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41 effort

n

усилие; попытка; стремление

to abandon efforts to do smth — отказаться от усилий сделать что-л.

to apply one's joint efforts — прилагать совместные усилия

to back efforts — поддерживать меры

to be active in efforts to strengthen smth — активно участвовать в усилиях по укреплению чего-л.

to block international efforts — преграждать путь международным усилиям

to bring one's efforts to a successful conclusion — доводить борьбу до успешного завершения

to combine one's efforts (to) — объединять свои усилия (для)

to concentrate efforts — концентрировать усилия

to consolidate one's efforts — консолидировать чьи-л. усилия

to damage efforts — подрывать усилия

to direct one's efforts to smth — направлять усилия на что-л.

to double the efforts — удваивать усилия

to ease the efforts — ослаблять усилия

to exert every effort — прилагать все усилия

to facilitate the efforts — способствовать усилиям

to further an effort — содействовать какому-л. усилию

to guide international efforts (to) — направлять международные усилия (на)

to have the commitment to nonproliferation efforts — быть приверженцем усилий, неправленных на нераспространение ядерного оружия

to help in the peace efforts — помогать в достижении мирного урегулирования

to impede efforts — мешать / препятствовать усилиям

to initiate efforts — предпринимать усилия

to intensify efforts — усиливать старания; повышать усилия

to join efforts — объединять усилия

to launch a major effort — предпринимать важный шаг

to make efforts — предпринимать усилия; пытаться

to make renewed diplomatic efforts — возобновить дипломатические усилия

to mobilize the efforts (of) — мобилизировать усилия

to mount concerted efforts — предпринимать совместные усилия

to pool efforts — объединять усилия

to pursue efforts — прилагать усилия

to redouble one's efforts — удваивать усилия

to relax one's military effort — снижать свои военные устремления

to renew / to resume efforts — возобновлять усилия

to spare no efforts — не жалеть усилий

to step up one's efforts — наращивать усилия

to strengthen the efforts — наращивать усилия

to supplement the efforts — дополнять усилия

to support efforts — поддерживать усилия

to sustain an international effort — оказывать международную поддержку

to thwart / undercut smb's efforts — срывать чьи-л. усилия

to waste efforts — напрасно стараться

- aid effort
- all-out efforts
- anti-drugs efforts
- arduous efforts
- assistance effort
- backstage efforts
- combined efforts
- common efforts
- concerted efforts
- conscientious efforts
- consistent efforts
- constant efforts
- continuing efforts
- continuous efforts
- cooperative efforts
- coordinated efforts
- defense efforts
- determined efforts
- diplomatic efforts
- disarmament efforts
- domestic efforts
- efforts at economic and social development
- efforts behind the scene
- export-promotion efforts
- extra efforts
- fresh efforts
- global efforts
- humanitarian efforts
- insistent efforts
- integrated efforts
- interdependent efforts
- internal efforts
- international development efforts
- joint efforts
- last-ditch effort
- last-minute effort
- level of efforts
- long-deadlocked effort
- long-term efforts
- massive efforts
- military efforts
- mutual efforts
- nonproliferation efforts
- notable efforts
- our efforts have not been wasted
- peace efforts
- peace-making efforts
- political efforts
- reconciliation efforts
- renewed efforts
- scientific efforts
- secret nuclear-weapon research efforts
- settlement efforts
- sincere efforts
- stabilization efforts
- strenuous efforts
- sustained efforts
- unilateral efforts
- untiring efforts
- vain efforts
- vigorous efforts
- violent efforts
- war efforts
- wasted effort
- well-directed effort

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42 effort

n

1. зусилля; напруження

2. спроба

3. зусилля; боротьба за що-небудь

4. pl діяльність

- all-out effort усесторонні зусилля

- atomic effort колосальні зусилля

- combined effort об'єднані зусилля

- common defense efforts загальні зусилля для зміцнення оборони

- concerned efforts погоджені зусилля

- continuing efforts діяльність, яка продовжується

- deadlocked effort зусилля, які застосовують на переговорах, що зайшли в глухий кут

- determined effort рішучі зусилля

- disarmament efforts діяльність/ зусилля в області роззброєння

- mutual efforts взаємні/ спільні зусилля

- sincere efforts щирі зусилля

- vain efforts марні зусилля

- war efforts воєнні зусилля

- well-directed efforts цілеспрямовані зусилля

- to bring the efforts to a successful conclusion довести зусилля до успішного закінчення

- to combine efforts об'єднувати зусилля

- to damage efforts завдати шкоди зусиллям

- to direct one's efforts to smth. віддавати сили чомусь; направляти зусилля на щось

- to exert efforts напружувати зусилля

- to pool efforts об'єднувати зусилля

- to resume diplomatic efforts відновити дипломатичні зусилля

- to step up efforts нарощувати зусилля; прикладати все більше зусиль

- to thwart the efforts перешкодити зусиллям; звести нанівець зусилля

- to undercut efforts підривати зусилля

- to waste efforts марно затрачати зусилля

- to waste efforts марно витрачати зусилля

- to wreck peace-making efforts підривати миротворчу діяльність

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43 effort

n

1) усилие; попытка, стремление

- make efforts

- pool efforts

- combine efforts

- direct one's efforts to smth.

- exert efforts

- step up efforts

- relax efforts

- bring the efforts to a successful conclusion

- thwart the efforts

- undercut efforts

- damage efforts

- waste efforts

- our efforts have not been wasted

- resume diplomatic efforts

2) объём работ, работа

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- determined efforts

- joint efforts

- continuing efforts

- war efforts

- long-deadlocked effort

- mutual efforts

- peacemaking efforts

- stabilization efforts

- well-directed effort

- defence efforts

- concerted efforts

- sincere efforts

- unremitting efforts

- disarmament efforts

- common defence efforts

- wreck peacemaking efforts

- all-out effort

- persistent efforts

- repeated efforts

- relief efforts

- vain efforts

- diplomatic efforts

- arduous efforts

- violent efforts

- combined efforts

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44 War of Restoration

(1641-68)

After the revolution of 1 December 1640, when King João IV of Braganza overthrew Spanish rule and declared Portugal independent, Portugal and Spain fought a war that decided the fate of Portugal. The War of Restoration was fought between Spanish and Portuguese armies, assisted by foreign mercenaries and by Portugal's oldest ally, England. Portugal's 1640 Revolution and the war against Spain to maintain its reclaimed independence were supported as well by France during the 1610-59 period. After 1659, France gave no more assistance to Lisbon and cut off diplomatic relations. Portugal's great friend during this war, which was fought largely near the Luso-Spanish frontier or in Portugal in the flat Alentejo province, with no natural barriers to Spanish invasion, was thus England. This crucial alliance was reestablished in the Anglo-Portuguese treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661. Various truce and peace treaties, too, were signed with Holland, which was willing to side with Portugal, or at least be neutral, against Spain. Catalonia's prolonged rebellion against Spanish (Castilian) rule during Portugal's struggle played an important role in weakening Spain's effort to recover Portugal. At Ameixial, on 8 June 1663, a decisive battle in the war occurred, resulting in the defeat of the Spanish army and its withdrawal from Portugal. The Luso-Spanish Peace Treaty (1668) concluded the War.

See also Peace treaty of 1668.

Historical dictionary of Portugal > War of Restoration
45 World War II

(1939-1945)

   In the European phase of the war, neutral Portugal contributed more to the Allied victory than historians have acknowledged. Portugal experienced severe pressures to compromise her neutrality from both the Axis and Allied powers and, on several occasions, there were efforts to force Portugal to enter the war as a belligerent. Several factors lent Portugal importance as a neutral. This was especially the case during the period from the fall of France in June 1940 to the Allied invasion and reconquest of France from June to August 1944.

   In four respects, Portugal became briefly a modest strategic asset for the Allies and a war materiel supplier for both sides: the country's location in the southwesternmost corner of the largely German-occupied European continent; being a transport and communication terminus, observation post for spies, and crossroads between Europe, the Atlantic, the Americas, and Africa; Portugal's strategically located Atlantic islands, the Azores, Madeira, and Cape Verde archipelagos; and having important mines of wolfram or tungsten ore, crucial for the war industry for hardening steel.

   To maintain strict neutrality, the Estado Novo regime dominated by Antônio de Oliveira Salazar performed a delicate balancing act. Lisbon attempted to please and cater to the interests of both sets of belligerents, but only to the extent that the concessions granted would not threaten Portugal's security or its status as a neutral. On at least two occasions, Portugal's neutrality status was threatened. First, Germany briefly considered invading Portugal and Spain during 1940-41. A second occasion came in 1943 and 1944 as Great Britain, backed by the United States, pressured Portugal to grant war-related concessions that threatened Portugal's status of strict neutrality and would possibly bring Portugal into the war on the Allied side. Nazi Germany's plan ("Operation Felix") to invade the Iberian Peninsula from late 1940 into 1941 was never executed, but the Allies occupied and used several air and naval bases in Portugal's Azores Islands.

   The second major crisis for Portugal's neutrality came with increasing Allied pressures for concessions from the summer of 1943 to the summer of 1944. Led by Britain, Portugal's oldest ally, Portugal was pressured to grant access to air and naval bases in the Azores Islands. Such bases were necessary to assist the Allies in winning the Battle of the Atlantic, the naval war in which German U-boats continued to destroy Allied shipping. In October 1943, following tedious negotiations, British forces began to operate such bases and, in November 1944, American forces were allowed to enter the islands. Germany protested and made threats, but there was no German attack.

   Tensions rose again in the spring of 1944, when the Allies demanded that Lisbon cease exporting wolfram to Germany. Salazar grew agitated, considered resigning, and argued that Portugal had made a solemn promise to Germany that wolfram exports would be continued and that Portugal could not break its pledge. The Portuguese ambassador in London concluded that the shipping of wolfram to Germany was "the price of neutrality." Fearing that a still-dangerous Germany could still attack Portugal, Salazar ordered the banning of the mining, sale, and exports of wolfram not only to Germany but to the Allies as of 6 June 1944.

   Portugal did not enter the war as a belligerent, and its forces did not engage in combat, but some Portuguese experienced directly or indirectly the impact of fighting. Off Portugal or near her Atlantic islands, Portuguese naval personnel or commercial fishermen rescued at sea hundreds of victims of U-boat sinkings of Allied shipping in the Atlantic. German U-boats sank four or five Portuguese merchant vessels as well and, in 1944, a U-boat stopped, boarded, searched, and forced the evacuation of a Portuguese ocean liner, the Serpa Pinto, in mid-Atlantic. Filled with refugees, the liner was not sunk but several passengers lost their lives and the U-boat kidnapped two of the ship's passengers, Portuguese Americans of military age, and interned them in a prison camp. As for involvement in a theater of war, hundreds of inhabitants were killed and wounded in remote East Timor, a Portuguese colony near Indonesia, which was invaded, annexed, and ruled by Japanese forces between February 1942 and August 1945. In other incidents, scores of Allied military planes, out of fuel or damaged in air combat, crashed or were forced to land in neutral Portugal. Air personnel who did not survive such crashes were buried in Portuguese cemeteries or in the English Cemetery, Lisbon.

   Portugal's peripheral involvement in largely nonbelligerent aspects of the war accelerated social, economic, and political change in Portugal's urban society. It strengthened political opposition to the dictatorship among intellectual and working classes, and it obliged the regime to bolster political repression. The general economic and financial status of Portugal, too, underwent improvements since creditor Britain, in order to purchase wolfram, foods, and other materials needed during the war, became indebted to Portugal. When Britain repaid this debt after the war, Portugal was able to restore and expand its merchant fleet. Unlike most of Europe, ravaged by the worst war in human history, Portugal did not suffer heavy losses of human life, infrastructure, and property. Unlike even her neighbor Spain, badly shaken by its terrible Civil War (1936-39), Portugal's immediate postwar condition was more favorable, especially in urban areas, although deep-seated poverty remained.

   Portugal experienced other effects, especially during 1939-42, as there was an influx of about a million war refugees, an infestation of foreign spies and other secret agents from 60 secret intelligence services, and the residence of scores of international journalists who came to report the war from Lisbon. There was also the growth of war-related mining (especially wolfram and tin). Portugal's media eagerly reported the war and, by and large, despite government censorship, the Portuguese print media favored the Allied cause. Portugal's standard of living underwent some improvement, although price increases were unpopular.

   The silent invasion of several thousand foreign spies, in addition to the hiring of many Portuguese as informants and spies, had fascinating outcomes. "Spyland" Portugal, especially when Portugal was a key point for communicating with occupied Europe (1940-44), witnessed some unusual events, and spying for foreigners at least briefly became a national industry. Until mid-1944, when Allied forces invaded France, Portugal was the only secure entry point from across the Atlantic to Europe or to the British Isles, as well as the escape hatch for refugees, spies, defectors, and others fleeing occupied Europe or Vichy-controlled Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. Through Portugal by car, ship, train, or scheduled civil airliner one could travel to and from Spain or to Britain, or one could leave through Portugal, the westernmost continental country of Europe, to seek refuge across the Atlantic in the Americas.

   The wartime Portuguese scene was a colorful melange of illegal activities, including espionage, the black market, war propaganda, gambling, speculation, currency counterfeiting, diamond and wolfram smuggling, prostitution, and the drug and arms trade, and they were conducted by an unusual cast of characters. These included refugees, some of whom were spies, smugglers, diplomats, and business people, many from foreign countries seeking things they could find only in Portugal: information, affordable food, shelter, and security. German agents who contacted Allied sailors in the port of Lisbon sought to corrupt and neutralize these men and, if possible, recruit them as spies, and British intelligence countered this effort. Britain's MI-6 established a new kind of "safe house" to protect such Allied crews from German espionage and venereal disease infection, an approved and controlled house of prostitution in Lisbon's bairro alto district.

   Foreign observers and writers were impressed with the exotic, spy-ridden scene in Lisbon, as well as in Estoril on the Sun Coast (Costa do Sol), west of Lisbon harbor. What they observed appeared in noted autobiographical works and novels, some written during and some after the war. Among notable writers and journalists who visited or resided in wartime Portugal were Hungarian writer and former communist Arthur Koestler, on the run from the Nazi's Gestapo; American radio broadcaster-journalist Eric Sevareid; novelist and Hollywood script-writer Frederick Prokosch; American diplomat George Kennan; Rumanian cultural attache and later scholar of mythology Mircea Eliade; and British naval intelligence officer and novelist-to-be Ian Fleming. Other notable visiting British intelligence officers included novelist Graham Greene; secret Soviet agent in MI-6 and future defector to the Soviet Union Harold "Kim" Philby; and writer Malcolm Muggeridge. French letters were represented by French writer and airman, Antoine Saint-Exupery and French playwright, Jean Giroudoux. Finally, Aquilino Ribeiro, one of Portugal's premier contemporary novelists, wrote about wartime Portugal, including one sensational novel, Volframio, which portrayed the profound impact of the exploitation of the mineral wolfram on Portugal's poor, still backward society.

