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tropical country

  • 1 tropical country

    тропическая страна

    Англо-русский большой универсальный переводческий словарь > tropical country

  • 2 tropical country

    Англо-русский современный словарь > tropical country

  • 3 tropical country

    வெப்ப நாடு

    English-Tamil dictionary > tropical country

  • 4 tropical

    adj.
    tropical.
    * * *
    1 tropical
    * * *
    adj.
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) (=del trópico) tropical
    2) Cono Sur (=melodramático) rhetorical, melodramatic, highly-coloured
    * * *
    adjetivo tropical
    * * *
    Ex. This study attempts to identify the journals publishing articles on onchocerciasis -- a disease also known as river-blindness occurring in tropical Africa and Latin America.
    ----
    * acuario tropical = tropical aquarium.
    * ciclón tropical = tropical cyclone.
    * clima tropical = tropical climate.
    * enfermedad tropical = tropical disease.
    * mar tropical = tropical sea.
    * océano tropical = tropical ocean.
    * país tropical = tropical country.
    * pez tropical = tropical fish.
    * planta tropical = tropical plant.
    * selva tropical = tropical rain forest, tropical forest.
    * tormenta tropical = tropical storm.
    * * *
    adjetivo tropical
    * * *

    Ex: This study attempts to identify the journals publishing articles on onchocerciasis -- a disease also known as river-blindness occurring in tropical Africa and Latin America.

    * acuario tropical = tropical aquarium.
    * ciclón tropical = tropical cyclone.
    * clima tropical = tropical climate.
    * enfermedad tropical = tropical disease.
    * mar tropical = tropical sea.
    * océano tropical = tropical ocean.
    * país tropical = tropical country.
    * pez tropical = tropical fish.
    * planta tropical = tropical plant.
    * selva tropical = tropical rain forest, tropical forest.
    * tormenta tropical = tropical storm.

    * * *
    A (del trópico) tropical
    B (CS pey) (exagerado, apasionado) over the top ( colloq)
    * * *

    tropical adjetivo
    tropical
    tropical adjetivo tropical
    ' tropical' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    país
    - piña
    - selva
    - invierno
    - verano
    English:
    imagine
    - premium
    - rainforest
    - tropical
    - fierce
    - forest
    - low
    - rain
    * * *
    tropical
    * * *
    adj tropical
    * * *
    : tropical
    * * *
    tropical adj tropical

    Spanish-English dictionary > tropical

  • 5 tropical

    I ['trɔpɪk(ə)l] прил.

    tropical exposure test — испытание в тропических условиях; испытание на устойчивость к воздействию условий тропического климата

    2) горячий, страстный
    Syn:
    II ['trɔpɪk(ə)l] прил.
    метафорический, фигуральный, переносный
    Syn:

    Англо-русский современный словарь > tropical

  • 6 país tropical

    Ex. As tropical countries become common travellers' destinations, more and more returning travellers are expected to present cutaneous lesions secondary to myias.
    * * *

    Ex: As tropical countries become common travellers' destinations, more and more returning travellers are expected to present cutaneous lesions secondary to myias.

    Spanish-English dictionary > país tropical

  • 7 país

    m.
    country, nation, region.
    * * *
    1 country
    \
    del país local
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=nación) country

    los países miembros o participantes — the member countries

    país en desarrollo, país en vías de desarrollo — developing nation

    2) (=tierra) land, region
    3) (Arte) (=paisaje) landscape
    * * *
    a) ( unidad política) country
    b) ( ciudadanos) nation
    c) ( en ficción) land

    en un país lejano — in a distant o faraway land

    * * *
    = country, mainland, economy [economies, -pl.].
    Ex. It is less obviously effective to aim to generate a centralised cataloguing service which will cover all the materials acquired by libraries in a given country.
    Ex. Thus this code was important in catalogues on the mainland of Europe.
    Ex. Post-industrial economies are information-intensive.
    ----
    * afectar a todo el país = sweep + the country.
    * Alicia en el País de las Maravillas = Alice in Wonderland.
    * a lo largo y ancho del país = countrywide [country-wide].
    * código del país = country code.
    * compuesto de varios países = multi-country [multicountry].
    * corazón de un país = heartland.
    * de todo el país = across the land, all around the country, all over the country, from all over the country.
    * de un extremo a otro del país = cross-country.
    * de un país desarrollado = first world.
    * división de país = country division.
    * emigrantes que huyen de su país en barca o patera = boat people.
    * en el país de los ciegos el tuerto es el rey = in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
    * en el país de los ciegos el tuerto es el rey = be a case of the blind leading the blind.
    * en nuestro país = at home.
    * en todo el país = all around the country, all over the country, from all over the country, across the country.
    * entre países = transfrontier, transborder, transnational, cross-country, cross-national [cross national], cross-border.
    * entre varios países = multi-country [multicountry].
    * Liga de los Países †rabes = League of Arab States.
    * nacido en el país = native-born.
    * natural del país = native-born.
    * OPEC, la [Organización de Países Exportadores de Petróleo] = OPEC [Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries].
    * país anfitrión = host country.
    * país capitalista = capitalist country.
    * país con armas nucleares = nuclear state.
    * país cuya lengua oficial no es el inglés = non-English-speaking country.
    * país de adopción = adopted country.
    * país de Europa del Este = Eastern European country.
    * País de Gales = Wales.
    * país de las maravillas = wonderland.
    * país del Golfo Persa = Arab Gulf country, Gulf country, Arabian Gulf state, Persian Gulf country.
    * país del tercer mundo = third world country.
    * país de origen = country of origin, national origin, home country.
    * país de procedencia = country of origin.
    * país desarrollado = developed country, developed nation, advanced economy, first-world nation.
    * país en vías de desarrollo = developing country, transitional nation, transitional economy, developing nation, emerging economy, developing economy, country with developing economy.
    * países ACP = ACP countries.
    * países árabes = Arab countries.
    * Países Bajos, los = Netherlands, the, Low Countries, the.
    * países balcánicos, los = Balkans, the.
    * países bálticos, los = Baltic countries, the, Baltics, the, Baltic States, the.
    * países de la Comunidad Europea = European Communities.
    * países de la costa del Pacífico = Pacific Rim, the.
    * países en vías de desarrollo, los = developing world, the.
    * países industrializados = industrially developed countries.
    * países miembro de la Comunidad = Community partner.
    * países nórdicos, los = Nordic countries, the.
    * país exportador = exporting country.
    * país extranjero = foreign country, overseas country.
    * país extraño = foreign country.
    * país firmante = signatory country.
    * país industrializado = industrialised country, industrialised nation, industrial nation.
    * país miembro = member country.
    * país miembro de la Comunidad = Community member state.
    * país multicultural = rainbow nation.
    * país natal = back home.
    * país productor de información científica = science producer.
    * país socialista = socialist country.
    * país subdesarrollado = undeveloped country, underdeveloped nation, banana republic, mickey mouse country.
    * país subtropical = subtropical country.
    * país tercermundista = third world country, banana republic, mickey mouse country.
    * país tropical = tropical country.
    * reducción de la cuota de los países endeudados = debt relief.
    * transferencia de información entre países = transborder data flow (TBDF).
    * vender en el extranjero a precios inferiores que en el país de origen = dump.
    * visita con conferencia a varios lugares de un país = lecture tour.
    * * *
    a) ( unidad política) country
    b) ( ciudadanos) nation
    c) ( en ficción) land

    en un país lejano — in a distant o faraway land

    * * *
    = country, mainland, economy [economies, -pl.].

    Ex: It is less obviously effective to aim to generate a centralised cataloguing service which will cover all the materials acquired by libraries in a given country.

    Ex: Thus this code was important in catalogues on the mainland of Europe.
    Ex: Post-industrial economies are information-intensive.
    * afectar a todo el país = sweep + the country.
    * Alicia en el País de las Maravillas = Alice in Wonderland.
    * a lo largo y ancho del país = countrywide [country-wide].
    * código del país = country code.
    * compuesto de varios países = multi-country [multicountry].
    * corazón de un país = heartland.
    * de todo el país = across the land, all around the country, all over the country, from all over the country.
    * de un extremo a otro del país = cross-country.
    * de un país desarrollado = first world.
    * división de país = country division.
    * emigrantes que huyen de su país en barca o patera = boat people.
    * en el país de los ciegos el tuerto es el rey = in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king, in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
    * en el país de los ciegos el tuerto es el rey = be a case of the blind leading the blind.
    * en nuestro país = at home.
    * en todo el país = all around the country, all over the country, from all over the country, across the country.
    * entre países = transfrontier, transborder, transnational, cross-country, cross-national [cross national], cross-border.
    * entre varios países = multi-country [multicountry].
    * Liga de los Países †rabes = League of Arab States.
    * nacido en el país = native-born.
    * natural del país = native-born.
    * OPEC, la [Organización de Países Exportadores de Petróleo] = OPEC [Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries].
    * país anfitrión = host country.
    * país capitalista = capitalist country.
    * país con armas nucleares = nuclear state.
    * país cuya lengua oficial no es el inglés = non-English-speaking country.
    * país de adopción = adopted country.
    * país de Europa del Este = Eastern European country.
    * País de Gales = Wales.
    * país de las maravillas = wonderland.
    * país del Golfo Persa = Arab Gulf country, Gulf country, Arabian Gulf state, Persian Gulf country.
    * país del tercer mundo = third world country.
    * país de origen = country of origin, national origin, home country.
    * país de procedencia = country of origin.
    * país desarrollado = developed country, developed nation, advanced economy, first-world nation.
    * país en vías de desarrollo = developing country, transitional nation, transitional economy, developing nation, emerging economy, developing economy, country with developing economy.
    * países ACP = ACP countries.
    * países árabes = Arab countries.
    * Países Bajos, los = Netherlands, the, Low Countries, the.
    * países balcánicos, los = Balkans, the.
    * países bálticos, los = Baltic countries, the, Baltics, the, Baltic States, the.
    * países de la Comunidad Europea = European Communities.
    * países de la costa del Pacífico = Pacific Rim, the.
    * países en vías de desarrollo, los = developing world, the.
    * países industrializados = industrially developed countries.
    * países miembro de la Comunidad = Community partner.
    * países nórdicos, los = Nordic countries, the.
    * país exportador = exporting country.
    * país extranjero = foreign country, overseas country.
    * país extraño = foreign country.
    * país firmante = signatory country.
    * país industrializado = industrialised country, industrialised nation, industrial nation.
    * país miembro = member country.
    * país miembro de la Comunidad = Community member state.
    * país multicultural = rainbow nation.
    * país natal = back home.
    * país productor de información científica = science producer.
    * país socialista = socialist country.
    * país subdesarrollado = undeveloped country, underdeveloped nation, banana republic, mickey mouse country.
    * país subtropical = subtropical country.
    * país tercermundista = third world country, banana republic, mickey mouse country.
    * país tropical = tropical country.
    * reducción de la cuota de los países endeudados = debt relief.
    * transferencia de información entre países = transborder data flow (TBDF).
    * vender en el extranjero a precios inferiores que en el país de origen = dump.
    * visita con conferencia a varios lugares de un país = lecture tour.

