
    * muy desarrollado = well-developed.
    * muy despacio = very slowly.
    * muy de tarde en tarde = once in a blue moon.
    * muy diferente de = far different... from, in marked contrast to/with.
    * muy difícil de traducir = defy + translation.
    * muy dispuesto a = all ready to.
    * muy divulgado = well-publicised [well-publicized, -USA].
    * muy documentado = well-informed.
    * muy duro = as hard as nails.
    * muy eficaz = powerful.
    * muy endeudado = heavily indebted.
    * muy escandaloso = highly visible.
    * muy especializado = highly specialised.
    * muy estimado = highly regarded, highly esteemed, highly reputed.
    * muy estrecho = poky [pokier -comp., pokiest -sup.].
    * muy estructurado = highly-structured.
    * muy extendido = commonly-held, widely held.
    * muy famoso = highly acclaimed, widely acclaimed, well-acclaimed.
    * muy frecuentado = heavily used.
    * muy frecuentemente = so often, most often than not.
    * muy frecuente y rápido = rapid-fire.
    * muy gastado = worn-out.
    * muy generalizado = commonly-held, widely held.
    * muy grande = big time.
    * muy iluminado = brightly illuminated.
    * muy importante = critical, very importantly, big time.
    * muy informado = well-informed.
    * muy leído = widely-read.
    * muy lejano = far off.
    * muy lejos = far away, far off.
    * muy lejos de = a long way from, a long way removed from.
    * muy lejos de conseguir = a long way toward.
    * muy lentamente = very slowly.
    * muy lluvioso = rain-soaked.
    * muy logrado = slickly produced.
    * muy mal tiempo = severe weather.
    * muy mayor = over the hill.
    * muy moderno = trendy [trendier -comp., trendiest -sup.].
    * muy motivado = highly-motivated.
    * muy necesario = much needed [much-needed], long overdue.
    * muy nervioso = in a state of agitation, highly-strung.
    * muy nervioso, histérico = high-strung.
    * muy notorio = highly visible.
    * muy parecido a = much like.
    * muy + Participio = badly + Participio.
    * muy + Participio Pasado = widely + Participio Pasado, extensively + Participio Pasado.
    * muy peculiar = highly distinctive.
    * muy pertinente para = central to.
    * muy poblado = heavily populated.
    * muy poco = minimally.
    * muy polémico = highly controversial.
    * muy popular = widely-read, highly popular.
    * muy por delante de = far ahead of.
    * muy por detrás = far behind.
    * muy por el contrario = in marked contrast.
    * muy por encima de = far beyond.
    * muy por encima de todo = over and above all.
    * muy posiblemente = for all you know, for all we know.
    * muy practicado = much practised.
    * muy preciado = much prized, highly prized.
    * muy preciso = much needed [much-needed].
    * muy probablemente = most likely, most probably.
    * muy pronto = before long, pretty soon.
    * muy propio = highly distinctive.
    * muy provechoso = high-payoff.
    * muy pulido = licked, slick.
    * muy querido = much-loved.
    * muy rápidamente = like a house on fire, in short order.
    * muy rara vez = all too seldom, all too seldom, once in a blue moon.
    * muy recomendado = highly recommended.
    * muy reconocido = highly regarded, highly esteemed, highly reputed.
    * muy resistente = heavy-duty.
    * muy respetado = highly regarded, highly esteemed, highly reputed, widely-respected.
    * muy sazonado = spicy [spicier -comp., spiciest -sup.].
    * muy similar a = much like.
    * muy sistemático = highly-structured.
    * muy solicitado = in great demand.
    * muy trabajado = well-crafted.
    * muy trabajador = committed.
    * muy unido = close-knit, tight-knit, closely knit, well-connected, tightly knit.
    * muy usado = shabby [shabbier -comp., shabbiest -sup.], high-use, well-used [well used], well-worn, well-worn, heavily used, much-used.
    * muy útil = highly valuable.
    * muy valioso = highly valuable, highly prized.
    * muy valorado = highly valued, highly appreciated.
    * muy venerado = long-revered.
    * muy venerado desde hace tiempo = long-revered.
    * muy vigilado = heavily guarded.
    * no andar muy equivocado = be in the right realm.
    * no estar muy lejos de = be just one step away from.
    * nombre muy conocido = household name, household word.
    * no muy bien informado = not-too-well-informed.
    * no muy despierto = slow.
    * no muy lejos = within easy travelling distance, not far behind, not far off, not far away, not far, not too far.
    * no tener que ir muy lejos = not have to look far.
    * pasarlo muy mal = have + a tough time, have + a hard time.
    * persona muy trabajadora = hard-working person.
    * poner un precio a Algo muy alto = overprice.
    * por muy + Adjetivo + be = Adjetivo + though + Nombre + be.
    * por muy difícil que parezca = difficult though it may seem, difficult as it may seem.
    * por muy extraño que parezca = strangely enough, strange though it may seem, strange as it may seem, although it may seem strange, funnily enough.
    * por muy increíble que parezca = incredible though it may seem, incredibly, incredibly enough, incredible as it may seem, although it may seem incredible.
    * por muy mentira que parezca = incredibly, incredible though it may seem, strangely enough, incredibly enough, incredible as it may seem, strange though it may seem, strange as it may seem, although it may seem strange, although it may seem incredible.
    * por muy raro que parezca = strangely enough, oddly enough, strange though it may seem, strange as it may seem, although it may seem strange.
    * posibilidades muy variadas = rich possibilities.
    * puede muy bien ser = could well be.
    * puede muy bien ser que = it may well be that.
    * regla muy precisa = finely graduated scale.
    * repasar Algo muy detenidamente = go over + Nombre + with a fine toothcomb.
    * sangre muy diluida = thin blood.
    * sentido muy desarrollado de su propio territorio = territoriality.
    * ser algo muy claro = be a dead giveaway.
    * ser algo muy fácil de conseguir = be there for the taking.
    * ser Algo muy importante = loom + large.
    * ser algo muy obvio = be a dead giveaway.
    * ser algo muy poco frecuente = be a rare occurrence.
    * ser algo muy raro = be a rare occurrence.
    * ser algo muy revelador = be a giveaway.
    * ser muy aconsejable que = be well advised to.
    * ser muy amigo de = be pally with.
    * ser muy antiguo = go back + a long way.
    * ser muy buena señal = bode + well.
    * ser muy conocido por = be well known for.
    * ser muy diferente de = be quite apart from.
    * ser muy difícil, no ser nada fácil = be hard-pushed to.
    * ser muy escaso = be at a premium.
    * ser muy gracioso = be a right laugh.
    * ser muy melindroso = be picky.
    * ser muy necesario = be long overdue.
    * ser muy particular = be picky.
    * ser muy poco probable = be remote.
    * ser muy popular = have + mass appeal.
    * ser muy probable = chances + be.
    * ser muy prometedor = promise + great possibilities, bode + well.
    * ser muy provechoso = pay off + handsomely.
    * ser muy quisquilloso = be picky.
    * ser muy rápido = be quick off + Posesivo + feet.
    * ser muy revelador = speak + volumes, be an eye-opener.
    * ser muy superior a los demás = be way above all the others.
    * ser muy superior a los otros = be way above all the others.
    * ser muy usado = be heavily used.
    * servir muy bien = take + Nombre + a long way.
    * tejido muy delicado = gossamer.
    * tener algo muy vivo en la mente de uno = be strong in + mind.
    * tener muy mala cara = look like + death warmed (over/up).
    * tenerse muy en cuenta por = carry + weight with.
    * tener un día muy largo = have + a long day.
    * tiempo muy malo = severe weather.
    * una probabilidad muy alta = a sporting chance.
    * venir muy bien = fit + the bill.
    * verse muy afectado por = have + a high stake in.
    * vigilar Algo muy de cerca = keep + a watchful eye.

    * * *
    1 very
    muy poca gente very few people
    soy muy consciente de mis limitaciones I'm very o acutely aware of my limitations
    es muy trabajador he's a very hard worker, he works very hard
    son muy amigos they're great friends
    está muy bien escrito it's extremely o very well written
    su carne es muy apreciada its meat is highly prized
    muy admirado much admired
    muy respetado highly respected
    muy bien, sigamos adelante OK o fine, let's go on
    muy bien, si eso es lo que tú quieres very well, if that's what you want
    estoy muy, pero muy disgustado I'm very, very upset
    es un gesto muy suyo it's a typical gesture of his
    ella es muy de criticar a los demás she's very fond of criticizing others
    por muy cansado que estés however o no matter how tired you are
    ¿sabes lo que hizo el muy sinvergüenza? do you know what he did, the swine?
    te ha quedado muy dulce it's rather o too sweet
    no me gusta sentarme muy adelante I don't like sitting too near the front/too far forward
    * * *

     

    muy adverbio
    a) very;


    son muy amigos they're great friends;
    muy admirado much admired;
    muy respetado highly respected;
    muy bien, sigamos adelante OK o fine, let's go on;
    por muy cansado que estés however o no matter how tired you are
    b) ( demasiado) too;

    quedó muy dulce it's rather o too sweet

    muy adverbio
    1 (modificando a un adjetivo o adverbio) very: muy pronto llegará, he will arrive very soon
    muy tierno, very tender
    2 (modificando al sustantivo) es muy española, she's a real Spaniard
    3 (demasiado) está muy caliente, it's too hot
    ' muy' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abertura
    - abisal
    - abominable
    - abrigada
    - abrigado
    - acalorada
    - acalorado
    - acaramelada
    - acaramelado
    - accidentada
    - accidentado
    - acertada
    - acertado
    - achacosa
    - achacoso
    - ácida
    - ácido
    - acto
    - actual
    - aferrada
    - aferrado
    - agitada
    - agitado
    - agradecida
    - agradecido
    - ahora
    - alentador
    - alentadora
    - amena
    - ameno
    - amiga
    - amigo
    - ancha
    - ancho
    - antojadiza
    - antojadizo
    - aparte
    - aperreada
    - aperreado
    - apretada
    - apretado
    - apurada
    - apurado
    - arraigada
    - arraigado
    - auspicio
    - avenida
    - avenido
    - baja
    - bajo
    English:
    abandon
    - abject
    - abominable
    - abrupt
    - abysmal
    - actual
    - afield
    - Afro
    - aggressive
    - agony
    - also
    - ambience
    - appealing
    - appreciative
    - arch
    - archaic
    - argument
    - article
    - articulate
    - aware
    - baby
    - bad
    - badly
    - baking
    - be
    - bear
    - beating
    - become
    - behind
    - big
    - blare
    - boiling
    - bolt
    - bookmobile
    - boom
    - boy
    - brilliant
    - burn
    - burning
    - businesslike
    - bustle
    - candid
    - capable
    - celebrity
    - chance
    - charmer
    - chart
    - chirpy
    - civil
    - clever
    * * *
    muy adv
    1. [en alto grado] very;
    muy bueno/cerca very good/near;
    estoy muy cansado I'm very tired;
    es muy hombre he's very manly, he's a real man;
    muy de mañana very early in the morning;
    ¡muy bien! [vale] OK!, all right!;
    [qué bien] very good!, well done!;
    eso es muy de ella that's just like her;
    eso es muy de los americanos that's typically American;
    ¡el muy fresco! the cheeky devil!;
    ¡la muy tonta! the silly idiot!;
    me gusta muy mucho I really, really like it;
    te cuidarás muy mucho de hacerlo just make absolutely sure you don't do it
    2. [demasiado] too;
    no cabe ahí, es muy grande it won't fit in there, it's too big;
    ahora ya es muy tarde it's too late now
    * * *
    adv
    1 very;
    muy valorado highly valued;
    Muy Señor mío Dear Sir
    2 ( demasiado) too
    * * *
    muy adv
    1) : very, quite
    es muy inteligente: she's very intelligent
    muy bien: very well, fine
    eso es muy americano: that's typically American
    2) : too
    es muy grande para él: it's too big for him
    * * *
    muy adv very
    muy bien (de acuerdo) OK / fine (para felicitar) very good / well done
    por muy... que however...