   In Estoril, Portugal, the idea for the world's most celebrated fictitious spy, James Bond, was probably first conceived by Ian Fleming. Fleming visited Portugal several times after 1939 on Naval Intelligence missions, and later he dreamed up the James Bond character and stories. Background for the early novels in the James Bond series was based in part on people and places Fleming observed in Portugal. A key location in Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale (1953) is the gambling Casino of Estoril. In addition, one aspect of the main plot, the notion that a spy could invent "secret" intelligence for personal profit, was observed as well by the British novelist and former MI-6 officer, while engaged in operations in wartime Portugal. Greene later used this information in his 1958 spy novel, Our Man in Havana, as he observed enemy agents who fabricated "secrets" for money.

   Thus, Portugal's World War II experiences introduced the country and her people to a host of new peoples, ideas, products, and influences that altered attitudes and quickened the pace of change in this quiet, largely tradition-bound, isolated country. The 1943-45 connections established during the Allied use of air and naval bases in Portugal's Azores Islands were a prelude to Portugal's postwar membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Historical dictionary of Portugal > World War II
46 Gabor, Dennis (Dénes)

SUBJECT AREA: Photography, film and optics

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b. 5 June 1900 Budapest, Hungary

d. 9 February 1979 London, England

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Hungarian (naturalized British) physicist, inventor of holography.

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Gabor became interested in physics at an early age. Called up for military service in 1918, he was soon released when the First World War came to an end. He then began a mechanical engineering course at the Budapest Technical University, but a further order to register for military service prompted him to flee in 1920 to Germany, where he completed his studies at Berlin Technical University. He was awarded a Diploma in Engineering in 1924 and a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering in 1927. He then went on to work in the physics laboratory of Siemens \& Halske. He returned to Hungary in 1933 and developed a new kind of fluorescent lamp called the plasma lamp. Failing to find a market for this device, Gabor made the decision to abandon his homeland and emigrate to England. There he joined British Thompson-Houston (BTH) in 1934 and married a colleague from the company in 1936. Gabor was also unsuccessful in his attempts to develop the plasma lamp in England, and by 1937 he had begun to work in the field of electron optics. His work was interrupted by the outbreak of war in 1939, although as he was not yet a British subject he was barred from making any significant contribution to the British war effort. It was only when the war was near its end that he was able to return to electron optics and begin the work that led to the invention of holography. The theory was developed during 1947 and 1948; Gabor went on to demonstrate that the theories worked, although it was not until the invention of the laser in 1960 that the full potential of his invention could be appreciated. He coined the term "hologram" from the Greek holos, meaning complete, and gram, meaning written. The three-dimensional images have since found many applications in various fields, including map making, medical imaging, computing, information technology, art and advertising. Gabor left BTH to become an associate professor at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in 1949, a position he held until his retirement in 1967. In 1971 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on holography.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

Royal Society Rumford Medal 1968. Franklin Institute Michelson Medal 1968. CBE 1970. Nobel Prize for Physics 1971.

Bibliography

1948. "A new microscopic principle", Nature 161:777 (Gabor's earliest publication on holography).

1949. "Microscopy by reconstructed wavefronts", Proceedings of the Royal Society A197: 454–87.

1951, "Microscopy by reconstructed wavefronts II", Proc. Phys. Soc. B, 64:449–69. 1966, "Holography or the “Whole Picture”", New Scientist 29:74–8 (an interesting account written after laser beams were used to produce optical holograms).

Further Reading

T.E.Allibone, 1980, contribution to Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 26: 107–47 (a full account of Gabor's life and work).

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Biographical history of technology > Gabor, Dennis (Dénes)
47 zaibatsu

Gen Mgt

Japanese mining-tomanufacture conglomerates dating from before World War II. At the end of World War II, zaibatsu were disbanded because of their involvement in the war effort. When postwar restrictions were relaxed, these groups of companies reformed as keiretsu.

The ultimate business dictionary > zaibatsu
48 Tizard, Sir Henry Thoms

SUBJECT AREA: Weapons and armour

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b. 23 August 1885 Gillingham, Kent, England

d. 9 October 1959 Fareham, Hampshire, England

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English scientist and administrator who made many contributions to military technology.

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Educated at Westminster College, in 1904 Tizard went to Magdalen College, Oxford, gaining Firsts in mathematics and chemistry. After a period of time in Berlin with Nernst, he joined the Royal Institution in 1909 to study the colour changes of indicators. From 1911 until 1914 he was a tutorial Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, but with the outbreak of the First World War he joined first the Royal Garrison Artillery, then, in 1915, the newly formed Royal Flying Corps, to work on the development of bomb-sights. Successively in charge of testing aircraft, a lieutenant-colonel in the Ministry of Munitions and Assistant Controller of Research and Experiments for the Royal Air Force, he returned to Oxford in 1919 and the following year became Reader in Chemical Thermodynamics; at this stage he developed the use of toluene as an air-craft-fuel additive.

In 1922 he was appointed an assistant secretary at the government Department of Industrial and Scientific Research, becoming Principal Assistant Secretary in 1922 and its Permanent Director in 1927; during this time he was also a member of the Aeronautical Research Committee, being Chairman of the latter in 1933–43. From 1929 to 1942 he was Rector of Imperial College. In 1932 he was also appointed Chairman of a committee set up to investigate possible national air-defence systems, and it was largely due to his efforts that the radar proposals of Watson-Watt were taken up and an effective system made operational before the outbreak of the Second World War. He was also involved in various other government activities aimed at applying technology to the war effort, including the dam-buster and atomic bombs.

President of Magdalen College in 1942–7, he then returned again to Whitehall, serving as Chairman of the Advisory Council on Scientific Policy and of the Defence Research Policy Committee. Finally, in 1952, he became Pro-Chan-cellor of Southampton University.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

Air Force Cross 1918. CB 1927. KCB 1937. GCB 1949. American Medal of Merit 1947. FRS 1926. Ten British and Commonwealth University honorary doctorates. Hon. Fellowship of the Royal Aeronautical Society. Royal Society of Arts Gold Medal. Franklin Institute Gold Medal. President, British Association 1948. Trustee of the British Museum 1937–59.

Bibliography

1911, The sensitiveness of indicators', British Association Report (describes Tizard's work on colour changes in indicators).

Further Reading

1961, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society VII, London: Royal Society.

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49 Eisler, Paul

SUBJECT AREA: Electronics and information technology, Recording

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b. 1907 Vienna, Austria

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Austrian engineer responsible for the invention of the printed circuit.

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At the age of 23, Eisler obtained a Diploma in Engineering from the Technical University of Vienna. Because of the growing Nazi influence in Austria, he then accepted a post with the His Master's Voice (HMV) agents in Belgrade, where he worked on the problems of radio reception and sound transmission in railway trains. However, he soon returned to Vienna to found a weekly radio journal and file patents on graphical sound recording (for which he received a doctorate) and on a system of stereoscopic television based on lenticular vertical scanning.

In 1936 he moved to England and sold the TV patent to Marconi for £250. Unable to find a job, he carried out experiments in his rooms in a Hampstead boarding-house; after making circuits using strip wires mounted on bakelite sheet, he filed his first printed-circuit patent that year. He then tried to find ways of printing the circuits, but without success. Obtaining a post with Odeon Theatres, he invented a sound-level control for films and devised a mirror-drum continuous-film projector, but with the outbreak of war in 1939, when the company was evacuated, he chose to stay in London and was interned for a while. Released in 1941, he began work with Henderson and Spalding, a firm of lithographic printers, to whom he unwittingly assigned all future patents for the paltry sum of £1. In due course he perfected a means of printing conducting circuits and on 3 February 1943 he filed three patents covering the process. The British Ministry of Defence rejected the idea, considering it of no use for military equipment, but after he had demonstrated the technique to American visitors it was enthusiastically taken up in the US for making proximity fuses, of which many millions were produced and used for the war effort. Subsequently the US Government ruled that all air-borne electronic circuits should be printed.

In the late 1940s the Instrument Department of Henderson and Spalding was split off as Technograph Printed Circuits Ltd, with Eisler as Technical Director. In 1949 he filed a further patent covering a multilayer system; this was licensed to Pye and the Telegraph Condenser Company. A further refinement, patented in the 1950s, the use of the technique for telephone exchange equipment, but this was subsequently widely infringed and although he negotiated licences in the USA he found it difficult to license his ideas in Europe. In the UK he obtained finance from the National Research and Development Corporation, but they interfered and refused money for further development, and he eventually resigned from Technograph. Faced with litigation in the USA and open infringement in the UK, he found it difficult to establish his claims, but their validity was finally agreed by the Court of Appeal (1969) and the House of Lords (1971).

As a freelance inventor he filed many other printed-circuit patents, including foil heating films and batteries. When his Patent Agents proved unwilling to fund the cost of filing and prosecuting Complete Specifications he set up his own company, Eisler Consultants Ltd, to promote food and space heating, including the use of heated cans and wallpaper! As Foil Heating Ltd he went into the production of heating films, the process subsequently being licensed to Thermal Technology Inc. in California.

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Bibliography

1953, "Printed circuits: some general principles and applications of the foil technique", Journal of the British Institution of Radio Engineers 13: 523.

1959, The Technology of Printed Circuits: The Foil Technique in Electronic Production.

1984–5, "Reflections of my life as an inventor", Circuit World 11:1–3 (a personal account of the development of the printed circuit).

1989, My Life with the Printed Circuit, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: Lehigh University Press.

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50 Gibson, R.O.

SUBJECT AREA: Chemical technology, Synthetic materials

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fl. 1920s–30s

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English chemist who, with E.O.Fawcett, discovered polythene.

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Dr Gibson's work towards the discovery of polythene had its origin in a visit in 1925 to Dr A. Michels of Amsterdam University; the latter had made major advances in techniques for studying chemical reactions at very high pressures. After working with Michels for a time, in 1926 Gibson joined Brunner Mond, one of the companies that went on to form the chemical giant Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). The company supported research into fundamental chemical research that had no immediate commercial application, including the field being cultivated by Michels and Gibson. In 1933 Gibson was joined by another ICI chemist, E.O.Fawcett, who had worked with W.H. Carothers in the USA on polymer chemistry. They were asked to study the effects of high pressure on various reaction systems, including a mixture of benzaldehyde and ethylene. Gibson's notebook for 27 March that year records that after a loss of pressure during which the benzaldehyde was blown out of the reaction tube, a waxy solid was observed in the tube. This is generally recognized as the first recorded observation of polythene. By the following June they had shown that the white, waxy solid was a fairly high molecular weight polymer of ethylene formed at a temperature of 443°K and a pressure of 2,000 bar. However, only small amounts of the material were produced and its significance was not immediately recognized. It was not until two years later that W.P.Perrin and others, also ICI chemists, restarted work on the polymer. They showed that it could be moulded, drawn into threads and cast into tough films. It was a good electrical insulator and almost inert chemically. A British patent for producing polythene was taken out in 1936, and after further development work a production plant began operating in September 1939, just as the Second World War was breaking out. Polythene had arrived in time to make a major contribution to the war effort, for it had the insulating properties required for newly developing work on radar. When peacetime uses became possible, polythene production surged ahead and became the major industry it is today, with a myriad uses in industry and in everyday life.

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Bibliography

1964, The Discovery of Polythene, Royal Institute of Chemistry Lecture Series 1, London.

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51 Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent

SUBJECT AREA: Chemical technology

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b. 26 August 1743 Paris, France

d. 8 May 1794 Paris, France

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French founder of the modern science of chemistry.

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As well as receiving a formal education in law and literature, Lavoisier studied science under some of the leading figures of the day. This proved to be an ideal formation of the man in whom "man of science" and "public servant" were so intimately combined. His early work towards the first geological map of France and on the water supply of Paris helped to win him election to the Royal Academy of Sciences in 1768 at the youthful age of 25. In the same year he used some of his private income to buy a part-share in the "tax farm", a private company which leased from the Government the right to collect certain indirect taxes.

In 1772 Lavoisier began his researches into the related phenomena of combustion, respiration and the calcination or oxidation of metals. This culminated in the early 1780s in the overthrow of the prevailing theory, based on an imponderable combustion principle called "phlogiston", and the substitution of the modern explanation of these processes. At the same time, understanding of the nature of acids, bases and salts was placed on a sounder footing. More important, Lavoisier defined a chemical element in its modern sense and showed how it should be applied by drawing up the first modern list of the chemical elements. With the revolution in chemistry initiated by Lavoisier, chemists could begin to understand correctly the fundamental processes of their science. This understanding was the foundationo of the astonishing advance in scientific and industrial chemistry that has taken place since then. As an academician, Lavoisier was paid by the Government to carry out investigations into a wide variety of practical questions with a chemical bias, such as the manufacture of starch and the distillation of phosphorus. In 1775 Louis XVI ordered the setting up of the Gunpowder Commission to improve the supply and quality of gunpowder, deficiencies in which had hampered France's war efforts. Lavoisier was a member of the Commission and, as usual, took the leading part, drawing up its report and supervising its implementation. As a result, the industry became profitable, output increased so that France could even export powder, and the range of the powder increased by two-thirds. This was a material factor in France's war effort in the Revolution and the Napoleonic wars.

As if his chemical researches and official duties were not enough, Lavoisier began to apply his scientific principles to agriculture when he purchased an estate at Frechines, near Blois. After ten years' work on his experimental farm there, Lavoisier was able to describe his results in the memoir "Results of some agricultural experiments and reflections on their relation to political economy" (Paris, 1788), which holds historic importance in agriculture and economics. In spite of his services to the nation and to humanity, his association with the tax farm was to have tragic consequences: during the reign of terror in 1794 the Revolutionaries consigned to the guillotine all the tax farmers, including Lavoisier.

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Bibliography

1862–93, Oeuvres de Lavoisier, Vols I–IV, ed. J.B.A.Dumas; Vols V–VI, ed. E.Grimaux, Paris (Lavoisier's collected works).

Further Reading

D.I.Duveen and H.S.Klickstein, 1954, A Bibliography of the Works of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier 1743–1794, London: William Dawson (contains valuable biographical material).

D.McKie, 1952, Antoine Lavoisier, Scientist, Economist, Social Reformer, London: Constable (the best modern, general biography).

H.Guerlac, 1975, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Chemist and Revolutionary, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons (a more recent work).