    * * *
    El País (↑ país a1)
    A
    los países miembros the member countries
    2 (ciudadanos) nation
    se dirigió al país he addressed the nation
    el apoyo de todo el país the support of the whole nation o country
    el país de los sueños the land of Nod
    en un país lejano in a distant o faraway land
    ciego2 (↑ ciego (2))
    Compuestos:
    trading nation
    (de una persona) home country, native land; (de un producto) country of origin
    (UE) candidate countries
    (UE) Central and Eastern European Countries
    satellite, satellite nation
    B (de un abanico) covering
    * * *

     

    país sustantivo masculino



    ( de producto) country of origin;

    el Ppaís de Gales Wales;
    el Ppaís Vasco the Basque Country


    país sustantivo masculino country, land: recorrió países lejanos, he travelled around distant lands
    los países tropicales, the tropical countries
    País Valenciano, Valencia
    País Vasco, Basque Country
    Países Bajos, Netherlands pl
    ' país' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    adelantada
    - adelantado
    - añorar
    - atrasada
    - atrasado
    - atraso
    - ciudad
    - Congo
    - contarse
    - damnificada
    - damnificado
    - desarraigar
    - desarrollada
    - desarrollado
    - descomposición
    - desmembrar
    - dominar
    - dominación
    - economía
    - económica
    - económico
    - ETA
    - exilio
    - fantasma
    - feudo
    - Gales
    - hambre
    - militarista
    - moneda
    - natal
    - percance
    - productor
    - productora
    - promover
    - punta
    - puntera
    - puntero
    - refugio
    - regir
    - representar
    - sacudir
    - salir
    - satélite
    - suelo
    - tierra
    - tiniebla
    - Túnez
    - vasca
    - vasco
    - abatir
    English:
    acclaim
    - acknowledge
    - acute
    - administer
    - administration
    - affair
    - alien
    - America
    - authority
    - backward
    - Basque Country
    - betray
    - brain
    - chapter
    - characteristic
    - conception
    - country
    - cripple
    - defect
    - develop
    - developing
    - distant
    - district
    - drain
    - earthquake
    - election
    - embargo
    - envisage
    - envision
    - equality
    - expatriate
    - flag
    - foreign
    - free
    - governor
    - home
    - homegrown
    - institute
    - land
    - mainland
    - map
    - mess
    - miss
    - nationwide
    - norm
    - open up
    - overcrowded
    - overrun
    - point
    - Postmaster General
    * * *
    país (pl países) nm
    1. [nación] country;
    el país votó “no” en el referéndum the country o nation voted “no” in the referendum;
    en el país de los ciegos, el tuerto es rey in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
    los países no alineados the nonaligned countries;
    los Países Bajos the Netherlands;
    los países bálticos the Baltic States;
    países desarrollados developed countries;
    país natal native country, homeland;
    país neutral neutral country;
    país de origen country of origin;
    país de reciente industrialización newly industrialized country;
    país satélite satellite state;
    países subdesarrollados underdeveloped countries;
    el País Valenciano the autonomous region of Valencia;
    el País Vasco the Basque Country;
    países en vías de desarrollo developing countries
    2. [tierra] land;
    en un país muy lejano… in a distant o far-off land…;
    el país de nunca-jamás never-never land
    * * *
    m country;
    país en vías de desarrollo developing country;
    país productor producer country;
    país comunitario EU country;
    los Países Bajos the Netherlands
    * * *
    país nm
    1) nación: country, nation
    2) región: region, territory
    * * *
    país n country [pl. countries]

    Spanish-English dictionary > país

  • 8 Tropengegend

    Tropengegend
    tropical country;
    • Internationales Tropenholzübereinkommen International Tropical Timber Agreement;
    • Tropenklima tropical climate.

    Business german-english dictionary > Tropengegend

  • 9 vaccinate

    ˈvæksɪneɪt гл.;
    мед.
    1) прививать оспу to vaccinate smb. against/with smallpox ≈ прививать оспу
    2) применять вакцину, вакцинировать, делать прививку (against) to vaccinate smb. against a disease ≈ делать прививку против какой-л. болезни If you are travelling to a tropical country, you should be vaccinated against yellow fever. ≈ Если Вы едете в одну из тропических стран, Вам обязательно нужно сделать прививку против желтой лихорадки. человек, которому сделана прививка (медицина) прививать оспу (медицина) делать прививку, применять вакцину, вакцинировать vaccinate мед. прививать оспу (тж. to vaccinate smb. against smallpox) ~ мед. применять вакцину, вакцинировать, делать прививку

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > vaccinate

  • 10 inoculate

    [ɪ'nɔkjuleɪt]
    гл.
    1) мед. делать прививку

    If you are travelling to a tropical country, you ought to be inoculated against yellow fever. — Если ты собираешься в тропическую страну, нужно сделать прививку от жёлтой лихорадки.

    Syn:
    2) бот. прививать (обычно "глазком")
    Syn:
    3) прививать, внушать (идею, представление)

    My teachers inoculated me with their beliefs. — Мои учителя внушили мне свои воззрения.

    4) тех. изменять химический состав расплавленного металла с целью упрочить его микроструктуру

    Англо-русский современный словарь > inoculate

  • 11 vaccinate

    ['væksɪneɪt]
    гл.; мед.
    применять вакцину, вакцинировать, делать прививку

    to vaccinate smb. against a disease — делать прививку против какой-л. болезни

    to vaccinate smb. against / with smallpox — прививать оспу

    If you are travelling to a tropical country, you should be vaccinated against yellow fever. — Если вы едете в тропическую страну, вам обязательно нужно сделать прививку против жёлтой лихорадки.

    Англо-русский современный словарь > vaccinate

  • 12 zona

    f.
    1 zone, area (espacio).
    ¿vives por la zona? do you live around here? (por aquí)
    ésta es la zona de copas de la ciudad this is the center of the city's nightlife
    zona catastrófica disaster area
    zona comercial shopping area
    zona erógena erogenous zone
    zona de exclusión exclusion zone
    zona euro euro zone
    zona de guerra war zone
    zona de libre comercio free-trade zone
    zona peatonal pedestrian precinct
    zona residencial residential area
    zona verde park, green area; (grande) lawn (pequeña)
    2 key.
    3 zona.
    * * *
    1 area
    2 (fronteriza, militar) zone
    1 MEDICINA (herpes) shingles
    \
    zona azul parking meter zone
    zona edificada built-up area
    zona fronteriza border zone
    zona glacial frigid zone
    zona templada temperate zone
    zona tórrida torrid zone
    zona verde green zone
    * * *
    noun f.
    area, district, zone
    * * *
    SF
    1) [en país, región] area

    las zonas más ricas/remotas/deprimidas del país — the richest/remotest/most depressed areas o parts of the country

    la zona norte/sur/este/oeste de la isla — the northern/southern/eastern/western part of the island

    comimos en uno de los restaurantes típicos de la zona — we ate in a restaurant typical of the area, we ate in a typical local restaurant

    • zonas costeras — coastal areas

    • zona montañosa o de montaña — mountainous area, mountainous region

    • zonas rurales — rural areas

    • zonas urbanas — urban areas

    zona de conflicto — (Mil) conflict zone

    zona de libre comercio — free-trade zone, free-trade area

    zona de peligro — danger zone, danger area

    zona fronteriza — [gen] border area; (Mil) border zone

    zona militar — military zone, military area

    zona roja — Esp Republican territory

    2) [en ciudad] area

    zona azul — Esp (Aut) ≈ pay-and-display area

    • zona comercial — [para negocios en general] commercial district; [solo de tiendas] shopping area

    • zona de copas, ¿dónde está la zona de copas? — where do people go out to drink?

    zona marginada — CAm slum area

    zona roja — LAm red-light district

    zona rosa — Méx partly pedestrianized zone, so called because of its pink paving stones

