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1 vital work

важная работа

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2 work

1. n
1) работа, труд; производство

2) печатный труд, сочинение, произведение

3) pl предприятие

4) pl механизм

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to absent oneself from work — совершать прогул

to appeal to smb to return to work — призывать кого-л. вернуться на работу

to assist women at work — оказывать помощь работающим женщинам

to assure continuity of work — обеспечивать непрерывность работы

to ban smb from work — запрещать кому-л. работать

to be back at work — возвращаться на работу ( после забастовки)

to be on piece-work — работать сдельно

to be out of work — быть безработным

to be the work of smb — быть делом рук кого-л.

to call for a return to work — призывать к возобновлению работы

to carry on / out work — выполнять / делать работу, заниматься работой

to cease work — прекращать работу

to clock in to work — являться на работу

to conduct / to do work — выполнять / делать работу, заниматься работой

to co-ordinate the economic and social work — координировать экономическую и социальную деятельность

to cut / to lessen / to reduce the hours of work — сокращать рабочий день

to direct and co-ordinate smb's work — направлять и координировать чью-л. деятельность

to do the donkey work — разг. вкалывать, ишачить

to drift back to work — постепенно возвращаться на работу ( после забастовки)

to eliminate shortcomings in the work — устранять недостатки в работе

to ensure the continuity of the work — обеспечивать непрерывность работы

to focus the work on economic and social development — сосредоточивать работу на социально-экономическом развитии

to force a return to work — заставлять (забастовщиков) вернуться на работу

to fulfill the work — выполнять работу

to furnish work — предоставлять работу

to go back to work — прекращать забастовку и возвращаться на работу

to induce smb to return to work — побуждать кого-л. вернуться на работу

to initiate work — начинать работу, приступить к работе

to inspect smb's work — проверять чью-л. работу

to intensify the work — усиливать работу, интенсифицировать труд

to load smb with work — загружать кого-л. работой

to look for work — искать работу

to oversee work — следить за ходом работы

to perform the work — выполнять / делать работу, заниматься работой

to pour sand in the work — перен. вставлять палки в колеса

to put a lot of people out of work — лишать многих людей работы

to remove shortcomings in the work — устранять недостатки в работе

to reorganize the work — перестраивать работу

to report for work — являться на работу

to resume work — возобновлять работу

to return to work — возвращаться на работу (напр. после забастовки)

to show up for work — являться на работу

to stay away from work — не выходить на работу; бастовать

to stimulate and advance work — поощрять и стимулировать работу

to stop work — прекращать работу, бастовать

to supplement the work of smb — дополнять чью-л. работу

to suspend work — приостанавливать работу ( при забастовке)

to take time off work — отпрашиваться с работы

to throw people out of work — выбрасывать работников на улицу

to turn up for work — являться на работу

to undertake work — браться за / начинать / предпринимать работу

- accessory work
- active work
- allotment of work
- amount of work
- brain work
- casual work
- classified work
- collective work
- contract work
- contractual work
- creative work
- cultural work
- day-to-day work
- dead horse work
- decontamination work
- development work
- disincentive to work
- educational work
- efficient work
- emergency work
- explanatory work
- extra work
- field work
- fruitful work
- full-time work
- habits of work
- hand work
- hard work
- health work
- ideological work
- improvement in work
- in search of work
- independent work
- international work
- joint work
- killing work
- low-paid work
- maintenance work
- manual work
- mental work
- odd work
- office work
- organizational work
- out of work
- overtime work
- pace of work
- part-time work
- person out of work
- physical work
- pick-and-shovel work
- Pickle Work
- piece work
- political work
- practical work
- preliminary work
- preparatory work
- productive work
- program of work

- propaganda work
- public sector work
- public work
- publicity work
- quality of work
- regular work
- relief work
- research work
- return to work
- right to work

- routine work
- rush work
- schedule work
- seasonal work
- short-time work
- skilled work
- skunk work
- slovenly work
- social work
- subsidiary work
- task work
- team work
- temporary work
- theoretical works
- those in work
- time work
- undercover works
- vital work
- volunteer work
- wage work
- wet work
- work in process
- year-round work 2. v
работать; трудиться

to work closely with smb — тесно сотрудничать с кем-л.

to work fine on the upside — быть хорошим стимулятором развития экономики

to work for free — работать бесплатно

to work for Jesus — жарг. "работать на дядю" ( бесплатно выполнять дополнительную работу)

to work hand in hand — тесно сотрудничать

to work in collaboration with smb — работать в сотрудничестве с кем-л.

to work out — разрабатывать (план и т.п.)

to work smth out on paper — разрабатывать что-л. на бумаге

to work step by step — действовать поэтапно

to work together — работать вместе; сотрудничать

to work without hindrance — работать беспрепятственно

Politics english-russian dictionary > work
3 life

plural - lives; noun

1) (the quality belonging to plants and animals which distinguishes them from rocks, minerals etc and things which are dead: Doctors are fighting to save the child's life.) vida

2) (the period between birth and death: He had a long and happy life.) vida

3) (liveliness: She was full of life and energy.) vida

4) (a manner of living: She lived a life of ease and idleness.) vida

5) (the period during which any particular state exists: He had many different jobs during his working life.) vida

6) (living things: It is now believed that there may be life on Mars; animal life.) vida

7) (the story of a life: He has written a life of Churchill.) biografía

8) (life imprisonment: He was given life for murder.) cadena perpetua

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- lifeless
- lifelike
- life-and-death
- lifebelt
- lifeboat
- lifebuoy
- life-cycle
- life expectancy
- lifeguard
- life-jacket
- lifeline
- lifelong
- life-saving
- life-sized
- life-size
- lifetime
- as large as life
- bring to life
- come to life
- for life
- the life and soul of the party
- not for the life of me
- not on your life!
- take life
- take one's life
- take one's life in one's hands
- to the life

life n vida

she saved my life me salvó la vida

El plural de life se escribe lives

life

tr[laɪf]

noun (pl lives tr[laɪvz])

1 vida

■ she can't play tennis for her life es una negada para el tenis

■ never in my life have I heard such nonsense! ¡jamás en la vida había oído tales estupideces!

2 (of battery) duración nombre femenino

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

for dear life con toda su fuerza

it's a matter of life and death es cuestión de vida o muerte

not on your life! familiar ¡ni hablar!

run for your life «(lives)»! ¡sálvese quien pueda!

to be the life and soul of the party ser el alma de la fiesta

to bring somebody back to life resucitar a alguien

to come to life cobrar vida

to have the time of one's life pasárselo como nunca

to live the life of Riley familiar pegarse la gran vida

to lose one's life perder la vida

to take one's life in one's hands (risk) arriesgar la vida 2 (control) controlar su propia vida

to take one's own life suicidarse, quitarse la vida

to take somebody's life matar a alguien

life belt / life buoy salvavidas nombre masculino

life cycle ciclo vital

life expectancy esperanza de vida

life insurance seguro de vida

life imprisonment cadena perpetua

life jacket chaleco salvavidas

life preserver SMALLAMERICAN ENGLISH/SMALL salvavidas nombre masculino

life sentence cadena perpetua

life story biografía

life style estilo de vida

life ['laɪf] n, pl lives ['laɪvz]

1) : vida f

plant life: la vida vegetal

2) existence: vida f, existencia f

3) biography: biografía f, vida f

4) duration: duración f, vida f

5) liveliness: vivacidad f, animación f

life

adj.

• perpetuo, -a adj.

• vital adj.

• vitalicio, -a adj.

n.

(§ pl.: lives) = animación s.f.

• existencia s.f.

• ser s.m.

• tiempo de vida s.m.

• vida s.f.

• vigencia s.f.

• vivir s.m.

laɪf
noun (pl lives)

1) c u ( existence) vida f

it will last you for life — te durará toda la vida

maimed for life — lisiado de por vida

for the rest of my life — por el resto de mis días

early in life — en su (or mi, etc) juventud

in later life — más tarde or más adelante

at my time of life — a mi edad, con la edad que tengo

he began life as a car salesman — empezó vendiendo coches

the man/woman in your life — el hombre/la mujer de tu vida

to have the time of one's life — divertirse* como nunca or (fam) de lo lindo

to live life to the full — vivir la vida al máximo

to see life — ver* mundo

you can bet your life we'll be late! — (colloq) te apuesto lo que quieras a que llegamos tarde!

to lose one's life — perder* la vida

no lives were lost — no hubo muertos

to risk one's life — arriesgar* la vida

to save somebody's life — salvarle la vida a alguien

to take somebody's life — (frml) darle* muerte a alguien (frml)

to take one's (own) life — (frml) quitarse la vida (frml)

a matter of life and death — una cuestión de vida o muerte

as large as life — en carne y hueso

he couldn't darn a sock to save his life — no sería capaz de zurcir un calcetín ni aun si le fuera la vida en ello

larger than life: the characters are all larger than life todos los personajes son creaciones que desbordan la realidad; he was a larger-than-life character era un personaje exuberante; not for the life of one: I can't remember for the life of me no me puedo acordar por nada del mundo; not on your life! ni muerto!; to cling/hold on for dear life aferrarse/agarrarse desesperadamente; to fight/run for one's life: they had to run for their lives tuvieron que correr como alma que lleva el diablo; run for your lives! sálvese quien pueda!; he was fighting for (his) life se debatía entre la vida y la muerte; to frighten o scare the life out of somebody darle* or pegarle* un susto mortal a alguien; (to have) the shock of one's life llevarse el susto de su (or mi etc) vida; she gave the performance of her life actuó como nunca; to risk life and limb arriesgar* la vida; to take one's life in one's hands jugarse* la vida; (before n) <member, pension, president> vitalicio; life force fuerza f vital; life imprisonment cadena f perpetua; life sentence condena f a perpetuidad or a cadena perpetua; his life story — la historia de su vida

2) u

a) ( vital force) vida f

it brings the history of this period to life — hace cobrar vida a este período de la historia

to bring somebody back to life — resucitar a alguien

to come to life — \<\<party\>\> animarse; \<\<puppet/doll\>\> cobrar vida

b) ( vitality) vida f, vitalidad f

to inject new life into something — revitalizar* algo

to be the life o (esp BrE) the life and soul of the party — ser* el alma de la fiesta

3) u ( lifestyle) vida f

married life — la vida de casado

this is the life (for me)! — esto sí que es vida!

to live the life of Riley — darse* la gran vida, vivir a cuerpo de rey

4) u ( living things) vida f

animal/plant life — vida animal/vegetal

5) u ( duration - of battery) duración f, vida f; (- of agreement) vigencia f

6) u ( imprisonment) (colloq) cadena f perpetua

he got life — lo condenaron a cadena perpetua

7) u ( Art)

to paint/draw from life — pintar/dibujar del natural

8) c ( biography) vida f

[laɪf]
1. N
(pl lives)
1) (=animate state) vida f

life on earth — la vida en la tierra

bird life — los pájaros

there is not much insect life here — aquí hay pocos insectos

plant life — vida f vegetal, las plantas fpl

• to bring sb back to life — resucitar or reanimar a algn

• a matter of life and death — cosa f de vida o muerte

I don't believe in life after death — no creo en la vida después de la muerte

• to risk life and limb — jugarse la vida

2) (=existence) vida f

the life of an ant — la vida de una hormiga

how's life? * — ¿cómo te va (la vida)?, ¿qué hubo? (Mex, Chile)

I do have a life outside of work, you know — yo hago otras cosas en mi vida aparte de trabajar ¿sabes?

• to begin life as... — empezar la vida como...

life begins at 40 — la vida comienza a los 40

• to depart this life — liter partir de esta vida

• in early/later life — en los años juveniles/maduras

• I can't for the life of me remember * — por más que lo intento no puedo recordar

I clung on for dear life — me agarré como si me fuera la vida en ello

she was fighting for her life — se debatía entre la vida y la muerte

run for your life! — ¡sálvese quien pueda!

to be on trial for one's life — ser acusado de un crimen capital

• you gave me the fright of my life! — ¡qué susto me diste!

• life goes on or must go on — la vida sigue

• to lay down one's life — dar su vida, entregar su vida

• to lose one's life — perder la vida

how many lives were lost? — ¿cuántas víctimas hubo?

three lives were lost — murieron tres

• never in my life — en mi vida

• in the next life — en el más allá, en la otra vida

• to have a life of its own — [object, machine] tener vida propia

• in real life — en la vida real

• to see life — ver mundo

• to spend one's life doing sth — pasar la vida haciendo algo

• to take sb's life — quitar la vida a algn

to take one's own life — quitarse la vida, suicidarse

you'll be taking your life in your hands if you climb up there — subir allí es jugarse la vida

• at my time of life — a mi edad, con los años que yo tengo

• his life won't be worth living — más le valdría morirse

it's more than my life's worth — sería jugarme la vida
bed 1., 4), private 3., save I, 1., 1)
3) (=way of living)

• country/ city life — la vida de la ciudad/del campo

• the good life — una vida agradable; (Rel) la vida santa

it's a good life — es una vida agradable

I've had a good life — la vida me ha tratado bien

• it's a hard life — la vida es muy dura

• to make a new life for o.s., to start a new life — comenzar una vida nueva

• to live one's own life — ser dueño de su propia vida

• to lead a quiet life — llevar una vida tranquila
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4) (in exclamations)

• get a life! * — ¡espabílate y haz algo!

• (upon) my life! — † ¡Dios mío!

• not on your life! * — ¡ni hablar!

• such is life!, that's life! — ¡así es la vida!

• this is the life! — ¡esto sí que es vida!, ¡esto es jauja!

what a life! — (=bad) ¡qué vida esta!; (=good) ¡vaya vida!, ¡eso sí que es vivir bien!

5) (=liveliness) vida f

• his acting brought the character to life — su actuación dio vida al personaje

she brought the party to life — animó la fiesta

• to come to life — animarse

• to put or breathe new life into sth/sb — infundir nueva vida a algo/algn

you need to put a bit of life into it — tienes que ponerle un poco de garra

• the life and soul of the party — el alma de la fiesta

6) (=lifespan) [of person] vida f ; [of licence] vigencia f, validez f ; [of battery] vida f, duración f

during the life of this government — durante el mandato de este gobierno

• friends for life — amigos mpl para siempre

scarred for life — con una cicatriz de por vida

a job for life — un trabajo para toda la vida

these birds mate for life — estas aves tienen una sola pareja en su vida

• it was her life's work — fue el trabajo de toda su vida

7) * (=life imprisonment)

• to do life — cumplir una condena de cadena or reclusión perpetua

• to get life, be sentenced to life — ser condenado a cadena or reclusión perpetua

8) (Art)

• to paint from life — pintar del natural

• true to life — fiel a la realidad

9) (=biography) vida f

10) (US)
** [of prostitute]
she's in the life — hace la calle *, es una mujer de la vida

2.