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52 Taylor, David Watson

SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping

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b. 4 March 1864 Louisa County, Virginia, USA

d. 29 July 1940 Washington, DC, USA

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American hydrodynamicist and Rear Admiral in the United States Navy Construction Corps.

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Taylor's first years were spent on a farm in Virginia, but at the age of 13 he went to RandolphMacon College, graduating in 1881, and from there to the US Naval Academy, Annapolis. He graduated at the head of his class, had some sea time, and then went to the Royal Naval College in Greenwich, England, where in 1888 he again came top of the class with the highest-ever marks of any student, British or overseas.

On his return to the United States he held various posts as a constructor, ending this period at the Mare Island Navy Yard in California. In 1894 he was transferred to Washington, where he joined the Bureau of Construction and started to interest the Navy in ship model testing. Under his direction, the first ship model tank in the United States was built at Washington and for fourteen years operated under his control. The work of this establishment gave him the necessary information to write the highly acclaimed text The Speed and Power of Ships, which with revisions is still in use. By the outbreak of the First World War he was one of the world's most respected naval architects, and had been retained as a consultant by the British Government in the celebrated case of the collision between the White Star Liner Olympic and HMS Hawke.

In December 1914 Taylor became a Rear-Admiral and was appointed Chief Constructor of the US Navy. His term of office was extremely stressful, with over 1,000 ships constructed for the war effort and with the work of the fledgling Bureau for Aeronautics also under his control. The problems were not over in 1918 as the Washington Treaty required drastic pruning of the Navy and a careful reshaping of the defence force.

Admiral Taylor retired from active service at the beginning of 1923 but retained several consultancies in aeronautics, shipping and naval architecture. For many years he served as consultant to the ship-design company now known as Gibbs and Cox. Many honours came his way, but the most singular must be the perpetuation of his name in the David Taylor Medal, the highest award of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers in the United States. Similarly, the Navy named its ship test tank facility, which was opened in Maryland in 1937, the David W. Taylor Model Basin.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

President, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers 1925–7. United States Distinguished Service Medal. American Society of Civil Engineers John Fritz Medal. Institution of Naval Architects Gold Medal 1894 (the first American citizen to receive it). Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers David W.Taylor Medal 1936 (the first occasion of this award).

Bibliography

Resistance of Ships and Screw Propulsion. 1911, The Speed and Power of Ships, New York: Wiley.

Taylor gave many papers to the Maritime Institutions of both the United States and the United Kingdom.

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53 военная экономика

перен. war effort

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > военная экономика
54 the man of the moment

самый важный человек в данный момент

John Curtin was recognized as the man of the moment to unite the people and bring new energy into the war effort. (K. S. Prichard, ‘Winged Seeds’, ch. XXIX) — В тот момент Джон Кертен оказался самой подходящей фигурой для того, чтобы объединить вокруг себя народ и влить новую энергию в дело обороны страны.

Large English-Russian phrasebook > the man of the moment
55 Lobnitz, Frederick

SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping

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b. 7 September 1863 Renfrew, Scotland

d. 7 December 1932 Crookston, Renfrewshire, Scotland

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Scottish shipbuilder, expert in dredge technology.

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Lobnitz was the son of Henry Christian Lobnitz. His father was born in Denmark in 1831, and had worked for some years in both England and Scotland before becoming a naturalized British subject. Ultimately Henry joined the Clyde shipyard of James Henderson \& Son and worked there until his death, by which time he was sole proprietor and the yard was called Lobnitz \& Co. By this time the shipyard was the acknowledged world leader in rock-cutting machinery.

Frederick was given the opportunity to travel in Europe during the late 1870s and early 1880s. He studied at Bonn, Heidelberg and at the Zurich Polytechnic, and also served an apprenticeship at the Fairfield Shipyard of John Elder \& Co. of Glasgow. One of his first tasks was to supervise the construction and commissioning of a subaqueous rock excavator, and then he was asked to direct rock excavations at the Suez Canal.

In 1888 Frederick Lobnitz was made a partner of the company by his father and was to remain with them until his death, at which time he was Chairman. By this time the shipyard was a private limited company and had continued to enhance its name in the specialized field of dredging. At that time the two greatest dredge builders in the world (and deadly rivals) were situated next to each other on the banks of the Clyde at Renfrew; in 1957 they merged as Simons-Lobnitz Ltd. In 1915 Lobnitz was appointed Deputy Director for Munitions in Scotland and one year later he became Director, a post he held until 1919. Having investigated the running of munitions factories in France, he released scarce labour for the war effort by staffing the plants under his control with female and unskilled labour.

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Principal Honours and Distinctions

Knighted 1920. Officier de la Légion d'honneur.

Further Reading

Fred M.Walker, 1984, Song of the Clyde. A History of Clyde Shipbuilding Cambridge: PSL.

Lobnitz \& Co., n.d., Romance of Dredging.

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56 show

1. noun
1) (display) Pracht, die

a show of flowers/colour — eine Blumen-/Farbenpracht

show of force/strength — etc. Demonstration der Macht/Stärke usw.

be on show — ausgestellt sein

put something on show — etwas ausstellen

2) (exhibition) Ausstellung, die; Schau, die

dog show — Hundeschau, die

3) (entertainment, performance) Show, die; (Theatre) Vorstellung, die; (Radio, Telev.) [Unterhaltungs]sendung, die; see also academic.ru/70491/steal">steal 1. 1)

4) (coll.): (effort)

it's a poor show — das ist ein schwaches Bild

put up a good/poor show — eine gute/schlechte Figur machen

good show! — gut [gemacht]!

5) (coll.): (undertaking, business)

it's his show — er ist der Boss (ugs.)

run the show — der Boss sein (ugs.)

give the [whole] show away — alles ausquatschen (salopp)

6) (outward appearance) Anschein, der

make a great show of friendliness — ungeheuer freundlich tun

make or put on a [great] show of doing something — sich (Dat.) [angestrengt] den Anschein geben, etwas zu tun

be for show — reine Angeberei sein (ugs.)

do something just for show — etwas nur aus Prestigegründen tun
2. transitive verb,
p.p. shown or showed

1) (allow or cause to be seen) zeigen; vorzeigen [Pass, Fahrschein usw.]

show somebody something, show something to somebody — jemandem etwas zeigen

have nothing/something to show for it — [dabei] nichts/etwas zum Vorzeigen haben

that dress shows your petticoat — bei diesem Kleid sieht man deinen Unterrock

this material does not show the dirt — auf diesem Material sieht man den Schmutz nicht; see also colour 1. 5); sign 1. 5)

2) (manifest, give evidence of) zeigen; beweisen [Mut, Entschlossenheit, Urteilsvermögen usw.]

show hesitation — zaudern

he is showing his age — man sieht ihm sein Alter an

3)

show [somebody] kindness/mercy — freundlich [zu jemandem] sein/Erbarmen [mit jemandem] haben

show mercy on or to somebody — Erbarmen mit jemandem haben

4) (indicate) zeigen [Gefühl, Freude usw.]; [Thermometer, Uhr usw.:] anzeigen

as shown in the illustration — wie die Abbildung zeigt

frontiers are shown by blue lines and towns are shown in red — Grenzen sind durch blaue Linien und Städte sind rot gekennzeichnet

the accounts show a profit — die Bücher weisen einen Gewinn aus

the firm shows a profit/loss — die Firma macht Gewinn/Verlust

5) (demonstrate, prove) zeigen

show somebody that... — jemandem beweisen, dass...

it all/just goes to show that... — das beweist nur, dass...

it all goes to show, doesn't it? — das beweist es doch, oder?

I'll show you/him etc.! — ich werd's dir/ihm usw. schon zeigen!

show somebody who's boss — jemandem zeigen, wer das Sagen hat

6) (conduct) führen

show somebody over or round the house/to his place — jemanden durchs Haus/an seinen Platz führen
3. intransitive verb,
p.p. shown or showed

1) (be visible) sichtbar od. zu sehen sein

he was angry/bored, and it showed — er war wütend/langweilte sich, und man sah es [ihm an]

his age is beginning to show — man sieht ihm sein Alter allmählich an

2) (be shown) [Film:] laufen; [Künstler:] ausstellen

"Gandhi" - now showing in the West End — "Gandhi" - Jetzt im West End

3) (make something known)

time will show — man wird es [ja] sehen

Phrasal Verbs:

- show in

- show off

- show out

- show round

- show through

- show up

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[ʃəu] 1. past tense - showed; verb
1) (to allow or cause to be seen: Show me your new dress; Please show your membership card when you come to the club; His work is showing signs of improvement.) zeigen

2) (to be able to be seen: The tear in your dress hardly shows; a faint light showing through the curtains.) sich sehen lassen

3) (to offer or display, or to be offered or displayed, for the public to look at: Which picture is showing at the cinema?; They are showing a new film; His paintings are being shown at the art gallery.) zeigen

4) (to point out or point to: He showed me the road to take; Show me the man you saw yesterday.) zeigen

5) ((often with (a)round) to guide or conduct: Please show this lady to the door; They showed him (a)round (the factory).) zeigen

6) (to demonstrate to: Will you show me how to do it?; He showed me a clever trick.) zeigen

7) (to prove: That just shows / goes to show how stupid he is.) zeigen

8) (to give or offer (someone) kindness etc: He showed him no mercy.) erweisen
2. noun
1) (an entertainment, public exhibition, performance etc: a horse-show; a flower show; the new show at the theatre; a TV show.) die Schau

2) (a display or act of showing: a show of strength.) zur Schau stellen

3) (an act of pretending to be, do etc (something): He made a show of working, but he wasn't really concentrating.) der Schein

4) (appearance, impression: They just did it for show, in order to make themselves seem more important than they are.) die Schau

5) (an effort or attempt: He put up a good show in the chess competition.) der Eindruck

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- showy
- showiness
- show-business
- showcase
- showdown
- showground
- show-jumping
- showman
- showroom
- give the show away
- good show! - on show
- show off
- show up
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show

[ʃəʊ, AM ʃoʊ]

I. NOUN

1. (showing) Bekundung f geh, Demonstration f geh

those members who had made the most open \shows of defiance surprisingly abstained diejenigen Mitglieder, die ihre Ablehnung am deutlichsten bekundet hatten, enthielten sich überraschenderweise der Stimme

his refusal was a childish \show of defiance seine Weigerung war eine kindische Trotzreaktion

\show of force Machtdemonstration f geh

\show of kindness Geste f der Freundlichkeit

\show of solidarity Solidaritätsbekundung f geh

\show of strength/unity Demonstration f der Stärke/Einigkeit geh

the troops paraded in a \show of strength through the capital die Truppen marschierten durch die Hauptstadt, um ihre Stärke zu demonstrieren

despite their public \show of unity they are close to getting divorced obwohl sie nach außen hin Einigkeit demonstrieren, stehen sie kurz vor der Scheidung

2. no pl (display, impression) Schau f

just [or only] for \show nur der Schau wegen

are those lights just for \show? sollen die Lichter nur Eindruck machen?

to make a \show of sth etw zur Schau stellen

he really made a \show of accepting the award ( fam) er hat bei der Entgegennahme des Preises die große Show [o eine Show] abgezogen fam

3. no pl (impressive sight) Pracht f, Schauspiel nt geh

a \show of colour/flowers eine Farben-/Blumenpracht

4. (exhibition, event) Schau f, Ausstellung f

dog/fashion \show Hunde-/Modenschau f

retrospective \show Retrospektive f

slide \show Diavorführung f, Diavortrag m

▪ to be on \show ausgestellt sein

5. (entertainment) Show f; (on TV also) Unterhaltungssendung f; (at a theatre) Vorstellung f, Vorführung f

puppet \show Puppenspiel nt, Marionettentheater nt

quiz \show Quizsendung f, Quizshow f

radio/stage \show Radio-/Bühnenshow f

talent \show Talentwettbewerb m

to stage a \show eine Show auf die Bühne bringen

6. no pl ( fam: activity, affair) Sache f; (undertaking) Laden m fig fam; (situation) Situation f

who will run the \show when she retires? wer wird den Laden schmeißen, wenn sie in Pension geht? fam

she prefers to be in charge of her own \show sie zieht es vor, unabhängig schalten und walten zu können

how did she run the \show when the company threatened legal action? wie hat sie die Angelegenheit geregelt, als die Firma mit rechtlichen Schritten drohte?

I didn't like how he ran the \show during the strike mir hat es nicht gefallen, wie er mit der Situation während des Streiks umgegangen ist

it's her [own] \show sie ist hier der Boss [o hat hier das Sagen] fam

who is running the \show?, whose \show is it? wer ist hier der Boss [o hat hier das Sagen]? fam

the wedding is their \show, let them do it their way es ist ihre Sache [zu entscheiden], wie ihre Hochzeit ablaufen soll

7. no pl AM (sl: major league baseball)

▪ the \show die Baseballoberliga

8.

▶ bad [or poor] /good \show! ( dated fam) schwache Leistung!/gut [gemacht]!