    Spanish-English dictionary > muy

  • 69 Nähe

    Adj. nah
    * * *
    die Nähe
    closeness; vicinity; contiguity; nearness; vicinage; proximity; propinquity
    * * *
    na|he ['naːə]
    1. adj comp näher
    ['nɛːɐ] superl nächste(r, s) ['nɛːçstə]
    1) (örtlich) near pred, close pred, nearby

    jdm nah seinto be near (to) sb

    2) (zeitlich) near pred, approaching, nigh (liter) pred

    die náhe Zukunft — the near future

    3) (= eng) Freund, Beziehung etc close

    náhe Verwandte — close relatives

    2. adv comp näher, superl am nächsten
    1) (örtlich) ['nɛːɐ]
    near, close

    náhe an — near or close to

    nah(e) bei — close to or by, near

    nah(e) liegend Ortnearby auch naheliegend

    náhe vor — right in front of

    jdm/einer Sache zu nah(e) kommen — to get too close to sb/sth

    wir stehen uns ( geistig) sehr náhe — our views are very close

    See:
    daran
    2)

    (zeitlich) mein Prüfungstermin rückt allmählich nah(e) — my examination is getting close

    3) (= eng) closely

    mit jdm nah(e) verwandt seinto be a near relative of sb's, to be closely related to sb

    3. prep +dat
    near (to), close to

    der Ohnmacht/dem Wahnsinn etc nah(e) sein — to be on the verge of fainting/madness etc

    * * *
    1) ((with close or near) near: The bus station is close at hand.) at hand
    2) (near in time, place etc: He stood close to his mother; Follow close behind.) close
    3) ((of eyes etc) positioned very near each other.) close-set
    4) (near in time, place, relationship etc: close to 3 o'clock; close to the hospital; close to his mother.) close to
    5) (not far away in place or time: The station is quite near; Christmas is getting near.) near
    6) (not far away in relationship: He is a near relation.) near
    7) (to or at a short distance from here or the place mentioned: He lives quite near.) near
    8) ((with to) close to: Don't sit too near to the window.) near
    9) (at a very small distance from (in place, time etc): She lives near the church; It was near midnight when they arrived.) near
    10) (an old word for near.) nigh
    11) (close to; close together: The soldiers were fighting with the enemy at close quarters.) at close quarters
    * * *
    Nä·he
    <->
    [ˈnɛ:ə]
    1. (geringe Entfernung) proximity no pl form
    aus der \Nähe from close up
    in der \Nähe near
    bleib bitte in der \Nähe please don't go too far away
    jds \Nähe sb's closeness
    jds \Nähe brauchen to need sb [to be] close [to one]
    in jds \Nähe close to sb
    3. (naher Zeitpunkt) closeness no pl
    * * *
    1.
    Adjektiv näher, nächst...
    1) (räumlich) near pred.; close pred.; nearby attrib.

    in der näheren Umgebung — in the neighbourhood; around here/there; s. auch Osten 3)

    2) (zeitlich) imminent; near pred.
    3) (eng) close <relationship, relative, friend>
    2.
    Ex:
    näher, am nächsten
    /Ex:

    nahe an — (+ Dat./Akk.)

    komm mir nicht zu nahe! — don't come too close!; keep your distance!

    aus od. von nah und fern — (geh.) from near and far

    jemandem zu nahe treten(fig.) offend somebody

    jemandem die moderne Kunst usw. nahe bringen — make modern art etc. accessible to somebody

    jemandem etwas näher bringen(fig.) make something more real or more accessible to somebody

    jemandem nahe gehen(fig.) affect somebody deeply

    einer Sache (Dat.) nahe kommen(fig.) come close to something; < amount> approximate to something

    jemandem [menschlich] näher kommen — get on closer terms with somebody

    sich (Dat.) näher kommen — (fig.) become closer

    jemandem etwas nahe legen(fig.) suggest something to somebody

    einen Verdacht/einen Gedanken usw. nahe legen — give rise to a suspicion/thought etc.

    nahe liegen(fig.) < thought> suggest itself; <suspicion, question> arise

    jemandem nahe stehen(fig.) be on close or intimate terms with somebody

    eine der Witwe nahe stehende Cousine(fig.) a cousin who is/was on close terms with the widow

    nahe daran sein, etwas zu tun — be on the point of doing something

    3) (eng) closely; s. auch näher
    3.
    Präposition mit Dat. (geh.) near; close to

    den Tränen/dem Wahnsinn nahe sein — be on the brink of tears/on the verge of madness

    * * *
    Nähe f; -, kein pl
    1. (geringe räumliche Entfernung) nearness, proximity; (Umgebung) vicinity, neighbo(u)rhood;
    in der Nähe nearby;
    in der Nähe von (oder +gen) near (to), quite close to;
    der Park in der Nähe the nearby park, the park nearby;
    in der Nähe der Stadt near the town;
    hier in der Nähe somewhere around here;
    in der Nähe bleiben stay around;
    in seiner Nähe near (to) where he lives; unmittelbar: near (to) him;
    ich möchte in seiner Nähe sein I’d like to be with ( oder close to) him, I’d like to have him around me;
    aus der Nähe close up, at close range;
    aus der Nähe betrachten auch fig take a close(r) look at;
    aus der Nähe betrachtet seen at close range, on closer view
    die zeitliche Nähe zu einem Ereignis etc closeness; greifbar
    menschliche Nähe human contact;
    jemandes Nähe suchen seek sb’s company
    * * *
    1.
    Adjektiv näher, nächst...
    1) (räumlich) near pred.; close pred.; nearby attrib.

    in der näheren Umgebung — in the neighbourhood; around here/there; s. auch Osten 3)

    2) (zeitlich) imminent; near pred.
    3) (eng) close <relationship, relative, friend>
    2.
    Ex:
    näher, am nächsten
    /Ex:

    nahe an — (+ Dat./Akk.)

    komm mir nicht zu nahe! — don't come too close!; keep your distance!

    von nahem — from close up; at close quarters

    aus od. von nah und fern — (geh.) from near and far

    jemandem zu nahe treten(fig.) offend somebody

    jemandem die moderne Kunst usw. nahe bringen — make modern art etc. accessible to somebody

    jemandem etwas näher bringen(fig.) make something more real or more accessible to somebody

    jemandem nahe gehen(fig.) affect somebody deeply

    einer Sache (Dat.) nahe kommen — (fig.) come close to something; < amount> approximate to something

    jemandem [menschlich] näher kommen — get on closer terms with somebody

    sich (Dat.) näher kommen — (fig.) become closer

    jemandem etwas nahe legen(fig.) suggest something to somebody

    einen Verdacht/einen Gedanken usw. nahe legen — give rise to a suspicion/thought etc.

    nahe liegen(fig.) < thought> suggest itself; <suspicion, question> arise

    jemandem nahe stehen(fig.) be on close or intimate terms with somebody

    eine der Witwe nahe stehende Cousine(fig.) a cousin who is/was on close terms with the widow

    nahe daran sein, etwas zu tun — be on the point of doing something

    3) (eng) closely; s. auch näher
    3.
    Präposition mit Dat. (geh.) near; close to

    den Tränen/dem Wahnsinn nahe sein — be on the brink of tears/on the verge of madness

    * * *
    nur sing. f.
    adjacency n.
    closeness n.
    contiguousness n.
    nearness n.
    propinquity n.
    proximity n.
    vicinage n.
    vicinity n.

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  • 70 nahe

    Adj. nah
    * * *
    die Nähe
    closeness; vicinity; contiguity; nearness; vicinage; proximity; propinquity
    * * *
    na|he ['naːə]
    1. adj comp näher
    ['nɛːɐ] superl nächste(r, s) ['nɛːçstə]
    1) (örtlich) near pred, close pred, nearby

    jdm nah seinto be near (to) sb

    2) (zeitlich) near pred, approaching, nigh (liter) pred

    die náhe Zukunft — the near future

    3) (= eng) Freund, Beziehung etc close

    náhe Verwandte — close relatives

    2. adv comp näher, superl am nächsten
    1) (örtlich) ['nɛːɐ]
    near, close

    náhe an — near or close to

    nah(e) bei — close to or by, near

    nah(e) liegend Ortnearby auch naheliegend

    náhe vor — right in front of

    jdm/einer Sache zu nah(e) kommen — to get too close to sb/sth

    wir stehen uns ( geistig) sehr náhe — our views are very close

    See:
    daran
    2)

    (zeitlich) mein Prüfungstermin rückt allmählich nah(e) — my examination is getting close

    3) (= eng) closely

    mit jdm nah(e) verwandt seinto be a near relative of sb's, to be closely related to sb

    3. prep +dat
    near (to), close to

    der Ohnmacht/dem Wahnsinn etc nah(e) sein — to be on the verge of fainting/madness etc