CPD

life and death struggle N — lucha f a vida o muerte

life annuity N — pensión f or anualidad f vitalicia

life assurance N — seguro m de vida

life class N — (Art) clase f de dibujo al natural

life coach N — profesional encargado de mejorar la situación laboral y personal de sus clientes

life cycle N — ciclo m vital

life drawing N — dibujo m del natural

life expectancy N — esperanza f de vida

life force N — fuerza f vital

life form N — forma f de vida

Life Guards NPL — (Brit) (Mil) regimiento de caballería

life history N — [of person] (historia f de la) vida f ; hum, iro vida f y milagros * mpl

the life history of the salmon — (la historia de) la vida del salmón

life imprisonment N — cadena f perpetua

life insurance N — = life assurance

life interest N — usufructo m vitalicio

life jacket N — chaleco m salvavidas

life member N — miembro m vitalicio

life membership N —

to take out a life membership — inscribirse como miembro vitalicio or de por vida

life peer N — (Brit) (Parl) miembro de la Cámara de los Lores de carácter no hereditario

life preserver N — (Brit) cachiporra f ; (US) chaleco m salvavidas

life president N — presidente mf de por vida

life raft N — balsa f salvavidas

life sciences NPL — ciencias fpl de la vida

life sentence N — condena f a perpetuidad

life span N — [of person] vida f ; [of product] vida f útil

life story N — biografía f

life vest N — (US) chaleco m salvavidas

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[laɪf]
noun (pl lives)

1) c u ( existence) vida f

it will last you for life — te durará toda la vida

maimed for life — lisiado de por vida

for the rest of my life — por el resto de mis días

early in life — en su (or mi, etc) juventud

in later life — más tarde or más adelante

at my time of life — a mi edad, con la edad que tengo

he began life as a car salesman — empezó vendiendo coches

the man/woman in your life — el hombre/la mujer de tu vida

to have the time of one's life — divertirse* como nunca or (fam) de lo lindo

to live life to the full — vivir la vida al máximo

to see life — ver* mundo

you can bet your life we'll be late! — (colloq) te apuesto lo que quieras a que llegamos tarde!

to lose one's life — perder* la vida

no lives were lost — no hubo muertos

to risk one's life — arriesgar* la vida

to save somebody's life — salvarle la vida a alguien

to take somebody's life — (frml) darle* muerte a alguien (frml)

to take one's (own) life — (frml) quitarse la vida (frml)

a matter of life and death — una cuestión de vida o muerte

as large as life — en carne y hueso

he couldn't darn a sock to save his life — no sería capaz de zurcir un calcetín ni aun si le fuera la vida en ello

larger than life: the characters are all larger than life todos los personajes son creaciones que desbordan la realidad; he was a larger-than-life character era un personaje exuberante; not for the life of one: I can't remember for the life of me no me puedo acordar por nada del mundo; not on your life! ni muerto!; to cling/hold on for dear life aferrarse/agarrarse desesperadamente; to fight/run for one's life: they had to run for their lives tuvieron que correr como alma que lleva el diablo; run for your lives! sálvese quien pueda!; he was fighting for (his) life se debatía entre la vida y la muerte; to frighten o scare the life out of somebody darle* or pegarle* un susto mortal a alguien; (to have) the shock of one's life llevarse el susto de su (or mi etc) vida; she gave the performance of her life actuó como nunca; to risk life and limb arriesgar* la vida; to take one's life in one's hands jugarse* la vida; (before n) <member, pension, president> vitalicio; life force fuerza f vital; life imprisonment cadena f perpetua; life sentence condena f a perpetuidad or a cadena perpetua; his life story — la historia de su vida

2) u

a) ( vital force) vida f

it brings the history of this period to life — hace cobrar vida a este período de la historia

to bring somebody back to life — resucitar a alguien

to come to life — \<\<party\>\> animarse; \<\<puppet/doll\>\> cobrar vida

b) ( vitality) vida f, vitalidad f

to inject new life into something — revitalizar* algo

to be the life o (esp BrE) the life and soul of the party — ser* el alma de la fiesta

3) u ( lifestyle) vida f

married life — la vida de casado

this is the life (for me)! — esto sí que es vida!

to live the life of Riley — darse* la gran vida, vivir a cuerpo de rey

4) u ( living things) vida f

animal/plant life — vida animal/vegetal

5) u ( duration - of battery) duración f, vida f; (- of agreement) vigencia f

6) u ( imprisonment) (colloq) cadena f perpetua

he got life — lo condenaron a cadena perpetua

7) u ( Art)

to paint/draw from life — pintar/dibujar del natural

8) c ( biography) vida f

English-spanish dictionary > life
4 keep from

(to stop oneself from (doing something): I could hardly keep from hitting him.) abstenerse de

Sense I

1) v + o + prep + o

(restrain, prevent)

to keep somebody from something: I don't want to keep you from your work no quiero distraerte de or interrumpir tu trabajo; to keep somebody from -ing: try to keep him from working too hard intenta que no trabaje demasiado; I managed to keep myself from laughing — pude aguantar la risa

2) ( not reveal to) ocultar

he kept vital information from them/us — les/nos ocultó información vital

Sense II

3) v + prep + o ( refrain)

to keep from + -ing: I could hardly keep from crying/laughing — apenas si pude contener las lágrimas/aguantar la risa

* * *

Sense I

1) v + o + prep + o

(restrain, prevent)

to keep somebody from something: I don't want to keep you from your work no quiero distraerte de or interrumpir tu trabajo; to keep somebody from -ing: try to keep him from working too hard intenta que no trabaje demasiado; I managed to keep myself from laughing — pude aguantar la risa

2) ( not reveal to) ocultar

he kept vital information from them/us — les/nos ocultó información vital

Sense II

3) v + prep + o ( refrain)

to keep from + -ing: I could hardly keep from crying/laughing — apenas si pude contener las lágrimas/aguantar la risa

English-spanish dictionary > keep from
5 living

adjective

1) (having life; being alive: a living creature; The aim of the project was to discover if there was anything living on Mars.) vivo

2) (now alive: the greatest living artist.) vivo

living¹ adj vivo / viviente

a living thing un ser vivo

the living los vivos

living² n vida

what do you do for a living? ¿cómo te ganas la vida?

living /'liBin/ sustantivo masculino (pl
◊ - vings) (esp AmS) living room
' living' also found in these entries: Spanish: actualmente - alma - barrer - bicho - cohabitación - colmo - comer - continuar - cuarta - cuarto - dedicarse - ser - espacio - garbanzo - haber - hacer - imagen - mendicidad - miseria - mueble - pared - pisada - presidir - residir - sala - salón - soñar - sustento - todavía - vida - vivir - viviente - carestía - condición - convivencia - costo - digno - domicilio - estar - fantasía - farrista - frijol - ganar - incómodo - menester - nivel - trabajar - vivo English: accustom - actually - alive - amiss - breeding ground - burst - carp - central - cost of living - dad - daddy - delusion - deplorable - drawback - dread - earn - expatriate - grand - imagine - living - living conditions - living room - living standards - lodger - ornate - previous - pros and cons - sin - spiral up - contemporary - cost - die - eke out - front - healthy - in - keep - life - long - lounge - memory - now - sitting - soul - standard - three

living

tr['lɪvɪŋ]

adjective

1 vivo,-a

■ one of the greatest living writers uno de los mejores escritores contemporáneos

■ every living creature todo bicho viviente

■ a living language una lengua viva

■ it was a living death fue como estar enterrado vivo

noun

1 vida

■ living conditions condiciones de vida

■ one needs a bit of living space se necesita un poco de espacio vital

■ what do you do for a living? ¿cómo te ganas la vida?

plural noun the living

1 los vivos nombre masculino plural

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

to be the living image of somebody ser la viva imagen de alguien

to earn a living / make a living ganarse la vida

■ she makes a good living selling pottery se gana bien la vida vendiendo cerámica

living expenses dietas nombre femenino plural

living room salón nombre masculino, sala de estar

living standards nivel m sing de vida

living wage sueldo mínimo

living ['lɪvɪŋ] adj

: vivo

living n

to make a living : ganarse la vida

living

adj.

• viviente adj.

• vivo, -a adj.

n.

• mantenimiento s.m.

• modo de vivir s.m.

• subsistencia s.f.

• vida s.f.

• vivir s.m.

I 'lɪvɪŋ
noun

1) ( livelihood) (no pl)

to earn o make one's/a living — ganarse la vida

they scrape o scratch a living selling trinkets — sobreviven or malviven vendiendo chucherías

what do you do for a living? — ¿en qué trabajas?, ¿a qué te dedicas?

to work for a living — trabajar para vivir

the world doesn't owe you a living — no tienes derecho a vivir sin trabajar

2) u ( style of life) vida f

clean/loose living — vida ordenada/disoluta; <space/area> destinado a vivienda; < conditions> de vida

living standards — nivel m de vida

3) ( people) (+ pl vb)

the living — los vivos

II

adjective (before n) <person/creature> vivo

Spain's greatest living painter — el pintor vivo más importante de España

he was living proof of the power of the media — era prueba evidente or palpable del poder de los medios de comunicación

['lɪvɪŋ]
1. ADJ

1) (=alive) [person, creature, plant] vivo

I have no living relatives — no tengo ningún pariente vivo

Ireland's greatest living playwright — el mejor dramaturgo irlandés vivo or aún con vida

• a living death — liter un infierno

• living faith — fe f viva

• he's the living image of his uncle — es el retrato vivo or la imagen viva de su tío

• living language — lengua f viva

• the worst drought in or within living memory — la peor sequía que se recuerda

the San Francisco earthquake is still within living memory — el terremoto de San Francisco tuvo lugar en nuestro tiempo

• living proof — prueba f evidente or palpable

• I didn't see a living soul — no vi a un alma

I promised I wouldn't tell a living soul — prometí que no se lo diría a nadie

• there wasn't a living thing to be seen — no se veía a ningún ser vivo
daylight 1.
2) (=for living in) [area] destinado a la vivienda

our living accommodation was pretty basic — el lugar donde vivíamos era bastante modesto

2. N

1) (=livelihood)

• to earn a living — ganarse la vida

• what do you do for a living? — ¿cómo te ganas la vida?, ¿en qué trabajas?

now he has to work for a living — ahora tiene que trabajar para ganarse la vida

• to make a living — ganarse la vida

• he thinks the world owes him a living — piensa que tiene derecho a que se lo den todo regalado

2) (=way of life) vida f

the quality of urban living — la calidad de la vida en la ciudad

• clean living — vida f ordenada

• loose living — vida f disipada, vida f disoluta
cost 3., standard 3.
3.

NPL

the living — los vivos

4.

CPD

living area N — zona f destinada a la vivienda

living conditions NPL — condiciones fpl de vida

living expenses NPL — gastos mpl de mantenimiento

living quarters NPL — (for students) residencia f ; (for soldiers, servants, staff) dependencias fpl

living room N — sala f de estar, living m

living space N — espacio m vital (also fig)

living standards NPL — nivel m de vida

a fall in living standards — un descenso del nivel de vida

living wage N — salario de subsistencia

£20 a week isn't a living wage — con 20 libras a la semana no se puede vivir

living will N — declaración f de últimas voluntades (por la que el declarante se niega a que su vida sea prolongada por medios artificiales en caso de encontrarse enfermo en fase terminal)

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I ['lɪvɪŋ]
noun

1) ( livelihood) (no pl)

to earn o make one's/a living — ganarse la vida

they scrape o scratch a living selling trinkets — sobreviven or malviven vendiendo chucherías

what do you do for a living? — ¿en qué trabajas?, ¿a qué te dedicas?

to work for a living — trabajar para vivir

the world doesn't owe you a living — no tienes derecho a vivir sin trabajar

2) u ( style of life) vida f

clean/loose living — vida ordenada/disoluta; <space/area> destinado a vivienda; < conditions> de vida

living standards — nivel m de vida

3) ( people) (+ pl vb)

the living — los vivos

II

adjective (before n) <person/creature> vivo

Spain's greatest living painter — el pintor vivo más importante de España

he was living proof of the power of the media — era prueba evidente or palpable del poder de los medios de comunicación

English-spanish dictionary > living
6 capacity

1) способность

2) объём, ёмкость

3) мощность, производительность

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- absorbing capacity
- aerobic capacity for work
- allergenic capacity
- basic capacity
- blotting capacity
- body capacity
- breathing capacity
- breeding capacity
- buffer capacity
- calorific capacity
- capillary moisture capacity
- carrying capacity
- cation-exchange capacity
- cellulose decomposing capacity
- chest capacity
- competitive capacity
- coupling capacity
- daily capacity
- dead-storage capacity
- diffusion capacity
- dissolving capacity
- equilibrium capacity
- evaporating capacity
- exchange capacity
- fertilizing capacity
- filter capacity
- fish capacity
- food capacity
- functional capacity
- functional residual capacity
- germinating capacity
- grazing capacity
- growing capacity
- heat capacity
- hereditary capacity
- ideational capacity
- immunizing capacity
- impregnation capacity
- information capacity
- inspiratory capacity
- keeping capacity
- layering capacity
- lung capacity
- maximal breathing capacity
- means-end capacity
- membrane capacity
- mental capacity
- moisture capacity
- net capacity
- nitrogen-fixing capacity
- oxygen-binding capacity
- producing capacity
- productive capacity
- regenerative capacity
- rejuvenation capacity
- reproductive capacity
- residual lung capacity
- respiratory capacity
- root penetration capacity
- semen fertilizing capacity
- shoot-forming capacity
- soil water capacity
- solvent capacity
- tilling capacity
- timed vital capacity
- total lung capacity
- transpiration capacity
- tRNA acceptor capacity
- unsaturated iron-binding capacity
- uptaking capacity
- vital capacity
- water capacity
- water-absorbing capacity
- work capacity
- working capacity

English-russian biological dictionary > capacity
7 life

noun

, pl. lives

1) Leben, das

it is a matter of life and death — es geht [dabei] um Leben und Tod; (fig.): (it is of vital importance) es ist äußerst wichtig (to für)

come to life — [Bild, Statue:] lebendig werden

run etc. for one's life — um sein Leben rennen usw.

