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  • 21 suponer

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

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

    ya puedes suponer lo que pasóyou can guess o imagine what happened

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

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

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

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

    2)

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

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

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

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

    suponiendo que todo salga según lo previstoassuming o presuming everything goes according to plan

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

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

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

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

    os suponía informados de este asuntoI assumed o presumed you had been informed about this matter

    le supongo unos 60 añosI would say o guess he's about 60

    se le supone una gran antigüedadit is thought o believed to be very old

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

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

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

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

    * * *
    I

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

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

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

    supongamos que lo que dice es ciertolet's suppose o assume what he says is true

    supongamos que los dos ángulos son igualeslet us suppose o assume that both angles are equal

    b) ( imaginar)

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

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

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

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

    le suponía más edadI imagined o thought he was older

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

    2) (significar, implicar) to mean

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

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

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

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

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

    supongamos que lo que dice es ciertolet's suppose o assume what he says is true

    supongamos que los dos ángulos son igualeslet us suppose o assume that both angles are equal

    b) ( imaginar)

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

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

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

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

    le suponía más edadI imagined o thought he was older

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

    2) (significar, implicar) to mean

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

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

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

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

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

     

    suponer ( conjugate suponer) verbo transitivo
    1

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

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


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

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

    Spanish-English dictionary > suponer

  • 22 get

    get [get]
    recevoir1A (a), 1A (d), 1A (g), 1A (i), 1B (b) avoir1A (a), 1A (b) toucher1A (a), 1A (b), 1B (b) trouver1A (b), 1A (h) obtenir1A (b), 1A (h) tenir1A (c) offrir1A (e) acheter1A (f) prendre1A (f), 1A (k), 1A (l) gagner1A (i) chercher1A (j) attraper1A (k), 1A (l), 1B (a) réserver1A (m) répondre1A (n) faire faire1C (b)-(d) préparer1D (a) entendre1D (b) comprendre1D (d) atteindre1E (a) devenir2A (a) se faire2A (b) commencer à2A (c), 2B (c) aller2B (a) réussir à2B (e)
    ( British pt & pp got [gɒt], cont getting [getɪŋ], American pt got [gɒt], pp gotten [gɒtən], cont getting [getɪŋ])
    A.
    (a) (receive → gift, letter, phone call) recevoir, avoir; (→ benefits, pension) recevoir, toucher; (→ medical treatment) suivre;
    I got a bike for my birthday on m'a donné ou j'ai eu ou j'ai reçu un vélo pour mon anniversaire;
    I get 'The Times' at home je reçois le 'Times' à la maison;
    this part of the country doesn't get much rain cette région ne reçoit pas beaucoup de pluie, il ne pleut pas beaucoup dans cette région;
    the living room gets a lot of sun le salon est très ensoleillé;
    I rang but I got no answer (at door) j'ai sonné mais je n'ai pas obtenu ou eu de réponse; (on phone) j'ai appelé sans obtenir de réponse;
    many students get grants beaucoup d'étudiants ont une bourse;
    he got five years for smuggling il a écopé de ou il a pris cinq ans (de prison) pour contrebande;
    he got a bullet in his shoulder il a reçu une balle dans l'épaule;
    familiar you're really going to get it! qu'est-ce que tu vas prendre ou écoper!;
    familiar I'll see that you get yours! je vais te régler ton compte!
    (b) (obtain → gen) avoir, trouver, obtenir; (→ through effort) se procurer, obtenir; (→ licence, loan, permission) obtenir; (→ diploma, grades) avoir, obtenir;
    where did you get that book? où avez-vous trouvé ce livre?;
    they got him a job ils lui ont trouvé du travail;
    I got the job! ils m'ont embauché!;
    can you get them the report? pouvez-vous leur procurer le rapport?;
    I got the idea from a book j'ai trouvé l'idée dans un livre;
    I got a glimpse of her face j'ai pu apercevoir son visage;
    you get a fine view from here il y a une vue magnifique d'ici;
    I've got six more to get (in collection) il m'en manque six;
    the town gets its water from the reservoir la ville reçoit son eau du réservoir;
    we get our wine directly from the vineyard en vin ou pour le vin, nous nous fournissons directement chez le producteur;
    they stopped in town to get some lunch (had lunch there) ils se sont arrêtés en ville pour déjeuner; (bought something to eat) ils se sont arrêtés en ville pour acheter de quoi déjeuner;
    I'm going out to get a breath of fresh air je sors prendre l'air;
    I'm going to get something to drink/eat (fetch) je vais chercher quelque chose à boire/manger; (consume) je vais boire/manger quelque chose;
    can I get a coffee? je pourrais avoir un café, s'il vous plaît?;
    get yourself a good lawyer trouvez-vous un bon avocat;
    get advice from your doctor demandez conseil à votre médecin;
    I need all the advice I can get j'ai besoin de tous les conseils qu'on peut me donner;
    to get (oneself) a wife/husband se trouver une femme/un mari;
    to get sb to oneself avoir qn pour soi tout seul;
    to get a divorce obtenir le divorce;
    get plenty of exercise faites beaucoup d'exercice;
    get plenty of sleep dormez beaucoup;
    try and get a few days off work essayez de prendre quelques jours de congé;
    I'll do it if I get the time/a moment je le ferai si j'ai le temps/si je trouve un moment;
    I got a lot from or out of my trip to China mon voyage en Chine m'a beaucoup apporté;
    she got very little from her lessons elle a très peu appris de ses leçons;
    he didn't get a chance to introduce himself il n'a pas eu l'occasion de se présenter
    (c) (inherit → characteristic) tenir;
    she gets her shyness from her father elle tient sa timidité de son père
    they got a lot of money for their flat la vente de leur appartement leur a rapporté beaucoup d'argent;
    they got a good price for the painting le tableau s'est vendu à un bon prix;
    what did you get for your car? combien est-ce que tu as vendu ta voiture?;
    he got nothing for his trouble il s'est donné de la peine pour rien;
    you don't get something for nothing on n'a rien pour rien
    (e) (offer as gift) offrir, donner;
    what did she get him for Christmas? qu'est-ce qu'elle lui a offert ou donné pour Noël?;
    I don't know what to get Jill for her birthday je ne sais pas quoi acheter à Jill pour son anniversaire
    (f) (buy) acheter, prendre;
    get your father a magazine when you go out achète une revue à ton père quand tu sortiras;
    get the paper too prends ou achète le journal aussi;
    we got the house cheap on a eu la maison (à) bon marché
    (g) (learn → information, news) recevoir, apprendre;
    we turned on the radio to get the news nous avons allumé la radio pour écouter les informations;
    she just got news or word of the accident elle vient juste d'apprendre la nouvelle de l'accident;
    he broke down when he got the news en apprenant la nouvelle il a fondu en larmes
    (h) (reach by calculation or experimentation → answer, solution) trouver; (→ result) obtenir;
    multiply 5 by 2 and you get 10 multipliez 5 par 2 et vous obtenez 10
    (i) (earn, win → salary) recevoir, gagner, toucher; (→ prize) gagner; (→ reputation) se faire;
    plumbers get £20 an hour un plombier gagne ou touche 20 livres de l'heure;
    he got a good name or a reputation as an architect il s'est fait une réputation dans le milieu de l'architecture;
    someone's trying to get your attention (calling) quelqu'un vous appelle; (waving) quelqu'un vous fait signe
    (j) (bring, fetch) (aller) chercher;
    he went and got a book from the library il est allé chercher un livre à la bibliothèque;
    go and get a doctor allez chercher un médecin;
    get me my coat va me chercher ou apporte-moi mon manteau;
    we had to get a doctor nous avons dû faire venir un médecin;
    he went to get a taxi il est parti chercher un taxi;
    what can I get you to drink? qu'est-ce que je vous sers à boire?;
    can I get you anything? (to somebody ill etc) est-ce que vous avez besoin de quelque chose?;
    they sent him to get help ils l'ont envoyé chercher de l'aide
    (k) (catch → ball) attraper; (→ bus, train) prendre, attraper;
    did you get your train? est-ce que tu as eu ton train?
    (l) (capture) attraper, prendre; (seize) prendre, saisir;
    the Mounties always get their man la police montée attrape toujours son homme (au Canada);
    he got me by the arm il m'a attrapé par le bras;
    the dog got him by the leg le chien l'a attrapé à la jambe;
    (I've) got you! je te tiens!
    (m) (book, reserve) réserver, retenir;
    we're trying to get a flight to Budapest nous essayons de réserver un vol pour Budapest
    (n) (answer → door, telephone) répondre;
    the doorbell's ringing - I'll get it! quelqu'un sonne à la porte - j'y vais!;
    will you get the phone? peux-tu répondre au téléphone?
    B.
    he got a chill il a pris ou attrapé froid;
    I get a headache when I drink red wine le vin rouge me donne mal à la tête;
    familiar to get it bad for sb avoir qn dans la peau
    (b) (experience, feel → shock) recevoir, ressentir, avoir; (→ fun, pain, surprise) avoir;
    I got the feeling something horrible would happen j'ai eu l'impression ou le pressentiment que quelque chose d'horrible allait arriver;
    I get the impression he doesn't like me j'ai l'impression que je ne lui plais pas;
    to get a thrill out of sth/doing sth prendre plaisir à qch/faire qch;
    familiar to get religion devenir croyant
    you get some odd people on these tours il y a de drôles de gens dans ces voyages organisés;
    you get a lot of people marrying young here il y a beaucoup de gens qui se marient jeunes par ici;
    we don't get many accidents here nous n'avons pas beaucoup d'accidents par ici
    C.
    (a) (with adj or past participle) (cause to be) she managed to get the window closed/open elle a réussi à fermer/ouvrir la fenêtre;
    I got the car started j'ai démarré la voiture;
    don't get your feet wet! ne te mouille pas les pieds!;
    get the suitcases ready préparez les bagages;
    the children are getting themselves ready for school les enfants se préparent pour (aller à) l'école;
    I finally got her on her own or alone j'ai fini par réussir à la voir en tête à tête;
    we managed to get him in a good mood nous avons réussi à le mettre de bonne humeur;
    they've got me so I don't know whether I'm coming or going c'en est à un tel point que je ne sais plus où j'en suis;
    to get people interested (in sth) intéresser les gens (à qch);
    let me get this clear que ce soit bien clair;
    to get things under control prendre les choses en main;
    he likes his bath as hot as he can get it il aime que son bain soit aussi chaud que possible;
    the flat is as clean as I'm going to get it j'ai nettoyé l'appartement le mieux que j'ai pu;
    he got himself nominated president il s'est fait nommer président;
    don't get yourself all worked up ne t'en fais pas
    (b) (with infinitive) (cause to do or carry out) we couldn't get her to leave on n'a pas pu la faire partir;
    get him to move the car demande-lui de déplacer la voiture;
    I got it to work, I got it working j'ai réussi à le faire marcher;
    we have to get the government to tighten up on pollution control il faut que l'on obtienne du gouvernement qu'il renforce les lois contre la pollution;
    he got the other members to agree il a réussi à obtenir l'accord des autres membres;
    I can always get someone else to do it je peux toujours le faire faire par quelqu'un d'autre;
    I got her to talk about life in China je lui ai demandé de parler de la vie en Chine;
    they can't get the landlord to fix the roof ils n'arrivent pas à obtenir du propriétaire qu'il fasse réparer le toit;
    how do you get jasmine to grow indoors? comment peut-on faire pousser du jasmin à l'intérieur?
    (c) (with past participle) (cause to be done or carried out) to get sth done/repaired faire faire/réparer qch;
    to get one's hair cut se faire couper les cheveux;
    I didn't get anything done today je n'ai rien fait aujourd'hui;
    it's impossible to get anything done around here (by oneself) il est impossible de faire quoi que ce soit ici; (by someone else) il est impossible d'obtenir quoi que ce soit ici
    (d) (cause to come, go, move)
    how are you going to get this package to them? comment allez-vous leur faire parvenir ce paquet?;
    they eventually got all the boxes downstairs/upstairs ils ont fini par descendre/monter toutes leurs boîtes;
    I managed to get the old man downstairs/upstairs j'ai réussi à faire descendre/monter le vieil homme;
    I managed to get him away from the others j'ai réussi à l'éloigner des autres;
    get him away from me débarrassez-moi de lui;
    can you get me home? pouvez-vous me raccompagner?;
    they got her to the airport on time ils l'ont amenée à l'aéroport à l'heure;
    his friends managed to get him home ses amis ont réussi à le ramener (à la maison);
    how are we going to get the bike home? comment est-ce qu'on va ramener le vélo à la maison?;
    I got a message to them je leur ai fait parvenir un message;
    he can't get the children to bed il n'arrive pas à mettre les enfants au lit;
    I can't get my boots off/on je n'arrive pas à enlever/mettre mes bottes;
    we couldn't get the bed through the door nous n'avons pas pu faire passer le lit par la porte;
    figurative where has all this got us? où est-ce que tout ça nous a menés?;
    this is getting us nowhere ça ne nous mène nulle part, ça ne nous mène à rien;
    that won't get you very far! ça ne te servira pas à grand-chose!, tu ne seras pas beaucoup plus avancé!
    D.
    (a) (prepare → meal, drink) préparer;
    he's in the kitchen getting dinner il est à la cuisine en train de préparer le dîner;
    who's going to get the children breakfast? qui va préparer le petit déjeuner pour les enfants?;
    she got herself some breakfast elle s'est préparé un petit déjeuner
    (b) (hear correctly) entendre, saisir;
    I didn't get his name je n'ai pas saisi son nom
    I got her father on the phone j'ai parlé à son père ou j'ai eu son père au téléphone;
    I couldn't get her at the office je n'ai pas pu l'avoir au bureau;
    did you get the number you wanted? avez-vous obtenu le numéro que vous vouliez?;
    get me extension 3500 passez-moi ou donnez-moi le poste 3500
    (d) familiar (understand) comprendre, saisir ;
    I don't get it, I don't get the point je ne comprends ou ne saisis pas, je n'y suis pas du tout;
    I don't get you or your meaning je ne comprends pas ce que vous voulez dire;
    if you get my meaning si tu vois ce que je veux dire ;
    don't get me wrong comprenez-moi bien;
    I think he's got the message now je crois qu'il a compris maintenant;
    I don't get the joke je ne vois pas ce qui est (si) drôle ;
    get it?, get me?, get my drift? tu saisis?, tu piges?;
    (I've) got it! ça y est!, j'y suis! ;
    oh, I get you! ah! j'ai pigé!
    (e) (take note of) remarquer;
    did you get his address? lui avez-vous demandé son adresse?
    get him! who does he think he is? vise un peu ce mec, mais pour qui il se prend?;
    get (a load of) that! vise un peu ça!
    (g) familiar (listen to) écouter ;
    get a load of this! écoute un peu ça!;
    get him! écoute-le, celui-là!;
    E.
    (a) familiar (hit) atteindre ; (hit and kill) tuer ;
    she got him in the face with a pie elle lui a jeté une tarte à la crème à la figure;
    the bullet got him in the back il a pris la balle ou la balle l'a atteint dans le dos;
    a car got him il a été tué par une voiture
    (b) familiar (harm, punish)
    everyone's out to get me tout le monde est après moi
    (c) familiar (take vengeance on) se venger de ;
    we'll get you for this! on te revaudra ça!;
    I'll get him for that! je lui revaudrai ça!
    the pain gets me in the back j'ai des douleurs dans le dos
    that song really gets me cette chanson me fait vraiment quelque chose
    (f) familiar (baffle, puzzle)
    you've got me there alors là, aucune idée
    (g) familiar (irritate) énerver, agacer ;
    it really gets me when you're late qu'est-ce que ça peut m'énerver quand tu es en retard!
    (h) American (learn) apprendre;
    to get sth by heart apprendre qch par cœur
    (i) archaic (beget) engendrer;
    to get sb with child faire un enfant à qn
    (j) Radio & Television (signal, station) capter, recevoir
    he got his in Vietnam il est mort au Viêt Nam
    A.
    (a) (become) devenir;
    I'm getting hungry/thirsty je commence à avoir faim/soif;
    get dressed! habille-toi!;
    to get fat grossir;
    to get married se marier;
    to get divorced divorcer;
    don't get lost! ne vous perdez pas!;
    how did that vase get broken? comment se fait-il que ce vase soit cassé?;
    he got so he didn't want to go out any more il en est arrivé à ne plus vouloir sortir;
    to get old vieillir;
    it's getting late il se fait tard;
    this is getting boring ça devient ennuyeux;
    to get used to sth/doing sth s'habituer à qch/à faire qch;
    familiar will you get with it! mais réveille-toi un peu!
    to get elected se faire élire, être élu;
    suppose he gets killed et s'il se fait tuer?;
    to get drowned se noyer;
    we got paid last week on a été payés la semaine dernière;
    I'm always getting invited to parties on m'invite toujours à des soirées
    (c) (with present participle) (start) commencer à, se mettre à;
    let's get going or moving! (let's leave) allons-y!; (let's hurry) dépêchons(-nous)!, grouillons-nous!; (let's start to work) au travail!;
    I'll get going on that right away je m'y mets tout de suite;
    I can't seem to get going today je n'arrive pas à m'activer aujourd'hui;
    she got talking to the neighbours elle s'est mise à discuter avec les voisins;
    we got talking about racism nous en sommes venus à parler de racisme;
    he got to thinking about it il s'est mis à réfléchir à la question
    B.
    (a) (go) aller, se rendre; (arrive) arriver;
    when did you get home? quand es-tu rentré?;
    it's nice to get home ça fait du bien de rentrer chez soi;
    how do you get to the museum? comment est-ce qu'on fait pour aller au musée?;
    how did you get in here? comment êtes-vous entré?;
    they should get here today ils devraient arriver ici aujourd'hui;
    how did you get here? comment es-tu venu?;
    how did that bicycle get here? comment se fait-il que ce vélo se trouve ici?;
    I took the train from Madrid to get there j'ai pris le train de Madrid pour y aller;
    she's successful now but it took her a while to get there elle a une bonne situation maintenant, mais ça ne s'est pas fait du jour au lendemain;
    he got as far as buying the tickets il est allé jusqu'à acheter les billets;
    I'd hoped things wouldn't get this far j'avais espéré qu'on n'en arriverait pas là;
    are you getting anywhere with that report? il avance, ce rapport?;
    now you're getting somewhere! enfin tu avances!;
    I'm not getting anywhere or I'm getting nowhere with this project je fais du surplace avec ce projet;
    we're not getting anywhere with this meeting cette réunion est une perte de temps;
    she won't get anywhere or she'll get nowhere if she's rude to people elle n'arrivera à rien en étant grossière avec les gens;
    where's your sister got to? où est passée ta sœur?;
    where did my keys get to? où sont passées mes clés?
    he got along the ledge as best he could il a avancé le long du rebord du mieux qu'il pouvait;
    she got behind a tree elle s'est mise derrière un arbre;
    to get into bed se coucher;
    get in or into the car! monte dans la voiture!;
    get over here! viens ici!;
    we couldn't get past the truck nous ne pouvions pas passer le camion
    (c) (with infinitive) (start) commencer à, se mettre à;
    each city is getting to look like another toutes les grandes villes commencent à se ressembler;
    to get to know sb apprendre à connaître qn;
    we got to like her husband nous nous sommes mis à apprécier ou à aimer son mari;
    you'll get to like it in the end ça finira par te plaire;
    his father got to hear of the rumours son père a fini par entendre les rumeurs;
    he's getting to be known il commence à être connu, il se fait connaître;
    they got to talking about the past ils en sont venus ou ils se sont mis à parler du passé
    (d) (become) devenir;
    it's getting to be impossible to find a flat ça devient impossible de trouver un appartement;
    she may get to be president one day elle pourrait devenir ou être président un jour;
    they got to be friends ils sont devenus amis
    (e) (manage) réussir à;
    we never got to see that film nous n'avons jamais réussi à ou nous ne sommes jamais arrivés à voir ce film;
    I didn't get to speak to him in person je n'ai pas pu lui parler en personne
    he never gets to stay up late on ne le laisse jamais se coucher tard ;
    I never get to drive on ne me laisse jamais conduire
    (g) familiar (leave) se tirer;
    get! fous le camp!, tire-toi!
    3 noun
    familiar (in tennis) beau retour m
    (a) (be up and about, move around) se déplacer;
    how do you get about town? comment vous déplacez-vous en ville?;
    she gets about on crutches/in a wheelchair elle se déplace avec des béquilles/en chaise roulante;
    I don't get about much these days je ne me déplace pas beaucoup ces temps-ci
    (b) (travel) voyager;
    I get about quite a bit in my job je suis assez souvent en déplacement pour mon travail
    she certainly gets about elle connaît beaucoup de monde
    (d) (story, rumour) se répandre, circuler;
    the news or it got about that they were splitting up la nouvelle de leur séparation s'est répandue
    (a) (succeed in crossing) traverser, passer;
    the river was flooded but we managed to get across la rivière était en crue mais nous avons réussi à traverser
    our message is not getting across notre message ne passe pas
    (a) (over water, street → person) faire traverser;
    we couldn't get the supplies across (across the river) nous ne pouvions pas faire passer les vivres de l'autre côté;
    it was easy to get the people across (across the border) il était facile de faire passer les gens
    (b) (communicate) communiquer;
    I can't seem to get the idea across to them je n'arrive pas à leur faire comprendre ça;
    he managed to get his point across il a réussi à faire passer son message
    poursuivre
    (succeed) réussir, arriver;
    to get ahead in life or in the world réussir dans la vie;
    if you want to get ahead at the office, you have to work si tu veux de l'avancement au bureau, il faut que tu travailles
    (a) (fare, manage) aller;
    how are you getting along? comment vas-tu?, comment ça va?;
    she's getting along well in her new job elle se débrouille bien dans son nouveau travail;
    we can get along without him nous pouvons nous passer de lui ou nous débrouiller sans lui
    (b) (advance, progress) avancer, progresser;
    the patient is getting along nicely le patient est en bonne voie ou fait des progrès
    (c) (be on good terms) s'entendre;
    we get along fine nous nous entendons très bien, nous faisons bon ménage;
    she doesn't get along with my mother elle ne s'entend pas avec ma mère;
    she's easy to get along with elle est facile à vivre
    (d) (move away) s'en aller, partir; (go) aller, se rendre;
    it's time for me to be getting along, it's time I was getting along il est temps que je parte;
    I must be getting along to the office il faut que j'aille au bureau;
    British get along with you! (leave) va-t'en!, fiche le camp!; familiar (I don't believe you) à d'autres!
    (obstacle, problem) contourner; (law, rule) tourner;
    there's no getting around it, we'll have to tell her il n'y a pas d'autre moyen, il va falloir que nous le lui disions;
    she won't get around to reading it before tomorrow elle n'arrivera pas à (trouver le temps de) le lire avant demain;
    he finally got around to fixing the radiator il a fini par ou il est finalement arrivé à réparer le radiateur;
    it was some time before I got around to writing to her j'ai mis pas mal de temps avant de lui écrire
    (a) (reach → object, shelf) atteindre; (→ place) parvenir à, atteindre;
    I've put the pills where the children can't get at them j'ai mis les pilules là où les enfants ne peuvent pas les prendre;
    familiar just let me get at him! si jamais il me tombe sous la main!
    (b) (discover) trouver;
    to get at the truth découvrir la vérité
    (c) (mean, intend) entendre;
    I see what you're getting at je vois où vous voulez en venir;
    just what are you getting at? qu'est-ce que vous entendez par là?, où voulez-vous en venir?;
    what I'm getting at is why did she leave now? ce que je veux dire, c'est pourquoi est-elle partie maintenant?
    (d) familiar (criticize) s'en prendre à, s'attaquer à ;
    you're always getting at me tu t'en prends toujours à moi
    (e) familiar (bribe, influence) acheter, suborner ;
    the witnesses had been got at les témoins avaient été achetés
    (a) (leave) s'en aller, partir;
    she has to get away from home/her parents il faut qu'elle parte de chez elle/s'éloigne de ses parents;
    I was in a meeting and couldn't get away j'étais en réunion et je ne pouvais pas m'échapper ou m'en aller;
    will you be able to get away at Christmas? allez-vous pouvoir partir (en vacances) à Noël?;
    to get away from the daily grind échapper au train-train quotidien;
    get away from it all, come to Florida! quittez tout, venez en Floride!;
    she's gone off for a couple of weeks to get away from it all elle est partie quelques semaines loin de tout
    (b) (move away) s'éloigner;
    get away from that door! éloignez-vous ou écartez-vous de cette porte!;
    get away from me! fichez-moi le camp!
    (c) (escape) s'échapper, se sauver;
    the murderer got away l'assassin s'est échappé;
    the thief got away with all the jewels le voleur est parti ou s'est sauvé avec tous les bijoux;
    there's no getting away from or you can't get away from the fact that the other solution would have been cheaper on ne peut pas nier (le fait) que l'autre solution aurait coûté moins cher;
    you can't get away from it, there's no getting away from it c'est comme ça, on n'y peut rien
    get away (with you)! à d'autres!
    (remove → person) emmener;
    get that child away from the road! éloignez cet enfant de la route!;
    get me away from here! fais-moi sortir d'ici!;
    get your dog away from my garden! faites sortir votre chien de mon jardin!;
    they managed to get him away from the TV ils ont fini par l'arracher de devant la télévision;
    to get sth away from sb prendre qch à qn
    he got away with cheating on his taxes personne ne s'est aperçu qu'il avait fraudé le fisc;
    I can't believe you got away with it! je n'arrive pas à croire que personne ne t'ait rien dit!;
    he got away with a small fine il s'en est tiré avec une petite amende;
    that child gets away with murder on laisse tout faire à ce gamin;
    her skirt is really tiny but she gets away with it sa jupe est vraiment très courte mais elle peut se le permettre
    get back! éloignez-vous!, reculez!
    (b) (return) revenir, retourner;
    I can't wait to get back home je suis impatient de rentrer (à la maison);
    get back in bed! va te recoucher!, retourne au lit!;
    I got back in the car/on the bus je suis remonté dans la voiture/dans le bus;
    to get back to sleep se rendormir;
    to get back to work (after break) se remettre au travail; (after holiday, illness) reprendre le travail;
    things eventually got back to normal les choses ont peu à peu repris leur cours (normal);
    getting or to get back to the point pour en revenir au sujet qui nous préoccupe;
    let's get back to your basic reasons for leaving revenons aux raisons pour lesquelles vous voulez partir;
    I'll get back to you on that (call back) je vous rappelle pour vous dire ce qu'il en est; (discuss again) nous reparlerons de cela plus tard
    do you think the Democrats will get back in? croyez-vous que le parti démocrate reviendra au pouvoir?
    (a) (recover → something lost or lent) récupérer; (→ force, strength) reprendre, récupérer; (→ health, motivation) retrouver;
    he got his job back il a été repris;
    I got back nearly all the money I invested j'ai récupéré presque tout l'argent que j'avais investi;
    you'll have to get your money back from the shop il faut que vous vous fassiez rembourser par le magasin
    (b) (return) rendre;
    we have to get this book back to her il faut que nous lui rendions ce livre
    (c) (return to original place) remettre, replacer;
    I can't get it back in the box je n'arrive pas à le remettre ou le faire rentrer dans le carton;
    I want to get these suitcases back down to the cellar je veux redescendre ces valises à la cave;
    he managed to get the children back to bed il a réussi à remettre les enfants au lit