    * * *
    1) ((with close or near) near: The bus station is close at hand.) at hand
    2) (near in time, place etc: He stood close to his mother; Follow close behind.) close
    3) ((of eyes etc) positioned very near each other.) close-set
    4) (near in time, place, relationship etc: close to 3 o'clock; close to the hospital; close to his mother.) close to
    5) (not far away in place or time: The station is quite near; Christmas is getting near.) near
    6) (not far away in relationship: He is a near relation.) near
    7) (to or at a short distance from here or the place mentioned: He lives quite near.) near
    8) ((with to) close to: Don't sit too near to the window.) near
    9) (at a very small distance from (in place, time etc): She lives near the church; It was near midnight when they arrived.) near
    10) (an old word for near.) nigh
    11) (close to; close together: The soldiers were fighting with the enemy at close quarters.) at close quarters
    * * *
    Nä·he
    <->
    [ˈnɛ:ə]
    1. (geringe Entfernung) proximity no pl form
    aus der \Nähe from close up
    in der \Nähe near
    bleib bitte in der \Nähe please don't go too far away
    jds \Nähe sb's closeness
    jds \Nähe brauchen to need sb [to be] close [to one]
    in jds \Nähe close to sb
    3. (naher Zeitpunkt) closeness no pl
    * * *
    1.
    Adjektiv näher, nächst...
    1) (räumlich) near pred.; close pred.; nearby attrib.

    in der näheren Umgebung — in the neighbourhood; around here/there; s. auch Osten 3)

    2) (zeitlich) imminent; near pred.
    3) (eng) close <relationship, relative, friend>
    2.
    Ex:
    näher, am nächsten
    /Ex:

    nahe an — (+ Dat./Akk.)

    komm mir nicht zu nahe! — don't come too close!; keep your distance!

    aus od. von nah und fern — (geh.) from near and far

    jemandem zu nahe treten(fig.) offend somebody

    jemandem die moderne Kunst usw. nahe bringen — make modern art etc. accessible to somebody

    jemandem etwas näher bringen(fig.) make something more real or more accessible to somebody

    jemandem nahe gehen(fig.) affect somebody deeply

    einer Sache (Dat.) nahe kommen(fig.) come close to something; < amount> approximate to something

    jemandem [menschlich] näher kommen — get on closer terms with somebody

    sich (Dat.) näher kommen — (fig.) become closer

    jemandem etwas nahe legen(fig.) suggest something to somebody

    einen Verdacht/einen Gedanken usw. nahe legen — give rise to a suspicion/thought etc.

    nahe liegen(fig.) < thought> suggest itself; <suspicion, question> arise

    jemandem nahe stehen(fig.) be on close or intimate terms with somebody

    eine der Witwe nahe stehende Cousine(fig.) a cousin who is/was on close terms with the widow

    nahe daran sein, etwas zu tun — be on the point of doing something

    3) (eng) closely; s. auch näher
    3.
    Präposition mit Dat. (geh.) near; close to

    den Tränen/dem Wahnsinn nahe sein — be on the brink of tears/on the verge of madness

    * * *
    nahe adj nah
    * * *
    1.
    Adjektiv näher, nächst...
    1) (räumlich) near pred.; close pred.; nearby attrib.

    in der näheren Umgebung — in the neighbourhood; around here/there; s. auch Osten 3)

    2) (zeitlich) imminent; near pred.
    3) (eng) close <relationship, relative, friend>
    2.
    Ex:
    näher, am nächsten
    /Ex:

    nahe an — (+ Dat./Akk.)

    komm mir nicht zu nahe! — don't come too close!; keep your distance!

    von nahem — from close up; at close quarters

    aus od. von nah und fern — (geh.) from near and far

    jemandem zu nahe treten(fig.) offend somebody

    jemandem die moderne Kunst usw. nahe bringen — make modern art etc. accessible to somebody

    jemandem etwas näher bringen(fig.) make something more real or more accessible to somebody

    jemandem nahe gehen(fig.) affect somebody deeply

    einer Sache (Dat.) nahe kommen — (fig.) come close to something; < amount> approximate to something

    jemandem [menschlich] näher kommen — get on closer terms with somebody

    sich (Dat.) näher kommen — (fig.) become closer

    jemandem etwas nahe legen(fig.) suggest something to somebody

    einen Verdacht/einen Gedanken usw. nahe legen — give rise to a suspicion/thought etc.

    nahe liegen(fig.) < thought> suggest itself; <suspicion, question> arise

    jemandem nahe stehen(fig.) be on close or intimate terms with somebody

    eine der Witwe nahe stehende Cousine(fig.) a cousin who is/was on close terms with the widow

    nahe daran sein, etwas zu tun — be on the point of doing something

    3) (eng) closely; s. auch näher
    3.
    Präposition mit Dat. (geh.) near; close to

    den Tränen/dem Wahnsinn nahe sein — be on the brink of tears/on the verge of madness

    * * *
    nur sing. f.
    adjacency n.
    closeness n.
    contiguousness n.
    nearness n.
    propinquity n.
    proximity n.
    vicinage n.
    vicinity n.

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  • 71 nähe

    Adj. nah
    * * *
    die Nähe
    closeness; vicinity; contiguity; nearness; vicinage; proximity; propinquity
    * * *
    na|he ['naːə]
    1. adj comp näher
    ['nɛːɐ] superl nächste(r, s) ['nɛːçstə]
    1) (örtlich) near pred, close pred, nearby

    jdm nah seinto be near (to) sb

    2) (zeitlich) near pred, approaching, nigh (liter) pred

    die náhe Zukunft — the near future

    3) (= eng) Freund, Beziehung etc close

    náhe Verwandte — close relatives

    2. adv comp näher, superl am nächsten
    1) (örtlich) ['nɛːɐ]
    near, close

    náhe an — near or close to

    nah(e) bei — close to or by, near

    nah(e) liegend Ortnearby auch naheliegend

    náhe vor — right in front of

    jdm/einer Sache zu nah(e) kommen — to get too close to sb/sth

    wir stehen uns ( geistig) sehr náhe — our views are very close

    See:
    daran
    2)

    (zeitlich) mein Prüfungstermin rückt allmählich nah(e) — my examination is getting close

    3) (= eng) closely

    mit jdm nah(e) verwandt seinto be a near relative of sb's, to be closely related to sb

    3. prep +dat
    near (to), close to

    der Ohnmacht/dem Wahnsinn etc nah(e) sein — to be on the verge of fainting/madness etc

    * * *
    1) ((with close or near) near: The bus station is close at hand.) at hand
    2) (near in time, place etc: He stood close to his mother; Follow close behind.) close
    3) ((of eyes etc) positioned very near each other.) close-set
    4) (near in time, place, relationship etc: close to 3 o'clock; close to the hospital; close to his mother.) close to
    5) (not far away in place or time: The station is quite near; Christmas is getting near.) near
    6) (not far away in relationship: He is a near relation.) near
    7) (to or at a short distance from here or the place mentioned: He lives quite near.) near
    8) ((with to) close to: Don't sit too near to the window.) near
    9) (at a very small distance from (in place, time etc): She lives near the church; It was near midnight when they arrived.) near
    10) (an old word for near.) nigh
    11) (close to; close together: The soldiers were fighting with the enemy at close quarters.) at close quarters
    * * *
    Nä·he
    <->
    [ˈnɛ:ə]
    1. (geringe Entfernung) proximity no pl form
    aus der \Nähe from close up
    in der \Nähe near
    bleib bitte in der \Nähe please don't go too far away
    jds \Nähe sb's closeness
    jds \Nähe brauchen to need sb [to be] close [to one]
    in jds \Nähe close to sb
    3. (naher Zeitpunkt) closeness no pl
    * * *
    1.
    Adjektiv näher, nächst...
    1) (räumlich) near pred.; close pred.; nearby attrib.

    in der näheren Umgebung — in the neighbourhood; around here/there; s. auch Osten 3)

    2) (zeitlich) imminent; near pred.
    3) (eng) close <relationship, relative, friend>
    2.
    Ex:
    näher, am nächsten
    /Ex:

    nahe an — (+ Dat./Akk.)

    komm mir nicht zu nahe! — don't come too close!; keep your distance!

    aus od. von nah und fern — (geh.) from near and far

    jemandem zu nahe treten(fig.) offend somebody

    jemandem die moderne Kunst usw. nahe bringen — make modern art etc. accessible to somebody

    jemandem etwas näher bringen(fig.) make something more real or more accessible to somebody

    jemandem nahe gehen(fig.) affect somebody deeply

    einer Sache (Dat.) nahe kommen(fig.) come close to something; < amount> approximate to something

    jemandem [menschlich] näher kommen — get on closer terms with somebody

    sich (Dat.) näher kommen — (fig.) become closer

    jemandem etwas nahe legen(fig.) suggest something to somebody

    einen Verdacht/einen Gedanken usw. nahe legen — give rise to a suspicion/thought etc.

    nahe liegen(fig.) < thought> suggest itself; <suspicion, question> arise

    jemandem nahe stehen(fig.) be on close or intimate terms with somebody

    eine der Witwe nahe stehende Cousine(fig.) a cousin who is/was on close terms with the widow

    nahe daran sein, etwas zu tun — be on the point of doing something

    3) (eng) closely; s. auch näher
    3.
    Präposition mit Dat. (geh.) near; close to

    den Tränen/dem Wahnsinn nahe sein — be on the brink of tears/on the verge of madness

    * * *
    …nähe f im subst …nah;
    eine Wohnung in Zentrumsnähe a flat (US apartment) near the centre (US -er);
    ein Ferienhaus in Strandnähe a holiday (US vacation) home near the beach
    * * *
    1.
    Adjektiv näher, nächst...
    1) (räumlich) near pred.; close pred.; nearby attrib.

    in der näheren Umgebung — in the neighbourhood; around here/there; s. auch Osten 3)

    2) (zeitlich) imminent; near pred.
    3) (eng) close <relationship, relative, friend>
    2.
    Ex:
    näher, am nächsten
    /Ex:

    nahe an — (+ Dat./Akk.)

    komm mir nicht zu nahe! — don't come too close!; keep your distance!

    von nahem — from close up; at close quarters

    aus od. von nah und fern — (geh.) from near and far

    jemandem zu nahe treten(fig.) offend somebody

    jemandem die moderne Kunst usw. nahe bringen — make modern art etc. accessible to somebody

    jemandem etwas näher bringen(fig.) make something more real or more accessible to somebody

    jemandem nahe gehen(fig.) affect somebody deeply

    einer Sache (Dat.) nahe kommen — (fig.) come close to something; < amount> approximate to something

    jemandem [menschlich] näher kommen — get on closer terms with somebody

    sich (Dat.) näher kommen — (fig.) become closer

    jemandem etwas nahe legen(fig.) suggest something to somebody

    einen Verdacht/einen Gedanken usw. nahe legen — give rise to a suspicion/thought etc.

    nahe liegen(fig.) < thought> suggest itself; <suspicion, question> arise

    jemandem nahe stehen(fig.) be on close or intimate terms with somebody

    eine der Witwe nahe stehende Cousine(fig.) a cousin who is/was on close terms with the widow

    nahe daran sein, etwas zu tun — be on the point of doing something

    3) (eng) closely; s. auch näher
    3.
    Präposition mit Dat. (geh.) near; close to

    den Tränen/dem Wahnsinn nahe sein — be on the brink of tears/on the verge of madness

    * * *
    nur sing. f.
    adjacency n.
    closeness n.
    contiguousness n.
    nearness n.
    propinquity n.
    proximity n.
    vicinage n.
    vicinity n.