I cannot for the life of me — ich kann beim besten Willen nicht

lose one's life — sein Leben verlieren

many lives were lost — viele Menschen kamen ums Leben

without loss of life — ohne Todesopfer

life is not worth living — das Leben ist nicht lebenswert

marry early in life — früh heiraten

late in life — erst im fortgeschrittenen Alter

for life — lebenslänglich [inhaftiert]

he's doing life — (coll.) er sitzt lebenslänglich (ugs.)

get life — (coll.) lebenslänglich kriegen (ugs.)

expectation of life — Lebenserwartung, die

get the fright/shock of one's life — (coll.) zu Tode erschrecken/den Schock seines Lebens bekommen (ugs.)

have the time of one's life — sich hervorragend amüsieren

he will do anything for a quiet life — für ihn ist die Hauptsache, dass er seine Ruhe hat

make life easy for oneself/somebody — es sich (Dat.) /jemandem leicht machen

make life difficult for oneself/somebody — sich (Dat.) /jemandem das Leben schwer machen

this is the life! — (expr. content) so lässt sich's leben!

that's life, life's like that — so ist das Leben [nun mal]

not on your life — (coll.) nie im Leben! (ugs.)

save one's/somebody's life — sein Leben/jemandem das Leben retten

something is as much as somebody's life is worth — mit etwas setzt jemand sein Leben aufs Spiel

take one's [own] life — sich (Dat.) das Leben nehmen

take one's life in one's hands — sein Leben riskieren

get a life — (coll.) was aus seinem Leben machen

2) (energy, animation) Leben, das

be the life and soul of the party — der Mittelpunkt der Party sein

there is still life in something — in etwas (Dat.) steckt noch Leben

3) (living things and their activity) Leben, das

bird/insect life — die Vogelwelt/die Insekten

4) (living form or model)

draw somebody from life — jemanden nach dem Leben zeichnen

as large as life — (life-size) lebensgroß; (in person) in voller Schönheit (ugs. scherzh.)

larger than life — überzeichnet

true to life — wahrheitsgetreu

5) (specific aspect) [Privat-, Wirtschafts-, Dorf]leben, das

in this life — (on earth) in diesem Leben

the other or the future or the next life — (in heaven) das zukünftige Leben [nach dem Tode]

eternal or everlasting life — ewiges Leben

daily life — das Alltagsleben

see life — etwas von der Welt sehen

6) (of battery, lightbulb, etc.) Lebensdauer, die

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plural - lives; noun

1) (the quality belonging to plants and animals which distinguishes them from rocks, minerals etc and things which are dead: Doctors are fighting to save the child's life.) das Leben

2) (the period between birth and death: He had a long and happy life.) das Leben

3) (liveliness: She was full of life and energy.) das Leben

4) (a manner of living: She lived a life of ease and idleness.) das Leben

5) (the period during which any particular state exists: He had many different jobs during his working life.) das Leben

6) (living things: It is now believed that there may be life on Mars; animal life.) das Leben

7) (the story of a life: He has written a life of Churchill.) die Lebensbeschreibung

8) (life imprisonment: He was given life for murder.) lebenslängliche Haftstrafe, lebenslang

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- academic.ru/42849/lifeless">lifeless
- lifelike
- life-and-death
- lifebelt
- lifeboat
- lifebuoy
- life-cycle
- life expectancy
- lifeguard
- life-jacket
- lifeline
- lifelong
- life-saving
- life-sized
- life-size
- lifetime
- as large as life
- bring to life
- come to life
- for life
- the life and soul of the party
- not for the life of me
- not on your life! - take life
- take one's life
- take one's life in one's hands
- to the life
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life

<pl lives>

[laɪf, pl laɪvz]

I. n

1. (existence) Leben nt

cats are supposed to have nine lives man sagt, Katzen haben neun Leben nt

run for your \life! renn um dein Leben!

it's a matter of \life and death! es geht um Leben und Tod!

a \life and death issue eine Frage, die über Leben und Tod entscheiden kann

in a previous \life in einem früheren Leben

to believe in \life after death an ein Leben nach dem Tod[e] glauben

to depart this \life ( euph form) verscheiden euph geh

to give [or lay down] one's \life for sb/sth sein Leben für jdn/etw geben

to lose one's \life sein Leben lassen, ums Leben kommen

to save sb's \life jdm das Leben retten

to seek sb's \life jdm nach dem Leben trachten

to take sb's \life ( form) jdn töten [o umbringen]

to take one's own \life sich dat [selbst] das Leben nehmen

2. no pl (quality, force) Leben nt

\life is a precious gift das Leben ist ein wertvolles Gut

he tried to discover some sign of \life in the boy's body er versuchte irgendein Lebenszeichen im Körper des Jungen festzustellen

I love \life ich liebe das Leben

to be one/another of \life's great mysteries ( hum) eines/ein weiteres der großen Geheimnisse des Lebens sein

3. no pl (living things collectively) Leben nt

there are no signs of \life on the planet auf dem Planeten gibt es keinen Hinweis auf Leben

animal \life Tierwelt f

plant \life Pflanzenwelt f

insect \life Welt f der Insekten, Insekten pl

intelligent/sentient \life intelligentes/empfindendes Leben

4. no pl (mode or aspect of existence) Leben nt

to be deeply rooted in American \life tief im Leben der Amerikaner verwurzelt sein

family \life Familienleben nt

love \life Liebesleben nt

private \life Privatleben nt

working \life Arbeitsleben nt

5. no pl (energy) Lebendigkeit f

come on, show a little \life! los, jetzt zeig' mal ein bisschen Temperament! fam

put more \life into your voice bringen Sie etwas mehr Timbre in die Stimme

there isn't much \life here hier ist nicht viel los

to be full of \life voller Leben sein, vor Leben [nur so] sprühen

to bring sth to \life etw lebendiger machen

to come to \life lebendig werden fig

after an hour the party finally came to \life nach einer Stunde kam endlich Leben in die Party

6. (total circumstances of individual) Leben nt

teaching has been her \life der Lehrberuf war ihr Leben

she only wants two things in \life sie wünscht sich nur zwei Dinge im Leben

who's the man in your \life now? [und] wer ist der neue Mann in deinem Leben?

a dull/exciting \life ein langweiliges/aufregendes Leben

to make [or start] a new \life ein neues Leben anfangen [o beginnen]

to want sth out of [or in] \life etw vom Leben erwarten

7. (person) Menschenleben nt

how many lives were lost in the fire? wie viele Menschenleben hat der Brand gekostet?

to save a \life ein Menschenleben retten

8. (human activities) Leben nt

I left home at 16 to see \life ich ging mit 16 von zu Hause fort, um etwas vom Leben und von der Welt zu sehen

to give sb an outlook on \life jdm eine Lebenseinstellung vermitteln

9. (biography) Biografie f, Lebensbeschreibung f

10. (time until death) Leben nt

▪ for \life friendship lebenslang

I believe marriage is for \life ich finde, eine Ehe sollte für das ganze Leben geschlossen werden

he's behind bars for \life er sitzt lebenslänglich [hinter Gittern] fam

a job for \life eine Stelle auf Lebenszeit

11. (duration) of a device, battery Lebensdauer f, Nutzungsdauer f; of an institution Bestehen nt kein pl; of a contract Laufzeit f

during the \life of the present parliament während der jetzigen Legislaturperiode [des Parlaments]

12. no pl ( fam: prison sentence) lebenslänglich

to be doing/get \life lebenslänglich sitzen fam/bekommen

13. no pl ART

to draw [or sketch] sb/sth from \life jdn/etw nach einem Modell zeichnen/skizzieren

taken from the \life nach einem Modell

14. (reality)

true to \life wirklichkeitsgetreu

15.

▶ \life's a bitch (sl) das Leben kann manchmal schon verdammt hart sein! fam

▶ for dear \life verzweifelt

she hung on for dear \life sie klammerte sich fest, als hinge ihr Leben davon ab

▶ to frighten [or scare] the \life out of sb jdn furchtbar [o zu Tode] erschrecken

▶ for the \life of me ( fam) um alles in der Welt fam

▶ not for the \life of me nicht um alles in der Welt

▶ to get a \life aufwachen fig, auf den Boden der Tatsachen zurückkommen

get a \life! komm endlich auf den Boden der Tatsachen zurück!

▶ the good \life das süße Leben, das [o die] Dolce Vita

▶ it's a hard \life! ( iron fam) das Leben ist eins der härtesten fam

▶ how's \life [treating you]? ( fam) wie geht's [denn so]? fam

▶ larger than \life car, house riesig, riesengroß; person energiegeladen und charismatisch

▶ to lead [or live] the \life of Riley ( dated fam) leben wie Gott in Frankreich

▶ not on your \life! ( fam) nie im Leben! fam

▶ to be the \life [ BRIT and soul] of the/any party der [strahlende] Mittelpunkt der/jeder Party sein

▶ \life's rich tapestry die Sonnen- und Schattenseiten des Lebens

▶ to roar [or thunder] into \life mit aufheulendem Motor losfahren/starten

▶ to save one's [own] \life:

he couldn't sing to save his \life er konnte ums Verrecken nicht singen sl

▶ to be set [up] for \life für den Rest des Lebens ausgesorgt haben

▶ to take one's \life in one's hands ( fam) Kopf und Kragen riskieren fam

▶ that's \life! [das ist] Schicksal! fam, so ist das Leben [eben]!

▶ this is the \life [for me]! so lässt sich's leben! fam, Mensch, ist das ein Leben! fam

▶ to be sb to the \life ( dated) jdm wie aus dem Gesicht geschnitten sein

that sketch is Joanna to the \life diese Zeichnung trifft Joanna aufs Haar

▶ one's \life [or \life's] work jds Lebenswerk

II. n modifier

\life drawing/[drawing] class Aktzeichnung f/Aktzeichnen nt (Kunststunde, in der nach Modell gemalt wird)

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[laɪf]
n pl lives

1) Leben nt

bird/plant life — die Vogel-/Pflanzenwelt

there is not much insect life here — hier gibt es nicht viele Insekten

drawn from life — lebensnah

to draw from life (Art) — nach dem Leben zeichnen

to the life — lebensecht

the battle resulted in great loss of life — bei der Schlacht kamen viele ums Leben

this is a matter of life and death — hier geht es um Leben und Tod

a life and death struggle — ein Kampf auf Leben und Tod

life after death — das Leben nach dem Tod

life begins at 40 — das Leben fängt mit 40 (erst richtig) an

to be tired of life — des Lebens überdrüssig sein

life goes on — das Leben geht weiter

to bring sb back to life — jdn wiederbeleben, jdn ins Leben zurückrufen

his book brings history to life — sein Buch lässt die Geschichte lebendig werden

to come to life (fig) — lebendig werden

I'm the sort of person who comes to life in the evenings — ich bin ein Typ, der erst abends munter wird

after half an hour the discussion came to life — nach einer halben Stunde kam Leben in die Diskussion

to put new life into sb — jdm wieder Auftrieb geben

for dear life — verzweifelt

they swam for dear life —

they looked at him in the oxygen tent fighting for dear life — sie sahen, wie er im Sauerstoffzelt um sein Leben kämpfte

at my time of life — in meinem Alter

marriage should be for life — eine Ehe sollte fürs Leben geschlossen werden

he's got a job for life — er hat eine Stelle auf Lebenszeit

the murderer was imprisoned for life — der Mörder wurde zu lebenslänglicher Freiheitsstrafe verurteilt

he's doing life (for murder) (inf) — er sitzt lebenslänglich (wegen Mord) (inf)

he got life (inf) — er hat lebenslänglich gekriegt (inf)

2)

(= individual life) how many lives were lost? — wie viele (Menschen) sind ums Leben gekommen?

the lives of the prisoners — das Leben der Gefangenen

I've got a new man in my life — in meinem Leben gibt es einen neuen Mann

to take sb's life — jdn umbringen

to take one's own life — sich (dat) das Leben nehmen

to save sb's life (lit) — jdm das Leben retten; (fig) jdn retten

I couldn't do it to save my life — ich kann es beim besten Willen nicht

the church is my life — die Kirche ist mein ganzes Leben

to rule sb's life — jds Leben bestimmen

the suspected murderer is on trial for his life —

in the next life — im nächsten Leben

early in life, in early life — in frühen Jahren

later in life, in later life — in späteren Jahren, später im Leben

she leads a busy life — bei ihr ist immer etwas los

she began ( her working) life as a teacher — sie begann ihr Berufsleben als Lehrerin

the book started life as a screenplay — das Buch war ursprünglich ein Drehbuch

all his life — sein ganzes Leben lang

I've never been to London in my life — ich war in meinem ganzen Leben noch nicht in London

to fight for one's life — um sein Leben kämpfen

run for your lives! — rennt um euer Leben!

it gave me the fright of my life — es hat mich zu Tode erschreckt

I can't for the life of me... (inf) — ich kann beim besten Willen nicht...

never in my life have I heard such nonsense — ich habe mein Lebtag noch nicht or noch nie im Leben so einen Unsinn gehört

not on your life! (inf) — ich bin doch nicht verrückt! (inf)

would you ever disobey him? – not on your life! (inf) — würdest du je seine Befehle missachten? – nie im Leben!

get a life! (inf) — sonst hast du keine Probleme? (inf)

to have a life — etwas vom Leben haben

to have a life of one's own — sein eigenes Leben führen

it seemed to have a life of its own —

he is a good/bad life (Insur) — er ist ein niedriges/hohes Risiko

3)

(= the world, social activity) to see life — die Welt sehen

there isn't much life here in the evenings — hier ist abends nicht viel Leben or nicht viel los

4) (= liveliness) Leben nt

those children are full of life! — diese Kinder stecken voller Leben or sind sehr lebhaft!

was full of life —

he's still got so much life in him — er ist noch so vital or steckt noch voller Leben

there's life in the old girl yet (inf) — sie ist noch schwer aktiv (inf); (of car) die Kiste bringts noch (sl)

of every party — er bringt Leben in jede Party

of the party — John will überall im Mittelpunkt stehen

5) (= way of life) Leben nt

village life — das Leben auf dem Dorf

this is the life! — ja, ist das ein Leben!

what a life! — was für ein Leben!

such is life, that's life — so ist das Leben

it's a good life — es ist ein schönes Leben

the good life — das süße Leben

6) (= useful or active life) Lebensdauer f

during the life of the present Parliament —

there's not much life left in the battery, the battery's nearing the end of its life — die Batterie machts nicht mehr lange (inf)

7) (= biography) Biografie f; (of saint, king etc) Lebensbeschreibung f

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life [laıf] pl lives [laıvz] s

1. (organisches) Leben:

how did life begin? wie ist das Leben entstanden?