    to get one's own back (on sb) se venger (de qn)
    se venger de;
    he only said it to get back at him il n'a dit ça que pour se venger de lui
    (gen) rester à l'arrière, se laisser distancer; Sport se laisser distancer; figurative prendre du retard;
    he got behind with his work il a pris du retard dans son travail;
    we mustn't get behind with the rent il ne faut pas qu'on soit en retard pour le loyer
    (support, sympathize with) appuyer
    get by
    (a) (pass) passer;
    let me get by laissez-moi passer
    (b) (be acceptable) passer, être acceptable;
    their work just about gets by leur travail est tout juste passable ou acceptable
    (c) (manage, survive) se débrouiller, s'en sortir;
    how do you get by on that salary? comment tu te débrouilles ou tu t'en sors avec un salaire comme ça?;
    they get by as best they can ils se débrouillent ou s'en sortent tant bien que mal;
    we can get by without him nous pouvons nous passer de lui ou nous débrouiller sans lui
    can you get by the washing machine? est-ce que vous avez assez de place pour passer à côté de la machine à laver?
    (b) (escape attention of → censor, editor) échapper à;
    her film got by the censors son film a échappé à l'attention de la censure
    descendre;
    get down off that chair! descends de cette chaise!;
    may I get down (from the table)? (leave the table) puis-je sortir de table?;
    they got down on their knees ils se sont mis à genoux;
    get down! (hide) couchez-vous!; (to dog) bas les pattes!
    (a) (bring, fetch down → book from shelf etc) descendre
    (b) (reduce → temperature, inflation etc) faire baisser;
    to get one's weight down perdre du poids
    (c) (write down) noter;
    I didn't manage to get down what she said je n'ai pas réussi à noter ce qu'elle a dit
    (d) (depress) déprimer, démoraliser;
    work is really getting me down at the moment le travail me déprime vraiment en ce moment;
    this rainy weather gets him down cette pluie lui fiche le cafard;
    don't let it get you down ne te laisse pas abattre
    (e) (swallow) avaler, faire descendre
    se mettre à;
    I have to get down to balancing the books il faut que je me mette à faire les comptes;
    it's not so difficult once you get down to it ce n'est pas si difficile une fois qu'on s'y met;
    he got down to working on it this morning il s'y est mis ou s'y est attelé ce matin;
    it's hard getting down to work after the weekend c'est difficile de reprendre le travail après le week-end;
    we eventually got down to details nous avons fini par en arriver aux détails;
    when you get down to it, there's very little difference between them en fin de compte, il y a très peu de différence entre eux
    get in
    the thief got in through the window le cambrioleur est entré par la fenêtre;
    a car pulled up and she got in une voiture s'est arrêtée et elle est montée dedans;
    water had got in everywhere l'eau avait pénétré partout
    (b) (return home) rentrer;
    we got in about 4 a.m. nous sommes rentrés vers 4 heures du matin
    (c) (arrive) arriver;
    what time does your plane get in? à quelle heure ton avion arrive-t-il?
    (d) (be admitted → to club) se faire admettre; (→ to school, university) entrer, être admis ou reçu;
    he applied to Oxford but he didn't get in il voulait entrer à Oxford mais il n'a pas pu
    (e) (be elected → person) être élu; (→ party) accéder au pouvoir
    (f) familiar (become involved) participer ;
    she got in at the beginning elle est arrivée au début
    (g) (interject) glisser;
    "what about me?" she managed to get in "et moi?" réussit-elle à glisser
    I hope to get in a bit of reading on holiday j'espère pouvoir lire ou que je trouverai le temps de lire pendant mes vacances;
    she got in some last-minute revision before the exam elle a réussi à faire des révisions de dernière minute avant l'examen
    (b) (insert) faire pénétrer;
    I couldn't get a word in je n'ai pas pu placer un mot, je n'ai pas pu en placer une
    (c) (collect, gather → crops) rentrer, engranger; (→ debts) recouvrer; (→ taxes) percevoir
    I must get in some more coal je dois faire une provision de charbon;
    to get in supplies s'approvisionner
    (e) (call in → doctor, plumber) faire venir; (→ dog, cat) faire rentrer;
    shouldn't Elaine be in on this meeting? - of course, could you get her in? on n'a pas besoin d'Elaine pour cette réunion? - si, bien sûr, tu peux lui demander de venir?
    (f) (hand in, submit) rendre, remettre;
    did you get your application in on time? as-tu remis ton dossier de candidature à temps?
    (g) (cause to be admitted → to club, university) faire admettre ou accepter; (cause to be elected) faire élire
    (h) (plant → seeds) planter, semer; (→ bulbs, plants) planter
    (i) British familiar (pay for, stand) payer, offrir ;
    he got the next round in il a payé la tournée suivante
    (building) entrer dans; (vehicle) monter dans;
    he had just got in the door when the phone rang il venait juste d'arriver ou d'entrer quand le téléphone a sonné
    to get in on a deal prendre part à un marché;
    to get in on the fun se mettre de la partie
    faire participer à;
    he got me in on the deal il m'a intéressé à l'affaire
    (a) (building) entrer dans; (vehicle) monter dans
    (b) (arrive in) arriver à;
    we get into Madrid at 3 o'clock nous arrivons à Madrid à 3 heures;
    the train got into the station le train est entré en gare
    (c) (put on → dress, shirt, shoes) mettre; (→ trousers, stockings) enfiler, mettre; (→ coat) endosser;
    she got into her clothes elle a mis ses vêtements ou s'est habillée;
    can you still get into your jeans? est-ce que tu rentres encore dans ton jean?
    (d) (be admitted to → club, school, university) entrer dans;
    he'd like to get into the club il voudrait devenir membre du club;
    her daughter got into medical school sa fille a été admise dans ou est entrée dans une école de médecine;
    to get into office être élu
    he wants to get into politics il veut se lancer dans la politique;
    they got into a conversation about South Africa ils se sont mis à parler de l'Afrique du Sud;
    we got into a fight over who had to do the dishes nous nous sommes disputés pour savoir qui devait faire la vaisselle;
    this is not the moment to get into that ce n'est pas le moment de parler de ça
    (f) familiar (take up) s'intéresser à ;
    he got into Eastern religions il a commencé à s'intéresser aux religions orientales;
    it's a hard book to get into c'est un livre dans lequel il est difficile de rentrer
    he soon got into her way of doing things il s'est vite fait ou s'est vite mis à sa façon de faire les choses
    to get into debt s'endetter;
    he got into a real mess il s'est mis dans un vrai pétrin;
    the children were always getting into mischief les enfants passaient leur temps à faire des bêtises;
    I got into a real state about the test j'étais dans tous mes états à cause du test;
    she got into trouble with the teacher elle a eu des ennuis avec le professeur
    what's got into you? qu'est-ce qui te prend?, quelle mouche te pique?;
    I wonder what got into him to make him act like that je me demande ce qui l'a poussé à réagir comme ça
    to get sth into sth (faire) (r)entrer qch dans qch;
    to get the key into the lock mettre ou introduire la clef dans la serrure;
    to get an article into a paper faire accepter un article par un journal;
    to get an idea into one's head se mettre une idée en tête;
    familiar when will you get it into your thick head that I don't want to go? quand est-ce que tu vas enfin comprendre que je ne veux pas y aller?
    (b) (cause to be admitted to → club) faire entrer à; (→ school, university) faire entrer dans;
    he got his friend into the club il a permis à son ami de devenir membre du club;
    the president got his son into Harvard le président a fait entrer ou accepter ou admettre son fils à Harvard
    she got herself into a terrible state elle s'est mis dans tous ses états;
    he got them into a lot of trouble il leur a attiré de gros ennuis
    (d) (involve in) impliquer dans, entraîner dans;
    you're the one who got us into this c'est toi qui nous as embarqués dans cette histoire
    (e) familiar (make interested in) faire découvrir ; (accustom to) habituer à, faire prendre l'habitude de ;
    he got me into jazz il m'a initié au jazz
    (a) (ingratiate oneself with) s'insinuer dans ou s'attirer les bonnes grâces de, se faire bien voir de;
    they tried to get in with the new director ils ont essayé de se faire bien voir du nouveau directeur
    (b) (associate with → person, group etc) fréquenter;
    he has got in with a new gang il n'est pas plus avec la même bande;
    she got in with the wrong crowd at school elle avait de mauvaises fréquentations à l'école
    get off
    (a) (leave bus, train etc) descendre;
    get off at the next stop descendez au prochain arrêt;
    familiar I told him where to get off! je l'ai envoyé sur les roses!, je l'ai envoyé promener!;
    familiar where do you get off telling me what to do? qu'est-ce qui te prend de me dicter ce que je dois faire?
    (b) (depart → person) s'en aller, partir; (→ car) démarrer; (→ plane) décoller; (→ letter, parcel) partir;
    I have to be getting off to work il faut que j'aille au travail;
    figurative the project got off to a bad/good start le projet a pris un mauvais/bon départ
    (c) (leave work) finir, s'en aller; (take time off) se libérer;
    what time do you get off? à quelle heure finissez-vous?;
    can you get off early tomorrow? peux-tu quitter le travail de bonne heure demain?
    (d) (escape punishment) s'en sortir, s'en tirer, en être quitte;
    she didn't think she'd get off so lightly elle n'espérait pas s'en tirer à si bon compte;
    the students got off with a fine/warning les étudiants en ont été quittes pour une amende/un avertissement
    hey! get off! that's MY book! hé! laisse ça! c'est mon livre ou c'est à moi ce livre!
    (f) (go to sleep) s'endormir
    (a) (leave → bus, train, plane etc) descendre de
    (b) (descend from → bike, wall, chair etc) descendre de;
    he got off his horse il est descendu de cheval;
    if only the boss would get off my back si seulement le patron me fichait la paix
    (c) (depart from) partir de, décamper de;
    get off my property fichez le camp de chez moi;
    get off the grass! ne marche pas sur la pelouse!;
    we got off the road to let the ambulance pass nous sommes sortis de la route pour laisser passer l'ambulance
    get off me! laisse-moi tranquille!, lâche-moi!
    (e) (escape from) se libérer de; (avoid) échapper à;
    she managed to get off work elle a réussi à se libérer;
    how did you get off doing the housework? comment as-tu fait pour échapper au ménage?
    (a) (cause to leave, climb down) faire descendre;
    get the cat off the table fais descendre le chat de (sur) la table;
    the conductor got the passengers off the train le conducteur a fait descendre les passagers du train;
    figurative try to get her mind off her troubles essaie de lui changer les idées
    (b) (send) envoyer, faire partir;
    I want to get this letter off je veux expédier cette lettre ou mettre cette lettre à la poste;
    she got the boys off to school elle a expédié ou envoyé les garçons à l'école;
    we got him off on the morning train nous l'avons mis au train du matin
    (c) (remove → clothing, lid) enlever, ôter; (→ stains) faire partir ou disparaître, enlever;
    I can't get this ink off my hands je n'arrive pas à faire partir cette encre de mes mains;
    get your hands off that cake! ne touche pas à ce gâteau!;
    get your hands off me! ne me touche pas!;
    get your feet off the table! enlève tes pieds de sur la table!;
    figurative he'd like to get that house off his hands il aimerait bien se débarrasser de cette maison
    (d) (free from punishment) tirer d'affaire; (in court) faire acquitter;
    he'll need a good lawyer to get him off il lui faudra un bon avocat pour se tirer d'affaire;
    to get sb off doing sth dispenser qn de faire qch
    (e) (put to sleep) endormir;
    I've just managed to get the baby off (to sleep) je viens de réussir à endormir le bébé
    to get a day/week off prendre un jour/une semaine de congé;
    can you get tomorrow afternoon/next week off? est-ce que tu peux prendre un congé demain après-midi/la semaine prochaine?
    to get sth off sb obtenir qch de qn;
    I got that story off the woman next door je tiens cette histoire de la voisine;
    I got this cold off the woman next door la voisine m'a passé son rhume
    he gets off on pornographic films il prend son pied en regardant des films pornos;
    is that what you get off on? c'est comme ça que tu prends ton pied?;
    figurative he gets off on teasing people il adore taquiner les gens ;
    I really get off on hip-hop! j'adore le hip-hop!
    he gets off on heroin il se défonce à l'héroïne
    to get off with sb faire une touche avec qn
    get on
    (a) (on bus, plane, train) monter; (on ship) monter à bord
    (b) (fare, manage)
    how's your husband getting on? comment va votre mari?;
    how did he get on at the interview? comment s'est passé son entretien?, comment ça a marché pour son entretien?;
    you'll get on far better if you think about it first tout ira mieux si tu réfléchis avant
    (c) (make progress) avancer, progresser;
    Jennifer is getting on very well in maths Jennifer se débrouille très bien en maths;
    how's your work getting on? ça avance, ton travail?
    (d) (succeed) réussir, arriver;
    to get on in life or in the world faire son chemin ou réussir dans la vie;
    some say that in order to get on, you often have to compromise il y a des gens qui disent que pour réussir (dans la vie), il faut souvent faire des compromis
    (e) (continue) continuer;
    we must be getting on il faut que nous partions;
    do you think we can get on with the meeting now? croyez-vous que nous puissions poursuivre notre réunion maintenant?;
    get on with your work! allez! au travail!;
    they got on with the job ils se sont remis au travail
    (f) (be on good terms) s'entendre;
    my mother and I get on well je m'entends bien avec ma mère;
    they don't get on ils ne s'entendent pas;
    she's never got on with him elle ne s'est jamais entendue avec lui;
    to be difficult/easy to get on with être difficile/facile à vivre
    (g) (grow late → time)
    time's getting on il se fait tard;
    it was getting on in the evening, the evening was getting on la soirée tirait à sa fin
    (h) (grow old → person) se faire vieux (vieille);
    she's getting on (in years) elle commence à se faire vieille
    get on with it! (continue speaking) continuez!; (continue working) allez! au travail!; (hurry up) mais dépêchez-vous enfin!;
    familiar get on with you! (I don't believe you) à d'autres!
    (bus, train) monter dans; (plane) monter dans, monter à bord de; (ship) monter à bord de; (bed, horse, table, bike) monter sur;
    he got on his bike il est monté sur ou il a enfourché son vélo;
    get on your feet levez-vous, mettez-vous debout;
    how did these papers get on my desk? comment est-ce que ces papiers se sont retrouvés ou sont arrivés sur mon bureau?;
    figurative it took the patient a while to get (back) on his feet le patient a mis longtemps à se remettre
    (a) (help onto → bus, train) faire monter dans; (→ bed, bike, horse, table) faire monter sur;
    they got him on his feet ils l'ont mis debout;
    figurative the doctor got her on her feet le médecin l'a remise sur pied
    (b) (coat, gloves, shoes) mettre, enfiler; (lid) mettre;
    I can't get these trousers on any more je n'entre plus dans ce pantalon
    to get it on (with sb) (have sex) s'envoyer en l'air (avec qn); (fight) se friter (avec qn);
    to get it on (get started) s'y mettre
    the president is getting on for sixty le président approche de la soixantaine ou a presque soixante ans;
    it's getting on for midnight il est presque minuit, il n'est pas loin de minuit;
    it's getting on for three weeks since we saw her ça va faire bientôt trois semaines que nous ne l'avons pas vue;
    there were getting on for ten thousand demonstrators il n'y avait pas loin ou il y avait près de dix mille manifestants
    to get onto a subject or onto a topic aborder un sujet;
    how did we get onto reincarnation? comment est-ce qu'on en est venus à parler de réincarnation?;
    I'll get right onto it! je vais m'y mettre tout de suite!
    (c) (contact) prendre contact avec, se mettre en rapport avec; (speak to) parler à; (call) téléphoner à, donner un coup de fil à
    (d) familiar (become aware of) découvrir ;
    the plan worked well until the police got onto it le plan marchait bien jusqu'à ce que la police tombe dessus
    (e) (nag, rebuke) harceler;
    his father is always getting onto him to find a job son père est toujours à le harceler pour qu'il trouve du travail
    he got onto the school board il a été élu au conseil d'administration de l'école
    (a)
    (b) (cause to talk about) faire parler de, amener à parler de;
    we got him onto (the subject of) his activities in the Resistance nous l'avons amené à parler de ses activités dans la Résistance
    get out
    (a) (leave building, room etc) sortir; (leave vehicle) descendre; (leave organization, town) quitter;
    he got out of the car il est sorti de la voiture;
    to get out of bed se lever, sortir de son lit;
    you'd better get out of here tu ferais bien de partir ou sortir;
    get out! sortez!;
    get out of here! (leave) sortez d'ici!; American familiar (I don't believe it) mon œil!;
    to get out while the going is good partir au bon moment
    (b) (go out) sortir;
    they don't get out much ils ne sortent pas beaucoup
    (c) (be released from prison, hospital) sortir
    (d) (information, news) se répandre, s'ébruiter;
    the secret got out le secret a été éventé
    (e) (escape) s'échapper;
    the prisoner got out of his cell le prisonnier s'est échappé de sa cellule;
    he was lucky to get out alive il a eu de la chance de s'en sortir vivant
    theaters were getting out les gens sortaient des théâtres
    (a) (bring out → champagne, furniture, books, car) sortir; (person) (faire) sortir;
    to get a book out from the library emprunter un livre à la bibliothèque
    (b) (produce, publish → book) publier, sortir; (→ list) établir, dresser
    (c) (speak with difficulty) prononcer, sortir;
    I could barely get a word out c'est à peine si je pouvais dire ou prononcer ou sortir un mot;
    familiar to get out from under s'en sortir, s'en tirer
    (d) (free → hostages etc) libérer
    (e) (remove) enlever; (nail etc) arracher; (cork) retirer; (stain) faire disparaître
    (f) Sport (in cricket → batsman) renverser le guichet à
    (a) (leave → building) sortir de; (car, train) descendre de;
    let's get out of here partons d'ici;
    he managed to get out of the country (criminal, refugee) il a réussi à quitter le pays;
    to get out of bed se lever;
    to get out of prison/the army sortir de prison/quitter l'armée;
    to get out of sb's way s'écarter du chemin de qn, faire place à qn;
    very familiar get the hell out of here! fiche(-moi) le camp!
    (b) (avoid) éviter, échapper à; (obligation) se dérober ou se soustraire à;
    how did you get out of doing the dishes? comment as-tu pu échapper à la vaisselle?;
    he tried to get out of helping me il a essayé de se débrouiller pour ne pas devoir m'aider;
    we have to go, there's no getting out of it il faut qu'on y aille, il n'y a rien à faire ou il n'y a pas moyen d'y échapper;
    there's no getting out of it, you were the better candidate il faut le reconnaître ou il n'y a pas à dire, vous étiez le meilleur candidat
    to get out of trouble se tirer d'affaire;
    they managed to get out of the clutches of the mafia ils ont réussi à se tirer des griffes de la mafia;
    how can I get out of this mess? comment puis-je me tirer de ce pétrin?
    to get out of (the habit of) doing sth perdre l'habitude de faire qch
    (a) (take out of) sortir de;
    get the baby out of the house every now and then sors le bébé de temps en temps;
    she got a handkerchief out of her handbag elle a sorti un mouchoir de son sac à main;
    how many books did you get out of the library? combien de livres as-tu emprunté à ou sorti de la bibliothèque?
    the lawyer got his client out of jail l'avocat a fait sortir son client de prison;
    figurative the phone call got her out of having to talk to me le coup de fil lui a évité d'avoir à me parler;
    he'll never get himself out of this one! il ne s'en sortira jamais!;
    my confession got him out of trouble ma confession l'a tiré d'affaire
    (c) (extract → cork) sortir de; (→ nail, splinter) enlever de; (→ stain) faire partir de, enlever de;
    I can't get the cork out of the bottle je n'arrive pas à déboucher la bouteille;
    the police got a confession/the truth out of him la police lui a arraché une confession/la vérité;
    we got the money out of him nous avons réussi à obtenir l'argent de lui;
    I can't get anything out of him je ne peux rien tirer de lui;
    I can't get the idea out of my mind je ne peux pas chasser cette idée de mon esprit
    (d) (gain from) gagner, retirer;
    to get a lot out of sth tirer (un) grand profit de qch;
    I didn't get much out of that class ce cours ne m'a pas apporté grand-chose, je n'ai pas retiré grand-chose de ce cours;
    the job was difficult but she got something out of it la tâche était difficile, mais elle y a trouvé son compte ou en a tiré profit
    (a) (cross → river, street) traverser, franchir; (→ fence, wall) franchir, passer par-dessus
    (b) (recover from → illness) se remettre de, guérir de; (→ accident) se remettre de; (→ loss) se remettre de, se consoler de;
    I'll never get over her je ne l'oublierai jamais;
    he can't get over her death il n'arrive pas à se remettre de sa mort ou disparition;
    we couldn't get over our surprise nous n'arrivions pas à nous remettre de notre surprise;
    I can't get over how much he's grown! qu'est-ce qu'il a grandi, je n'en reviens pas!;
    I can't get over it! je n'en reviens pas!;
    he couldn't get over the fact that she had come back il n'en revenait pas qu'elle soit revenue;
    I can't get over your having refused je n'en reviens pas que vous ayez refusé;
    he'll get over it! il n'en mourra pas!
    (c) (master, overcome → obstacle) surmonter; (→ difficulty) surmonter, venir à bout de;
    they soon got over their shyness ils ont vite oublié ou surmonté leur timidité
    (a) (cause to cross) faire traverser
    (b) (communicate → idea, message) faire passer
    (a) (cross) traverser;
    to get over to France/America aller en France/Amérique;
    we'll try to get over next weekend (to visit) nous essayerons de venir vous voir le week-end prochain
    (b) (idea, message) passer
    (finish with) en finir avec;
    let's get it over with finissons-en;
    I expect you'll be glad to get it over with j'imagine que vous serez soulagé quand ce sera terminé
    (b) (exhibition, museum) faire le tour de; (corner) passer
    (bring, take) I'll get the books round (to you) as soon as I can je t'apporterai les livres dès que je le pourrai
    (b) the doctor said she'd get round as soon as she could le docteur a dit qu'elle viendrait ou passerait dès qu'elle pourrait;
    I didn't manage to get round to each pupil in the class je n'ai pas réussi à m'occuper de chaque élève de la classe
    the road was blocked and no one could get through la route était bloquée et personne ne pouvait passer;
    they managed to get through to the wounded ils ont réussi à parvenir jusqu'aux blessés;
    the letter got through to her la lettre lui est parvenue;
    the message didn't get through le message n'est pas arrivé;
    despite the crowds, I managed to get through malgré la foule, j'ai réussi à passer
    (b) (candidate, student → succeed) réussir; (→ in exam) être reçu, réussir;
    the team got through to the final l'équipe s'est classée pour la finale
    (c) (bill, motion) passer, être adopté ou voté
    (d) (make oneself understood) se faire comprendre;
    I can't seem to get through to her elle et moi ne sommes pas sur la même longueur d'onde
    (e) (contact) contacter; Telecommunications obtenir la communication;
    I can't get through to his office je n'arrive pas à avoir son bureau
    (f) American (finish) finir, terminer;
    call me when you get through appelez-moi quand vous aurez ou avez fini
    (a) (come through → hole, window) passer par; (→ crowd) se frayer un chemin à travers ou dans; (→ military lines) percer, franchir
    (b) (survive → storm, winter) survivre à; (→ difficulty) se sortir de, se tirer de;
    he got through it alive il s'en est sorti (vivant)
    (c) (complete, finish → book) finir, terminer; (→ job, project) achever, venir à bout de;
    I got through an enormous amount of work j'ai abattu beaucoup de travail;
    it took us one week to get through the entire play il nous a fallu une semaine pour venir à bout de la pièce
    (d) (consume, use up) consommer, utiliser;
    we get through a litre of olive oil a week nous utilisons un litre d'huile d'olive par semaine;
    they got through their monthly salary in one week en une semaine ils avaient dépensé tout leur salaire du mois;
    he gets through eight shirts a week il salit huit chemises par semaine;
    we'll never get through all this food nous ne viendrons jamais à bout de toute cette nourriture
    (e) (endure, pass → time) faire passer;
    how will I get through this without you? comment pourrai-je vivre cette épreuve sans toi?;
    they got through the day without a single argument ils ne se sont pas disputés une seule fois de toute la journée;
    the Government may have difficulty getting through another six months le gouvernement aura peut-être du mal à tenir encore six mois
    (f) (exam) réussir, être reçu à
    (g) (of bill, motion) passer;
    the bill got through both Houses le projet de loi a été adopté par les deux Chambres
    (a) (transport, send successfully) faire parvenir;
    they got the food supplies through ils ont réussi à faire parvenir les provisions alimentaires (à destination);
    to get sth through customs (faire) passer qch à la douane;
    you'll never get that desk through tu n'arriveras jamais à faire passer ce bureau
    (b) (transmit → message) faire passer, transmettre, faire parvenir;
    can you get this letter through to my family? pouvez-vous transmettre ou faire parvenir cette lettre à ma famille?
    I finally got it through to him that I wasn't interested j'ai fini par lui faire comprendre que je n'étais pas intéressé;
    familiar when will you get it through your thick head that I don't want to go? quand est-ce que tu vas enfin comprendre que je ne veux pas y aller?
    (d) (bill, motion) faire adopter, faire passer;
    the party got the bill through the Senate le parti a fait voter ou adopter le projet de loi par le Sénat
    it was your essay that got you through (the exam) c'est grâce à ta dissertation que tu as réussi l'examen
    I need four cups of coffee to get me through the day il me faut mes quatre tasses de café par jour
    terminer, finir
    (a) (reach) arriver à;
    where have you got to? (in book, work) où en es-tu?;
    it got to the point where he couldn't walk another step il en est arrivé au point de ne plus pouvoir faire un pas
    (b) (deal with) s'occuper de;
    I'll get to you in a minute je suis à toi ou je m'occupe de toi dans quelques secondes;
    he'll get to it tomorrow il va s'en occuper demain
    that music really gets to me (moves me) cette musique me touche vraiment ; (annoys me) cette musique me tape sur le système;
    don't let it get to you! ne t'énerve pas pour ça!
    they got to the witness (bribed) ils ont acheté le témoin; (killed) ils ont descendu le témoin
    (a) (meet) se réunir, se rassembler;
    can we get together after the meeting? on peut se retrouver après la réunion?
    (b) (reach an agreement) se mettre d'accord;
    the committee got together on the date les membres du comité se sont entendus ou se sont mis d'accord sur la date;
    you'd better get together with him on the proposal vous feriez bien de vous entendre avec lui au sujet de la proposition
    (people) réunir, rassembler; (things) rassembler, ramasser; (thoughts) rassembler;
    to get some money together réunir une somme d'argent;
    let me get my thoughts together laissez-moi rassembler mes idées;
    familiar to get one's act together se secouer;
    familiar she's really got it together (in life) elle sait ce qu'elle fait ; (in job etc) elle domine son sujet ;
    familiar I never thought he would get it together je n'aurais jamais pensé qu'il y arriverait
    get up
    (a) (arise from bed) se lever;
    it was 6 o'clock when we got up il était 6 heures quand nous nous sommes levés;
    I like to get up late on Sundays j'aime faire la grasse matinée le dimanche;
    get up! sors du lit!, debout!, lève-toi!
    (b) (rise to one's feet) se lever, se mettre debout;
    she had to get up from her chair elle a été obligée de se lever de sa chaise;
    to get up from the table se lever ou sortir de table;
    get up off the floor! relève-toi!;
    please don't bother getting up restez assis, je vous prie
    (c) (climb up) monter;
    they got up on the roof ils sont montés sur le toit;
    she got up behind him on the motorcycle elle est montée derrière lui sur la moto
    (d) (of wind) se lever
    get up! allez!
    (stairs) monter; (ladder, tree) monter à; (hill) gravir
    (a) (cause to rise to feet) faire lever; (awaken) réveiller
    (b) (move up) monter;
    how are we going to get this desk up to the fifth floor? comment allons-nous monter ce bureau jusqu'au cinquième étage?;
    to get sb up the stairs (help climb) aider qn à monter l'escalier
    (c) (generate, work up)
    to get up speed gagner de la vitesse;
    to get one's courage up rassembler son courage;
    I can't get up any enthusiasm for the job je n'arrive pas à éprouver d'enthousiasme pour ce travail
    (d) familiar (organize → entertainment, party) organiser, monter ; (→ petition) organiser ; (→ play) monter ; (→ excuse, story) fabriquer, forger
    (e) (dress up) habiller; (in costume) déguiser;
    their children are always so nicely got up leurs enfants sont toujours si bien habillés;
    to get oneself up se mettre sur son trente et un
    (f) familiar (study → subject) bûcher, travailler ; (→ notes, speech) préparer
    to get it up bander
    (a) (do) faire;
    he gets up to all kinds of mischief il fait des tas de bêtises;
    what have you been getting up to lately? qu'est-ce que tu deviens?
    I've got up to chapter 5 j'en suis au chapitre 5;
    where have you got up to? (in book, work) où en êtes-vous?

