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  • 1 policy

    n 1. ком. політика; курс; стратегія; лінія поведінки; a політичний; 2. стр. поліс; страховий поліс
    1. напрямок діяльності, інтересів політичних партій, адміністративних рад, організацій, урядів і т. ін. для досягнення своїх цілей; 2. договір (contract) страхування, в якому фіксуються: вид покриття; умови угоди, включаючи положення про скасування; заява про виплату відшкодування тощо; календарний план, що зазначає, напр., оплату страхових внесків (premium²), період чинності угоди і т. д.
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    accounting policy облікова політика; administrative policy адміністративна політика; adjustment policy політика регулювання • політика коригування; agreed value policy страховий поліс на домовлену суму; agricultural policy аграрна політика; all loss or damage policy поліс страхування від будь-яких втрат або пошкодження; allocation policy політика розподілу ресурсів; all risk policy поліс страхування від усіх ризиків; balance-of-payments policy політика регулювання платіжного балансу; blanket policy загальний поліс; budgetary policy бюджетна політика; business policy ділова політика; commercial policy торговельна політика; company policy політика підприємства; comprehensive policy поліс всебічного страхування; construction policy страховий поліс на будівництво; contractor's all risk policy поліс страхування від усіх ризиків для підрядника; corporate policy корпоративна політика; credit policy кредитна політика; currency policy валютна політика; discount policy облікова політика • дисконтна політика; dividend policy дивідендна політика; domestic policy внутрішня політика; economic policy економічна політика; endowment policy страховий поліс на старість • страховий поліс на дожиття • страхування на випадок смерті; environmental policy політика охорони довкілля; equity-linked policy страховий поліс, прибуток з якого страхувач вкладає в різні акції; expired policy прострочений страховий поліс; export policy експортна політика; financial policy фінансова політика; fire insurance policy страховий поліс від пожежі; fiscal policy фінансова політика • бюджетна політика; floating policy генеральний поліс; foreign policy зовнішня політика; foreign exchange policy валютна політика; foreign trade policy зовнішньоторговельна політика; government policy урядова політика; government environmental policy урядова політика охорони навколишнього середовища; Green policy політика захисту довкілля; group policy групова політика; homeowner's comprehensive policy поліс комбінованого страхування домовласників; immigration policy імміграційна політика; incomes policy політика регулювання доходів; inflationary policy інфляційна політика; insurance policy страховий поліс; interest rate policy політика регулювання відсоткових ставок; internal policy внутрішня політика; international policy міжнародна політика; international monetary policy міжнародна валютна політика • міжнародна грошова політика; investment policy інвестиційна політика • страховий поліс за інвестицією; investment-linked policy страховий поліс, прибуток з якого страхувач вкладає в різні акції; lapsed policy поліс, чинність якого припинена достроково; lending policy кредитна політика; life insurance policy поліс страхування життя; management policy виконавча політика • політика керівництва; marine insurance policy поліс морського страхування; master policy груповий поліс; merchandising policy торговельна політика; mixed policy змішаний поліс; monetary policy валютна політика • грошово-кредитна політика • монетарна політика; new-for-old policy страховий поліс на заміну; open policy відкритий поліс • нетаксований поліс; open-door policy політика відкритості (рівних можливостей капіталовкладень в окремих країнах); paid-up policy оплачений поліс; participating policy поліс, який дає право участі в прибутках страхового товариства; port policy портовий страховий поліс; prices and incomes policy державна політика цін та доходів; pricing policy політика ціноутворення; procurement policy політика закупівлі; public policy громадська політика • державна політика; purchasing policy політика закупівлі; rated policy розрахований страховий поліс; replacement policy стратегія заміни (обладнання); retirement policy пенсійна політика; running policy генеральний поліс; sales policy політика збуту • політика продажу; service policy стратегія обслуговування; sinking fund policy страховий поліс за фондом сплати • страховий поліс за фондом сплати активу або пасиву • поліс амортизаційного фонду; standard policy стандартний поліс • типовий поліс; stocking policy політика створення запасів; taxation policy податкова політика; time policy поліс на термін • строковий поліс; trade policy торговельна політика; unit-linked policy страховий поліс, прибуток з якого страхувач вкладає в різні акції; unvalued policy страховий поліс без визначеної вартості; valued policy страховий поліс за встановлену суму • таксований страховий поліс; voyage policy рейсовий поліс; wagering policy страховий поліс на заставу; wages policy політика заробітної плати • політика в галузі оплати праці; wait-and-see policy вичікувальна політика
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    policy audit ревізія діяльності підприємства; policy conditions умови страхування; policy exclusion анулювання страхового полісу; policy expiration date дата закінчення терміну страхування; policy expiry date дата закінчення терміну страхування; policy free of premium поліс, в якому страхувач звільняється від сплати внесків; policy holder страхувальник • держатель страхового полісу; policy holder's capital капітал страхувальника; policy loan позика під страховий поліс; policy-making process процес здійснення політики; policy number номер страхового полісу; policy of compromise політика компромісів; policy of law правова політика; policy of low interest rates політика низьких відсоткових ставок; policy owner страхувальник • держатель страхового полісу; policy period термін страхування • термін дії страхового полісу; policy plan план діяльності; policy provisions умови страхування • умови страхового договору; policy terms умови страхування • умови страхового договору; policy tool засіб проведення політики • політичний інструмент; to amend a policy змінювати/змінити поліс; to cancel a policy скасовувати/скасувати поліс; to develop a policy опрацьовувати/опрацювати політику; to discuss a policy обговорювати/обговорити питання політики • розглядати/розглянути питання політики; to implement a policy запроваджувати/запровадити політику • здійснювати/здійснити політику; to issue a policy видавати/видати страховий поліс; to make out a policy оформляти/оформити страховий поліс; to revise a policy переглядати/переглянути політику; to support a policy підтримувати/підтримати політику; to take out a policy страхуватися/застрахуватися • одержувати/одержати страховий поліс
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    поліс < фр. police < італ. polizza — розписка, квитанція (СІС:535) pollution
    сер. забруднення; забруднення довкілля
    забруднення довкілля промисловими чи хімічними відходами, що робить його непридатним і шкідливим для життя; ♦ спостерігається посилення державного контролю за рівнем забруднення довкілля, широко застосовуються штрафні санкції аж до закриття підприємств, виробництв, арешту транспортних засобів на підставі вимог чинного удосконаленого природоохоронного законодавства; здійснюється широка урядова програма оновлення технологій, глибокої переробки сировини, інформаційного забезпечення боротьби за охорону природи, зростає екологічна поінформованість людей і поліпшується екологічна культура промисловості, як результат — на ринку з'являються продукти, більш сприятливі для довкілля (environment-friendly product)
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    airborne policy повітряне забруднення • забруднення повітря; atmospheric policy атмосферне забруднення; chemical policy хімічне забруднення; environmental policy забруднення довкілля; hazardous waste policy забруднення небезпечними відходами; industrial policy промислове забруднення; long-term policy тривале забруднення; noise policy зашумленість; sewage policy забруднення стічними водами; short-term policy короткочасне забруднення; solid waste policy забруднення відходами, що не розкладаються; traffic policy забруднення від автотранспорту; visual policy візуальне забруднення довкілля • плюндрування природи плакатами, написами (на скелях тощо); waste policy забруднення відходами; water policy забруднення води; wide-spread policy поширене забруднення
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    optimal quantity of policy оптимальний обсяг забруднення; policy abatement заходи запобігання забрудненню • боротьба із забрудненням; policy of streams забруднення стоків; policy of rivers забруднення річок; policy of the sea забруднення моря; to avoid policy уникати/уникнути забруднення; to prevent policy запобігати/запобігти забрудненню; to protect from policy оберігати/оберегти від забруднення

    The English-Ukrainian Dictionary > policy

  • 2 policy statement

    программное заявление, меморандум

    It is not known for sure why a policy statement, due in March but delayed until the summer, was not allowed to see the light of day. — Точно неизвестно, почему программное заявление, запланированное на март, а потом отложенное до лета, так и не увидело свет.

    The government issued a policy statement on the funding of long-term care. — Правительство опубликовало постановление об источниках финансирования программ долгосрочной социальной помощи нетрудоспособным лицам.

    We are pledged in this defense policy statement to try and prevent, in every way we can, the spread of nuclear weapons among the NATO powers. — Меморандум о приверженности оборонной политике обязывает нас всеми доступными средствами препятствовать распространению ядерного оружия среди стран членов НАТО.

    Англо-русский современный словарь > policy statement

  • 3 environmental policy instrument

    1. инструмент политики по охране окружающей среды

     

    инструмент политики по охране окружающей среды
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    [ http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/alphabetic?langcode=en]

    EN

    environmental policy instrument
    Technological, economical and legislative measures employed to prevent or control pollution or damage of the environment. (Source: DIZAMB)
    [http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/alphabetic?langcode=en]

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    Англо-русский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > environmental policy instrument

  • 4 doping prevention policy

    ■ Set of activities and measures intended to prevent footballers from using chemicals or other substances to boost their performance.
    ■ Aufklärungsmaßnahmen mit dem Ziel, die Spieler besser über die Gefahren und Konsequenzen der Verwendung verbotener Substanzen zu informieren und auf diese Weise vom Doping fernzuhalten.

    Englisch-deutsch wörterbuch fußball > doping prevention policy

  • 5 impedir

    v.
    1 to prevent.
    impedir a alguien hacer algo to prevent somebody from doing something
    la lesión le impedía correr the injury stopped o prevented him from running
    la nieve impidió la celebración del partido the snow prevented the match from taking place
    impedirle el paso a alguien to bar somebody's way
    si nada lo impide saldremos por la mañana all being well we'll leave in the morning
    2 to hinder, to obstruct.
    3 to impede, to obstruct, to hold up, to prevent.
    Ella impidió el accidente She impeded the accident.
    4 to handicap, to cripple, to disable.
    El accidente impidió a Ricardo The accident handicapped Richard.
    5 to prevent from, to keep from, to avert from, to deter from.
    María le impidió a Ricardo jugar Mary prevented Richard from playing.
    6 to make it impossible to, to make it difficult to.
    Esa luz impide leer That light makes it impossible to read.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ SERVIR], like link=servir servir
    1 (hacer imposible) to prevent, stop
    ■ ¿hay algo que te lo impida? is there anything stopping you?
    2 (obstaculizar) to hinder, impede
    \
    impedir el paso to block the way
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    verb
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    VT
    1) (=parar) to prevent, stop

    impedir a algn hacer algo, impedir que algn haga algo — to prevent sb (from) doing sth, stop sb doing sth

    esto no impide que... — this does not alter the fact that...

    2) (=dificultar) [con obstáculos] to impede, obstruct; [con problemas] to hinder, hamper
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    verbo transitivo
    a) ( imposibilitar) to prevent

    impedirle a alguien + inf — to prevent somebody from -ing

    b) < paso> to block
    c) ( dificultar) to hamper, hinder
    * * *
    = guard against, impede, inhibit, prevent, forestall, restrain from, foreclose, get in + the way (of), hamstring, head off, ward off, hamper, thwart.
    Ex. The system will ask you to enter the new password a second time to help guard against keying errors.
    Ex. In early 1984 we were invited to undertake a survey of the fourteen schools of librarianship and information studies in England and Wales, giving particular attention to the constraints impeding or preventing desirable change.
    Ex. Likewise, a library or consortium -- and ultimately the user -- is ill-served by a system which inhibits the realization of a rational collection policy by permitting the duplication of expensive items.
    Ex. To prevent an entry under the first name(s), these must be entered on a separate line with the subfield code 'j'.
    Ex. In order to forestall such an event, some libraries in Britain were stung into action by the publication of an Act of Parliament which totally ignored public libraries.
    Ex. 'We also need to know the kinds of questions we are legally restrained from asking'.
    Ex. The USA must act quickly before the rush of events forecloses some of the options now available for developing and managing this technology.
    Ex. At the end of the day, librarians must 'produce the goods' and prove their worth -- professionalism could get in the way.
    Ex. Instead, the proposed regulations would hamstring public access.
    Ex. And this stimulus is working in the sense that it has headed off the imminent risk of a deflationary spiral.
    Ex. The most strenuous efforts will not always ensure success, nor the boldest arm of human power ward off the stroke of misfortune.
    Ex. Unfortunately, the inclusion of abstracts in most services tends to hamper currency.
    Ex. A public library's design can go far in either reinforcing or thwarting the intimacy of reading and in determining its success -- functionally, aesthetically and financially.
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    * impedir el paso = block in.
    * impedir la entrada = keep out.
    * impedir que = keep from.
    * impedir que + Subjuntivo = prevent from + Gerundio.
    * si no lo impide el tiempo = weather permitting.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo
    a) ( imposibilitar) to prevent

    impedirle a alguien + inf — to prevent somebody from -ing

    b) < paso> to block
    c) ( dificultar) to hamper, hinder
    * * *
    = guard against, impede, inhibit, prevent, forestall, restrain from, foreclose, get in + the way (of), hamstring, head off, ward off, hamper, thwart.

    Ex: The system will ask you to enter the new password a second time to help guard against keying errors.