    3) [en edificio, recinto] area

    zona ancha — (Dep) midfield

    zona de castigo — (Dep) sin bin

    zona de penumbra, zona de sombra — (lit) shaded area; (fig) area of secrecy

    zona oscura, las zonas oscuras de la personalidad — the hidden areas of the personality

    las zonas oscuras de la política — the shady o murky areas of politics

    4) (Geog) zone
    5) (Anat, Med) area
    6) (Baloncesto) free-zone lane
    * * *
    1) (área, región) area
    2) ( en baloncesto) free-throw lane, three-second area
    * * *
    = area, zone, bit, radius, area, service area, tract.
    Ex. The area in which standards for bibliographic description have had the most impact is in catalogues and catalogue record data bases.
    Ex. But now the traditional industrial zone is declining and a new 'technopolis' is proposed for the area.
    Ex. The assistant in charge of a section will see that their bit is kept tidy and will keep an eye open for thieves.
    Ex. The fact that the library can only attract people within a relatively small radius means that it has no alternative but to serve whoever lives -- or works -- in that radius.
    Ex. Libraries usually arrange separate areas where current periodicals, maps, government publications, early printed books and manuscripts are housed.
    Ex. The study examined the relative use of different service areas of the library = El estudio analizó al uso relativo de las diferentes zonas de la biblioteca.
    Ex. Protecting the remaining large tracts of tropical forests is not a financially impossible task.
    ----
    * biblioteca de la zona ártica = arctic library.
    * biblioteca de zona rural = rural library.
    * ciencia de las zonas polares = polar science.
    * de la zona de entre mareas = intertidal.
    * dividir en zonas = zone.
    * en la zona de = in the land of.
    * en + Posesivo + zona = in + Posesivo + neck of the woods.
    * ser zona prohibida = be off limits.
    * una zona de = a stretch of.
    * usar sobre la zona afectada = use + topically.
    * zona abierta = open area.
    * zona activa = hot spot.
    * zona alejada = reaches.
    * zona alveolar = alveolar region.
    * zona bélica = war zone.
    * zona béntica, la = benthic zone, the.
    * zona central = midsection [mid-section].
    * zona central de un Lugar = heartland.
    * zona cero = ground zero.
    * zona climática = climatic zone.
    * zona comercial = business district, shopping area, shopping district.
    * zona con aparatos electrónicos = equipment area.
    * zona con césped = grassy area.
    * zona costera = seafront, coastal area.
    * zona de amortiguamiento = buffer zone.
    * zona de aterrizaje = landing site, landing area, landing area.
    * sitio de aterrizaje = landing area.
    * zona de bienestar = comfort zone.
    * zona de captación = catchment area.
    * zona de carga = loading dock, loading bay.
    * zona de columpios y pistas deportivas = playground.
    * zona de comodidad = comfort zone.
    * zona de confort = comfort zone.
    * zona de cultivo del trigo = wheatbelt.
    * zona de descanso = rest area.
    * zona de desempleo = pocket of unemployment.
    * zona de estudio = study area, study facilities.
    * zona de exclusión aérea = no-fly zone.
    * zona de guerra = war zone.
    * zona del centro = midsection [mid-section].
    * zona del euro, la = euro zone, the, euro zone, the, euro area, the.
    * zona del interior = hinterland.
    * zona de los tres estados = tristate area.
    * zona de no fumadores = non-smoking area.
    * zona de ocio = leisure facilities.
    * zona de ocupación = zone of occupation, occupation zone.
    * zona de pasto = feeding ground, grazing area.
    * zona deprimida del centro de la ciudad = inner city.
    * zona de producción de trigo = wheatbelt.
    * zona de recogida de lo sobrante = overflow area.
    * zona de recreo = playground.
    * zona desnuclearizada = nuclear-free zone, nuclear-free.
    * zona despejada = open area.
    * zona de transición = buffer zone.
    * zona dolorida = sore point, sore spot.
    * zona entre mareas = intertidal zone.
    * zona geográfica = geographical area.
    * zona gris = grey area [gray area].
    * zona habitable = living area.
    * zona húmeda = wetland.
    * zona industrial = industrial area.
    * zona interior despoblada = backcountry.
    * zona junto a la playa = beachfront.
    * zona libre de humo = smoke-free zone, smoke-free area.
    * zona limítrofe = fringe area.
    * zona marginada = deprived area.
    * zona menos favorecida = less favoured area.
    * zona neutral = buffer zone.
    * zona pantanosa = marshland, marsh, marshy area, fen.
    * zona para casas móviles = mobile home park, trailer park.
    * zona para sentarse = seating area.
    * zona peligrosa = no-go area.
    * zona penumbrosa = twilight zone.
    * zona problemática = problem area.
    * zona prohibida = no-go area.
    * zona protegida = safe haven, safe harbour, protected area.
    * zona pública = public area.
    * zona residencial = residential area, suburban area, estate.
    * zona rural = country, rural area, hinterland, countryside, rural region.
    * zona sin cultivar = wildland.
    * zonas inhabitadas del interior = back country.
    * zonas más alejadas = outlying areas.
    * zonas salvajes del interior = back country.
    * zona suburbana = suburban area.
    * zona tampón = buffer zone.
    * zona tectónica = fault zone.
    * zona templada, la = temperate zone, the.
    * zona tórrida, la = torrid zone, the.
    * zona urbana = urban area.
    * zona verde = parkland area, grassy area.
    * * *
    1) (área, región) area
    2) ( en baloncesto) free-throw lane, three-second area
    * * *
    = area, zone, bit, radius, area, service area, tract.

    Ex: The area in which standards for bibliographic description have had the most impact is in catalogues and catalogue record data bases.

    Ex: But now the traditional industrial zone is declining and a new 'technopolis' is proposed for the area.
    Ex: The assistant in charge of a section will see that their bit is kept tidy and will keep an eye open for thieves.
    Ex: The fact that the library can only attract people within a relatively small radius means that it has no alternative but to serve whoever lives -- or works -- in that radius.
    Ex: Libraries usually arrange separate areas where current periodicals, maps, government publications, early printed books and manuscripts are housed.
    Ex: The study examined the relative use of different service areas of the library = El estudio analizó al uso relativo de las diferentes zonas de la biblioteca.
    Ex: Protecting the remaining large tracts of tropical forests is not a financially impossible task.
    * biblioteca de la zona ártica = arctic library.
    * biblioteca de zona rural = rural library.
    * ciencia de las zonas polares = polar science.
    * de la zona de entre mareas = intertidal.
    * dividir en zonas = zone.
    * en la zona de = in the land of.
    * en + Posesivo + zona = in + Posesivo + neck of the woods.
    * ser zona prohibida = be off limits.
    * una zona de = a stretch of.
    * usar sobre la zona afectada = use + topically.
    * zona abierta = open area.
    * zona activa = hot spot.
    * zona alejada = reaches.
    * zona alveolar = alveolar region.
    * zona bélica = war zone.
    * zona béntica, la = benthic zone, the.
    * zona central = midsection [mid-section].
    * zona central de un Lugar = heartland.
    * zona cero = ground zero.
    * zona climática = climatic zone.
    * zona comercial = business district, shopping area, shopping district.
    * zona con aparatos electrónicos = equipment area.
    * zona con césped = grassy area.
    * zona costera = seafront, coastal area.
    * zona de amortiguamiento = buffer zone.
    * zona de aterrizaje = landing site, landing area, landing area.
    * sitio de aterrizaje = landing area.
    * zona de bienestar = comfort zone.
    * zona de captación = catchment area.
    * zona de carga = loading dock, loading bay.
    * zona de columpios y pistas deportivas = playground.
    * zona de comodidad = comfort zone.
    * zona de confort = comfort zone.
    * zona de cultivo del trigo = wheatbelt.
    * zona de descanso = rest area.
    * zona de desempleo = pocket of unemployment.
    * zona de estudio = study area, study facilities.
    * zona de exclusión aérea = no-fly zone.
    * zona de guerra = war zone.
    * zona del centro = midsection [mid-section].
    * zona del euro, la = euro zone, the, euro zone, the, euro area, the.
    * zona del interior = hinterland.
    * zona de los tres estados = tristate area.
    * zona de no fumadores = non-smoking area.
    * zona de ocio = leisure facilities.
    * zona de ocupación = zone of occupation, occupation zone.
    * zona de pasto = feeding ground, grazing area.
    * zona deprimida del centro de la ciudad = inner city.
    * zona de producción de trigo = wheatbelt.
    * zona de recogida de lo sobrante = overflow area.
    * zona de recreo = playground.
    * zona desnuclearizada = nuclear-free zone, nuclear-free.
    * zona despejada = open area.
    * zona de transición = buffer zone.
    * zona dolorida = sore point, sore spot.
    * zona entre mareas = intertidal zone.
    * zona geográfica = geographical area.
    * zona gris = grey area [gray area].
    * zona habitable = living area.
    * zona húmeda = wetland.
    * zona industrial = industrial area.
    * zona interior despoblada = backcountry.
    * zona junto a la playa = beachfront.
    * zona libre de humo = smoke-free zone, smoke-free area.
    * zona limítrofe = fringe area.
    * zona marginada = deprived area.
    * zona menos favorecida = less favoured area.
    * zona neutral = buffer zone.
    * zona pantanosa = marshland, marsh, marshy area, fen.
    * zona para casas móviles = mobile home park, trailer park.
    * zona para sentarse = seating area.
    * zona peligrosa = no-go area.
    * zona penumbrosa = twilight zone.
    * zona problemática = problem area.
    * zona prohibida = no-go area.
    * zona protegida = safe haven, safe harbour, protected area.
    * zona pública = public area.
    * zona residencial = residential area, suburban area, estate.
    * zona rural = country, rural area, hinterland, countryside, rural region.
    * zona sin cultivar = wildland.
    * zonas inhabitadas del interior = back country.
    * zonas más alejadas = outlying areas.
    * zonas salvajes del interior = back country.
    * zona suburbana = suburban area.
    * zona tampón = buffer zone.
    * zona tectónica = fault zone.
    * zona templada, la = temperate zone, the.
    * zona tórrida, la = torrid zone, the.
    * zona urbana = urban area.
    * zona verde = parkland area, grassy area.