▶ let's get the [or this] \show on the road ( fam) lasst uns die Sache [endlich] in Angriff nehmen

▶ the \show must go on ( saying) die Show muss weitergehen

▶ \show of hands [Abstimmung f per] Handzeichen nt

let me see a \show of hands bitte mal die Hand hochheben

let's have a \show of hands lass uns per Hand abstimmen

by [or on] a \show of hands durch Handzeichen

▶ to make [or put on] a \show eine Schau abziehen fam

▶ to make [or put on] a \show of doing sth vortäuschen, etw zu tun

they put on a \show of being interested sie taten so als seien sie interessiert, sie täuschten Interesse vor

▶ to put on [or up] a good \show sich akk bemühen, Einsatz zeigen

II. TRANSITIVE VERB

<showed, shown or showed>

1. (display, project)

▪ to \show [sb] sth [jdm] etw zeigen; (exhibit)

▪ to \show sth etw ausstellen; (perform)

▪ to \show sth etw vorführen; (produce)

▪ to \show sth etw vorzeigen

don't ever \show yourself here again! lass dich hier ja nie wieder blicken!

the photos \show them kissing and cuddling die Fotos zeigen sie küssend und in liebevoller Umarmung

to \show sb one's ability jdm seine Fähigkeiten vorführen

to \show a film einen Film zeigen [o fam bringen]

this film has never been \shown on television dieser Film kam noch nie im Fernsehen

to \show a flag eine Flagge hissen

to \show one's passport at the border seinen Pass an der Grenze vorzeigen

to \show sb one's ticket jdm seine Fahrkarte [vor]zeigen

to \show slides Dias vorführen [o zeigen]

to \show the time die Uhrzeit anzeigen

to \show one's work ART [seine Arbeiten] ausstellen

his paintings will be \shown in the National Gallery until May seine Bilder sind bis Mai in der Nationalgalerie zu sehen

2. (expose)

▪ to \show sth etw sehen lassen

your blouse is \showing your bra durch deine Bluse kann man deinen BH sehen

this carpet \shows all the dirt bei dem Teppich kann man jedes bisschen Schmutz sehen

3. (reveal)

▪ to \show sth etw zeigen [o erkennen lassen]

he started to \show his age man begann, ihm sein Alter anzusehen

he \showed no signs of improvement er zeigte keinerlei Besserung

to \show courage/initiative/common sense Mut/Unternehmungsgeist/gesunden Menschenverstand beweisen

to \show genius/originality Genie/Originalität beweisen

to \show promise viel versprechend sein

4. (express)

▪ to \show sth etw zeigen

to \show a bias/enthusiasm for sth eine Vorliebe/Begeisterung für etw akk zeigen

to \show clemency Milde walten lassen

to \show compassion [for sb] [mit jdm] Mitleid haben

to \show compunction Gewissensbisse haben

to \show [sb] one's gratitude sich akk [jdm gegenüber] dankbar erweisen [o zeigen]

to \show sb respect jdm Respekt erweisen

you have to \show more respect du solltest mehr Respekt zeigen

5. (point out, indicate)

▪ to \show sth [to sb] [jdm] etw zeigen; (represent)

▪ to \show sth etw darstellen

the map \shows where her house is auf der Karte ist ihr Haus zu sehen

this map \shows urban areas in grey auf dieser Karte sind die Stadtgebiete grau dargestellt

it's \showing signs of rain es sieht nach Regen aus

6. (explain)

▪ to \show sb sth jdm etw zeigen [o erklären]

to \show sb the way jdm den Weg zeigen

7. (record)

▪ to \show sth etw anzeigen; statistics etw [auf]zeigen

to \show a loss/profit einen Verlust/Gewinn aufweisen

8. (prove)

▪ to \show sth etw beweisen

to \show cause LAW seine Gründe vorbringen

order to \show cause gerichtliche Verfügung

to \show one's mettle zeigen, was in einem steckt

▪ to \show sb that... jdm zeigen [o beweisen], dass...

▪ to \show [sb] how/why... [jdm] zeigen, wie/warum...

▪ to \show oneself [to be] sth sich akk als etw erweisen

9. (escort)

▪ to \show sb into/out of/to sth jdn in etw akk /aus/zu etw dat führen [o bringen]

▪ to \show sb over [or AM usu around] a place jdm einen Ort zeigen

they \showed us over the estate sie führten uns auf dem Anwesen herum

10.

▶ to \show one's cards [or hand] seine Karten aufdecken fig

▶ to \show sb the door jdm die Tür weisen

▶ to dare [to] \show one's face es wagen, aufzukreuzen fam

he won't dare to \show his face here again er wird es nie wieder wagen, hier aufzukreuzen fam

▶ to have nothing to \show for it [or for one's efforts] [am Ende] nichts vorzuweisen haben

five years in the job, and what have you got to \show for it? du machst diesen Job nun schon seit fünf Jahren, und was hast du nun von all der Mühe?

▶ to \show [sb] no quarter ( liter) [mit jdm] kein Erbarmen haben

▶ to \show one's teeth die Zähne zeigen fig fam

▶ to \show one's true colours Farbe bekennen

▶ to \show the way [forward] den Weg weisen fig

▶ that will \show you/her ( fam) das wird dir/ihr eine Lehre sein

III. INTRANSITIVE VERB

<showed, shown or showed>

1. (be visible) zu sehen sein

the trees \show blue on these photographs die Bäume erscheinen auf diesen Fotos blau

she's four months pregnant and starting to \show sie ist im vierten Monat schwanger und allmählich sieht man es auch

to let sth \show sich dat etw anmerken lassen

2. esp AM, AUS ( fam: arrive) auftauchen, aufkreuzen fam

3. (be shown) film gezeigt werden, laufen fam

now \showing at a cinema near you! jetzt im Kino!

4. (exhibit) ausstellen

5. AM (come third in horse racing) Dritte(r) f(m) werden

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[ʃəʊ] vb: pret showed, ptp shown
1. n

1)

(= display) a fine show of roses — eine Rosenpracht

show of force — Machtdemonstration f

there was a strong show of resistance — es gab starken Widerstand

the demonstration was a show of sympathy — die Demonstration war eine Solidaritätsbekundung

show of hands — Handzeichen nt, Hand(er)heben nt

2) (= outward appearance) Schau f; (= trace) Spur f; (of hatred, affection) Kundgebung f

it's just for show — das ist nur zur Schau da

to do sth for show — etw tun, um Eindruck zu schinden (inf) or zu machen

it's all done for show — das ist alles nur dazu da, um Eindruck zu machen

to make a great show of being impressed/overworked/pleased — sich (dat) ganz den Anschein geben, beeindruckt/überarbeitet/erfreut zu sein

they made a great show of their wealth — sie protzten mit ihrem Reichtum (inf)

without any show of emotion —

it was all show to be fond of show — es war alles nur Schau (inf) gerne prunken

3) (= exhibition) Ausstellung f

dog/fashion show — Hunde-/Modenschau f

to be on show — ausgestellt or zu sehen sein

4) (THEAT) Aufführung f; (TV, VARIETY OR POP SHOW) Show f; (RAD) Sendung f; (FILM) Vorstellung f

to go to a show ( esp Brit : in theatre ) — ins Theater gehen; ( US : in movie theater ) ins Kino gehen

the show must go on — es muss trotz allem weitergehen

on with the show! — anfangen!

to stop the show (lit) —

he stopped the show with his marvellous medley of old hits (fig) — der Höhepunkt der Show war sein wunderbares Medley alter Hits

See:

→ steal

5) (esp Brit inf)

(jolly) good show! (dated) bad show! (dated) (= what a pity) — ausgezeichnet!, bravo! schwaches Bild (inf) so ein Pech!

to put up a good/poor show —

it's a pretty poor show when... — das ist vielleicht traurig or ein schwaches Bild (inf), wenn...

6) (inf: undertaking, organization) Laden m (inf)

he runs the show — er schmeißt hier den Laden (inf)

to give the ( whole) show away — alles verraten

2. vt

1) (= display) zeigen; (COMPUT) anzeigen; (at exhibition) ausstellen, zeigen; (= demonstrate) dog vorführen; slides, film zeigen, vorführen; passport, ticket vorzeigen

to show sb sth, to show sth to sb — jdm etw zeigen

show me how to do it — zeigen Sie mir, wie man das macht

it's been shown on television — das kam im Fernsehen

the film was first shown in 1988 — der Film wurde 1988 uraufgeführt

to show one's face — sich zeigen

he had nothing to show for it — er hatte am Ende nichts vorzuweisen

he has nothing to show for all his effort — seine ganze Mühe hat nichts gebracht

I'll show him! (inf) — dem werd ichs zeigen! (inf)

that showed him! (inf) — dem habe ichs aber gezeigt! (inf)

See:

→ hand, heel

2) (= register) (an)zeigen; loss, profit haben, verzeichnen; rise in numbers aufzeigen; (thermometer, speedometer) stehen auf (+dat); (calendar) zeigen

it shows that... — es zeigt, dass...

as shown in the illustration — wie in der Illustration dargestellt

the roads are shown in red — die Straßen sind rot( eingezeichnet)

what time does your watch show? — wie spät ist es nach Ihrer Uhr?

the dial will show red if... — der Zeiger zeigt auf Rot, wenn...

3) (= indicate) zeigen; (= prove) beweisen; kindness, favour erweisen; courage zeigen, beweisen; loyalty, taste, tact, intelligence beweisen; respect bezeigen; proof erbringen

to show one's gratitude — sich dankbar zeigen

this shows him to be a thief —

I hope I have shown how silly it is — ich habe hoffentlich (auf)gezeigt, wie dumm das ist

it all or just goes to show that... — das zeigt doch nur, dass...

4) (= reveal) zeigen

the housing market is showing signs of life — auf dem Immobilienmarkt tut or rührt sich (wieder) (et)was (inf)

it showed signs of having been used — man sah, dass es gebraucht worden war

to show signs of wear — Abnutzungserscheinungen pl aufweisen

to show signs of tiredness — Ermüdungserscheinungen pl zeigen

show a leg! ( Brit inf ) — raus aus den Federn! (inf)

he's beginning to show his age — man sieht ihm allmählich das Alter an

that dress shows her bra — bei dem Kleid sieht man ihren BH

the carpet shows the dirt — auf dem Teppich sieht man den Schmutz

5) (= direct) zeigen

to show sb the way — jdm den Weg zeigen

to show sb in/out — jdn hereinbringen/hinausbringen or -begleiten

to show sb out of a room — jdn hinausbegleiten, jdn aus dem Zimmer begleiten

to show sb into a room — jdn hereinbringen, jdn ins Zimmer bringen

to show sb to his seat/to the door — jdn an seinen Platz/an die or zur Tür bringen

to show sb over or (a)round the house — jdm das (ganze) Haus zeigen

they were shown over or (a)round the factory — ihnen wurde die Fabrik gezeigt, sie wurden in der Fabrik herumgeführt

3. vi

1) (= be visible) zu sehen sein, sichtbar sein; (petticoat etc) vorsehen, rausgucken (inf); (film) gezeigt werden, laufen; (= exhibit artist) ausstellen

the dirt doesn't show — man sieht den Schmutz nicht

his anger showed in his eyes — man konnte ihm seinen Ärger von den Augen ablesen

don't let your anger show — lassen Sie sich (dat)

the tulips are beginning to show — die Tulpen kommen langsam heraus

the pregnancy or she is now beginning to show — man sieht or merkt jetzt allmählich, dass sie schwanger ist

to show through —

the house shows through the gap — durch den Spalt kann man das Haus sehen

he didn't show (inf) — er hat sich nicht blicken lassen (inf)

2)

(= prove) it just goes to show! — da sieht mans mal wieder!

3) (HORSE RACING) sich platzieren

4. vr

to show oneself — sich blicken lassen (inf)

to show oneself to be incompetent — sich (als) unfähig erweisen

he showed himself to be a coward —

it shows itself in his speech — das merkt man an seiner Sprache

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show [ʃəʊ]

A s

1. (Her)Zeigen n:

vote by show of hands durch Handzeichen wählen;

show of teeth Zähnefletschen n

2. Show f, Schau f, Zurschaustellung f:

a show of force fig eine Demonstration der Macht

3. (künstlerische etc) Darbietung, Vorführung f, Vorstellung f, Show f, Schau f:

put on a show fig eine Schau abziehen, sich aufspielen;

steal the show fig (jemandem) die Schau stehlen

4. umg (Theater-, Film)Vorstellung f

5. Show f, Schau f, Ausstellung f:

on show ausgestellt, zu besichtigen(d)

6. (Radio-, Fernseh)Sendung f

7. (prunkvoller) Umzug

8. fig Schauspiel n, Anblick m:

a grand show;

make a sorry show einen traurigen Eindruck hinterlassen;

make a good show eine gute Figur machen umg

9. umg gute etc Leistung:

good show! gut gemacht!, bravo!

10. Protzerei f, Angeberei f (beide umg):

for show um Eindruck zu machen, (nur) fürs Auge;

be fond of show gern großtun

11. (leerer) Schein:

in outward show nach außen (hin);

make a show of interest Interesse heucheln, sich interessiert geben;

make a show of rage sich wütend stellen

12. Spur f, Anzeichen n

13. (Zirkus-, Theater) Truppe f

14. umg Chance f:

give sb a fair show

15. besonders Br umg Laden m, Sache f:

a dull (poor) show eine langweilige (armselige) Sache;

run the show den Laden oder die Sache schmeißen;

give the (whole) show away sich oder alles verraten

16. Pferderennen etc: dritter Platz

B v/t prät showed, pperf shown, showed

1. zeigen, sehen lassen, seinen Ausweis, seine Fahrkarte etc auch vorzeigen, -weisen:

show o.s.

a) auch show one’s face sich zeigen, sich sehen oder blicken lassen

b) fig sich grausam etc zeigen, sich erweisen als;

I’ll show him! der soll mich kennenlernen!;

never show your face again! lass dich hier nie wieder blicken!;

“not shown” (in Katalogen etc) „ohne Abbildung“; → card¹ 1 a, etc

2. jemandem zeigen oder erklären ( how to do sth wie man etwas tut):

show sb how to write jemandem das Schreiben beibringen

3. sein Wissen etc an den Tag legen, zeigen

4. Katzen etc ausstellen, auf einer Ausstellung zeigen

5. zeigen:

a) THEAT etc vorführen

b) TV bringen

6. jemanden ins Zimmer etc führen, geleiten, bringen:

show sb about ( oder [a]round) the town jemandem die Stadt zeigen, jemanden in der Stadt herumführen;

show sb over the house jemanden durch das Haus führen;

show sb (a)round jemanden (herum)führen

7. seine Absichten etc kundtun, offenbaren

8. seine Pläne etc (auf)zeigen, darlegen

9. zeigen, beweisen:

show the truth of a statement;

you’ll have to show me! umg das wirst du mir (erst) beweisen müssen!

10. JUR nachweisen, vorbringen:

show proof JUR den Beweis erbringen; → cause A 4

11. PHYS, TECH (an)zeigen:

the speedometer showed 70

12. Gefühle zeigen, sich etwas anmerken lassen

13. schlechten Geschmack etc zeigen, erkennen lassen, verraten

14. jemandem eine Gunst etc erweisen:

show sb gratitude sich jemandem gegenüber dankbar erweisen

C v/i

1. sichtbar werden oder sein, sich zeigen:

the blood shows through her skin man sieht das Blut durch ihre Haut;

it shows man sieht es; → time A 1

2. umg sich zeigen, erscheinen

3. aussehen ( like wie):

show to advantage vorteilhaft aussehen

4. be showing gezeigt werden, laufen (Film)

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1. noun
1) (display) Pracht, die

a show of flowers/colour — eine Blumen-/Farbenpracht

show of force/strength — etc. Demonstration der Macht/Stärke usw.

be on show — ausgestellt sein

put something on show — etwas ausstellen

2) (exhibition) Ausstellung, die; Schau, die

dog show — Hundeschau, die

3) (entertainment, performance) Show, die; (Theatre) Vorstellung, die; (Radio, Telev.) [Unterhaltungs]sendung, die; see also steal 1. 1)

4) (coll.): (effort)

it's a poor show — das ist ein schwaches Bild

put up a good/poor show — eine gute/schlechte Figur machen

good show! — gut [gemacht]!