2. Leben(skraft) n(f)

3. Leben n:

a) Lebenserscheinungen pl

b) Lebewesen pl:

there is no life on the moon auf dem Mond gibt es kein Leben;

marine life das Leben im Meer, die Lebenserscheinungen oder Lebewesen im Meer

4. (Menschen) Leben n:

they lost their lives sie verloren ihr Leben, sie kamen ums Leben;

three lives were lost drei Menschenleben sind zu beklagen;

with great sacrifice of life mit schweren Verlusten an Menschenleben;

risk life and limb Leib und Leben riskieren

5. Leben n (eines Einzelwesens):

a matter (question) of life and death eine lebenswichtige Angelegenheit (Frage);

early in life in jungen Jahren;

my early life meine Jugend;

late in life in vorgerücktem Alter;

as much as one’s life is worth lebensgefährlich, weitS. sehr gefährlich oder riskant;

as if ( oder though) his life depended on it als ob sein Leben davon abhinge, als ob es um sein Leben ginge;

he’s out of my life er existiert für mich überhaupt nicht mehr; → danger A 1, matter A 3, own Bes Redew, risk B 1

6. a) Leben n, Lebenszeit f, Lebensdauer f ( auch TECH einer Maschine etc), Dauer f, Bestehen n:

all his life sein ganzes Leben lang;

the life of a book die Erfolgszeit eines Buches;

during the life of the republic während des Bestehens der Republik; → expectation 3

b) WIRTSCH, JUR Laufzeit f (eines Wechsels, Vertrags etc), besonders WIRTSCH Haltbarkeit f, Lagerfähigkeit f:

the life of packaged fresh meat

7. Leben n, Lebensweise f, -führung f, -art f, -wandel m: → anything A 2, married A 1, saint A 1

8. Leben(sbeschreibung) n(f), Biografie f

9. Leben n, menschliches Tun und Treiben, Welt f:

life in Australia das Leben in Australien;

see life das Leben kennenlernen oder genießen

10. Leben n, Schwung m:

full of life lebendig, voller Leben;

the life of the Constitution der wesentliche Inhalt der Verfassung;

he was the life and soul of the party er brachte Schwung in die Party, er unterhielt die ganze Party

11. KUNST Leben n:

from (the) life nach dem Leben, nach der Natur; → large A 1

12. Versicherungswesen:

a) auf Lebenszeit Versicherte(r) m/f(m) (im Hinblick auf die Lebenserwartung)

b) auch life business Lebensversicherungsgeschäft n

13. JUR umg lebenslängliche Freiheitsstrafe:

he is doing life er sitzt lebenslänglich;

he got life er bekam „lebenslänglich“Besondere Redewendungen: for life

a) fürs (ganze) Leben, für den Rest seines Lebens,

b) besonders JUR, POL lebenslänglich, auf Lebenszeit appointed for life auf Lebenszeit ernannt;

imprisonment for life lebenslängliche Freiheitsstrafe;

not for the life of me umg nicht um alles in der Welt;

I couldn’t get to sleep for the life of me umg ich konnte ums Verrecken nicht einschlafen;

not on your life umg ganz bestimmt nicht, unter keinen Umständen;

to the life nach dem Leben, lebensecht, naturgetreu;

upon my life! so wahr ich lebe!;

that’s life so ist nun einmal das Leben;

music was his life die Musik war sein Leben;

where ( oder while) there’s life there’s hope (Sprichwort) MED man darf die Hoffnung nie aufgeben, weitS. a. es hofft der Mensch, solange er lebt;

bring to life

a) auch put life into beleben, Leben oder Schwung bringen in (akk), auch jemanden in Schwung bringen

b) ins Leben rufen come to life sich beleben, (auch Person) in Schwung kommen;

after some time the party came to life nach einiger Zeit kam Leben oder Schwung in die Party;

come back to life

a) wieder zu(m) Bewusstsein oder zu sich kommen,

b) wieder gesund werden lead ( oder live) the life of Riley Br umg wie Gott in Frankreich leben;

run for dear ( oder one’s) life um sein Leben laufen;

I couldn’t get it open to save my life umg ich brachte es nicht ums Verrecken auf;

sell one’s life dearly sein Leben teuer verkaufen;

show (signs of) life Lebenszeichen von sich geben;

seek sb’s life jemandem nach dem Leben trachten;

take sb’s life jemanden umbringen;

take one’s own life sich das Leben nehmen;

take one’s life in one’s (own) hands umg sein Leben riskieren oder aufs Spiel setzen; → bet B, bowl¹ 1 b, breathe B 1, bring back 4, charm B 2

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noun

, pl. lives

1) Leben, das

it is a matter of life and death — es geht [dabei] um Leben und Tod; (fig.): (it is of vital importance) es ist äußerst wichtig (to für)

come to life — [Bild, Statue:] lebendig werden

run etc. for one's life — um sein Leben rennen usw.

I cannot for the life of me — ich kann beim besten Willen nicht

lose one's life — sein Leben verlieren

many lives were lost — viele Menschen kamen ums Leben

without loss of life — ohne Todesopfer

life is not worth living — das Leben ist nicht lebenswert

marry early in life — früh heiraten

late in life — erst im fortgeschrittenen Alter

for life — lebenslänglich [inhaftiert]

he's doing life — (coll.) er sitzt lebenslänglich (ugs.)

get life — (coll.) lebenslänglich kriegen (ugs.)

expectation of life — Lebenserwartung, die

get the fright/shock of one's life — (coll.) zu Tode erschrecken/den Schock seines Lebens bekommen (ugs.)

have the time of one's life — sich hervorragend amüsieren

he will do anything for a quiet life — für ihn ist die Hauptsache, dass er seine Ruhe hat

make life easy for oneself/somebody — es sich (Dat.) /jemandem leicht machen

make life difficult for oneself/somebody — sich (Dat.) /jemandem das Leben schwer machen

this is the life! — (expr. content) so lässt sich's leben!

that's life, life's like that — so ist das Leben [nun mal]

not on your life — (coll.) nie im Leben! (ugs.)

save one's/somebody's life — sein Leben/jemandem das Leben retten

something is as much as somebody's life is worth — mit etwas setzt jemand sein Leben aufs Spiel

take one's [own] life — sich (Dat.) das Leben nehmen

take one's life in one's hands — sein Leben riskieren

get a life — (coll.) was aus seinem Leben machen

2) (energy, animation) Leben, das

be the life and soul of the party — der Mittelpunkt der Party sein

there is still life in something — in etwas (Dat.) steckt noch Leben

3) (living things and their activity) Leben, das

bird/insect life — die Vogelwelt/die Insekten

4) (living form or model)

draw somebody from life — jemanden nach dem Leben zeichnen

as large as life — (life-size) lebensgroß; (in person) in voller Schönheit (ugs. scherzh.)

larger than life — überzeichnet

true to life — wahrheitsgetreu

5) (specific aspect) [Privat-, Wirtschafts-, Dorf]leben, das

in this life — (on earth) in diesem Leben

the other or the future or the next life — (in heaven) das zukünftige Leben [nach dem Tode]

eternal or everlasting life — ewiges Leben

daily life — das Alltagsleben

see life — etwas von der Welt sehen

6) (of battery, lightbulb, etc.) Lebensdauer, die

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n.

(§ pl.: lives)

= Leben -- n.

Lebensdauer f.

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8 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.

    Contemporary Portugal

   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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9 critical

adjective

1) (judging and analysing: He has written several critical works on Shakespeare.) crítico

2) (fault-finding: He tends to be critical of his children.) crítico, severo

3) (of, at or having the nature of, a crisis; very serious: a critical shortage of food; After the accident, his condition was critical.) crítico, grave, serio

critical adj crítico

the injured man is in a critical condition el herido está en condición crítica

to be critical of something criticar algo

critical

tr['krɪtɪkəl]

adjective

1 (anaylsis, essay, work, etc) crítico,-a

2 (negative, finding fault) criticón,-ona, quisquilloso,-a

3 (decisive, crucial, very serious) crítico,-a

■ he's in a critical condition se encuentra en estado crítico

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

to be critical of something/somebody criticar algo/a alguien

to be very critical ser dado,-a a las críticas

to go critical (of nuclear reactor) iniciar una reacción en cadena

to receive critical acclaim recibir buenas críticas

critical temperature temperatura crítica

critical ['krɪt̬ɪkəl] adj

: crítico

critical

adj.

• criticón, -ona adj.

• crítico, -a adj.

• decisivo, -a adj.

• extremo, -a adj.

'krɪtɪkəl
adjective

1)

a) ( censorious) <remark/report> crítico

to be critical OF something/somebody — criticar* algo/a alguien

b) (journalistic, academic) crítico

2)

a) ( very serious) <condition/shortage> crítico

b) (decisive, crucial) < period> crítico; < decision> de importancia fundamental

['krɪtɪkǝl]
1. ADJ

1) (=important) [factor, element] crítico; [issue] apremiante; [problem] muy serio

it is critical to understand what is happening — es de vital importancia entender lo que está ocurriendo

of critical importance — de vital importancia

how you finance a business is critical to its success — el éxito de un negocio depende de forma crucial de cómo se financie

2) (=decisive) [moment, stage] crítico

it was a critical time for the nation — fue un período crítico para la nación

at a critical juncture — en una coyuntura crítica

3) (=perilous, serious) [situation, state] crítico

4) (Med) [patient, condition, illness] grave

to be on the critical list — estar en la lista de enfermos graves

to be off the critical list — estar fuera de peligro

5) (=fault-finding) [attitude, remark, report] crítico

he's too critical — siempre está criticando, critica demasiado

to watch sb with a critical eye — observar a algn con ojo crítico

to be critical of sth/sb — criticar algo/a algn

6) (=analytical) [person, reader, analysis] crítico

7) (Cine, Literat, Mus, Theat) crítico

the film met with critical acclaim — la película fue aplaudida por la crítica

to be a critical success — [book, play etc] ser un éxito de crítica

8) (Phys, Nuclear physics) [temperature, pressure] crítico

to go critical — empezar una reacción en cadena

2.

CPD

critical angle N — (Aer) (Opt) ángulo m crítico

critical care unit N — unidad f de cuidados intensivos, unidad f de terapia intensiva (S. Cone, Mex)

critical edition N — edición f critica

critical essays NPL — ensayos mpl de crítica

critical mass N — masa f crítica

critical path analysis N — análisis m inv del camino crítico

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['krɪtɪkəl]
adjective

1)

a) ( censorious) <remark/report> crítico

to be critical OF something/somebody — criticar* algo/a alguien

b) (journalistic, academic) crítico

2)

a) ( very serious) <condition/shortage> crítico

b) (decisive, crucial) < period> crítico; < decision> de importancia fundamental

English-spanish dictionary > critical
10 cycle

I
1.
verb
(to go by bicycle: He cycles to work every day.) ir en bicicleta

2. noun
(shortened form of bicycle: They bought the child a cycle for his birthday.) bicicleta

- cyclist

II
noun
1) (a number of events happening one after the other in a certain order: the life-cycle of the butterfly.)

2) (a series of poems, songs etc written about one main event etc: a song cycle.) ciclo

3) ((of alternating current, radio waves etc) one complete series of changes in a regularly varying supply, signal etc.) ciclo

•

- cyclic
- cyclically

cycle¹ n bicicleta

he's got a new cycle tiene una bicicleta nueva

cycle² vb ir en bicicleta

he cycles everywhere va en bicicleta a todas partes

El gerundio de cycle se escribe cycling

cycle

tr['saɪkəl]

noun

1 (series of events, of songs etc) ciclo; (of washing machine) programa nombre masculino

2 (bicycle) bicicleta; (motorcycle) moto nombre femenino

intransitive verb

1 ir en bicicleta

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

cycle lane/path/way carril nombre masculino para bicicletas

cycle track velódromo

cycle ['saɪkəl] vi, - cled ; - cling : andar en bicicleta, ir en bicicleta

cycle n

1) : ciclo m

life cycle: ciclo de vida, ciclo vital

2) bicycle: bicicleta f

3) motorcycle: motocicleta f

cycle

n.

• bicicleta s.f.

• ciclo s.m.

• tiempo s.m.

v.

• montar en bicicleta v.

I 'saɪkəl
noun

1)

a) ( process) ciclo m

the life cycle — el ciclo de la vida

b) ( of washing machine) programa m

2) (Elec, Comput) ciclo m

3) ( bicycle) bicicleta f

II

intransitive verb \<\<person\>\> ir* en bicicleta

['saɪkl]
1. N

1) (=bicycle) bicicleta f

racing cycle — bicicleta f de carreras

2) [of seasons, poems etc] ciclo m

life cycle — ciclo m vital

menstrual cycle — ciclo m menstrual

a 10-second cycle — un ciclo de 10 segundos

2.

VI (=travel) ir en bicicleta

we cycled to the coast — fuimos en bicicleta a la costa

I cycle to school — voy al colegio en bicicleta

can you cycle? — ¿sabes montar en bicicleta?

3.