    Ex: In early 1984 we were invited to undertake a survey of the fourteen schools of librarianship and information studies in England and Wales, giving particular attention to the constraints impeding or preventing desirable change.
    Ex: Likewise, a library or consortium -- and ultimately the user -- is ill-served by a system which inhibits the realization of a rational collection policy by permitting the duplication of expensive items.
    Ex: To prevent an entry under the first name(s), these must be entered on a separate line with the subfield code 'j'.
    Ex: In order to forestall such an event, some libraries in Britain were stung into action by the publication of an Act of Parliament which totally ignored public libraries.
    Ex: 'We also need to know the kinds of questions we are legally restrained from asking'.
    Ex: The USA must act quickly before the rush of events forecloses some of the options now available for developing and managing this technology.
    Ex: At the end of the day, librarians must 'produce the goods' and prove their worth -- professionalism could get in the way.
    Ex: Instead, the proposed regulations would hamstring public access.
    Ex: And this stimulus is working in the sense that it has headed off the imminent risk of a deflationary spiral.
    Ex: The most strenuous efforts will not always ensure success, nor the boldest arm of human power ward off the stroke of misfortune.
    Ex: Unfortunately, the inclusion of abstracts in most services tends to hamper currency.
    Ex: A public library's design can go far in either reinforcing or thwarting the intimacy of reading and in determining its success -- functionally, aesthetically and financially.
    * impedir el paso = block in.
    * impedir la entrada = keep out.
    * impedir que = keep from.
    * impedir que + Subjuntivo = prevent from + Gerundio.
    * si no lo impide el tiempo = weather permitting.

    * * *
    vt
    1 (imposibilitar) to prevent
    no logró impedir el accidente she was unable to prevent the accident
    nos impidió el paso he wouldn't let us through, he blocked our way
    esta válvula impide el paso del gas this valve stops o blocks the flow of gas
    nadie te lo impide nobody's stopping you
    impedirle a algn + INF to prevent sb FROM -ING
    el dolor le impedía caminar the pain prevented her from walking o meant that she couldn't walk o stopped her walking
    impedir QUE + SUBJ:
    quiso impedir que nos viéramos she tried to stop us seeing each other, she tried to prevent us from seeing each other
    tenemos que impedir que ocurra otra vez we must see that it doesn't happen again, we must stop o prevent it happening again
    2 (dificultar) to hamper, hinder
    la ropa me impedía los movimientos my clothes hampered o hindered o impeded my movements
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    impedir ( conjugate impedir) verbo transitivo


    impedirle a algn hacer algo to prevent sb from doing sth;
    quiso impedir que nos viéramos she tried to stop us seeing each other
    b) ‹paso/entrada› to block


    impedir verbo transitivo
    1 (entorpecer) to impede, hinder: un coche impedía el paso a la ambulancia, a car was in the way of the ambulance
    2 (frustrar) to prevent, stop
    ' impedir' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    atravesar
    - bloquear
    - cortar
    - imposibilitar
    - inmovilizar
    - trabar
    - evitar
    - impida
    English:
    bar
    - deter
    - forestall
    - impede
    - inhibit
    - interfere
    - keep
    - occur
    - prevent
    - restrain
    - stop
    - avert
    - obscure
    - prohibit
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    1. [imposibilitar] to prevent;
    impedir a alguien hacer algo to prevent sb from doing sth;
    la lesión le impedía correr the injury stopped o prevented her from running;
    impedirle el paso a alguien to bar sb's way;
    este camión impide el paso a la calle this truck o Br lorry is blocking the street;
    la nieve impidió la celebración del partido the snow prevented the game from taking place;
    nada te impide hacerlo there's nothing to stop you doing it;
    si nada lo impide saldremos por la mañana all being well we'll leave in the morning
    2. [dificultar] to hinder, to obstruct
    * * *
    v/t prevent; ( estorbar) impede
    * * *
    impedir {54} vt
    1) : to prevent, to block
    2) : to impede, to hinder
    * * *
    1. (imposibilitar) to prevent / to stop [pt. & pp. stopped]
    2. (paso) to block

    Spanish-English dictionary > impedir

  • 6 asegurar

    v.
    1 to secure.
    María aseguró el barco en el muelle Mary secured the boat at the dock.
    Silvia aseguró su posición Silvia secured her position.
    2 to assure.
    te lo aseguro I assure you
    asegurar a alguien que… to assure somebody that…
    el gobierno aseguró que no subiría los impuestos the government promised it would not increase taxes
    ¿y quién me asegura que no me está mintiendo? and what guarantee do I have he isn't lying to me?
    Alicia asegura su declaración Alice assures her declaration.
    Ella le asegura a Ricardo su regreso She assures Richard her return.
    3 to insure (contra riesgos).
    asegurar algo a todo riesgo to take out comprehensive insurance on something
    Ricardo aseguró su auto Richard insured his automobile.
    4 to guarantee, to ensure.
    Mario asegura el pago íntegro Mario guarantees the payment in whole.
    5 to promise to, to guarantee to.
    Ricardo le aseguró cumplir con su palabra Richard promised him to keep his word.
    * * *
    1 (fijar) to secure
    2 COMERCIO to insure
    3 (garantizar) to assure, guarantee
    1 (cerciorarse) to make sure
    2 COMERCIO to insure oneself
    * * *
    verb
    1) to assure, ensure
    •
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    1. VT
    1) (=sujetar) to secure

    aseguraron los fardos con cuerdas — they fastened o secured the bundles with rope

    2) (=proteger) [+ zona, edificio] to make secure ( contra against)
    3) (=garantizar) [+ derecho] to guarantee

    eso asegura el cumplimiento de los acuerdos — that ensures o guarantees that the agreements will be fulfilled

    si quieres asegurarte el aprobado, tienes que estudiar más — if you want to be certain of passing, you'll have to study more

    es posible, pero no lo aseguro — it's possible, but I can't tell you for sure

    es verdad, se lo aseguro — it's true, take my word for it o I assure you

    4) (=declarar) to maintain

    asegura no saber nada del asunto — he maintains o affirms that he knew nothing about the matter

    5) (Com, Econ) [+ vehículo, vivienda] to insure (de, contra against) (en for)

    deberías asegurar el coche a todo riesgo — you should have your car fully insured, you should take out a comprehensive insurance policy on your car

    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) (afirmar, prometer) to assure

    le aseguro que... — I assure you that...

    b) ( garantizar) <funcionamiento/servicio> to guarantee
    2) (Com, Fin) <persona/casa> to insure

    aseguró el coche a or contra todo riesgo — she took out fully comprehensive insurance for o on the car

    3)
    a) (sujetar, fijar) <puerta/estante> to secure
    b) <edificio/entrada> to secure, make... secure
    2.
    asegurarse v pron
    1)
    a) ( cerciorarse) to make sure
    b) (garantizarse, procurarse)
    2) (Com, Fin) to insure oneself
    * * *
    = affirm, assure, ensure [insure, -USA], reassure, secure, lock in + place, brace, asseverate.
    Ex. This move has probably affirmed the future of DC.
    Ex. They have some very distinct advantages over more usual indexing techniques, and these are likely to assure citation indexes a place in the information market.
    Ex. The acquisition policy's purpose is to ensure that the library has the right sort of material for its particular needs, and in the right quantities.
    Ex. The student might be reassured to recognize that this type of fundamental analysis of a subject need be conducted only once for each subject entering the indexing system.
    Ex. They are responsible for putting together advertisements, securing proofs, procuring the matrices, electrotypes, and other duplicate plates needed for insertion in publications.
    Ex. Most card catalogues are equipped with rods which lock the cards in place and prevent unauthorized removal of entries.
    Ex. The cheeks were braced from their tops to the ceiling, to prevent the press from twisting or shifting about in use.
    Ex. Junctionville is not a 'Cadillac' town, they asseverated.
    ----
    * asegurar el éxito = ensure + success.
    * asegurar que = vouch + for the fact that.
    * asegurarse = be sure, check to make sure, make + sure, make + certain.
    * asegurarse contra = self-insure for.
    * te lo aseguro = take it from me.
    * volver a asegurar = reinsure.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) (afirmar, prometer) to assure

    le aseguro que... — I assure you that...

    b) ( garantizar) <funcionamiento/servicio> to guarantee
    2) (Com, Fin) <persona/casa> to insure

    aseguró el coche a or contra todo riesgo — she took out fully comprehensive insurance for o on the car

    3)
    a) (sujetar, fijar) <puerta/estante> to secure
    b) <edificio/entrada> to secure, make... secure
    2.
    asegurarse v pron
    1)
    a) ( cerciorarse) to make sure
    b) (garantizarse, procurarse)
    2) (Com, Fin) to insure oneself
    * * *
    = affirm, assure, ensure [insure, -USA], reassure, secure, lock in + place, brace, asseverate.

    Ex: This move has probably affirmed the future of DC.

    Ex: They have some very distinct advantages over more usual indexing techniques, and these are likely to assure citation indexes a place in the information market.
    Ex: The acquisition policy's purpose is to ensure that the library has the right sort of material for its particular needs, and in the right quantities.
    Ex: The student might be reassured to recognize that this type of fundamental analysis of a subject need be conducted only once for each subject entering the indexing system.
    Ex: They are responsible for putting together advertisements, securing proofs, procuring the matrices, electrotypes, and other duplicate plates needed for insertion in publications.
    Ex: Most card catalogues are equipped with rods which lock the cards in place and prevent unauthorized removal of entries.
    Ex: The cheeks were braced from their tops to the ceiling, to prevent the press from twisting or shifting about in use.
    Ex: Junctionville is not a 'Cadillac' town, they asseverated.
    * asegurar el éxito = ensure + success.
    * asegurar que = vouch + for the fact that.
    * asegurarse = be sure, check to make sure, make + sure, make + certain.
    * asegurarse contra = self-insure for.
    * te lo aseguro = take it from me.
    * volver a asegurar = reinsure.

    * * *
    asegurar [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 (afirmar, prometer) to assure
    le aseguro que no habrá ningún problema I assure you that there will be no problem
    me aseguró que vendría she assured me that she would come
    vale la pena, te lo aseguro it's worth it, I assure you o I promise you
    asegura no haber visto nada she maintains o says that she did not see anything
    2 (garantizar) ‹funcionamiento/servicio› to guarantee
    el gol que les aseguró el partido the goal that guaranteed them victory, the goal that sewed the game up o that ensured victory
    la herencia le aseguró una vida desahogada the inheritance guaranteed him a comfortable life
    al menos tendremos buen tiempo asegurado at least we'll be assured of o guaranteed good weather
    B ( Com, Fin) ‹persona/casa› to insure
    aseguró el coche a or contra todo riesgo she took out fully comprehensive insurance for o on the car
    C
    1 (sujetar, fijar) ‹puerta/estante› to secure
    lo aseguraron con una cuerda they secured it o made it fast with a rope
    aseguró bien el pie en la roca she got a firm foothold in the rock
    aseguró el poste colocando piedras alrededor de su base he fixed the post in position by putting stones around the base
    lo aseguraron con tornillos they held it in place o fixed it o secured it with screws
    2 ‹edificio/entrada› to secure, make … secure
    D ( Méx)
    1 (decomisar) to seize
    2 (capturar) ‹delincuente/asaltante› to capture
    A
    1 (cerciorarse) to make sure
    asegúrate de que no falta nada make sure there's nothing missing
    2
    (garantizarse, procurarse): con esas medidas se aseguraron el triunfo with those measures they guaranteed themselves victory o they made sure of victory, those measures assured them of o guaranteed them victory
    B ( Com, Fin) to insure oneself
    * * *

     

    asegurar ( conjugate asegurar) verbo transitivo
    1


    asegura no haberlo visto she maintains that she did not see
    b) ( garantizar) ‹funcionamiento/servicio› to guarantee

    2 (Com, Fin) ‹persona/casa› to insure;
    ◊ aseguró el coche a todo riesgo she took out fully comprehensive insurance for o on the car

    3
    a) (sujetar, fijar) ‹puerta/estante› to secure

    b) ‹edificio/entrada› to secure, make … secure

    asegurarse verbo pronominal
    1

    b) (garantizarse, procurarse):


    2 (Com, Fin) to insure oneself
    asegurar verbo transitivo
    1 to insure
    2 (garantizar) asegurar el éxito de una empresa, to ensure the success of a project
    te aseguro que..., I assure you that...
    3 (afianzar, sujetar) to fasten, tighten up
    ' asegurar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    base
    - garantizar
    English:
    assure
    - attach
    - ensure
    - guarantee
    - insure
    - loop
    - reassure
    - indemnify
    - nail
    - peg
    - secure
    - under
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [fijar] to secure;
    asegúralo con una cuerda secure it with a rope;
    asegura las piezas con pegamento fix the pieces together with glue;
    aseguró la puerta con el cerrojo she bolted the door (shut)
    2. [garantizar] to assure;
    te lo aseguro I assure you;
    asegurar a alguien que… to assure sb that…;
    el gobierno aseguró que no subiría los impuestos the government promised it would not increase taxes;
    ¿y quién me asegura que no me está mintiendo? and what guarantee do I have he isn't lying to me?;
    con él de coordinador el conflicto está asegurado with him as co-ordinator, conflict is assured o a certainty;
    tienes que trabajar más si quieres asegurar tu ascenso you'll have to work harder if you want to make certain you get promoted
    3. [contra riesgos] to insure ( contra against);
    asegurar algo a todo riesgo to take out comprehensive insurance on sth;
    asegurar en [cantidad] to insure sth for
    4. Méx [decomisar] to confiscate, to seize
    * * *
    v/t
    1 ( afianzar) secure
    2 ( prometer) assure;
    te lo aseguro I assure you
    3 ( garantizar) guarantee
    4 COM insure;
    asegurar algo contra incendios insure sth against fire, take out fire insurance on sth
    * * *
    1) : to assure
    2) : to secure
    3) : to insure
    * * *
    1. (afirmar) to assure
    2. (garantizar) to ensure
    3. (coche, casa, etc) to insure