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  • 72 réserve

    réserve [ʀezεʀv]
    feminine noun
       a. ( = provision) reserve
    avoir/garder qch en réserve to have/keep sth in reserve ; [commerçant] to have/keep sth in stock
       b. ( = restriction) reservation
    faire or émettre des réserves sur qch to have reservations about sth
    sans réserve [soutien, admiration, consentement] unreserved ; [approuver, accepter] unreservedly
       c. ( = prudence, discrétion) reserve
    être/se tenir sur la réserve to be/remain very reserved
    devoir or obligation de réserve duty to preserve secrecy
    officiers/armée de réserve reserve officers/army
       e. (Sport) équipe/joueur de réserve reserve team/player
       f. [de nature, animaux] reserve ; [d'Indiens] reservation
    réserve de pêche/chasse fishing/hunting preserve
    réserve ornithologique or d'oiseaux bird sanctuary
       g. [de bibliothèque, musée] reserve collection
       h. ( = entrepôt) storehouse ; ( = pièce) storeroom ; (d'un magasin) stockroom
    * * *
    ʀezɛʀv
    1) ( restriction) reservation (au sujet de, à l'égard de about)

    sous réserve de disponibilité/de changement — subject to availability/alteration

    ‘sous (toute) réserve’ — ( dans un programme) ‘to be confirmed’

    2) ( provision) stock

    réserves de charbon/pétrole — coal/oil reserves

    4) ( discrétion) reserve
    5) ( local de stockage) stockroom
    6) ( section de bibliothèque) stacks (pl); ( section de musée) storerooms (pl)
    7) ( territoire protégé) reserve

    réserve naturelle/de chasse/de pêche — nature/game/fishing reserve

    8) ( territoire alloué) reservation
    * * *
    ʀezɛʀv nf
    1) (= retenue) reserve
    2) (= restriction) reservation

    sans réserve [approuver, soutenir] — unreservedly, [soutien, accord] unreserved

    3) (= provision) reserve, stock

    une réserve de — a reserve of, a stock of

    On a une réserve de riz, au cas où. — We've got some rice in reserve, just in case.

    réserve de carburant — fuel reserves, fuel stocks

    faire des réserves de — to stock up on, to lay in a stock of

    4) (= entrepôt, pièce) storeroom
    5) [pêche, chasse] preserve
    6) (indiennes) reservation
    * * *
    1 ( restriction) reservation (au sujet de, à l'égard de about); le projet de loi suscite les plus grandes réserves dans l'opposition the opposition have very strong reservations about the bill; adhésion sans réserve unreserved support; je me range sans réserve de votre côté you have my unreserved support; se confier à qn sans réserve to confide in sb totally; avec une réserve importante with one important condition; sous réserve d'approbation du budget/de disponibilité/de changement subject to budget approval/availability/alteration; sous réserve que tout aille bien provided everything goes well; ‘sous (toute) réserve’ ( dans un programme) ‘to be confirmed’; je vous le dis sous toutes réserves I'm telling you for what it's worth; nouvelle donnée sous toutes réserves unconfirmed news (report);
    2 ( provision) stock; des réserves de sucre/d'eau a stock of sugar/water; faire des réserves de farine/sucre to lay in a stock of flour/sugar; réserve(s) d'argent money in reserve; j'ai toujours une bonne bouteille en réserve I always have a good bottle put by; il a toujours une ou deux histoires drôles en réserve he's always got some funny story up his sleeve; il peut sauter un repas, il a des réserves he can afford to miss a meal;
    3 Écol, Écon réserves de charbon/pétrole coal/oil reserves; réserves d'eau water supply (sg); réserves prouvées/probables/possibles proved/indicated/inferred reserve;
    4 ( discrétion) reserve; sortir de sa réserve to drop one's reserve; manquer de réserve to be too outspoken; garder une certaine réserve avec qn to keep a certain distance with sb; devoir or obligation de réserve Admin, Mil duty of confidentiality; manquement à l'obligation de réserve breach of confidentiality;
    5 ( local de stockage) stockroom;
    6 ( section de bibliothèque) stacks (pl); ( section de musée) storerooms (pl);
    7 ( territoire protégé) reserve; réserve naturelle/de chasse/de pêche nature/game/fishing reserve; réserve ornithologique bird sanctuary;
    8 ( territoire alloué) reservation; réserve indienne Indian reservation;
    9 Mil ( réservistes) la réserve the reserves (pl); armée/officier de réserve reserve army/officer;
    10 Art, Imprim blank; laisser/garder en réserve to leave/to keep blank.
    réserve alcaline alkali reserve; réserve légale Compta legal reserve; Jur portion of inheritance that cannot be witheld from legal heir; réserve de puissance power reserve; réserve statutaire statutory reserve; réserves en devises currency reserves; réserves métalliques bullion reserves; réserves monétaires monetary reserves; réserves nutritives nutritional reserves; réserves récupérables exploitable reserves.
    [rezɛrv] nom féminin
    1. [stock] reserve, stock
    2. [réticence] reservation
    faire ou émettre des réserves to express reservations
    3. [modestie, retenue] reserve
    elle est ou demeure ou se tient sur la réserve she's being ou remaining reserved (about it)
    réserve de chasse/pêche hunting/fishing preserve
    5. [resserre - dans un magasin] storeroom
    [collections réservées - dans un musée, une bibliothèque] reserve collection
    6. DROIT [clause] reservation
    ————————
    réserves nom féminin pluriel
    réserves monétaires/de devises monetary/currency reserves
    ————————
    de réserve locution adjectivale
    1. [conservé pour plus tard] reserve (modificateur)
    ————————
    en réserve locution adverbiale
    1. [de côté] in reserve
    avoir de la nourriture en réserve to have food put by, to have food in reserve
    ————————
    sans réserve locution adjectivale
    [admiration] unreserved
    [dévotion] unreserved, unstinting
    [approbation] unreserved, unqualified
    ————————
    sans réserve locution adverbiale
    sous réserve de locution prépositionnelle
    sous réserve de vérification subject to verification, pending checks
    sous toute réserve locution adverbiale
    attention, c'est sous toute réserve! there's no guarantee as to the accuracy of this!

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  • 73 Kraft

    Präp. (+ Gen) by virtue of; on the strength of; kraft Gesetzes by law
    * * *
    die Kraft
    fortitude; verdure; power; vigour; vigor; vigorousness; puissance; strength; force; vis; might
    * * *
    Krạft [kraft]
    f -, -e
    ['krɛftə]
    1) (körperlich, sittlich) strength no pl; (geistig, schöpferisch) powers pl; (militärisch, wirtschaftlich) strength, power; (von Prosa, Stimme) strength, power, force; (= Energie) energy, energies pl

    er weiß nicht wohin mit seiner Kraft (inf)he's just bubbling over with energy

    er kann vor Kraft nicht mehr laufen (hum)he's so muscle-bound he can hardly move

    die Kräfte ( mit jdm) messento try or pit one's strength (against sb); (fig) to pit oneself against sb

    mit letzter Kraftwith one's last ounce of strength

    die Kraft aufbringen, etw zu tun — to find the strength to do sth

    mit vereinten Kräften werden wir... — if we combine our efforts or if we join forces we will...

    das geht über meine Kräfte, das übersteigt meine Kräfte — it's more than I can take, it's too much for me

    mit aller or voller Kraftwith all one's might or strength

    er will mit aller Kraft durchsetzen, dass... — he will do his utmost to ensure that...

    aus eigener Kraft — by oneself; (fig auch) by one's own efforts, single-handedly

    nach ( besten) Kräften — to the best of one's ability

    er tat, was in seinen Kräften standhe did everything (with)in his power

    nicht bei Kräften seinnot to be in very good shape

    See:
    messen
    2) (PHYS einer Reaktion etc) force; (der Sonne etc) strength, power (no pl = Wirksamkeit, liter, BIBL = Macht) power
    3) (usu pl: in Wirtschaft, Politik etc) force
    4) no pl (JUR = Geltung) force

    in Kraft sein/treten/setzen — to be in/come into/bring into force

    außer Kraft sein — to have ceased to be in force, to be no longer in force

    außer Kraft setzen — to cancel, to annul

    5) no pl

    (NAUT: = Geschwindigkeit) halbe/volle Kraft voraus! — half/full speed ahead

    6) (= Arbeitskraft) employee, worker; (= Haushaltskraft) domestic help; (= Lehrkraft) teacher
    * * *
    die
    1) (strength or power that can be felt: the force of the wind.) force
    2) (a person or thing that has great power: the forces of Nature.) force
    3) ((an) ability: A witch has magic power; A cat has the power of seeing in the dark; He no longer has the power to walk.) power
    4) (strength, force or energy: muscle power; water-power; ( also adjective) a power tool (=a tool operated by electricity etc. not by hand).) power
    5) (the quality of being strong: He got his strength back slowly after his illness; I hadn't the strength to resist him.) strength
    * * *
    <-, Kräfte>
    [kraft, pl ˈkrɛftə]
    f
    1. (Stärke) strength, power; (Energie) energy
    ich hatte nicht die \Kraft, weiterzugehen I didn't have the strength to walk any further
    wenn man alle Kräfte zusammennimmt if you summon up all your strength
    er ist am Ende seiner Kräfte he can't take any more
    er kann vor \Kraft nicht mehr laufen (hum fam) he's so muscle-bound he can hardly move
    mit aller \Kraft with all one's strength
    sie wollen mit aller \Kraft durchsetzen, dass... they will do their utmost to ensure that...
    die \Kraft aufbringen, etw zu tun to find the strength to do sth
    nach besten Kräften to the best of one's ability
    bei Kräften bleiben to keep one's strength up
    aus eigener \Kraft by oneself [or one's own efforts]
    mit frischer \Kraft with renewed energy
    über jds Kräfte gehen to be more than sb can cope with
    das geht über meine Kräfte it's more than I can take
    geistige/schöpferische Kräfte mental/creative powers
    mit seinen Kräften Haus halten müssen to have to conserve one's strength
    wieder zu Kräften kommen to regain one's strength
    mit letzter \Kraft with one's last ounce of strength
    seine Kräfte [mit jdm] messen to try [or pit] one's strength [against sb]
    die militärische/wirtschaftliche \Kraft eines Landes the military/economic strength of a country
    seine Kräfte sammeln to gather one's strength
    nicht bei Kräften sein to not be in very good shape
    wieder bei Kräften sein to have [got] one's strength back
    in jds Kräften stehen to be within sb's powers
    sie tat, was in ihren Kräften stand she did everything [with]in her power
    ich will Ihnen gern[e] behilflich sein, soweit es in meinen Kräften steht I will do everything within my power to help you
    jds Kräfte übersteigen to be too much for sb
    mit vereinten Kräften with combined efforts, in a combined effort
    mit vereinten Kräften müssten wir es schaffen if we combine our efforts [or join forces] we should succeed
    die \Kraft der Verzweiflung the strength born of desperation
    nicht wissen, wohin mit seiner \Kraft (fam) to be brimming with energy
    ich weiß nicht, wohin mit meiner \Kraft I'm just bubbling over with energy
    2. kein pl JUR (Geltung) power, force
    außer \Kraft sein to be no longer [or have ceased to be] in force
    ein Gesetz außer \Kraft setzen to repeal a law
    außer \Kraft treten to cease to be in force
    in \Kraft bleiben/sein to remain/be in force
    in \Kraft seit... effective as from...; Gesetz operative from...
    in \Kraft treten to come [or enter] into force
    3. (Energie) power, force
    die heilende \Kraft der Sonne the healing power of the sun
    magnetische Kräfte magnetic attraction sing
    die treibende \Kraft the driving force
    halbe/volle \Kraft voraus! half/full speed ahead!
    5. meist pl ÖKON, POL (Einfluss nehmende Gruppe) force
    das Gleichgewicht der Kräfte the balance of power
    reaktionäre Kräfte rebel forces
    6. (Arbeitskraft) employee, worker
    Kräfte pl employees pl, workers pl, personnel + sing/pl vb, staff sing
    * * *
    die; Kraft, Kräfte