    * * *
    A (área, región) area
    ¿por qué zona viven? what area do they live in?
    en la zona fronteriza in the border area o zone
    zonas montañosas mountainous areas o regions
    por esa zona no hay servicio de autobuses there is no bus service in that area
    fue declarada zona neutral it was declared a neutral zone
    zona de influencia sphere of influence
    [ S ] zona de carga y descarga loading and unloading only
    Compuestos:
    ( Esp) limited-time parking zone, pay-and-display area ( BrE)
    disaster area
    ground zero
    commercial district, business quarter o area
    penalty area
    combat zone o area
    crisis zone
    boarding area
    ( Esp) area of new development
    line of scrimmage
    exclusion zone
    no-fly zone
    war zone
    war zone
    free-trade zone
    maximum security zone o area
    danger area o zone
    test site, testing ground
    departure lounge o area
    nuclear-free zone o area
    red-light district
    erogenous zone
    eurozone
    duty-free zone
    industrial park, industrial estate ( BrE)
    military zone o area
    ( Esp) ( Hist) Nationalist-held territory
    nuclear-free zone o area
    buffer zone
    pedestrian precinct o zone o area
    ( AmL) (zona de prostitución) red-light district; ( Esp fam) (durante la guerra civil) Republican-held territory
    ( Telec) dead zone
    buffer zone
    temperate zone o region
    tropical zone o region
    park, green space
    B (en baloncesto) free-throw lane, three-second area
    * * *

     

    zona sustantivo femenino
    1 (área, región) area;


    ( on signs) zona de carga y descarga loading and unloading only;

    zona de castigo penalty area;
    zona industrial industrial park;
    zona peatonal pedestrian precinct;
    zona roja (AmL) ( zona de prostitución) red-light district;
    zona verde park, green space;
    zona cero ( en Nueva York) ground zero
    2 ( en baloncesto) free-throw lane, three-second area
    zona sustantivo femenino
    1 zone
    2 (de un territorio, gran extensión) area, region
    zona de obras, work area
    zona de operaciones, operational zone
    zona militar, military zone
    zona verde, park, green space
    3 Dep zone
    ' zona' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acampada
    - antinuclear
    - arrasar
    - barrio
    - cabaña
    - ciudad
    - comisionada
    - comisionado
    - concurrida
    - concurrido
    - construcción
    - contingente
    - deprimida
    - deprimido
    - desalojar
    - este
    - expolio
    - franca
    - franco
    - francófona
    - francófono
    - glacial
    - huerta
    - milimétrica
    - milimétrico
    - oasis
    - pacificar
    - peinar
    - peinada
    - peinado
    - rastrear
    - rastreo
    - riego
    - sombra
    - teatro
    - urbanización
    - vecindario
    - vinícola
    - apartado
    - azucarero
    - bajío
    - cabezón
    - campo
    - carga
    - cargue
    - combate
    - comercial
    - concreto
    - conflictivo
    - desértico
    English:
    area
    - belt
    - busing
    - clearance
    - coastal
    - compound
    - country
    - danger area
    - decline
    - demonstrate
    - disaster area
    - enclose
    - enclosure
    - enter
    - grey area
    - industrial area
    - local
    - pedestrianize
    - precinct
    - scour
    - seal off
    - smokeless zone
    - stricken
    - testing ground
    - unemployment
    - waterfront
    - well-known
    - zone
    - area code
    - around
    - canvass
    - catchment area
    - district
    - diverse
    - division
    - extreme
    - -free
    - green
    - ground
    - high
    - incoming
    - industrial
    - inner
    - locally
    - neighborhood
    - no-fly zone
    - off
    - out
    - pedestrian
    - red
    * * *
    zona nf
    1. [espacio, área] zone, area;
    una zona montañosa/turística a mountainous/tourist area;
    la zona norte/sur de la isla the northern/southern part of the island;
    en las zonas más aisladas/pobres in the most remote/poorest areas;
    ¿vives por la zona? [por aquí] do you live around here?;
    ésta es la zona de copas de la ciudad this is the centre of the city's nightlife
    zona azul [de estacionamiento] restricted parking zone;
    zona de carga y descarga loading bay o US zone;
    zona catastrófica disaster area;
    zona centro Br city centre, US downtown;
    zona cero [en Nueva York] ground zero;
    zona climática climatic zone;
    zona comercial shopping area;
    zona conflictiva trouble spot;
    zona de conflicto [en guerra] war zone, battle zone;
    zona edificada built-up area;
    zona erógena erogenous zone;
    zona euro euro zone;
    zona de exclusión exclusion zone;
    Com zona franca free-trade zone;
    zona de no fumadores no-smoking area;
    zona glacial glacial region;
    zona de guerra war zone;
    zona húmeda wetland area;
    zona intermareal intertidal zone;
    Meteo zona de inversión thermal o temperature inversion zone;
    zona de libre comercio free-trade zone;
    zona de marca [en rugby] in-goal area;
    zona militar military area o zone;
    Esp zona nacional [en la guerra] = the area controlled by Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War;
    zona peatonal pedestrian area o precinct;
    zona protegida [natural] conservation area;
    zona residencial residential area;
    zona roja Esp [en la guerra] = term used by Nationalists to refer to Republican-controlled areas during the Spanish Civil War;
    Am [de prostitución] red-light district;
    Zona Rosa [en México DF] = elegant tourist and shopping area in Mexico City;
    zona de seguridad [entre países] buffer zone;
    zona templada temperate zone;
    Am Anticuado zona de tolerancia red-light district;
    zona tórrida tropics, Espec torrid zone;
    zona de urgente reindustrialización = region given priority status for industrial investment, Br ≈ enterprise zone;
    zona verde [grande] park, green area;
    [pequeña] lawn
    2. [en baloncesto] [área] key
    3. [en baloncesto] [violación] three-seconds violation
    * * *
    f
    1 area, zone
    2 en baloncesto: parte del campo key; violación three-seconds violation
    * * *
    zona nf
    : zone, district, area
    * * *
    zona n
    1. (área) area
    2. (militar, geográfica) zone

    Spanish-English dictionary > zona

  • 13 region

    ['ri:‹ən]
    (a part of a country, the world etc: Do you know this region well?; in tropical regions.) region
    - regionally
    - in the region of
    * * *
    ['ri:‹ən]
    (a part of a country, the world etc: Do you know this region well?; in tropical regions.) region
    - regionally
    - in the region of

    English-Danish dictionary > region

  • 14 zone

    [zəun]
    1) (an area or region, usually of a country, town etc, especially one marked off for a special purpose: a no-parking zone; a traffic-free zone.) område; -område; zone; -zone
    2) (any of the five bands into which the earth's surface is divided according to temperature: The tropical zone is the area between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer.) bælte
    * * *
    [zəun]
    1) (an area or region, usually of a country, town etc, especially one marked off for a special purpose: a no-parking zone; a traffic-free zone.) område; -område; zone; -zone
    2) (any of the five bands into which the earth's surface is divided according to temperature: The tropical zone is the area between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer.) bælte

    English-Danish dictionary > zone

  • 15 color

    m.
    1 color (que se ve).
    ¿de qué color? what color?
    es de color azul it's blue
    a todo color in full color
    de colores colorful
    televisión en color color television
    colores complementarios complementary colors
    color primario primary color
    2 tone (aspecto).
    no tienes muy buen color you look a bit off-color
    3 paint.
    4 suit.
    5 color (raza).
    sin distinción de credo ni color regardless of creed or color
    * * *
    1 colour (US color)
    ► nombre masculino & nombre femenino
    1 (del rostro) colour (US color), complexion
    1 (bandera) colours (US colors), flag sing; (equipo) team sing
    \
    dar color (colorear) to colour (US color) 2 figurado to liven up
    de color (en color) in colour (US color), coloured (US colored) 2 (persona) coloured (US colored)
    en color / en colores (cine, foto) in colour (US color)
    coger color (cebolla) to turn brown 2 (hojas etc) to turn yellow, turn brown
    no haber color to be no comparison
    ■ entre tu coche y el mío no hay color, porque el mío es mucho mejor your car isn't a patch on mine
    sacarle a alguien los colores familiar to make somebody blush
    subido,-a de color figurado risqué
    tener color to be lively
    verlo todo de color de rosa figurado to see life through rose-coloured (US rose-colored) spectacles
    color local figurado local colour (US color)
    color sólido fast colour (US color)
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    [a veces] SF
    1) (=coloración) colour, color (EEUU)

    ¿de qué color es? — what colour is it?

    ¿de qué color tiene los ojos? — what colour are her eyes?, what colour eyes does she have?