    Spanish-English dictionary > asegurar

  • 7 fijar

    v.
    1 to fix.
    Ella fijó las velas She fixed the sails.
    Ella fijó su atención She fixed her attention.
    2 to set, to fix (establecer) (fecha, precio).
    fijar el domicilio to take up residence
    fijar la mirada/la atención en to fix one's gaze/attention on
    3 to determine, to define, to establish, to set.
    Ella fijó las reglas She determined the rules.
    * * *
    1 (sujetar) to fix, fasten; (puerta) to hang; (ventana) to put in
    2 (pegar) to stick
    3 (establecer) to set, determine, fix
    4 (en fotografía, química) to fix
    1 (hacerse fijo) to settle
    2 (darse cuenta) to notice
    ■ ¿te fijaste en el color de sus ojos? did you notice the colour of his eyes?
    3 (poner atención) to pay attention, watch
    \
    fijar la vista to stare (en, at)
    fijar los ojos to stare (en, at)
    fijar residencia to take up residence
    ¡fíjate! (just) fancy that!
    'Prohibido fijar carteles' "Post no bills"
    * * *
    verb
    2) establish, set up
    •
    - fijarse en
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=sujetar) (tb Fot) to fix; [con clavos] to secure; [con pegamento] to glue; [con chinchetas] to pin up; [+ pelo] to set
    2) (=centrar) [+ atención] to focus (en on)
    [+ ojos] to fix (en on)

    le contestó sin vacilar, fijando la mirada en sus ojos — she answered him directly, looking him straight in the eye

    3) (=determinar) [+ fecha, hora, precio, plazo] to fix, set; [+ límites, servicios mínimos] to establish; [+ condiciones] to lay down

    no hemos fijado aún la fecha de la boda — we haven't fixed o set a date for the wedding yet

    la organización ha fijado tres condiciones para volver a la mesa de negociaciones — the organization laid down three conditions for their return to the negotiating table

    4) [+ residencia] to take up
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) (poner, clavar) to fix
    b) <foto/dibujo> to fix
    2)
    b) <fecha/cifra/precio> to set
    c) reglamento/ley to state

    según fija el reglamento — as stated in o dictated by the regulations

    2.
    fijarse v pron

    si no te fijas en lo que haces, lo vas a hacer mal — if you don't watch o pay attention to what you're doing, you'll do it wrong

    es muy observador, se fija en todo — he's very observant, he notices everything

    b) ( darse cuenta) to notice

    ¿te has fijado en que no discuten nunca? — have you noticed that they never quarrel?

    fíjate qué terrible — it was (o would be etc) awful

    * * *
    = attach, fix, set, brace, fasten together, clamp, lay down, fasten, set forth, clip, peg.
    Ex. In fixed location notation was physically attached to certain places on the shelves and books were always filed in the same place.
    Ex. One of the functions which I have not specified is that the underlying ideology represented by the AACR aims first at fixing a location for an author and then for a work.
    Ex. If no fines are to be charged for a particular combination of borrower and material type, set the maximum fine to zero.
    Ex. The cheeks were braced from their tops to the ceiling, to prevent the press from twisting or shifting about in use.
    Ex. A book is physically a collection of sheets usually paper ones fastened together and protected by a cover which do form a genuine unit.
    Ex. The original is clamped around the left hand cylinder and a special stencil fastened around the other cylinder.
    Ex. A table is set up in a classroom, books are laid out on it by pupil 'shop assistants' supervised by a rota of teachers, and regular opening hours are laid down and adhered to.
    Ex. The original is clamped around the left hand cylinder and a special stencil fastened around the other cylinder.
    Ex. She sets forth some of the conditions which may have led to this situation in the hope that it may bring about further study.
    Ex. Plastic-covered wire or metal supports are designed to clip firmly to the shelf itself or to the base of the shelf above.
    Ex. As per estimates, the demand for armoured vehicles in the defence forces is pegged at about 2000 vehicles per year.
    ----
    * fijar fecha con antelación = predate.
    * fijar la atención = fix + Posesivo + attention.
    * fijar la mirada = fasten + glance.
    * fijar las especificaciones de algo = set + specifications.
    * fijar precios = price, fix + price.
    * fijar precios altos = price + high.
    * fijar precios bajos = price + low.
    * fijarse = set up + camp.
    * fijarse una meta = set + goal.
    * fijarse una tarea = set + Reflexivo + task.
    * fijarse un objetivo = set + goal.
    * fijar una nota en un sitio público = post.
    * fijar un color = fix + colour.
    * fijar un límite = set + cut-off point.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) (poner, clavar) to fix
    b) <foto/dibujo> to fix
    2)
    b) <fecha/cifra/precio> to set
    c) reglamento/ley to state

    según fija el reglamento — as stated in o dictated by the regulations

    2.
    fijarse v pron

    si no te fijas en lo que haces, lo vas a hacer mal — if you don't watch o pay attention to what you're doing, you'll do it wrong

    es muy observador, se fija en todo — he's very observant, he notices everything

    b) ( darse cuenta) to notice

    ¿te has fijado en que no discuten nunca? — have you noticed that they never quarrel?

    fíjate qué terrible — it was (o would be etc) awful

    * * *
    = attach, fix, set, brace, fasten together, clamp, lay down, fasten, set forth, clip, peg.

    Ex: In fixed location notation was physically attached to certain places on the shelves and books were always filed in the same place.

    Ex: One of the functions which I have not specified is that the underlying ideology represented by the AACR aims first at fixing a location for an author and then for a work.
    Ex: If no fines are to be charged for a particular combination of borrower and material type, set the maximum fine to zero.
    Ex: The cheeks were braced from their tops to the ceiling, to prevent the press from twisting or shifting about in use.
    Ex: A book is physically a collection of sheets usually paper ones fastened together and protected by a cover which do form a genuine unit.
    Ex: The original is clamped around the left hand cylinder and a special stencil fastened around the other cylinder.
    Ex: A table is set up in a classroom, books are laid out on it by pupil 'shop assistants' supervised by a rota of teachers, and regular opening hours are laid down and adhered to.
    Ex: The original is clamped around the left hand cylinder and a special stencil fastened around the other cylinder.
    Ex: She sets forth some of the conditions which may have led to this situation in the hope that it may bring about further study.
    Ex: Plastic-covered wire or metal supports are designed to clip firmly to the shelf itself or to the base of the shelf above.
    Ex: As per estimates, the demand for armoured vehicles in the defence forces is pegged at about 2000 vehicles per year.
    * fijar fecha con antelación = predate.
    * fijar la atención = fix + Posesivo + attention.
    * fijar la mirada = fasten + glance.
    * fijar las especificaciones de algo = set + specifications.
    * fijar precios = price, fix + price.
    * fijar precios altos = price + high.
    * fijar precios bajos = price + low.
    * fijarse = set up + camp.
    * fijarse una meta = set + goal.
    * fijarse una tarea = set + Reflexivo + task.
    * fijarse un objetivo = set + goal.
    * fijar una nota en un sitio público = post.
    * fijar un color = fix + colour.
    * fijar un límite = set + cut-off point.

    * * *
    fijar [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 (poner, clavar) ‹poste› to fix
    fija bien la estantería a la pared fix the shelving securely to the wall
    [ S ] prohibido fijar carteles stick no bills
    fijó la mirada en el horizonte she fixed her gaze on the horizon
    conviene fijar la atención en este punto it's important to focus our attention on this point
    había fijado la mente en el pasado he had focused his mind on the past
    2 ‹foto/dibujo› to fix
    1 ‹residencia›
    fijaron su residencia en París they established their residence o took up residence in Paris
    2 (concretar) ‹fecha/cifra› to set
    ya han fijado la fecha they've already set o fixed the date
    todavía no hemos fijado el precio we still haven't agreed (on) a price
    de acuerdo con la política fijada por el partido in accordance with the policy set o established by the party
    3 «reglamento/ley» to state
    la ley fija que … the law states that …
    según fija el reglamento as stated in o dictated by the regulations
    1
    (prestar atención): fíjate bien en el palacio, es una obra de arte take a good look at the palace, it's a work of art
    es muy observador, se fija en todo he's very observant, he notices everything
    fíjate bien en cómo lo hace watch carefully how she does it
    si no te fijas, lo vas a volver a hacer mal if you don't watch what you're doing, you're going to do it wrong again
    2 (darse cuenta) to notice
    ¿te has fijado en que no discuten nunca? have you noticed that o how they never quarrel?
    en seguida se fijó en ella he noticed her immediately
    ¡fíjate lo que ha crecido! just look how she's grown!
    fíjate qué faena, se lo robaron todo can you imagine how awful? they stole everything he had
    estarás contenta con el regalo — ¡fíjate! you must be pleased with the present — you bet! ( colloq)
    * * *

     

    fijar ( conjugate fijar) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) (poner, clavar) ‹poste/estantería› to fix;

    ( on signs) prohibido fijar carteles stick no bills;

    b) ‹atención/mente› to focus

    2
    a) ‹ residencia› to take up, establish (frml)

    b) ‹fecha/cifra/precio› to set

    c) [reglamento/ley] to state

    fijarse verbo pronominal


    fíjate en lo que haces watch o pay attention to what you're doing

    ◊ ¿te has fijado en que no discuten nunca? have you noticed that they never quarrel?;

    ¡fíjate lo que ha crecido! just look how she's grown!
    fijar verbo transitivo
    1 to fix: se prohíbe fijar carteles, (en letrero) post no bills
    2 (la atención, los ojos, etc) fijar la vista en algo, to fix one's eyes on
    3 (acordar, establecer) to set: fija el día y la hora, set a date
    ' fijar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    cartel
    - prohibida
    - prohibido
    - sujetar
    - tasar
    - asegurar
    - residencia
    - señalar
    English:
    anchor
    - appoint
    - arrange
    - attention span
    - fasten
    - fix
    - name
    - peg
    - post
    - set
    - settle
    - stick up
    - tack down
    - affix
    - mount
    - sort
    - time
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [asegurar, sujetar] to fix (a o en onto); [cartel] to stick up;
    [sello] to stick on;
    fijaron las patas al suelo con clavos they nailed the legs to the floor;
    prohibido fijar carteles [en letrero] stick o post no bills
    2. [establecer] to fix;
    se fijaron como objetivo acabar el año con beneficios they set themselves the target of ending the year in profit;
    fijar la mirada/la atención en to fix one's gaze/attention on
    3. [fecha, precio] to set, to fix
    4. [significado] to establish;
    fijar el domicilio to take up residence
    * * *
    v/t
    1 espejo, balda fix; cartel stick
    3 residencia establish
    4 atención focus
    * * *
    fijar vt
    1) : to fasten, to affix
    2) establecer: to establish, to set up
    3) concretar: to set, to fix
    fijar la fecha: to set the date
    * * *
    fijar vb
    1. (determinar) to fix / to set [pt. & pp. set]
    2. (poner) to put up [pt. & pp. put] / to stick [pt. & pp. stuck]
    "prohibido fijar carteles" "stick no bills"
    3. (dirigir) to focus / to turn
    fijar la mirada / fijar la vista to stare