    geistige/schöpferische Kräfte — mental/creative powers

    wieder bei Kräften sein — have [got] one's strength back

    aus eigener Kraftby oneself or one's own efforts

    ich werde tun, was in meinen Kräften steht — I shall do everything [with]in my power

    mit vereinten Kräften sollte es gelingen — if we join forces or combine our efforts we should succeed

    nach [besten] Kräften — to the best of one's ability

    2) (Wirksamkeit) power
    3) (ArbeitsKraft) employee; (in einer Fabrik) employee; worker

    Kräfte — employees/workers; personnel pl.; (Angestellte auch) staff pl.

    4) Plural (Gruppe) forces
    5) (Physik) force

    die treibende Kraft(fig.) the driving force

    6) (Seemannsspr.)

    volle/halbe Kraft voraus! — full/half speed ahead!

    7) in

    außer Kraft setzenrepeal < law>; countermand < order>

    außer Kraft sein/treten — no longer be/cease to be in force

    in Kraft treten/sein/bleiben — come into/be in/remain in force

    * * *
    Kraft f; -, Kräfte
    1. körperlich: strength; (Tatkraft) energy; fig auch power;
    rohe Kraft brute force;
    am Ende seiner Kräfte at the end of one’s strength, at one’s last gasp;
    aus eigener Kraft by one’s own efforts, under one’s own steam;
    mit aller Kraft with all one’s might;
    mit frischen Kräften with renewed strength ( oder vigo[u]r);
    mit letzter Kraft with one’s last ounce of strength;
    nach besten Kräften to the best of one’s ability;
    übersteigt meine Kräfte that’s more than I can handle;
    Kräfte sammeln gather strength;
    an den Kräften zehren sap one’s strength ( oder energy);
    wieder bei Kräften sein have regained one’s strength ( oder energy); (gesund sein) be back on one’s feet;
    wieder zu Kräften kommen regain one’s strength ( oder energy); (gesund werden) get back on one’s feet;
    Kraft verleihen give strength (+dat to), fig einer Argumentation etc: lend force (to); Spiel 1, vereint etc
    2. (Naturkraft, auch PHYS) force; (Energie) energy;
    überirdische Kräfte supernatural forces;
    heilende Kraft healing power;
    treibende Kraft driving force; fig auch powerhouse;
    Kraft und Masse force and mass;
    Arbeit ist Kraft mal Weg work is force times distance
    3. (Macht, auch TECH, ELEK) power;
    volle Kraft voraus SCHIFF full speed ahead;
    mit voller/halber Kraft at full/half speed
    4. (Arbeitskraft) employee, pl auch staff, personnel pl;
    wir müssen noch eine Kraft fürs Lager einstellen we need to take on another member of staff (US to hire somebody) for the warehouse
    5. (politische Kraft, Machtgruppe) force, power;
    dritte Kraft third force;
    reaktionäre/revolutionäre Kräfte reactionary/revolutionary forces;
    die Regierung hat allen verfassungsfeindlichen Kräften den Kampf angesagt the government has declared war on all anti-constitutional forces
    6. (Geltung, Rechtsgültigkeit):
    in Kraft sein be in force, be effective;
    in Kraft setzen put into force, enforce;
    in Kraft treten come into effect ( oder force), become effective;
    außer Kraft setzen annul; (Gesetz) repeal; (Vertrag etc) cancel; (Regel) auch overrule; zeitweilig: suspend;
    außer Kraft sein/treten no longer be in force/cease to be in force, expire
    * * *
    die; Kraft, Kräfte

    geistige/schöpferische Kräfte — mental/creative powers

    wieder bei Kräften sein — have [got] one's strength back

    aus eigener Kraftby oneself or one's own efforts

    ich werde tun, was in meinen Kräften steht — I shall do everything [with]in my power

    mit vereinten Kräften sollte es gelingenif we join forces or combine our efforts we should succeed

    nach [besten] Kräften — to the best of one's ability

    2) (Wirksamkeit) power
    3) (ArbeitsKraft) employee; (in einer Fabrik) employee; worker

    Kräfte — employees/workers; personnel pl.; (Angestellte auch) staff pl.

    4) Plural (Gruppe) forces
    5) (Physik) force

    die treibende Kraft(fig.) the driving force

    6) (Seemannsspr.)

    volle/halbe Kraft voraus! — full/half speed ahead!

    7) in

    außer Kraft setzenrepeal < law>; countermand < order>

    außer Kraft sein/treten — no longer be/cease to be in force

    in Kraft treten/sein/bleiben — come into/be in/remain in force

    * * *
    ¨-e f.
    force n.
    power n.
    puissance n.
    strength n.
    verdure n.
    vigor n.
    vis (mechanics) n.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Kraft

  • 74 richten

    I v/t
    1. (lenken, wenden) direct, turn ( auf + Akk towards); (Gewehr, Kamera etc.) point (at); (Augen) turn (towards); (Aufmerksamkeit) direct, turn (to); (Brief, Frage etc.) address (an + Akk to); (Kritik) direct, level (at); eine Frage an jemanden / den Sprecher richten put a question to s.o. / address a question to the speaker; das war gegen dich gerichtet that was aimed at ( oder intended for, meant for) you; alle Blicke richteten sich auf... (Akk) all eyes turned to look at... ( oder in the direction of...); gerichtet auf (+ Akk) MIL., Rakete: targeted on
    2. Dial. (zurechtmachen) (Bett) make; (Zimmer) tidy up; (Haare) do; (vorbereiten, zubereiten) get s.th. ready, prepare; (Tisch) lay the table; (ausbessern) repair, fix; (in Ordnung bringen) see to; er wird’s schon richten umg. he’ll fix it
    3. (einstellen) adjust; (Uhr) set ( nach by)
    4. (gerade biegen) straighten, flatten; MED. (Knochenbruch etc.) set; TECH. (Bleche) level; sich (Dat) die Zähne richten lassen have one’s teeth straightened
    5. (urteilen) judge; JUR. auch pass sentence on
    II v/refl
    1. sich richten nach (Regeln, Wünschen) comply with; (abhängen von) depend on; (sich orientieren an) take one’s cue from; (nach einem Vorbild) follow s.o.’s example; Sache: be model(l)ed after ( oder on); sich nach der Mode richten follow the fashion; sich nach den Vorschriften richten observe the regulations; nach der Uhr kannst du dich nicht richten you can’t go by that clock; das richtet sich ( ganz) nach dem Wetter etc. that depends (entirely) on the weather etc.; ich richte mich ( ganz) nach Ihnen whatever suits you best; warum müssen sich alle nach ihr richten? why does everybody have to fit in with her ( oder what she wants)?
    2. (wenden) sich richten an (+ Akk) oder gegen be directed ( oder aimed) at; mein Verdacht richtet sich gegen ihn I suspect him
    3. sich selbst richten euph. take one’s own life
    III v/i judge ( über jemanden s.o.), pass judg(e)ment (on s.o.); milde / streng richten be mild / harsh in one’s judgement; richtet nicht, auf dass ihr nicht gerichtet werdet! BIBL. judge not that ye be not judged!
    * * *
    (adressieren) to address;
    (reparieren) to fix;
    (urteilen) to judge;
    (zielen) to point; to direct; to rivet
    * * *
    rịch|ten ['rɪçtn]
    1. vt
    1) (= lenken) to direct (
    auf +acc towards), to point ( auf +acc at, towards); Augen, Blicke, Aufmerksamkeit, Kamera to direct, to turn ( auf +acc towards), to focus ( auf +acc on); Pläne, Wünsche, Tun to direct ( auf +acc towards)

    den Kurs nach Norden/Osten etc richten —

    die Augen gen Himmel richten (liter) richt euch! (Mil) (Sch)to raise or lift one's eyes heavenwards (liter) or to heaven (liter) right dress! get in a straight line!