    • a color — colour antes de s, color antes de s (EEUU)

    • dar color a algo — to colour sth in

    • de color, ropa de color — coloured o (EEUU) colored clothes

    • en color — colour antes de s

    • tomar o coger color, esa tela no ha tomado o cogido bien el color — that material has not dyed at all well

    el proyecto empieza a tomar o coger color — the project is starting to take shape

    2) [de la cara] colour, color (EEUU)
    3) (=raza) colour, color (EEUU)
    4) (=tipismo)
    5)

    de color de rosa —

    - no hay color
    6) pl colores (tb: lápices de colores) coloured pencils, crayons
    7) pl colores (Dep) colours
    8) (=cosmético) blusher, rouge
    9) (=interés) colour
    10) ††
    * * *
    1)
    a) color*

    ¿de qué color es? — what color is it?

    un sombrero de un color oscuro/claro — a dark/light hat

    las banderitas de color amarillo/verde — the yellow/green flags

    globos de todos los colores or (CS, Méx) de todos colores — balloons of all different colors

    televisión en colores or (Esp) en color or (Andes, Méx) a color — color television

    fotos en colores or (Esp) en color — color photos

    dar color a algo — to add color* to something

    color de hormiga — (AmL)

    no hay color — (Esp) there's no comparison

    ponerse de mil colores or de todos los colores — to blush to the roots of one's hair

    subido de color — ( chiste) risqué

    subírsele el color or los colores a alguien — ( por esfuerzo) to flush, become flushed; ( por vergüenza) to blush, turn red, go red (BrE)

    b)

    tomar or (esp AmL) agarrar or (esp Esp) coger color — pollo to brown; cebolla frita/pastel to turn golden-brown; fruta to ripen; piel to become tanned

    c) ( tintura) color*, dye
    d) colores masculino plural ( lápices) colored* pencils (pl), crayons (pl)
    e) colores masculino plural ( señal distintiva) colors* (pl)

    correr con colores propios — (Chi, Ven) to act on one's own initiative

    2) ( raza) color*

    una chica de color — (euf) a colored girl (dated)

    3) (colorido de relato, de fiesta) color*
    4) ( cúrcuma) turmeric
    * * *
    = colour [color, -USA], hue.
    Ex. This indicated whether a work is illustrated, whether the illustrations are coloured o black and white, and the type of illustrations to be found in the work, for example maps.
    Ex. The store was gutted and rebuilt, according to his specifications, into a beautiful, modern facility, decorated in vibrant hues and furnished with the latest Herman Miller offerings.
    ----
    * a color = multi-colour [multi-color -USA].
    * a todo color = full-colour, in full colour.
    * barras de color = colour bar.
    * carta de barras de color = colour bar.
    * codificación mediante colores = colour coding.
    * color caoba = bole colour.
    * color ciruela = plum-coloured.
    * colores distintivos = livery.
    * color hueso = off-white.
    * color primario = primary colour, true colour.
    * color puro = true colour.
    * color que se corre = running colour.
    * color secundario = secondary colour.
    * color verde = green.
    * combinación de colores = colour pattern, colour scheme.
    * de color = coloured [colored, -USA], non-white [nonwhite], full-colour, in colour.
    * de color crema = creamy [creamier -comp., creamiest -sup.], cream-coloured.
    * de color de bronce = brassy.
    * de colores = full-colour, multi-colour [multi-color -USA].
    * de colores vivos = colourful [colorful, -USA].
    * de color marroncillo = brownish tinged.
    * de color rojo = red-coloured.
    * de color rosa = rose-coloured.
    * de color verde botella = bottle green.
    * de color verde oscuro = bottle green.
    * de color y textura parecidos al carbón = carbonaceous.
    * de todos los colores = of all stripes, a rainbow of.
    * de varios colores = multi-coloured [multicoloured], multi-colour [multi-color -USA].
    * diferenciación mediante colores = colour coding.
    * diferenciado con colores = colour-coded.
    * discusiones sobre gustos y colores = flame war.
    * en color = coloured [colored, -USA], full-colour.
    * fijar un color = fix + colour.
    * gama de colores = colour space, palette, palette of colours.
    * gente de color = coloured people.
    * hacer que un color no se corra = fix + colour.
    * hombre de color = coloured man.
    * ilustración en color = coloured illustration.
    * imagen en color = colour image.
    * impresión a color = colour printing.
    * indicado con colores = colour-coded.
    * juego de colores = colour scheme.
    * marcado con colores = colour-coded.
    * menú de colores = palette menu, palette, palette of colours.
    * mujer de color = coloured woman.
    * multicolor = rainbow.
    * paleta de colores = palette, palette of colours.
    * papel de colores = coloured paper.
    * parcheado de colores = dappled.
    * perder el color = fade.
    * persona de color = non-white [nonwhite], coloured man, coloured woman, coloured [colored, -USA].
    * personas de color = coloured people.
    * pez de colores = goldfish, tropical fish.
    * piedra litográfica de color = colour stone.
    * ponerse de mil colores = go + bright red.
    * ropa de color = coloureds [coloreds, -USA].
    * salpicado de colores = dappled.
    * según el color del cristal con que se mire = in the eye of the beholder.
    * seleccionar en pantalla usando el contraste de colores = highlight.
    * sistema de televisión en color = colour system.
    * subírsele los colores = go + bright red.
    * tabla de colores = palette, palette of colours.
    * variedad de colores = variegation.
    * * *
    1)
    a) color*

    ¿de qué color es? — what color is it?

    un sombrero de un color oscuro/claro — a dark/light hat

    las banderitas de color amarillo/verde — the yellow/green flags

    globos de todos los colores or (CS, Méx) de todos colores — balloons of all different colors

    televisión en colores or (Esp) en color or (Andes, Méx) a color — color television

    fotos en colores or (Esp) en color — color photos

    dar color a algo — to add color* to something

    color de hormiga — (AmL)

    no hay color — (Esp) there's no comparison

    ponerse de mil colores or de todos los colores — to blush to the roots of one's hair

    subido de color — ( chiste) risqué

    subírsele el color or los colores a alguien — ( por esfuerzo) to flush, become flushed; ( por vergüenza) to blush, turn red, go red (BrE)

    b)

    tomar or (esp AmL) agarrar or (esp Esp) coger color — pollo to brown; cebolla frita/pastel to turn golden-brown; fruta to ripen; piel to become tanned

    c) ( tintura) color*, dye
    d) colores masculino plural ( lápices) colored* pencils (pl), crayons (pl)
    e) colores masculino plural ( señal distintiva) colors* (pl)

    correr con colores propios — (Chi, Ven) to act on one's own initiative

    2) ( raza) color*

    una chica de color — (euf) a colored girl (dated)

    3) (colorido de relato, de fiesta) color*
    4) ( cúrcuma) turmeric
    * * *
    = colour [color, -USA], hue.

    Ex: This indicated whether a work is illustrated, whether the illustrations are coloured o black and white, and the type of illustrations to be found in the work, for example maps.

    Ex: The store was gutted and rebuilt, according to his specifications, into a beautiful, modern facility, decorated in vibrant hues and furnished with the latest Herman Miller offerings.
    * a color = multi-colour [multi-color -USA].
    * a todo color = full-colour, in full colour.
    * barras de color = colour bar.
    * carta de barras de color = colour bar.
    * codificación mediante colores = colour coding.
    * color caoba = bole colour.
    * color ciruela = plum-coloured.
    * colores distintivos = livery.
    * color hueso = off-white.
    * color primario = primary colour, true colour.
    * color puro = true colour.
    * color que se corre = running colour.
    * color secundario = secondary colour.
    * color verde = green.
    * combinación de colores = colour pattern, colour scheme.
    * de color = coloured [colored, -USA], non-white [nonwhite], full-colour, in colour.
    * de color crema = creamy [creamier -comp., creamiest -sup.], cream-coloured.
    * de color de bronce = brassy.
    * de colores = full-colour, multi-colour [multi-color -USA].
    * de colores vivos = colourful [colorful, -USA].
    * de color marroncillo = brownish tinged.
    * de color rojo = red-coloured.
    * de color rosa = rose-coloured.
    * de color verde botella = bottle green.
    * de color verde oscuro = bottle green.
    * de color y textura parecidos al carbón = carbonaceous.
    * de todos los colores = of all stripes, a rainbow of.
    * de varios colores = multi-coloured [multicoloured], multi-colour [multi-color -USA].
    * diferenciación mediante colores = colour coding.
    * diferenciado con colores = colour-coded.
    * discusiones sobre gustos y colores = flame war.
    * en color = coloured [colored, -USA], full-colour.
    * fijar un color = fix + colour.
    * gama de colores = colour space, palette, palette of colours.
    * gente de color = coloured people.
    * hacer que un color no se corra = fix + colour.
    * hombre de color = coloured man.
    * ilustración en color = coloured illustration.
    * imagen en color = colour image.
    * impresión a color = colour printing.
    * indicado con colores = colour-coded.
    * juego de colores = colour scheme.
    * marcado con colores = colour-coded.
    * menú de colores = palette menu, palette, palette of colours.
    * mujer de color = coloured woman.
    * multicolor = rainbow.
    * paleta de colores = palette, palette of colours.
    * papel de colores = coloured paper.
    * parcheado de colores = dappled.
    * perder el color = fade.
    * persona de color = non-white [nonwhite], coloured man, coloured woman, coloured [colored, -USA].
    * personas de color = coloured people.
    * pez de colores = goldfish, tropical fish.
    * piedra litográfica de color = colour stone.
    * ponerse de mil colores = go + bright red.
    * ropa de color = coloureds [coloreds, -USA].
    * salpicado de colores = dappled.
    * según el color del cristal con que se mire = in the eye of the beholder.
    * seleccionar en pantalla usando el contraste de colores = highlight.
    * sistema de televisión en color = colour system.
    * subírsele los colores = go + bright red.
    * tabla de colores = palette, palette of colours.
    * variedad de colores = variegation.