    Spanish-English dictionary > fijar

  • 8 effect

    ɪˈfekt
    1. сущ.
    1) результат, следствие Nature begins from causes, and thence descends to effects. ≈ Природа начинается с причин, а затем переходит к следствиям. have effect produce an effect of no effect to no effect without effect cause and effect law of effect Syn: result, consequence
    2) а) действие, влияние;
    воздействие to have a profound effect on smth. ≈ глубокое влиять на что-л. to negate, nullify the effect ≈ нейтрализовать воздействие to sleep off the effect ≈ снять эффект с помощью сна adverse effect ≈ обратный эффект beneficial effect, salutary effect ≈ благоприятное воздействие calculated effect ≈ спецэффект deleterious, harmful effect ≈ вредное воздействие desired effect ≈ желаемый эффект dramatic effect ≈ драматический эффект hypnotic effect ≈ гипнотическое воздействие limited effect ≈ ограниченное воздействие marginal effect ≈ незначительный эффект minimal effect ≈ минимальное воздействие heighten an effect feel an effect take effect accompanying effects domino effect greenhouse effect placebo effect ripple effect side effects Syn: efficacy, influence б) действие, сила put into effect bring to effect carry into effect give effect to in effect go into effect come into effect with effect from Syn: operation в) эффективность, результативность A law was made but it had little effect. ≈ Был принят закон, но эффективность его была низкая. Syn: efficacy г) тех. производительность - useful effect
    3) а) намерение, цель;
    содержание, смысл to this effect Syn: purport, drift, tenor б) впечатление, эффект do for effect general effect calculated for effect Syn: impression в) мн.;
    театр., кино звуковые эффекты sound effects special effects Syn: contrivance г) эффект, наблюдаемое явление природы Doppler effect Vavilov-Cherenkov effect
    4) а) мн. юр. движимое (в частности, личное) имущество no effects leave no effects sale of household effects personal effect Syn: belonging
    2) б) денежные средства Syn: money
    2. гл.
    1) осуществлять, совершать, выполнять (обычно подразумевается преодоление каких-л. препятствий) The most skilful chemists have hitherto failed to effect such decomposition. ≈ Даже наиболее одаренным химикам не удавалось до сих пор произвести такое разложение. I'll cross the Sea to effect this marriage. ≈ Чтобы заключить этот брак, я переплыву море( Шекспир, "Генрих VI", часть 3, акт 2, сцена
    4) The earliest purchases are effected in immediate proximity to the mines. ≈ Наиболее ранние закупки производятся в непосредственной близости от шахт. effect an insurance policy effect payment Syn: bring about, accomplish
    2) а) делать, изготовлять, производить б) редк. архаич. строить The Lighthouse happily effected by Mr. Rudyerd. ≈ Маяк, успешно возведенный мистером Редьярдом. ∙ Syn: cause, produce, realize, fulfil, carry out Ant: destroy, deter, hinder, prevent, stop результат, следствие - cause and * причина и следствие - *s of war последствия войны - beneficial * положительное воздействие - salutary * благотворное влияние - long-range *s долгосрочные последствия - worries have a bad * on the nervous system неприятности плохо действуют на нервную систему - he began to feel the evil *s of drinking он начал ощущать пагубные /зловещие/ последствия пьянства - of no *, to no *, without * безрезультатно, безрезультатный - to have /to take/ * дать( желаемый) результат;
    подействовать - the medicine has had no * on her symptoms лекарство не сняло симптомов болезни цель, намерение - to this * для этого, для этой цели - to no * бесцельно смысл, сущность, существо (дела) ;
    содержание - in * в сущности;
    по существу, фактически - his poetry was, in *, his life по существу /по сути дела/ поэзия была его жизнью действие, воздействие, влияние - flutter * (специальное) вибрация, дрожание - the * of light действие света;
    (фотографическое) актинический эффект - to exercise * оказывать воздействие - the * of environmen' upon man's life вдияние окружающей среды на жизнь человека действие, действенность;
    сила - binding * (дипломатическое) обязательная сила - lack of * (юридическое) недействительность - to take * вступать в силу - with * from... вступающий в силу с... - to be in effect действовать, быть действительным( о законе, соглашении и т п) осуществление, выполнение - to give * to приводить в действие( закон) - to put/to bring, to carry/into/to/ * осуществлять, проводить в жизнь, выполнять - in order to give * to the decisions of the Security Council для осуществления решений Совета Безопасности - to give practical * to an idea осуществить замысел эффект, впечатление - for * для (внешнего) эффекта, напоказ;
    чтобы произвести впечатление - general * общее впечатление - the speech did not fail to have its * on the audience как и ожидалось, речь произвела впечатление на аудиторию pl (кинематографический) звуковое сопровождение кинофильма (кроме речи и музыки) ;
    шум - special * специальные эффекты (дождь, снег, туман, пожар и т п) - *s track фонограмма шумов (военное) огневое воздействие, убойность( техническое) полезный эффект, производительность (машины) > to the * that... в том смысле, что...;
    следующего содержания... > there is considerable authority to the * that многие компетентные люди полагают, что... > the answer was to the * that... они ответили (в том смысле), что... > the letter was to the following * содержание письма сводилось к следующему > he said he did not care, or words to that * он сказал, что ему все равно или что-то в этом роде осуществлять;
    совершать;
    выполнять;
    проводить( в жизнь) ;
    производить - to * the will of citizens осуществлять волю граждан - to * a settlement of a dispute добиться урегулирования спора - their transition to automation was *ed last year их переход на автоматику был проведен в прошлом году - the admission of membership in the U N will be *ed by a desigion... прием в члены ООН производится постановлением... - to payment( финансовое) производить платеж заключать, оформлять( сделку и т. п.) - to * a marriage заключить брак - to * a policy( of insurance) застраховаться, приобрести сираховой полис advertising ~ воздействие рекламы advertising ~ эффект рекламы ~ действие, влияние;
    воздействие;
    the effect of light on plants действие света на растения;
    argument has no effect on him убеждение на него никак не действует beneficial ~ благоприятное воздействие binding ~ обязательное действие binding ~ обязывающее действие to bring to ~, to give ~ to, to carry (или to put) into ~ осуществлять, приводить в исполнение, проводить в жизнь ~ эффект, впечатление;
    general effect общее впечатление;
    calculated for effect рассчитанный на эффект carrying into ~ ввод в действие carrying into ~ вступление в силу ~ следствие, результат;
    cause and effect причина и следствие clustering ~ вчт. образование кластеров collateral ~ побочное воздействие collateral ~ побочный эффект combined ~ комбинированный эффект combined ~ совместный эффект coming into ~ вступление в действие coming into ~ вступление в силу communication ~ рекл. эффект взаимопонимания consequent ~ последствие counterbalance the ~ нейтрализовать действие crowding-out ~ полит.эк. эффект вытеснения deflationary ~ дефляционный эффект degrading ~ вчт. эффект ухудшения delaying ~ задерживающий эффект delaying ~ замедляющее воздействие deterrent ~ сдерживающий эффект to do (smth.) for ~ делать (что-л.), чтобы произвести впечатление, пустить пыль в глаза edge ~ вчт. краевой эффект effect влияние, последствие, эффект, действие, сила ~ влияние ~ воздействие ~ выполнять ~ действенность ~ действие, сила;
    to go (или to come) into effect, to take effect вступать в силу (о законе, постановлении, правиле и т. п.) ~ действие, влияние;
    воздействие;
    the effect of light on plants действие света на растения;
    argument has no effect on him убеждение на него никак не действует ~ заключать ~ pl театр., кино звуковые эффекты ~ pl имущество, пожитки;
    sale of household effects распродажа домашних вещей;
    to leave no effects умереть ничего не оставив наследникам ~ исполнение ~ осуществлять, совершать, заключать (договор) ~ осуществлять ~ оформлять ~ тех. полезный эффект, производительность (машины) ~ предпринимать ~ причинять ~ производить;
    выполнять, совершать;
    осуществлять;
    to effect a change in a plan произвести изменение в плане;
    to effect an insurance policy застраховать ~ производить (платеж) ~ результат ~ сила ~ следствие, результат;
    cause and effect причина и следствие ~ следствие, результат ~ следствие ~ содержание;
    the letter was to the following effect письмо было следующего содержания ~ содержание, существо ~ цель, намерение;
    to this effect для этой цели;
    в этом смысле ~ эффект, впечатление;
    general effect общее впечатление;
    calculated for effect рассчитанный на эффект ~ эффект ~ юридическое действие ~ производить;
    выполнять, совершать;
    осуществлять;
    to effect a change in a plan произвести изменение в плане;
    to effect an insurance policy застраховать ~ производить;
    выполнять, совершать;
    осуществлять;
    to effect a change in a plan произвести изменение в плане;
    to effect an insurance policy застраховать ~ of legitimacy законное действие ~ действие, влияние;
    воздействие;
    the effect of light on plants действие света на растения;
    argument has no effect on him убеждение на него никак не действует ~ of validation законное действие failure ~ вчт. последствия отказа feedback ~ вчт. эффект обратной связи field ~ полевой эффект fiscal ~ налог. финансовый результат funnelting ~ эффект суммирования шумов ~ эффект, впечатление;
    general effect общее впечатление;
    calculated for effect рассчитанный на эффект to bring to ~, to give ~ to, to carry (или to put) into ~ осуществлять, приводить в исполнение, проводить в жизнь give ~ to осуществлять give ~ to приводить в действие give ~ to приводить в исполнение give ~ to проводить в жизнь ~ действие, сила;
    to go (или to come) into effect, to take effect вступать в силу (о законе, постановлении, правиле и т. п.) halo ~ рекл. эффект ореола to have ~ иметь желательный результат;
    подействовать immediate ~ немедленный эффект in ~ в действительности, в сущности income ~ эффект дохода inflationary ~ инфляционный эффект injurious ~ неблагоприятное воздействие the law goes into ~ soon закон скоро вступит в силу leading ~ эффект опережения ~ pl имущество, пожитки;
    sale of household effects распродажа домашних вещей;
    to leave no effects умереть ничего не оставив наследникам legal ~ правовые последствия legal ~ юридическая сила ~ содержание;
    the letter was to the following effect письмо было следующего содержания leverage ~ влияние системы рычагов государственного регулирования liquidity absorbing ~ поглощающий эффект ликвидности liquidity ~ эффект ликвидности liquidity tightening ~ уплотняющий эффект ликвидности long-term ~ вчт. отдаленное последействие magnetostrictive ~ магнитострикционный эффект masking ~ вчт. эффект маскировки material ~ существенное влияние memory ~ вчт. эффект запоминания изображения no ~s нет средств (надпись банка на неакцептованном чеке) of (или to) no ~, without ~ безрезультатно;
    бесцельно of (или to) no ~, without ~ безрезультатный of (или to) no ~, without ~ бесполезный Pigou ~ эффект Пигу (рост потребительского спроса под влиянием увеличения реальной стоимости кассовых остатков, вызванного понижением цен) predictive ~ предсказуемостный эффект prejudicial ~ наносящее ущерб юридическое действие price-raising ~ результат повышения цен probe ~ эффект зондирования protective ~ защитный эффект publicity ~ влияние рекламы put into ~ осуществлять put into ~ проводить в жизнь real balance ~ эффект Пигу real balance ~ эффект реальных кассовых остатков reinforcing ~ усиливающее действие resulting ~ конечный результат retroactive ~ обратная сила retroactive ~ обратное действие ripple ~ волновой эффект ~ pl имущество, пожитки;
    sale of household effects распродажа домашних вещей;
    to leave no effects умереть ничего не оставив наследникам second-system ~ эффект вторичной системы secondary ~ побочный эффект side ~ побочный эффект side: ~ attr. побочный;
    a side effect побочное действие (лекарства, лечения и т. п.) ;
    to put on one side игнорировать stage ~ сценический эффект suspensive ~ приостанавливающий эффект ~ действие, сила;
    to go (или to come) into effect, to take effect вступать в силу (о законе, постановлении, правиле и т. п.) take ~ вступать в силу take ~ иметь желаемый результат take ~ оказывать действие take ~ приводить к желаемому результату take ~ производить передачу фьючерсного контракта биржевым брокером третьему лицу take: to ~ effect вступить в силу;
    возыметь действие;
    to take leave уходить;
    прощаться (of) ;
    to take notice замечать;
    to take a holiday отдыхать ~ цель, намерение;
    to this effect для этой цели;
    в этом смысле useful ~ полезное действие useful: ~ полезный, пригодный;
    useful effect тех. полезное действие, отдача wave ~ волновой эффект weaken the ~ ослаблять эффект wealth ~ эффект богатства with ~ from today вступающий в силу с сегодняшнего дня with immediate ~ с немедленным вступлением в силу of (или to) no ~, without ~ безрезультатно;
    бесцельно of (или to) no ~, without ~ безрезультатный of (или to) no ~, without ~ бесполезный

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > effect

  • 9 fight

    1. past tense, past participle - fought; verb
    1) (to act against (someone or something) with physical violence: The two boys are fighting over (= because of) some money they found.) pelear (se), luchar
    2) (to resist strongly; to take strong action to prevent: to fight a fire; We must fight against any attempt to deprive us of our freedom.) luchar, combatir
    3) (to quarrel: His parents were always fighting.) pelear (se), discutir

    2. noun
    1) (an act of physical violence between people, countries etc: There was a fight going on in the street.) pelea
    2) (a struggle; action involving effort: the fight for freedom of speech; the fight against disease.) lucha
    3) (the will or strength to resist: There was no fight left in him.) combatividad
    4) (a boxing-match.) combate
    •
    - fight back
    - fight it out
    - fight off
    - fight one's way
    - fight shy of
    - put up a good fight
    fight1 n lucha / pelea
    fight2 vb
    1. luchar
    2. pelearse
    tr[faɪt]
    1 (struggle) lucha
    2 (physical violence) pelea; (quarrel) riña; (argument) disputa
    4 (resistance) combatividad nombre femenino, ánimo
    intransitive verb (pt & pp fought tr[fɔːt])
    1 (quarrel) pelear(se) (about/over, por), discutir (about/over, por)
    2 (in boxing) pelear ( against, contra)
    3 (with physical violence) pelearse ( with, con) ( against, contra), luchar ( with, con) ( against, contra)
    4 figurative use luchar ( for, por) ( against, contra), combatir
    1 (bull) lidiar
    2 (engage in - battle) librar; (- war) hacer; (- election) presentarse a
    3 (with physical violence) pelearse, luchar
    4 figurative use (strive to overcome, prevent) luchar, combatir
    5 SMALLLAW/SMALL recurrir contra
    6 (fire) apagar, combatir
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    to fight a case SMALLLAW/SMALL defenderse contra un cargo
    to fight it out decidirlo, resolverlo
    to fight one's way through lograr abrirse paso
    to fight for one's life luchar por la vida
    to fight like a tiger luchar como un jabato
    to fight a losing battle luchar por una causa perdida
    to fight shy of something/somebody evitar algo/a alguien
    to fight to the finish luchar hasta el final
    to pick a fight with somebody meterse con alguien
    to put up a fight oponer resistencia
    fight ['faɪt] v, fought ['fɔt] ; fighting vi
    : luchar, combatir, pelear
    fight vt
    : luchar contra, combatir contra
    1) combat: lucha f, pelea f, combate m
    2) match: pelea f, combate m (en boxeo)
    3) quarrel: disputa f, pelea f, pleito m
    n.
    • batalla s.f.
    • combate s.m.
    • cuchillada s.f.
    • guerra s.f.
    • lid s.f.
    • lidia s.f.
    • lucha s.f.
    • marimorena s.f.
    • pelea s.f.
    • pendencia s.f.
    • pugna s.f.
    • rija s.f.
    • riña s.f.
    • ruptura s.f.
    • sarracina s.f.
    v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: fought) = batallar v.
    • batir v.
    • bregar v.
    • combatir v.
    • disputar v.
    • guerrear v.
    • lidiar v.
    • luchar v.
    • militar v.
    • pelear v.
    • pugnar v.
    • reñir v.