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    1. I
    the ebb was making начинался отлив; the tide making we weighed anchor во время прилива мы бросили якорь
    2. II
    1) make in some manner this toy makes easily эту игрушку легко сделать: hay ought to make well [in this drying breeze] [на таком сухом ветерке] сено должно хорошо просушиться /сохнуть/
    2) make somewhere make upstream (downstream) идти /плыть/ вверх (вниз) по течению
    3) make in some manner the tide is making fast вода быстро прибывает; winter is making earnestly наступает настоящая зима
    4) make in some manner make well (poorly, etc.) хорошо и т. д. зарабатывать; he always makes pretty handsomely он всегда недурно зарабатывает
    3. III
    1) make smth. make machines (tools, paper, chairs, hats, etc.) делать /производить/ машины и т. д., make bricks делать /обжигать/ кирпичи; make a boat (a bridge, a house, a road, etc.) (подстроить лодку и т. д.: make a dress (a coat, a blouse, etc.) делать /шить/ платье и т. д.; make a film снимать фильм: make lunch (jelly, a good supper, etc.) делать /готовить/ завтрак и т. д., make coffee варить кофе; make tea заварить чай; make bread (ис-)печь хлеб; make a garden (a park, flower-beds, etc.) разбивать сад и т. д.; make hay косить траву: make a path делать /прокладывать/ дорожку: where will they make a camp? где они раскинут /разобьют/ лагерь?; make beds стелить /заправлять/ постели; make a fire разжигать камин или раскладывать костер; make nests вить гнезда; beavers make their holes бобры роют норы
    2) make smth. make one's reputation (one's name) создать себе репутацию (имя); make smb.'s character формировать чей-л. характер; make one's own life строить свой собственную жизнь, самостоятельно строить свой жизнь; make haste торопиться; make progress делать успехи; make preparations делать приготовления; make plans разрабатывать / вынашивать/ планы; he is making plans to go away он собирается /намеревается/ уехать; who made this ridiculous rule? кто придумал это глупое правило?; make war вести войну, воевать; are they willing to make peace? a) они согласны заключить мир?; б) они готовы примириться? || make a stand занимать принципиальную позицию: make love а) ухаживать; говорить ласковые слова; б) ласкать, заниматься любовью
    3) make smb., smth. one big deal made the young man молодой человек добился успеха благодаря лишь всего одной крупной сделке; hard work made him он добился успеха упорным трудом; wars made and unmade this country эта страна возвеличилась благодаря войнам, и они же привели ее к гибели; industry has made Manchester Манчестер превратился в важный центр благодаря развитию промышленности
    4) make smth. make trouble (a fuss, a mess, etc.) создавать неприятности и т. д.; he made a terrible to-do он устроил ужасный скандал; don't make noise не делай шума, не шуми; make a change (a disturbance, a panic, etc.) вызывать изменение и т. д., make mischief а) наносить вред; б) шалить, безобразничать; this makes a great difference это совсем другое дело; it makes no difference это ничего не меняет. это все равно; make a great hit coll. иметь огромный успех
    5) make smth. make eighty miles (five kilometres, etc.) сделать / пройти/ восемьдесят миль и т. д.; make twenty knots идти со скоростью двадцать узлов; make good time а) идти /двигаться/ с хорошей скоростью; б) sport. показать хорошее время
    6) make smth. соll. make port (harbour, home, land, one's destination, etc.) добираться до /достигать/ порта и т. д., he's tired out, he'll never make the summit он уже выдохся, ему ни за что не добраться до вершины; make the tram (the bus, the next flight, etc.) успевать на /поймать/ трамвай и т. д.; I had hoped to get to the meeting but I found at the last minute that I couldn't make it я надеялся попасть на собрание, но в последнюю минуту понял, что не успею
    7) make smth. make good grades получать хорошие отметки, хорошо учиться; make the highest score получить больше всего очков; who made the score? кто выиграл /победил/?; I doubt whether he will make much сомневаюсь, чтобы он мог многого добиться, вряд ли он мог многого добиться, вряд ли он многого добьется; those plants will not make much, the soil is too poor эти растения не пойдут /не будут хорошо расти/, здесь плохая почва; do you think a table this wide can make the doorway? вы думаете такой ширины стол пройдет в дверь?; make the team (the best-seller list, the first ten, etc.) попасть в команду и т. д.; this news made the front page это известие поместили на первой полосе [газеты] || make it добиться успеха; make one's point доказать свою течку зрения; has he made his point? понятно, что он хотел сказать?
    8) make smth. make a good salary (three pounds a week, a profit, etc.) получать хорошее жалованье и т. д.; make a living зарабатывать на жизнь; make money а) зарабатывать деньги; б) разбогатеть; make a fortune приобрести состояние; make a loss потерпеть /понести/ убыток; make smb. make friends приобрести /завеете/ друзей; make enemies нажить врагов
    9) make smth. one hundred pence make a pound сто пенсов составляют фунт; twelve inches make one foot в одном футе двенадцать дюймов; that makes 40 cents you owe me итак, ты мне должен сорок центов; this made his tenth novel это был уже его десятый роман; how many people make a quorum? сколько человек требуется /необходимо/ для кворума?; how many players make а, football team? сколько человек в футбольной команде?; will you make one of the party? не составите ли вы нам компанию?, не присоединитесь ли вы к нам?; "mouse" makes "mice" in the plural множественное число от "mouse" - "mice"
    10) make smth. make a will (a deal of transfer, a promissory note, a bill of exchange, etc.) составлять завещание и т. д.; make a list составлять список; make a report написать отчет, подготовить доклад; make a contract (a bargain, an agreement, etc.) заключать /подписывать/ контракт и т. д.
    11) semiaux make smth. make a stop остановиться, сделать остановку; make a landing сделать посадку; make a pause сделать паузу; make a move а) стронуться с места, двинуться; it's ten o'clock, it's time we made a move уже десять часов, нам пора двигаться / отправляться/; don't make a move! ни с места!, не двигаться!; б) сделать ход; make a start начать; make a good start положить хорошее начало; make an early start рано отправиться в путь; make a jump прыгнуть; make a sign сделать /подать/ знак; make a bow поклониться; make a curtsey сделать книксен; make a call а) нанести короткий визит; I have to make a few calls мне надо забежать в несколько мест: б) позвонить по телефону; let me make a call first разрешите мне сначала позвонить по телефону; make a trip совершать /предпринимать/ поездку; make a speech произнести речь, выступить с речью; make an offer proposition/ внести предложение, предложить; make a proposal сделать предложение, предложить выйти замуж; make an answer reply/ дать ответ, ответить; make a denial отклонять; опровергать, помещать опровержение; make a joke отпустить шутку; make a complaint (по)жаловаться; make a vow дать клятву, поклясться; make a choice выбирать, делать выбор; make a mistake сделать /допустить/ ошибку, ошибиться; make inquiries наводить справки; make a sacrifice приносить жертву, жертвовать; make room /place/ подвинуться, освободить место; make way освободить дорогу /путь/, отойти в сторону; make a face скорчить рожу, гримасничать
    12) aux make smb. make a lawyer (a good teacher, a bad farmer, a waiter, an excellent husband, etc.) быть хорошим юристом и т. д., he makes a good carpenter он хороший плотник: he made a very poor musician из него получился очень плохой музыкант; one good verse doesn't make a poet одно хорошее стихотворение еще не дает права называться поэтом; he and his cousin would make a handsome couple он и его кузина составляют прекрасную пару; make smth. cold tea makes an excellent drink холодный чай make прекрасный напиток; dry wood makes a good fire сухое дерево хорошо горит; that makes a good answer! вот хороший ответ!; this makes no sense в этом нет никакого смысла; это бессмысленно; these plays (their letters to each other, etc.) make pleasant reading эти пьесы и т. д. приятно читать; his adventures make all exciting story рассказ о его приключениях слушаешь с волнением
    4. IV
    1) make smth. in some manner make smth. quickly (eventually, inevitably, unhesitatingly, etc.) делать что-л. быстро и т. д.; make smth. lawfully (scientifically. delicately, persistently, etc.) делать /осуществлять/ что-л. на законных основаниях и т. д.
    2) make some distance in some time make 200 miles an hour (ten miles a day, etc.) делать двести миль в час и т. д.; we made only three miles that day в тот день мы прошли /проделали/ только три мили; some airplanes can make over 500 miles an hour скорость некоторых самолетов превышает пятьсот миль в час
    3) make smth. at some time he will never make much он никогда не добьется успеха
    4) make sonic money in some time make L 2000 a year зарабатывать /получать/ две тысячи фунтов в год; how much money do you make a week (a month, a year, etc.)? сколько [денег] вы получаете /зарабатываете/ в неделю и т. д.?
    5. V
    1) make smb. smth. make him a new toy (her a dress, the children a swing in the garden, etc.) сделать ему /для него/ новую игрушку и т. д., make her a cup of tea приготовь /подай/ ей чашку чаю
    2) make smth. smth. make it a rule взять [что-л.] за правило; he made it a rule to get up early он взял себе за правило рано вставать; make it one's business считать это своим делом; don't make cheating a practice не привыкай обманывать; he made a certificate his object он поставил себе целью получить диплом
    3) make smb. smb. make smb. one's heir (him king, a page knight, him a teacher, etc.) сделать кого-л. своим наследником и т. д., make a priest a bishop возвести священника в сан епископа; make smb. a judge (one's spokesman, one's special envoy, etc.) назначать кого-л. судьей и т. д., they made him chairman его выбрали председателем; make a colonel general присвоить /дать/ полковнику звание генерала; произвести полковника в генералы; make smb. a duke (a peer, etc.) дать /пожаловать/ кому-л. титул герцога и т. д., he intended to make his son a barrister (a soldier, a carpenter, etc.) он хотел, чтобы его сын стал адвокатом и т. д.; he made her his wife он сделал ее своей женой, он женился на ней; make smb. prisoner взять кого-л. в плен; make oneself a martyr сделать из себя мученика, пойти на муки; make this character an important person (Hamlet a figure of tragic indecision, Shylock a tragic figure, her a figure of fun, etc.) делать из этого персонажа значительную личность и т. д.
    4) make smth. smth. add one more egg and make it a round dozen прибавь еще одно яйцо, и будет /получится/ дюжина
    5) make it smth. shall we make it Tuesday? договоримся на вторник?; can you come at six? - make it half past вы можете прийти в шесть? - Лучше условимся на половину седьмого; I shall make it tomorrow я договорись на завтра
    6) make smth. smth. make the distance about 70 miles полагать /считать/, что расстояние равно примерно семидесяти милям; I make the total about L 50 по-моему, общая сумма составит фунтов пятьдесят; how large do you make the crowd? как вы думаете, сколько в этой толпе человек?; what do you make the time? сколько, по-вашему, сейчас времени?; what time do you make it? - I make it half past four сколько сейчас времени, по-вашему? - Мне кажется, что сейчас примерно половина пятого
    7) semiaux make smb. smth. make smb. an offer (one or two attractive proposals, a bid for the antique table, etc.) сделать кому-л. какое-л. предложение и т. д.; I made her a present of the vase я подарил ей эту вазу; he made me a sign он сделал /подал/ мне знак; she made him a face она скорчила ему рожу
    8) 0 make smb. smb. she will make him a good wife (a good mother, a loyal friend, etc.) она будет ему хорошей женой и т. д.; make smb. smth. this cloth will make me a good suit из этого отреза мне выйдет хороший костюм
    6. VI
    1) make smb., smth. be of some nudity his upbringing made him selfish воспитание сделало его эгоистом; her eyes made her beautiful глаза делали ее прекрасной; he was trying to make himself agreeable он старался быть приятным; we shall try to make your stay here agreeable мы постараемся [сделать так], чтобы ваш визит сюда доставил вам удовольствие; make oneself responsible взять на себя ответственность; make children immune against this disease создать /выработать/ у детей иммунитет против /к/ этой болезни; this portrait makes him too old на портрете он выглядит гораздо старше [, чем он есть на самом деле]; this opera made him immortal эта опера принесла ему бессмертие; make his novels (the song, this new theory, the actress, etc.) popular (famous) сделать его романы и т. д. популярными, создать /принести/ популярность (славу) его романам и т. д.; don't stand about doing nothing - make yourself useful не стойте без дела, помогите [нам]; you've made my nose too big вы нарисовали мне слишком большей нос; make smb., smth. be in some state make smb. happy (rich, poor, etc.) сделать кого-л. счастливым и т. д., make the prisoners free освободить заключенных; make oneself comfortable удобно устроиться; they are coming, make yourselves ready они приближаются, будьте готовы; she is seeing it for the first time, we must make her ready такое она увидит впервые, надо ее подготовить; make smb. angry рассердить кого-л.; her answers made him furious ее ответы взбесили его: make smb. sick a) вызывать у кого-л. тошноту; what made you sick? отчего вам стало плохо?; б) coll. раздражать кого-л.: your questions make me sick мне надоели ваши вопросы, меня тошнит от ваших вопросов; hot weather makes some people sleepy в жару некоторых людей клонит ко сну; it will make you ridiculous in their eyes это выставит вас в смешном свете в их глазах; make it flat сплющить что-л. || make it worth smb.'s while компенсировать кому-л. что-л.; if you help me with this job I'll make it worth your while если вы поможете мне в этом [деле], я в долгу не останусь / вы не будете внакладе/: make oneself (one's point) clear ясно излагать свои мысли (аргументы)
    2) make smb. be in some state what makes you so late? что вас так задержало?, отчего вы так опоздали?; it made her more careful после этого она стала осторожнее
    7. VII
    1) make smb., smth. do smth. make smb. stop (go, laugh, cry, sign a statement, repeat a story, fall asleep, etc.) заставить кого-л. остановиться и т. д.: they made me feel ashamed они меня смутили; make smb. understand а) заставить кого-л. понять; б) дать кому-л. понять; don't make me do it не вынуждай меня это делать / к этому/; I can make him believe anything I choose я могу убедить его в чем угодно; it makes me think you are right это убеждает меня в вашей правоте; I can't make anyone hear не могу достучаться или дозваться, дозвониться к кому-л.; make an engine start завести мотор; make the kettle boil вскипятить чайник; make water boil довести воду до кипения; I can't make the fire burn никак не могу разжечь костер или развести огонь; what makes the grass grow so quickly? отчего трава растет так быстро?; the wind made the bells ring колокольчики звенели на ветру: onions make our eyes smart от лука [у нас] щиплет глаза; his account made our hair stand on end от его рассказа у нас волосы встали дыбом || make smth. do обходиться чем-л.: there is not much money but I'll make it do денег немного, но я постараюсь, чтобы их хватило; I shall have to make this coat do for a bit longer придется еще немного походить в старом пальто id make both ends meet сводить концы с концами
    2) make smb. do smth. most of the chronicles make the king die in 1026 согласно большинству хроник король умер в тысяча двадцать шестом году; some scholars make Homer come from one city, others from another ученые спорят о месте рождения Гомера
    8. IX
    make smth., smb. done make the results (the news, his arrival, the invention, etc.) known обнародовать результаты и т. д., сообщить о результатах и т. д., make smth. felt сделать что-л. ощутимым; make oneself known а) назвать себя; б) заставить о себе говорить, заявить о себе, добиться известности; make him known to my father познакомить его с моим отцом, представить его моему отцу; make oneself understood ясно изъясняться; сан you make yourself understood in English? вас понимают, когда вы говорите по-английски?; he couldn't make himself /his voice/ heard above the noise of the traffic он не мог перекричать уличный шум, его не было слышно из-за уличного шума; we must make him respected необходимо вызвать к нему уважение /заставить людей уважать его/
    9. XI
    1) be made somewhere be made in England (in France, etc.) производиться /выпускаться/ в Англии и т. д. ; made in USSR сделано в СССР; be made in a factory производиться /делаться/ на фабрике; be made of (with, from, into) smth. be made of wood (of silk, of plastic, etc.) быть [сделанным] из дерева и т. д., this cloth is made of cotton эта ткань делается из хлопка; what is this made of? из чего это сделано?; а bow is made of stick and string лук делается из палки и бечевки; cheese is made from milk (cereal is made from grain, rubber is made from sap, etc.) сыр делают из молока и т. д., gas is made from coal газ производят из каменного угля; wool is made into cloth из шерсти делают /ткут/ ткань; grapes are made into raisins из винограда сушат изюм; the skin of the walrus is made into leather из шкуры моржа выделывают кожу; their food is always made with garlic в пищу они всегда добавляют чеснок; I like my coffee made with milk я люблю кофе [приготовленный] с молоком; be made for smb., smth. these houses are made for our workers эти дома построены для наших рабочих; this hat was made for you эту шляпку сделали [специально] для вас; this car is made for speed эти автомашины производятся специально для скоростной езды; be made with /by/ smth. this can be made with a knife это можно сделать ножом; this tool is made by a very intricate process изготовление этого инструмента сопряжено с большими сложностями; this thing is made by hand (by machinery) эту вещь делают вручную (на машине); be made by smb., smth. this was made by my friend это сделал (построил, создал и т. п.) мой друг; these experiments are made by robots эти опыты выполняют роботы; this grotto was not made by nature, it was made by man это не естественный грот, он создан человеком || be made to order (to measure) быть сделанным /сшитым/ на заказ; all his clothes are made to order он шьет все свои вещи [у портного], он делает все свои вещи на заказ id be made of different stuff быть совсем другим человеком, make быть сделанным из другого теста; let them all see what you are made of пусть все видят, что ты за человек /чего ты стоишь/; а first-class job was made of his house его дом прекрасно отремонтировали
    2) be made the decision is made решение вынесено; be made at some time unless a move is made very soon, it will be too late если в ближайшее время что-либо не сделают, будет слишком поздно; be made by smb. the first move was made by my brother первый шаг сделал мой брат; be made of smth. effective use was made of this money эти деньги были потрачены с пользой; be made for smth. these rules were made for a special purpose эти правила были составлены с особой целью; be made to do smth. the regulations were made to protect children эти правила созданы /выработаны/ для защиты детей || note should be made следует обратить внимание; а careful note should be made of what he says нужно внимательно отнестись /прислушаться/ к тому, что он говорит
    3) be made smb. he was made commander-in-chief (general manager, president of the club, a judge, etc.) его назначили главнокомандующим и т. д., he was made an officer его произвели в офицеры; he was made a knight он был посвящен в рыцари; he was made prisoner его взяли в плен; be made by smb., smth. the recommendation was made by the committee эта рекомендация была предложена комиссией; the writer was made by his first book с первой же книги его признали настоящим писателем; be made for smb. they are made for each other они созданы друг для друга
    4) be made to be of some state be made known придать гласность; the results are to be made known on application результаты сообщают, если подано соответствующее заявление; the full story was never made public все подробности этой истории так и не стали достоянием общественности; be made about smth., smb. much fuss has been made about it (about the affair, about her, etc.) вокруг этого и т. д. была поднята большая шумиха; be made to do smth. the pupil was made to write his biography (to speak up, to stay after lessons, etc.) ученика заставили написать свою биографию и т. д.; the crowd was made to disperse толпу разогнали; these two statements cannot be made to agree эти два заявления противоречат друг другу
    5) be made on (out of, by, etc.) smth. how much will be made on the business? какой доход будет получен от этого предприятия /даст это предприятие/?; а good deal of capital will be made out of this это принесет солидный капитал: I have по desire for money that has been made by dishonest means я не хочу брать деньги, заработанные нечестным путем
    6) be made of smth. nothing could be made of the scribble in his note books (of her note, of his mumbling, etc,) ничего нельзя было понять из каракулей в его тетради и т. д.
    7) be made with smb. a treaty has been made with other countries был заключен договор с другими странами
    10. XII
    have smth. made for smth. I must have a coat made for the winter мне нужно отдать сшить зимнее пальто
    11. XIII
    1) || make believe делать вид; he made believe to work hard (to throw a ball, not to know anything, etc.) он делал вид, что он усердно работает и т. д., make believe to be a scholar воображать себя ученым
    2) semiaux make to do smth. he made to go он хотел было уйти; he made to stop me он попытался было остановить меня; he made to snatch her bag он рванулся вперед, чтобы вы хватить у нее сумку
    3) · make do with (without, on) smth. I will have to make do with cold meat for dinner (with a very short holiday, with an old wireless set, etc.) мне придется довольствоваться холодным мясом вместо обеда и т. д.; I shall have to make do without a coat придется мне обойтись без пальто; I don't know how she makes do on so small an income не знаю, как она сводит концы с концами при таком небольшом заработке; I shall make do on biscuits and cheese сыра и галет мне будет достаточно
    12. XV
    1) || make good coll. добиться успеха; I never believed that he would make good я никогда не верил, что он чего-нибудь добьется; talent and education are necessary to make good in this field чтобы добиться успеха в этой области, необходимы талант и образование
    2) || make good smth. оправдывать что-л.; he made good his promise он выполнил /сдержал/ свое обещание; she made good her claims она доказала справедливость или законность своих притязаний: you will have to make good your boast тебе придется доказать, что это не пустое хвастовство; make good its title tic) be ranked as an independent science обосновать /доказать/ свое право считаться самостоятельной наукой; make good the damage (the shortage, the loss, etc.) возмещать убытки и т. д. ; any money that you cannot account for you will have to make good тебе придется возместить /вернуть/ все деньги, за которые ты не сумеешь отчитаться
    3) 0 || make sure /certain/ быть уверенным или удостовериться; have you made sure of the facts (of the timetable, of the results, etc.)? вы проверили факты и т. д.?, вы убеждены в правильности фактов и т. д.?; if you want to make sure of a seat you had better book in advance если вы хотите наверняка иметь билет, закажите его заранее / заблаговременно/; first they made sure of him сначала они [проверили его и] убедились в его надежности; I want to make sure of catching her (of getting there in time, of having a good seat, of his answering the letter, etc.) я хочу быть уверенным, что застану ее и т. д.,make sure that the letter was delivered (that the doors are locked, that there is no one here, etc.) убедиться, что письмо доставлено и т. д.; will you please make sure that they are all here? проверьте, пожалуйста, все ли она пришли; I made certain that he would do so я был уверен, что он так и поступит; make bold осмеливаться; make bold to ask a favour (to call on you, to express my opinion, etc.) осмелиться просить об одолжении и т. д.; I make bold to say that he knows nothing about it осмелюсь утверждать, что он ничего об этом не знает; make light of smth. не придавать чему-л. особого значения; she made light of her troubles (of this accident, of a situation, of other people's illness, etc.) она легко относится к своим неприятностям и т. д., она особенно не переживает из-за своих неприятностей и т. д.; make ready подготовиться; make merry веселиться; make merry over his victory радоваться /веселиться/ по случаю его победы; make free with smth. пользоваться чем-л., не стесняясь
    13. XVI
    1) make after smb. make after the fox (after the rabbit, after the escaped convict, etc.) броситься /пуститься/ преследовать лису и т. д., she made after him like a mad woman она как безумная бросилась за ним; in the morning we made after them утром мы пустились за ними вслед; make at smb. he gave a shout and made at me он издал крик и (на)бросился на меня; the dog made at the postman собака накинулась на почтальона; the angry woman made at me with her umbrella рассерженная женщина (накинулась на меня с зонтиком; make for /toward/ smb., smth. make for the crowd (for the sea, for the nearest town, toward a distant hill, for home, etc.) двигаться по направлению /направляться/ к толпе и т. д., he quickly made for /toward/ the door он бросился к двери; she made for the sound of guns она пошла туда, откуда раздавались выстрелы; the dog made for the robber собака бросилась за грабителем; make for the open sea направиться в открытое море
    2) make on smth. coll. make on this business (on shares, on oil, etc.) заработать на этом деле и т. д., he made pretty handsomely on that bargain он неплохо заработал /нажился/ на этой сделке
    3) 0 make for smth. make for better understanding between countries ( for the happiness of all, for a friendly atmosphere in the club, for peace, for stability of marriage, etc.) способствовать лучшему взаимопониманию между странами и т. д.; does early rising make for good health? полезно ли для здоровья рано вставать?; that weather makes for optimism в такую погоду и настроение хорошее; new facts made for the prisoner's acquittal новые факты ускорили вынесение /помогли вынесению/ оправдательного приговора заключенному; make against smth. experience makes against this assertion опыт опровергает это утверждение; your behaviour makes against your chance of success ваше поведение не способствует /мешает/ вашему успеху
    14. XXI1
    1) make smth. out of /from, of, with/ smth. make bottles out of glass (bricks of clay, flour from wheat, a box out of a bit of mahogany, etc.) делать бутылки из стекла и т. д., make wreaths of daisies плести венки из маргариток; make a megaphone of one's hands сложить руки рупором; the cake was spoilt as she made it with a bad egg торт был испорчен, так как она положила в тесто несвежее яйцо; what do you make with flour (with the eggs, with these things, etc.)? что вы делаете из муки и т. д.?; what will you make with all these flowers? что вы будете делать с таким количеством цветов?; what can you make out of this stuff? что ты можешь сделать / сшить/ из этого материала?; make smth. in smth. make a hole in the ground выкопать яму в земле; make a gap in the hedge проделать лаз /дыру/ в изгороди; it made a hole dent/ in my savings (in my reserves, in smb.'s finances, etc.) от этого пострадали мои сбережения и т. д., make smth. for smth. make an opening for the wires сделать входное отверстие для проводов; make a hole for a tree выкопать яму под дерево; he made a bookcase for his apartment он сам сделал в своей квартире книжный шкаф; make smth. into smth. make milk into cheese and butter (hide into leather, wood into pulp, etc.) перерабатывать молоко на масло и сыр и т. д.; make these huts into temporary houses (it into a stock company, the desert into a garden, etc.) превращать эти хижины во временное жилье и т. д., make these books into bundles связать книги в пачки; make a story into a play переделать повесть в пьесу
    2) make smth. of smb. make an example of smb. ставить кого-л. в пример; make fun of smb. подшучивать или издеваться над кем-л.; make a laughing-stock of smb. сделать кого-л. посмешищем, выставлять кого-л. в смешном виде; make a fool /an ass/ of him (of her husband, etc.) делать из него и т. д. дурака; make a fool (a beast, a pig, etc.) of oneself вести себя как дурак и т. д., make a nuisance of oneself надоедать /докучать, досаждать/ кому-л.; make an exhibition spectacle, a show/ of oneself привлекать к себе внимание; make smth. of smth. make a profession of smth. сделать что-л. своей профессией; make a business of politics заниматься политикой профессионально; make a parade / a show/ of one's talents щеголять /кичиться/ своими талантами; make a boast of smth. хвастаться / хвалиться/ чем-л.; make a secret of smth. делать из чего-л. тайну /секрет/; he was asked to help but he made a hash /a muddle, a mess/ of everything его просили помочь, а он все испортил; make hell of smb.'s life превратить чью-л. жизнь в ад; make a note of his telephone number записать номер его телефона; make notes of a lecture записать лекцию; you must make a mental note of what he is saying вы должны запомнить /взять на заметку/, что он говорят; don't make a habit of it смотри, чтобы это не превратилось в привычку; make the most of smth. максимально использовать что-л.; make the best of one's delay (of this scanty information, of his absence, etc.) наилучшим образом /наиболее эффективно/ использовать задержку и т. д.; make a good thing of it извлечь из этого пользу; make good use of this opportunity воспользоваться предоставившейся возможностью; make a good (a bad) job of smth. хорошо (плохо) справиться с чем-л.; make smth. for smb., smth. make a name for oneself стать известным; make a reputation for oneself создать себе репутацию; make allowance (s) for circumstances (for smb.'s inexperience, for her age, etc.) делать скидку на обстоятельства и т. д.; make arrangements for a meeting (for a party, for a dance, for their departure, etc.) подготовить собрание и т. д., make much for the peace of the world много сделать для сохранения мира; make smb., smth. with smb. make friends with smb. подружиться с кем-л., наладить с кем-л. дружеские отношения; а quarrel with smb. поссориться с кем-л.; make peace with smb. помириться с кем-л.; make smth. in (on, etc.) smth., smb. make a name in the world снискать мировую славу, приобрести известность во всем мире; make an impression on smb. производить на кого-л. впечатление; make war upon smb., smth. a) идти войной на кого-л., что-л.; б) вести войну с кем-л., чем-л. || make love to smb. а) ласкать кого-л., заниматься любовью с кем-л., б) ухаживать за кем-л.; говорить кому-л. ласковые слова
    3) make smb. of smb. his parents want to make a doctor (a lawyer, a soldier, an actor, etc.) of their son родители хотят, чтобы их сын стал врачом и т. д., make a man of him сделать из него человека; make a friend of her children подружиться с ее детьми; make a friend of an enemy превратить врага в друга; make smb. into smb. make them into slaves (him into a bully, her into a sophisticated hostess, etc.) превратить их в /сделать из них/ рабов и т. д.
    4) make smth. over smth. make a fuss (a row, a scandal, etc.) over smth. поднимать шум и т. д. по какому-л. поводу; make a to-do over a trifle поднимать шумиху из-за пустяка
    5) make smth. for smth. make a dash for the open window (a bolt for the door, a bee-line for the gates, etc.) броситься к открытому окну и т. д., make smth. to smth. make one's way to the station (to the river, to the house, back to the tower, etc.) пойти /направиться/ к станции и т. д., make smth. by smth. make the crossing by ferry переправиться на пароме; make smth. at smb. make a grab at him попытаться схватить его || it's time we were making tracks for home нам уже пора повернуть к дому
    6) make some distance in some time we made the whole distance in ten days мы прошли весь путь /покрыли все расстояние/ за десять дней; we've made 80 miles since noon с полудня мы проделали восемьдесят миль
    7) make smth. in some time the train will make Moscow in five hours поезд будет в Москве через пять часов
    8) make smth. at /in/ smth. make good grades at school получать [в школе] хорошие отметки, хорошо учиться; make the highest score in the match получать в этом матче больше всех очков /самый лучший результат/; make one's way in the world преуспеть, добиться успеха || coll. he'll make it through college ему удастся окончить колледж; he made six towns on this trip во время этой поездки он посетил шесть городов /побывал в шести городах/
    9) make smth. by (out of, from, in, etc.) smth. make a good deal by it хорошо на этом заработать; make much profit out of this undertaking извлекать большую выгоду из этого предприятия; he made a great fortune out of tea он составил большое состояние на торговле чаем; make a great deal of money in oil много заработать на нефти; make a living from literary work зарабатывать [на жизнь] литературным трудом; make a loss on the transaction потерпеть /понести/ убытки на этой сделке
    10) make smth. of smth., smb. read this letter and tell me what you make of it прочтите это письмо и скажите, как вы его расцениваете; what do you make of the new assistant? какое у тебя впечатление /что ты думаешь/ о новом помощнике?; make much of this article ( of her work, of this man, etc.) быть высокого мнения об этой статье и т. д., newspapers made much of his achievements газеты превозносили его успехи; she makes too much of the boy уж слишком она носится с этим мальчиком; make little of smth., smb. относиться пренебрежительно к чему-л., кому-л., не считаться с чем-л., кем-л.; he made little of his feat он принижал значение своего героического поступка
    11) make smth. of smth. I could make nothing of his words (of all this scribble, of her letter, etc.) я ничего не мог понять из его слов и т. д., его слова были мне совершенно непонятны и т. д., you will make more of it than I вы в этом лучше разберетесь [, чем я]; I can make no sense of what he says я не вижу никакого смысла в том, что он говорит; what are we to make of his behaviour? как нам следует /нам прикажете/ понимать его поведение?
    12) make smth. with smb. they made a bargain with him они заключили с ним сделку || make a settlement on smb. распорядиться имуществом в пользу кого-л.
    13) semiaux make smth. for smb. make room for smb. [подвинуться и] дать кому-л. место; can you make room for one more man? найдется место еще для одного человека?; make way for others посторониться, дать дорогу другим; make smth. at smb. he made a face at them он состроил им рожу; don't make eyes at him не строй ему глазки
    14) 0 make smth. in some time he will make a sergeant in six months через шесть месяцев он станет сержантом
    15. XXII
    1) make smth. of doing smth. make a practice of working in his garden in the morning (of helping others, of doing his exercises in front of an open window, etc.) взять за правило по утрам работать в его саду и т. д.; he makes a practice of cheating он всегда обманывает; make a point of being on time у него принцип make не опаздывать /быть пунктуальным/; she made it a point of being very patient with these children она особенно старалась быть терпеливой с этими детьми
    2) make smth. by doing smth. make one's living by giving piano lessons (by writing books for children, by selling flowers, etc.) зарабатывать на жизнь уроками игры на фортепиано и т. д.; she makes money by nursing она зарабатывает деньги, ухаживая за больными; she made her name by writing memoirs она прославилась своими мемуарами
    16. XXIV1
    || make it as smb. coll. добиться успеха, будучи кем-л.; I wanted to make it as a writer мне хотелось добиться успеха на писательском поприще
    17. XXVI
    make smth. [that]... this makes the fifth time you've failed this examination ты уже [в] пятый раз проваливаешься на этом экзамене