    * * *
    A
    1 color*
    ¿de qué color vas a pintar la puerta? what color are you going to paint the door?
    ha cambiado de color it has changed color
    ¿de qué color es? what color is it?
    colores fríos/cálidos/vivos/apagados cold/warm/bright/subdued colors
    un sombrero de un color oscuro/claro a dark/light hat
    colores pastel pastel colors o shades
    las banderitas de color amarillo/verde the yellow/green flags
    una blusa (de) color carne/salmón a flesh-colored/salmon blouse
    es del color de la sangre/del trigo maduro it is blood red/the color of ripened wheat
    ilustraciones a todo color full color illustrations
    dejó el luto y empezó a comprarse ropa de color she came out of mourning and began buying clothes in different colors
    no lo laves con la ropa de color don't wash it with the colored things o coloreds
    una chica de color ( euf); a colored girl ( dated)
    lápices/cintas de colores colored pencils/ribbons
    había globos de todos los colores or (CS) de todos colores there were balloons of all different colors
    un globo de todos los colores or (CS) de todos colores a multicolored balloon
    fotos en colores or ( Esp) en color color photos
    película en colores or ( Esp) en color color film, film for color photos
    televisión en colores or ( Esp) en color or ( Andes) a color color television
    pintó la situación con colores trágicos she painted a very tragic picture of the situation
    color de hormiga ( AmL): la cosa se puso color de hormiga things started looking pretty grim o black
    correr con colores propios (Chi, Ven); to act alone o off one's own bat o on one's own initiative
    ponerse de mil colores or de todos los colores to blush to the roots of one's hair, turn o ( BrE) go bright red
    subir de color «discusión» to become o get heated
    subírsele el color or los colores a algn (por un esfuerzo) to flush, become flushed; (por vergüenza) to blush, turn red, go red ( BrE)
    rosa2 (↑ rosa (2))
    2
    tomar or ( esp AmL) agarrar or ( esp Esp) coger color «pollo» to brown;
    «cebolla frita/pastel» to turn golden-brown; «fruta» to ripen, turn red ( o yellow etc); «piel» to become tanned
    3 (pintura) color*; (tintura) color*, dye
    mezcló los colores en la paleta he mixed the colors on his palette
    las telas sintéticas no agarran or ( Esp) cogen bien el color synthetic fabrics do not dye well o take dye well
    4 colores mpl (lápices) colored* pencils (pl), crayons (pl)
    los colores nacionales the national colors
    vistió los colores nacionales por primera vez en 1990 he first represented his country in 1990, he first played ( o ran etc) for his country o for the national team in 1990
    Compuestos:
    complementary color*
    ● color fundamental or primario
    primary color*
    secondary color*
    B (raza) color*
    sin distinción de credo ni color regardless of creed or color
    C (colorido — de un relato) color*; (— de una fiesta) color*
    una celebración de gran color local a celebration full of local color
    D (cúrcuma) turmeric
    E
    1
    ( Ven fam) (tamaño): se le pusieron los ojos de este color his eyes popped out of his head ( colloq)
    tiene las manos de este color he has hands this big ( colloq)
    2 ( Ven fam) (expresión de cariño) honey ( AmE colloq), darling ( BrE colloq)
    (Chi, Ven fam)
    comerle la color a algn to be unfaithful to sb, cheat on sb ( colloq)
    * * *

     

    color sustantivo masculino
    a) color( conjugate color);

    ◊ ¿de qué color es? what color is it?;

    cambiar de color to change color;
    un sombrero de un color oscuro/claro a dark/light hat;
    las de color amarillo the yellow ones;
    ilustraciones a todo color full color illustrations;
    cintas de colores colored ribbons;
    fotos en colores or (Esp) en color color photos;
    sin distinción de credo ni color regardless of creed or color;
    una chica de color (euf) a colored girl (dated);
    tomar color [ pollo] to brown;

    [cebolla frita/pastel] to turn golden-brown;
    [ fruta] to ripen;
    [ piel] to become tanned;
    ◊ ponerse color de hormiga (AmL) to start looking pretty grim;

    subido de color ( chiste) risqué
    b)

    ◊ colores sustantivo masculino plural ( lápices) colored( conjugate colored) pencils (pl), crayons (pl)

    color sustantivo masculino
    1 colour, US color
    2 frml euf persona de color, coloured person
    ♦ Locuciones: a todo color, full- colour
    de colores, multicoloured
    de color de rosa, in glowing colours
    en color, in colour
    no hay color, there's no comparison
    ' color' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    A
    - a.m.
    - abajeña
    - abajeño
    - abajo
    - abalanzarse
    - abalorio
    - abanderar
    - abanderada
    - abanderado
    - abandonar
    - abandonada
    - abandonado
    - abandonarse
    - abandono
    - abanicar
    - abanicarse
    - abanico
    - abarcar
    - abaratar
    - abarquillada
    - abarquillado
    - abarquillar
    - abarquillarse
    - abarrotar
    - abarrotada
    - abarrotado
    - abarrotería
    - abastecer
    - abastecerse
    - abatir
    - abate
    - abatible
    - abatida
    - abatido
    - abatimiento
    - abatirse
    - abdicar
    - abdomen
    - abdominal
    - abecé
    - aberración
    - aberrante
    - abertura
    - abierta
    - abierto
    - abigarrada
    - abigarrado
    - abigarrar
    - abismal
    English:
    A
    - AA
    - aback
    - abandon
    - abandoned
    - abate
    - abbey
    - abbot
    - abbreviate
    - abbreviation
    - ABC
    - abdicate
    - abdication
    - abdomen
    - abduct
    - aberration
    - abhor
    - abide by
    - abiding
    - ability
    - abject
    - ablaze
    - able
    - abnormal
    - abnormally
    - aboard
    - abolish
    - abolition
    - abominable
    - aborigine
    - abort
    - about
    - above
    - above-board
    - above-mentioned
    - abrasive
    - abreast
    - abroad
    - abrupt
    - abruptly
    - absence
    - absent
    - absent-minded
    - absent-mindedly
    - absentee
    - absently
    - absolute
    - absolutely
    - absolve
    - absorb
    * * *
    color nm
    1. [que se ve] colour;
    lápices de colores coloured pencils;
    un vestido de colores a colourful o brightly coloured dress;
    ¿de qué color? what colour?;
    color azul blue;
    es de color azul it's blue;
    pintó las sillas de color verde she painted the chairs green;
    a todo color in full colour;
    nos dieron un folleto con fotos a todo color they gave us a full-colour brochure;
    ha agarrado un color muy bueno durante sus vacaciones she got a nice tan on her Br holiday o US vacation;
    cambiar o [m5] mudar de color to change colour;
    Fig [palidecer] to turn pale; Fig [sonrojarse] to blush;
    dar color a algo to colour sth in;
    Fig to brighten o liven sth up;
    de color [persona] coloured;
    voy a hacer una colada con ropa de color I'm going to wash the coloureds;
    fotos en color colour photos;
    televisión en color colour television;
    deja el pollo en el horno hasta que comience a tomar color leave the chicken in the oven until it starts to brown
    Imprenta color aditivo additive colour;
    colores complementarios complementary colours;
    Imprenta color directo spot colour; Imprenta color plano spot colour;
    color primario primary colour;
    color sólido fast colour
    2. [para pintar] paint;
    colores [lápices] coloured pencils;
    le gusta darse un poco de color en la cara antes de salir she likes to put a bit of colour o rouge on her cheeks before going out
    3. [aspecto] tone;
    no tienes muy buen color you look a bit off-colour;
    la situación adquirió un color trágico the situation took on tragic overtones
    4. [ideología]
    se le nota su color político you can tell his political persuasion;
    la televisión pública tiene un claro color gubernamental the state-run television channels are clearly biased in favour of the government
    5. [raza] colour;
    sin distinción de credo ni color regardless of creed or colour
    6. [animación] colour;
    las fiestas de mi pueblo han ido perdiendo color the festivals in my home town have lost a lot of their colour;
    el carnaval es una fiesta llena de color carnival is a colourful festival
    color local local colour
    7. [en los naipes] suit
    8. [bandera, camiseta]
    los colores nacionales the national colours;
    defender los colores del Académico [el equipo] to play for Académico;
    el equipo defendió con orgullo sus colores the players showed great pride in fighting for their team
    9. Formal [pretexto]
    so color de under the pretext of
    10. Comp
    Esp
    no hay color it's no contest;
    entre tu modelo y el mío, no hay color there's no comparison between my model and yours;
    Fam
    ponerse de mil colores: le descubrieron copiando y se puso de mil colores she went bright red o as red as a beetroot when they caught her copying;
    subido de color [chiste etc] risqué, esp US off-colour;
    ver las cosas de color de rosa to see things through rose-coloured o rose-tinted spectacles
    * * *
    m color, Br
    colour;
    de color black, colored, Br coloured;
    sacarle a alguien los colores embarrass s.o., make s.o. blush;
    se puso de mil colores he turned bright red;
    subido de color risqué;
    cambiar de color fig change color, go pale
    * * *
    color nm
    1) : color
    2) : paint, dye
    3) colores nmpl
    : colored pencils
    * * *
    1. (en general) colour
    ¿de qué color es el coche de tu madre? what colour is your mother's car?
    2. (lápiz) coloured pencil / crayon

    Spanish-English dictionary > color

  • 16 extensión

    f.
    1 extension, addition to a building, annex, annex of a building.
    2 area, spread, acreage, area of land.
    3 extension, telephone extension.
    4 extension, appendage.
    5 extension, extension of the alloted time, extra time, renewal.
    6 extension, electrical extension.
    7 extension, elongation, splaying, spreading.
    8 extent, size.
    9 expanse, breadth, sphere of activity, scope.
    * * *
    1 (gen) extension
    2 (dimensión) extent, size; (superficie) area, expanse
    3 (duración) duration, length
    4 (de un escrito, discurso) length
    5 MÚSICA range
    \
    en toda la extensión de la palabra in every sense of the word
    por extensión by extension
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=superficie) area
    2) (=duración) length
    3) (=amplitud) [de conocimientos] extent, range; [de programa] scope; [de significado] range

    esto nos afecta a nosotros y, por extensión, a todo el país — this affects us and, by extension, the whole country

    4) (=ampliación) [de incendio] spread; [de plazo] extension
    5) [de cable, cuerda] extension
    6) (Telec) extension

    ¿puede ponerme con la extensión 14? — can I have extension 14, please?, can you put me through to extension 14, please?