5) (coll.): (undertaking, business)

it's his show — er ist der Boss (ugs.)

run the show — der Boss sein (ugs.)

give the [whole] show away — alles ausquatschen (salopp)

6) (outward appearance) Anschein, der

make a great show of friendliness — ungeheuer freundlich tun

make or put on a [great] show of doing something — sich (Dat.) [angestrengt] den Anschein geben, etwas zu tun

be for show — reine Angeberei sein (ugs.)

do something just for show — etwas nur aus Prestigegründen tun
2. transitive verb,
p.p. shown or showed

1) (allow or cause to be seen) zeigen; vorzeigen [Pass, Fahrschein usw.]

show somebody something, show something to somebody — jemandem etwas zeigen

have nothing/something to show for it — [dabei] nichts/etwas zum Vorzeigen haben

that dress shows your petticoat — bei diesem Kleid sieht man deinen Unterrock

this material does not show the dirt — auf diesem Material sieht man den Schmutz nicht; see also colour 1. 5); sign 1. 5)

2) (manifest, give evidence of) zeigen; beweisen [Mut, Entschlossenheit, Urteilsvermögen usw.]

show hesitation — zaudern

he is showing his age — man sieht ihm sein Alter an

3)

show [somebody] kindness/mercy — freundlich [zu jemandem] sein/Erbarmen [mit jemandem] haben

show mercy on or to somebody — Erbarmen mit jemandem haben

4) (indicate) zeigen [Gefühl, Freude usw.]; [Thermometer, Uhr usw.:] anzeigen

as shown in the illustration — wie die Abbildung zeigt

frontiers are shown by blue lines and towns are shown in red — Grenzen sind durch blaue Linien und Städte sind rot gekennzeichnet

the accounts show a profit — die Bücher weisen einen Gewinn aus

the firm shows a profit/loss — die Firma macht Gewinn/Verlust

5) (demonstrate, prove) zeigen

show somebody that... — jemandem beweisen, dass...

it all/just goes to show that... — das beweist nur, dass...

it all goes to show, doesn't it? — das beweist es doch, oder?

I'll show you/him etc.! — ich werd's dir/ihm usw. schon zeigen!

show somebody who's boss — jemandem zeigen, wer das Sagen hat

6) (conduct) führen

show somebody over or round the house/to his place — jemanden durchs Haus/an seinen Platz führen
3. intransitive verb,
p.p. shown or showed

1) (be visible) sichtbar od. zu sehen sein

he was angry/bored, and it showed — er war wütend/langweilte sich, und man sah es [ihm an]

his age is beginning to show — man sieht ihm sein Alter allmählich an

2) (be shown) [Film:] laufen; [Künstler:] ausstellen

"Gandhi" - now showing in the West End — "Gandhi" - Jetzt im West End

3) (make something known)

time will show — man wird es [ja] sehen

Phrasal Verbs:

- show in

- show off

- show out

- show round

- show through

- show up

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(cinema) n.

Vorstellung f. n.

Ausstellung f.

Schau -en f. v.

(§ p.,p.p.: showed)

or p.p.: shown•) = aufweisen v.

aufzeigen v.

ausstellen (auf einer Messe) v.

vorführen v.

vorweisen v.

zeigen v.

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57 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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1.
[fɔːs]noun

1) no pl. (strength, power) Stärke, die; (of bomb, explosion, attack, storm) Wucht, die; (physical strength) Kraft, die

achieve something by brute force — etwas mit roher Gewalt erreichen

in force — (in large numbers) mit einem großen Aufgebot (see also academic.ru/4773/b">b)

2) no pl. (fig.): (power, validity) Kraft, die

by force of — auf Grund (+ Gen.)

argue with much force — sehr überzeugend argumentieren

in force — (in effect) in Kraft

come into force — [Gesetz usw.:] in Kraft treten

put in[to] force — in Kraft setzen

3) (coercion, violence) Gewalt, die

use or employ force [against somebody] — Gewalt [gegen jemanden] anwenden

by force — gewaltsam; mit Gewalt

4) (organized group) (of workers) Kolonne, die; Trupp, der; (of police) Einheit, die; (Mil.) Armee, die

the forces — die Armee

be in the forces — beim Militär sein

5) (forceful agency or person) Kraft, die; Macht, die

there are forces in action/at work here... — hier walten Kräfte/sind Kräfte am Werk...

he is a force in the land (fig.)/a force to be reckoned with — er ist ein einflussreicher Mann im Land/eine Macht, die nicht zu unterschätzen ist

6) (meaning) Bedeutung, die

7) (Phys.) Kraft, die
2. transitive verb
1) zwingen

force somebody/oneself [to do something] — jemanden/sich zwingen[, etwas zu tun]

be forced to do something — gezwungen sein od. sich gezwungen sehen, etwas zu tun

I was forced to accept/into accepting the offer — (felt obliged) ich fühlte mich verpflichtet, das Angebot anzunehmen

force somebody's hand — (fig.) jemanden zwingen zu handeln

2) (take by force)

force something from somebody — jemandem etwas entreißen

he forced it out of her hands — er riss es ihr aus der Hand

force a confession from somebody — (fig.) jemanden zu einem Geständnis zwingen

3) (push)

force something into something — etwas in etwas (Akk.) [hinein]zwängen

4) (impose, inflict)

force something [up]on somebody — jemandem etwas aufzwingen od. aufnötigen

he forced his attentions on her — er drängte sich ihr mit seinen Aufmerksamkeiten auf

5) (break open)

force [open] — aufbrechen

6) (effect by violent means) sich (Dat.) erzwingen [Zutritt]

force one's way in[to a building] — sich (Dat.) mit Gewalt Zutritt [zu einem Gebäude] verschaffen

7) (produce with effort) sich zwingen zu

force a smile — sich zu einem Lächeln zwingen

Phrasal Verbs:

- force down

- force up

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[fo:s] 1. noun
1) (strength or power that can be felt: the force of the wind.) die Kraft

2) (a person or thing that has great power: the forces of Nature.) die Kraft

3) ((sometimes with capital) a group of men prepared for action: the police force; the Royal Air Force.) die Truppe
2. verb
1) (to make (someone or something) do something, go somewhere etc, often against his etc will: He forced me to give him money.) zwingen

2) (to achieve by strength or effort: He forced a smile despite his grief.) erzwingen

•

- forced
- forceful
- forcefully
- forces
- in
- into force
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force

[fɔ:s, AM fɔ:rs]

I. n

1. no pl (power) Kraft f; (intensity) Stärke f; of a blow, impact Wucht f

she slapped his face with unexpected \force sie versetzte ihm eine unerwartet kräftige Ohrfeige

by \force of arms mit Waffengewalt

the \force of an earthquake/a hurricane die Stärke eines Erdbebens/Wirbelsturms

with full \force mit voller Wucht

2. no pl (violence) Gewalt f

to use \force Gewalt anwenden

by \force gewaltsam, mit Gewalt

3. no pl (coercion) Zwang m

under the \force of circumstances unter dem Zwang der Verhältnisse

4. PHYS Kraft f

\force of attraction Anziehungsvermögen nt

\force of current Stromstärke f

\force of gravity Schwerkraft f, Erdanziehungskraft f

\force of inertia Trägheitskraft f

5. no pl (large numbers)

▪ in \force in großer Zahl

6. no pl (influence) Macht f; (powerful effect) Kraft f

the \force of sb's arguments jds Überzeugungskraft f

\force of habit die Macht der Gewohnheit

from \force of habit aus reiner Gewohnheit

7. (person or thing with influence) Kraft f, Macht f

he was a powerful \force in politics er war ein einflussreicher Mann in der Politik

the \forces of evil die Mächte des Bösen

the \forces of nature ( liter) die Naturgewalten pl

8. no pl (validity) Gültigkeit f

to have the \force of law rechtsverbindlich sein

to be in/come [or be brought] into \force in Kraft sein/treten

to put sth in[to] \force etw in Kraft setzen

9. (group) Truppe f

police \force Polizei f

air \force Luftwaffe f

labour \force Arbeitskräfte pl

armed \forces Streitkräfte pl

10.

▶ to combine [or join] \forces zusammenhelfen

with combined \forces mit vereinten Kräften

▶ by sheer \force of numbers aufgrund zahlenmäßiger Überlegenheit

II. vt

1. (compel)

▪ to \force sb/oneself [to do sth] jdn/sich zwingen [etw zu tun]

to \force sb out of the car jdn zwingen auszusteigen

to \force sb out of the house jdn zwingen das Haus zu verlassen

to \force sb to the floor jdn zu Boden zwingen

▪ to be \forced to do sth gezwungen werden etw zu tun; (feel the necessity) gezwungen sein etw zu tun; (feel obliged) sich akk gezwungen sehen etw zu tun

▪ to \force sb into doing sth jdn [dazu] zwingen, etw zu tun

▪ to \force sb into sth (an act) jdn zu etw dat zwingen; (a space) jdn in etw akk zwingen geh

the \forced us into the cellar sie zwangen uns in den Keller [zu gehen]

to \force sb into the car jdn [dazu] zwingen, einzusteigen [o in den Wagen zu steigen]

to \force sb into prostitution/resignation jdn zur Prostitution/zum Rücktritt zwingen

2.

to \force oneself on sb (impose) sich akk jdm aufdrängen; (sexually) jdm Gewalt antun

3. (get, produce)

▪ to \force sth etw erzwingen

the burglar \forced an entry der Einbrecher verschaffte sich mit Gewalt Zutritt

to \force a confession out of sb jdn zu einem Geständnis zwingen, ein Geständnis von jdm erzwingen

to \force a smile gezwungen lächeln, sich akk zu einem Lächeln zwingen

to \force one's way into/through/out of sth sich dat seinen Weg in/durch etw akk /aus etw dat bahnen

to \force words out of sb jdm die Worte aus der Nase ziehen fam

4. (make accept)

▪ to \force sth on sb jdm etw aufzwingen

5. (push, squeeze)

▪ to \force sth into sth etw in etw akk [hinein]zwängen

to \force a nail into a wall einen Nagel in eine Wand treiben

6. LAW

to \force a bill through the legislature ein Gesetz durchbringen [o fam durchpeitschen

7. (open)

to \force a door/a lock eine Tür/ein Schloss aufbrechen

to \force a zip einen Reißverschluss mit Gewalt öffnen

8. (make grow faster)

to \force fruits/vegetables Früchte/Gemüse treiben fachspr

\forced salad getriebener Salat fachspr

9.

▶ to \force sb's hand jdn zum Handeln zwingen

▶ to \force an issue eine Entscheidung erzwingen

▶ to \force the pace das Tempo forcieren

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[fɔːs]
1. n

1) no pl (= physical strength, power) Kraft f; (of blow, impact, collision) Wucht f; (= physical coercion) Gewalt f; (PHYS) Kraft f

to resort to force — Gewalt anwenden

to settle sth by force — etw gewaltsam or durch Gewalt beilegen

by sheer force — durch reine Gewalt

by or through sheer force of numbers — aufgrund or auf Grund zahlenmäßiger Überlegenheit

there is a force 5 wind blowing — es herrscht Windstärke 5

the force of the wind was so great he could hardly stand — der Wind war so stark, dass er kaum stehen konnte

they were there in force —

they came in force — sie kamen in großer Zahl or Stärke

2) no pl (fig) (of argument) Überzeugungskraft f; (of music, phrase) Eindringlichkeit f; (of character) Stärke f; (of words) Macht f

that was force of habit — das war die Macht der Gewohnheit

by or from force of habit — aus Gewohnheit

by force of will — durch Willensanstrengung or Willenskraft

the force of circumstances —

I see the force of what he is saying — ich sehe ein, was er sagt, ist zwingend

3) (= powerful thing, person) Macht f

Forces of Nature — Naturgewalten pl

there are various forces at work here — hier sind verschiedene Kräfte am Werk

he is a powerful force in the reform movement — er ist ein einflussreicher Mann in der Reformbewegung

See:

→ life force

4)

(= body of men) the forces (Mil) — die Streitkräfte pl

the (police) force — die Polizei

to join forces — sich zusammentun

See:

→ sales force, workforce

5)

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

2. vt

1) (= compel) zwingen

to force sb/oneself to do sth — jdn/sich zwingen, etw zu tun

he was forced to resign — er wurde gezwungen zurückzutreten

he was forced to conclude that... — er sah sich zu der Folgerung gezwungen or gedrängt, dass...

2) (= extort, obtain by force) erzwingen

he forced a confession out of or from me — er erzwang ein Geständnis von mir

to force an error (Sport) — einen Fehler erzwingen, den Gegner ausspielen

3)

to force sth ( up)on sb (present, one's company) — jdm etw aufdrängen; conditions, obedience jdm etw auferlegen; conditions, decision, war jdm etw aufzwingen

he forced himself on her (sexually) — er tat ihr Gewalt an

4) (= break open) aufbrechen

to force (an) entry — sich (dat) gewaltsam Zugang or Zutritt verschaffen

5)

(= push, squeeze) to force books into a box — Bücher in eine Kiste zwängen

the liquid is forced up the tube by a pump — die Flüssigkeit wird von einer Pumpe durch das Rohr nach oben gepresst

if it won't open/go in, don't force it — wenn es nicht aufgeht/passt, wende keine Gewalt an

to force one's way into sth — sich (dat) gewaltsam Zugang zu etw or in etw (acc)

to force one's way through — sich (dat) gewaltsam einen Weg bahnen

to force a car off the road — ein Auto von der Fahrbahn drängen

to force a bill through parliament — eine Gesetzesvorlage durch das Parlament peitschen

6) plants treiben

7)

(= produce with effort) to force a smile — gezwungen lächeln

to force the pace — das Tempo forcieren

don't force it — erzwingen Sie es nicht

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force [fɔː(r)s; US auch ˈfəʊərs]

A s

1. Stärke f, Kraft f, Wucht f (auch fig):

the force of an explosion;

force of gravity PHYS Schwerkraft;

by force of durch, kraft (gen), vermittels (gen);

by force of arms mit Waffengewalt;

join forces

a) sich zusammentun ( with mit),

b) MIL seine Streitkräfte vereinigen ( with mit)

2. fig (auch politische etc) Kraft:

forces of nature Naturkräfte, -gewalten

3. Gewalt f:

by force gewaltsam, mit Gewalt ( → A 4)