    See:
    2)

    (= ausrichten) etw nach jdm/etw richten — to suit or fit sth to sb/sth; Lebensstil, Verhalten to orientate sth to sb/sth

    3) (= adressieren) Briefe, Anfragen to address, to send (
    an +acc to); Bitten, Forderungen, Gesuch to address, to make ( an +acc to); Kritik, Vorwurf to level, to direct, to aim (gegen at, against)
    4) (esp S Ger) (= zurechtmachen) to prepare, to get ready; Essen auch to get, to fix; (= in Ordnung bringen) to do, to fix; (= reparieren) to fix; Haare to do; Tisch to lay (Brit), to set; Betten to make, to do

    jdm ein Bad richten (form, S Ger)to draw (form) or run a bath for sb

    5) (= einstellen) to set; (S Ger = gerade biegen) to straighten (out), to bend straight
    6)

    (Aus: = erreichen) richten — to do nicely for oneself (inf)

    7) (old = hinrichten) to execute, to put to death
    2. vr
    1) (= sich hinwenden) to focus, to be focussed (
    auf +acc on), to be directed ( auf +acc towards); (Gedanken, Augen, Blick) to turn, to be directed ( auf +acc towards); (Hoffnungen) to be focussed ( auf +acc on); (Protest, Kritik) to be directed or aimed (gegen at)
    2) (= sich wenden) to consult (an jdn sb); (Maßnahme, Vorwurf etc) to be directed or aimed (gegen at)
    3) (= sich anpassen) to follow (nach jdm/etw sb/sth)

    mir ist es egal, ob wir früher oder später gehen, ich richte mich nach dir — I don't mind if we go earlier or later, I'll fit in with you or I'll do what you do

    wir richten uns ganz nach unseren Kundenwe are guided entirely by our customers' wishes

    sich nach den Sternen/der Wettervorhersage/dem, was er behauptet, richten — to go by the stars/the weather forecast/what he maintains

    und richte dich ( gefälligst) danach! (inf)(kindly) do as you're told

    4) (= abhängen von) to depend (nach on)
    5) (esp S Ger = sich zurechtmachen) to get ready
    3. vi
    liter = urteilen) to judge (über jdn sb), to pass judgement ( über +acc on)

    milde/streng richten — to be mild/harsh in one's judgement

    richtet nicht, auf dass ihr nicht gerichtet werdet! (Bibl)judge not, that ye be not judged (Bibl)

    * * *
    1) (to speak or write to: I shall address my remarks to you only.) address
    2) (to direct (attention, a look etc) at: She fixed all her attention on me.) fix
    3) ((usually with at) to aim (a gun etc): He levelled his pistol at the target.) level
    4) (to put (broken bones) into the correct position for healing: They set his broken arm.) set
    5) (to direct (over or towards something): The firemen played their hoses over the burning house.) play
    6) (to aim in a particular direction: He pointed the gun at her.) point
    7) (to point or aim (a gun, telescope etc) in a particular direction: He trained the gun on/at the soldiers.) train
    * * *
    rich·ten
    [ˈrɪçtn̩]
    I. vt
    etw irgendwohin \richten to point sth somewhere; Strahl a. to direct sth somewhere; Waffe, Kamera a. to train sth somewhere
    den Blick zu Boden \richten to look down; (aus Demut, Scham) to lower one's eyes
    den Blick in die Ferne \richten to look into the distance
    den Kurs nach Osten \richten to steer an easterly course
    die Waffe gegen sich akk selbst \richten to turn the weapon on oneself
    etw auf jdn/etw \richten to point sth at sb/sth; Strahl a. to direct sth towards [or at] sb/sth; Waffe, Kamera a. to train sth on sb/sth
    die Augen [o den Blick] auf jdn \richten to look directly at sb, to turn one's eyes to sb
    den Blick auf etw akk \richten to [have a] look at sth; (beobachten) to observe sth
    er hat all sein Tun auf dieses Ziel gerichtet everything he did served to achieve this object
    unsre Verbesserungen sind auf die Verkaufsleistung gerichtet our improvements affect sales performance only
    ein kommunistisch gerichteter Gedanke a thought based on [or aligned along] communist teachings
    seine Aufmerksamkeit auf etw akk \richten to turn one's attention to sth
    seine ganze Aufmerksamkeit auf etw akk \richten to give sth one's full attention
    all sein Bemühen auf etw akk \richten to direct all one's efforts towards sth
    seine Wut gegen jdn \richten to vent one's anger on sb
    etw nach jdm/etw \richten to arrange sth to suit sb/sth
    etw an jdn/etw \richten to address sth to sb/sth; Kritik to direct [or level] sth at sb; (zusenden a.) to send sth to sb/sth [or sb/sth sth]
    eine Bitte/Frage an jdn \richten to put a request/question to sb
    die Frage ist an Sie gerichtet the question is meant for you
    ein Gesuch an jdn \richten to petition sb
    eine Mahnung an jdn \richten to give/send sb a warning
    das Wort an jdn \richten to address sb
    etw \richten to straighten sth; (ebnen) to level sth
    Blech \richten to flatten sheet metal
    eine Delle \richten to dress [or sep true up] a dent
    einen Knochenbruch \richten to set a fracture
    Lager/Räder \richten to centre BRIT [or AM center] bearings/wheels
    etw \richten to align sth; eine Antenne \richten to direct [or align] an aerial
    eine Kanone \richten to aim a cannon
    etw \richten to build [or sep put up] sth
    8. ESP SÜDD, ÖSTERR, SCHWEIZ (ordnen)
    sich/jdm die Haare \richten to do one's/sb's hair
    sich/jdm die Krawatte \richten to adjust [or straighten] one's/sb's tie
    9. ESP SÜDD, ÖSTERR, SCHWEIZ (reparieren)
    [jdm] etw \richten to fix [or repair] [or mend] sth [for sb]
    10. ESP SÜDD, ÖSTERR, SCHWEIZ (bereiten)
    [jdm] etw \richten to prepare sth [or get sth ready] [for sb]
    jdm ein Bad \richten to run a bath for sb
    die Betten \richten to make the beds
    das Frühstück \richten to make [or get] breakfast
    den Tisch \richten to lay the table
    11. ESP SÜDD, ÖSTERR, SCHWEIZ (sorgen)
    etw \richten to arrange sth
    das kann ich schon \richten I can arrange it
    das lässt sich schon \richten that should be no problem
    jdn \richten to judge sb, to pass judg[e]ment on sb
    jdn \richten to condemn sb
    14. (veraltend geh: exekutieren)
    jdn \richten to execute sb
    II. vr
    sich akk in die Höhe \richten to stand [or get] up
    sich akk irgendwohin \richten to point somewhere; Strahlen a. to be directed somewhere; Augen to look somewhere
    die Strahlen richteten sich auf einen Punkt the beams converged to a point
    ihr ganzer Hass richtete sich auf ihn he was the object of all her hatred
    sein ganzes Denken richtet sich auf eine Lösung his single thought is to find a solution
    sich akk gegen jdn/etw \richten to criticize [or BRIT a. -ise] sb/sth
    in seiner Rede richtet er sich gegen die Partei he spoke derogatorily of the party, his speech criticized the party
    sich akk an jdn/etw \richten to be directed at sb/sth; Kritik, Vorwurf a. to be aimed [or levelled [or AM -l-]] at sb/sth
    sich akk gegen jdn/etw \richten to be directed at [or against] sb/sth
    6. (fragen)
    sich akk an jdn/etw \richten to ask sb/sth; (sich wenden a.) to turn to sb/sth; (Rat holen a.) to consult sb/sth
    sich akk nach jdm/etw \richten to comply with sb/sth
    wir richten uns ganz nach Ihnen we'll fit in with you
    sich akk nach den Vorschriften \richten to follow [or keep to] the rules
    sich akk nach jds Wünschen \richten to fit in with sb's wishes
    sich akk nach etw dat \richten to depend on sth, to be dependent on sth; Quantität a. to be based on sth
    sich akk danach \richten, ob/wie viel... to depend on whether/how much...
    9. MIL
    richt euch! right dress!
    10. (veraltend geh: töten)
    sich akk selbst \richten to die by one's own hand
    III. vi
    1. (urteilen) to pass judg[e]ment
    gerecht/hart \richten to be an impartial/a harsh judge
    2. (geh: verurteilen)
    über jdn/in etw dat \richten to judge sb/sth
    * * *
    1.
    1) direct < gaze> (auf + Akk. at, towards); turn <eyes, gaze> (auf + Akk. towards); point <torch, telescope, gun> (auf + Akk. at); aim, train <gun, missile, telescope, searchlight> (auf + Akk. on); (fig.) direct <activity, attention> (auf + Akk. towards); address < letter, remarks, words> (an + Akk. to); direct, level < criticism> (an + Akk. at); send <letter of thanks, message of greeting> (an + Akk. to)
    2) (geraderichten) straighten; set < fracture>
    3) (einstellen) aim <cannon, missile>; direct < aerial>
    4) (aburteilen) judge; (verurteilen) condemn; s. auch zugrunde 1)
    2.

    sich auf jemanden/etwas richten — (auch fig.) be directed towards somebody/something

    2)

    sich an jemanden/etwas richten — < person> turn on somebody/something; <appeal, explanation> be directed at somebody/something

    sich gegen jemanden/etwas richten — < person> criticize somebody/something; <criticism, accusations, etc.> be aimed or levelled or directed at somebody/something

    sich nach jemandem/jemandes Wünschen richten — fit in with somebody/somebody's wishes

    sich nach jemandem/etwas richten — depend on somebody/something

    3.
    intransitives Verb (urteilen) judge; pass judgement

    über jemanden richten — judge somebody; pass judgement on somebody; (zu Gericht sitzen) sit in judgement over somebody

    * * *
    A. v/t
    1. (lenken, wenden) direct, turn (
    auf +akk towards); (Gewehr, Kamera etc) point (at); (Augen) turn (towards); (Aufmerksamkeit) direct, turn (to); (Brief, Frage etc) address (
    an +akk to); (Kritik) direct, level (at);
    eine Frage an jemanden/den Sprecher richten put a question to sb/address a question to the speaker;
    das war gegen dich gerichtet that was aimed at ( oder intended for, meant for) you;
    alle Blicke richteten sich auf … (akk) all eyes turned to look at … ( oder in the direction of …);
    gerichtet auf (+akk) MIL, Rakete: targeted on
    2. dial (zurechtmachen) (Bett) make; (Zimmer) tidy up; (Haare) do; (vorbereiten, zubereiten) get sth ready, prepare; (Tisch) lay the table; (ausbessern) repair, fix; (in Ordnung bringen) see to;
    er wird’s schon richten umg he’ll fix it
    3. (einstellen) adjust; (Uhr) set (
    nach by)
    4. (gerade biegen) straighten, flatten; MED (Knochenbruch etc) set; TECH (Bleche) level;
    sich (dat)
    die Zähne richten lassen have one’s teeth straightened
    5. (urteilen) judge; JUR auch pass sentence on
    B. v/r
    1.
    sich richten nach (Regeln, Wünschen) comply with; (abhängen von) depend on; (sich orientieren an) take one’s cue from; (nach einem Vorbild) follow sb’s example; Sache: be model(l)ed after ( oder on);
    sich nach der Mode richten follow the fashion;
    sich nach den Vorschriften richten observe the regulations;
    nach der Uhr kannst du dich nicht richten you can’t go by that clock;
    das richtet sich (ganz) nach dem Wetter etc that depends (entirely) on the weather etc;
    ich richte mich (ganz) nach Ihnen whatever suits you best;
    warum müssen sich alle nach ihr richten? why does everybody have to fit in with her ( oder what she wants)?
    sich richten an (+akk) oder
    gegen be directed ( oder aimed) at;
    3.
    sich selbst richten euph take one’s own life
    C. v/i judge (
    über jemanden sb), pass judg(e)ment (on sb);
    milde/streng richten be mild/harsh in one’s judgement;
    richtet nicht, auf dass ihr nicht gerichtet werdet! BIBEL judge not that ye be not judged!
    * * *
    1.
    1) direct < gaze> (auf + Akk. at, towards); turn <eyes, gaze> (auf + Akk. towards); point <torch, telescope, gun> (auf + Akk. at); aim, train <gun, missile, telescope, searchlight> (auf + Akk. on); (fig.) direct <activity, attention> (auf + Akk. towards); address <letter, remarks, words> (an + Akk. to); direct, level < criticism> (an + Akk. at); send <letter of thanks, message of greeting> (an + Akk. to)
    2) (geraderichten) straighten; set < fracture>
    3) (einstellen) aim <cannon, missile>; direct < aerial>
    4) (aburteilen) judge; (verurteilen) condemn; s. auch zugrunde 1)
    2.