CPD

cycle clip N — pinza f para ir en bicicleta

cycle helmet N — casco m de bicicleta

cycle hire N — (=business) alquiler m de bicicletas; [of one bike] alquiler m de una bicicleta

cycle lane N — (Brit) carril m de bicicleta, carril m bici

cycle path N — carril m de bicicleta

cycle race N — carrera f ciclista

cycle rack N — soporte m para bicicletas; (on car roof) baca f para transportar bicicletas

cycle ride N — paseo m en bicicleta

to go for a cycle ride — ir a dar un paseo en bicicleta

cycle shed N — cobertizo m para bicicletas

cycle track N — (in countryside) ruta f para ciclistas, senda f para ciclistas; (Sport) pista f de ciclismo, velódromo m

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I ['saɪkəl]
noun

1)

a) ( process) ciclo m

the life cycle — el ciclo de la vida

b) ( of washing machine) programa m

2) (Elec, Comput) ciclo m

3) ( bicycle) bicicleta f

II

intransitive verb \<\<person\>\> ir* en bicicleta

English-spanish dictionary > cycle
11 interest

n

1. інтерес; зацікавленість

2. важливість, значення

3. звич. pl практична зацікавленість, вигода, користь

- basic interests основні інтереси

- class interests класові інтереси

- common interests спільні інтереси

- concurring interests одинакові інтереси

- contending interests протилежні інтереси

- global interests глобальні інтереси

- imperialist interests імперіалістичні інтереси

- long-range interests довгострокові інтереси

- long-term interests довгострокові інтереси

- mutual interests взаємні інтереси

- opposing interests протилежні інтереси

- primordial interests початкові/ основні інтереси

- security interests інтереси безпеки

- short-term interests короткотривалі інтереси

- vital interests життєві/ важливі інтереси

- public interest in smth. суспільний інтерес до чогось

- balance of interests баланс інтересів

- conflict of interests зіткнення інтересів

- confrontation of interests зіткнення інтересів

- identity of interests тотожність інтересів

- a matter of considerable interest надзвичайно важлива справа

- protection of the national interests захист інтересів країни

- spheres of interests сфери інтересів

- to conflict with smbd.'s interests суперечити чиїмось інтересам

- to declare some territory a zone of "vital interests" оголосити якийсь район зоною своїх "життєвих інтересів"

- to defend one's interests захищати свої інтереси

- to enhance one's interests підсилити зацікавленість

- to forgo smbd.'s economic interests ігнорувати чиїсь економічні інтереси

- to forward one's political interests добиватись здійснення своїх політичних цілей

- to jeopardize the interests of the country наражати на небезпеку інтереси країни

- to mask one's interests замаскувати інтереси

- to meet the interests of smbd. відповідати чиїмось інтересам

- to neglect smbd.'s interests нехтувати чиїмось інтересами

- to protect the basic national interest захищати головні інтереси країни

- to provoke interest викликати інтерес

- to realize one's interests здійснити/ втілити в життя свої інтереси/ цілі

- to represent smbd.'s interests представляти чиїсь інтереси

- to serve the interests of smbd. служити чиїмось інтересам

- to work in the interests of humanity працювати на користь людства

English-Ukrainian diplomatic dictionary > interest
12 robust

1. a здоровый, крепкий, сильный

robust young fellow — крепкий малый

robust health — крепкое здоровье

robust appetite — здоровый аппетит

2. a тех. прочный; устойчивый, надёжный в эксплуатации

robust algorithm — живучий алгоритм; устойчивый алгоритм

noise robust level — устойчивый к шумам уровень

robust construction — прочная конструкция

3. a здравый, ясный

robust intellect — ясный ум

4. a трудный, требующий усилий

robust work — тяжёлая работа

5. a грубоватый

6. a устойчивый, робастный

robust estimate — устойчивая оценка

Синонимический ряд:

1. athletic (adj.) athletic; hefty; husky; rugged; solid

2. burly (adj.) brawny; burly; muscular; sinewy; sturdy

3. flavorful (adj.) flavorful; rich; substantial

4. healthy (adj.) booming; flourishing; healthy; prospering; prosperous; roaring; thrifty; thriving

5. rude (adj.) boisterous; coarse; loud; rambunctious; riotous; rough; rude; tumultuous; wild

6. strong (adj.) concentrated; full-bodied; potent; strong

7. vigorous (adj.) energetic; hardy; lively; powerful; sound; stalwart; strapping; vigorous; vigourous

8. vital (adj.) lusty; red-blooded; vital

Антонимический ряд:

frail; quiet; refined; sickly; soft; unhealthy; weak

English-Russian base dictionary > robust
13 living

living ['lɪvɪŋ]

1 noun

(a) (livelihood) vie f;

∎ I have to work for a living je suis obligé de travailler pour vivre;

∎ what do you do for a living? qu'est-ce que vous faites dans la vie?;

∎ to write for a living vivre de sa plume;

∎ she made a (good) living as a pianist elle gagnait (bien) sa vie comme pianiste;

∎ to make a living gagner sa vie;

∎ you can't make a decent living in this business on gagne mal sa vie ou on a du mal à gagner sa vie dans ce métier

(b) (life, lifestyle) vie f;

∎ come to California where the living is easy venez en Californie, la vie y est facile;

∎ plain living la vie simple

(c) British Religion bénéfice m

2 adjective

(alive) vivant;

∎ the study of living organisms l'étude des organismes vivants;

∎ he has no living relatives il n'a plus de famille;

∎ who's the greatest living boxer? quel est le plus grand boxeur vivant?;

∎ while she was living de son vivant;

∎ it was the worst storm in living memory de mémoire d'homme on n'avait jamais vu une tempête aussi violente;

∎ I didn't see a living soul je n'ai pas vu âme qui vive;

∎ she's living proof that the treatment works elle est la preuve vivante que le traitement est efficace;

∎ they made her life a living hell ils lui ont rendu la vie infernale;

∎ the living dead les morts mpl vivants;

∎ living death vie f de souffrances;

∎ his life became a living death sa vie ne fut plus qu'une longue souffrance

3 plural noun

∎ the living les vivants mpl

4 compound-forming noun

(conditions) de vie

►► living allowance indemnité f de séjour;

living area aire f de séjour;

∎ the living area is separated from the bedrooms la partie séjour est séparée des chambres;

Finance living expenses indemnité f de séjour;

living quarters (for servants) logements mpl; (on ship) partie f habitée;

∎ these are the crew's living quarters ce sont les quartiers de l'équipage;

Geology the living rock la roche non exploitée;

∎ sculpted from the living rock taillé à même le roc;

living room

1 noun

(salle f de) séjour m

2 compound-forming noun

du salon;

living space espace m vital;

living standards niveau m de vie;

living thing être m vivant;

a living wage le minimum vital;

∎ £400 a month isn't a living wage on ne peut pas vivre avec 400 livres par mois;

living will = testament dans lequel le testataire exprime sa volonté de ne pas être maintenu en vie artificiellement s'il sombre dans un état végétatif irréversible à la suite d'une maladie ou d'un accident

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14 automation technologies
1. технологии для автоматизации
технологии для автоматизации
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Параллельные тексты EN-RU

Automation technologies: a strong focal point for our R&D

Технологии для автоматизации - одна из главных тем наших научно исследовательских разработок

Automation is an area of ABB’s business with an extremely high level of technological innovation.

Автоматика относится к одной из областей деятельности компании АББ, для которой характерен исключительно высокий уровень технических инноваций.

In fact, it may be seen as a showcase for exhibiting the frontiers of development in several of today’s emerging technologies, like short-range wireless communication and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).

В определенном смысле ее можно уподобить витрине, в которой выставлены передовые разработки из области только еще зарождающихся технологий, примерами которых являются ближняя беспроводная связь и микроэлектромеханические системы (micro electromechanical systems MEMS).

Mechatronics – the synthesis of mechanics and electronics – is another very exciting and rapidly developing area, and the foundation on which ABB has built its highly successful, fast-growing robotics business.

Еще одной исключительно интересной быстро развивающейся областью и в то же время фундаментом, на котором АББ в последнее время строит свой исключительно успешный и быстро расширяющийся бизнес в области робототехники, является мехатроника - синтез механики с электроникой.

Robotic precision has now reached the levels we have come to expect of the watch-making industry, while robots’ mechanical capabilities continue to improve significantly.

Точность работы робототехнических устройств достигла сегодня уровней, которые мы привыкли ожидать только на предприятиях часовой промышленности. Большими темпами продолжают расти и механические возможности роботов.

Behind the scenes, highly sophisticated electronics and software control every move these robots make.

А за кулисами всеми перемещениями робота управляют сложные электронные устройства и компьютерные программы.

Throughout industry today we see a major shift of ‘intelligence’ to lower levels in the automation system hierarchy, leading to a demand for more communication within the system.

Во всех отраслях промышленности сегодня наблюдается интенсивный перенос "интеллекта" на нижние уровни иерархии автоматизированных систем, что требует дальнейшего развития внутрисистемных средств обмена.

‘Smart’ transmitters, with powerful microprocessors, memory chips and special software, carry out vital operations close to the processes they are monitoring.

"Интеллектуальные" датчики, снабженные высокопроизводительными микропроцессорами, мощными чипами памяти и специальным программно-математическим обеспечением, выполняют особо ответственные операции в непосредственной близости от контролируемых процессов.

And they capture and store data crucial for remote diagnostics and maintenance.

Они же обеспечивают возможность измерения и регистрации информации, крайне необходимой для дистанционной диагностики и дистанционного обслуживания техники.

The communication highway linking such systems is provided by fieldbuses.

В качестве коммуникационных магистралей, связывающих такого рода системы, служат промышленные шины fieldbus.

In an ideal world there would be no more than a few, preferably just one, fieldbus standard.

В идеале на промышленные шины должно было бы существовать небольшое количество, а лучше всего вообще только один стандарт.

However, there are still too many of them, so ABB has developed ‘fieldbus plugs’ that, with the help of translation, enable devices to communicate across different standards.

К сожалению, на деле количество их типов продолжает оставаться слишком разнообразным. Ввиду этой особенности рынка промышленных шин компанией АББ разработаны "штепсельные разъемы", которые с помощью средств преобразования обеспечивают общение различных устройств вопреки границам, возникшим из-за различий в стандартах.

This makes life easier as well as less costly for our customers. Every automation system is dependent on an electrical network for distributing – and interrupting, when necessary – the power needed to carry out its various functions.

Это, безусловно, не только облегчает, но и удешевляет жизнь нашим заказчикам. Ни одна система автоматики не может работать без сети, обеспечивающей подачу, а при необходимости и отключение напряжения, необходимого для выполнения автоматикой своих задач.

Here, too, we see a clear trend toward more intelligence and communication, for example in traditional electromechanical devices such as contactors and switches.

И здесь наблюдаются отчетливо выраженные тенденции к повышению уровня интеллектуальности и расширению возможностей связи, например, в таких традиционных электромеханических устройствах, как контакторы и выключатели.

We are pleased to see that our R&D efforts in these areas over the past few years are bearing fruit.

Мы с удовлетворением отмечаем, что научно-исследовательские разработки, выполненные нами за последние годы в названных областях, начинают приносить свои плоды.

Recently, we have seen a strong increase in the use of wireless technology in industry.

В последнее время на промышленных предприятиях наблюдается резкое расширение применения техники беспроводной связи.

This is a key R&D area at ABB, and several prototype applications have already been developed.

В компании АББ эта область также относится к числу одной из ключевых тем научно-исследовательских разработок, результатом которых стало создание ряда опытных образцов изделий практического направления.

At the international Bluetooth Conference in Amsterdam in June 2002, we presented a truly ‘wire-less’ proximity sensor – with even a wireless power supply.

На международной конференции по системам Bluetooth, состоявшейся в Амстердаме в июне 2002 г., наши специалисты выступили с докладом о поистине "беспроводном" датчике ближней локации, снабженном опять-таки "беспроводным" источником питания.

This was its second major showing after the launch at the Hanover Fair.

На столь крупном мероприятии это устройство демонстрировалось во второй раз после своего первого показа на Ганноверской торгово-промышленной ярмарке.

Advances in microelectronic device technology are also having a profound impact on the power electronics systems around which modern drive systems are built.

Достижения в области микроэлектроники оказывают также глубокое влияние на системы силовой электроники, лежащие в основе современных приводных устройств.

The ABB drive family ACS 800 is visible proof of this.

Наглядным тому доказательством может служить линейка блоков регулирования частоты вращения электродвигателей ACS-800, производство которой начато компанией АББ.

Combining advanced trench gate IGBT technology with efficient cooling and innovative design, this drive – for motors rated from 1.1 to 500 kW – has a footprint for some power ranges which is six times smaller than competing systems.

Предназначены они для двигателей мощностью от 1,1 до 500 кВт. В блоках применена новейшая разновидность приборов - биполярные транзисторы с изолированным желобковым затвором (trench gate IGBT) в сочетании с новыми конструктивными решениями, благодаря чему в отдельных диапазонах мощностей габариты блоков удалось снизить по сравнению с конкурирующими изделиями в шесть раз.

To get the maximum benefit out of this innovative drive solution we have also developed a new permanent magnet motor.

Стремясь с максимальной пользой использовать новые блоки регулирования, мы параллельно с ними разработали новый двигатель с постоянными магнитами.

It uses neodymium iron boron, a magnetic material which is more powerful at room temperature than any other known today.

В нем применен новый магнитный материал на основе неодима, железа и бора, характеристики которого при комнатной температуре на сегодняшний день не имеют себе равных.

The combination of new drive and new motor reduces losses by as much as 30%, lowering energy costs and improving sustainability – both urgently necessary – at the same time.

Совместное использование нового блока регулирования частоты вращения с новым двигателем снижает потери мощности до 30 %, что позволяет решить сразу две исключительно актуальные задачи:
сократить затраты на электроэнергию и повысить уровень безотказности.

These innovations are utilized most fully, and yield the maximum benefit, when integrated by means of our Industrial IT architecture.

Потенциал перечисленных выше новых разработок используется в наиболее полной степени, а сами они приносят максимальную выгоду, если их интеграция осуществлена на основе нашей архитектуры IndustrialIT.

Industrial IT is a unique platform for exploiting the full potential of information technology in industrial applications.

IndustrialIT представляет собой уникальную платформу, позволяющую в максимальной степени использовать возможности информационных технологий применительно к задачам промышленности.

Consequently, our new products and technologies are Industrial IT Enabled, meaning that they can be integrated in the Industrial IT architecture in a ‘plug and produce’ manner.

Именно поэтому все наши новые изделия и технологии выпускаются в варианте, совместимом с архитектурой IndustrialIT, что означает их способность к интеграции с этой архитектурой по принципу "подключи и производи".

We are excited to present in this issue of ABB Review some of our R&D work and a selection of achievements in such a vital area of our business as Automation.

Мы рады представить в настоящем номере "АББ ревю" некоторые из наших научно-исследовательских разработок и достижений в такой жизненно важной для нашего бизнеса области, как автоматика.

R&D investment in our corporate technology programs is the foundation on which our product and system innovation is built.

Вклад наших разработок в общекорпоративные технологические программы группы АББ служит основой для реализации новых технических решений в создаваемых нами устройствах и системах.