4. auch JUR Zwang m, Gewalt(anwendung) f, Druck m:

by force zwangsweise ( → A 3);

the force of circumstances der Zwang der Verhältnisse

5. JUR (Rechts) Kraft f, (-)Gültigkeit f, (-)Wirksamkeit f:

be in force in Kraft sein, gelten;

come ( oder enter) (put) into force in Kraft treten (setzen);

coming ( oder entry) into force Inkrafttreten n

6. Einfluss m, Macht f, Wirkung f, (Durchschlags-, Überzeugungs)Kraft f, Nachdruck m:

lend force to Nachdruck verleihen (dat);

the force of habit die Macht der Gewohnheit;

from force of habit aus Gewohnheit

7. (geistige oder moralische) Kraft

8. auch LING Bedeutung f, Gehalt m

9. umg Menge f:

in force in großer Zahl oder Menge

10. MIL

a) oft pl Streit-, Kriegsmacht f

b) pl (Gesamt)Streitkräfte pl

c) pl Truppe f, Verband m

11. Truppe f, Mannschaft f:

a strong force of police ein starkes Polizeiaufgebot;

the police force, Br a. the Force die Polizei

B v/t

1. zwingen, nötigen:

force sb to resign jemanden zum Rücktritt zwingen;

force sb’s hand jemanden zu handeln zwingen;

we were forced to listen to their argument wir mussten uns (notgedrungen) ihren Streit mit anhören

2. etwas erzwingen, durchsetzen, -drücken:

force a smile gezwungen oder gequält lächeln, sich zu einem Lächeln zwingen, sich ein Lächeln abquälen;

force sth from sb etwas von jemandem erzwingen;

force sb’s release( from prison) jemanden freipressen;

force a corner SPORT eine Ecke erzwingen; → entry 7

3. zwängen, drängen, drücken, pressen:

force back (out, together) zurücktreiben (herausdrücken, zusammenpressen);

she forced back her tears sie unterdrückte die Tränen;

force down sein Essen hinunterwürgen;

force a passage ( oder one’s way) sich (durch)zwängen oder (-)drängen ( through durch);

force one’s way into sich gewaltsam Zutritt verschaffen zu;

force sb to the left jemanden nach links abdrängen;

an idea forced itself into my mind ein Gedanke drängte sich mir auf

4. force down FLUG zur (Not)Landung zwingen

5. auch force up WIRTSCH die Preise hochtreiben

6. aufzwingen, -drängen, -nötigen ( alle:

sth [up]on sb jemandem etwas):

force o.s. on sb sich jemandem aufdrängen

7. überwältigen

8. MIL erstürmen, erobern

9. auch force open eine Tür etc aufbrechen

10. jemandem, auch einer Frau, auch fig dem Sinn etc Gewalt antun

11. fig einen Ausdruck etc zu Tode reiten, zerreden

12. das Tempo beschleunigen, forcieren

13. BOT rasch hochzüchten oder zur Reife bringen

14. (an)treiben

15. MUS Töne forcieren:

force one’s voice ( oder the top notes) pressen

F abk

1. Fahrenheit

2. PHYS force

3. French

4. MATH function

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1.
[fɔːs]noun

1) no pl. (strength, power) Stärke, die; (of bomb, explosion, attack, storm) Wucht, die; (physical strength) Kraft, die

achieve something by brute force — etwas mit roher Gewalt erreichen

in force — (in large numbers) mit einem großen Aufgebot (see also b)

2) no pl. (fig.): (power, validity) Kraft, die

by force of — auf Grund (+ Gen.)

argue with much force — sehr überzeugend argumentieren

in force — (in effect) in Kraft

come into force — [Gesetz usw.:] in Kraft treten

put in[to] force — in Kraft setzen

3) (coercion, violence) Gewalt, die

use or employ force [against somebody] — Gewalt [gegen jemanden] anwenden

by force — gewaltsam; mit Gewalt

4) (organized group) (of workers) Kolonne, die; Trupp, der; (of police) Einheit, die; (Mil.) Armee, die

the forces — die Armee

be in the forces — beim Militär sein

5) (forceful agency or person) Kraft, die; Macht, die

there are forces in action/at work here... — hier walten Kräfte/sind Kräfte am Werk...

he is a force in the land (fig.)/a force to be reckoned with — er ist ein einflussreicher Mann im Land/eine Macht, die nicht zu unterschätzen ist

6) (meaning) Bedeutung, die

7) (Phys.) Kraft, die
2. transitive verb
1) zwingen

force somebody/oneself [to do something] — jemanden/sich zwingen[, etwas zu tun]

be forced to do something — gezwungen sein od. sich gezwungen sehen, etwas zu tun

I was forced to accept/into accepting the offer — (felt obliged) ich fühlte mich verpflichtet, das Angebot anzunehmen

force somebody's hand — (fig.) jemanden zwingen zu handeln

2) (take by force)

force something from somebody — jemandem etwas entreißen

he forced it out of her hands — er riss es ihr aus der Hand

force a confession from somebody — (fig.) jemanden zu einem Geständnis zwingen

3) (push)

force something into something — etwas in etwas (Akk.) [hinein]zwängen

4) (impose, inflict)

force something [up]on somebody — jemandem etwas aufzwingen od. aufnötigen

he forced his attentions on her — er drängte sich ihr mit seinen Aufmerksamkeiten auf

5) (break open)

force [open] — aufbrechen

6) (effect by violent means) sich (Dat.) erzwingen [Zutritt]

force one's way in[to a building] — sich (Dat.) mit Gewalt Zutritt [zu einem Gebäude] verschaffen

7) (produce with effort) sich zwingen zu

force a smile — sich zu einem Lächeln zwingen

Phrasal Verbs:

- force down

- force up

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n.

Gewalt -en f.

Kraft ¨-e f.

Macht ¨-e f.

Stärke -n f.

Wirkung -en f.

Zwang ¨-e m. v.

erzwingen v.

forcieren v.

zwingen v.

(§ p.,pp.: zwang, gezwungen)

English-german dictionary > force
59 that

1. adjective,
pl. those

1) dieser/diese/dieses

2) (expr. strong feeling) der/die/das

never will I forget that day — den Tag werde ich nie vergessen

3) (coupled or contrasted with ‘this’) der/die/das [da]
2. pronoun,
pl. those

1) der/die/das

who is that in the garden? — wer ist das [da] im Garten?

what bird is that? — was für ein Vogel ist das?

I know all that — ich weiß das alles

and [all] that — und so weiter

like that — (of the kind or in the way mentioned, of that character) so

[just] like that — (without effort, thought) einfach so

don't be like that! — sei doch nicht so

don't talk like that — hör auf, so zu reden

he is like that — so ist er eben

that is [to say] — (introducing explanation) das heißt; (introducing reservation) das heißt; genauer gesagt

if they'd have me, that is — das heißt, wenn sie mich nehmen

that's more like it — (of suggestion, news) das hört sich schon besser an; (of action, work) das sieht schon besser aus

that's right! — (expr. approval) gut od. recht so; (iron.) nur so weiter!; (coll.): (expr. assent) jawohl

that's a good etc. boy/girl — das ist lieb [von dir, mein Junge/Mädchen]; (with request) sei so lieb usw.

that will do — das reicht

somebody/something is not as... as all that — (coll.) so... ist jemand/etwas nun auch wieder nicht

[so] that's that — (it's finished) so, das wär's; (it's settled) so ist es nun mal

you are not going to the party, and that's that! — du gehst nicht zu der Party, und damit Schluss!

2) (Brit.): (person spoken to)

who is that? — wer ist da?; (behind wall etc.) wer ist denn da?; (on telephone) wer ist am Apparat?

who was that? — wer war das?
3. relative pronoun, pl. same
der/die/das

the people that you got it from — die Leute, von denen du es bekommen hast

the box that you put the apples in — die Kiste, in die du die Äpfel getan hast

is he the man that you saw last night? — ist das der Mann, den Sie gestern Abend gesehen haben?

everyone that I know — jeder, den ich kenne

this is all [the money] that I have — das ist alles [Geld], was ich habe
4. adverb
(coll.) so

he may be daft, but he's not [all] that daft — er mag ja blöd sein, aber so blöd [ist er] auch wieder nicht
5. relative adverb
der/die/das

at the speed that he was going — bei der Geschwindigkeit, die er hatte

the day that I first met her — der Tag, an dem ich sie zum ersten Mal sah
6. conjunction
1) (introducing statement; expr. result, reason or cause) dass

2) (expr. purpose)

[in order] that — damit

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1. [ðæt] plural - those; adjective
(used to indicate a person, thing etc spoken of before, not close to the speaker, already known to the speaker and listener etc: Don't take this book - take that one; At that time, I was living in Italy; When are you going to return those books?) jene/-r/-s
2. pronoun
(used to indicate a thing etc, or (in plural or with the verb be) person or people, spoken of before, not close to the speaker, already known to the speaker and listener etc: What is that you've got in your hand?; Who is that?; That is the Prime Minister; Those present at the concert included the composer and his wife.) der/die/das
3. [ðət, ðæt] relative pronoun
(used to refer to a person, thing etc mentioned in a preceding clause in order to distinguish it from others: Where is the parcel that arrived this morning?; Who is the man( that) you were talking to?) der/die/das
4. [ðət, ðæt] conjunction
1) ((often omitted) used to report what has been said etc or to introduce other clauses giving facts, reasons, results etc: I know (that) you didn't do it; I was surprised( that) he had gone.) daß

2) (used to introduce expressions of sorrow, wishes etc: That I should be accused of murder!; Oh, that I were with her now!) daß(doch)
5. adverb
(so; to such an extent: I didn't realize she was that ill.) so

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- that's that
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that

[ðæt,ðət]

I. DEMONSTRATIVE ADJECTIVE

1. (person, thing specified) der/die/das

put \that box down before you drop it stell die Kiste ab, bevor du sie [womöglich] noch fallen lässt

who is \that girl? wer ist das Mädchen?

what was \that noise? was war das für ein Geräusch?

\that old liar! dieser alte Lügner!

\that... of hers/theirs ihr(e)...

I've never liked \that uncle of hers ich habe ihren Onkel noch nie gemocht

\that... of mine/his mein(e)/dein(e)...

2. (person, thing farther away) der/die/das [... dort [o da]], jene(r, s) geh

do you know \that girl [over there] kennst du das Mädchen [dort]

give me \that book, not this one gib mir das Buch [da], nicht dieses

II. PRONOUN

1. dem (person, thing, action specified) das

\that's not right — three times five is fifteen das stimmt nicht — drei mal fünf ist fünfzehn

they all think \that das denken alle

\that's more like it! das ist doch schon gleich viel besser!

\that's a good idea das ist eine gute Idee

\that's a pity das ist aber schade

\that's terrible das ist ja furchtbar

\that will do, \that's enough das reicht

what's \that you said? was hast du gesagt?

who's \that? is \that the girl you're looking for? wer ist das? ist das das Mädchen, das du suchst?

who's \that on the phone? wer spricht da?

hello, is \that Ben? hallo, bist du das, Ben?

is \that you making all the noise, John? bist du das, der so einen Lärm macht, John?

it's just a gimmick — \that said, I'd love to do it das ist nur ein Trick — dennoch würde ich es gerne machen

take \that! (when hitting sb) [das ist] für dich!

\that's why deshalb

2. dem (person, thing farther away) das [da [o dort]]

I don't want this, give me \that dies hier will ich nicht, gib mir das [da]

\that's his wife over there das da [o dort] drüben ist seine Frau

3. dem (indicating time) das

ah, 1985, \that was a good year ah, 1985, das war ein gutes Jahr

\that was yesterday \that we talked on the phone, not last week wir haben gestern, nicht letzte Woche telefoniert

4. dem, after prep

after/before \that danach/davor

by \that damit

what do you mean by \that? was soll das heißen?

like \that (in such a way) so; (of such a kind) derartig; ( fam: effortlessly) einfach so

if you hold it like \that, it will break wenn du das so hältst, geht es kaputt

we need more people like \that wir brauchen mehr solche Leute

don't talk like \that sprich nicht so

he can't just leave like \that er kann nicht einfach so verschwinden

over/under \that darüber/darunter

with \that damit

[and] with \that he hung up [und] damit legte er auf

“I still think you're wrong” he said and with \that he drove off „ich denke immer noch, dass du Unrecht hast“ sagte er und fuhr davon

5. dem ( form: the one) der/die/das

his appearance was \that of an undergrown man er sah aus, als ob er zu klein gewachsen wäre

his handwriting is \that of a child seine Handschrift ist die eines Kindes

we are often afraid of \that which we cannot understand wir fürchten uns oft vor dem, was wir nicht verstehen

6. dem esp BRIT ( fam: strong confirmation)

are you relieved? — [oh yes,]I am \that bist du erleichtert? — das kannst du [aber] laut sagen fam

7. dem (when finished)

well, \that's it, we've finished o.k., das war's [o wär's], wir sind fertig

\that's it! I'm not putting up with any more of her rudeness jetzt reicht's! ich lasse mir ihre Unverschämtheiten nicht mehr gefallen

she left the room and \that was \that, I never saw her again sie verließ den Raum und das war's, ich habe sie nie wiedergesehen

I won't agree to it and \that's \that ich stimme dem nicht zu, und damit Schluss

\that'll [or \that should] do, \that should be enough das wird reichen

no thanks, \that'll do [or \that's everything] nein danke, das ist alles

8. rel (which, who) der/die/das

\that's the car [\that] John wants to buy das ist das Auto, das John kaufen möchte

I can't find the books [\that] I got from the library ich finde die Bücher nicht, die ich mir aus der Bibliothek ausgeliehen habe

the baby smiles at anyone \that smiles at her das Baby lächelt alle an, die es anlächeln

simpleton \that he is... als Einfaltspinsel, der er ist,...

9. rel (when) als

the year \that Anna was born das Jahr, in dem Anna geboren wurde

10.

▶ and [all] \that ( fam) und so weiter

▶ at \that noch dazu

she was a thief and a clever one at \that sie war eine Diebin, und eine kluge noch dazu

▶ \that is [to say] das heißt

the hotel is closed during low seasons, \that is from October to March das Hotel ist in der Nebensaison, sprich von Oktober bis März, geschlossen

▶ this and \that dies und das

▶ \that was ( form)

General Dunstaple married Miss Hughes \that was General Dunstaple heiratete die frühere Miss Hughes

III. CONJUNCTION

1. (as subject/object) dass

\that such a thing could happen gave me new hope dass so etwas passieren konnte gab mir neue Hoffnung

I knew [\that] he'd never get here on time ich wusste, dass er niemals rechtzeitig hier sein würde

the fact is [\that] we... Fakt ist, dass wir...

2. after adj, vb (as a result)

it was so dark [\that] I couldn't see anything es war so dunkel, dass ich nichts sehen konnte

3. (with a purpose)

so [or in order] \that damit

let's go over the rules again in order \that... gehen wir die Regeln nochmal[s] durch, damit...

4. after adj (in apposition to ‘it’)

it's possible [\that] there'll be a vacancy es ist möglich, dass eine Stelle frei wird

is it true [\that] she's gone back to teaching? stimmt es, dass sie wieder als Lehrerin arbeitet?

5. after -ing words

considering [\that]... wenn man bedenkt, dass...

given \that... vorausgesetzt, dass...

supposing [\that]... angenommen, dass...