    I
    1. faɪt
    (past & past p fought) intransitive verb
    a) \<\<army/country\>\> luchar, combatir; \<\<person\>\> pelear, luchar; \<\<animal\>\> luchar

    to fight AGAINST somebody/something — luchar contra alguien/algo

    to fight FOR somebody/something — \<\<for country/cause\>\> luchar por alguien/algo; \<\<for aim/policy\>\> luchar por conseguir or lograr algo

    to fight shy of something: he tends to fight shy of emotional commitments — tiende a eludir or evitar los compromisos afectivos

    b) ( quarrel)

    to fight OVER/ABOUT something — pelearse por algo

    c) fighting pres p <troops/units> de combate

    2.
    vt
    1)
    a) \<\<army/country\>\> luchar or combatir contra

    if you want it, you'll have to fight me for it — si lo quieres vas a tener que vértelas conmigo

    Frazier fought Ali for the world title — Frazier peleó contra Ali or se enfrentó a Ali por el título mundial

    I had to fight my way into the hall — tuve que abrirme camino or paso a la fuerza para entrar en la sala

    b) ( oppose) \<\<fire/disease\>\> combatir; \<\<measure/proposal\>\> combatir, oponerse* a

    we'll fight them all the way — no les vamos a dar cuartel

    2)
    a) ( conduct)
    b) ( contest) \<\<election\>\> presentarse a

    we intend to fight the case — ( Law) pensamos llevar el caso a los tribunales (or defendernos etc)

    •
    Phrasal Verbs:

    II
    1) c
    a) ( between persons) pelea f; (between armies, companies) lucha f, contienda f

    to put up a good fight — ofrecer* or oponer* resistencia

    b) ( boxing match) pelea f, combate m
    2) c
    a) ( struggle) lucha f
    b) ( quarrel) pelea f
    [faɪt] (vb: pt, pp fought)
    1. N
    a) (physical, verbal) pelea f ( over por)

    • to have a fight with sb — pelearse con algn, tener una pelea con algn

    • to look for a fight — (physical) buscar pelea; (verbal) querer pelearse

    pick 2., 1)
    b) (Boxing) combate m, pelea f
    2) (Mil) (between armies) lucha f, contienda f
    3) (=struggle, campaign) lucha f ( for por) ( against contra)

    the fight for justice/against inflation — la lucha por la justicia/contra la inflación

    • if he tries to sack me he'll have a fight on his hands — si intenta despedirme le va a costar lo suyo

    4) (=fighting spirit) ánimo m de lucha

    there was no fight left in him — ya no le quedaba ánimo de lucha, ya no tenía ánimo para luchar

    • to show (some) fight — mostrarse dispuesto a pelear

    5) (=resistance)

    • police believe the victim put up a fight — la policía cree que la víctima opuso resistencia

    2. VT
    1) (Mil) [+ enemy] luchar contra, combatir contra; (Boxing) [+ opponent] pelear contra, luchar contra

    • to fight a battle — (Mil) librar una batalla; (fig) luchar

    • to fight a duel — batirse en duelo

    • to fight sb for sth, he fought the council for the right to build on his land — se enfrentó al ayuntamiento por el derecho a edificar en sus tierras

    I'd like to fight him for the title — me gustaría luchar or pelear contra él por el título

    • to fight one's way through a crowd — abrirse paso a la fuerza entre una multitud

    2) (=combat) [+ fire] combatir; [+ poverty, inflation, crime] combatir, luchar contra; [+ proposal] oponerse a

    • I've made up my mind so don't try and fight me on it — lo he decidido, así que no intentes oponerte

    • I had to fight the urge to giggle — tuve que esforzarme para no reír, tuve que contener las ganas de reír

    3) (=try to win) [+ campaign] tomar parte en; [+ election] presentarse a

    • he says he'll fight the case all the way to the Supreme Court — dice que si es necesario llevará el caso hasta el Tribunal Supremo

    • he's decided to fight the seat for a third time — (Pol) ha decidido presentarse por tercera vez como candidato para el escaño

    3. VI
    1) (=do battle) [troops, countries] luchar, combatir ( against contra); [person, animal] pelear; (Boxing) luchar, pelear

    did you fight in the war? — ¿luchó usted en la guerra?, ¿tomó usted parte en la guerra?

    • they'll fight to the death — lucharán a muerte

    • I fought for my country — luché por mi país

    • the dogs were fighting over a bone — los perros estaban peleando por un hueso

    2) (=quarrel) discutir, pelear(se) ( with con)

    • they usually fight about or over who pays the bills — suelen discutir or pelear(se) por quién paga las facturas

    3) (=struggle) luchar ( for por) ( against contra)

    • to fight against disease/crime — luchar contra la enfermedad/el crimen

    • to fight for sth/sb — luchar por algo/algn

    he was fighting for breath — le faltaba la respiración, respiraba con enorme dificultad

    - go down fighting
    - fight shy of
    * * *

    I
    1. [faɪt]
    (past & past p fought) intransitive verb
    a) \<\<army/country\>\> luchar, combatir; \<\<person\>\> pelear, luchar; \<\<animal\>\> luchar

    to fight AGAINST somebody/something — luchar contra alguien/algo

    to fight FOR somebody/something — \<\<for country/cause\>\> luchar por alguien/algo; \<\<for aim/policy\>\> luchar por conseguir or lograr algo

    to fight shy of something: he tends to fight shy of emotional commitments — tiende a eludir or evitar los compromisos afectivos

    b) ( quarrel)

    to fight OVER/ABOUT something — pelearse por algo

    c) fighting pres p <troops/units> de combate

    2.
    vt
    1)
    a) \<\<army/country\>\> luchar or combatir contra

    if you want it, you'll have to fight me for it — si lo quieres vas a tener que vértelas conmigo

    Frazier fought Ali for the world title — Frazier peleó contra Ali or se enfrentó a Ali por el título mundial

    I had to fight my way into the hall — tuve que abrirme camino or paso a la fuerza para entrar en la sala

    b) ( oppose) \<\<fire/disease\>\> combatir; \<\<measure/proposal\>\> combatir, oponerse* a

    we'll fight them all the way — no les vamos a dar cuartel

    2)
    a) ( conduct)
    b) ( contest) \<\<election\>\> presentarse a

    we intend to fight the case — ( Law) pensamos llevar el caso a los tribunales (or defendernos etc)

    •
    Phrasal Verbs:

    II
    1) c
    a) ( between persons) pelea f; (between armies, companies) lucha f, contienda f

    to put up a good fight — ofrecer* or oponer* resistencia

    b) ( boxing match) pelea f, combate m
    2) c
    a) ( struggle) lucha f
    b) ( quarrel) pelea f

    English-spanish dictionary > fight

  • 10 desarrollar aún más

    (v.) = take + one stage further, progress + one stage further, carry + one stage further, develop + one stage further, take + a step further, extend + one step further, carry + one step further, take + one step further, develop + further
    Ex. The special auxiliaries allow the process of synthesis to be taken one stage further.
    Ex. Progressing a stage further, it would be economically short-sighted, to say the least, for a large co-operative network such as OCLC in the United States or BLCMP in the UK, not to take advantage of the MARC service.
    Ex. The problem arises from the fact that it is very difficult to fix an absolute level of analysis; there is nearly always the possibility of carrying our analysis one stage further.
    Ex. So we can develop our significance order one stage further, to give us Thing-Material-Action.
    Ex. This has been taken a step further by using a screen editor to 'prevent the human indexer or coder from making syntactic errors in the first place'.
    Ex. We can extend these two concepts one step further, and use them to guarantee the integrity of the authority file itself.
    Ex. The concept of policy may, therefore, be carried one step further.
    Ex. One should take this mission one step further by defining the overlap between the needs of the user and the capabilities of the library or information center.
    Ex. This session will provide insight into how digitised services can be developed further in the future.
    * * *
    (v.) = take + one stage further, progress + one stage further, carry + one stage further, develop + one stage further, take + a step further, extend + one step further, carry + one step further, take + one step further, develop + further

    Ex: The special auxiliaries allow the process of synthesis to be taken one stage further.

    Ex: Progressing a stage further, it would be economically short-sighted, to say the least, for a large co-operative network such as OCLC in the United States or BLCMP in the UK, not to take advantage of the MARC service.
    Ex: The problem arises from the fact that it is very difficult to fix an absolute level of analysis; there is nearly always the possibility of carrying our analysis one stage further.
    Ex: So we can develop our significance order one stage further, to give us Thing-Material-Action.
    Ex: This has been taken a step further by using a screen editor to 'prevent the human indexer or coder from making syntactic errors in the first place'.
    Ex: We can extend these two concepts one step further, and use them to guarantee the integrity of the authority file itself.
    Ex: The concept of policy may, therefore, be carried one step further.
    Ex: One should take this mission one step further by defining the overlap between the needs of the user and the capabilities of the library or information center.
    Ex: This session will provide insight into how digitised services can be developed further in the future.

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  • 11 excusar

    v.
    1 to excuse (disculpar a).
    Ricardo desagravió su infidelidad Richard made up for his cheating.
    2 to avoid (evitar). (peninsular Spanish)
    excuso decir que… there's no need for me to say that…
    * * *
    1 (justificar) to excuse
    2 (disculpar) to pardon, forgive, excuse
    3 (evitar) to avoid, prevent; (ahorrar) to save, spare
    4 (eximir) to exempt (de, from)
    5 excusar + inf to have no need
    1 (justificarse) to excuse oneself; (disculparse) to apologize
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=disculpar) to excuse
    2) (=evitar) [+ disgustos] to avoid, prevent

    podemos excusar lo otro — we can forget about the rest of it, we don't have to bother with the rest

    excusamos decirle que... — we don't have to tell you that...

    3) (=eximir) to exempt (de from)
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) ( disculpar) to excuse
    b) ( eximir)

    excusar a alguien de algo/+ inf — to excuse somebody (from) something/-ing

    c) (Esp frml) (evitar, omitir)
    2.
    excusarse v pron (frml)
    a) ( pedir perdón) to apologize
    b) ( ofrecer excusas) to excuse oneself
    * * *
    = let + Nombre + off the hook, excuse, condone.
    Ex. This would imply not trying to duplicate the market reached, for example, by the paperback -- a policy which might, amongst other things, help let the library off the hook as far as the old problem of stocking lowgrade literature is concerned.
    Ex. Librarians could be excused for wondering if there is any role for them to play in the virtual library environment.
    Ex. Writers and publishers go to great lengths to avoid the appearance of supporting or condoning homosexuality.
    ----
    * excusándose = apologetically.
    * llamar al trabajo para excusarse por enfermedad = call in + sick.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    a) ( disculpar) to excuse
    b) ( eximir)

    excusar a alguien de algo/+ inf — to excuse somebody (from) something/-ing

    c) (Esp frml) (evitar, omitir)
    2.
    excusarse v pron (frml)
    a) ( pedir perdón) to apologize
    b) ( ofrecer excusas) to excuse oneself
    * * *
    = let + Nombre + off the hook, excuse, condone.

    Ex: This would imply not trying to duplicate the market reached, for example, by the paperback -- a policy which might, amongst other things, help let the library off the hook as far as the old problem of stocking lowgrade literature is concerned.

    Ex: Librarians could be excused for wondering if there is any role for them to play in the virtual library environment.
    Ex: Writers and publishers go to great lengths to avoid the appearance of supporting or condoning homosexuality.
    * excusándose = apologetically.
    * llamar al trabajo para excusarse por enfermedad = call in + sick.

    * * *
    excusar [A1 ]
    vt
    1 (disculpar) to excuse
    eso no excusa tu comportamiento that does not excuse o justify your behavior
    nos pidió que lo excusáramos por el retraso he asked us to excuse him for the delay, he apologized for the delay
    la excusó diciendo que … he made excuses for her saying that …
    2 (eximir) excusar a algn DE algo:
    los excusaron de asistir a la clase they were excused from attending the class
    lo excusaron del servicio activo he was exempted from active service
    3
    ( Esp frml) (evitar, omitir): excuso decirle lo mal que me sentó aquel comentario I hardly need tell you how much that remark upset me
    se lo contó excusando los detalles más desagradables he told them but spared them the more unpleasant details, he told them, omitting the more unpleasant details
    to apologize
    se excusó por no haber venido antes he apologized for not arriving earlier
    se excusaron diciendo que estarían fuera they declined o made their excuses saying that they would be away
    * * *

    excusar ( conjugate excusar) verbo transitivo

    b) ( eximir) excusar a algn de algo/hacer algo to excuse sb (from) sth/doing sth

    excusarse verbo pronominal (frml)


    excusar verbo transitivo (disculpar) to excuse
    ' excusar' also found in these entries:
    English:
    excuse
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [disculpar] to excuse;
    [disculparse por] to apologize for;
    eso no excusa tu falta de puntualidad that is no excuse for your being late;
    les ruego excusen mi ignorancia, pero… forgive my ignorance, but…;
    no trates de excusarla don't make excuses for her
    2. [eximir]
    excusar a alguien de (hacer) algo to excuse sb from (doing) sth;
    quedas excusado de asistir you are excused from attendance
    3. Esp Formal [evitar] to avoid;
    excuso decir que todos están invitados there's no need for me to say that you're all invited
    * * *
    v/t
    1 excuse;
    excusar a alguien de hacer algo excuse s.o. from doing sth
    2
    :
    excuso decirte … I need not remind you …
    * * *
    1) : to excuse
    2) : to exempt

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  • 12 llevar aún más lejos

    (v.) = take + one stage further, progress + one stage further, carry + one stage further, develop + one stage further, take + a step further, extend + one step further, carry + one step further, take + one step further
    Ex. The special auxiliaries allow the process of synthesis to be taken one stage further.
    Ex. Progressing a stage further, it would be economically short-sighted, to say the least, for a large co-operative network such as OCLC in the United States or BLCMP in the UK, not to take advantage of the MARC service.
    Ex. The problem arises from the fact that it is very difficult to fix an absolute level of analysis; there is nearly always the possibility of carrying our analysis one stage further.
    Ex. So we can develop our significance order one stage further, to give us Thing-Material-Action.
    Ex. This has been taken a step further by using a screen editor to 'prevent the human indexer or coder from making syntactic errors in the first place'.
    Ex. We can extend these two concepts one step further, and use them to guarantee the integrity of the authority file itself.
    Ex. The concept of policy may, therefore, be carried one step further.
    Ex. One should take this mission one step further by defining the overlap between the needs of the user and the capabilities of the library or information center.
    * * *
    (v.) = take + one stage further, progress + one stage further, carry + one stage further, develop + one stage further, take + a step further, extend + one step further, carry + one step further, take + one step further

    Ex: The special auxiliaries allow the process of synthesis to be taken one stage further.