    7) (Mús) [de instrumento, voz] range, compass
    8) [en instituciones]
    * * *
    1)
    b) ( longitud) length

    la extensión de la novela/carretera — the length of the novel/road

    2) (grado, importancia) extent
    3) ( acción) extension
    4) ( de cable) extension lead; ( línea telefónica) extension
    * * *
    = extension, extension, extent of item, length, expansion, massiveness, great length, widening, tract.
    Ex. Searches saved ondisc are saved as disk files and are given the file name extension.SRC.
    Ex. These can be seen as extensions of the supportive role provided by Neighbourhood Advice Centres to community groups.
    Ex. The first element of the physical description area is the extent of item and it gives the number and the specific material designation of the units of the item being described and, in some cases, other indications of the extent (e.g. duration).
    Ex. A working guide is to seek to make any abstract as informative as possible within the constraints of time, length and audience.
    Ex. This is not a simple general expansion of a description but an increasing emphasis upon aspects of the book.
    Ex. With praise for the completeness and the massiveness of the project is mixed a lack of confidence in the method of arrangement and the accuracy with which some of the entries are compiled.
    Ex. Nor has this richness, this density, necessarily to do with complexity and great length.
    Ex. Despite growth in export volume in recent years, there has been a widening of the national current account deficit from 8.8% to over 20%.
    Ex. Protecting the remaining large tracts of tropical forests is not a financially impossible task.
    ----
    * actividad de extensión bibliotecaria = outreach activity.
    * aplicar por extensión = extend.
    * con la extensión de un libro = book-length.
    * con una extensión similar a la de un libro = book-length.
    * de extensión = in length.
    * de extensión normal = standard-length.
    * de la extensión de un libro = book-length.
    * en extensión = in length.
    * extensión agraria = agricultural extension.
    * extensión bibliotecaria = extension activity, outreach [out-reach], library outreach.
    * extensión de = mass of.
    * extensión de la cultura = cultural outreach.
    * extensión del nombre del fichero = file name extension.
    * extensión de página = page length.
    * gestión de grandes extensiones para la cría de ganado = range management.
    * gran extensión de tierra dedicada a la cría de animales de pasto = rangeland.
    * perito de extensión agraria = agricultural extension worker.
    * por extensión = by extension.
    * programa de extensión bibliotecaria = library outreach programme.
    * servicio de extensión bibliotecaria = outreach service, library extension work, extension service, outreach programme, reach out.
    * servicios de extensión bibliotecaria = library outreach.
    * una gran extensión de = a sea of.
    * * *
    1)
    b) ( longitud) length

    la extensión de la novela/carretera — the length of the novel/road

    2) (grado, importancia) extent
    3) ( acción) extension
    4) ( de cable) extension lead; ( línea telefónica) extension
    * * *
    = extension, extension, extent of item, length, expansion, massiveness, great length, widening, tract.

    Ex: Searches saved ondisc are saved as disk files and are given the file name extension.SRC.

    Ex: These can be seen as extensions of the supportive role provided by Neighbourhood Advice Centres to community groups.
    Ex: The first element of the physical description area is the extent of item and it gives the number and the specific material designation of the units of the item being described and, in some cases, other indications of the extent (e.g. duration).
    Ex: A working guide is to seek to make any abstract as informative as possible within the constraints of time, length and audience.
    Ex: This is not a simple general expansion of a description but an increasing emphasis upon aspects of the book.
    Ex: With praise for the completeness and the massiveness of the project is mixed a lack of confidence in the method of arrangement and the accuracy with which some of the entries are compiled.
    Ex: Nor has this richness, this density, necessarily to do with complexity and great length.
    Ex: Despite growth in export volume in recent years, there has been a widening of the national current account deficit from 8.8% to over 20%.
    Ex: Protecting the remaining large tracts of tropical forests is not a financially impossible task.
    * actividad de extensión bibliotecaria = outreach activity.
    * aplicar por extensión = extend.
    * con la extensión de un libro = book-length.
    * con una extensión similar a la de un libro = book-length.
    * de extensión = in length.
    * de extensión normal = standard-length.
    * de la extensión de un libro = book-length.
    * en extensión = in length.
    * extensión agraria = agricultural extension.
    * extensión bibliotecaria = extension activity, outreach [out-reach], library outreach.
    * extensión de = mass of.
    * extensión de la cultura = cultural outreach.
    * extensión del nombre del fichero = file name extension.
    * extensión de página = page length.
    * gestión de grandes extensiones para la cría de ganado = range management.
    * gran extensión de tierra dedicada a la cría de animales de pasto = rangeland.
    * perito de extensión agraria = agricultural extension worker.
    * por extensión = by extension.
    * programa de extensión bibliotecaria = library outreach programme.
    * servicio de extensión bibliotecaria = outreach service, library extension work, extension service, outreach programme, reach out.
    * servicios de extensión bibliotecaria = library outreach.
    * una gran extensión de = a sea of.

    * * *
    A
    (superficie, longitud): una gran extensión de terreno a large expanse o stretch of land
    grandes extensiones de la costa large stretches of the coastline
    tiene una extensión de 20 hectáreas it has an area of 20 hectares, it covers 20 hectares
    debido a la extensión de la obra no habrá intermedio owing to the length of the play there will not be an interval
    escribir un ensayo cuya extensión no supere las 500 palabras write an essay of no more than 500 words
    por extensión by extension
    B (grado, importancia) extent
    C
    (de un vocablo): en toda la extensión de la palabra in every sense of the word
    D (ampliación) extension
    la extensión de su influencia a otras esferas the extension o spreading of her influence to other areas
    pidió una extensión del plazo she asked for an extension of the deadline o for the deadline to be extended
    ofrecen una extensión de garantía they offer an extended warranty
    E
    1 (de un cable) extension lead
    3 ( Inf) extension
    * * *

     

    extensión sustantivo femenino
    1
    a) ( superficie):

    ◊ una gran extensión de terreno a large expanse o stretch of land;

    una extensión de 20 hectáreas an area of 20 hectares


    por extensión by extension
    2 (grado, importancia) extent;

    3



    ( línea telefónica) extension
    extensión sustantivo femenino
    1 extension
    (de un escrito, de tiempo) length
    (de un territorio, superficie) area
    2 (ampliación) extension
    (difusión) spreading
    3 (de una línea telefónica, un edificio) extension
    ' extensión' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    ampliación
    - extensor
    - extensora
    - prolongación
    - prórroga
    - superficie
    - supletoria
    - supletorio
    - terrena
    - terreno
    - vasta
    - vasto
    - zona
    - alargador
    - anexo
    - césped
    - interno
    - llano
    - pasto
    - playa
    - por
    - vida
    English:
    area
    - cover
    - expanse
    - expansive
    - extended
    - extension
    - extension cable
    - extension cord
    - extent
    - from
    - long
    - sheet
    - sprawl
    - spread
    - stretch
    - sweep
    - tract
    - further
    - length
    * * *
    1. [superficie] area, expanse;
    2. [amplitud] [de país] size;
    [de conocimientos] extent;
    3. [duración] duration, length;
    debido a la extensión de la película habrá un descanso due to the length of the film there will be an interval
    4. [ampliación] extension;
    se concedió una extensión del plazo an extension was granted
    5. [sentido] range of meaning;
    en toda la extensión de la palabra in every sense of the word;
    por extensión by extension
    6. Informát extension
    7. [de línea telefónica] extension
    * * *
    f
    1 tb
    TELEC extension;
    por extensión by extension
    2 superficie expanse, area;
    en toda la extensión de la palabra in the broadest sense of the word
    * * *
    extensión nf, pl - siones
    1) : extension, stretching
    2) : expanse, spread
    3) : extent, range
    4) : length, duration
    * * *
    1. (superficie) area
    2. (dimensión) size / extent
    3. (longitud, duración) length
    4. (de teléfono) extension

    Spanish-English dictionary > extensión

  • 17 país subtropical

    Ex. Similarly, heat stress is still most neglected occupational hazard in the tropical and subtropical countries like India.
    * * *

    Ex: Similarly, heat stress is still most neglected occupational hazard in the tropical and subtropical countries like India.

    Spanish-English dictionary > país subtropical

  • 18 región

    f.
    1 region, area, territory, expanse.
    2 region, district, area.
    * * *
    1 region
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (Geog, Pol) region; (=área) area, part
    2) (Anat) region
    * * *
    1)
    a) (Geog) region
    b) (Adm) region, district
    2) (Anat) region, area
    * * *
    = region, tract, regional area.
    Ex. The catalogue often forms the basis for co-operation and good relations between the libraries in a region.
    Ex. Protecting the remaining large tracts of tropical forests is not a financially impossible task.
    Ex. All regional areas in Australia will be provided with access to digital television services over the next three years.
    ----
    * corazón de una región = heartland.
    * dentro de una región = intra-regional [intraregional].
    * entre regiones = cross-regional, inter-regional [interregional].
    * especificación de la región de pertenencia = regionalisation [regionalization, -USA].
    * región alveolar = alveolar region.
    * región atrasada = backward region.
    * región autonómica = autonomous region.
    * Región Bibliotecaria de Londres y el Sudeste (LASER) = London and South Eastern Library Region (LASER).
    * región central de los Estados Unidos, la = American midwest, the.
    * región costera = coastal region.
    * región del Golfo, la = Gulf region, the.
    * región del Golfo Persa, la = Arabian Gulf region, the.
    * región del Pacífico asiático = Asia-Pacific region.
    * región del Pacífico, la = Pacific region, the.
    * región ecológica = ecoregion.
    * región ecuatorial = equatorial region.
    * regiones salvajes de Africa, las = wilds of Africa, the.
    * región geográfica = geographical region, geographic region.
    * región lechera = dairy region.
    * región lumbar, la = low back, the, lumbar region, the.
    * región lumbar, the = lower back, the.
    * región menos favorecida = less favoured region (LFR).
    * región montañosa = highland.
    * típico de la región = vernacular.
    * * *
    1)
    a) (Geog) region
    b) (Adm) region, district
    2) (Anat) region, area
    * * *
    = region, tract, regional area.