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  • 24 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

  • 25 un

    un, une [œ̃, yn]
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    1. <
    a
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    a devient an devant une voyelle.
    ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
    un certain M. Legrand a Mr Legrand
    elle a fait une de ces scènes ! (inf) she made a dreadful scene!
    j'ai une de ces faims ! (inf) I'm so hungry!
    2. <
    personne ne t'a forcé de venir, et d'une ! for a start no one forced you to come! un à un, un par un one by one
    en voilà un qui ne se gêne pas ! well, he's got a nerve!
    j'en connais un qui sera content ! I know someone who'll be pleased!
    l'une des meilleures chanteuses one of the best singersles uns... les autres... some people... others...
    l'un l'autre, les uns les autres one another each other
    3. <
    un jour, il m'a téléphoné one day he phoned me
    4. <
    ( = nombre) one
    5. <
       a. ( = nombre) une, deux ! une, deux ! left, right! left, right!
    à la une, à la deux, à la trois ! (inf) with a one and a two and a three!
    il n'a fait ni une ni deux, il a accepté (inf) he accepted like a shot (inf)
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    1.
    une œ̃(n), yn article indéfini (pl des)
    1) ( au singulier) a, an

    un jour, je t'en parlerai — I'll tell you about it one day

    il fait un froid or un de ces froids! — it's so cold!


    2.
    pronom (pl uns, unes) gén one

    (l')un d'entre or de nous — one of us

    un de ces jours or quatre — (colloq) one of these days

    les uns pensent que... — some think that...


    3.
    adjectif one, a (devant une consonne), an (devant une voyelle)

    ici, il pleut un jour sur deux — it rains every other day here


    4.
    nom masculin, féminin one

    un à ou par un — one by one


    5.
    (colloq) adverbe firstly, for one thing

    un, je fais ce que je veux et deux ça ne te regarde pas! — firstly, I do what I like and secondly it's none of your business!


    6.
    nom masculin
    1) ( nombre) one

    un, deux, trois, partez! — one, two, three, go!

    page/scène un — page/scene one

    3) fig
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    s'en jeter un (derrière la cravate) — (colloq) to knock back a drink (colloq)

    un pour tous et tous pour un — all for one and one for all; dix


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    Emploi et prononciation de a et an
    - On emploie a ə devant les consonnes, les h aspirés et les semi-consonnes j, w (dans a university, a one-eyed man), et an ən devant les voyelles et h muets (hour, honest, heir)
    Un = pronom
    - L'emploi de un en corrélation avec autre est traité sous autre. Voir aussi chose, comme, ainsi que les verbes avec lesquels le pronom se substitue familièrement à un groupe nominal comme coller - en coller une, placer - en placer une etc)
    Un = adjectif numéral
    En général, un, adjectif numéral, se traduit indifféremment par a ou one: j'ai un garçon et deux filles = I have a ou one boy and two girls
    En revanche un se traduit par one quand on veut insister sur le nombre. Ainsi, on dira: il ne reste qu'une pomme ( pas deux) = there's only one apple left; mais: il ne reste qu'une pomme ( pas d'autres fruits) = there's only an apple left; j'ai un frère et deux soeurs ( nous sommes quatres enfants) = I have one brother and two sisters; mais: j'ai un frère qui est informaticien ( j'ai d'autres frères) = I have a brother who is a computer scientist; ça coûte une livre = it costs a ou one pound; mais: ça coûte une livre cinquante = it costs one pound fifty; cela a pris une heure = it took an ou one hour; mais: il est une heure = it is one o'clock

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    Emploi et prononciation de a et an
    - On emploie a ə devant les consonnes, les h aspirés et les semi-consonnes j, w (dans a university, a one-eyed man), et an ən devant les voyelles et h muets (hour, honest, heir)
    Un = pronom
    - L'emploi de un en corrélation avec autre est traité sous autre. Voir aussi chose, comme, ainsi que les verbes avec lesquels le pronom se substitue familièrement à un groupe nominal comme coller - en coller une, placer - en placer une etc)
    Un = adjectif numéral
    En général, un, adjectif numéral, se traduit indifféremment par a ou one: j'ai un garçon et deux filles = I have a ou one boy and two girls
    En revanche un se traduit par one quand on veut insister sur le nombre. Ainsi, on dira: il ne reste qu'une pomme ( pas deux) = there's only one apple left; mais: il ne reste qu'une pomme ( pas d'autres fruits) = there's only an apple left; j'ai un frère et deux soeurs ( nous sommes quatres enfants) = I have one brother and two sisters; mais: j'ai un frère qui est informaticien ( j'ai d'autres frères) = I have a brother who is a computer scientist; ça coûte une livre = it costs a ou one pound; mais: ça coûte une livre cinquante = it costs one pound fifty; cela a pris une heure = it took an ou one hour; mais: il est une heure = it is one o'clock
    * * *
    œ̃, yn (une)
    1. art indéf
    1) (généralement) a, an devant voyelle

    Il y avait une foule! — It was so crowded!, There was such a crowd!

    un de ces... — such a...

    J'ai eu une de ces migraines. — I had such a headache.

    2. pron

    Il n'y en a pas un de bon. — Not one of them is any good.

    Ils entraient un par un. — They went in one by one.

    l'un..., l'autre — the one..., the other

    L'un est grand, l'autre est petit. — One is tall, the other is short.

    l'un et l'autre — both of them, both

    les uns..., les autres — some..., others

    Les uns marchaient, les autres couraient. — Some were walking, others were running.

    l'un ou l'autre — either of them, either

    Prends l'un ou l'autre, ça m'est égal. — Take either of them, I don't mind.

    l'un l'autre; les uns les autres — each other, one another

    3. num

    Combien de timbres? - Un. — How many stamps? - One.

    Elle a un an. — She's one year old.

    4. nm inv

    le un — number one, one

    5. nf
    * * *
    un ⇒ Note d'usage, uneLes nombres, L'heure
    A art indéf (pl des)
    1 ( au singulier) a, an; une pomme an apple; une femme vous demande a woman is asking for you; un ciel couvert an overcast sky; avec un sang-froid remarquable with remarkable self-control; il n'a pas dit un mot he didn't say a ou one word; il n'y avait pas un arbre there wasn't a single tree; c'est un Paul furieux que j'ai vu sortir du bureau it was an angry Paul that I saw coming out of the office; leur mère était une Montagut their mother was a Montagut; un chien est plus docile qu'un chat dogs are more docile than cats, a dog is more docile than a cat; un accident est vite arrivé accidents soon happen; un jour, je t'en parlerai I'll tell you about it one day;
    2 ( au pluriel) il y avait des mille-pattes et des scorpions there were millipedes and scorpions; il y a des gens qui ne comprennent jamais rien there are some people who never understand anything; des invités avaient déjà défait leur cravate some guests had already loosened their ties;
    3 ( en emphase) il fait un froid or un de ces froids! it's so cold!; j'ai une soif or une de ces soifs! I'm so thirsty!; elle marchait avec une grâce! she was walking so gracefully!; elle m'a donné une de ces gifles! she gave me such a slap!; il y a un monde aujourd'hui! there are so many people today!; il travaille jusqu'à des deux heures du matin he works up until two in the morning; il y en a des qui vont bien rire! some people are going to have a good laugh!
    B pron (pl uns, unes) gén one; (l')un de or d'entre nous one of us; (l')un des meilleurs one of the best; un de ces jours or quatre one of these days; l'un est diplomate one is a diplomat; les uns pensent que… some think that…; pas un n'a dit merci not one of them said thank you; un qui sera surpris, c'est… one person who will be surprised is…; t'en as un, de bateau, toi? have YOU got a boat?
    C adj one, a ( devant une consonne), an ( devant une voyelle); j'y suis resté un jour I stayed there for a ou one day; trente et une personnes ont été blessées thirty-one people were injured; ici, il pleut un jour sur deux it rains every other day here.
    D nm,f one; il n'en reste qu'un there's only one left ; il y en a un par personne there's one each; j'en ai déjà mangé un I've already eaten one; les deux villes n'en font plus qu'une the two cities have merged into one; un à ou par un [cueillir, ramasser, laver] one by one; [arriver, entrer, partir] one by one, one after the other; traiter les problèmes un à ou par un to deal with the problems one by one.
    E adv firstly, for one thing; un, je fais ce que je veux et deux ça ne te regarde pas! firstly, I do what I like and secondly it's none of your business!, for one thing I do what I like, for another thing it's none of your business!
    F nm
    1 ( nombre) one; il y a trois uns dans cent onze there are three ones in one hundred and eleven; un, deux, trois, partez! one, two, three, go!; faire un un ( aux dés) to throw a one;
    2 ( valeur ordinale) page/scène un page/scene one;
    3 fig elle ne faisait qu'un avec sa machine she and her machine were as one; dans l'adversité ils ne font qu'un they are united in the face of adversity.
    G une nf la une the front page; être à la une to be in the headlines, to be on the front page.
    tu peux me prêter 20 euros? je suis sans un could you lend me 20 euros? I'm broke; s'en jeter un (derrière la cravate) to knock back a drink; elle est fière comme pas une she's extremely proud; il est menteur comme pas un he's the greatest liar; c'est tout un it's all one to me; un pour tous et tous pour un all for one and one for all.
    ( féminin une, pluriel masculin uns [œ̃], pluriel féminin unes [yn], pluriel des [de]) [œ̃, devant nm commençant par voyelle ou h muet œ̃n, yn ] déterminant (article indéfini)
    1. [avec une valeur indéterminée] a, an (devant une voyelle)
    un jour, ce sera permis one day ou someday, it will be allowed
    2. [avec une valeur particularisante] a, an (devant une voyelle)
    c'est avec un grand plaisir que... it's with great pleasure that...
    un grand voyage se prépare des mois à l'avance a ou any long journey needs months of preparation
    3. [avec une valeur emphatique]
    il est d'une bêtise/d'un drôle! he's so stupid/funny!
    j'ai eu une frousse, mais une frousse! (familier) I was absolutely terrified!
    il gagne des 2 000 ou 3 000 euros par mois he makes up to 2,000 or 3,000 euros a month
    4. [avec un nom propre]
    un M. Baloi vous demande au téléphone there's a Mr Baloi for you (on the phone)
    [désignant une œuvre]
    faire l'acquisition d'un Picasso/d'un Van Gogh to acquire a Picasso/a Van Gogh
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    ( féminin une, pluriel masculin uns [œ̃], pluriel féminin unes [yn], pluriel des [de]) [œ̃, devant nm commençant par voyelle ou h muet œ̃n, yn ] pronom indéfini
    1. [dans un ensemble] one
    [en corrélation avec 'de']
    [avec l'article défini]
    l'un de mes amis one of my friends, a friend of mine
    2. [en corrélation avec 'en'] one
    on demanda un médecin, il y en avait un dans la salle they called for a doctor, there was one in the room
    parmi les enfants, il y en a un qui... one of the children...
    mais bien sûr que j'en ai une, de voiture! (familier) of course I've got a car!
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    ( féminin une, pluriel masculin uns [œ̃], pluriel féminin unes [yn], pluriel des [de]) [œ̃, devant nm commençant par voyelle ou h muet œ̃n, yn ] déterminant (adjectif numéral)
    1. one
    il y a un problème, un seul there's just one problem
    une à une, les lumières s'éteignaient the lights were going out one by one ou one after the other
    et d'un, et de deux! that's one, and another (one)!
    2. [dans des séries] one
    une, deux! une, deux! left, right! left, right!
    et d'une (familier) firstly, first of all, for a start
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    ( féminin une, pluriel masculin uns [œ̃], pluriel féminin unes [yn], pluriel des [de]) [œ̃, devant nm commençant par voyelle ou h muet œ̃n, yn ] adjectif qualificatif
    un nom masculin invariable

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > un

  • 26 time

    1. noun
    1) no pl., no art. Zeit, die

    for all time — für immer [und ewig]

    past/present/future time — Vergangenheit, die/Gegenwart, die/Zukunft, die

    stand the test of timedie Zeit überdauern; sich bewähren

    in [the course of] time, as time goes on/went on — mit der Zeit; im Laufe der Zeit

    time will tell or show — die Zukunft wird es zeigen

    at this point or moment in time — zum gegenwärtigen Zeitpunkt

    time flies — die Zeit vergeht [wie] im Fluge

    in time, with time — (sooner or later) mit der Zeit

    in a week's/month's/year's time — in einer Woche/in einem Monat/Jahr

    there is time for thatdafür ist od. haben wir noch Zeit

    it takes me all my time to do it — es beansprucht meine ganze Zeit, es zu tun

    waste of time — Zeitverschwendung, die

    spend [most of one's/a lot of] time on something/[in] doing something — [die meiste/viel] Zeit mit etwas zubringen/damit verbringen, etwas zu tun

    I have been waiting for some/a long time — ich warte schon seit einiger Zeit/schon lange

    she will be there for [quite] some time — sie wird ziemlich lange dort sein

    be pressed for time — keine Zeit haben; (have to finish quickly) in Zeitnot sein

    pass the timesich (Dat.) die Zeit vertreiben

    length of time — Zeit[dauer], die

    make time for somebody/something — sich (Dat.) für jemanden/etwas Zeit nehmen

    in one's own timein seiner Freizeit; (whenever one wishes) wann man will

    take one's time [over something] — sich (Dat.) [für etwas] Zeit lassen; (be slow) sich (Dat.) Zeit [mit etwas] lassen

    time is money(prov.) Zeit ist Geld (Spr.)

    in [good] time — (not late) rechtzeitig

    all the or this time — die ganze Zeit; (without ceasing) ständig

    in [less than or next to] no time — innerhalb kürzester Zeit; im Nu od. Handumdrehen

    in half the timein der Hälfte der Zeit

    half the time(coll.): (as often as not) fast immer

    it will take [some] time — es wird einige Zeit dauern

    have the/no time — Zeit/keine Zeit haben

    have no time for somebody/something — für jemanden/etwas ist einem seine Zeit zu schade

    there is no time to lose or be lost — es ist keine Zeit zu verlieren

    lose no time in doing something(not delay) etwas unverzüglich tun

    do time(coll.) eine Strafe absitzen (ugs.)

    in my time(heyday) zu meiner Zeit (ugs.); (in the course of my life) im Laufe meines Lebens

    in my time(period at a place) zu meiner Zeit (ugs.)

    time off or out — freie Zeit

    get/take time off — frei bekommen/sich (Dat.) frei nehmen (ugs.)

    Time! (Boxing) Stop!; Time!; (Brit.): (in pub) Feierabend!

    have a lot of time for somebody(fig.) für jemandem viel übrig haben

    3) no pl. (moment or period destined for purpose) Zeit, die

    harvest/Christmas time — Ernte-/Weihnachtszeit, die

    now is the time to do it — jetzt ist die richtige Zeit, es zu tun

    when the time comes/came — wenn es so weit ist/als es so weit war

    on time(punctually) pünktlich

    ahead of timezu früh [ankommen]; vorzeitig [fertig werden]

    all in good time — alles zu seiner Zeit; see also academic.ru/5926/be">be 2. 1)

    4) in sing. or pl. (circumstances) Zeit, die

    times are good/bad/have changed — die Zeiten sind gut/schlecht/haben sich verändert

    have a good timeSpaß haben (ugs.); sich amüsieren

    have a hard time [of it] — eine schwere Zeit durchmachen

    5) (associated with events or person[s]) Zeit, die

    in time of peace/war — in Friedens-/Kriegszeiten

    in Tudor/ancient times — zur Zeit der Tudors/der Antike

    in former/modern times — früher/heutzutage

    ahead of or before one's/its time — seiner Zeit voraus

    at one time(previously) früher

    6) (occasion) Mal, das

    next time you comewenn du das nächste Mal kommst

    ten/a hundred/a thousand times — zehn- / hundert- / tausendmal

    many's the time [that]..., many a time... — viele Male...

    at a time like this/that — unter diesen/solchen Umständen

    at the or that time — (in the past) damals

    at one time, at [one and] the same time — (simultaneously) gleichzeitig

    at the same time(nevertheless) gleichwohl

    time and [time] again, time after time — immer [und immer] wieder

    pay somebody £6 a time — jemandem für jedes Mal 6 Pfund zahlen

    for hours/weeks at a time — stundenlang/wochenlang [ohne Unterbrechung]

    7) (point in day etc.) [Uhr]zeit, die

    what time is it?, what is the time? — wie spät ist es?

    have you [got] the time? — kannst du mir sagen, wie spät es ist?

    tell the time(read a clock) die Uhr lesen

    time of day — Tageszeit, die

    [at this] time of [the] year — [um diese] Jahreszeit

    at this time of [the] night — zu dieser Nachtstunde

    pass the time of day(coll.) ein paar Worte wechseln

    by this/that time — inzwischen

    by the time [that] we arrived — bis wir hinkamen

    [by] this time tomorrow — morgen um diese Zeit

    keep good time[Uhr:] genau od. richtig gehen

    8) (amount) Zeit, die

    make good timegut vorwärts kommen

    [your] time's up! — deine Zeit ist um (ugs.) od. abgelaufen

    four times the size of/higher than something — viermal so groß wie/höher als etwas

    10) (Mus.) (duration of note) Zeitdauer, die; (measure) Takt, der

    out of time/in time — aus dem/im Takt

    keep time with somethingbei etwas den Takt [ein]halten

    2. transitive verb
    1) (do at correct time) zeitlich abstimmen

    be well/ill timed — zur richtigen/falschen Zeit kommen

    2) (set to operate at correct time) justieren (Technik); einstellen
    3) (arrange time of arrival/departure of)

    the bus is timed to connect with the trainder Bus hat einen direkten Anschluss an den Zug