Examples abound in the areas of control engineering, MEMS, wireless communication, materials – and, last but not least, software technologies. Enjoy reading about them.
[ABB Review]

Это подтверждается многочисленными примерами из области техники управления, микроэлектромеханических систем, ближней радиосвязи, материаловедения и не в последнюю очередь программотехники. Хотелось бы пожелать читателю получить удовольствие от чтения этих материалов.
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Тематики
- автоматизированные системы
EN
- automation technologies
Англо-русский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > automation technologies
15 flow

flow [fləʊ]

circulation ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (b) écoulement ⇒ 1 (a) flux ⇒ 1 (b), 1 (e) mouvement ⇒ 1 (b) flot ⇒ 1 (d) couler ⇒ 2 (a), 2 (d) circuler ⇒ 2 (b), 2 (h)

1 noun

(a) (of liquid) circulation f; (volume of liquid) volume m; (of river) écoulement m; (of lava) coulée f; (of tears) ruissellement m; (of blood → in veins) circulation f; (→ from wound) écoulement m; (of air, fuel etc) passage m, arrivée f; Electricity (of current) passage m;

∎ the decreasing flow of oil from the North Sea la quantité décroissante de pétrole en provenance de la mer du Nord

(b) (amount → of traffic, people, information, work) flux m; (→ of ideas) flot m; (movement → of work) acheminement m; (→ of information) circulation f; Finance (→ of capital) mouvement m;

∎ there is normally a very heavy flow of traffic here il y a généralement beaucoup de circulation ou une circulation intense par ici;

∎ a steady flow of immigrants un courant ininterrompu d'immigration;

∎ figurative to go with the flow suivre le mouvement;

∎ flow of funds mouvement m de fonds;

∎ flow of money flux m monétaire

(c) (of dress, cape) drapé m

(d) (of prose, novel, piece of music) flot m;

∎ to be in full flow (orator) être en plein discours;

∎ there's no stopping him once he's in full flow il n'y a pas moyen de l'arrêter quand il est lancé;

∎ to follow the flow of sb's argument suivre le fil de l'argumentation de qn

(e) (of the tide) flux m

2 intransitive verb

(a) (liquid) couler; (electric current, air, blood in veins) circuler;

∎ the river flows into the sea la rivière se jette dans la mer;

∎ I let the waves flow over me j'ai laissé les vagues glisser sur moi;

∎ blood was still flowing from the wound le sang continuait à couler ou s'écouler de la blessure;

∎ a lot of blood will flow before peace is established beaucoup de sang sera versé avant que la paix ne soit rétablie;

∎ I could feel a new vital force flowing through my veins je sentais un regain de force vitale m'envahir;

∎ the tears flowed down her cheeks les larmes coulaient sur ses joues;

∎ figurative I let the sound of the music just flow over me j'ai laissé la musique m'envahir

(b) (traffic, crowd) circuler, s'écouler;

∎ new measures designed to enable the traffic to flow more freely de nouvelles mesures destinées à rendre la circulation plus fluide;

∎ the traffic isn't flowing as it should la circulation n'est pas aussi fluide qu'elle devrait l'être

(c) (hair, dress) flotter

(d) (prose, style, novel) couler; (work, project) avancer, progresser;

∎ this essay doesn't flow very well cette dissertation n'est pas très fluide;

∎ Music play it this way, it flows better joue-le comme ça, ça coule mieux;

∎ in order to keep the conversation flowing pour entretenir la conversation

(e) (appear in abundance)

∎ the whisky flowed freely le whisky a coulé à flots;

∎ ideas flowed fast and furious les idées fusaient de tous côtés

(f) (tide) monter

(g) (emanate) provenir;

∎ decisions flowing from head office les décisions qui proviennent ou émanent du siège social;

∎ God from whom all blessings flow Dieu, de qui découlent toutes les grâces

(h) Finance (capital, money) circuler

►► flow diagram organigramme m, graphique m d'évolution; Computing ordinogramme m;

Computing flow path branche f de traitement;

flow pipe conduite f montante;

Accountancy flow sheet feuille f d'avancement

➲ flow away intransitive verb

(liquid) s'écouler

➲ flow back intransitive verb

(water) refluer; (in pipe etc) regorger

➲ flow in intransitive verb

(water, liquid) entrer, s'écouler; (contributions, messages of sympathy, people) affluer

➲ flow out intransitive verb

(water, liquid) sortir, s'écouler; (people, crowds) s'écouler;

∎ the sewage then flows out of the pipe into the lake les égouts se déversent ensuite du conduit dans le lac

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16 Abel, Sir Frederick August

SUBJECT AREA: Chemical technology, Weapons and armour

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b. 17 July 1827 Woolwich, London, England

d. 6 September 1902 Westminster, London, England

[br]

English chemist, co-inventor of cordite find explosives expert.

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His family came from Germany and he was the son of a music master. He first became interested in science at the age of 14, when visiting his mineralogist uncle in Hamburg, and studied chemistry at the Royal Polytechnic Institution in London. In 1845 he became one of the twenty-six founding students, under A.W.von Hofmann, of the Royal College of Chemistry. Such was his aptitude for the subject that within two years he became von Hermann's assistant and demonstrator. In 1851 Abel was appointed Lecturer in Chemistry, succeeding Michael Faraday, at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and it was while there that he wrote his Handbook of Chemistry, which was co-authored by his assistant, Charles Bloxam.

Abel's four years at the Royal Military Academy served to foster his interest in explosives, but it was during his thirty-four years, beginning in 1854, as Ordnance Chemist at the Royal Arsenal and at Woolwich that he consolidated and developed his reputation as one of the international leaders in his field. In 1860 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, but it was his studies during the 1870s into the chemical changes that occur during explosions, and which were the subject of numerous papers, that formed the backbone of his work. It was he who established the means of storing gun-cotton without the danger of spontaneous explosion, but he also developed devices (the Abel Open Test and Close Test) for measuring the flashpoint of petroleum. He also became interested in metal alloys, carrying out much useful work on their composition. A further avenue of research occurred in 1881 when he was appointed a member of the Royal Commission set up to investigate safety in mines after the explosion that year in the Sealham Colliery. His resultant study on dangerous dusts did much to further understanding on the use of explosives underground and to improve the safety record of the coal-mining industry. The achievement for which he is most remembered, however, came in 1889, when, in conjunction with Sir James Dewar, he invented cordite. This stable explosive, made of wood fibre, nitric acid and glycerine, had the vital advantage of being a "smokeless powder", which meant that, unlike the traditional ammunition propellant, gunpowder ("black powder"), the firer's position was not given away when the weapon was discharged. Although much of the preliminary work had been done by the Frenchman Paul Vieille, it was Abel who perfected it, with the result that cordite quickly became the British Army's standard explosive.

Abel married, and was widowed, twice. He had no children, but died heaped in both scientific honours and those from a grateful country.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

Grand Commander of the Royal Victorian Order 1901. Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath 1891 (Commander 1877). Knighted 1883. Created Baronet 1893. FRS 1860. President, Chemical Society 1875–7. President, Institute of Chemistry 1881–2. President, Institute of Electrical Engineers 1883. President, Iron and Steel Institute 1891. Chairman, Society of Arts 1883–4. Telford Medal 1878, Royal Society Royal Medal 1887, Albert Medal (Society of Arts) 1891, Bessemer Gold Medal 1897. Hon. DCL (Oxon.) 1883, Hon. DSc (Cantab.) 1888.

Bibliography

1854, with C.L.Bloxam, Handbook of Chemistry: Theoretical, Practical and Technical, London: John Churchill; 2nd edn 1858.

Besides writing numerous scientific papers, he also contributed several articles to The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1875–89, 9th edn.

Further Reading

Dictionary of National Biography, 1912, Vol. 1, Suppl. 2, London: Smith, Elder.

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17 force

fɔ:s I сущ. диал. водопад, водный каскад II
1. сущ.
1) а) сила to spend one's force ≈ растратить силу explosive force irresistible force magnetic force motivating force moral forces physical force spiritual forces vital force by force Syn: impact б) физ. сила centrifugal force centripetal force force of gravity Syn: energy, power
2) насилие, принуждение (также юр.) to apply, resort to, use force ≈ применять силу to renounce( the use of) force ≈ не признавать силу deadly force ≈ беспощадное насилие brute force Syn: compulsion, violence
3) вооруженная группа людей а) полиция( с заглавной буквы с определенным артиклем) б) обыкн. мн. вооруженные силы, войска to marshal (muster, rally) one's forces ≈ выстраивать войска to join forces with ≈ вступать в войска a show of force ≈ смотр войск air force armed forces expeditionary force ground forces guerrilla force military forces naval forces occupation force peacekeeping force Rapid Deployment Force в) любая другая вооруженная группа людей A force of seven thousand men landed in Suffolk. ≈ Отряд в семь тысяч человек высадился в Суффолке.
4) а) юр. юридическая сила, действие;
юр. смысл, реальное значение того или иного постановления, закона, статьи и т.п. to come into force ≈ вступать в силу to put in force ≈ вводить в действие, осуществлять, проводить в жизнь to remain in force ≈ оставаться в силе, действовать б) убедительность, действенность, влияние;
смысл, осмысленность In both these two reasons there is force. ≈ Каждый из этих аргументов убедителен. ∙ to come in full force ≈ прибыть в полном составе
2. гл.
1) а) оказывать давление, заставлять, принуждать, вынуждать The loss of money forced her to sell her house. ≈ Денежные потери вынудили ее продать дом. force a confession force a smile force tears from smb.'s eyes force an action force division force one's hand Syn: compel, constrain, oblige б) напрягать, перенапрягать, действовать на пределе сил force one's voice в) притягивать за уши, вчитывать
2) а) с силой преодолевать сопротивление;
запихивать, заталкивать force a lock б) насиловать, совершать изнасилование Syn: violate, ravish, rape в) воен. брать;
форсировать force a crossing - force one's way
3) тех. форсировать, перегружать( какое-л. устройство), в частности ускорять, добавлять обороты
4) карт. попадать в козыря ∙ force in force into force out force up to force down the throat ≈ навязать что-л. силой to force smb.'s hand ≈ заставлять кого-л. действовать немедленно, вопреки его желанию;
толкать на что-л., подталкивать to force up prices ≈ вздувать, взвинчивать цены сила, мощь - the * of the blow сила удара - with all one's * изо всех сил - to hit with * сильно ударить сила, воздействие - the * of superstition сила предрассудка - the * of circumstances сила обстоятельств - the * of example воздействие примера - by sheer * of will иссключительно /только/ силой воли - by * of habit в силу привычки авторитет, престиж - to be a * быть силой, иметь вес, пользоваться большим влиянием - today he is an international * сейчас он пользуется авторитетом во всем мире - he is a spent * он уже не пользуется влиянием, он вышел в тираж действенность;
действительность - the * of an agreement действительность договора - the full * of the treaty полная сила договора - in * действующий, имеющий силу (о договоре, документе и т. п.) - to put in * вводить в силу;
делать действительным;
проводить в жизнь, осуществлять - to come into * вступать в силу - to remain in * оставаться в силе;
действовать - this law remains in * till next year этот закон действителен до будущего года - to have no * быть недействительным, не иметь силы насилие, принуждение - brutal * грубая сила, насилие - by * силой, насильно - to achieve smth. by * добиться чего-л. силой - to use /to resort to/ * прибегать к силе /насилию/ - to believe in * быть сторонником насильственных методов или методов принуждения - the policy of * политика силы - the use of * применение силы - the renunciation of * отказ от применения силы вооруженный отряд;
(воинское) соединение( the F.) полиция (обыкн. pl) войска;
вооруженные силы - sea /naval/ *s военно-морские силы - air * военно-воздушные силы - ground *s сухопутные войска - armed *s вооруженные силы - effective *s наличный боевой состав - to join the *s вступить в армию убедительность;
смысл, резон - there is * in what you say в том, что вы говорите, есть смысл - can't see the * of doing what one dislikes нет смысла /необходимости/ делать то, что не нравится смысл;
значение - verb used with passive * глагол со значением пассивности (физическое) усилие, сила - attractive * сила притяжения - the * of steam сила пара - centrifugal * центробежная сила - * of gravity сила тяжести;
земное притяжение > by * of... путем..., посредством..., при помощи, в силу > by * of contrast путем контраста /противопоставления/ > in * (военное) значительными /крупными/ силами;
всеми силами;
толпами, в большом числе /количестве/ > attack in * наступление крупными силами > in great * в разгаре кипучей деятельности;
в ударе > in full * в полном составе > to join *s объединить усилия, объединиться > by * and arms силой оружия > to hunt at /of, by/ * травить /дичь/ собаками заставлять, принуждать, вынуждать - to * smb. to do smth. заставлять кого-л. делать что-л. - to * a confession вынудить признание - to * a secret заставить открыть тайну /секрет/ - to be *d to yield быть вынужденным уступить - to * oneself to work hard заставить себя усиленно работать - to * facts to fit a case подтасовывать факты - I am *d to conclude that... я вынужден сделать вывод, что... применять силу, брать силой - to * entry ворваться, вломиться( в комнату, дом и т. п.) - to * a town захватить город, крепость - to * a crossing( военное) форсировать реку - to * one's way (through a crowd) пробиться (через толпу) - he *d me through the door он протолкнул меня в дверь взломать( крышку, дверь и т. п.) - to * a look взломать замок - to * a door (open) взломать дверь насиловать делать (что-л.) через силу - to * a smile принужденно улыбнуться, выдавить (из себя) улыбку чрезмерно напрягать;
перенапрягать - to * one's voice напрягать голос ускорять (шаг, ход и т. п.) - to * the pace усиливать темп бега - to * events форсировать события - to * a bill through the legislature протащить законопроект через парламент( техническое) добавлять обороты (техническое) нагнетать, форсировать (режим работы) ;
перегружать (машину) (музыкальное) форсировать (звук) выгонять (растение) - to * lilies for the Easter trade выгонять лилии для предпасхальной торговли - to * a pupil( разговорное) торопить развитие учащегося - to force smth., smb. into smth. вогнать, воткнуть что-л. куда-л.;
загнать, втолкнуть кого-л. куда-л. - to * a knife into smb.'s breast воткнуть нож в чью-л. грудь - to * air into the carburettor накачать воздух в карбюратор - she *d a tip into his hand она сунула ему в руку чаевые - to force smb. into smth. вовлечь, втянуть кого-л. во что-л. - to * a nation into war втянуть народ в войну - to force smth. out of smth. выдавить, выжать что-л. из чего-л. - to * juice out of an orange выжать сок из апельсина - to force smb. out of smth. вытеснить кого-л. откуда-л. - to * smb. out of the room вытолкать кого-л. из комнаты - to force smth. out of smb. вынудить кого-л. к чему-л. - to * facts out of smb. заставить кого-л. рассказать все, что ему известно - to force smth. up(on) smb. навязывать что-л. кому-л. - to * a drink upon smb. заставить кого-л. выпить - to * smth. on smb.'s attention усиленно привлекать чье-л. внимание к чему-л. - they said that the war had been *d upon them они заявили, что война была им навязана > to * smb.'s hand заставить кого-л. открыть свои карты, форсировать события > to * down the throat навязывать что-л. силой force: be in ~ юр. действовать be in ~ юр. оставаться в силе binding ~ обязательная сила ~ насилие, принуждение;
brute force грубая сила, насилие ~ сила;
by force силой, насильно;
by force of( arms) силой, посредством (оружия) ;
he did it by force of habit он сделал это в силу привычки ~ сила;
by force силой, насильно;
by force of (arms) силой, посредством (оружия) ;
he did it by force of habit он сделал это в силу привычки ~ влияние, действенность, убедительность;
by force of circumstances в силу обстоятельств;
there is force in what you say вы говорите убедительно ~ физ. сила;
force of gravity сила тяжести;
земное притяжение;
to come in full force прибыть в полном составе coming into ~ вступление в действие coming into ~ вступление в силу deferred entry into ~ отсроченное вступление в силу deterrent ~ войска сдерживания deterrent ~ войска устрашения driving ~ движущая сила enter into ~ вступать в силу executory ~ право приведения в исполнение force брать силой, форсировать;
to force a lock взломать замок;
to force one's way проложить себе дорогу ~ влияние, действенность, убедительность;
by force of circumstances в силу обстоятельств;
there is force in what you say вы говорите убедительно ~ воздействие ~ (обыкн. pl) вооруженные силы, войска ~ вооруженный отряд ~ тех. вставлять с силой ~ выводить, выращивать ~ действенность ~ действительность ~ заставлять, принуждать;
навязывать;
to force a confession вынудить признание;
to force a smile выдавить улыбку;
заставить себя улыбнуться ~ вчт. заставлять ~ заставлять ~ напрягать, насиловать;
to force one's voice напрягать голос ~ насилие, принуждение;
brute force грубая сила, насилие ~ насилие, принуждение, заставлять, принуждать ~ насилие ~ принуждать ~ принуждение ~ рабочая сила ~ физ. сила;
force of gravity сила тяжести;
земное притяжение;
to come in full force прибыть в полном составе ~ сила, действие (закона, постановления и т. п.) ;
to come into force вступать в силу ~ сила;
by force силой, насильно;
by force of (arms) силой, посредством (оружия) ;
he did it by force of habit он сделал это в силу привычки ~ сила, действительность, действие ~ сила ~ смысл, значение;
the force of a clause смысл статьи (договора) ~ ускорять (движение) ;
добавлять обороты ~ форсировать (ход) ;
перегружать машину Force: Force: Air ~ военно-воздушные силы force: force: be in ~ юр. действовать the ~ полиция ~ заставлять, принуждать;
навязывать;
to force a confession вынудить признание;
to force a smile выдавить улыбку;
заставить себя улыбнуться to ~ a crossing воен. форсировать водную преграду force брать силой, форсировать;
to force a lock взломать замок;
to force one's way проложить себе дорогу ~ заставлять, принуждать;
навязывать;
to force a confession вынудить признание;
to force a smile выдавить улыбку;
заставить себя улыбнуться to ~ an action вынудить (кого-л.) (сделать что-л.) ;
to force division потребовать голосования (особ. в англ. парламенте) to ~ an action воен. навязать бой to ~ an action вынудить (кого-л.) (сделать что-л.) ;
to force division потребовать голосования (особ. в англ. парламенте) ~ in втиснуться;
force into втиснуть;
to force into application вводить, насаждать;
to force down the throat навязать (что-л.) силой to ~ (smb.'s) hand заставлять (кого-л.) действовать немедленно, вопреки его желанию;
толкать (на что-л.), подталкивать ~ in втиснуться;
force into втиснуть;
to force into application вводить, насаждать;
to force down the throat навязать (что-л.) силой ~ in продавить ~ in law принуждение по закону ~ in втиснуться;
force into втиснуть;
to force into application вводить, насаждать;
to force down the throat навязать (что-л.) силой ~ in втиснуться;
force into втиснуть;
to force into application вводить, насаждать;
to force down the throat навязать (что-л.) силой ~ смысл, значение;
the force of a clause смысл статьи (договора) ~ of attraction сила притяжения ~ физ. сила;
force of gravity сила тяжести;
земное притяжение;
to come in full force прибыть в полном составе ~ of law сила закона ~ напрягать, насиловать;
to force one's voice напрягать голос force брать силой, форсировать;
to force a lock взломать замок;
to force one's way проложить себе дорогу to ~ tears from (smb.'s) eyes заставить (кого-л.) расплакаться, довести( кого-л.) до слез ~ through пробиваться ~ through прорываться ~ up взвинчивать ~ up повышать to ~ up prices вздувать, взвинчивать цены prices: force up ~ повышать цены ~ сила;
by force силой, насильно;
by force of (arms) силой, посредством (оружия) ;
he did it by force of habit он сделал это в силу привычки immediate executory ~ прямое принуждение, вступающее в силу в будущем in ~ действующий in ~ законный in ~ имеющий силу in full ~ действующий в полную силу labour ~ рабочая сила labour ~ численность работающих labour ~ численность рабочих и служащих labour: ~ attr. трудовой;
рабочий;
labour force рабочая сила;
labour hours рабочее время legal ~ законная сила, юридическая сила legal ~ законная сила legal ~ юридическая сила motive ~ движущая сила moving ~ движущая сила peace-keeping ~ войска по поддержанию мира peace-keeping ~ миротворческие силы police ~ полицейские силы police ~ полиция probative ~ доказательная сила to put in ~ вводить в действие, осуществлять, проводить в жизнь;
to remain in force оставаться в силе, действовать to put in ~ вводить в действие, осуществлять, проводить в жизнь;
to remain in force оставаться в силе, действовать remain: ~ in force оставаться в силе ~ in force сохранять силу sales ~ работники торговых предприятий sales ~ торговые агенты task ~ оперативная группа task ~ рабочая группа task ~ специальная группа task ~ целевая группа task: ~ амер. норма( рабочего) ;
to take (или to call) (smb.) to task сделать выговор, дать нагоняй( кому-л.) ;
task force воен. оперативная (или тактическая) группа ~ влияние, действенность, убедительность;
by force of circumstances в силу обстоятельств;
there is force in what you say вы говорите убедительно work ~ рабочая сила