6. (as a reason) weil, da [ja]

it's rather \that I'm not well today es ist eher deshalb, weil ich mich heute nicht wohl fühle

I'd like to go, it's just \that I don't have any time ich würde ja gern hingehen, ich hab' bloß [einfach] keine Zeit fam

now \that we've bought a house... jetzt, wo wir ein Haus gekauft haben..

we can't increase our production quantities in \that the machines are presently working to full capacity wir können die Produktion nicht hochfahren, da [nämlich] die Maschinen derzeit voll ausgelastet sind

not \that it's actually my business, but... nicht, dass es mich etwas anginge, aber...

except [\that] außer, dass

his plan sounds perfect except [\that] I don't want to be involved in such a scheme sein Plan hört sich großartig an, nur will ich mit so einem Vorhaben nichts zu tun haben

to the extent \that (so much that) dermaßen... dass; (insofar as) insofern als

the situation has worsened to the extend \that we are calling in an independent expert die Situation hat sich dermaßen verschlimmert, dass wir einen unabhängigen Fachmann hinzuziehen

apes are like people to the extent \that they have some human characteristics Affen sind wie Menschen, insofern als sie gewisse menschliche Eigenschaften haben

7. ( form liter or dated: expressing a wish)

oh \that I were young again! wäre ich doch nochmal jung!

oh \that they would listen! wenn sie [doch] nur zuhören würden!

IV. ADVERB

inv so

she's too young to walk \that far sie ist zu jung, um so weit laufen zu können

it wasn't [all] \that good so gut war es [nun] auch wieder nicht

his words hurt me \that much I cried seine Worte haben mich so verletzt, dass ich weinte

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I [ðt] (weak form) [ðət]
1. dem pron pl those

1) das

what is that? — was ist das?

they all say that — das sagen alle

that is Joe ( over there) —

who is that? — wer ist das?

who is that speaking? — wer spricht (denn) da?; (on phone)

that's what I say or think too — das finde ich auch

if she's as unhappy/stupid etc as (all) that — wenn sie so or derart unglücklich/dumm etc ist

she's not as stupid as all that — so dumm ist sie nun auch (wieder) nicht

I didn't think she'd get/be as angry as that — ich hätte nicht gedacht, dass sie sich so ärgern würde

... and all that —... und so (inf)

like that — so

with luck/talent like that... — bei solchem or so einem (inf) Glück/Talent...

just like that — einfach so

that's got that/him out of the way — so, das wäre geschafft/den wären wir los

that's what I'm here for — dafür bin ich ja hier, das ist meine Aufgabe

that is (to say) — das heißt

oh well, that's that —

there, that's that — so, das wärs

you can't go and that's that — du darfst nicht gehen, und damit hat sichs or und damit basta (inf)

well, that's that then — das wärs dann also

so that was that — damit hatte sichs

that's it! — das ist es!

will he come? – that he will (dial) — kommt er? – (der?) bestimmt

2)

(after prep) after/before/below/over that — danach/davor/darunter/darüber

and... at that — und dabei...

you can get it in any supermarket and quite cheaply at that — man kann es in jedem Supermarkt, und zwar ganz billig, bekommen

my watch is broken already and it was my good one at that — meine Uhr ist schon kaputt und dabei war es meine gute

what do you mean by that? (not understanding) — was wollen Sie damit sagen?; (amazed, annoyed) was soll (denn) das heißen?

as for that — was das betrifft or angeht

if things have or if it has come to that —

with that she got up and left/burst into tears — damit stand sie auf und ging/brach sie in Tränen aus

See:

→ leave

3) (opposed to "this" and "these") das (da), jenes (old, geh)

I prefer this to that — dies ist mir lieber als das (da)

that's the one I like, not this one — das (dort) mag ich, nicht dies (hier)

4)

(followed by rel pron) this theory is different from that which... — diese Theorie unterscheidet sich von derjenigen, die...

that which we call... — das, was wir... nennen

2. dem adj pl those

1) der/die/das, jene(r, s)

what was that noise? — was war das für ein Geräusch?

that child/dog! — dieses Kind/dieser Hund!

that poor girl! — das arme Mädchen!

I only saw him on that one occasion — ich habe ihn nur bei dieser einen Gelegenheit gesehen

that morning I had put on my green dress — an jenem Morgen hatte ich mein grünes Kleid an(gezogen)

everyone agreed on that point — alle waren sich in dem Punkt einig

I like that one — ich mag das da

2) (in opposition to this) der/die/das

I'd like that one, not this one — ich möchte das da, nicht dies hier

she was rushing this way and that — sie rannte hierhin und dorthin

3)

(with poss) that dog of yours! — Ihr Hund, dieser Hund von Ihnen

what about that plan of yours now? — wie steht es denn jetzt mit Ihrem Plan?, was ist denn nun mit Ihrem Plan?

3. dem adv (inf)
so
he was at least that much taller than me — er war mindestens (um) so viel größer als ich

it's not that good/cold etc —

it's not that good a film — SO ein guter Film ist es nun auch wieder nicht

he was that angry — er hat sich DERart(ig) geärgert
II
rel pron

1) der/die/das, die

all/nothing/everything etc that... — alles/nichts/alles etc, was...

the best/cheapest etc that... — das Beste/Billigste etc, das or was...

fool that I am — ich Idiot

the girl that I told you about — das Mädchen, von dem ich Ihnen erzählt habe

no-one has come that I know of — meines Wissens or soviel ich weiß, ist niemand gekommen

2)

(with expressions of time) the minute that he came the phone rang — genau in dem Augenblick, als er kam, klingelte das Telefon

the day that we spent on the beach was one of the hottest — der Tag, den wir am Strand verbrachten, war einer der heißesten

the day that... — an dem Tag, als...
III
conj

1) dass

she promised that she would come — sie versprach zu kommen

he said that it was wrong — er sagte, es sei or wäre (inf) falsch, er sagte, dass es falsch sei or wäre

not that I want to do it — nicht (etwa), dass ich das tun wollte

See:

→ so

2)

(in exclamations) that things or it should come to this! —

oh that I could only see you again (liter) — oh, dass ich dich doch wiedersehen könnte! (liter)

3) (obs, liter: in order that) auf dass (old)

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that¹ [ðæt]

A pron & adj (hinweisend) pl those [ðəʊz]

1. (ohne pl) das:

that is true das stimmt;

that’s all das ist alles;

that’s it!

a) so ists recht!,

b) das ist es ja (gerade)!;

that’s what it is das ist es ja gerade;

that’s that umg das wäre erledigt, damit basta;

well, that was that! umg aus der Traum!;

that is (to say) das heißt;

and that und zwar;

at that

a) trotzdem,

b) zudem, (noch) obendrein;

for all that trotz alledem;

like that so;

that’s what he told me so hat er es mir erzählt;

that’s a good boy sei schön brav!; → leave¹ A 2

2. (besonders von weiter entfernten Personen etc sowie zur Betonung und pej) jener, jene, jenes:

this cake is much better than that (one) dieser Kuchen ist viel besser als jener;

that car over there das Auto da drüben;

look at that hat schau dir mal diesen komischen Hut an!;

those who diejenigen, welche;

that which das, was;

those were his words das waren seine Worte

3. solch(er, e, es):

to that degree that … in solchem Ausmaße oder so sehr, dass …

B adv umg so (sehr), dermaßen:

that far so weit;

that furious so oder dermaßen wütend;

not all that good so gut auch wieder nicht;

he can’t be that ill so krank kann er gar nicht sein;

that much so viel;

it’s that simple so einfach ist das

that² [ðət; ðæt] pl that rel pr

1. ( in einschränkenden Sätzen; eine präp darf nie davor stehen) der, die, das, welch(er, e, es):

the book that he wanted das Buch, das er wünschte;

the man that I spoke of der Mann, von dem ich sprach;

the day that I met her der Tag, an dem ich sie traf;

any house that jedes Haus, das;

no one that keiner, der;

Mrs Jones, Miss Black that was umg Frau Jones, geborene Black;

Mrs Quilp that is umg die jetzige Frau Quilp

2. ( nach all, everything, nothing etc) was:

all that alles, was;

the best that das Beste, was

that³ [ðət; ðæt] konj

1. (in Subjekt- und Objektsätzen) dass:

it is a pity that he is not here es ist schade, dass er nicht hier ist;

it is 5 years that he went away es ist nun 5 Jahre her, dass oder seitdem er fortging;

I am not sure that it will be there ich bin nicht sicher, ob oder dass es dort ist oder sein wird

2. (in Konsekutivsätzen) dass:

so that sodass;

I was so tired that I went to bed ich war so müde, dass ich zu Bett ging

3. (in Finalsätzen) damit, dass:

we went there that we might see it wir gingen hin, um es zu sehen

4. (in Kausalsätzen) weil, da (ja), dass:

not that I have any objection nicht, dass ich etwas dagegen hätte;

it is rather that … es ist eher deshalb, weil …;

in that

a) darum, weil,

b) insofern, als

5. (in Wunschsätzen und Ausrufen) dass:

o that I could believe it! dass ich es doch glauben könnte!

6. (nach Adverbien der Zeit) da, als:

now that jetzt, da;

at the time that I was born zu der Zeit, als ich geboren wurde

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1. adjective,
pl. those

1) dieser/diese/dieses

2) (expr. strong feeling) der/die/das

never will I forget that day — den Tag werde ich nie vergessen

3) (coupled or contrasted with ‘this’) der/die/das [da]
2. pronoun,
pl. those

1) der/die/das

who is that in the garden? — wer ist das [da] im Garten?

what bird is that? — was für ein Vogel ist das?

I know all that — ich weiß das alles

and [all] that — und so weiter

like that — (of the kind or in the way mentioned, of that character) so

[just] like that — (without effort, thought) einfach so

don't be like that! — sei doch nicht so

don't talk like that — hör auf, so zu reden

he is like that — so ist er eben

that is [to say] — (introducing explanation) das heißt; (introducing reservation) das heißt; genauer gesagt

if they'd have me, that is — das heißt, wenn sie mich nehmen

that's more like it — (of suggestion, news) das hört sich schon besser an; (of action, work) das sieht schon besser aus

that's right! — (expr. approval) gut od. recht so; (iron.) nur so weiter!; (coll.): (expr. assent) jawohl

that's a good etc. boy/girl — das ist lieb [von dir, mein Junge/Mädchen]; (with request) sei so lieb usw.

that will do — das reicht

somebody/something is not as... as all that — (coll.) so... ist jemand/etwas nun auch wieder nicht

[so] that's that — (it's finished) so, das wär's; (it's settled) so ist es nun mal

you are not going to the party, and that's that! — du gehst nicht zu der Party, und damit Schluss!

2) (Brit.): (person spoken to)

who is that? — wer ist da?; (behind wall etc.) wer ist denn da?; (on telephone) wer ist am Apparat?

who was that? — wer war das?
3. relative pronoun, pl. same
der/die/das

the people that you got it from — die Leute, von denen du es bekommen hast

the box that you put the apples in — die Kiste, in die du die Äpfel getan hast

is he the man that you saw last night? — ist das der Mann, den Sie gestern Abend gesehen haben?

everyone that I know — jeder, den ich kenne

this is all [the money] that I have — das ist alles [Geld], was ich habe
4. adverb
(coll.) so

he may be daft, but he's not [all] that daft — er mag ja blöd sein, aber so blöd [ist er] auch wieder nicht
5. relative adverb
der/die/das

at the speed that he was going — bei der Geschwindigkeit, die er hatte

the day that I first met her — der Tag, an dem ich sie zum ersten Mal sah
6. conjunction
1) (introducing statement; expr. result, reason or cause) dass

2) (expr. purpose)

[in order] that — damit

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adj.

dasjenig pron.

dies adj. conj.

dass konj. pron.

das pron.

derjenig pron.

diejenig pron.

dies pron.

welch pron.

welcher pron.

welches pron.

English-german dictionary > that
60 trouble

1.
['trʌbl]noun

1) Ärger, der; Schwierigkeiten Pl.

have trouble with somebody/something — mit jemandem/etwas Ärger haben

put one's troubles behind one — seine Probleme vergessen

be out of trouble — aus den Schwierigkeiten heraus sein

keep out of trouble — nicht [wieder] in Schwierigkeiten kommen

in trouble — in Schwierigkeiten

be in trouble with the police — Ärger mit der Polizei haben

be in serious or real or a lot of trouble [over something] — [wegen einer Sache] in ernsten od. großen Schwierigkeiten sein

get somebody into trouble — jemanden in Schwierigkeiten bringen

get a girl into trouble — (coll.) einem Mädchen ein Kind machen (ugs.)

get into trouble [over something] — [wegen einer Sache] in Schwierigkeiten geraten

get into trouble with the law — mit dem Gesetz in Konflikt geraten

there'll be trouble [if...] — es wird Ärger geben[, wenn...]

what's or what seems to be the trouble? — was ist denn?; was ist los? (ugs.); (doctor's question to patient) wo fehlt's denn?

you are asking for trouble — (coll.) du machst dir nur selber Schwierigkeiten

that's asking for trouble — (coll.) das muss ja Ärger geben

make or cause trouble — (cause disturbance) Ärger machen ( about wegen); (cause disagreement) Zwietracht säen

2) (faulty operation) Probleme

engine/clutch/brake trouble — Probleme mit dem Motor/der Kupplung/der Bremse

3) (disease)

suffer from or have heart/liver trouble — herz-/leberkrank sein

she's got some trouble with her back — ihr Rücken macht ihr zu schaffen

4) (cause of vexation etc.) Problem, das

half the trouble — (fig.) das größte Problem

your trouble is that... — dein Fehler ist, dass...

5) (inconvenience) Mühe, die

it's more trouble than it's worth — es lohnt sich nicht

I don't want to put you to any trouble — ich möchte Ihnen keine Umstände machen

not worth the trouble — nicht der Mühe wert

give somebody no trouble — jemandem keine Mühe machen

take the trouble to do something, go to the trouble of doing something — sich (Dat.) die Mühe machen, etwas zu tun

go to or take a lot of/some trouble — sich (Dat.) sehr viel/viel Mühe geben

please don't go to a lot of trouble — bitte machen Sie sich (Dat.) nicht allzu viel Umstände

of course I'll help you - [it's] no trouble at all — natürlich helfe ich dir - das macht keine Umstände od. das ist nicht der Rede wert

6) (source of inconvenience)

be a trouble [to somebody] — jemandem zur Last fallen

he won't be any trouble — er wird [Ihnen] keine Schwierigkeiten machen

7) in sing. or pl. (unrest) Unruhen
2. transitive verb
1) (agitate) beunruhigen

don't let it trouble you — mach dir deswegen keine Sorgen

2) (inconvenience) stören

[I'm] sorry to trouble you — bitte entschuldigen Sie die Störung
3. intransitive verb
1) (be disturbed) sich (Dat.) Sorgen machen ( over um)

don't trouble about it — mach dir deswegen keine Gedanken

2) (make an effort) sich bemühen

don't trouble to explain/to get up — du brauchst mir gar nichts zu erklären/bitte bleiben Sie sitzen

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1. noun
1) ((something which causes) worry, difficulty, work, anxiety etc: He never talks about his troubles; We've had a lot of trouble with our children; I had a lot of trouble finding the book you wanted.) die Mühe

2) (disturbances; rebellion, fighting etc: It occurred during the time of the troubles in Cyprus.) die Unruhen(pl.)