    4) (measure time taken by) stoppen
    •• Cultural note:
    Eine britische überregionale Tageszeitung, deren Pendant am Sonntag The Sunday Times ist. Sie ist eine broadsheet-Zeitung und zählt zur seriösen Presse. Sie ist politisch unabhängig, wird jedoch gemeinhin als konservativ angesehen. Sie ist die älteste Zeitung in England und wurde erstmals 1785 veröffentlicht
    * * *
    1. noun
    1) (the hour of the day: What time is it?; Can your child tell the time yet?) die Zeit
    2) (the passage of days, years, events etc: time and space; Time will tell.) die Zeit
    3) (a point at which, or period during which, something happens: at the time of his wedding; breakfast-time.)
    4) (the quantity of minutes, hours, days etc, eg spent in, or available for, a particular activity etc: This won't take much time to do; I enjoyed the time I spent in Paris; At the end of the exam, the supervisor called `Your time is up!') die Zeit
    5) (a suitable moment or period: Now is the time to ask him.) der Zeitpunkt
    6) (one of a number occasions: He's been to France four times.) das Mal
    7) (a period characterized by a particular quality in a person's life, experience etc: He went through an unhappy time when she died; We had some good times together.) die Zeiten (pl.)
    8) (the speed at which a piece of music should be played; tempo: in slow time.) das Tempo
    2. verb
    1) (to measure the time taken by (a happening, event etc) or by (a person, in doing something): He timed the journey.) Zeit messen von
    2) (to choose a particular time for: You timed your arrival beautifully!) den Zeitpunkt wählen
    - timeless
    - timelessly
    - timelessness
    - timely
    - timeliness
    - timer
    - times
    - timing
    - time bomb
    - time-consuming
    - time limit
    - time off
    - time out
    - timetable
    - all in good time
    - all the time
    - at times
    - be behind time
    - for the time being
    - from time to time
    - in good time
    - in time
    - no time at all
    - no time
    - one
    - two at a time
    - on time
    - save
    - waste time
    - take one's time
    - time and time again
    - time and again
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    [taɪm]
    I. NOUN
    1. no pl (considered as a whole) Zeit f
    \time stood still die Zeit stand still
    \time marches [or moves] on die Zeit bleibt nicht stehen
    the best player of all \time der bester Spieler aller Zeiten
    in the course of \time mit der Zeit
    over the course of \time im Lauf[e] der Zeit
    to be a matter [or question] of \time eine Frage der Zeit sein
    \time is on sb's side die Zeit arbeitet für jdn
    as \time goes by [or on] im Lauf[e] der Zeit
    to kill \time die Zeit totschlagen
    to make \time for sth sich dat die Zeit für etw akk nehmen
    \time-tested [alt]bewährt
    for all \time für immer [o alle Zeit]
    in \time mit der Zeit
    over [or with] \time im Lauf[e] der Zeit
    2. no pl (period, duration) Zeit f
    \time's up ( fam) die Zeit ist um
    we spent part of the \time in Florence, and part of the \time in Rome wir verbrachten unsere Zeit teils in Florenz und teils in Rom
    you'll forget her, given \time mit der Zeit wirst du sie vergessen
    it will take some \time es wird eine Weile dauern
    sorry, folks, we're [all] out of \time now AM, AUS ( fam) tut mir leid Leute, aber wir sind schon über der Zeit
    I haven't seen one of those in a long \time so etwas habe ich schon lange nicht mehr gesehen
    half the \time, he misses class er fehlt die halbe Zeit
    the \time is ripe die Zeit ist reif
    we talked about old \times wir sprachen über alte Zeiten
    breakfast/holiday \time Frühstücks-/Urlaubszeit f
    extra \time SPORT Verlängerung f
    they played extra \time sie mussten in die Verlängerung
    three minutes into extra \time, Ricardo scored the decisive goal nach drei Minuten Verlängerung erzielte Ricardo das entscheidende Tor
    free [or spare] \time Freizeit f
    future \time Zukunft f
    injury \time BRIT SPORT Nachspielzeit f
    to have \time on one's hands viel Zeit zur Verfügung haben
    at this moment in \time zum gegenwärtigen Zeitpunkt
    period of \time Zeitraum m
    for a prolonged period of \time über einen längeren Zeitraum
    running \time FILM Spielzeit f
    past \time Vergangenheit f
    present \time Gegenwart f
    in one week's \time in einer Woche
    in one's own \time in seiner Freizeit
    a short \time later kurz darauf
    some/a long \time ago vor einiger/langer Zeit
    most of the \time meistens
    to do sth for a \time etw eine Zeit lang tun
    to find [the] \time to do sth Zeit finden, etw zu tun
    to gain/lose \time Zeit gewinnen/verlieren
    there's no \time to lose [or to be lost] wir dürfen [jetzt] keine Zeit verlieren, es ist höchste Zeit
    to give sb a hard \time ( fam) jdm zusetzen
    to have the \time of one's life sich akk großartig amüsieren
    to have all the \time in the world alle Zeit der Welt haben
    to have an easy/hard \time with sth keine Probleme/Probleme mit etw dat haben
    to make \time for sb/sth sich dat Zeit für jdn/etw nehmen
    to pass the \time sich dat die Zeit vertreiben
    to be pressed for \time in Zeitnot sein
    to run out of \time nicht genügend Zeit haben
    to save \time Zeit sparen
    to spend [a lot of] \time [in] doing sth [viel] Zeit damit verbringen, etw zu tun
    to take [a long/short] \time [lange/nicht lange] dauern
    to take one's \time sich dat Zeit lassen
    to take the \time and trouble to do sth sich dat die Mühe machen, etw zu tun
    to waste \time Zeit vergeuden [o verschwenden]
    to waste sb's \time jds Zeit vergeuden
    after a \time nach einer gewissen Zeit
    all the [or this] \time die ganze Zeit; (always) immer
    for a \time eine Zeit lang
    for a long/short \time [für] lange/kurze Zeit
    for the \time being vorläufig
    leave the ironing for the \time being - I'll do it later lass das Bügeln einst mal - ich mach's später
    in no [or next to no] [or less than no] \time [at all] im Nu
    3. (pertaining to clocks)
    have you got the \time? können Sie mir sagen, wie spät es ist?
    what's the \time? [or what \time is it?] wie spät ist es?
    excuse me, have you got the \time [on you]? Entschuldigung, haben Sie eine Uhr?
    can you already tell the \time? na, kannst du denn schon die Uhr lesen?
    oh dear, is that the right \time? oh je, ist es denn wirklich schon so spät/noch so früh?
    the \time is 8.30 es ist 8.30 Uhr
    to keep bad/good \time watch, clock falsch/richtig gehen
    to gain/lose \time watch, clock vor-/nachgehen
    4. (specific time or hour) Zeit f
    the \time is drawing near when we'll have to make a decision der Zeitpunkt, zu dem wir uns entscheiden müssen, rückt immer näher
    he recalled the \time when they had met er erinnerte sich daran, wie sie sich kennengelernt hatten
    do you remember the \time Alistair fell into the river? erinnerst du dich noch daran, wie Alistair in den Fluss fiel?
    we always have dinner at the same \time wir essen immer um dieselbe Zeit zu Abend
    I was exhausted by the \time I got home ich war erschöpft, als ich zu Hause ankam
    I'll call you ahead of \time esp AM ich rufe dich noch davor an
    at this \time of day/year zu dieser Tages-/Jahreszeit
    for this \time of day/year für diese Tages-/Jahreszeit
    what are you doing here at this \time of the day [or night]? was machst du um diese Uhrzeit hier?
    this \time tomorrow/next month morgen/nächsten Monat um diese Zeit
    5. (occasion) Mal nt
    the last \time we went to Paris,... das letzte Mal, als wir nach Paris fuhren,...
    I'll know better next \time das nächste Mal bin ich schlauer
    there are \times when I... es gibt Augenblicke, in denen ich...
    sometimes I enjoy doing it, but at other \times I hate it manchmal mache ich es gerne, dann wiederum gibt es Momente, in denen ich es hasse
    every [or each] \time jedes Mal
    for the first \time zum ersten Mal
    some other \time ein andermal
    one/two at a \time jeweils eine(r, s)/zwei; persons jeweils einzeln/zu zweit
    at \times manchmal
    at all \times immer, jederzeit
    at any [given] [or [any] one] \time immer, jederzeit
    at the \time damals
    at the best of \times im besten [o günstigen] Fall[e]
    he can't read a map at the best of \times er kann nicht mal unter normalen Umständen eine Karte lesen
    at the present [or AM this] \time im Moment
    from \time to \time gelegentlich, ab und zu
    6. (frequency) Mal nt
    the \times I've told you... [or how many \times have I told you...] wie oft habe ich dir schon gesagt...
    these shares are selling at 10 \time earnings diese Aktien werden mit einem Kurs-Gewinn-Verhältnis von 10 verkauft
    \time and [\time] again immer [und immer] wieder
    three/four \times a week/in a row drei/vier Mal in der Woche/hintereinander
    three \times champion BRIT, AUS [or AM three \time champion] dreimaliger Meister/dreimalige Meisterin
    three \times as much dreimal so viel
    for the hundredth/thousandth/umpteenth \time zum hundertsten/tausendsten/x-ten Mal
    lots of [or many] \times oft, viele Male
    it's \time for bed es ist Zeit, ins Bett zu gehen
    the \time has come to... es ist an der Zeit,...
    it's \time [that] I was leaving es wird Zeit, dass ich gehe
    [and] about \time [too] BRIT, AUS (yet to be accomplished) wird aber auch [langsam] Zeit!; (already accomplished) wurde aber auch [langsam] Zeit!
    it's high \time that she was leaving höchste Zeit, dass sie geht!; (already gone) das war aber auch höchste Zeit, dass sie endlich geht!
    we finished two weeks ahead of \time wir sind zwei Wochen früher fertig geworden
    we arrived in good \time for the start of the match wir sind rechtzeitig zum Spielbeginn angekommen
    to do sth dead [or exactly] [or right] on \time ( fam) etw pünktlich machen fam
    the bus arrived dead on \time der Bus kam auf die Minute genau
    in \time rechtzeitig
    on \time pünktlich; (as scheduled) termingerecht
    8. often pl (era, lifetime) Zeit f
    \times are difficult [or hard] die Zeiten sind hart
    at the \time of the Russian Revolution zur Zeit der Russischen Revolution
    in Victorian \times im Viktorianischen Zeitalter
    she is one of the best writers of modern \times sie ist eine der besten Schriftstellerinnen dieser Tage [o unserer Zeit]
    at one \time, George Eliot lived here George Eliot lebte einmal hier
    this was before my \time das war vor meiner Zeit
    she has grown old before her \time sie ist vorzeitig gealtert
    my grandmother has seen a few things in her \time meine Großmutter hat in ihrem Leben einiges gesehen
    \time was when you could... es gab Zeiten, da konnte man...
    if one had one's \time over again wenn man noch einmal von vorne anfangen könnte
    at his \time of life in seinem Alter
    the best.... of all \time der/die beste... aller Zeiten
    to keep up [or AM change] with the \times mit der Zeit gehen
    to be ahead of [or esp BRIT before] one's \time seiner Zeit voraus sein
    to be behind the \times seiner Zeit hinterherhinken
    from [or since] \time immemorial [or esp BRIT out of mind] seit undenklichen Zeiten
    in [or during] former/medieval \times früher/im Mittelalter
    in \times gone by früher
    in my \time zu meiner Zeit
    in our grandparents' \time zu Zeiten unserer Großeltern
    in \times past in der Vergangenheit, früher
    arrival/departure \time Ankunfts-/Abfahrtszeit f
    10. (hour registration method)
    daylight saving \time Sommerzeit f
    Greenwich Mean T\time Greenwicher Zeit f
    11. SPORT Zeit f
    record \time Rekordzeit f
    he won the 100 metres in record \time er gewann das 100-Meter-Rennen in einer neuen Rekordzeit
    two \times five is ten zwei mal fünf ist zehn
    ten \times bigger than... zehnmal so groß wie...
    13. no pl MUS Takt m
    to be/play out of \time aus dem Takt sein
    to beat \time den Rhythmus schlagen
    to get out of \time aus dem Takt kommen
    to keep \time den Takt halten
    in three-four \time im Dreivierteltakt
    14. (remunerated work)
    part \time Teilzeit f
    short \time BRIT Kurzarbeit f
    to have \time off frei haben
    to take \time off sich dat freinehmen
    \time off arbeitsfreie Zeit
    to be paid double \time den doppelten Stundensatz [o 100% Zuschlag] bezahlt bekommen
    to work [or be on] short \time BRIT kurzarbeiten
    15. BRIT (end of pub hours)
    “\time [please]!” „Feierabend!“ (wenn ein Pub abends schließt)
    16. ([not] like)
    to not give sb the \time of day jdn ignorieren
    to not have much \time for sb jdn nicht mögen
    to have a lot of \time for sb großen Respekt vor jdm haben
    17.
    \times are changing die Zeiten ändern sich
    to do [or serve] \time ( fam) sitzen fig fam
    \time is of the essence die Zeit drängt
    \time flies [when you're having fun] ( saying) wie die Zeit vergeht!
    all good things in all good \time alles zu seiner Zeit
    \time is a great healer, \time heals all wounds ( prov) die Zeit heilt alle Wunden prov
    \time hangs heavy die Zeit steht still
    \time is money ( prov) Zeit ist Geld prov
    to know the \time of the day sich akk auskennen
    \time moves on [or passes] die Zeit rast
    there's a \time and a place [for everything] ( prov) alles zu seiner Zeit
    there's no \time like the present ( saying) was du heute kannst besorgen, das verschiebe nicht auf morgen prov
    [only] \time can [or will] tell ( saying) erst die Zukunft wird es zeigen
    \time and tide wait for no man [or no one] ( prov) man muss die Gelegenheit beim Schopf[e] packen
    a week is a long \time in politics ( saying) eine Woche ist lang in der Politik
    to \time sb over 100 metres jds Zeit beim 100-Meter-Lauf nehmen
    the winning team was \timed at 5 minutes 26 seconds die Siegermannschaft wurde mit 5 Minuten und 26 Sekunden gestoppt
    to \time an egg darauf achten, dass man fürs Eierkochen die richtige Zeit einhält
    to \time sth für etw akk den richtigen Zeitpunkt wählen
    to be ill/well \timed zum genau falschen/richtigen Zeitpunkt kommen
    3. (arrange when sth should happen)
    to \time sth to... etw so planen, dass...
    we \timed our trip to coincide with her wedding wir legten unsere Reise so, dass sie mit ihrer Hochzeit zusammenfiel
    to \time a bomb to explode at... eine Bombe so einstellen, dass sie um... explodiert
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    [taɪm]
    1. NOUN
    1) Zeit f

    only time will tell whether... — es muss sich erst herausstellen, ob...

    to take (one's) time (over sth)sich (dat) (bei etw) Zeit lassen

    in ( next to or less than) no time — im Nu, im Handumdrehen

    at this ( present) point or moment in time — zu diesem or zum gegenwärtigen Zeitpunkt

    to have a lot of/no time for sb/sth — viel/keine Zeit für jdn/etw haben; ( fig

    to find time (for sb/sth) — Zeit (für jdn/etw) finden

    to make time (for sb/sth) — sich (dat) Zeit (für jdn/etw) nehmen

    he lost no time in telling her —

    in one's own/the company's time — in or während der Freizeit/Arbeitszeit

    don't rush, do it in your own time — nur keine Hast, tun Sie es, wie Sie es können

    to do time ( inf, in prison )sitzen (inf)

    he'll let you know in his own good time — er wird Ihnen Bescheid sagen, wenn er so weit ist

    it's a long time ( since...) — es ist schon lange her(, seit...)

    to have time on one's hands —

    too many people who have time on their hands — zu viele Leute, die zu viel freie Zeit haben

    having time on my hands I went into a caféda ich (noch) Zeit hatte, ging ich ins Café

    2)

    by clock what time is it?, what's the time? — wie spät ist es?, wie viel Uhr ist es?

    the time is 2.30 — es ist 2.30 Uhr, die Zeit: 2.30 Uhr

    it's 2 o'clock local time — es ist 2.00 Uhr Ortszeit

    the winning time was... — die Zeit des Siegers war...

    it's time (for me/us etc) to go, it's time I was/we were etc going, it's time I/we etc went — es wird Zeit, dass ich gehe/wir gehen etc

    time gentlemen please!Feierabend! (inf), bitte, trinken Sie aus, wir schließen gleich

    I wouldn't even give him the time of dayich würde ihm nicht einmal guten or Guten Tag sagen __diams; to tell the time (person) die Uhr kennen; (instrument) die Uhrzeit anzeigen

    can you tell the time?kennst du die Uhr? __diams; to make good time gut or schnell vorankommen

    if we get to Birmingham by 3 we'll be making good time — wenn wir um 3 Uhr in Birmingham sind, sind wir ziemlich schnell

    it's about time he was here (he has arrived) — es wird (aber) auch Zeit, dass er kommt; (he has not arrived) es wird langsam Zeit, dass er kommt

    (and) about time too!das wird aber auch Zeit! __diams; ahead of time zu früh

    we are ahead of timewir sind früh dran __diams; behind time zu spät

    at one time — früher, einmal

    but at the same time, you must admit that... — aber andererseits müssen Sie zugeben, dass...

    it was hard, but at the same time you could have tried — es war schwierig, aber Sie hätten es trotzdem versuchen können __diams; in/on time rechtzeitig

    3) = moment, season Zeit f

    this is hardly the time or the place to... — dies ist wohl kaum die rechte Zeit oder der rechte Ort, um...

    this is no time for quarrelling or to quarrel — jetzt ist nicht die Zeit, sich zu streiten

    well, this is a fine time to tell me that (iro)Sie haben sich (dat) wahrhaftig eine gute Zeit ausgesucht, um mir das zu sagen

    there are times when... — es gibt Augenblicke, wo or da (geh)...

    at the or that time — damals, zu der Zeit, seinerzeit

    at this (particular) time, at the present time — zurzeit

    sometimes..., (at) other times... —

    from that time on since that time — von der Zeit an, von da an seit der Zeit

    this time last year/week — letztes Jahr/letzte Woche um diese Zeit

    to choose or pick one's timesich (dat) einen günstigen Zeitpunkt aussuchen

    the time has come (to do sth) — es ist an der Zeit(, etw zu tun)

    when the time comes for you to be the leader — wenn Sie an der Reihe sind, die Führung zu übernehmen __diams; at + times manchmal

    at all times — jederzeit, immer

    by the time we arrive, there's not going to be anything left — bis wir ankommen, ist nichts mehr übrig

    by that time we'll knowdann or bis dahin wissen wir es __diams; by this time inzwischen

    by this time next year/tomorrow — nächstes Jahr/morgen um diese Zeit __diams; from time to time, (US) time to time dann und wann, von Zeit zu Zeit

    until such time as... — so lange bis...

    until such time as you apologize — solange du dich nicht entschuldigst, bis du dich entschuldigst

    this time of the day/year — diese Tages-/Jahreszeit

    at this time of the week/month — zu diesem Zeitpunkt der Woche/des Monats

    now's the time to do it —

    now's my/your etc time to do it — jetzt habe ich/hast du etc Gelegenheit, es zu tun

    4)

    = occasion this time — diesmal, dieses Mal

    every or each time... — jedes Mal, wenn...

    many a time, many times — viele Male

    many's the time I have heard him say... — ich habe ihn schon oft sagen hören...

    time and (time) again, time after time — immer wieder, wieder und wieder (geh)

    I've told you a dozen times... — ich habe dir schon x-mal gesagt...

    nine times out of ten... — neun von zehn Malen...

    they came in one/three etc at a time — sie kamen einzeln/immer zu dritt etc herein

    for weeks at a timewochenlang __diams; a time

    he pays me £10 a time — er zahlt mir jedes Mal £ 10

    rides on the roundabout cost £2 a time — eine Fahrt auf dem Karussell kostet £ 2 __diams; (the) next time

    (the) last time he was here — letztes Mal or das letzte Mal, als er hier war

    5) MATH

    it was ten times as big as or ten times the size of... —

    6)

    = rate Sunday is (paid) double time/time and a half — sonntags gibt es 100%/50% Zuschlag

    7) = era Zeit f

    time was when... — es gab Zeiten, da...

    when times are hard —

    times are changing for the better/worse — es kommen bessere/schlechtere Zeiten

    times have changed for the better/worse — die Zeiten haben sich gebessert/verschlechtert

    to be behind the times — rückständig sein, hinter dem Mond leben (inf)

    8)

    = experience to have the time of one's life — eine herrliche Zeit verbringen, sich glänzend amüsieren

    what a time we had or that was! —

    what times we had!, what times they were! — das waren (noch) Zeiten!

    to have an easy/a hard time — es leicht/schwer haben

    we had an easy/a hard time getting to the finals — es war leicht für uns/wir hatten Schwierigkeiten, in die Endrunde zu kommen

    was it difficult? – no, we had an easy time (of it) —

    to have a bad/rough time — viel mitmachen

    to give sb a bad/rough etc time (of it) — jdm das Leben schwer machen

    we had such a bad time with the travel agency —

    we had a good time — es war (sehr) schön, es hat uns (dat)

    she'll give you a good time for £30 — bei ihr kannst du dich für £ 30 amüsieren

    9) = rhythm Takt m

    you're singing out of time (with the others) — du singst nicht im Takt (mit den anderen)

    3/4 time — Dreivierteltakt m

    2. TRANSITIVE VERB
    1)

    = choose time of to time sth perfectly — genau den richtigen Zeitpunkt für etw wählen

    you must learn to time your requests a little more tactfully — du musst lernen, deine Forderungen zu einem geeigneteren Zeitpunkt vorzubringen

    he timed his arrival to coincide with... —

    the bomb is timed to explode at... — die Bombe ist so eingestellt, dass sie um... explodiert

    2) = measure time of with stopwatch stoppen; speed messen

    to time sb (over 1000 metres) — jdn (auf 1000 Meter) stoppen, jds Zeit (auf or über 1000 Meter) nehmen

    time how long it takes you, time yourself — sieh auf die Uhr, wie lange du brauchst; (with stopwatch) stopp, wie lange du brauchst

    to time an egg — auf die Uhr sehen, wenn man ein Ei kocht

    a computer that times its operator — ein Computer, der die Zeit misst, die sein Operator braucht

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    time [taım]
    A s
    1. Zeit f:
    time past, present, and to come Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft;
    for all time für alle Zeiten;
    as time went on im Laufe der Zeit;
    time will show die Zeit wird es lehren;
    2. (endliche oder irdische) Zeit (Ggs Ewigkeit)
    3. ASTRON Zeit f:
    4. Zeit f, Uhr(zeit) f:
    what’s the time?, what time is it? wie viel Uhr ist es?, wie spät ist es?;
    what time? um wie viel Uhr?;
    the time is half past three es ist jetzt halb vier;
    a) zu dieser (späten) Tageszeit, zu so später Stunde,
    b) fig so spät, in diesem späten Stadium;
    can you tell me the time of day?, have you got the time? können Sie mir sagen, wie spät es ist?;
    a) sich Gesellschaft leisten,
    b) (kurz) miteinander plaudern;
    a) jemandem Gesellschaft leisten,
    b) (kurz) mit jemandem plaudern;
    know the time of day umg wissen, was es geschlagen hat;
    so that’s the time of day! umg so stehts also!;
    some time about noon etwa um Mittag;
    this time tomorrow morgen um diese Zeit;
    this time twelve months heute übers Jahr;
    keep good time richtig oder genau gehen (Uhr)
    5. Zeit(dauer) f, Zeitabschnitt m, ( auch PHYS Fall- etc) Dauer f, WIRTSCH auch Arbeitszeit f (im Herstellungsprozess etc):
    a long time lange Zeit;
    that was a long time ago das ist schon lange her;
    some time longer noch einige Zeit;
    be a long time in doing sth lange (Zeit) dazu brauchen, etwas zu tun;
    long time no hear (see) umg wir haben ja schon seit einer Ewigkeit nichts mehr voneinander gehört (wir haben uns ja schon seit einer Ewigkeit nicht mehr gesehen);
    time of a draft WIRTSCH Laufzeit f eines Wechsels;
    in times of war in Kriegszeiten; all A 1, hard A 10, no1 C 1, probation 3
    6. Zeit(punkt) f(m):
    time of arrival Ankunftszeit;
    an unfortunate time ein unglücklicher Zeitpunkt;
    a) zu dieser Zeit, damals,
    b) gerade;
    at the present time derzeit, gegenwärtig;
    a) gleichzeitig, zur selben Zeit,
    b) trotzdem;
    at that time zu der Zeit;
    at this time of the year zu dieser Jahreszeit;
    at one time einst, früher (einmal);
    at some time irgendwann (einmal);
    for the time für den Augenblick;
    a) vorläufig, fürs Erste,
    b) unter den gegenwärtigen Umständen;
    in three weeks’ time in oder binnen drei Wochen; about A 2, departure 2
    7. meist pl Zeit(alter) f(n), Zeiten pl, Epoche f:
    at ( oder in) the time of Queen Anne zur Zeit der Königin Anna;
    in our time in unserer Zeit;
    she was a legend in her own time sie war schon zu Lebzeiten eine Legende;
    other times, other manners (Sprichwort) andere Zeiten, andere Sitten; old A 4
    8. pl Zeiten pl, Zeitverhältnisse pl
    9. the times pl die Zeit: move B 2
    10. Frist f, (zugemessene) Zeit:
    time of delivery WIRTSCH Lieferfrist, -zeit;
    time for payment Zahlungsfrist;
    ask time WIRTSCH um Frist(verlängerung) bitten;
    you must give me time Sie müssen mir Zeit geben oder lassen
    11. (verfügbare) Zeit:
    buy a little time etwas Zeit schinden, eine kleine Galgenfrist gewinnen;
    I can never call my time my own ich kann nie frei über meine Zeit verfügen;
    have no time keine Zeit haben;
    have no time for sb fig nichts übrighaben für jemanden;
    have all the time in the world umg jede Menge Zeit haben;
    take (the) time sich die Zeit nehmen ( to do zu tun);
    take one’s time sich Zeit lassen;
    take your time auch es eilt nicht, überleg es dir in aller Ruhe;
    time is up! die Zeit ist um oder abgelaufen!; forelock1
    12. ( oft schöne) Zeit, Erlebnis n:
    have the time of one’s life
    a) sich großartig amüsieren,
    b) leben wie ein Fürst
    13. unangenehme Zeit, Unannehmlichkeit f
    14. (Zeit-)Lohn m, besonders Stundenlohn m
    15. umg (Zeit f im) Knast m:
    do time (im Gefängnis) sitzen ( for wegen)
    16. Lehrzeit f, -jahre pl
    17. (bestimmte oder passende) Zeit:
    the time has come for sth to happen es ist an der Zeit, dass etwas geschieht;
    there is a time for everything, all in good time alles zu seiner Zeit;
    it’s time for bed es ist Zeit, ins oder zu Bett zu gehen;
    it’s time for breakfast es ist Zeit zum Frühstück(en); high time
    18. a) (natürliche oder normale) Zeit
    b) (Lebens)Zeit f:
    time of life Alter n;
    his time is drawing near seine Zeit ist gekommen, sein Tod naht heran;
    the time was not yet die Zeit war noch nicht gekommen
    19. a) Schwangerschaft f
    b) Niederkunft f:
    she is far on in her time sie ist hochschwanger;
    she is near her time sie steht kurz vor der Entbindung
    20. (günstige) Zeit:
    now is the time jetzt ist die passende Gelegenheit, jetzt gilt es ( beide:
    to do zu tun);
    at such times bei solchen Gelegenheiten
    21. Mal n:
    the first time das erste Mal;
    for the first time zum ersten Mal;
    each time that … jedes Mal, wenn …;
    time and again, time after time immer wieder;
    at some other time, another time ein andermal;
    at a time auf einmal, zusammen, zugleich, jeweils;
    one at a time einzeln, immer eine(r, s);
    two at a time zu zweit, paarweise, jeweils zwei; every Bes Redew, lucky 1
    22. pl mal, …mal:
    three times four is twelve drei mal vier ist zwölf;
    twenty times zwanzigmal;
    three times the population of Coventry dreimal so viele Einwohner wie Coventry;
    four times the size of yours viermal so groß wie deines;
    six times the amount die sechsfache Menge;
    several times mehrmals
    23. besonders SPORT (erzielte, gestoppte) Zeit:
    the winner’s time is 2.50 minutes
    24. Einheit f der Zeit (im Drama)
    25. LIT metrische Einheit, besonders Mora f (kleinste metrische Einheit im Verstakt)
    26. Tempo n, Zeitmaß n
    27. MUS
    a) time value
    b) Tempo n, Zeitmaß n
    c) Rhythmus m, Takt(bewegung) m(f)
    d) Takt (-art f) m:
    time variation Tempoveränderung f;
    in time to the music im Takt zur Musik;
    beat (keep) time den Takt schlagen (halten)
    28. MIL Marschtempo n, Schritt m: mark1 B 1
    B v/t
    1. (mit der Uhr) messen, (ab-)stoppen, die Zeit messen von (oder gen)
    2. timen ( auch SPORT), die Zeit oder den richtigen Zeitpunkt wählen oder bestimmen für, zur rechten Zeit tun
    3. zeitlich abstimmen
    4. die Zeit festsetzen für, (zeitlich) legen:
    the train is timed to leave at 7 der Zug soll um 7 abfahren;
    he timed the test at 30 minutes er setzte für den Test 30 Minuten an
    5. eine Uhr richten, stellen:
    the alarm clock is timed to ring at six der Wecker ist auf sechs gestellt
    6. zeitlich regeln (to nach), TECH den Zündpunkt etc einstellen, (elektronisch etc) steuern
    7. das Tempo oder den Takt angeben für
    C v/i
    1. Takt halten
    2. zeitlich zusammen- oder übereinstimmen ( with mit)Besondere Redewendungen: against time gegen die Zeit oder Uhr, mit größter Eile;
    be ahead of time zu früh (daran) sein;
    be (well) ahead of ( oder in advance of) one’s time seiner Zeit (weit) voraus sein;
    be behind time zu spät daran sein, Verspätung haben;
    be 10 minutes behind time 10 Minuten Verspätung haben;
    be behind one’s time rückständig sein;
    between times in den Zwischenzeiten;
    five minutes from time SPORT fünf Minuten vor Schluss;
    from time to time von Zeit zu Zeit;
    a) rechtzeitig ( to do um zu tun),
    b) mit der Zeit,
    c) im (richtigen) Takt in time of in Zeiten von (od gen);
    a) pünktlich,
    b) bes US für eine (bestimmte) Zeit,
    c) WIRTSCH US auf Zeit, besonders auf Raten out of time
    a) zur Unzeit, unzeitig,
    b) vorzeitig,
    c) zu spät,
    d) aus dem Takt oder Schritt till such time as … so lange, bis …;
    with time mit der Zeit;
    time was, when … die Zeit ist vorüber, als …;
    time has been when … es gab eine Zeit, da …; any A 2, no1 C 1
    t. abk
    1. teaspoon (teaspoonful) TL
    3. tempore, in the time of
    4. LING tense
    5. time
    6. ton ( tons pl) t
    7. LING transitive
    T. abk
    3. Thursday Do.
    4. time
    5. Tuesday Di.
    * * *
    1. noun
    1) no pl., no art. Zeit, die

    for all time — für immer [und ewig]

    past/present/future time — Vergangenheit, die/Gegenwart, die/Zukunft, die

    stand the test of time — die Zeit überdauern; sich bewähren

    in [the course of] time, as time goes on/went on — mit der Zeit; im Laufe der Zeit

    time will tell or show — die Zukunft wird es zeigen

    at this point or moment in time — zum gegenwärtigen Zeitpunkt

    time flies — die Zeit vergeht [wie] im Fluge

    in time, with time — (sooner or later) mit der Zeit

    2) (interval, available or allotted period) Zeit, die

    in a week's/month's/year's time — in einer Woche/in einem Monat/Jahr

    there is time for thatdafür ist od. haben wir noch Zeit

    it takes me all my time to do it — es beansprucht meine ganze Zeit, es zu tun

    give one's time to somethingeiner Sache (Dat.) seine Zeit opfern

    waste of time — Zeitverschwendung, die

    spend [most of one's/a lot of] time on something/[in] doing something — [die meiste/viel] Zeit mit etwas zubringen/damit verbringen, etwas zu tun

    I have been waiting for some/a long time — ich warte schon seit einiger Zeit/schon lange

    she will be there for [quite] some time — sie wird ziemlich lange dort sein

    be pressed for time — keine Zeit haben; (have to finish quickly) in Zeitnot sein

    pass the timesich (Dat.) die Zeit vertreiben

    length of time — Zeit[dauer], die

    make time for somebody/something — sich (Dat.) für jemanden/etwas Zeit nehmen

    in one's own time — in seiner Freizeit; (whenever one wishes) wann man will

    take one's time [over something] — sich (Dat.) [für etwas] Zeit lassen; (be slow) sich (Dat.) Zeit [mit etwas] lassen

    time is money(prov.) Zeit ist Geld (Spr.)

    in [good] time — (not late) rechtzeitig

    all the or this time — die ganze Zeit; (without ceasing) ständig

    in [less than or next to] no time — innerhalb kürzester Zeit; im Nu od. Handumdrehen

    half the time(coll.): (as often as not) fast immer

    it will take [some] time — es wird einige Zeit dauern

    have the/no time — Zeit/keine Zeit haben

    have no time for somebody/something — für jemanden/etwas ist einem seine Zeit zu schade

    there is no time to lose or be lost — es ist keine Zeit zu verlieren

    lose no time in doing something (not delay) etwas unverzüglich tun

    do time(coll.) eine Strafe absitzen (ugs.)

    in my time (heyday) zu meiner Zeit (ugs.); (in the course of my life) im Laufe meines Lebens

    in my time (period at a place) zu meiner Zeit (ugs.)

    time off or out — freie Zeit

    get/take time off — frei bekommen/sich (Dat.) frei nehmen (ugs.)