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > force
18 tap

̈ɪtæp I
1. сущ.
1) а) затычка, пробка б) кран (водопроводный, газовый и т. п.)
2) а) то же, что taproom б) сорт, марка (вина, пива)
3) а) тех. метчик б) электр. отвод, ответвление;
отпайка ∙ tap water ≈ водопроводная вода on tap
2. гл.
1) а) вынимать пробку, затычку и т. п. б) наливать пиво, вино и т. п. в) мед. делать прокол, выкачивать (жидкость) г) делать надрез на дереве (с целью собирать сок)
2) вставлять кран, снабжать втулкой и т. п.
3) а) перехватывать (сообщения), подслушивать, подсматривать, tap the wire tap the line Syn: overhear б) выпрашивать, выуживать деньги
4) а) тех. нарезать внутреннюю резьбу б) метал. пробивать летку;
выпускать расплавленный металл( из печи) ∙ II
1. сущ.
1) а) легкий стук б) слабый удар
2) мн.;
амер.;
воен. сигнал тушить огни( в казармах) ;
отбой
3) а) набойка( на каблуке) б) подметка Syn: half-sole
2. гл.
1) стучать, постукивать, обстукивать;
хлопать Syn: knock, patter
2) набивать набойку (на каблук) ∙ tap at пробка, затычка (выходное) отверстие( бочонка и т. п.) кран (водопроводный, газовый и т. п.) - cold(-water) * холодная вода( кран) - to turn off the * закрыть кран - to leave the *s running оставить краны открытыми - the * is leaking кран течет - we have the *s in our hands (образное) у нас на руках все козыри, мы все держим в своих руках сорт, марка (пива, вина) ;
(спиртной) напиток - excellent * первоклассное вино или пиво - liquor of the same * вино той же марки (разговорное) пивная, бар (сленг) выманивание денег или подарка (специальное) сверло с насечками (тж. screw *) - hand * ручное сверло (электротехника) отвод, ответвление, отпайка тройник( садоводчество) трубка для подсочки подслушивающее устройство на служебном телефоне подслушивание телефонных разговоров выпуск ценных бумаг > on * распивочно, в разлив( о вине, пиве) ;
находящийся под рукой;
готовый к использованию > in * начатый, початый, неполный( о бутылке) > to turn on the * "открыть шлюзы", залиться слезами снабжать втулкой или затычкой;
делать, ставить кран вынимать втулку - to * a cask открыть бочонок, вынуть затычку из бочонка наливать жидкость;
наливать вино или пиво - to * liquor наливать вино - to * the metal from the furnace разливать металл из доменной печи цедить, нацеживать торговать вином или пивом небольшими дозами, торговать распивочно, в разлив (медицина) делать прокол или надрез;
вскрывать нарыв;
осушать (полость) ;
откачивать, выкачивать ( жидкость) - to * a lung сделать пункцию легкого - to * an abscess вскрыть абсцесс делать надрез на дереве, подсачивать( разговорное) разбить нос до крови вытягивать, выуживать, выжимать (сведения и т. п.) - to * capital выкачивать капиталы - to * talent переманивать (в свою страну) ученых, "выкачивать" таланты - to * smb. for information пытаться вытянуть у кого-л. сведения - to * smb. for money выуживать деньги у кого-л. - he was *ped for election work его использовали во время избирательной кампании открывать, извлекать;
начинать использовать - to * a treasury опустошать казну - to * new source of information открыть /использовать/ новые источники информации - to * science "доить" науку - to * vital mineral resources разрабатывать недра отводить - to * a stream отвести ручей - to * the water-main to supply a new building подсоединить новое здание к водной магистрали подключать (к линии связи) - to * the line подслушивать телефонный разговор - to * a wire перехватывать (переговоры по проводам) ;
делать ответвление;
(сленг) воровать электрическую энергию подключаться - to * into a power line подключаться к электрической сети перехватывать (телефонные сообщения) ;
подслушивать - to * a telephone conversation перехватить /подслушать/ телефонный разговор (специальное) нарезать внутреннюю резьбу пробивать летку, выпускать (металл из печи и т. п.) > to * smb.'s claret расквасить кому-л. нос > to * the admiral( морское) (жаргон) пить тайком, воровать вино из бочки > to * the bank( карточное) выигрывать деньги из банка;
перекачивать деньги в свой карман > to * a house совершить кражу со взломом легкий удар;
стук - a * on the door стук в дверь - to give smb. a * on the shoulder стукнуть кого-л. по плечу набойка металлическая набойка, подковка( на ботинке) - * shoes ботинки с металлическими набойками чечетка - can you do *? ты умеешь отбивать чечетку? (диалектизм) чуточка, капелька - he didn't do a * of work он совсем не работал, он палец о палец не ударил pl (американизм) (военное) сигнал тушить огни;
отбой;
вечерняя зоря сигнал горном при погребении pl (разговорное) безнадежное положение;
капут, крышка легко ударять;
стукать - to * one's forehad стучать себе по лбу - to * the floor with one's stick, to * one's stick on the floor стучать палкой по полу - to * smb. on the shoulder похлопать кого-л. по плечу стучать - to * on /at/ the window стучать в окно - to * on a typewriter стучать /барабанить/ на пишущей машинке выбивать - to * the ashes out of a pipe вытряхнуть пепел из трубки, выбить трубку отбивать - to * a rhythm отбивать ритм отбивать чечетку выстукивать - to * a message( with one's fingers) выстукивать (пальцами) сообщение делать набойку - to * the heel of a shoe сделать набойку на каблук прибивать, забивать - to * a nail in вбить гвоздь( спортивное) толкать (мяч) ~ сорт, марка (вина, пива) ;
beer of the first tap пиво высшего сорта bond sold on ~ облигация, находящаяся в непрерывной продаже bond sold on ~ облигация открытой серии ~ кран (водопроводный, газовый и т. п.) ;
to leave the tap running оставить кран открытым on ~ готовый к использованию on ~ готовый к немедленному употреблению, использованию;
находящийся под рукой on ~ находящийся под рукой on ~ распивочно (о вине) tap вынимать пробку, затычку ~ наливать пиво, вино ~ вставлять кран, снабжать втулкой ~ = taproom ~ выманивать ~ выпрашивать, выуживать деньги;
to tap (smb.) for money выколачивать деньги (из кого-л.) ~ делать надрез на дереве ~ мед. делать прокол, выкачивать (жидкость) ~ извлекать ~ кран (водопроводный, газовый и т. п.) ;
to leave the tap running оставить кран открытым ~ легкий стук или удар ~ тех. метчик ~ набивать набойку (на каблук) ~ набойка (на каблуке) ~ тех. нарезать внутреннюю резьбу ~ начинать использовать ~ эл. отвод, ответвление;
отпайка ~ открывать ~ перехватывать (сообщения) ;
to tap the wire перехватывать телеграфные сообщения;
to tap the line подслушивать телефонный разговор ~ метал. пробивать летку;
выпускать расплавленный металл (из печи) ;
to tap the house совершить кражу со взломом ~ пробка, затычка ~ pl амер. воен. сигнал тушить огни (в казармах) ;
отбой ~ сорт, марка (вина, пива) ;
beer of the first tap пиво высшего сорта ~ стучать, постукивать, обстукивать;
хлопать;
to tap at the door тихонько постучать в дверь;
to tap on the shoulder похлопать по плечу ~ торговать распивочно ~ a wire ответвлять ~ стучать, постукивать, обстукивать;
хлопать;
to tap at the door тихонько постучать в дверь;
to tap on the shoulder похлопать по плечу ~ выпрашивать, выуживать деньги;
to tap (smb.) for money выколачивать деньги (из кого-л.) ~ стучать, постукивать, обстукивать;
хлопать;
to tap at the door тихонько постучать в дверь;
to tap on the shoulder похлопать по плечу ~ метал. пробивать летку;
выпускать расплавленный металл (из печи) ;
to tap the house совершить кражу со взломом ~ перехватывать (сообщения) ;
to tap the wire перехватывать телеграфные сообщения;
to tap the line подслушивать телефонный разговор ~ перехватывать (сообщения) ;
to tap the wire перехватывать телеграфные сообщения;
to tap the line подслушивать телефонный разговор ~ = taproom taphouse: taphouse = taproom taproom: taproom пивная, бар

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > tap
19 tap

I
1. [tæp] n

1. 1) пробка, затычка

2) (выходное) отверстие (бочонка и т. п.)

2. кран (водопроводный, газовый и т. п.)

cold(-water) tap - холодная вода ( кран)

hot(-water) tap - горячая вода ( кран)

to turn off [on] the tap - закрыть [открыть] кран [см. тж. ♢ ]

to leave the taps running - оставить краны открытыми

the tap is leaking - кран течёт

we have the taps in our hands - образн. у нас на руках все козыри, мы всё держим в своих руках

3. сорт, марка (пива, вина); (спиртной) напиток

excellent tap - первоклассное вино или пиво

liquor of the same tap - вино той же марки

4. разг. пивная, бар

5. сл. выманивание денег или подарка

6. спец. сверло с насечками (тж. screw tap)

hand [machine] tap - ручное [автоматическое] сверло

7. эл.