    Ex: Progressing a stage further, it would be economically short-sighted, to say the least, for a large co-operative network such as OCLC in the United States or BLCMP in the UK, not to take advantage of the MARC service.
    Ex: The problem arises from the fact that it is very difficult to fix an absolute level of analysis; there is nearly always the possibility of carrying our analysis one stage further.
    Ex: So we can develop our significance order one stage further, to give us Thing-Material-Action.
    Ex: This has been taken a step further by using a screen editor to 'prevent the human indexer or coder from making syntactic errors in the first place'.
    Ex: We can extend these two concepts one step further, and use them to guarantee the integrity of the authority file itself.
    Ex: The concept of policy may, therefore, be carried one step further.
    Ex: One should take this mission one step further by defining the overlap between the needs of the user and the capabilities of the library or information center.

    Spanish-English dictionary > llevar aún más lejos

  • 13 retener

    v.
    1 to hold back.
    no me retuvo mucho tiempo he didn't keep me long
    retener el tráfico to hold up the traffic
    2 to hold back, to restrain (contener) (impulso, ira).
    3 to retain.
    Ellos retuvieron el dinero They retained the money.
    4 to remember.
    el fisco me retiene el 20 por ciento del sueldo 20 percent of my salary goes in tax
    6 to conceal, to black out, to blank out, to cover.
    Ellos retuvieron la verdad They concealed the truth.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ TENER], like link=tener tener
    1 (contener) to restrain, hold back
    2 (no dejar marchar) to keep, keep back
    3 (no devolver) to keep
    4 (en la memoria) to retain, remember
    5 (detener) to detain; (arrestar) to arrest
    6 FINANZAS to deduct, withhold
    7 (absorber) to retain, hold
    1 to restrain oneself, hold oneself back
    * * *
    verb
    1) to retain, keep
    3) hold
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=no dejar marchar) to keep; [la policía] to detain, hold

    retuvieron a los inmigrantes en la aduana — they held o detained the immigrants at customs

    retener a algn preso — to hold o keep sb prisoner

    2) (=conservar) [+ datos, información] to withhold; [+ pasaporte] to retain
    3) (=memorizar) to retain
    4) (Econ) [+ dinero] to deduct
    5) [+ calor] to retain; [+ líquido] to hold
    6) frm [+ atención, interés] to retain
    7) frm [+ deseo, pasión] to restrain; [+ aliento] to hold
    2.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <datos/información> to keep back, withhold
    b) <pasaporte/tarjeta> to retain
    c) (Fin, Fisco) <dinero/cuota> to deduct, withhold
    2)
    a) policía < persona> to detain, hold
    3) <calor/carga/líquidos> to retain
    4) <atención/interés> to keep, retain
    5) ( recordar) to retain, keep... in one's head
    2.
    retenerse v pron to restrain oneself
    * * *
    = hold up, retain, withhold, hold + Nombre + back, dam (up), hold + prisoner.
    Ex. Unfortunately, goods of Community origin can also be held up by the surveillance system, often for several weeks.
    Ex. At an earlier stage, the Library of Congress had decided to retain certain pre-AACR headings, in order to avoid the expense of extensive recataloguing.
    Ex. It was agreed to withhold supplies from booksellers who offered new books at a discount greater than the 10 per cent usually allowed for cash.
    Ex. Despite the improvements in the 17th edition, the scheme has been held back for years by the old policy of 'integrity of numbers' referred to above, the effects of which are not likely to be quickly mitigated.
    Ex. But to prevent any meandering at all, or to dam the flow of talk too soon and too often by intruding, generally only frustrates spontaneity = Aunque evitar cualquier divagación o cortar el flujo de la conversación demasiado pronto y con demasiada frecuencia con interrupciones generalmente sólo coarta la espontaneidad.
    Ex. Tom Sutherland, a professor at the American University of Beirut, was kidnapped in 1985 and held prisoner for six and a half years, for much of the time shackled to his prisoner Terry Anderson.
    ----
    * que retiene el calor = heat absorbing.
    * retener la atención de Alguien = retain + attention.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) <datos/información> to keep back, withhold
    b) <pasaporte/tarjeta> to retain
    c) (Fin, Fisco) <dinero/cuota> to deduct, withhold
    2)
    a) policía < persona> to detain, hold
    3) <calor/carga/líquidos> to retain
    4) <atención/interés> to keep, retain
    5) ( recordar) to retain, keep... in one's head
    2.
    retenerse v pron to restrain oneself
    * * *
    = hold up, retain, withhold, hold + Nombre + back, dam (up), hold + prisoner.

    Ex: Unfortunately, goods of Community origin can also be held up by the surveillance system, often for several weeks.

    Ex: At an earlier stage, the Library of Congress had decided to retain certain pre-AACR headings, in order to avoid the expense of extensive recataloguing.
    Ex: It was agreed to withhold supplies from booksellers who offered new books at a discount greater than the 10 per cent usually allowed for cash.
    Ex: Despite the improvements in the 17th edition, the scheme has been held back for years by the old policy of 'integrity of numbers' referred to above, the effects of which are not likely to be quickly mitigated.
    Ex: But to prevent any meandering at all, or to dam the flow of talk too soon and too often by intruding, generally only frustrates spontaneity = Aunque evitar cualquier divagación o cortar el flujo de la conversación demasiado pronto y con demasiada frecuencia con interrupciones generalmente sólo coarta la espontaneidad.
    Ex: Tom Sutherland, a professor at the American University of Beirut, was kidnapped in 1985 and held prisoner for six and a half years, for much of the time shackled to his prisoner Terry Anderson.
    * que retiene el calor = heat absorbing.
    * retener la atención de Alguien = retain + attention.

    * * *
    vt
    A
    1 ‹datos/información› to keep back, withhold
    2 ‹pasaporte/tarjeta› to retain
    3 ( Fin, Fisco) ‹dinero/cuota› to deduct, withhold
    B
    1 «policía» ‹persona› to detain, hold
    2
    (hacer permanecer): no te retendré demasiado tiempo I won't keep you long
    el maestro nos retuvo the teacher kept us in o kept us back after class
    tres reclusos retuvieron a un funcionario three prisoners held a prison guard hostage
    ya nada me retiene aquí there's nothing to keep me here now
    no sabe cómo retener a su marido she doesn't know what to do to hold on to o to keep her husband
    C
    1 ‹calor/carga› to retain
    2 ( Med) ‹orina/líquidos› to retain
    D ‹atención/interés› to keep, retain
    E (recordar) ‹lección/texto/ideas› to retain, keep … in one's head
    to restrain oneself
    * * *

     

    retener ( conjugate retener) verbo transitivo
    1
    a) ‹datos/información› to keep back, withhold

    b) ‹pasaporte/tarjeta› to retain

    c) (Fin, Fisco) ‹dinero/cuota› to deduct, withhold

    2



    3 ‹calor/carga/líquidos› to retain
    4 ‹atención/interés› to keep, retain
    5 ( recordar) to retain, keep … in one's head
    retener verbo transitivo
    1 (para sí) to keep: querría retenerte junto a mí, I would like to keep you near me
    2 (en sí) to retain: las esponjas retienen agua, sponges retain water
    3 (en un lugar) to keep: debo ir, no intentes retenerme, I need to leave, don't try to hold me back
    (en una comisaría) to detain, keep in custody
    4 (en la memoria) to remember: no puedo retener todos los nombres, I can't remember all the names
    5 (un sentimiento, impulso, etc) to restrain, hold back: no sabe retener sus emociones, she can't control her emotions
    6 (el curso normal de algo) to stop, hold back: la presa retiene el agua del río, the dam holds back the river
    7 (un sueldo, capital) to deduct, withhold: le retienen el 40% de los ingresos, they withhold 40% of his earnings
    ' retener' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    sujetar
    - entretener
    English:
    detain
    - hang up
    - hold
    - hold back
    - keep back
    - keep down
    - retain
    - stay down
    - withhold
    - keep
    * * *
    1. [detener] to hold back;
    [en comisaría] to detain;
    no me retuvo mucho tiempo he didn't keep me long;
    retener el tráfico to hold up the traffic
    2. [contener] [impulso, ira] to hold back, to restrain;
    [aliento] to hold
    3. [conservar] to retain;
    las hojas retienen la humedad leaves retain moisture
    4. [quedarse con] to hold on to, to keep
    5. [memorizar] to remember
    6. [deducir del sueldo] to deduct;
    el fisco me retiene el 20 por ciento del sueldo 20 percent of my salary goes in o for tax
    7. [apoderarse de] [sueldo] to withhold
    * * *
    v/t
    1 dinero etc withhold, deduct
    2 persona detain, hold
    * * *
    retener {80} vt
    1) : to retain, to keep
    2) : to withhold
    3) : to detain
    * * *
    1. (guardar) to keep [pt. & pp. kept]
    2. (conservar) to retain
    3. (memorizar) to remember

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  • 14 Historical Portugal

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

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 15 vorbauen

    (trennb., hat -ge-)
    I v/t build on at the front (+ Dat of)
    II v/i (Vorsorge treffen) take precautions; einer Sache vorbauen take precautions against s.th., (try to) prevent s.th.
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    vor|bau|en sep
    1. vt
    (= anbauen) to build on (in front)

    Häuser bis an die Straße vórbauen — to build houses right on the road

    2. vi
    (= Vorkehrungen treffen) to take precautions

    vórbauen — to provide against sth

    See:
    → klug
    * * *
    vor|bau·en
    ▪ [etw dat] [etw] \vorbauen to build sth onto the front [of a thing]
    wir wollen dem Haus eine Veranda \vorbauen we want to build a veranda onto the house
    II. vi to take precautions
    wir haben vorgebaut und Geld für den Notfall gespart we've taken precautions and have put away some money for emergencies pl
    er hat mit einer Lebensversicherung fürs Alter vorgebaut he has made provision for his old age with a life assurance policy
    ▪ [etw dat] \vorbauen to prevent [a thing]
    ich will einem möglichen Missverständnis \vorbauen I want to prevent a possible misunderstanding
    ▶ der kluge Mann baut vor (prov) a wise man makes provisions pl for the future
    * * *
    intransitives Verb make provision
    * * *
    vorbauen (trennb, hat -ge-)
    A. v/t build on at the front (+dat of)
    B. v/i (Vorsorge treffen) take precautions;
    einer Sache vorbauen take precautions against sth, (try to) prevent sth
    * * *
    intransitives Verb make provision

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > vorbauen

  • 16 инструмент политики по охране окружающей среды

    1. environmental policy instrument

     

    инструмент политики по охране окружающей среды
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    [ http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/alphabetic?langcode=en]

    EN

    environmental policy instrument
    Technological, economical and legislative measures employed to prevent or control pollution or damage of the environment. (Source: DIZAMB)
    [http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/alphabetic?langcode=en]

    Тематики

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    Русско-английский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > инструмент политики по охране окружающей среды

  • 17 vorbauen

    vor|bau·en
    vt
    [einer S. dat] [etw] \vorbauen to build sth onto the front [of a thing];
    wir wollen dem Haus eine Veranda \vorbauen we want to build a veranda onto the house
    vi to take precautions;
    wir haben vorgebaut und Geld für den Notfall gespart we've taken precautions and have put away some money for emergencies pl;
    er hat mit einer Lebensversicherung fürs Alter vorgebaut he has made provision for his old age with a life assurance policy;
    [einer S. dat] \vorbauen to prevent [a thing];
    ich will einem möglichen Missverständnis \vorbauen I want to prevent a possible misunderstanding
    WENDUNGEN:
    der kluge Mann baut vor ( baut vor) a wise man makes provisions pl for the future