    Time! (Boxing) Stop!; Time!; (Brit.): (in pub) Feierabend!

    have a lot of time for somebody(fig.) für jemandem viel übrig haben

    harvest/Christmas time — Ernte-/Weihnachtszeit, die

    now is the time to do it — jetzt ist die richtige Zeit, es zu tun

    when the time comes/came — wenn es so weit ist/als es so weit war

    on time (punctually) pünktlich

    ahead of timezu früh [ankommen]; vorzeitig [fertig werden]

    all in good time — alles zu seiner Zeit; see also be 2. 1)

    4) in sing. or pl. (circumstances) Zeit, die

    times are good/bad/have changed — die Zeiten sind gut/schlecht/haben sich verändert

    have a good timeSpaß haben (ugs.); sich amüsieren

    have a hard time [of it] — eine schwere Zeit durchmachen

    5) (associated with events or person[s]) Zeit, die

    in time of peace/war — in Friedens-/Kriegszeiten

    in Tudor/ancient times — zur Zeit der Tudors/der Antike

    in former/modern times — früher/heutzutage

    ahead of or before one's/its time — seiner Zeit voraus

    6) (occasion) Mal, das

    ten/a hundred/a thousand times — zehn- / hundert- / tausendmal

    many's the time [that]..., many a time... — viele Male...

    at a time like this/that — unter diesen/solchen Umständen

    at the or that time — (in the past) damals

    at one time, at [one and] the same time — (simultaneously) gleichzeitig

    time and [time] again, time after time — immer [und immer] wieder

    pay somebody £6 a time — jemandem für jedes Mal 6 Pfund zahlen

    for hours/weeks at a time — stundenlang/wochenlang [ohne Unterbrechung]

    7) (point in day etc.) [Uhr]zeit, die

    what time is it?, what is the time? — wie spät ist es?

    have you [got] the time? — kannst du mir sagen, wie spät es ist?

    tell the time (read a clock) die Uhr lesen

    time of day — Tageszeit, die

    [at this] time of [the] year — [um diese] Jahreszeit

    at this time of [the] night — zu dieser Nachtstunde

    pass the time of day(coll.) ein paar Worte wechseln

    by this/that time — inzwischen

    by the time [that] we arrived — bis wir hinkamen

    [by] this time tomorrow — morgen um diese Zeit

    keep good time[Uhr:] genau od. richtig gehen

    8) (amount) Zeit, die

    [your] time's up! — deine Zeit ist um (ugs.) od. abgelaufen

    four times the size of/higher than something — viermal so groß wie/höher als etwas

    10) (Mus.) (duration of note) Zeitdauer, die; (measure) Takt, der

    out of time/in time — aus dem/im Takt

    keep time with something — bei etwas den Takt [ein]halten

    2. transitive verb
    1) (do at correct time) zeitlich abstimmen

    be well/ill timed — zur richtigen/falschen Zeit kommen

    3) (arrange time of arrival/departure of)
    •• Cultural note:
    Eine britische überregionale Tageszeitung, deren Pendant am Sonntag The Sunday Times ist. Sie ist eine broadsheet-Zeitung und zählt zur seriösen Presse. Sie ist politisch unabhängig, wird jedoch gemeinhin als konservativ angesehen. Sie ist die älteste Zeitung in England und wurde erstmals 1785 veröffentlicht
    * * *
    adj.
    zeitlich adj. n.
    Tempo -s n.
    Zeit -en f.

    English-german dictionary > time

  • 27 tirar

    v.
    1 to throw.
    tirar algo a algo/alguien to throw something to something/somebody (para que lo agarre) to throw something at something/somebody (para hacer daño)
    tírame una manzana throw me an apple
    Ella tira bolas She throws balls.
    3 to knock over (derribar) (botella, lámpara).
    4 to throw away.
    tirar algo a la basura to throw something away
    eso es tirar el dinero that's a complete waste of money
    5 to fire (disparar) (bala, misil).
    tirar una foto to take a picture
    6 to play (jugar) (carta).
    7 to take (sport) (falta, penalti).
    tirar a gol to shoot, to have a shot at goal
    8 to print.
    La imprenta tiró la primera edición The printer printed the first edition.
    10 to shoot.
    tirar a matar to shoot to kill
    11 to have a pull (informal) (atraer).
    me tira la vida del campo I feel drawn toward life in the country
    tirar de algo to attract something
    12 to draw (cigarrillo, chimenea).
    13 to go, to work (informal) (funcionar).
    14 to go, to head.
    tira por esa calle go up o take that street
    15 to (have one's) go.
    17 to last.
    18 to knock down, to break down, to batter down.
    La policía tiró la puerta The police broke down the door.
    19 to pull.
    El tractor tira fuerte The tractor pulls hard.
    * * *
    1 (echar) to throw, fling
    2 (dejar caer) to drop
    3 (desechar) to throw away
    4 (derribar) to knock down; (casa, árbol) to pull down
    5 (derramar) to spill
    6 (vaso, botella) to knock over
    7 (estirar) to pull
    8 (imprimir) to print
    9 (hacer - foto) to take; (línea, plano) to draw
    10 (un tiro) to fire; (una bomba) to drop; (cohete) to launch
    11 (beso) to blow; (pellizco) to give; (patada, coz) to kick
    12 DEPORTE to take
    13 figurado (malgastar) to waste, squander
    1 (cuerda, puerta) to pull (de, -)
    2 (carreta, carro) to draw (de, -)
    3 (atraer) to draw, attract
    4 (estufa, chimenea) to draw
    5 (en juegos) to be a player's move, be a player's turn
    6 familiar (funcionar) to work, run
    7 familiar (durar) to last
    8 (quedar estrecho) to be tight on
    9 figurado (tender) to tend (a, towards); (ser un poco) to be a bit
    10 familiar figurado (atraer) to attract, appeal
    11 figurado (inclinarse) to be attracted (a/hacia, to), be drawn (a/hacia, to)
    12 figurado (parecerse) to take after (a, -)
    13 figurado (ir) to go, turn
    14 figurado (mantenerse) to get by, get along
    15 (disparar) to shoot, fire
    16 DEPORTE (fútbol) to shoot; (ciclismo) to set the pace
    1 (lanzarse) to throw oneself, hurl oneself
    2 (abalanzarse) to rush ( sobre, at), jump ( sobre, on)
    3 (tumbarse) to lie down
    4 familiar (tiempo) to spend
    5 argot (fornicar) to lay (a, -)
    \
    a todo tirar figurado at the most, at the latest
    ir tirando (espabilarse) to manage, get by 2 (tener buena salud) to be okay
    tira y afloja figurado give and take
    tirar abajo (gen) to demolish, pull down 2 (puerta) to smash in
    tirar al blanco to shoot at a target
    tirar de cartera to dip into one's wallet
    tirar la casa por la ventana figurado to spare no expense, push the boat out
    tirar la primera piedra figurado to cast the first stone
    tirar una moneda al aire to toss a coin
    tirarse de cabeza al agua to dive into the water
    * * *
    verb
    1) to throw, hurl, toss
    3) shoot, fire
    4) pull, draw
    - tirar a
    - tirar de la cadena
    - tirar para
    * * *
    Para las expresiones como tirar de la lengua, tirar de la manta, tirar por la borda, tirar por tierra, ver la otra entrada.
    1. VERBO TRANSITIVO
    1) (=lanzar) to throw

    tirar algo a algn[para que lo coja] to throw sth to sb; [para hacer daño] to throw sth at sb

    2) (=derribar) [+ edificio] to pull down; [+ jarrón, silla, estatua] to knock over; [+ pared, verja] to knock down

    van a tirar la casa — they are going to demolish {o} pull down the house

    ¡abre, o tiro la puerta abajo! — open up, or I'll break the door down!

    3) (=dejar caer) to drop
    4) (=desechar) to throw away

    no tires las sobras, que se las voy a dar al perro — don't throw away the leftovers, I'll give them to the dog

    no tires el aceite por el sumidero — don't tip {o} pour the oil down the drain

    estos pantalones están para tirarlos — these trousers have had it, these trousers are about ready for the dustbin

    5) (=malgastar) [+ dinero] to waste; [+ fortuna] to squander

    has tirado el dinero comprando eso — it was a waste of money buying that, you wasted your money buying that

    6) (=disparar) [+ tiro] to fire; [+ flecha] to shoot; [+ cohete] to launch, fire

    el aparato tira el proyectil a 2.000m — the machine throws the projectile 2,000m

    7) [+ foto] to take
    8) (=dar, pegar)

    la mula le tiró una coz — the mule kicked him {o} gave him a kick

    ¡mamá, Carlos me ha tirado un mordisco! — Carlos has bitten me, Mum!

    9) (Tip) (=imprimir) to print, run off
    10) (=trazar) [+ línea] to draw, trace
    11) * (=suspender)

    ya me han vuelto a tirar en química — I've failed chemistry again, I've flunked chemistry again ( esp EEUU) *

    12) And (=usar) to use
    13) And, Caribe, Cono Sur (=acarrear) to cart, haul, transport
    14)

    tirarla [de] — (=dárselas de) to fancy oneself as, pose as

    2. VERBO INTRANSITIVO
    1) [haciendo fuerza]
    a) (=traer hacia sí) to pull

    ¡tira un poco más fuerte! — pull a bit harder!

    tirar [de] — [+ soga, cuerda] to pull

    ¡no le tires de la trenza a tu hermana! — don't pull your sister's pigtail!

    tirar de la cadena (del wáter) — to flush the toilet, pull the chain

    tirar Esp [en puerta etc] pull

    tire LAm [en puerta etc] pull

    b) (=llevar tras sí)

    tirar [de] — to pull

    un burro tiraba de la carreta — a donkey was pulling the cart along, the cart was drawn by a donkey

    2) * (=atraer)

    no le tira el estudio — studying does not appeal to him, studying holds no attraction for him

    3) (=estar tirante) [ropa] to be tight
    4) (=usar)

    tirar [de] — [+ espada, navaja] to draw

    tiramos de diccionario y lo traducimos en un minuto* if we use a dictionary it will just take a minute to translate

    5) (=disparar) to shoot

    ¡no tires! — don't shoot!

    tirar al [blanco] — to aim

    tirar a [matar] — to shoot to kill

    6) (Dep) [con balón] to shoot; [con fichas, cartas etc] to go, play

    ¡tira! — shoot!

    tirar a [puerta] — Esp to shoot at goal

    7) * (=arreglárselas) to get by

    ir tirando — to get by, manage

    -¿qué tal esa salud? -vamos tirando — "how's your health?" - "we're getting by"

    8) (=funcionar) [motor] to pull; [chimenea, puro] to draw, pull
    9) (=ir) to go

    ¡tira de una vez! — get on with it!, go on, then!

    tirar por una calle — to turn down a street, go off along a street

    10) * (=durar) to last
    11) [seguido de preposición]
    tirar a (=tender)

    es mediocre tirando a malo — it's middling to bad, it's mediocre verging on bad

    tirar para (=aspirar a ser)
    12)

    nos queda gasolina para 20km a todo tirar — we have only enough petrol for 20kms at the most {o} at the outside

    13) LAm *** [sexualmente] to screw ***
    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( arrojar) to throw

    no tires los papeles al suelodon't throw o drop the wrappers on the ground

    tirarle algo a alguien — ( para que lo agarre) to throw somebody something; ( con agresividad) to throw something at somebody

    b) (desechar, deshacerse de) to throw out o away
    c) ( desperdiciar) to waste
    2)
    a) ( hacer caer) to knock over

    cuidado, que vas a tirar la leche! — be careful, you're going to knock the milk over!

    b) ( derribar) to knock down
    3)
    a) < bomba> to drop; < cohete> to fire, launch; < flecha> to shoot; < tiros> to fire
    b) < foto> to take
    4) (AmL) ( atrayendo hacia sí) to pull
    5) (Impr) to print, run off
    6) (Mat) < línea> to draw
    7) (Chi) < lotería> to draw the winning number in; < rifa> to draw
    2.
    tirar vi
    1) ( atrayendo hacia sí) to pull
    2) ( atraer)
    3)
    a) ( disparar) to shoot
    b) (Dep) to shoot

    tirar al arco (AmL) or (Esp) a puerta — to shoot at goal

    tirando por lo bajo/alto — at the (very) least/most

    c) (Jueg) ( descartarse) to throw away; ( en juegos de dados) to throw; ( en dardos) to throw; ( en bolos) to bowl
    4)
    a) chimenea/cigarro to draw
    b) coche/motor to pull
    5)
    a) (fam) ( arreglárselas) to get by

    con $100 podemos tirar — with $100 we could get by

    b) tirando gerundio (fam)

    ¿qué tal andas? - tirando... — how are things? - not too bad

    6) (Esp fam) ( desplazarse)

    vamos, tira — get a move on

    tira por esta calle abajogo o turn down this street

    7) (AmL vulg) ( en sentido sexual) to screw (vulg), to fuck (vulg)

    es de estatura normal, tirando a bajito — he's average to short in height

    3.
    tirarse v pron
    1)
    a) (lanzarse, arrojarse) (+ compl) to throw oneself

    tirarse en paracaídas — to parachute; ( en emergencia) to bale out

    tirarse al agua — to dive/jump into the water

    tirarse de cabeza — to dive in, to jump in headfirst

    b) (AmL) ( tumbarse) to lie down

    tirárselas de algo — (AmL fam)

    2) (fam) <horas/días> to spend
    3) (vulg) ( en sentido sexual)

    tirarse a alguiento screw somebody (vulg), to lay somebody (sl)

    4) (fam) ( expulsar)
    5) (Col fam) ( echar a perder) to ruin
    * * *
    = dump, haul, run off, throw, throw out, throw away, tear down, toss out, fling, toss, pull down, knock down, jettison, pitch, turf out, toss away, hurl, chuck + Nombre + out.
    Ex. The books may simply be laid before the librarian as they are found, ' dumped in his lap', as one writer puts it.
    Ex. However, he would prefer a binding that will stand up to being stuffed into after-hours book drops and being hauled from one library to another.
    Ex. Not only are they the same work, they were run off from the same plates.
    Ex. The point to be made for the novice abstractor is that editors are not ghouls who must be thrown raw meat before a check is issued.
    Ex. Well, I happened to inherit a full set of Trollope, and I had the guts to throw it out.
    Ex. The person who never throws away a newspaper is regarded as an eccentric; the person who never throws away a book is more likely to be regarded as a bibliophile no matter what the resulting motley assortment of books may be.
    Ex. A group opposing the incumbent alderman decided that the board's feasibility study amounted to a covert plan to tear down the house that served as the library and erect an ugly building.
    Ex. In preparation for computerization, let us not toss out old standards that were good.
    Ex. A gust of wind flung a powder of snow from the window-sill into the room.
    Ex. Everything being online, the exquisite oaken cabinets housing the card files were tossed.
    Ex. Evacuation of the building was followed by a recovery process which included covering stacks with plastic, locating damaged books, pulling down water-soaked ceiling tiles and removing computer terminals.
    Ex. Your note attempts to knock down an assertion not made.
    Ex. The whole usually has more meaning than the sum of its parts, but care must be taken not to jettison some of the more subtle parts.
    Ex. They pitched him unceremoniously out of the window, laming him for life, on a brick pavement below.
    Ex. You will be disliked and turfed out as a sacrificial goat once your job is done but there will be many others queuing up for your services.
    Ex. It's a waste to toss them away, so I decided to make them into this pair of lovely bobby pins.
    Ex. Palestinians hurled Molotov cocktails Friday at Israeli soldiers operating south of Nablus, the army said.
    Ex. Now to start chucking out stuff that I don't need; being a bit of a magpie, that might be difficult!.
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    * cuchillo de usar y tirar = disposable knife.
    * de tirar la piedra y esconder la mano = hit-and-run.
    * de usar y tirar = disposable, throwaway, single-use.
    * introducir tirando = haul in.
    * ir tirando = shuffle along, tick over, muddle along, keep + the wolves from the door.
    * persona que tira basura al suelo = litterbug, litter lout.
    * plato de usar y tirar = disposable plate.
    * sacar tirando = haul out.
    * seguir tirando el dinero = throw + good money after bad.
    * servilleta de usar y tirar = disposable napkin.
    * tenedor de usar y tirar = disposable fork.
    * tirando a bajo = shortish.
    * tirando a corto = shortish.
    * tirando a marrón = brownish.
    * tirando a morado = purplish.
    * tirar a Alguien al suelo = knock + Nombre + to the ground, knock + Nombre + to the floor.
    * tirar a Alguien al suelo de un golpe = knock + Nombre + to the floor, knock + Nombre + to the ground.
    * tirar a lo bajo = low-ball.
    * tirar al suelo = upset.
    * tirar a matar = go for + the jugular, deadly force, shoot to + kill.
    * tirar bombas = bomb.
    * tirar de = pull (at/on/from), tug, pull back, lug, leverage.
    * tirar de la cadena = flush + the toilet.
    * tirar de la cisterna = flush + the toilet.
    * tirar de la manta = let + the cat out of the bag, blow + the gaff, spill + the beans.
    * tirar de las orejas = tell + Nombe + off.
    * tirar del carro = pull + Posesivo + (own) weight, pull together, lend + a (helping) hand, put + Posesivo + shoulder to the wheel, set + Posesivo + shoulder to the wheel, muck in, pitch in.
    * tirar de una manivela = pull + lever.
    * tirar de una palanca = depress + lever.
    * tirar dinero y esfuerzo por la borda = be money and effort down the drain.
    * tirar el dinero = throw + Posesivo + money down the drain.
    * tirar el dinero por la ventana = be money and effort down the drain, throw + Posesivo + money down the drain, be money down the drain.
    * tirar la casa por la ventana = lash out (on), go to + town on.
    * tirar la esponja = throw in/up + the sponge.
    * tirar la toalla = throw in + the towel.
    * tirar ligeramente de = tug on.
    * tirar los tejos = flirt, throw + hints.
    * tirar piedras contra tu propio tejado = cut + the branch + you sit on, cut + the branch + you sit on, cut off + Posesivo + nose to spite + Posesivo + face.
    * tirar por el desagüe = pour down + the drain.
    * tirarse a la calle = go out on + the road.
    * tirarse a la jugular = go for + the jugular.
    * tirarse a la piscina = take + a dive.
    * tirarse a las calles = spill (out) into + the streets.
    * tirarse con ala delta = hang-glide.
    * tirarse de cabeza = jump in + head first, dive in, dive + head-first.
    * tirarse de las barbas = tear + Posesivo + hair out.
    * tirarse de los pelos = tear + Posesivo + hair out.
    * tirarse en paracaídas = parachute.
    * tirarse flores = blow + Posesivo + own trumpet.
    * tirarse piedras contra el propio tejado = shoot + Reflexivo + in the foot.
    * tirarse una plancha = put + Posesivo + foot in it, put + Posesivo + foot in + Posesivo + mouth, stick + Posesivo + foot in it, drop + a clanger, drop + a bollock, make + a blunder, make + a bloomer, blunder.
    * tirarse un eructo = belch, burp.
    * tirarse un farol = bullshit.
    * tirarse un pedo = fart, trump, break + wind, trumpet.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( arrojar) to throw

    no tires los papeles al suelodon't throw o drop the wrappers on the ground

    tirarle algo a alguien — ( para que lo agarre) to throw somebody something; ( con agresividad) to throw something at somebody

    b) (desechar, deshacerse de) to throw out o away
    c) ( desperdiciar) to waste
    2)
    a) ( hacer caer) to knock over

    cuidado, que vas a tirar la leche! — be careful, you're going to knock the milk over!

    b) ( derribar) to knock down
    3)
    a) < bomba> to drop; < cohete> to fire, launch; < flecha> to shoot; < tiros> to fire
    b) < foto> to take
    4) (AmL) ( atrayendo hacia sí) to pull
    5) (Impr) to print, run off
    6) (Mat) < línea> to draw
    7) (Chi) < lotería> to draw the winning number in; < rifa> to draw
    2.
    tirar vi
    1) ( atrayendo hacia sí) to pull
    2) ( atraer)
    3)
    a) ( disparar) to shoot
    b) (Dep) to shoot

    tirar al arco (AmL) or (Esp) a puerta — to shoot at goal

    tirando por lo bajo/alto — at the (very) least/most

    c) (Jueg) ( descartarse) to throw away; ( en juegos de dados) to throw; ( en dardos) to throw; ( en bolos) to bowl
    4)
    a) chimenea/cigarro to draw
    b) coche/motor to pull
    5)
    a) (fam) ( arreglárselas) to get by

    con $100 podemos tirar — with $100 we could get by

    b) tirando gerundio (fam)

    ¿qué tal andas? - tirando... — how are things? - not too bad

    6) (Esp fam) ( desplazarse)

    vamos, tira — get a move on

    tira por esta calle abajogo o turn down this street

    7) (AmL vulg) ( en sentido sexual) to screw (vulg), to fuck (vulg)

    es de estatura normal, tirando a bajito — he's average to short in height

    3.
    tirarse v pron
    1)
    a) (lanzarse, arrojarse) (+ compl) to throw oneself

    tirarse en paracaídas — to parachute; ( en emergencia) to bale out

    tirarse al agua — to dive/jump into the water

    tirarse de cabeza — to dive in, to jump in headfirst

    b) (AmL) ( tumbarse) to lie down

    tirárselas de algo — (AmL fam)

    2) (fam) <horas/días> to spend
    3) (vulg) ( en sentido sexual)

    tirarse a alguiento screw somebody (vulg), to lay somebody (sl)

    4) (fam) ( expulsar)
    5) (Col fam) ( echar a perder) to ruin
    * * *
    tirar(de)
    (v.) = pull (at/on/from), tug, pull back, lug, leverage

    Ex: Do not push or pull on the disc drawer.

    Ex: Do not pull a book from the shelf by forcefully tugging the top of the spine.
    Ex: The three monkeys used in this study chose the left arm as the leading arm to reach out and pull back a spring-loaded drawer containing a food morsel.
    Ex: He had a tough time lugging his lumpy, oversized travelbag onto the plane and stuffing it in the overhead bin.
    Ex: Information seeking in electronic environments will become a collaboration among end user and various electronic systems such that users leverage their heuristic power and machines leverage algorithmic power.

    = dump, haul, run off, throw, throw out, throw away, tear down, toss out, fling, toss, pull down, knock down, jettison, pitch, turf out, toss away, hurl, chuck + Nombre + out.

    Ex: The books may simply be laid before the librarian as they are found, ' dumped in his lap', as one writer puts it.

    Ex: However, he would prefer a binding that will stand up to being stuffed into after-hours book drops and being hauled from one library to another.
    Ex: Not only are they the same work, they were run off from the same plates.
    Ex: The point to be made for the novice abstractor is that editors are not ghouls who must be thrown raw meat before a check is issued.
    Ex: Well, I happened to inherit a full set of Trollope, and I had the guts to throw it out.
    Ex: The person who never throws away a newspaper is regarded as an eccentric; the person who never throws away a book is more likely to be regarded as a bibliophile no matter what the resulting motley assortment of books may be.
    Ex: A group opposing the incumbent alderman decided that the board's feasibility study amounted to a covert plan to tear down the house that served as the library and erect an ugly building.
    Ex: In preparation for computerization, let us not toss out old standards that were good.
    Ex: A gust of wind flung a powder of snow from the window-sill into the room.
    Ex: Everything being online, the exquisite oaken cabinets housing the card files were tossed.
    Ex: Evacuation of the building was followed by a recovery process which included covering stacks with plastic, locating damaged books, pulling down water-soaked ceiling tiles and removing computer terminals.
    Ex: Your note attempts to knock down an assertion not made.
    Ex: The whole usually has more meaning than the sum of its parts, but care must be taken not to jettison some of the more subtle parts.
    Ex: They pitched him unceremoniously out of the window, laming him for life, on a brick pavement below.
    Ex: You will be disliked and turfed out as a sacrificial goat once your job is done but there will be many others queuing up for your services.
    Ex: It's a waste to toss them away, so I decided to make them into this pair of lovely bobby pins.
    Ex: Palestinians hurled Molotov cocktails Friday at Israeli soldiers operating south of Nablus, the army said.
    Ex: Now to start chucking out stuff that I don't need; being a bit of a magpie, that might be difficult!.
    * cuchillo de usar y tirar = disposable knife.
    * de tirar la piedra y esconder la mano = hit-and-run.
    * de usar y tirar = disposable, throwaway, single-use.
    * introducir tirando = haul in.
    * ir tirando = shuffle along, tick over, muddle along, keep + the wolves from the door.
    * persona que tira basura al suelo = litterbug, litter lout.
    * plato de usar y tirar = disposable plate.
    * sacar tirando = haul out.
    * seguir tirando el dinero = throw + good money after bad.
    * servilleta de usar y tirar = disposable napkin.
    * tenedor de usar y tirar = disposable fork.
    * tirando a bajo = shortish.
    * tirando a corto = shortish.
    * tirando a marrón = brownish.
    * tirando a morado = purplish.
    * tirar a Alguien al suelo = knock + Nombre + to the ground, knock + Nombre + to the floor.
    * tirar a Alguien al suelo de un golpe = knock + Nombre + to the floor, knock + Nombre + to the ground.
    * tirar a lo bajo = low-ball.
    * tirar al suelo = upset.
    * tirar a matar = go for + the jugular, deadly force, shoot to + kill.
    * tirar bombas = bomb.
    * tirar de = pull (at/on/from), tug, pull back, lug, leverage.
    * tirar de la cadena = flush + the toilet.
    * tirar de la cisterna = flush + the toilet.
    * tirar de la manta = let + the cat out of the bag, blow + the gaff, spill + the beans.
    * tirar de las orejas = tell + Nombe + off.
    * tirar del carro = pull + Posesivo + (own) weight, pull together, lend + a (helping) hand, put + Posesivo + shoulder to the wheel, set + Posesivo + shoulder to the wheel, muck in, pitch in.
    * tirar de una manivela = pull + lever.
    * tirar de una palanca = depress + lever.
    * tirar dinero y esfuerzo por la borda = be money and effort down the drain.
    * tirar el dinero = throw + Posesivo + money down the drain.
    * tirar el dinero por la ventana = be money and effort down the drain, throw + Posesivo + money down the drain, be money down the drain.
    * tirar la casa por la ventana = lash out (on), go to + town on.
    * tirar la esponja = throw in/up + the sponge.
    * tirar la toalla = throw in + the towel.
    * tirar ligeramente de = tug on.
    * tirar los tejos = flirt, throw + hints.
    * tirar piedras contra tu propio tejado = cut + the branch + you sit on, cut + the branch + you sit on, cut off + Posesivo + nose to spite + Posesivo + face.
    * tirar por el desagüe = pour down + the drain.
    * tirarse a la calle = go out on + the road.
    * tirarse a la jugular = go for + the jugular.
    * tirarse a la piscina = take + a dive.
    * tirarse a las calles = spill (out) into + the streets.
    * tirarse con ala delta = hang-glide.
    * tirarse de cabeza = jump in + head first, dive in, dive + head-first.
    * tirarse de las barbas = tear + Posesivo + hair out.
    * tirarse de los pelos = tear + Posesivo + hair out.
    * tirarse en paracaídas = parachute.
    * tirarse flores = blow + Posesivo + own trumpet.
    * tirarse piedras contra el propio tejado = shoot + Reflexivo + in the foot.
    * tirarse una plancha = put + Posesivo + foot in it, put + Posesivo + foot in + Posesivo + mouth, stick + Posesivo + foot in it, drop + a clanger, drop + a bollock, make + a blunder, make + a bloomer, blunder.
    * tirarse un eructo = belch, burp.
    * tirarse un farol = bullshit.
    * tirarse un pedo = fart, trump, break + wind, trumpet.