    Ex: The catalogue often forms the basis for co-operation and good relations between the libraries in a region.

    Ex: Protecting the remaining large tracts of tropical forests is not a financially impossible task.
    Ex: All regional areas in Australia will be provided with access to digital television services over the next three years.
    * corazón de una región = heartland.
    * dentro de una región = intra-regional [intraregional].
    * entre regiones = cross-regional, inter-regional [interregional].
    * especificación de la región de pertenencia = regionalisation [regionalization, -USA].
    * región alveolar = alveolar region.
    * región atrasada = backward region.
    * región autonómica = autonomous region.
    * Región Bibliotecaria de Londres y el Sudeste (LASER) = London and South Eastern Library Region (LASER).
    * región central de los Estados Unidos, la = American midwest, the.
    * región costera = coastal region.
    * región del Golfo, la = Gulf region, the.
    * región del Golfo Persa, la = Arabian Gulf region, the.
    * región del Pacífico asiático = Asia-Pacific region.
    * región del Pacífico, la = Pacific region, the.
    * región ecológica = ecoregion.
    * región ecuatorial = equatorial region.
    * regiones salvajes de Africa, las = wilds of Africa, the.
    * región geográfica = geographical region, geographic region.
    * región lechera = dairy region.
    * región lumbar, la = low back, the, lumbar region, the.
    * región lumbar, the = lower back, the.
    * región menos favorecida = less favoured region (LFR).
    * región montañosa = highland.
    * típico de la región = vernacular.

    * * *
    regiones (↑ región a1)
    A
    1 ( Geog) region
    una región montañosa a mountainous region o area
    la región andina the Andean region
    las regiones del país donde opera la guerrilla the areas o regions of the country where the guerillas operate
    2 ( Adm) region, district
    Compuesto:
    military district
    B ( Anat) region, area
    * * *

    región sustantivo femenino
    region
    región f Geog Anat Mil region
    ' región' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    adelantada
    - adelantado
    - arroba
    - atrasada
    - atrasado
    - autonomía
    - caldo
    - caribeña
    - caribeño
    - comarca
    - comunidad
    - degustación
    - dinamitar
    - históricamente
    - latitud
    - oasis
    - propagarse
    - propia
    - propio
    - serranía
    - sierra
    - suave
    - tonillo
    - vinícola
    - zona
    - alfajor
    - arrocero
    - Ártico
    - autónomo
    - caracterizar
    - Chaco
    - coya
    - deshabitado
    - diseminado
    - este
    - explorar
    - exportador
    - fecundo
    - gentilicio
    - habla
    - lluvioso
    - lugar
    - milonga
    - nordeste
    - noroeste
    - norte
    - oeste
    - pampa
    - poblar
    - seco
    English:
    Antarctic
    - area
    - country
    - district
    - map
    - northern
    - ravage
    - region
    - wreak
    - Arctic
    - blight
    - break
    - Caribbean
    - coast
    - decline
    - deprived
    - desert
    - east
    - frozen
    - grip
    - inhospitable
    - Lake District
    - lawless
    - Midwest
    - north
    - police
    - produce
    - pubic
    - settle
    - small
    - south
    - southern
    - survey
    - tour
    - undeveloped
    - uninhabited
    - wash
    - west
    - wine
    * * *
    1. [área] region
    2. [administrativa] region
    3. Mil district
    región aérea aerial zone;
    región militar military zone;
    región naval naval zone
    4. Anat region, area
    * * *
    f region;
    región lumbar ANAT lumbar region
    * * *
    región nf, pl regiones : region, area
    * * *
    región n region

    Spanish-English dictionary > región

  • 19 milieu

    milieu (plural milieux) [miljø]
    masculine noun
       a. ( = centre) middle
    • vers le milieu du 15e siècle towards the mid-15th century
    ► au milieu de ( = au centre de) in the middle of ; ( = parmi) among
       b. ( = état intermédiaire) il n'y a pas de milieu there is no middle way
    • avec lui, il n'y a pas de milieu there's no in-between with him
       c. ( = environnement) environment ; (Chemistry, Physics) medium
       d. ( = entourage social, moral) milieu ; ( = groupe restreint) circle ; ( = provenance) background
    * * *

    1.
    pl milieux miljø nom masculin
    1) ( dans l'espace) middle

    au beau or en plein milieu — right in the middle

    2) ( dans le temps) middle

    au milieu de — in the middle of, halfway through

    3) ( moyen terme) middle ground

    c'est vrai ou faux, il n'y a pas de milieu — it's either right or wrong, there's no in-between

    4) ( environnement) environment

    en milieu urbain/scolaire — in towns/schools

    5) ( origine sociale) background, milieu; ( groupe) circle

    le milieu — ( pègre) the underworld

    6) Mathématique ( de segment) midpoint

    2.
    au milieu de locution prépositive
    1) ( parmi) among
    2) ( entouré de) surrounded by
    •
    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    miljø
    milieux pl nm
    1) [pièce, table] middle

    Pose le vase au milieu de la table. — Put the vase in the middle of the table.

    au beau milieu; en plein milieu — right in the middle

    au beau milieu de; en plein milieu de — right in the middle of

    2) [spectacle, période] middle

    au milieu de; au milieu du 18e siècle — in the middle of the 18th century

    Quelqu'un a sonné à la porte au beau milieu de la nuit. — Somebody rang the bell right in the middle of the night.

    3) fig middle course, middle way
    4) BIOLOGIE, GÉOGRAPHIE environment
    5) (social) background

    Il vient d'un milieu modeste. — He comes from a modest background.

    Il fréquentait un milieu douteux. — He moved in shady circles.

    7) (= sphère) [mode, cinéma] world

    Ils ont enquêté dans les milieux de la prostitution. — They investigated the world of prostitution.

    8) (= pègre)
    * * *
    A nm
    1 ( dans l'espace) middle; au milieu in the middle; au milieu de in the middle of; au beau or en plein milieu right in the middle; en son milieu [percé, décoré] in the middle; couper qch par le milieu to cut sth down the middle; la fenêtre du milieu the middle window, the window in the middle; je préfère celle du milieu I prefer the one in the middle; avoir une place en milieu de train to be sitting halfway down the train; ⇒ nez;
    2 ( dans le temps) middle; au milieu de in the middle of, halfway through; au milieu de la nuit in the middle of ou halfway through the night; en plein or au beau milieu du repas right in the middle of the meal; vers le milieu de toward(s) the middle of, about halfway through; j'en suis au milieu I'm halfway through; en milieu de matinée in the middle of the morning, mid-morning; en milieu d'après-midi in the middle of the afternoon, mid-afternoon; en milieu de journée in the middle of the day; en milieu de semaine mid-week; en milieu de trimestre/d'année in the middle of the term/of the year; les milieux de journée sont torrides it gets oppressively hot in the middle of the day;
    3 ( moyen terme) middle ground; entre l'amour et la haine, il y a un milieu there is a middle ground between love and hate; c'est vrai ou faux, il n'y a pas de milieu it's either right or wrong, there's no in-between;
    4 ( environnement) environment; milieu naturel/marin/tropical natural/marine/tropical environment; en milieu stérile in a sterile environment; le milieu familial the home environment; en milieu rural in the country; en milieu urbain in a town, in towns; en milieu hospitalier ( dans les hôpitaux) in hospitals; ( dans un hôpital) in a hospital; en milieu scolaire ( dans les écoles) in schools; ( dans une école) in a school; le milieu carcéral prison life;
    5 (origine, appartenance sociale) background, milieu; ( groupe) circle; ils ne sont pas du même milieu they are from different backgrounds; connaître des gens de tous les milieux to know people from every walk of life; les milieux universitaires/d'affaires/officiels academic/business/official circles; un milieu professionnel très conservateur a very conservative sector; se former en milieu professionnel to do training in the workplace; le milieu de l'édition the world of publishing; le milieu de la politique the world of politics; le milieu ( pègre) the underworld;
    6 Math ( de segment) midpoint.
    B au milieu de loc prép
    1 ( parmi) among; vivre au milieu des singes/de ses ennemis to live among apes/one's enemies; au milieu de mes papiers among my papers; être au milieu de ses amis to be with one's own friends;
    2 ( entouré de) surrounded by; au milieu des sarcasmes/des soupçons/des odeurs de cuisine surrounded by sarcastic remarks/suspicious attitudes/cooking smells; travailler au milieu du bruit to work surrounded by noise; rester calme au milieu des difficultés to remain calm in the midst of difficulties; au milieu du désastre in the midst of disaster; vivre au milieu du désordre to live in a mess; au milieu des rires amid laughter; au milieu des applaudissements to applause.
    milieu de culture breeding ground; milieu de terrain ( joueur) midfield player; ( endroit) midfield.
    ( pluriel milieux) [miljø] nom masculin
    1. [dans l'espace] middle, centre
    sciez-la par le ou en son milieu saw it through ou down the middle
    celui du milieu the one in the middle, the middle one
    2. [dans le temps] middle
    3. [moyen terme] middle way ou course
    4. [entourage] environment, milieu
    ne pas se sentir/se sentir dans son milieu to feel out of place/at home
    5. BIOLOGIE [environnement] environment, habitat
    6. INDUSTRIE & SCIENCES
    7. [pègre]
    ————————
    au beau milieu de locution prépositionnelle
    ————————
    au (beau) milieu locution adverbiale
    ————————
    au milieu de locution prépositionnelle
    2. [dans le temps] in the middle of
    au milieu de l'hiver/l'été in midwinter/midsummer
    ————————
    milieu de terrain nom masculin
    [joueur] midfield player

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > milieu

  • 20 Historical Portugal

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

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