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch für Studenten > vorbauen

  • 18 frustrate

    •• frustration, frustrate, frustrating

    •• Frustrate prevent somebody from doing something; prevent somebody’s plans from being carried out (A.S. Hornby).
    •• Кто-то неплохо сказал: странно, что в русском языке нет слова для описания этого чувства, ведь испытываешь его в России на каждом шагу. Добавлю: в том числе, когда приходится переводить английские предложения со словом frustration. Чем тут помочь? Профессиональные психологи не стали мучиться, а заимствовали это понятие; они говорят о фрустрации, фрустрированности. Переводчик не всегда может позволить себе такую роскошь – его просто не поймут (в прямом и переносном смысле). В зависимости от контекста frustration и frustrate (например, во фразе I get increasingly frustrated) можно переводить при помощи самых разных слов. Тут и отчаяние, и раздражение, и разочарование, и безвыходное положение, и досада, и озлобленность, и чувство безысходности, бессилия, и многое другое. Главное – проникнуться глубинной семантикой этого слова (ощущение невозможности что-либо сделать, чтобы изменить положение к лучшему), почувствовать его «внутренний образ». Может быть, для этого достаточно пожить месяц-другой в условиях нашего быта (или просто постоять в очереди на паспортный контроль в аэропорту).
    •• Несколько примеров:
    •• 1. [English] spelling and pronunciation are capricious and frustrating for non-native speakers (Time). Возможный перевод: ...невероятно трудны для иностранцев (приводят иностранцев в отчаянье);
    •• 2....the venom with which he was attacked may be attributed to their frustrated rage (J.H. Plumb). – ...возможно, был следствием их бессильной ярости;
    •• 3. Post-war Britain was a frustration to the advertising man (E.S. Turner). – В послевоенной Великобритании мастеров рекламы подстерегали сплошные разочарования;
    •• 4. Last August, Walter’s predecessor, Alex Mandl, resigned after a six-month tenure, similarly frustrated in his quest to become CEO (Time). – ...ушел в отставку, проработав на своем посту шесть месяцев, и тоже не сумев занять место первого руководителя;
    •• 5. Lippmann correctly foretold the frustrations of an essentially reactionary foreign policy based on containment (Henry Kissinger). В этом интересном примере frustrations можно перевести как тупики. В другом примере из того же автора перевод слова frustration облегчается глаголом, который «подсказывает» конкретизацию (конкретизация и генерализация – два великих помощника переводчика, особенно устного, и обращаться к их услугам надо тем смелее, чем меньше времени у вас на размышления): Nixon inherited a society rent by frustration. – Никсон унаследовал общество, раздираемое противоречиями.
    •• * Изучение бездонного в смысле переводческих проблем слова frustration может идти по двум линиям: во-первых, можно до бесконечности множить примеры контекстуального перевода, что по-своему поучительно. Во-вторых, можно попытаться выделить некое достаточно аморфное смысловое ядро, помогающее в поисках перевода, – при недостатке времени оно может выручить переводчика как компромиссный запасной вариант.
    •• Попытки выделить его глубинный смысл не всегда удачны. Так, например, автор замечательной колонки в газете Moscow Times Мишель Берди (Michele A. Berdy), рассуждая о том, почему это слово не имеет однозначного соответствия в русском языке, пишет:
    •• Here’s my theory: Frustration in the Western sense of irritation over relatively petty and minor annoyances doesn’t exist here [in Russia].
    •• Мне кажется, что такая трактовка этого слова подтверждается далеко не всегда.Вот лишь один пример, где frustration относится отнюдь не к мелким тяготам жизни:
    •• As the United Nations mourned its dead, including its respected chief Iraq representative, Sergio Vieira de Mello, Annan voiced frustration with the lack of security and the failure of the U.S.-led occupation powers to anticipate the dangers and hardships of Iraq after Saddam Hussein’s government fell. (Washington Post)
    •• Здесь frustration, конечно, не раздражение, а крайнее недовольство. Недовольство удачно характеризует реакцию субъекта и в следующих предложениях:
    •• Finally, it would bring to an end the ability of governments throughout the region to divert their peoples’ frustration about their own governing failures toward hatred of the United States for its unwillingness to move Israel. (Washington Post) - И, наконец, правительства стран региона уже не смогут переключать внимание своих народов, недовольных/возмущенных провалами их политики, на Соединенные Штаты, обвиняемые в нежелании надавить на Израиль.
    •• Mr. Wolfowitz, meanwhile, expressed frustration with reports on Iraq from Arab news media that he said had inflamed opinion against the American presence.
    •• Здесь – недовольство освещением иракской тематики в арабских СМИ.
    •• Часто хорошими контекстуальными вариантами могут стать слова, трудные для перевода c русского языка. К числу таких слов А. Шмелев в своей книге справедливо относит слово обида ( обидный). Мне кажется, оно хорошо подойдет в переводе следующей фразы из New York Times:
    •• An article yesterday on the frustrations of Hans Blix, the retiring chief weapons inspector for the United Nations, misstated his age.
    •• Есть, по-моему, в этой фразе щепотка иронии, и перевод вчерашняя статья об обидах Ханса Бликса... может быть воспринят таким же образом.
    •• А вот переводческая задачка, связанная со словом frustratingly:
    •• Mr Blair said that the parties to the Northern Ireland political process were “ frustratingly close” to an agreement but had yet to finalise a deal. (BBC)
    •• Мне кажется, что здесь напрашивается перевод до обидного близки к договоренности. Здесь опять-таки тот случай – кстати, не такой уж редкий, – когда труднопереводимое слово одного языка удачно подходит для перевода трудного, хотя по своему содержанию на первый взгляд довольно далекого от него слова из другого языка. Это еще одно подтверждение того, что в словарях, претендующих на полноту и ориентированных на переводчиков, наречия должны в ряде случаев рассматриваться отдельно (см. также слово historically).
    •• Забавное слово, которое, возможно, является выражением крайней степени «frustration по-русски» встретилось в одном из интервью М.С. Горбачева: Ярость, бедность, осточертелость выплеснутся.
    •• Подробнее о втором направлении поисков, на мой взгляд более интересном и плодотворном. У меня создается впечатление, что в последнее время условным смысловым ядром слова frustration (frustrating, to frustrate) можно считать понятие деморализации и близкое к нему ощущение тупика. Вот пара свежих примеров. Первый – из выступления в ООН:
    •• Where there are gaps in the criminal justice chain, the work of the police could be incomplete and frustrating.
    •• Выбор у переводчика большой, да только все варианты длинные (например, ...в работе полиции возникают изъяны, чреватые морально-психологическими последствиями/подрывом морального духа личного состава или, несколько короче, ...работа полиции может давать сбои и казаться безрезультатной/тщетной). Но, наверное, в устном переводе возможно и такое решение («палочка-выручалочка»): ...опасность сбоев и деморализации.
    •• Другой пример, из New York Times:
    •• While some Iranians still believe in their theocracy, the majority want a sweeping transformation. They do not want to be told what to think, what to wear, what to read, what to watch and how to behave, and they are frustrated by the glacial pace of change.
    •• Опять-таки выбор переводческих решений достаточно велик, но вариант «навскидку» – ...они деморализованы крайне медленными темпами перемен – пожалуй, не худший из возможных.
    •• В статье в New York Times об американских военнослужащих в Ираке читаем:
    •• Our exhausted and frustrated soldiers are in a hideously difficult environment they’re not familiar with, dealing with a culture America only dimly understands.
    •• Пожалуй, лучший вариант по-русски:
    •• Наши измотанные и деморализованные солдаты...
    •• Одна из возможных стратегий перевода слова frustration – перенос акцента с эмоционального состояния человека на причину или результат этого состояния. Например, когда человек is frustrated, то он обычно – что вполне естественно – крайне недоволен этим. Поэтому фраза из статьи в Washington Post:
    •• Part of it stemmed from his frustration with the culture of the White House
    •• вполне может быть переведена как
    •• Отчасти это было связано с его крайним недовольством порядками, царящими в Белом доме.
    •• Тот же прием буквально напрашивается и в следующем примере из статьи в New York Times о сериале Sex and the City:
    •• Last season found the fantastic foursome mired in the realities of motherhood, career frustration and heartbreak.
    •• По-русски проще всего – и вполне верно – сказать карьерные неудачи. Вместо описания состояния – его причина. В «Моем несистематическом словаре» я писал, что русское слово неудача часто бывает несколько мягче английского failure. Поэтому frustration = неудача – довольно закономерное контекстуальное соответствие.
    •• Надо, однако, согласиться, что часто это слово выражает состояние, гораздо менее сильное, чем предполагают такие русские слова, как отчаяние или безысходность (соответствия, приводимые во многих словарях). Вот фрагмент рецензии из газеты Chicago Tribune на фильм режиссера Эндрю Джареки Capturing the Friedmans:
    •• One former student describing Arnold’s basement sessions as nothing more than a boring computer class is followed by the lead investigator characterizing them as a “free-for-all.” At first this lack of resolution is frustrating, like Jaracki owes it to us to solve this case in a way that investigators and journalists couldn’t.
    •• Здесь, наверное, можно сказать отсутствие вывода/сохранение неопределенности приводит зрителя в замешательство (неплохо также ставит в тупик или вызывает раздражение).
    •• Наконец, иногда слова этого корня приходится переосмысливать полностью. Так, в начале истории с ЮКОСом в журнале Time появилась следующая характеристика поведения российского президента: Mr. Putin has remained frustratingly silent. Конечно, можно сказать к досаде..., Путин сохраняет молчание – но к чьей «досаде»? Журналистов, наблюдателей, публики? Или «ко всеобщей досаде»? Все это будет домысливанием. Так что лучше, наверное, сказать что-то вроде сохраняет загадочное/непроницаемое молчание.

    English-Russian nonsystematic dictionary > frustrate

  • 19 frustrating

    •• frustration, frustrate, frustrating

    •• Frustrate prevent somebody from doing something; prevent somebody’s plans from being carried out (A.S. Hornby).
    •• Кто-то неплохо сказал: странно, что в русском языке нет слова для описания этого чувства, ведь испытываешь его в России на каждом шагу. Добавлю: в том числе, когда приходится переводить английские предложения со словом frustration. Чем тут помочь? Профессиональные психологи не стали мучиться, а заимствовали это понятие; они говорят о фрустрации, фрустрированности. Переводчик не всегда может позволить себе такую роскошь – его просто не поймут (в прямом и переносном смысле). В зависимости от контекста frustration и frustrate (например, во фразе I get increasingly frustrated) можно переводить при помощи самых разных слов. Тут и отчаяние, и раздражение, и разочарование, и безвыходное положение, и досада, и озлобленность, и чувство безысходности, бессилия, и многое другое. Главное – проникнуться глубинной семантикой этого слова (ощущение невозможности что-либо сделать, чтобы изменить положение к лучшему), почувствовать его «внутренний образ». Может быть, для этого достаточно пожить месяц-другой в условиях нашего быта (или просто постоять в очереди на паспортный контроль в аэропорту).
    •• Несколько примеров:
    •• 1. [English] spelling and pronunciation are capricious and frustrating for non-native speakers (Time). Возможный перевод: ...невероятно трудны для иностранцев (приводят иностранцев в отчаянье);
    •• 2....the venom with which he was attacked may be attributed to their frustrated rage (J.H. Plumb). – ...возможно, был следствием их бессильной ярости;
    •• 3. Post-war Britain was a frustration to the advertising man (E.S. Turner). – В послевоенной Великобритании мастеров рекламы подстерегали сплошные разочарования;
    •• 4. Last August, Walter’s predecessor, Alex Mandl, resigned after a six-month tenure, similarly frustrated in his quest to become CEO (Time). – ...ушел в отставку, проработав на своем посту шесть месяцев, и тоже не сумев занять место первого руководителя;
    •• 5. Lippmann correctly foretold the frustrations of an essentially reactionary foreign policy based on containment (Henry Kissinger). В этом интересном примере frustrations можно перевести как тупики. В другом примере из того же автора перевод слова frustration облегчается глаголом, который «подсказывает» конкретизацию (конкретизация и генерализация – два великих помощника переводчика, особенно устного, и обращаться к их услугам надо тем смелее, чем меньше времени у вас на размышления): Nixon inherited a society rent by frustration. – Никсон унаследовал общество, раздираемое противоречиями.
    •• * Изучение бездонного в смысле переводческих проблем слова frustration может идти по двум линиям: во-первых, можно до бесконечности множить примеры контекстуального перевода, что по-своему поучительно. Во-вторых, можно попытаться выделить некое достаточно аморфное смысловое ядро, помогающее в поисках перевода, – при недостатке времени оно может выручить переводчика как компромиссный запасной вариант.
    •• Попытки выделить его глубинный смысл не всегда удачны. Так, например, автор замечательной колонки в газете Moscow Times Мишель Берди (Michele A. Berdy), рассуждая о том, почему это слово не имеет однозначного соответствия в русском языке, пишет:
    •• Here’s my theory: Frustration in the Western sense of irritation over relatively petty and minor annoyances doesn’t exist here [in Russia].
    •• Мне кажется, что такая трактовка этого слова подтверждается далеко не всегда.Вот лишь один пример, где frustration относится отнюдь не к мелким тяготам жизни:
    •• As the United Nations mourned its dead, including its respected chief Iraq representative, Sergio Vieira de Mello, Annan voiced frustration with the lack of security and the failure of the U.S.-led occupation powers to anticipate the dangers and hardships of Iraq after Saddam Hussein’s government fell. (Washington Post)
    •• Здесь frustration, конечно, не раздражение, а крайнее недовольство. Недовольство удачно характеризует реакцию субъекта и в следующих предложениях:
    •• Finally, it would bring to an end the ability of governments throughout the region to divert their peoples’ frustration about their own governing failures toward hatred of the United States for its unwillingness to move Israel. (Washington Post) - И, наконец, правительства стран региона уже не смогут переключать внимание своих народов, недовольных/возмущенных провалами их политики, на Соединенные Штаты, обвиняемые в нежелании надавить на Израиль.
    •• Mr. Wolfowitz, meanwhile, expressed frustration with reports on Iraq from Arab news media that he said had inflamed opinion against the American presence.
    •• Здесь – недовольство освещением иракской тематики в арабских СМИ.
    •• Часто хорошими контекстуальными вариантами могут стать слова, трудные для перевода c русского языка. К числу таких слов А. Шмелев в своей книге справедливо относит слово обида ( обидный). Мне кажется, оно хорошо подойдет в переводе следующей фразы из New York Times:
    •• An article yesterday on the frustrations of Hans Blix, the retiring chief weapons inspector for the United Nations, misstated his age.
    •• Есть, по-моему, в этой фразе щепотка иронии, и перевод вчерашняя статья об обидах Ханса Бликса... может быть воспринят таким же образом.
    •• А вот переводческая задачка, связанная со словом frustratingly:
    •• Mr Blair said that the parties to the Northern Ireland political process were “ frustratingly close” to an agreement but had yet to finalise a deal. (BBC)
    •• Мне кажется, что здесь напрашивается перевод до обидного близки к договоренности. Здесь опять-таки тот случай – кстати, не такой уж редкий, – когда труднопереводимое слово одного языка удачно подходит для перевода трудного, хотя по своему содержанию на первый взгляд довольно далекого от него слова из другого языка. Это еще одно подтверждение того, что в словарях, претендующих на полноту и ориентированных на переводчиков, наречия должны в ряде случаев рассматриваться отдельно (см. также слово historically).
    •• Забавное слово, которое, возможно, является выражением крайней степени «frustration по-русски» встретилось в одном из интервью М.С. Горбачева: Ярость, бедность, осточертелость выплеснутся.
    •• Подробнее о втором направлении поисков, на мой взгляд более интересном и плодотворном. У меня создается впечатление, что в последнее время условным смысловым ядром слова frustration (frustrating, to frustrate) можно считать понятие деморализации и близкое к нему ощущение тупика. Вот пара свежих примеров. Первый – из выступления в ООН:
    •• Where there are gaps in the criminal justice chain, the work of the police could be incomplete and frustrating.
    •• Выбор у переводчика большой, да только все варианты длинные (например, ...в работе полиции возникают изъяны, чреватые морально-психологическими последствиями/подрывом морального духа личного состава или, несколько короче, ...работа полиции может давать сбои и казаться безрезультатной/тщетной). Но, наверное, в устном переводе возможно и такое решение («палочка-выручалочка»): ...опасность сбоев и деморализации.
    •• Другой пример, из New York Times:
    •• While some Iranians still believe in their theocracy, the majority want a sweeping transformation. They do not want to be told what to think, what to wear, what to read, what to watch and how to behave, and they are frustrated by the glacial pace of change.
    •• Опять-таки выбор переводческих решений достаточно велик, но вариант «навскидку» – ...они деморализованы крайне медленными темпами перемен – пожалуй, не худший из возможных.
    •• В статье в New York Times об американских военнослужащих в Ираке читаем:
    •• Our exhausted and frustrated soldiers are in a hideously difficult environment they’re not familiar with, dealing with a culture America only dimly understands.
    •• Пожалуй, лучший вариант по-русски:
    •• Наши измотанные и деморализованные солдаты...
    •• Одна из возможных стратегий перевода слова frustration – перенос акцента с эмоционального состояния человека на причину или результат этого состояния. Например, когда человек is frustrated, то он обычно – что вполне естественно – крайне недоволен этим. Поэтому фраза из статьи в Washington Post:
    •• Part of it stemmed from his frustration with the culture of the White House
    •• вполне может быть переведена как
    •• Отчасти это было связано с его крайним недовольством порядками, царящими в Белом доме.
    •• Тот же прием буквально напрашивается и в следующем примере из статьи в New York Times о сериале Sex and the City:
    •• Last season found the fantastic foursome mired in the realities of motherhood, career frustration and heartbreak.
    •• По-русски проще всего – и вполне верно – сказать карьерные неудачи. Вместо описания состояния – его причина. В «Моем несистематическом словаре» я писал, что русское слово неудача часто бывает несколько мягче английского failure. Поэтому frustration = неудача – довольно закономерное контекстуальное соответствие.
    •• Надо, однако, согласиться, что часто это слово выражает состояние, гораздо менее сильное, чем предполагают такие русские слова, как отчаяние или безысходность (соответствия, приводимые во многих словарях). Вот фрагмент рецензии из газеты Chicago Tribune на фильм режиссера Эндрю Джареки Capturing the Friedmans:
    •• One former student describing Arnold’s basement sessions as nothing more than a boring computer class is followed by the lead investigator characterizing them as a “free-for-all.” At first this lack of resolution is frustrating, like Jaracki owes it to us to solve this case in a way that investigators and journalists couldn’t.
    •• Здесь, наверное, можно сказать отсутствие вывода/сохранение неопределенности приводит зрителя в замешательство (неплохо также ставит в тупик или вызывает раздражение).
    •• Наконец, иногда слова этого корня приходится переосмысливать полностью. Так, в начале истории с ЮКОСом в журнале Time появилась следующая характеристика поведения российского президента: Mr. Putin has remained frustratingly silent. Конечно, можно сказать к досаде..., Путин сохраняет молчание – но к чьей «досаде»? Журналистов, наблюдателей, публики? Или «ко всеобщей досаде»? Все это будет домысливанием. Так что лучше, наверное, сказать что-то вроде сохраняет загадочное/непроницаемое молчание.