    * * *
    tirar [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 (lanzar, arrojar) to throw
    ¿quiénes estaban tirando piedras? who was throwing stones?
    tiró la colilla por la ventanilla she threw the cigarette butt out of the window
    tiró la pelota al aire he threw the ball up in the air
    tiraban piedrecitas al río they were throwing stones into the river
    no tires los papeles al suelo don't throw o drop the wrappers on the ground
    tirarle algo A algn (para que lo agarre) to throw sth TO sb, to throw sb sth; (con agresividad) to throw sth AT sb
    le tiró la pelota she threw him the ball, she threw the ball to him
    tírame las llaves throw me the keys
    me tiró una piedra she threw a stone at me
    le tiraron un cubo de agua they threw a bucket of water over him
    le tiró los brazos he put o stretched his arms out to her
    tírale un beso blow him a kiss
    2 (desechar, deshacerse de) to throw out o away
    todo esto es para tirar all this can be thrown out o away, this is all going out ( colloq)
    estos zapatos ya están para tirar(los) these shoes are about ready to be thrown away o out
    ¡que asco! tira eso inmediatemente a la basura ugh! throw that away right now!, ugh! put that in the garbage can ( AmE) o ( BrE) the bin right now!
    3 (desperdiciar) to waste
    ¡qué manera de tirar el dinero! what a waste of money!
    B (dejar en desorden) (+ compl):
    no tiren los juguetes por todos lados don't leave o strew your toys all over the place
    se quitó la camisa y la tiró en un rincón he took off his shirt and threw it into a corner
    C
    1 (hacer caer) to knock over
    ¡cuidado, que vas a tirar la leche! be careful, you're going to knock the milk over!
    tiró el jarrón al suelo de un codazo he knocked the vase off the table ( o shelf etc) with his elbow
    2 (derribar) to knock down
    el perro se le echó encima y lo tiró al suelo the dog leaped up at him and knocked him to the ground o knocked him over
    tiró todos los bolos de una vez he knocked all the pins down in one go
    van a tirar (abajo) esta pared or van a tirar esta pared (abajo) they're going to knock this wall down
    tiraron la puerta abajo they broke the door down
    D
    1 ‹bomba› to drop; ‹cohete› to fire, launch; ‹flecha› to shoot; ‹tiros› to fire
    le tiraron tres tiros they shot at him three times, they fired three shots at him
    2 ‹foto› to take
    E (dar) ‹puñetazo› to throw
    tiraba puñetazos a diestra y siniestra he was throwing punches o lashing out left and right ( AmE) o ( BrE) left, right and center
    el perro me tiró un mordisco the dog snapped at me
    no me tires más pellizcos stop pinching me
    tiró la cadena he pulled the chain
    no le tires el pelo don't pull his hair
    te voy a tirar las orejas I'm going to tweak your ears
    le tiraba la manga she was tugging o pulling at his sleeve
    G ( Impr) to print, run off
    H ( Mat) ‹línea› to draw
    I ( Chi)
    1 ‹carrera› to start, give the starting signal for
    2 ‹lotería› to draw the winning number in; ‹rifa› to draw
    ■ tirar
    vi
    A
    ¡vamos, tiren todos a una! come on, everybody pull together!
    [ S ] tirar pull
    tirar DE algo to pull sth
    no le tires del pelo don't pull her hair
    dos caballos tiraban del carro the cart was drawn by two horses
    tirar de la cadena to pull the chain
    le tiró de la manga she tugged o pulled at his sleeve
    le tiró de la oreja she tweaked his ear
    2 «vestido/blusa» to be (too) tight
    me tira it's too tight on me
    B
    (atraer): le sigue tirando México she still hankers after o misses Mexico
    no parece que le tiren mucho los deportes he doesn't seem to be very interested in o keen on sport
    la sangre tira blood is thicker than water
    C
    1
    (disparar): le tiró a traición she shot him in the back
    ¡no tiren! don't shoot!
    le tiró al corazón he shot him through the heart
    tirar a dar to shoot to wound ( not to kill)
    tirar a matar (literal) to shoot to kill
    (para ofender, atacar): cuando empieza a criticar, tira a matar when she starts criticizing you, she really goes for the jugular o she really sticks the knife in ( colloq)
    siempre que me dice algo, tira a matar whenever he says anything to me, he goes all out to hurt me
    2 ( Dep) to shoot
    tirar al arco ( AmL) or ( Esp) a puerta to shoot at goal
    tirando por lo bajo/alto at the (very) least/most
    3 ( Jueg) (descartarse) to throw away, discard; (en juegos de dados) to throw; (en dardos) to throw; (en bolos) to bowl
    D
    1 «chimenea/cigarro» to draw
    2 «coche/motor» to pull
    E
    1 ( fam) (llegar, sobrevivir) to get by
    con $100 podríamos tirar hasta fin de mes with $100 we could get by until the end of the month
    con este uniforme podrás tirar hasta fin de año this uniform will last you o ( colloq) will do you till the end of the year
    ger ( fam): ¿qué tal andas? — ya lo ves, tirando … how are things? — well, you know, not too bad o we're getting by
    no ganamos mucho pero vamos tirando we don't earn much but we're managing
    F
    ( Esp fam) (seguir adelante): tira, que creo que no nos ha visto go on, I don't think he's seen us
    vamos, tira come on, get moving o get a move on
    si tiras para atrás cabe otro coche if you back up o go back a bit we can get another car in
    tira (p'alante), no te pares ahora keep going, don't stop now
    hay mucho que hacer pero entre todos podemos tirar p'alante there's a lot to be done but if we all pull together we can get through it
    tira por esta calle abajo go o turn down this street
    en cuanto nos vieron, tiraron por otro lado as soon as they saw us they went off in a different direction/they turned off up a different street
    G ( AmL vulg) (en sentido sexual) to screw ( vulg), to fuck ( vulg)
    (tender a): un amarillo fuerte tirando a naranja a bright orangish o ( BrE) orangy yellow
    no es verde, tira más bien a azul it's not green, it's more of a bluish color
    los precios son más bien tirando a caros the prices are a bit on the expensive o ( colloq) steep side
    el erotismo de la película tiraba a pornográfico the eroticism in the film tended toward(s) o verged on the pornographic
    los niños tiran más a la madre the children take after their mother more
    es de estatura normal, tirando a bajito he's average to short in height
    A
    1 (lanzarse, arrojarse) (+ compl) to throw oneself
    se tiró por la ventana he threw himself o he leapt out of the window
    tirarse al agua to dive/jump into the water
    tirarse del trampolín to dive off the springboard
    tirarse de cabeza to dive in, to jump in headfirst
    intentó tirarse del tren en marcha she tried to throw herself from o to jump off the train while it was moving
    se le tiró a los brazos she threw herself into his arms
    2 «coche/conductor» (+ compl) to pull over
    se tiró bruscamente a un lado he swerved to one side
    3 ( AmL) (tumbarse) to lie down
    estoy agotada, me voy a tirar un rato I'm exhausted, I'm going to lie down for a while
    tirárselas de algo (Col, RPl fam): se las tira de valiente he makes out he's so brave
    B ( fam); ‹horas/días› to spend
    nos hemos tirado media hora para encontrar la casa it's taken us half an hour to find the house
    se tiró dos años escribiéndolo he spent two years writing it
    se ha tirado una hora entera hablando por teléfono he's been on the phone for a whole hour, he's spent a whole hour on the phone
    C ( vulg)
    (joder): tirarse a algn to screw sb ( vulg), to fuck sb ( vulg), to lay sb (sl)
    D ( fam)
    (expulsar): tirarse un pedo to fart (sl), to pass wind
    tirarse un eructo to belch, to burp ( colloq)
    E ( Col fam) (echar a perder) to ruin
    el aguacero se tiró el paseo the downpour washed out o ruined our walk
    se tiró el examen he flunked the exam ( colloq)
    * * *

     

    tirar ( conjugate tirar) verbo transitivo
    1


    tirarle algo a algn ( para que lo agarre) to throw sb sth;

    ( con agresividad) to throw sth at sb
    b) ( desechar) to throw out o away


    ¡qué manera de tirar el dinero! what a waste of money!

    2
    a) ( hacer caer) ‹jarrón/silla to knock over;


    b) ( derribar) ‹pared/puerta to knock down

    3
    a) bomba to drop;

    cohete to fire, launch;
    flecha to shoot
    b) foto to take

    4 (AmL) ( atrayendo hacia sí) to pull;

    verbo intransitivo
    1 ( atrayendo hacia sí) to pull;
    tirar de algo to pull sth;

    2


    b) (Dep) to shoot;

    tirar al arco (AmL) or (Esp) a puerta to shoot at goal

    ( en juegos de dados) to throw;
    ( en dardos) to throw;
    ( en bolos) to bowl
    3
    a) [chimenea/cigarro] to draw

    b) [coche/motor] to pull

    4
    tirando ger (fam): gano poco pero vamos tirando I don't earn much but we're managing;

    ¿qué tal andas? — tirando how are things?not too bad
    5
    tirar a ( tender a): tira más bien a azul it's more of a bluish color;

    ella tira más a la madre she takes after her mother more
    tirarse verbo pronominal
    1
    a) (lanzarse, arrojarse) to throw oneself;


    tirarse en paracaídas to parachute;

    ( en emergencia) to bale out;

    tirarse de cabeza to dive in, to jump in headfirst
    b) (AmL) ( tumbarse) to lie down

    2 (fam) ‹horas/días to spend;

    3 (fam) ( expulsar):

    tirar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (arrojar, echar) to throw: lo tiró al agua, he threw it into the water
    no tires la cáscara al suelo, don't throw o drop the peel on the floor
    (enérgicamente) to fling, hurl: lo tiró al fuego, she threw it on the fire
    2 (deshacerse de) to throw out o away
    tiré mis zapatos viejos, I threw my old shoes away
    3 (malgastar) tiraste el dinero con esa joya falsa, you've wasted your money on that fake jewel
    (despilfarrar) to squander
    4 (hacer caer) to knock over: tiré el vaso, I knocked the glass over
    5 (derribar a alguien) to knock o push over
    tirar abajo (una pared, una puerta) to knock down
    (demoler) to pull down
    6 (una bomba) to drop
    (un tiro, un cohete) to fire
    7 (una foto) to take
    8 Impr to print
    II verbo intransitivo
    1 (hacer fuerza hacia sí) to pull: no le tires del pelo, don't pull his hair
    ¡tira de la cuerda!, tug on the rope!
    2 (disparar) to shoot
    Dep to shoot
    (dados, dardos) to throw
    3 fam (gustar) le tira mucho el baloncesto, he's very keen on basketball
    4 (tender) tira a azul, it's bluish
    (parecerse) tira a su madre, she takes after her mother
    5 fam (arreglárselas) ir tirando, to get by, manage
    6 (ir) tira a la derecha, turn right
    ' tirar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    aire
    - bala
    - borda
    - calle
    - casa
    - esconder
    - palanca
    - toalla
    - trapo
    - apedrear
    - arrojar
    - basura
    - blanco
    - botar
    - cadena
    - crimen
    - echar
    - jalar
    - pinta
    - zumbar
    English:
    aim at
    - archery
    - bung
    - cast
    - chain
    - chuck
    - chuck away
    - chuck out
    - clearout
    - dash
    - drag
    - draw
    - fling
    - flush
    - haul
    - heave
    - keep
    - knock off
    - knock over
    - lash out
    - pitch
    - pull
    - pull on
    - pull over
    - putt
    - run off
    - shoot
    - sling
    - sling out
    - splash out
    - sponge
    - strain
    - throw
    - throw aside
    - throw away
    - throw out
    - toss
    - toss away
    - towel
    - town
    - trash
    - tug
    - turf out
    - waste
    - yank
    - beat
    - blow
    - bring
    - disposable
    - ditch
    * * *
    vt
    1. [lanzar] to throw;
    tiraron las gorras al aire they threw their caps (up) in the air;
    tirar algo a alguien [para que lo agarre] to throw sth to sb;
    [para hacer daño] to throw sth at sb;
    tírame una manzana throw me an apple;
    le tiró un beso she blew him a kiss;
    le tiraban piedras a la policía they were throwing stones at the police
    2. [dejar caer] [objeto] to drop;
    [líquido] [derramar] to spill;
    no tiren los papeles al suelo don't throw o drop the wrappers on the ground;
    tiró las maletas y se tumbó en la cama she dropped her suitcases and lay down on the bed;
    me has tirado salsa en el traje you've spilt some sauce on my suit
    3. [derribar] [botella, lámpara] to knock over;
    [muro, tabique, edificio] to knock down;
    tiró la lámpara con un codo al pasar she knocked over the lamp with her elbow as she went by;
    la violencia del choque la tiró al suelo the force of the collision knocked o hurled her to the floor;
    esta pared habrá que tirarla we're going to have to knock this wall down
    4. [desechar] to throw away o out;
    tirar algo a la basura to throw sth out;
    tíralo a la papelera throw it in the wastepaper basket;
    esto está para tirarlo you/we/ etc should throw this away o out;
    eso es tirar el dinero that's a complete waste of money
    5. [arrastrar]
    un carro tirado por bueyes an ox-drawn cart
    6. [disparar] [balas, misiles, disparos] to fire;
    [bomba] to drop; [petardo, cohete] to let off; [dardos, flechas] to shoot; Fam
    tirar una foto to take a picture
    7. [jugar] [carta] to play;
    [dado] to throw
    8. [en deportes] [falta, penalti] to take;
    [balón] to pass
    9. [imprimir] to print
    10. [trazar] [línea] to draw
    11. Fam [suspender] to fail, US to flunk;
    me han tirado en geografía I've failed o US flunked geography
    vi
    1. [disparar] to shoot;
    tirar al aire to fire shots into the air;
    tirar a dar to shoot to wound, not to kill;
    tirar a matar [con arma] to shoot to kill;
    [con comentario] to go for the jugular
    2. [estirar, arrastrar]
    tirar (de algo) to pull (sth);
    el ciclista colombiano tiraba del pelotón the Colombian cyclist was pulling the bunch along;
    me tiró del pelo she pulled my hair;
    [en letrero] pull;
    me tiró del brazo/de la manga she tugged at my arm/sleeve;
    RP
    tirar parejo: esto no es justo, o tiramos parejo o yo me retiro this is not fair, either we all pull together or I'm dropping out
    3. [estar tirante] to be tight;
    la chaqueta me tira de atrás the jacket's a bit tight at the back
    4. [en deportes] [con el pie] to kick;
    [con la mano] to throw; [a meta, canasta] to shoot;
    tirar a gol o Am [m5] al arco o Esp [m5] a puerta to shoot, to have a shot at goal
    5. [dirigirse] to go ( hacia o para towards), to head ( hacia o para for o towards); Fam
    ¡tira! [para empezar a moverse] get moving!;
    Fam
    ¡tira que llegamos tarde! let's get a move on or we'll be late!;
    Fam
    tira para arriba, que ahora subo yo you go on up, I'll come up in a minute;
    tira por esa calle go up o take that street
    6. [jugar] to go, to have one's go;
    te toca tirar a ti [en naipes, dados, billar] it's your go
    7. [cigarrillo, chimenea] to draw;
    este tabaco no tira these cigarettes aren't drawing properly
    8. Fam [funcionar] to go, to work;
    el motor no tira the engine isn't working properly;
    el coche tira bien the car runs well
    9. [durar] to last;
    estos zapatos tirarán otro año these shoes will last another year
    10. Fam [atraer]
    la familia tira mucho blood is thicker than water;
    la tierra siempre tira de uno your homeland never loses its pull on you;
    tirarle a alguien: me tira la vida del campo country life appeals to me;
    no le tira la profesión de su padre his father's profession doesn't appeal to him;
    no le tira viajar she doesn't feel the urge to travel;
    tirar de alguien to exert a pull on sb
    11. Fam [apañárselas]
    aún puedo tirar con este abrigo un par de inviernos this coat should do me for another couple of winters yet;
    ir tirando to get by;
    voy tirando I'm OK, I've been worse
    12. [tener aspecto de o tendencia a]
    tirar a: tira a gris it's greyish;
    tira a su abuela she takes after her grandmother;
    este programa tira a (ser) hortera this programme is a bit on the tacky side;
    el tiempo tira a mejorar the weather looks as if it's getting better;
    es un reformista tirando a radical he's somewhere between a reformist and a radical;
    es verde tirando a azul it's a bluey green;
    es tirando a delgado if anything, he's rather thin;
    tira para deportista he has the makings of a sportsman
    13. Fam [hacer uso]
    tirar de algo to use sth;
    cuando no hay dinero hay que tirar del ingenio when you don't have any money, you have to rely on your wits;
    hubo que tirar de los ahorros we had to draw on our savings
    14. Ven Vulg [copular] to fuck
    * * *
    I v/t
    1 throw; edificio, persona knock down; ( volcar) knock over
    2 basura throw away; dinero waste, throw away fam
    3 TIP print
    4 fam
    en examen fail
    5 foto take
    6 tiro fire
    II v/i
    1 de coche pull;
    tirar de algo pull sth
    2 ( disparar) shoot
    :
    tirar a puerta shoot at goal;
    tirar fuera shoot wide
    4 ( atraer) pull, attract;
    no me tira la música music doesn’t turn me on
    5
    :
    tirar a tend toward;
    tirar a conservador/verde have conservative/Green tendencies
    6 ( girar)
    :
    tirar a la derecha turn right, take a right
    7
    :
    ir tirando fam get by, manage
    * * *
    tirar vt
    1) : to throw, to hurl, to toss
    2) botar: to throw away, to throw out, to waste
    3) derribar: to knock down
    4) : to shoot, to fire, to launch
    5) : to take (a photo)
    6) : to print, to run off
    tirar vi
    1) : to pull, to draw
    2) : to shoot
    3) : to attract
    4) : to get by, to manage
    va tirando: he's getting along, he's managing
    5)
    tirar a : to tend towards, to be rather
    tira a picante: it's a bit spicy
    * * *
    tirar vb
    1. (lanzar) to throw [pt. threw; pp. thrown]
    2. (desechar) to throw away [pt. threw; pp. thrown]
    3. (derribar) to knock over / to knock down
    4. (malgastar) to waste
    5. (arrastrar, estirar) to pull
    6. (disparar) to shoot [pt. & pp. shot]
    7. (atraer, gustar) to like

    Spanish-English dictionary > tirar

  • 28 begin

    1. transitive verb,
    -nn-, began, begun

    begin something — [mit] etwas beginnen

    begin schoolin die Schule kommen

    begin doing or to do something — anfangen od. beginnen, etwas zu tun

    I am beginning to get annoyedso langsam werde ich ärgerlich

    2. intransitive verb
    -nn-, began, begun anfangen; beginnen (oft geh.)

    begin with something/somebody — bei od. mit etwas/jemandem anfangen od. beginnen

    to begin withzunächst od. zuerst einmal

    it is the wrong book, to begin with — das ist schon einmal das falsche Buch

    * * *
    [bi'ɡin]
    present participle - beginning; verb
    (to come or bring, into being, to start: He began to talk; The meeting began early.) anfangen
    - academic.ru/6259/beginning">beginning
    - beginner
    - to begin with
    * * *
    be·gin
    <-nn-, began, begun>
    [bɪˈgɪn]
    I. vt
    to \begin sth etw anfangen [o beginnen]
    he began his career as a humble office worker er hat als kleiner Büroangestellter angefangen
    I began this book two months ago ich habe mit diesem Buch vor zwei Monaten angefangen
    to \begin a conversation ein Gespräch beginnen
    to \begin school in die Schule kommen
    to \begin work mit der Arbeit beginnen
    to \begin doing [or to do] sth beginnen [o anfangen], etw zu tun
    she began acting at fifteen sie fing mit fünfzehn mit der Schauspielerei an
    I began to think he'd never come ich dachte schon, er würde nie kommen
    he didn't even \begin to answer my questions er hat keinerlei Anstalten gemacht, meine Fragen zu beantworten
    he does not even \begin to try er versucht es nicht einmal
    it doesn't \begin to do him justice es wird ihm nicht [einmal] annähernd gerecht
    I can't \begin to explain how this could happen es ist mir selbst unerklärlich, wie das passieren konnte
    she was \beginning to get angry sie wurde allmählich [o langsam] wütend
    it's \beginning to rain/snow impers es fängt an zu regnen/schneien
    to \begin to roll/stutter ins Rollen/Stottern kommen
    2. (start using)
    to \begin sth mit etw dat beginnen [o anfangen]
    to \begin a bottle eine Flasche anbrechen
    to \begin a new loaf of bread ein neues Brot anschneiden
    to \begin a new page eine neue Seite anfangen
    to \begin sth mit etw dat beginnen [o anfangen]
    to \begin a fashion/trend eine Mode/einen Trend ins Leben rufen
    4. (start by saying)
    to \begin sth:
    “let me introduce myself,” she began „darf ich mich vorstellen?“ begann sie
    II. vi
    1. (commence) anfangen, beginnen
    let's \begin fangen wir an!
    I'll \begin by welcoming our guests zuerst werde ich unsere Gäste begrüßen
    she began on the piano at five sie hat mit fünf angefangen Klavier zu spielen
    it all began when she left us alles fing damit an, dass sie uns verließ
    I don't know where to \begin ich weiß nicht, wo ich anfangen soll!
    before school \begins vor Schulanfang
    the play \begins with the sisters in the kitchen together am Anfang des Stücks sitzen die Schwestern zusammen in der Küche
    \beginning from September 1 ab dem ersten September
    to \begin again neu anfangen
    to \begin with (before anything)
    to \begin with, I want to thank you for everything zunächst einmal möchte ich mich für alles bedanken; (initially)
    there were six of us to \begin with anfangs waren wir noch zu sechst; (for one)
    to \begin with, the room is too small, then it faces a busy road erstens ist das Zimmer zu klein, [und] dann liegt es auch noch an einer verkehrsreichen Straße
    to \begin on sth mit etw dat beginnen [o anfangen
    2. (open speech act) beginnen, anfangen
    he began by saying... zunächst einmal sagte er...
    3. (originate) beginnen, anfangen; river entspringen
    where does this road \begin? wo fängt diese Straße an?
    4.
    life \begins at forty ( saying) mit vierzig fängt das Leben erst [richtig] an
    * * *
    [bI'gɪn] pret began, ptp begun
    1. vt
    1) (= start) beginnen, anfangen; conversation also anknüpfen; song also anstimmen; bottle anbrechen, anfangen; book, letter, new cheque book, new page anfangen; rehearsals, work anfangen mit; task in Angriff nehmen, sich machen an (+acc)

    to begin to do sth or doing sthanfangen or beginnen, etw zu tun

    when did you begin ( learning or to learn) English? — wann haben Sie angefangen, Englisch zu lernen?

    he began his speech by saying that... — er leitete seine Rede damit or mit den Worten ein, dass...

    to begin school — eingeschult werden, in die Schule kommen

    to begin life as a... — als... anfangen or beginnen

    she's beginning to understand — sie fängt langsam an zu verstehen, sie versteht so langsam

    I'd begun to think you weren't coming — ich habe schon gedacht, du kommst nicht mehr

    that doesn't even begin to compare with... —

    I can't begin to thank you for what you've doneich kann Ihnen gar nicht genug dafür danken, was Sie getan haben

    2) (= initiate, originate) anfangen; fashion, custom, policy einführen; society, firm, movement gründen; (= cause) war auslösen
    3) (= start to speak) beginnen, anfangen

    it's late, he began — es ist spät, begann er or fing or hub (old) er an

    2. vi
    1) (= start) anfangen, beginnen; (new play etc) anlaufen

    he began by saying that... —

    where the hair beginsam Haaransatz

    to begin in business — ins Geschäftsleben eintreten; (as self-employed) ein Geschäft aufmachen

    beginning from Monday — ab Montag, von Montag an

    it all/the trouble began when... — es fing alles/der Ärger fing damit an, dass...

    to begin with sb/sth —

    to begin with, this is wrong, and... — erstens einmal ist das falsch, dann...

    to begin on a new venture/project — ein neues Unternehmen/Projekt in Angriff nehmen

    2) (= come into being) beginnen, anfangen; (custom) entstehen; (river) entspringen
    * * *
    begin [bıˈɡın] prät began [-ˈɡæn], pperf begun [-ˈɡʌn]
    A v/t
    1. beginnen, anfangen:
    when did you begin ( to learn oder learning) English? wann hast du mit Englisch angefangen (angefangen, Englisch zu lernen)?;
    he began his lecture by saying that … er leitete seinen Vortrag mit den Worten ein, dass …;
    begin the world ins Leben treten
    2. eine Dynastie etc (be)gründen
    B v/i
    1. beginnen, anfangen:
    he began by saying that … er sagte einleitend, dass …;
    begin with sth (sb) mit etwas (bei jemandem) anfangen;
    to begin with (Redew)
    a) zunächst (einmal), fürs Erste,
    b) erstens (einmal), um es gleich zu sagen;
    begin on sth etwas in Angriff nehmen;
    begin on a new bottle eine neue Flasche anbrechen;
    not begin to do sth nicht entfernt oder im Entferntesten daran denken, etwas zu tun;
    he does not even begin to try er versucht es nicht einmal;
    it began to be put into practice es wurde langsam aber sicher in die Praxis umgesetzt;
    well begun is half done (Sprichwort) gut begonnen ist halb gewonnen
    2. entstehen, ins Leben gerufen werden
    * * *
    1. transitive verb,
    -nn-, began, begun

    begin something — [mit] etwas beginnen

    begin doing or to do something — anfangen od. beginnen, etwas zu tun

    2. intransitive verb
    -nn-, began, begun anfangen; beginnen (oft geh.)

    begin with something/somebody — bei od. mit etwas/jemandem anfangen od. beginnen

    to begin withzunächst od. zuerst einmal

    it is the wrong book, to begin with — das ist schon einmal das falsche Buch

    * * *
    v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: began, begun)
    = anfangen v.
    beginnen v.
    (§ p.,pp.: begann, begonnen)