    sich auf jemanden/etwas richten — (auch fig.) be directed towards somebody/something

    2)

    sich an jemanden/etwas richten — < person> turn on somebody/something; <appeal, explanation> be directed at somebody/something

    sich gegen jemanden/etwas richten — < person> criticize somebody/something; <criticism, accusations, etc.> be aimed or levelled or directed at somebody/something

    sich nach jemandem/jemandes Wünschen richten — fit in with somebody/somebody's wishes

    sich nach jemandem/etwas richten — depend on somebody/something

    3.
    intransitives Verb (urteilen) judge; pass judgement

    über jemanden richten — judge somebody; pass judgement on somebody; (zu Gericht sitzen) sit in judgement over somebody

    * * *
    (nach, auf) v.
    to direct (to, at) v. v.
    to judge (by) v.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > richten

  • 75 cerca2

    = near, nearby [near-by], near at hand, close at hand, handy, nigh, within walking distance, in the vicinity, within easy walking distance, within an easy walk.
    Ex. You can restrict the neighborhood even more by using NEAR, which searches for two (or more) terms, in any order, in the same sentence.
    Ex. An earlier leakage had prompted library staff to make arrangements with a nearby firm of book conservation specialists in the event of a further disaster.
    Ex. The firm does not have to be near at hand, but there must be plenty of cooperation and consultation as to selection of stock.
    Ex. Material needed daily should be stored close at hand.
    Ex. The desire soon dies away and the book is forgotten if copies are not handy = El deseo pronto muere y el libro se olvida si no hay ejemplares a mano.
    Ex. The article 'The end is nigh' predicts that the information technology crisis is likely to be worse than predicted because of the need to organize replacement of systems affected by the millennium problem = El artículo "El fin esta cerca' predice que la crisis de la tecnología de la información es probable que sea pero de lo previsto debido a la necesidad de organizar la sustitución de los sistemas afectados por el problema del milenio.
    Ex. The pilot phase focused on the students at schools within walking distance of the Central Library.
    Ex. In general while on desk duty the librarian must be aware of what is happening in the vicinity and notice who is coming and going.
    Ex. For those who wish to make their own arrangements for accommodation, there are many hotels within easy walking distance.
    Ex. A great neighborhood has stores and shops that satisfy everyday needs within an easy walk from home.
    ----
    * al examinar Algo de cerca = on closer examination, on closer inspection.
    * cerca de = close to, near [nearer -comp., nearest -sup.], in the vicinity of, in close proximity to, around, a heartbeat away from, in sight of, in the proximity of.
    * cerca de + Fecha/Número = circa + Fecha/Número [ca o c, -abrev.].
    * cerca + Posesivo = at + Posesivo + elbow.
    * cerca uno del otro = in close proximity.
    * conducir demasiado cerca de otro = tailgate.
    * controlado de cerca = closely monitored.
    * de cerca = at close range, at close quarters.
    * demasiado cerca = too close for comfort.
    * estar cerca = be at hand, be around.
    * estar cerca de = be close to.
    * estar muy cerca de = be one step away from, be steps away from, come + very close to.
    * lo suficientemente cerca = within range.
    * lo suficientemente cerca como para oír = within earshot of.
    * más cerca de = more nearly.
    * mirada de cerca = close look.
    * mirada más de cerca = closer look.
    * mucho más cerca = far closer.
    * muy cerca = close-by.
    * muy de cerca = not far behind.
    * peligrosamente cerca = too close for comfort.
    * seguido de cerca = closely followed, closely monitored.
    * seguir de cerca = monitor, stay in + control, keep + track of.
    * ver la muerte de cerca = have + brushes with death.
    * vigilado de cerca = under close guard.
    * vigilar Algo muy de cerca = keep + a watchful eye.
    * visión de cerca = ringside view, ringside seat.
    * vivir cerca = live + locally.

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  • 76 procul

    prŏcul, adv. [procello, to drive away], in the distance, at a distance, a great way off, far, afar off, from afar.
    I.
    Lit., of place (class.; cf.: longe, eminus); constr. absol.; with adv. of place; with ab and abl. (not in Cic., Cæs., or Sall.); with abl. alone:

    cuja vox sonat procul?

    Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 18:

    sequi procul,

    id. Poen. 3, 3, 6:

    non jam procul, sed hic praesentes sua templa dii defendunt,

    Cic. Cat. 2, 13. 29:

    ubi turrim constitui procul viderunt,

    Caes. B. G. 2, 30:

    jubet, ut procul tela coniciant, neu propius accedant,

    id. ib. 5, 34:

    procul attendere,

    Cic. de Or. 2, 36, 153:

    procul e fluctu Trinacria,

    Verg. A. 3, 554:

    est procul in pelago saxum,

    id. ib. 5, 124:

    procul et e longinquo,

    Plin. 27, 3, 2, § 9:

    omnibus arbitris procul amotis,

    Sall. C. 20, 1:

    procul o, procul este, profani,

    keep aloof! Verg. A. 6, 258:

    cui procul astanti, Pettalus irridens dixit,

    Ov. M. 5, 114; cf.:

    adstans non procul,

    App. M. 7, p. 183, 14.—With other particles of place, as hinc, inde, alicunde, longe, etc.:

    procul hinc stans,

    at a distance from this place, Ter. Hec. 4, 3, 1; Plaut. Truc. 4, 1, 11:

    istic procul,

    id. Mil. 4, 4, 33:

    istinc procul,

    id. Rud. 4, 4, 104:

    procul inde,

    Ov. Am. 3, 14, 18:

    procul alicunde,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 20, § 48:

    procul longe,

    Plaut. Curc. 2, 2, 10.— With a or ab, far from, far away from (class.):

    procul a terrā abripi,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 36, 145:

    esse procul a conspectu,

    far out of sight, id. Agr. 2, 32, 87:

    a castris,

    Caes. B. G. 5, 17:

    a portā,

    Liv. 1, 12, 8:

    ab Ariciā,

    id. 2, 26, 5:

    ab hoste,

    id. 7, 37, 6:

    a domo,

    id. 4, 18, 1; 5, 4, 11:

    a patriā,

    id. 23, 29, 7; Verg. E. 10, 46:

    a mari,

    Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 227:

    a Pado,

    id. 3, 17, 21, § 124:

    a litore,

    Quint. 12, prooem. §

    2: ab ore,

    id. 11, 3, 96:

    a fratre,

    Plin. Ep. 5, 9, 3:

    a mari,

    Sen. Q. N. 6, 7 fin. —With simple abl., far from, far away from: patriā procul, Enn. ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 6, 1 (Trag. v. 295 Vahl.):

    urbe,

    Ov. P. 1, 5, 73:

    ripā Tiberis,

    Liv. 2, 13, 6:

    oppido,

    id. 3, 22, 4:

    moenibus,

    id. 4, 10, 5:

    Nomento,

    id. 4, 22, 2:

    mari,

    Liv. 38, 16, 15:

    haud procul castris,

    Tac. H. 4, 22:

    Teutoburgiensi Saltu,

    id. A. 1, 60:

    regno,

    id. ib. 2, 67:

    non procul Euripidis poëtae sepulcro,

    Plin. 31, 2, 19, § 28:

    urbe Romā,

    id. 2, 94, 96, § 209:

    oppido,

    id. 3, 3, 4, § 21.—
    II.
    Trop., far, distant, remote; constr, with ab, the abl., or absol.:

    conscia mihi sum a me culpam hanc esse procul,

    Ter. Ad. 3, 2, 50:

    procul ab omni metu,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 14, 41:

    viri, qui sunt procul ab aetatis hujus memoriā,

    id. Rep. 1, 1, 1:

    caelestia procul sunt a nostrā cognitione,

    id. Ac. 1, 4, 15:

    res procul ab ostentatione positae,

    Quint. 1, prooem. §

    4: quis tam procul a litteris, quin sic incipiat,

    so unacquainted with letters, so unlettered, id. 7, 1, 46; 8, 3, 23:

    ab odio, ab irā,

    id. 6, 2, 14:

    a sapiente,

    Sen. Ira, 1, 6, 4:

    ab omni negotio,

    id. Brev. Vit. 11, 2:

    a praesenti modestiā,

    Tac. A. 12, 6.— With simple abl.:

    liber invidiā, procul contentionibus,

    Quint. 12, 11, 7:

    eam (plebem) procul urbe haberi,

    out of public affairs, Liv. 4, 58, 12:

    procul negotiis,

    Hor. Epod. 2, 1:

    ambitione,

    id. S. 1, 6, 52:

    voluptatibus habere aliquem,

    to keep one aloof from enjoyments, deprive him of them, Tac. A. 4, 62:

    tali more,

    id. ib. 4, 28:

    procul dubio,

    without doubt, Quint. 1, 5, 14; 9, 1, 27; Plin. 9, 61, 87, § 184; Liv. 39, 40, 10; Suet. Ner. 3;

    for which: dubio procul,

    Flor. 2, 6; Lucr. 1, 812:

    procul vero est,

    far from the truth, untrue, Col. 1 praef. fin.—Absol.:

    assentatio vitiorum adjutrix procul amoveatur,

    Cic. Lael. 24, 89:

    homines superbissimi procul errant,

    err widely, greatly, Sall. J. 85, 38:

    pauperies immunda domus procul absit, i.e. pauperies domestica procul absit,

    Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 199:

    durabisne procul dominoque legere superstes, Thebai?