    English-Russian nonsystematic dictionary > frustrating

  • 20 frustration

    •• frustration, frustrate, frustrating

    •• Frustrate prevent somebody from doing something; prevent somebody’s plans from being carried out (A.S. Hornby).
    •• Кто-то неплохо сказал: странно, что в русском языке нет слова для описания этого чувства, ведь испытываешь его в России на каждом шагу. Добавлю: в том числе, когда приходится переводить английские предложения со словом frustration. Чем тут помочь? Профессиональные психологи не стали мучиться, а заимствовали это понятие; они говорят о фрустрации, фрустрированности. Переводчик не всегда может позволить себе такую роскошь – его просто не поймут (в прямом и переносном смысле). В зависимости от контекста frustration и frustrate (например, во фразе I get increasingly frustrated) можно переводить при помощи самых разных слов. Тут и отчаяние, и раздражение, и разочарование, и безвыходное положение, и досада, и озлобленность, и чувство безысходности, бессилия, и многое другое. Главное – проникнуться глубинной семантикой этого слова (ощущение невозможности что-либо сделать, чтобы изменить положение к лучшему), почувствовать его «внутренний образ». Может быть, для этого достаточно пожить месяц-другой в условиях нашего быта (или просто постоять в очереди на паспортный контроль в аэропорту).
    •• Несколько примеров:
    •• 1. [English] spelling and pronunciation are capricious and frustrating for non-native speakers (Time). Возможный перевод: ...невероятно трудны для иностранцев (приводят иностранцев в отчаянье);
    •• 2....the venom with which he was attacked may be attributed to their frustrated rage (J.H. Plumb). – ...возможно, был следствием их бессильной ярости;
    •• 3. Post-war Britain was a frustration to the advertising man (E.S. Turner). – В послевоенной Великобритании мастеров рекламы подстерегали сплошные разочарования;
    •• 4. Last August, Walter’s predecessor, Alex Mandl, resigned after a six-month tenure, similarly frustrated in his quest to become CEO (Time). – ...ушел в отставку, проработав на своем посту шесть месяцев, и тоже не сумев занять место первого руководителя;
    •• 5. Lippmann correctly foretold the frustrations of an essentially reactionary foreign policy based on containment (Henry Kissinger). В этом интересном примере frustrations можно перевести как тупики. В другом примере из того же автора перевод слова frustration облегчается глаголом, который «подсказывает» конкретизацию (конкретизация и генерализация – два великих помощника переводчика, особенно устного, и обращаться к их услугам надо тем смелее, чем меньше времени у вас на размышления): Nixon inherited a society rent by frustration. – Никсон унаследовал общество, раздираемое противоречиями.
    •• * Изучение бездонного в смысле переводческих проблем слова frustration может идти по двум линиям: во-первых, можно до бесконечности множить примеры контекстуального перевода, что по-своему поучительно. Во-вторых, можно попытаться выделить некое достаточно аморфное смысловое ядро, помогающее в поисках перевода, – при недостатке времени оно может выручить переводчика как компромиссный запасной вариант.
    •• Попытки выделить его глубинный смысл не всегда удачны. Так, например, автор замечательной колонки в газете Moscow Times Мишель Берди (Michele A. Berdy), рассуждая о том, почему это слово не имеет однозначного соответствия в русском языке, пишет:
    •• Here’s my theory: Frustration in the Western sense of irritation over relatively petty and minor annoyances doesn’t exist here [in Russia].
    •• Мне кажется, что такая трактовка этого слова подтверждается далеко не всегда.Вот лишь один пример, где frustration относится отнюдь не к мелким тяготам жизни:
    •• As the United Nations mourned its dead, including its respected chief Iraq representative, Sergio Vieira de Mello, Annan voiced frustration with the lack of security and the failure of the U.S.-led occupation powers to anticipate the dangers and hardships of Iraq after Saddam Hussein’s government fell. (Washington Post)
    •• Здесь frustration, конечно, не раздражение, а крайнее недовольство. Недовольство удачно характеризует реакцию субъекта и в следующих предложениях:
    •• Finally, it would bring to an end the ability of governments throughout the region to divert their peoples’ frustration about their own governing failures toward hatred of the United States for its unwillingness to move Israel. (Washington Post) - И, наконец, правительства стран региона уже не смогут переключать внимание своих народов, недовольных/возмущенных провалами их политики, на Соединенные Штаты, обвиняемые в нежелании надавить на Израиль.
    •• Mr. Wolfowitz, meanwhile, expressed frustration with reports on Iraq from Arab news media that he said had inflamed opinion against the American presence.
    •• Здесь – недовольство освещением иракской тематики в арабских СМИ.
    •• Часто хорошими контекстуальными вариантами могут стать слова, трудные для перевода c русского языка. К числу таких слов А. Шмелев в своей книге справедливо относит слово обида ( обидный). Мне кажется, оно хорошо подойдет в переводе следующей фразы из New York Times:
    •• An article yesterday on the frustrations of Hans Blix, the retiring chief weapons inspector for the United Nations, misstated his age.
    •• Есть, по-моему, в этой фразе щепотка иронии, и перевод вчерашняя статья об обидах Ханса Бликса... может быть воспринят таким же образом.
    •• А вот переводческая задачка, связанная со словом frustratingly:
    •• Mr Blair said that the parties to the Northern Ireland political process were “ frustratingly close” to an agreement but had yet to finalise a deal. (BBC)
    •• Мне кажется, что здесь напрашивается перевод до обидного близки к договоренности. Здесь опять-таки тот случай – кстати, не такой уж редкий, – когда труднопереводимое слово одного языка удачно подходит для перевода трудного, хотя по своему содержанию на первый взгляд довольно далекого от него слова из другого языка. Это еще одно подтверждение того, что в словарях, претендующих на полноту и ориентированных на переводчиков, наречия должны в ряде случаев рассматриваться отдельно (см. также слово historically).
    •• Забавное слово, которое, возможно, является выражением крайней степени «frustration по-русски» встретилось в одном из интервью М.С. Горбачева: Ярость, бедность, осточертелость выплеснутся.
    •• Подробнее о втором направлении поисков, на мой взгляд более интересном и плодотворном. У меня создается впечатление, что в последнее время условным смысловым ядром слова frustration (frustrating, to frustrate) можно считать понятие деморализации и близкое к нему ощущение тупика. Вот пара свежих примеров. Первый – из выступления в ООН:
    •• Where there are gaps in the criminal justice chain, the work of the police could be incomplete and frustrating.
    •• Выбор у переводчика большой, да только все варианты длинные (например, ...в работе полиции возникают изъяны, чреватые морально-психологическими последствиями/подрывом морального духа личного состава или, несколько короче, ...работа полиции может давать сбои и казаться безрезультатной/тщетной). Но, наверное, в устном переводе возможно и такое решение («палочка-выручалочка»): ...опасность сбоев и деморализации.
    •• Другой пример, из New York Times:
    •• While some Iranians still believe in their theocracy, the majority want a sweeping transformation. They do not want to be told what to think, what to wear, what to read, what to watch and how to behave, and they are frustrated by the glacial pace of change.
    •• Опять-таки выбор переводческих решений достаточно велик, но вариант «навскидку» – ...они деморализованы крайне медленными темпами перемен – пожалуй, не худший из возможных.
    •• В статье в New York Times об американских военнослужащих в Ираке читаем:
    •• Our exhausted and frustrated soldiers are in a hideously difficult environment they’re not familiar with, dealing with a culture America only dimly understands.
    •• Пожалуй, лучший вариант по-русски:
    •• Наши измотанные и деморализованные солдаты...
    •• Одна из возможных стратегий перевода слова frustration – перенос акцента с эмоционального состояния человека на причину или результат этого состояния. Например, когда человек is frustrated, то он обычно – что вполне естественно – крайне недоволен этим. Поэтому фраза из статьи в Washington Post:
    •• Part of it stemmed from his frustration with the culture of the White House
    •• вполне может быть переведена как
    •• Отчасти это было связано с его крайним недовольством порядками, царящими в Белом доме.
    •• Тот же прием буквально напрашивается и в следующем примере из статьи в New York Times о сериале Sex and the City:
    •• Last season found the fantastic foursome mired in the realities of motherhood, career frustration and heartbreak.
    •• По-русски проще всего – и вполне верно – сказать карьерные неудачи. Вместо описания состояния – его причина. В «Моем несистематическом словаре» я писал, что русское слово неудача часто бывает несколько мягче английского failure. Поэтому frustration = неудача – довольно закономерное контекстуальное соответствие.
    •• Надо, однако, согласиться, что часто это слово выражает состояние, гораздо менее сильное, чем предполагают такие русские слова, как отчаяние или безысходность (соответствия, приводимые во многих словарях). Вот фрагмент рецензии из газеты Chicago Tribune на фильм режиссера Эндрю Джареки Capturing the Friedmans:
    •• One former student describing Arnold’s basement sessions as nothing more than a boring computer class is followed by the lead investigator characterizing them as a “free-for-all.” At first this lack of resolution is frustrating, like Jaracki owes it to us to solve this case in a way that investigators and journalists couldn’t.
    •• Здесь, наверное, можно сказать отсутствие вывода/сохранение неопределенности приводит зрителя в замешательство (неплохо также ставит в тупик или вызывает раздражение).
    •• Наконец, иногда слова этого корня приходится переосмысливать полностью. Так, в начале истории с ЮКОСом в журнале Time появилась следующая характеристика поведения российского президента: Mr. Putin has remained frustratingly silent. Конечно, можно сказать к досаде..., Путин сохраняет молчание – но к чьей «досаде»? Журналистов, наблюдателей, публики? Или «ко всеобщей досаде»? Все это будет домысливанием. Так что лучше, наверное, сказать что-то вроде сохраняет загадочное/непроницаемое молчание.

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