    English-german dictionary > begin

  • 29 get

    1. I
    1) I have 10 shillings more to get мне надо достать еще десять шиллингов
    2) she gave him as good as she got она дала ему сдачи
    2. II
    1) get somewhere get here (home, thus far, abroad, etc.) приезжать /добираться, попадать/ сюда и т. д.; he forgot the key and couldn't get in он забыл ключ и не мог попасть в дом; the door was locked and we could not get out дверь была заперта [на ключ], и мы не могли войти; the train is starting, you must get in поезд отправляется, вам надо войти в вагон; I have no ticket, will I be able to get in? у меня нет билета, мне можно пройти /меня пропустят/? get out! вылезай(те)!, выходи(те)!; please, let me get by пожалуйста, пропустите меня /разрешите мне пройти/; get ashore сходить /высаживаться/ на берег; get astray заблудиться; rumours (reports, etc.) get abroad ходят /распространяются/ слухи и т. д.; this piece of news has got abroad эта новость стала широко известна; such sensations get abroad такого рода сенсационные сообщения становятся достоянием широкой публики; he'll soon get there он там скоро будет, он туда скоро попадет; your letter got there yesterday ваше письмо там получили /пришло туда/ вчера; how (lid these flowers get there? как туда попали эти цветы?: he got home quickly он быстро добрался до дому: the bridge was destroyed and we couldn't get across мост был разрушен, и мы не могли попасть на ту сторону; the frontier is so well guarded that. no one can get across граница так надежно /хорошо/ охраняется, что никто не может ее перейти /что ее невозможно нарушить/; get down спуститься вниз: the cat climbed to the top of tile tree and couldn't get down кошка взобралась на вершину дерева и не могла слезть
    2) he tries hard but he never gets anywhere он много работает, но у него ничего не выходит, он прилагает много усилий, но ничего не может добиться; you'll get nowhere if you work so little если вы будете так мало работать, вы ничего не добьетесь: with courage we can get anywhere мужество поможет нам добиться всего; he is getting ahead splendidly у него дела идут прекрасно; at last we seem to be getting somewhere похоже, наконец у нас что-то получается
    3. III
    1) get smth. get an answer (a postcard, a telegram, good new?get information, a birthday present, a pension, wages, etc.) получать ответ и т.д., get confirmation получить подтверждение; he got a surprise его ждал сюрприз; where can I get permission? его можно получить разрешение?; get one's breakfast (one's dinner, etc.) позавтракать и т. д.; I could not get any supper я остался без ужина, я не смог поужинать || get a sight glimpse/ of smb., smth. увидеть кого-л., что-л.
    2) get smth., smb. where did you get the money? где вы достали /раздобыли/ деньги? get a hat (a new coat, same stamps, a new diary, etc.) приобретать /покупать/ шляпу и т. д.'; you had better get a new umbrella вам бы надо купить /вам нужен/ новый зонтик; where can I get this book? где можно достать /купить/ эту книгу? I got the book. needed я нашел /достал/ нужную мне книгу; I'll go and get some milk. get Some biscuits too a схожу за молоком. get Возьми еще и печенья. get the prize (a good crop, credit, much, little, etc.) получать приз и т. д., he has got the support of the directors он получил поддержку /добился поддержки/ директоров; get a profit получать прибыль; he got nothing ему ничего на досталось, get good results (advantage, power, fame, wealth, etc.) добиваться хороших результатов и т.д., I went and got some singing lessons я пошел и взял несколько уроков пения; get friends при обретать друзей; where do you get pupils? откуда вы берете учеников?; get a wife жениться; get knowledge of the subject овладевать каким-л. предметом || get possession of smth. завладеть /овладеть/ чем-л.; get one's own way добиться своего
    3) get smth., smb. get one's hat (one's stick, one's bag, etc.) взять [с собой] шляпу и т. д., wait till I get my coat подожди, я только возьму пальто; go and get the doctor сходи за врачом; hold the line, I'll go and get him не вешайте трубку, я сейчас ere позову /найду/
    4) get smth. the room (the house, etc.) gets no sun в комнату и т. д. совсем не попадает солнце; this room gets all the sun именно в эту комнату попадает солнце; I'll come and see you if I get the time я приеду повидать вас, если у меня будет время; she hoped to get a little sleep она надеялась, что немного поспит /что ей удастся немного поспать/; I'll go and get some sleep пойду сосну
    5) get smb.,smth. I didn't get him a) я не застал его; б) я не дозвонился ему; you got the wrong number вы ошиблись номером /вы не туда попали/
    6) get smb., smth. get the thief (the runaway, the culprit, a squirrel, etc.) поймать вора и т. д.; did he get his train он успел на поезд?; I decided to get the next train я решил сесть на следующий поезд
    7) get smth. get an illness заболеть; get a cold chill/ простудиться; get [the] measles (scarlet fever, typhus, etc.) заболеть корью, подхватить корь и т. д.; have you got a cold? у вас насморк?; get a bad fall (a slight hurt) сильно (слегка) ушибиться; get a blow (a shock, a nasty wound, etc.) получить удар и т. д.
    8) get smth. get ten years (six months, etc.) получить десять лет тюрьмы /тюремного заключения/ и т. д., быть приговоренным к десяти годам [тюремного заключения] и т. д.; you'll get a beating тебя ожидает порка, тебя высекут; you'll get a scolding тебя ожидает /ты получишь/ выговор; you'll get it! тебе влетит
    9) get smth., smb. coll. get the joke (smb.'s meaning, smb.'s idea, etc.) понимать шутку и т. д., I don't get it не понял; it is just between us, get it? это только между нами, попятно?; I didn't get your name я не разобрал /не расслышал/ вашего имени; I don't get you я вас не понимаю
    10) get smth. dividing nine by three we get three если разделить девять на три, получится три
    11) have got smth. I have got a new watch (a new suit, a new hat, a car, etc.) у меня [есть] новые часы и т. д; have you got a newspaper (the tickets, a pencil, an erasing-knife, etc)? у вас есть газета и т.д.? I've got no money у меня нет денег; she's got a lovely voice у нее красивый голос; he'll lose all he's got, if he isn't careful если он не будет более осмотрительным /осторожнее/, он потеряет все, что имеет
    4. IV
    1) get smth. at some time get the answer this morning (some money soon, etc.) получить ответ сегодня утром и т. д.; get money every month получать деньги каждый месяц; I get a letter every day каждый день мне приходит /я получаю/ письмо; in this hotel I get breakfast every morning в этой гостинице каждое утро дают /подают/ завтрак; get your dinner at once сейчас же пообедай; get smth. in some manner you got the answer right ты получил /у тебя получился/ правильный ответ
    2) get smth. in some manner get this horse (this coat, this bicycle, etc.) cheap (ly) дешево купить /приобрести/ лошадь и т. д., купить эту лошадь и т. д. по дешевке; get the book second-hand приобрести подержанную книгу, купить книгу у букиниста; get money easily легко зарабатывать /доставать, получать/ деньги; get this book easily достать эту книгу без затруднений
    3) get smb., smth. somewhere get him home (the old man upstairs, you there, the child up, etc.) отводить /доставлять, приводить/ его домой и т.д., get smb. in а) помочь кому-л. проникнуть куда-л.; б) втащить кого-л. вовнутрь; get smb. out а) помочь кому-л. выбраться откуда-л.; б) вытащить кого-л. откуда-л.; get the horses out вывести лошадей; what got you here? что вас привело сюда?; get this parcel home (the table here, etc.) доставлять посылку домой и т. д., get the chairs (the washing, some coal, etc.) in вносить стулья и т.д., I don't know how you'll ever get the box (the trunk, the piano, etc.) upstairs не знаю, как вы втащите этот ящик и т. д. наверх; get a mast up ставить мачту; get up a sunken vessel поднимать затонувшее судно; get smth. overboard выбрасывать что-л. за борт; get his letter (one's own books, my money, etc.) back получить обратно его письме и т. д., now I've got you back теперь вы вернулись ко мне
    4) get smb. at some time I'll get you yet! я еще вас поймаю!, вы еще мне попадетесь!; he got you that time! на этот раз он вас поймал!
    5) get smb. somewhere it will get him nowhere, it won't get him anywhere это ничего ему не даст, этим он ничего не добьется; all work and no play does not get you anywhere если работать и не отдыхать, толку будет мало
    6) get smb., smth. in some manner coll. I get you (your meaning, your idea, etc.) all right я хорошо понимаю вас и т. д.
    7) have got smth. somewhere what have you got there? что у вас там?
    5. V
    get smb. smth.
    1) get him a ticket (me a dictionary, them those pictures, etc.) доставать /покупать/ ему билет и т. д.; get me a good teacher (him a place. her another job, etc.) найдите мне хорошего преподавателя и т. д.
    2) get smb. a towel (me my hat, him another dictionary, her a chair, me some ink, etc.) принести кому-л. полотенце и т. д.; can you get me another pencil? вы можете принести /дать/ мне другой карандаш?
    3) get smb. smb., smth. get me the director (the hospital, the head teacher, etc.) соедините меня с директором и т. д.
    6. VI
    1) get smth., smb. in some state get dinner (breakfast, books, etc.) ready приготовить обед и т. д., she quickly got the children ready for school она быстро собрала детей в школу; get one's feet (one's clothes, etc.) wet промочить ноги и т. д.; get the windows open открыть окна; get everything right again снова навести везде порядок; get smb. free освободить кого-л., выпустить кого-л. на свободу; get the dog loose спустить собаку с цепи; it gets me down-hearted это приводит меня в уныние
    2) get smth. in some state get the sum right получить правильный ответ [в решении задачи], правильно решить задачу
    7. VII
    1) get smth., smb. to do smth. get something (nothing, etc.) to eat (to read, to play with, etc.) достать что-нибудь поесть и т. д.; get leave to go home получить отпуск для поездки домой; get smb. to clean the windows (to wash the floors, to do the room, etc.) найти кого-л. [, чтобы] вымыть окна и т. д.; I can't get anyone to do the work properly не могу найти человека, который выполнил бы эту работу как следует
    2) get smb., smth. to do smth. get your friend to help you (him to come, her to join us, your brother to introduce me to the chairman, etc.) убедить /заставить/ вашего приятеля /друга/ помочь вам и т. д.; get a fire to burn разжечь огонь или костер; get this door to shut properly починить дверь, чтобы она закрывалась как следует; I can never get him to go to bed я никогда не могу уложить его спать; get him to tell her about it уговорите его рассказать ей об этом; you will not be able to get a tree to grow in this soil вам не удастся вырастить дерево на такой почве
    3) Have got smth. to do I have got very much /lots of work/ to do у меня очень много работы /дел/, мне надо очень много сделать; what have you got to say? что вы можете сказать?
    8. VIII
    get smth., smb. doing smth.get the clock (the work, the typewriter, etc.) going наладить часы и т. д; at last he got the stone rolling наконец ему удалось сдвинуть камень, и тот покатился; she got everybody singing все подхватили ее песню; она заставила всех петь; I'll get her talking а) я заставлю ее заговорить; б) я разговорю ее; that got him guessing это заставило его теряться в догадках
    9. IX
    1) get smth., smb. done I must get the book bound (my passport endorsed, the work done, my shoes repaired, etc.) мне нужно [отдать] переплести книгу и т. д.; we are getting our apartment newly papered мы заново оклеиваем [обоями] квартиру; I shall get my hair cut я постригусь; can you get the work finished in time (by evening)? a) вы можете закончить работу вовремя (к вечеру)?; б) вы можете добиться, чтобы работа была готова вовремя (к вечеру)?; where can I this printed (my piano tuned, my shoes soled, etc.)? где мне / я могу/ это напечатать и т. д.?; I want to get my coat mended я хочу починить /отдать в починку/ пальто; get the laws obeyed (my words believed, etc.) добиться [того], чтобы законы выполнялись /соблюдались/ и т. д.; get oneself appointed (noticed, chosen, etc.) сделать так, чтобы тебя назначили и т. д., they got him elected chairman они провели его в председатели
    2) get smb. in some state get a man drunk напоить человека; get smb. dressed (washed, fed, etc.) одеть и т. д. кого-л.; it gets me discouraged я от этого прихожу в уныние; he got his face scratched (his wrist broken, etc.) он расцарапал лицо и т. д.
    10. X
    get into some state get married (dressed, shaved, brushed clean, confused, hurt, etc.) жениться и т.д., get drunk напиваться; get tired уставать; get frozen замерзать; he got drowned он утонул; you must get done /finished/ with it с этим нужно покончить /кончать/; get used /accustomed/ to the climate here (to the customs and manners over here, to sitting up late, to the rolling of a ship, etc.) привыкать к здешнему климату и т. д., he got fired /dismissed/ (severely wounded, killed, etc.) его уволили /выгнали/ и т. д.; he got paid for this ему за это заплатили; he got mixed up with dishonest men он связался с дурной компанией; they got left behind они отстали; that vase will get broken эта ваза разобьется; everything gets known все становится известным || get rid of smb., smth. отделываться /избавляться/ от кого-л., чего-л.; get rid of a troublesome visitor (of a lazy servant, of the old car, of an engagement, etc.) избавиться /отделаться/ от назойливого посетителя и т. д.
    11. XI
    1) be got the thing is not to be got fay вещь нельзя достать
    2) be got at the soul of a people can be got at fully only through, the knowledge of its language душу народа можно познать только через его язык
    3) be got at coll. the witness (the press, the voters, etc.) have been got at свидетели и т. д. были подкуплены
    12. ХIII
    1) get to do smth. soon she got to like her job скоро ей начала нравиться /понравилась/ ее работа, она вскоре полюбила свой работу;how did you get to know it? как вы об этом узнали?, как вам удалось это узнать?; they got to be friends они стали друзьями; you'll like him when /once/ you get to know him когда вы его узнаете, вы его полюбите
    2) have got to do smth. we've got to go (to write a letter, to listen to what he says, to leave early to catch my train, to pass this examination, etc.) нам необходимо /мы должны/ идти и т.д., it has got to be done это должно быть сделано /надо сделать/; she's got to work hard for her living ей приходится много работать, чтобы заработать на жизнь
    3) id have got to do with smth. what's that got to do with us? какое это имеет отношение к нам?
    13. XIV
    get doing smth.,get moving (rolling, singing, etc.) начать двигаться и т. д.; when these women get talking they go on for hours когда эти женщины начнут разговаривать /болтать/, их не остановишь; we got talking of the future мы стали говорить /заговорили/ о будущем; they wanted to get going on the construction of the house они хотели приступить к строительству дома; if we don't get doing we'll never arrive in time если мы не тронемся в путь, мы ни за что не приедем вовремя; things haven't really got going yet дела еще фактически не сдвинулись с места /с мертвой точки/; let's get going! пошли!, пойдём!, поёхали!
    13. XV
    get into some state get warmer (worse and worse, uglier every day, etc.) становиться теплее и т. д.; get grey (old, silly, poor, red in the face, etc.) поседеть и т. д.; get well поправляться, выздоравливать; he is getting better ему уже лучше; get asleep засыпать; I am getting thirsty (sleepy, hungry. etc.) мне захотелось пить и т. д., the children will get wet (hungry, etc.) дети вымокнут /промокнут/ и т. д.; he got rich он разбогател; he got mad at the message записка его разозлила; он разозлился на записку; they got closer to each other они сблизились, они стали ближе друг другу; it got rainy пошли дожди; it got foggy опустился туман; the sky got cloudy небо заволокло тучами; it is getting dark (cold, warm, etc.) темнеет и т. д. it is getting late уже поздно; the fire is getting low костер гаснет /угасает/; things are getting better дела идут все лучше
    14. XVI
    1) get into (out of, through, over, up, across, at, etc.) smth. get into the room (into town, into a bar, etc.) попадать /входить/ в комнату и т. д.; the burglar got into the kitchen through the window грабитель проник /влез/ в кухню через окно; get into a car сесть /влезть/ в автомобиль /в машину/; get into the saddle сесть /взобраться/ в седло; something has got into my eye мне что-то попало в глаз this story got into the newspapers эта история попала в газеты; where has that book got to? куда запропастилась /делась/ эта книга?; get to the station (to London, to the office, etc.) добраться до вокзала и т. д.; where did you get to yesterday? куда вы делись /где вы были/ вчера?; get out, of a train (out of a bus, out of a carriage, etc.) выходить из поезда и т. д., get out of bed! вставайте!; get out of here (out of this house)! прочь отсюда (из этого дома)!; get out of the way of a car посторониться и пропустить машину; get out of smb.'s way уйти с чьей-л. дороги; get through the hole in the wall (through the eye of a needle, through a gap, through a crack, etc.) пролезать через дыру в стене и т. д.; get over a fence (over a wall, over a stile, etc.) перелезать через забор и т. д.; get over /across/ a river переправляться через реку; get across tile street (across /over/ the bridge, across the frontier, etc.) перейти на другую сторону улицы и т. д.; he got above the clouds он поднялся над облаками; get under the hedge (under the wire netting, under the rope, etc.) пролезать под изгородью и т. д.; get under some old boxes (under some bushes, etc.) залезать /закатиться/ под старые ящики и т. д.; under the wheels (under а motor-саг, etc.) попасть под колеса и т. д.; the cat got under the bed (under the fence, etc.) кошка шмыгнула под кровать и т. д.; get at the top shelf (at the ripest fruit, at one's luggage, etc.) дотянуться /достать/ до верхней полки и т. д.; keep medicines where children can't get at them убирайте лекарства так, чтобы дети не смогли их достать; the dog could not get at me собака не могла меня достать; let me get at him coll. дайте мне только до него добраться; get down a tree (down a fence, etc.) слезать с дерева и т. д., get up a ladder (up a hill, up a tree, etc.) взбираться на лестницу и т. д.; get by the guard (by the policeman, etc.) проскользнуть мимо часового и т. д.; get before the crowd (before the procession, before the column of marchers, etc.) обогнать толпу и т. д.; get behind a tree (behind a door, behind a fence, etc.) встать /спрятаться/ за дерево и т. д.; the реп got behind the bookcase ручка закаталась /попала/ за книжный шкаф; get between the sheets залезть под одеяло; he got between the boys and prevented a fight он встал между мальчишками и не дал им сцепиться; get aboard a ship подняться на борт корабля
    2) get to (abreast of, beyond, as far аs, etc.) smth. get to the end of the chapter (to the main subject, to the theme of my story, to the heart of the matter, etc.) дойти /добраться/ до конца главы и т. д.: how far did you get to? до какого места ты дочитал?; get to the head of one's class выйти на первое место в классе; стать первым учеником в классе; get to the city police (to the authorities, etc.) связаться с городской полицией и т. д.; get to some time (to some age) достигать какого-л. времени (возраста); when it gets to 10 o'clock I begin to feel tired к десяти часам я начинаю чувствовать усталость: when you get to 70... когда вам [будет] семьдесят...; get between two fighting parties оказаться /очутиться/ между двумя враждующими /борющимися/ группами; his anger has got beyond control он вышел из себя, он уже не мог сдержать гнев; he doesn't let much get by him он почти ничего не пропускает; практически ничто мимо него не проходит; you cannot easily get at him с ним не так просто связаться /увидеться/; get abreast of modem technology достичь современного уровня техники; we got as far as the lake мы дошли или доехали до озера || get in touch with smb. связаться / установить контакт/ с кем-л.
    3) get within smth. get within smb.'s reach (within the range of their fire, etc.) оказаться в пределах чьей-л. досягаемости и т. д.; get within earshot оказаться в пределах слышимости; get within their sight оказаться в поле их зрения; get out of smth. get out of smb.'s sight скрыться с чьих-л. глаз; get out of smb.'s reach оказаться для них вне пределов досягаемости; get among smb. get among friends (among enemies, among strangers, etc.) оказаться среди друзей и т. д. || get into the hands of the police попасть в руки полиции
    4) get into smth. get into a coat (into one's clothes, into one's boots, etc.) надевать пальто и т. д., get into one's trousers натянуть брюки; I can't get into these shoes, they are three sizes too small я не могу надеть эти ботинки, мне надо на три номера больше
    5) get into smth. get into business (into trade, into the movies, into politics, etc.) заняться коммерцией и т. д.; get into fights with the neighbour's children драться /вступать в драку/ с соседскими мальчишками; get into Parliament (into a party, into a club, etc.) стать членом парламента и т. д.; get into office получить /занять/ должность; Kennedy got into office in 1961 Кеннеди стал президентом в тысяча девятьсот шестьдесят первом году; get into conversation (into a dispute with smb., into correspondence, into communication, etc.) завязать разговор и т.д.; they got into quite an argument about it между ними разгорелся довольно жаркий спор
    6) get in (to) smth. get into trouble (into a difficulty, into mischief, etc.) попасть в беду и т. д.; get into debt залезть в долги; get in a row (into a horrible scrape, etc.) оказаться замешанным /ввязаться/ в скандал и т. д.; get into a bad habit приобрести плохую /дурную/ привычку; get into the habit /into the way/ of getting up early (of doing things one's own way, of answering back, etc.) привыкнуть рано вставать и т. д., get into a rage впасть в ярость; get into a panic поддаться панике; get into general use получить широкое распространение; get out of smth. get out of practice потерять навык, [давно] не иметь практики; get out of repair требовать ремонта; get out of order выйти из строя, испортиться, сломаться; get out of shape потерять форму
    7) get over (out of, through,get etc.) smth. get over a difficulty ( over an obstacle, over an impediment, etc.) преодолеть затруднение и т. д.; she couldn't get over her shyness (over her embarrassment, over her confusion, over her dislike of him, over the disinclination to work, etc.) она не могла побороть / преодолеть/ свой застенчивость и т. д.; he couldn't get over his stutter он не мог избавиться от заикания; I can't get over his abominable manners никак не могу примириться с его ужасными манерами /привыкнуть к его ужасным манерам/; get over a disappointment (over an alarm, over a surprise, etc.) прийти в себя после разочарования и т. д.; I couldn't get over his behaviour он себя так плохо вел, что я никак не мог успокоиться; I couldn't get over the fear of him я никак не мог избавиться от чувства /преодолеть чувство/ страха перед ним; get over an illness (over an ailment, over that severe cold, over an injury, etc.) оправиться от /после/ болезна и т.д., get over /out of/ a bad habit отделаться / отучиться/ от дурной привычки; get out of a difficulty выйти из затруднительного положения; there is по getting out of it, you cannot get out of it от этого не открутишься; don't try to get out of your duties не пытайтесь уклоняться от своих обязанностей; get through another bad winter (through a dangerous illness, etc.) пережить еще одну тяжелую зиму и т. д.; I don't know how I'll get through this month я не знаю, как я дотяну до конца месяца; I don't know how I got through the day не знаю, как я прожил /выдержал/ этот день; get through an exam выдержать экзамен; get through written papers написать контрольную работу; get through a driving test сдать экзамен на водительские права; how he got through college is a mystery совершенно непонятно, как он смог окончить колледж; get (a)round smth. get around the law (around the regulations, around that clause, around a difficulty, etc.) обходить закон и т. д.; there is no getting (aground this fact a) нельзя не (посчитаться с этим фактом; б) нельзя пройти мимо этого факта; get (a)round smb. coll. she can get (aground anyone она может убедить /обвести вокруг пальца/ кого хочешь /кого угодно/; she knows how to get round him она знает, как к нему подъехать
    8) get through /over/ smth. get through a lot of reading (through a lot of work, etc.) много прочитать и т.д., get through her washing (through one's homework, through this book, etc.) закончить стирку и т. д.; how could he get through all these files? как он успел просмотреть все эти папки?; get through one's task with great speed быстро выполнить свой задачу; get through a lot of correspondence ( through these books, etc.) разделаться с большим количеством писем и т. д.; get through such a lot of food (through all this meat, through a bottle of gin a week, etc.) съесть /осилить/ много всякой всячины и т. д.; get through one's fortune (through a lot of money, through L 1000 in less than a week, etc.) растратить /растранжирить, промотать/ свое состояние и т. д.
    9) get at smth., smb. get at the truth (at the facts, at the root of the trouble, at the cause of the disturbance, at the heart of things, etc.) докапываться до правды и т. д.; get at the meaning of the sentence добраться до сути этого предложения; get at the secret of his success выяснить /понять/, в чем секрет его успеха; that's what I want to get at вот в чем мне хочется разобраться, вот что мне хочется постичь; what are you getting at? coll. a) чего вы хотите?, к чему вы клоните?; б) что вы имеете в виду?; we could not tell what the speaker was getting at мы не знали /не понимали/, что имел в виду /хотел сказать/ оратор; who are you getting at? кого вы имеете в виду?, на кого вы намекаете?; were you getting at me in that last remark you made? в своем последнем замечании вы намекали на меня? /вы имели в виду меня/?; he is always getting at me coll. он вечно ко мне цепляется /придирается/
    10) get at smb. get at a witness (at a judge, at the press, etc.) подкупать свидетеля и т. д.
    15. XVII
    1) get (in)to doing smth. coll. get into sleeping in the afternoon (to fighting, etc.) взять себе за привычку спать днем и т. д.; I got to thinking that... я стал думать, что...
    2) get out of doing smth. get out of attending smth. (out of going there, out of answering, etc.) отвертеться и не пойти на какое-л. мероприятие и т. д.; get as far as doing smth. we did not get as far as discussing finances мы не дошли до обсуждения финансовых вопросов
    16. XXI1
    1) get smth. from (at, out of, etc.) smth., smb. get machinery from Europe (many commodities from abroad, etc.) получать оборудование из Европы и т. д., закупать /покупать, приобретать/ оборудование в Европе и т.д., get our things at this shop покупать /приобретать/ вещи в этом магазине; get information from the library (money from the bank, help from him, etc.) получать, сведения из библиотеки и т. д., get dinner (lunch, etc.) at the hotel (at the restaurant, at the inn, etc.) (пообедать и т. д. в гостинице и т. д.; I got this information (the news, facts. etc.) from a friend of mine (from my secretary, etc.) мне это и т. д. сообщил один приятель и т. д., я получил эти сведения и т. д. от одного приятеля и т. д.; get butter from cream получать масло из сливок; get a confession out of the prisoner ( a secret out of the woman, the truth out of the man, etc.) вытянуть / вырвать/ у заключенного признание и т. д.; get smth. for smth. get data for analysis (information for the article, new curtains for the guest-room, etc.) доставать /добывать/ данные для анализа и т. д., get material for research собирать материал для исследования: can I still get a ticket for tonight's play? можно еще достать /купить, получить/ билет на сегодняшний спектакль?; get smth. for smb. get tickets (another dictionary, this book, etc.) for him купить или заказать ему билеты и т. д.; get smth. by smth. get good results by hard work усердием /большим трудом/ добиться хороших результатов; get very little by deceit немногого добиться обманом || get hold of the manager (of the secretary, of the owner, etc.) разыскать /найти/ администратора и т. д., where did you get hold of this curious old picture? где вы раздобыли эту любопытную старую картину?; he got the start of his rivals он получил преимущество перед своими соперниками
    2) get smth. from smb. get presents from his brother (a letter from one's parents, a message from him, etc.) получать подарки от брата и т. д.; get no help (no money, no advice, etc.) from him не получать от него помощи и т. д.; you will never get anything from him от него ничего не дождешься; get his timidity from his mother унаследовать робость от матери; get smth. for smth. get a good salary for the job (a reward for his part in the affair, a medal for bravery. etc.) получать хорошую зарплату за эту работу и т. д.; what did you get for this article? сколько вам заплатили за эту статью?; get a good price for the land получить хорошую цену за землю; I will see what I can get for it посмотри, сколько я могу за это получить /выручить, взять/; get a new watch (a ring, a new hat, etc.) for one's birthday получить новые часы и т. д. [в подарок] на день рождения; get smth. out of smth. what did you get out of his lecture? что вы вынесли из его лекции?, что вам дала его лекция?; all he got out of it was disgrace это принесло ему только позор; get smth. of smb., smth. what impression did you get of him (of this play, etc.)? .какое он и т. д. на вас произвел впечатление?
    3) get smth., smb. across (from, to, etc.) smth. get smth. across the river (across the sea, across the frontier, etc.) переправить что-л. через реку и т. д.; get smb. across the street (across the bridge, across the field, etc) перевести кого-л. через улицу и т. д.; get one's hat from the other room (the books from the study, the tea-things from the kitchen, etc.) принести шляпу из другой комнаты и т. д., get down a book from the top shelf (the boy from the fence, my hat from the book, etc.) снимать книгу с верхней полки и т. д.; get a letter to London (to Paris, etc.) доставить письмо в Лондон и т. д., get the child to bed уложить ребенка в постель; get the trunk back to the garret отнести сундук обратно на чердак; get the parcel back to London снова доставить пакет в Лондон; get your TV back for this evening (for the party, etc.) принесите снова ваш телевизор на этот вечер и т. д.; the car did not get him very far on the road home он проехал на машине лишь небольшую часть дороги домой; that did not get him very far on the road to fame это весьма незначительно способствовало его продвижению по пути славы; get smth., smb. to smb., smth. how can I get these things to you? как мне переправить вам эти вещи?; get the slaves to the north переправить рабов на север
    4) get smth., smb. into (through, from, out of, etc.) smth. I can't get the key into the lock я не могу вставить ключ в замок; help me get the pig into the cart помогите мне втащить поросенка в телегу: how can I get all these books into the bag? как мне запихнуть /засунуть, впихнуть/ все эти книги в портфель?; get the piano through the door протащить пианино в дверь; get the milk from the refrigerator for me достаньте мне молока из холодильника; get smth. out of the house выносить что-л. из дома; get a cork out of a bottle вытаскивать пробку из бутылки; get stains out of a coat выводить пятна с пиджака: get these things out of the way уберите эти вещи с дороги [, чтобы они не мешали]; get the man out of the house (the dog out of the room, etc.) выводить человека из дома и т. д.: get her out of the country помочь ей уехать или вывезти ее из страны /за границу/ || get smth. into one's head вбить себе что-л. в голову: he got it into his head that everybody was persecuting him он вбил себе в голову, что его все преследуют; get smth. out of one's head выбросить что-л. из головы; get the idea (the thing, it, the notion, etc.) out of one's head выбросить эту мысль и т. д. из головы, перестать об этом думать
    5) get smb., smth. into (through) smth. get him into Parliament (into their headquarters, etc.) провести /протащить/ его в парламент и т. д.; get smb. into the firm пристроить кого-л. в эту фирму; get a bill through Parliament (this measure through the house, etc.) провести /протащить/ законопроект в парламенте и т. д., he helped me to get my luggage through the customs он помог мне пройти таможенный досмотр; get a pupil through his examination вытащить ученика на экзамене; it was his mathematics that got him through entrance examinations он выдержал приемные экзамены благодаря тому, что хорошо знал математику; get an article into a paper поместить статьи в газете; get the report into print сдать доклад в печать
    6) get smb. by smth. get smb. by the hand (by the hair, by the throat, by the wrist. etc.) схватить кого-л. за руку и т. д.: get smth., smb. on (by) smth. I get all program (me)s on my TV-set мой телевизор принимает все программы; how many stations can you get on your radio set? сколько станций берет /принимает/ ваш приемник?; I can't get him on the phone я не могу связаться с ним по телефону; get smb. by phone (by radio, etc.) связаться с кем-л. по телефону и т. д.
    7) get smb. in (on, through, etc.) smth. the bullet got him in the leg (through the stomach, in the shoulder, etc.) пуля попала ему в ногу и т. д.; the blow got him on the head (in the mouth, on the back, etc.) удар пришелся ему по голове и т. д., get smth. in smth. get a splinter in one's finger занозить палец; get a bullet in the leg получить пулевое ранение в ногу
    8) get smb. into smth. get smb. into debt (into difficulties, into a fight, etc.) вовлекать кого-л. в долги и т. д., she got me into trouble у меня из-за нее /она втравила меня в/ неприятности; get smb. out of smth. get smb. out of a fix /out of difficulty/ вызволить кого-л. из затруднения; get the children out of this habit отучать детей от этой привычки || get smth., smb. off one's hands избавиться от чего-л., кого-л., сбыть что-л., кого-л. с рук; she wished she could get the old house (the useless books, her unmarried daughter, etc.) off her hands ей хотелись избавиться /освободиться/ от старого дома и т. д. /сбыть старый дом и т. д. с рук/
    9) get smth. of smth. get 5 years of hard labour получить пять лет каторжных работ; get smth. for smth. he got a stiff sentence for his crimes за совершенные преступления ему был вынесен суровый приговор
    10) have got smth., smb. in (at, on, etc.) smth. I have /I've/ got money in the bank (a flat in this house, a friend at the studio, etc.) у меня в банке [лежат] деньги и т. д. || he's got smth., smb. on the brain он все время о чем-л., о ком-л. думает
    17. XXII
    get smth. by doing smth. that's what you get by talking too much вот что ты получаешь /вот как ты расплачиваешься/ за болтливость; get a good price by bargaining поторговаться и получить хорошую цену; get smth. for doing smth. you'll get a beating for doing this тебе за это всыпят; you'll get it for breaking that vase! тебе крепко достанется за то, что ты разбил вазу!
    18. XXIV1
    get smth., smb. as smth. get L 10 as reward (a book as a consolation prize, the newcomer as assistant, etc.) получить десять фунтов в качестве вознаграждения и т. д.; I got this book as a present я получил эту книгу в подарок; we get L 20 as the average мы получаем в среднем двадцать фунтов
    19. XXVI
    get smb., smth. before... (when..., etc.) get him before he escapes схватить его до того, как он скроется; get the book when the price is reduced купить книгу, когда ее уценят

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