    Stat. Th. 12, 810: non procul est quin, it does not want much of, etc., almost, nearly, Sil. 2, 335:

    haud procul est quin Romam agnosceret,

    Liv. 1, 5, 6.—
    B.
    In partic. (post-Aug. and very rare), in estimation of value, far removed from, much inferior to: aes suo colore pretiosum, procul a Corinthio (est), is far beneath or inferior to, much poorer than, Plin. 34, 2, 3, § 8.

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  • 77 réservé

    réserve [ʀezεʀv]
    feminine noun
       a. ( = provision) reserve
    avoir/garder qch en réserve to have/keep sth in reserve ; [commerçant] to have/keep sth in stock
       b. ( = restriction) reservation
    faire or émettre des réserves sur qch to have reservations about sth
    sans réserve [soutien, admiration, consentement] unreserved ; [approuver, accepter] unreservedly
       c. ( = prudence, discrétion) reserve
    être/se tenir sur la réserve to be/remain very reserved
    devoir or obligation de réserve duty to preserve secrecy
    officiers/armée de réserve reserve officers/army
       e. (Sport) équipe/joueur de réserve reserve team/player
       f. [de nature, animaux] reserve ; [d'Indiens] reservation
    réserve de pêche/chasse fishing/hunting preserve
    réserve ornithologique or d'oiseaux bird sanctuary
       g. [de bibliothèque, musée] reserve collection
       h. ( = entrepôt) storehouse ; ( = pièce) storeroom ; (d'un magasin) stockroom
    * * *
    ʀezɛʀv
    1) ( restriction) reservation (au sujet de, à l'égard de about)

    sous réserve de disponibilité/de changement — subject to availability/alteration

    ‘sous (toute) réserve’ — ( dans un programme) ‘to be confirmed’

    2) ( provision) stock

    réserves de charbon/pétrole — coal/oil reserves

    4) ( discrétion) reserve
    5) ( local de stockage) stockroom
    6) ( section de bibliothèque) stacks (pl); ( section de musée) storerooms (pl)
    7) ( territoire protégé) reserve

    réserve naturelle/de chasse/de pêche — nature/game/fishing reserve

    8) ( territoire alloué) reservation
    * * *
    ʀezɛʀv nf
    1) (= retenue) reserve
    2) (= restriction) reservation

    sans réserve [approuver, soutenir] — unreservedly, [soutien, accord] unreserved

    3) (= provision) reserve, stock

    une réserve de — a reserve of, a stock of

    On a une réserve de riz, au cas où. — We've got some rice in reserve, just in case.

    réserve de carburant — fuel reserves, fuel stocks

    faire des réserves de — to stock up on, to lay in a stock of

    4) (= entrepôt, pièce) storeroom
    5) [pêche, chasse] preserve
    6) (indiennes) reservation
    * * *
    1 ( restriction) reservation (au sujet de, à l'égard de about); le projet de loi suscite les plus grandes réserves dans l'opposition the opposition have very strong reservations about the bill; adhésion sans réserve unreserved support; je me range sans réserve de votre côté you have my unreserved support; se confier à qn sans réserve to confide in sb totally; avec une réserve importante with one important condition; sous réserve d'approbation du budget/de disponibilité/de changement subject to budget approval/availability/alteration; sous réserve que tout aille bien provided everything goes well; ‘sous (toute) réserve’ ( dans un programme) ‘to be confirmed’; je vous le dis sous toutes réserves I'm telling you for what it's worth; nouvelle donnée sous toutes réserves unconfirmed news (report);
    2 ( provision) stock; des réserves de sucre/d'eau a stock of sugar/water; faire des réserves de farine/sucre to lay in a stock of flour/sugar; réserve(s) d'argent money in reserve; j'ai toujours une bonne bouteille en réserve I always have a good bottle put by; il a toujours une ou deux histoires drôles en réserve he's always got some funny story up his sleeve; il peut sauter un repas, il a des réserves he can afford to miss a meal;
    3 Écol, Écon réserves de charbon/pétrole coal/oil reserves; réserves d'eau water supply (sg); réserves prouvées/probables/possibles proved/indicated/inferred reserve;
    4 ( discrétion) reserve; sortir de sa réserve to drop one's reserve; manquer de réserve to be too outspoken; garder une certaine réserve avec qn to keep a certain distance with sb; devoir or obligation de réserve Admin, Mil duty of confidentiality; manquement à l'obligation de réserve breach of confidentiality;
    5 ( local de stockage) stockroom;
    6 ( section de bibliothèque) stacks (pl); ( section de musée) storerooms (pl);
    7 ( territoire protégé) reserve; réserve naturelle/de chasse/de pêche nature/game/fishing reserve; réserve ornithologique bird sanctuary;
    8 ( territoire alloué) reservation; réserve indienne Indian reservation;
    9 Mil ( réservistes) la réserve the reserves (pl); armée/officier de réserve reserve army/officer;
    10 Art, Imprim blank; laisser/garder en réserve to leave/to keep blank.
    réserve alcaline alkali reserve; réserve légale Compta legal reserve; Jur portion of inheritance that cannot be witheld from legal heir; réserve de puissance power reserve; réserve statutaire statutory reserve; réserves en devises currency reserves; réserves métalliques bullion reserves; réserves monétaires monetary reserves; réserves nutritives nutritional reserves; réserves récupérables exploitable reserves.
    ( féminin réservée) [rezɛrve] adjectif
    1. [non public]
    ‘chasse réservée’ private hunting
    cuvée réservée reserved vintage, vintage cuvée
    2. [retenu] reserved, booked (UK)
    ‘réservé’ ‘reserved’
    3. [distant] reserved

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  • 78 избегать

    1) General subject: abscond (тюрьмы, суда), avoid, avoid (кого-л.), be shy of (чего-либо), bilk, cheat, dodge (от удара), elude, escape, evade, fence off, fight shy, flee, funk, get out (делать что-либо), give a wide berth, give a wide berth to (кого-либо, что-либо), give the goby (от чего-либо), guard, have no truck with (кого-л.), jink, keep clear of (кого-либо), keep out of, keep out of somebody's way (кого-либо), obviate, put by (разговора), run away (чего-л.), sheer away (чего-л.), sheer away from (чего-л., кого-л.), shrink, shrink away (from) (чего-л.), shun, shun society (кого-л.), shy (чего-л.), stand aback, stand aback from, steer clear, to shum (one's) society (кого-л.), give a wide berth to, give the go-by, hold oneself aback from, shy away, get out (делать что-л.), keep distance from (кого-л.), give a miss (чего-л.), give the slinky (кого-л.), fight shy of (кого-л., чего-л.), steer clear of (кого-л., чего-л.), sheer away from (кого-л.; что-л.), avoid (сторониться, кого-л.), keep out of (чего-л.), avoid doing (чего-л., делать что-л.), (кого-л.) stay away (from), skate over, skate around, steer away from, keep a wide berth, bypass
    2) Colloquial: skirt
    3) American: pass over (кого-л.)
    4) Obsolete: evite
    5) Literal: steer clear of
    6) Latin: devito
    7) Military: preclude
    8) Engineering: avert, prevent
    9) Bookish: eschew
    10) Mathematics: ( избежать, избегнуть) avoid, circumvent
    11) Australian slang: dingo
    12) Diplomatic term: evade (расспросов), shrink (чего-л.), shrug off, shy away (чего-л.)
    13) Jargon: cut, duck, give( someone) a miss, hook it
    14) Oil: by-pass
    15) Business: waive
    16) Makarov: shun (smb.'s) society (кого-л.), steer clear of (smb., smth.) (кого-л., чего-л.), cop out, fence out, fight shy of (кого-л.), give a wide berth to (кого-л. или что-л.), fight shy of (кого-л. чего-л.)
    17) Security: avoid ( случайно), prevent (намеренно)
    18) Phraseological unit: chicken out

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  • 79 сторона

    ж
    1) направление direction, side, way

    в сто́рону Ло́ндона — in the direction of/towards London

    находи́ться с ле́вой/пра́вой стороны́ от чего-л — to be (situated) on the left/right (side) of sth

    появи́ться с ле́вой/пра́вой стороны́ чего-л — to appear from the left/right (side) of sth

    сиде́ть/стоя́ть с ле́вой/с пра́вой стороны́ от кого-л — to sit/to stand on sb's left/right

    со стороны́ реки́ — from the direction of the river

    подъе́хать с ле́вой стороны́ — to come/to arrive from the left (side)

    со всех сторо́н — on every side, on all sides

    идти́ в ту сто́рону — to go in that direction, to go that way

    смотре́ть по сторона́м — to look about, зевать to gape

    отойти́ в сто́рону — to step aside, не мешать to get out of the/ sb's way

    ка́мни лете́ли во все сто́роны — stones were flying about in every direction

    в како́й стороне́ отсю́да музе́й? — which way is the museum from here?

    на чужо́й стороне́ — in foreign parts

    в да́льней стороне́ — in a faraway place/land, far way

    3) пространство по бокам, краям чего-л side; перен aspect

    со́лнечная сторона́ — the sunny side

    на друго́й стороне́ у́лицы — on the other/opposite side of the street, across the street

    по о́бе сто́роны чего-лon either side of sth, on both sides of sth

    рассмотре́ть что-л со всех сторо́н перенto consider sth from all aspects

    си́льная/сла́бая сторона́ кого/чего-л — strong/weak point/aspect of sb/sth

    с одно́й стороны́... с друго́й стороны́ — on the one hand... on the other hand

    обходи́ть стороно́й — to bypass, to take a bypass; избегать to avoid, to bypass, to sidestep, to skirt around

    держа́ться в стороне́ от чего-л — to stand/to keep aside from sth, сторониться кого-л to keep/to remain aloof from sb, to avoid/to shun sb

    наблюда́ть со стороны́ — to watch from a distance/from the sidelines/without getting involved in sth

    4)

    лицева́я/изна́ночная сторона́ (ткани и т. п.) —the right/wrong side (of the cloth, etc)

    5) человек, группа лиц side, part; юр party; неопределённая группа quarter(s)

    догова́ривающиеся сто́роны — the contracting/negotiating parties

    заинтересо́ванная сторона́ — the interested party, the party concerned

    дя́дя со стороны́ ма́тери/с матери́нской стороны́ — one's uncle on one's mother's side

    со свое́й стороны́ мы… — on our part we…

    занима́ть/принима́ть чью-л сто́рону — to take sb's side, to side with sb

    вы на чьей стороне́? — whose side are you on?

    о́чень любе́зно с ва́шей стороны́ — it's very kind of you

    подде́ржка с са́мой неожи́данной стороны́ — support from a most unexpected quarter

    сове́ты сы́пались со всех/с са́мых ра́зных сторо́н — advice was coming in from all sides/from various quarters

    6) мат side

    Русско-английский учебный словарь > сторона

  • 80 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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