1) отвод, ответвление, отпайка

2) тройник

8. сад. трубка для подсочки

9. 1) подслушивающее устройство ( устанавливаемое на линии связи)

a tap on the office phone - подслушивающее устройство на служебном телефоне

2) подслушивание телефонных разговоров

10. выпуск ценных бумаг

♢ on tap - а) распивочно, в разлив (о вине, пиве); б) находящийся под рукой; готовый к использованию

in tap - начатый, початый, неполный ( о бутылке)

to turn on the tap - «открыть шлюзы», залиться слезами [см. тж. 2]

2. [tæp] v

1. 1) снабжать втулкой или затычкой; делать, ставить кран

2) вынимать втулку

to tap a cask - открыть бочонок, вынуть затычку из бочонка

2. 1) наливать жидкость; наливать вино или пиво

to tap liquor - наливать вино

to tap the metal from the furnace - разливать металл из доменной печи

2) цедить, нацеживать

3) торговать вином или пивом небольшими дозами, торговать распивочно, в разлив

3. 1) мед. делать прокол или надрез; вскрывать нарыв; осушать ( полость); откачивать, выкачивать ( жидкость)

to tap a lung - сделать пункцию лёгкого

to tap an abscess - вскрыть абсцесс

2) делать надрез на дереве, подсачивать

3) разг. разбить нос до крови

4) вытягивать, выуживать, выжимать (сведения и т. п.)

to tap capital - выкачивать капиталы

to tap talent - переманивать (в свою страну) учёных, «выкачивать» таланты

to tap smb. for information - пытаться вытянуть у кого-л. сведения

to tap smb. for money - выуживать деньги у кого-л.

he was tapped for election work - его использовали во время избирательной кампании

4. открывать, извлекать; начинать использовать

to tap a treasury - опустошать казну

to tap new sources of information - открыть /использовать/ новые источники информации

to tap science - «доить» науку

to tap vital mineral resources - разрабатывать недра

5. отводить

to tap a stream - отвести ручей

to tap the water-main to supply a new building - подсоединить новое здание к водной магистрали

6. 1) подключать ( к линии связи)

to tap the line - подслушивать телефонный разговор

to tap a wire - а) перехватывать ( переговоры по проводам); б) делать ответвление; в) сл. воровать электрическую энергию

2) подключаться

to tap into a power line - подключаться к электрической сети

7. перехватывать ( телефонные сообщения); подслушивать

to tap a telephone conversation - перехватить /подслушать/ телефонный разговор

8. спец. нарезать внутреннюю резьбу

9. метал. пробивать лётку, выпускать (металл из печи и т. п.)

♢ to tap smb.'s claret - расквасить кому-л. нос

to tap the admiral - мор. жарг. пить тайком, воровать вино из бочки

to tap the bank - а) карт. выигрывать деньги из банка; б) перекачивать деньги в свой карман

to tap a house - совершить кражу со взломом
II
1. [tæp] n

1. лёгкий удар; стук

a tap on the door [on the window] - стук в дверь [в окно]

to give smb. a tap on the shoulder - стукнуть кого-л. по плечу

2. 1) набойка

2) металлическая набойка, подковка ( на ботинке)

tap shoes - ботинки с металлическими набойками

3. чечётка

can you do tap? - ты умеешь отбивать чечётку?

4. диал. чуточка, капелька

he didn't do a tap of work - он совсем не работал, он палец о палец не ударил

5. pl

1) амер. воен. сигнал тушить огни; отбой; вечерняя зоря

2) сигнал горном при погребении

6. pl разг. безнадёжное положение; ≅ капут, крышка

2. [tæp] v

1. 1) легко ударять; стукать

to tap one's forehead - стучать себе по лбу

to tap the floor with one's stick, to tap one's stick on the floor - стучать палкой по полу

to tap smb. on the shoulder - похлопать кого-л. по плечу

2) стучать

to tap on /at/ the window [on /at/ the door] - стучать в окно [в дверь]

to tap on a typewriter - стучать /барабанить/ на пишущей машинке

2. 1) выбивать

to tap the ashes out of a pipe - вытряхнуть пепел из трубки, выбить трубку

2) отбивать

to tap a rhythm - отбивать ритм

3) отбивать чечётку

can you tap? - ты умеешь отбивать чечётку?

3. выстукивать

to tap a message (with one's fingers) - выстукивать (пальцами) сообщение

4. 1) делать набойку

to tap the heel of a shoe - сделать набойку на каблук

2) прибивать, забивать

to tap a nail in - вбить гвоздь

5. спорт. толкать ( мяч)

НБАРС > tap
20 force

1. n
1) сила, мощь

2) действенность; действие, воздействие (соглашения, закона и т.п.)

3) применение силы, насилие, принуждение

4) pl войска, вооруженные силы; вооружения

5) группа

6) сила (производительная, политическая и т.п.); фактор

7) численность

8) (the Force) полиция (особ. Великобритании)

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to abandon the use of force — отказываться от применения силы

to abstain from force — воздерживаться от применения силы

to acquire constitutional force — приобретать конституционную силу

to alert one's armed forces — приводить вооруженные силы в боевую готовность

to apply force — применять силу

to authorize the use of force — санкционировать применение силы

to avoid force — избегать применения силы

to awaken forces — пробуждать силы

to balance conventional forces — устанавливать равновесие обычных вооружений ( в Европе)

to be in force — иметь (юридическую) силу; оставаться в силе

to be the first to use force — использовать силу первым

to beef up one's military forces — укреплять свои вооруженные силы

to believe in force — быть сторонником применения насилия

to bring an agreement into force — вводить соглашение в силу

to build up military forces — наращивать военную мощь; сосредоточивать войска

to cease to be in force — утрачивать силу

to change the international balance of forces — изменять международное соотношение сил

to clear rebel forces from somewhere — очищать какой-л. район от войск мятежников

to come into force — вступать в силу

to commit US forces to the Gulf — направлять вооруженные силы США в район Персидского залива

to consolidate forces — консолидировать силы

to continue in force — оставаться в силе; действовать (о законе и т.п.)

to cut back the forces — сокращать силы

to disband / to dismantle forces — демобилизовывать / распускать войска

to distort the balance of forces — искажать соотношение сил

to do work for security forces — сотрудничать с силами безопасности

to encourage all progressive forces (to) — поощрять / поддерживать все прогрессивные силы

to endorse the use of military force — одобрять применение военной силы

to enhance the imbalance in military forces — увеличивать разрыв в вооруженных силах

to enter a city in force — брать город приступом; вводить в город крупные воинские формирования

to enter into force — вступать в силу

to expand one's armed forces — увеличивать свои вооруженные силы

to form a new invasion force — формировать интервенционный корпус

to forswear the use of force — отказываться от использования силы

to give freer rein to market forces — давать большую свободу силам рынка

to have binding force — иметь обязательную силу

to have no force — быть недействительным; не иметь силы

to improve one's defense forces — совершенствовать свои силы самообороны

to improve the safety of the UN forces — укреплять безопасность сил ООН

to join forces — объединяться; объединять силы

to join forces with smb — объединять силы с кем-л.

to join the forces — вступать в армию

to keep forces on red alert — держать вооруженные силы в состоянии повышенной боевой готовности

to limit forces — ограничивать численность войск

to lose legal force — утрачивать законную силу

to maintain military forces — содержать войска

to maintain the balance of forces — поддерживать равновесие / соотношение сил

to mandate a multinational force — санкционировать создание многонациональных сил

to mass forces — сосредоточивать войска

to modernize one's forces — модернизировать свои вооруженные силы

to order the armed forces into action — отдавать приказ войскам перейти к боевым действиям

to place forces on alert — приводить вооруженные силы в состояние боевой готовности

to put down by brutal force — подавлять грубой силой

to put in force — осуществлять, проводить в жизнь; вводить в действие

to put the armed forces on full alert — приводить вооруженные силы в состояние полной боевой готовности

to rally forces — сплачивать силы

to reduce conventional forces in / throughout Europe — сокращать количество войск и обычных вооружений в Европе

to refrain from using force — воздерживаться от применения силы

to rely on military force — полагаться на военную силу

to remain in force — оставаться в силе, действовать (о законе и т.п.)

to remove smb by force — свергать кого-л.; насильственно отстранять кого-л. от власти

to reshape one's armed forces — реорганизовывать свои вооруженные силы

to resort to force — прибегать к силе / насилию

to retaliate with military force — наносить ответный военный удар

to rule a country by sheer force — управлять страной, опираясь исключительно на силу

to seek negotiated reductions in conventional forces — добиваться сокращения обычных вооружений путем переговоров

to send an observer force into a country — направлять группу наблюдателей в страну

to send in ground forces — направлять сухопутные войска в страну

to settle smth by military force — решать что-л. с помощью применения военной силы

to set up one's own armed forces — создавать собственные вооруженные силы

to shore up forces — укреплять силы

to strengthen the forces of peace — укреплять силы мира

to suppress smth by brute force — подавлять что-л. грубой силой

to switch forces — перебрасывать вооруженные силы

to take on the peace-keeping force — принимать бой с силами по поддержанию мира

to take recourse to force — прибегать к силе / насилию

to take smth by force — захватывать что-л. силой

to thin one's forces — сокращать свои войска

to threaten force — угрожать применением силы

to trim one's forces — сокращать численность своих войск

to unite forces — объединять силы

to use force against smb — использовать силу против кого-л.

to use armed forces — использовать вооруженные силы

to use excessive force — злоупотреблять применением силы

to use reasonable force — применять силу оправданно

to weaken forces — ослаблять силы

to withdraw forces from... — выводить войска из...

- Determined Force
- accelerated development of productive forces
- active forces
- activities of forces
- actual force
- advance force
- aggressive forces
- aggressor forces
- air forces
- alignment of forces
- alliance of the forces
- allied forces
- allocation of forces
- anti-aircraft forces
- anti-colonialist forces
- anti-fascist forces
- anti-government forces
- anti-kidnap force
- anti-monopoly forces
- anti-national forces
- anti-popular forces
- anti-war forces
- armed forces of a country
- armed forces
- assault force
- Atlantic Nuclear Force
- balance of forces

- basic productive force
- binding force
- bomber forces
- border forces
- border-security forces
- brutal force
- build-up forces
- build-up of forces
- by force
- by sheer force
- carrier striking force
- Central American task force
- character of the armed forces
- coalition forces
- combatant forces
- combined forces
- Commonwealth Military Force
- competing forces
- competition forces
- compulsory force
- conditions of entry into force
- conservative forces
- consistent force
- consolidation of all forces
- contributor to the multinational force
- Conventional Force in Europe
- conventional forces
- correlation of forces
- crack forces
- cross-border force
- crude force
- deep cuts in conventional forces
- defense forces
- democratic forces
- determining force in social development
- deterrent force
- directing force
- display of force
- disquiet in the armed forces
- division of political forces
- dominant force
- economic force
- effective forces
- elemental forces of nature
- enforcement forces
- entry into force

- external force
- extraction force
- follow-on force
- force is not the answer
- force of a clause
- force of a treaty
- force of an agreement
- force of argument
- force of arms
- force of example
- force of law
- force of occupation
- force of public opinion
- force of weaponry
- force to be reckoned with
- forces in the field
- forces of aggression and war
- forces of flexible response
- forces of internal and external reaction
- forward-based forces
- free play of democratic forces
- full force of the treaty
- general purpose forces
- ground forces
- guiding force
- hired labor force
- IFOR
- in force
- in full force
- independent force
- inequitable relationship of forces
- influential force
- intermediate range forces
- international balance of forces
- international peace-keeping forces
- internationalist forces
- interplay of political forces
- interposing force
- invasion forces
- irregular forces
- joint NATO armed forces
- labor force
- land forces
- landing force
- lawful use of force
- leading force in smth
- leading force
- left-wing forces
- legal force
- liberation forces
- local forces
- logistical forces
- main force
- major force
- mandatory force
- manifestation of force
- material force
- member of a peace-keeping force
- military force
- monetary forces
- motive force
- moving force
- multilateral forces
- mutinous forces
- mutual non-use of military force
- national forces
- national liberation forces
- national political forces
- natural forces
- nature of forces
- naval forces
- noneconomic forces
- non-use of force
- nuclear forces
- nuclear strike force
- obligatory force of international treaties
- observer force
- occupation force
- occupying force
- of legal force
- on entry into force
- operation of market forces
- operational forces
- opposing forces
- organizing force
- pan-Arab force
- paramilitary forces
- patriotic forces
- peace forces
- Peace Implementation Force
- peace-keeping forces
- peace-safeguarding forces
- people's armed forces of liberation
- phased withdrawal of the forces
- police force
- policy of force
- political force
- posture of forces
- potent force
- powerful force
- professionally led force
- progressive forces
- pro-independence forces
- proportions of forces
- punitive forces
- quick-reaction force
- Rapid Deployment Force
- Rapid Reaction Force
- rapid-action force
- RDF
- rebel forces
- recourse to force
- reduction in the armed forces
- regional security forces
- regrouping of forces
- relationship of forces
- reserve force
- reserve of the forces
- resistance forces
- resort to force
- retaliatory forces
- revanchist forces
- revolutionary forces
- rightist forces
- right-wing forces
- rough parity of forces
- ruling forces
- sea forces
- sea-based strategic missile forces
- second-strike force
- security forces
- self-defense forces
- SFOR
- shifts in the alignment of forces
- show of force

- size of the armed forces
- social and political forces
- social forces
- socio-political forces
- special forces
- spontaneous force
- Stabilization Force
- strategic air forces
- strategic forces
- Strategic Rocket Force
- strength of the armed forces
- strike force
- striking force
- suppression by force
- task force
- territorial force
- theater nuclear forces
- third force
- threat of force

- TNF
- ultra-right forces
- UN buffer force
- UN Emergency Force
- UN observer force
- unification of forces
- unification of the armed force under a single command
- unified forces
- unilateral cuts in smb's forces
- United Nation Protection Force
- United Nations forces
- United Nations peace-keeping forces
- unity of forces
- UNPROFOR
- use of military forces
- use of preemptive force
- vital force
- voluntary military forces
- weakening of forces
- with political forces splintering
- withdrawal of forces
- without resort to force
- work force
- world market forces 2. v
заставлять, принуждать, вынуждать

to force smb out — 1) вытеснять кого-л. 2) отстранять кого-л. от власти

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