3) (illness or weakness (in a particular part of the body): He has heart trouble.) das Leiden
2. verb
1) (to cause worry, anger or sadness to: She was troubled by the news of her sister's illness.) beunruhigen

2) (used as part of a very polite and formal request: May I trouble you to close the window?) bemühen

3) (to make any effort: He didn't even trouble to tell me what had happened.) sich bemühen

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trou·ble

[ˈtrʌbl̩]

I. n

1. no pl (difficulties) Schwierigkeiten pl; (annoyance) Ärger m

to be in serious \trouble in ernsten Schwierigkeiten sein

to head [or be heading] for \trouble auf dem besten Weg sein, Schwierigkeiten zu bekommen

to ask [or be asking] for \trouble Ärger herausfordern

to be in/get into \trouble in Schwierigkeiten sein/geraten

▪ to be in \trouble with sb mit jdm Schwierigkeiten [o Ärger] haben

to have a lot of \trouble [to do sth] große Schwierigkeiten haben[, etw zu tun]

to get into \trouble with sb mit jdm in Schwierigkeiten geraten

to land sb in \trouble [with sb] jdn [bei jdm] in Schwierigkeiten bringen

to keep sb out of \trouble jdn vor Schwierigkeiten bewahren

to spell \trouble ( fam) Ärger verheißen geh, nichts Gutes bedeuten

to stay out of \trouble sauber bleiben hum fam

to store up \trouble [for the future] sich dat Schwierigkeiten einhandeln

2. (problem) Problem nt; (cause of worry) Sorge f

that's the least of my \troubles das ist meine geringste Sorge

the only \trouble is that we... der einzige Haken [dabei] ist, dass wir...

I don't want to be a \trouble to anybody ich möchte niemandem zur Last fallen

to tell sb one's \troubles jdm seine Sorgen erzählen

3. no pl (inconvenience) Umstände pl, Mühe f

it's no \trouble at all das macht gar keine Umstände

he's been no \trouble at all er war ganz lieb

it's more \trouble than it's worth to take it back to the shop es lohnt sich nicht, es ins Geschäft zurückzubringen

to go to the \trouble [of doing sth], to take the \trouble [to do sth] sich dat die Mühe machen, [etw zu tun]

to go to some/a lot of \trouble for sth/sb sich dat für etw/jdn große Mühe geben

to put sb to the \trouble of doing sth jdn bemühen, etw zu tun geh

I don't want to put you to any \trouble ich möchte dir keine Umstände machen

to take \trouble with sth/sb sich dat mit etw/jdm Mühe geben

to be [not] worth the \trouble [of doing sth] [nicht] der Mühe wert sein, [etw zu tun]

4. no pl (physical ailment) Leiden nt

my eyes have been giving me some \trouble recently meine Augen haben mir in letzter Zeit zu schaffen gemacht

stomach \trouble Magenbeschwerden pl

5. no pl (malfunction) Störung f

engine \trouble Motorschaden m

6. (strife) Unruhe f

at the first sign of \trouble beim ersten [o geringsten] Anzeichen von Unruhe

to look [or go looking] for \trouble Ärger [o Streit] suchen

to stir up \trouble Unruhe stiften

7. no pl ( dated: pregnancy before marriage)

to be in \trouble in Schwierigkeiten sein

to get a girl into \trouble ein Mädchen ins Unglück stürzen geh

II. vt

1. ( form: cause inconvenience)

▪ to \trouble sb for sth jdn um etw akk bemühen geh

▪ to \trouble sb to do sth jdn bemühen etw zu tun geh

2. (make an effort)

▪ to \trouble oneself about sth sich akk um etw akk kümmern

3. (cause worry)

▪ to \trouble sb jdn beunruhigen; (grieve) jdn bekümmern

to be [deeply] \troubled by sth wegen einer S. gen tief besorgt [o beunruhigt] sein

4. usu passive (cause problems)

▪ to be \troubled by sth durch etw akk in Bedrängnis geraten

5. (cause pain)

▪ to \trouble sb jdn plagen

III. vi sich akk bemühen

▪ to \trouble to do sth sich dat die Mühe machen, etw zu tun

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['trʌbl]
1. n

1) Schwierigkeiten pl; (bothersome) Ärger m

did you have any trouble (in) getting it? — hatten Sie Schwierigkeiten es zu bekommen?

to be in trouble — in Schwierigkeiten sein

you'll be in trouble for this — da bekommen Sie Ärger or Schwierigkeiten

to be in trouble with sb — mit jdm Schwierigkeiten or Ärger haben

to get into trouble — in Schwierigkeiten geraten; (with authority) Schwierigkeiten or Ärger bekommen (with mit)

to get sb into trouble — jdn in Schwierigkeiten bringen (with mit)

to get a girl into trouble (euph) — ein Mädchen ins Unglück bringen

to get out of trouble — aus den Schwierigkeiten herauskommen

to get sb out of trouble — jdm aus seinen Schwierigkeiten heraushelfen

to keep or stay out of trouble — nicht in Schwierigkeiten kommen, sauber bleiben

now we're out of trouble — jetzt sind wir aus den Schwierigkeiten heraus

the children are never out of trouble — die Kinder stellen dauernd etwas an

to make trouble for sb/oneself (with authority) — jdn/sich selbst in Schwierigkeiten bringen

that's/you're asking for trouble —

are you looking for trouble? — Sie wollen wohl Ärger?

to look for trouble, to go around looking for trouble — sich (dat) Ärger einhandeln

there'll be trouble if he finds out — wenn er das erfährt, gibts Ärger or Trouble (inf)

here comes trouble (inf) — jetzt geht es los! (inf), jetzt gibt es Ärger or Trouble! (inf)

what's the trouble? — was ist los?; (to sick person) wo fehlts?

the trouble is that... —

that's the trouble — das ist das Problem

family/money troubles — Familien-/Geldsorgen pl

his troubles are not yet over — seine Sorgen or Probleme sind noch nicht vorbei

2) (= bother, effort) Mühe f

it's no trouble (at all)! — das mache ich doch gern

thank you – (it was) no trouble — vielen Dank – (das ist) gern geschehen

it's no trouble to do it properly — man kann es genauso gut ordentlich machen

it's not worth the trouble — das ist nicht der Mühe wert

she's/it's more trouble than she's/it's worth — sie/es macht mehr Ärger or Umstände als sie/es wert ist

nothing is too much trouble for her — nichts ist ihr zu viel

to go to the trouble (of doing sth), to take the trouble (to do sth) — sich (dat) die Mühe machen(, etw zu tun)

to go to/to take a lot of trouble (over or with sth) — sich (dat) (mit etw) viel Mühe geben

you have gone to a lot of trouble over the food — Sie haben sich (dat) solche Umstände mit dem Essen gemacht

he went to enormous trouble — er hat alles nur Erdenkliche getan

to put sb to the trouble of doing sth — jdn bemühen, etw zu tun

to put sb to a lot of trouble — jdm viel Mühe machen

3)

(= nuisance) to be a trouble (to sb) — (jdm) Mühe machen; (dependent person also) (jdm) zur Last fallen

the child is nothing but trouble to his parents — das Kind macht seinen Eltern nur Sorgen

he's been no trouble at all (of child) — er war ganz lieb

4) (MED: illness) Leiden nt; (fig) Schaden m

heart/back trouble — Herz-/Rückenleiden nt

my back is giving me trouble — mein Rücken macht mir zu schaffen

engine trouble — (ein) Motorschaden m

5) (= unrest, upheaval) Unruhe f

troubles — Arbeiterunruhen pl

there's trouble at the factory/in Iran — in der Fabrik/im Iran herrscht Unruhe

he caused/made trouble between them — er hat Unruhe zwischen ihnen gestiftet

See:

→ stir up

2. vt

1) (= worry) beunruhigen; (= disturb, grieve) bekümmern

to be troubled by sth — wegen etw besorgt or beunruhigt/bekümmert sein

he's troubled with a bad back — er leidet an Rückenschmerzen

2) (= bother) bemühen, belästigen

I'm sorry to trouble you, but could you tell me if... — entschuldigen Sie die Störung, aber könnten Sie mir sagen, ob...

may I trouble you for a light? — darf ich Sie um Feuer bitten?

will it trouble you if I smoke? — stört es Sie, wenn ich rauche?

I shan't trouble you with the details — ich werde Ihnen die Einzelheiten ersparen

we are troubled with mice just now — wir werden zurzeit von Mäusen geplagt

I'll trouble you to remember who you're speaking to! (iro) — würden Sie bitte daran denken, mit wem Sie sprechen!

3)

(= take the trouble) to trouble to do sth —

please don't trouble yourself — bitte bemühen Sie sich nicht

don't trouble to write until you've settled down — schreib erst, wenn du dich eingelebt hast

if you had troubled to ask, you might have found out the truth —

oh, don't trouble to apologize! (iro) — bemüh dich nicht, dich zu entschuldigen

3. vi
sich bemühen
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trouble [ˈtrʌbl]

A v/t

1. jemanden beunruhigen, stören, belästigen

2. jemanden bemühen, bitten ( beide:

for um):

may I trouble you for the salt?;

can I trouble you to close the window? machen Sie doch bitte das Fenster zu

3. jemandem Mühe machen, jemandem Umstände oder Unannehmlichkeiten bereiten, jemanden behelligen (about, with mit):

don’t trouble yourself bemühen Sie sich nicht!

4. quälen, plagen:

troubled by injury besonders SPORT verletzungsgeplagt;

be troubled with gout von der Gicht geplagt sein

5. jemandem Kummer oder Sorge oder Verdruss bereiten oder machen, jemanden beunruhigen:

she is troubled about sie macht sich Sorgen wegen;

don’t let it trouble you machen Sie sich (deswegen) keine Sorgen oder Gedanken!

6. Wasser etc aufwühlen, trüben

B v/i

1. sich beunruhigen, sich aufregen ( beide:

about über akk):

I should not trouble if …

a) ich wäre beruhigt, wenn …,

b) es wäre mir gleichgültig, wenn …

2. sich die Mühe machen, sich bemühen ( beide:

to do zu tun), sich Umstände machen:

don’t trouble bemühen Sie sich nicht!;

don’t trouble to write du brauchst nicht zu schreiben;

why should I trouble to explain warum sollte ich mir (auch) die Mühe machen, das zu erklären

C s

1. a) Mühe f, Plage f, Anstrengung f, Last f, Belästigung f:

give sb trouble jemandem Mühe verursachen;

go to a lot of trouble sich besondere Mühe machen oder geben;

put sb to trouble jemandem Umstände bereiten;

omelet(te) is no trouble (to prepare) Omelett macht gar nicht viel Arbeit oder Mühe;

(it is) no trouble (at all) (es ist) nicht der Rede wert;

save o.s. the trouble of doing sth sich die Mühe (er)sparen, etwas zu tun;

you could have saved yourself the trouble of this das hättest du dir ersparen können;

spare no trouble keine Mühe scheuen;

take (the) trouble sich (die) Mühe machen;

take trouble over sich Mühe geben mit

b) weitS. Trouble m umg, Unannehmlichkeiten pl, Schwierigkeiten pl, Scherereien pl, Ärger m ( alle:

with mit der Polizei etc):

ask ( oder look) for trouble unbedingt Ärger haben wollen;

be in trouble in Schwierigkeiten sein;

be in trouble with the police Ärger mit der Polizei haben;

his girlfriend is in trouble seine Freundin ist in Schwierigkeiten (schwanger);

get into trouble in Schwierigkeiten geraten, Schwierigkeiten oder Ärger bekommen;

get sb into trouble, make trouble for sb jemanden in Schwierigkeiten bringen;

he’s trouble umg mit ihm wirds Ärger geben; → head B 1 b

2. Schwierigkeit f, Problem n, (das) Dumme oder Schlimme (dabei):

make trouble Schwierigkeiten machen;

the trouble is der Haken oder das Unangenehme ist ( that dass);

what’s the trouble? wo(ran) fehlts?, was ist los?;

have troubles with one’s health gesundheitliche Schwierigkeiten oder Probleme haben;

have trouble doing sth Schwierigkeiten haben, etwas zu tun;

3. MED (Herz- etc) Leiden n, (-)Beschwerden pl:

heart trouble auch Herzgeschichte f umg

4. a) POL Unruhe(n) f(pl), Wirren pl

b) allg Affäre f, Konflikt m

5. TECH Störung f, Defekt m, Fehler m

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1.
['trʌbl]noun

1) Ärger, der; Schwierigkeiten Pl.

have trouble with somebody/something — mit jemandem/etwas Ärger haben

put one's troubles behind one — seine Probleme vergessen

be out of trouble — aus den Schwierigkeiten heraus sein

keep out of trouble — nicht [wieder] in Schwierigkeiten kommen

in trouble — in Schwierigkeiten

be in trouble with the police — Ärger mit der Polizei haben

be in serious or real or a lot of trouble [over something] — [wegen einer Sache] in ernsten od. großen Schwierigkeiten sein

get somebody into trouble — jemanden in Schwierigkeiten bringen

get a girl into trouble — (coll.) einem Mädchen ein Kind machen (ugs.)

get into trouble [over something] — [wegen einer Sache] in Schwierigkeiten geraten

get into trouble with the law — mit dem Gesetz in Konflikt geraten

there'll be trouble [if...] — es wird Ärger geben[, wenn...]

what's or what seems to be the trouble? — was ist denn?; was ist los? (ugs.); (doctor's question to patient) wo fehlt's denn?

you are asking for trouble — (coll.) du machst dir nur selber Schwierigkeiten

that's asking for trouble — (coll.) das muss ja Ärger geben

make or cause trouble — (cause disturbance) Ärger machen ( about wegen); (cause disagreement) Zwietracht säen

2) (faulty operation) Probleme

engine/clutch/brake trouble — Probleme mit dem Motor/der Kupplung/der Bremse

3) (disease)

suffer from or have heart/liver trouble — herz-/leberkrank sein

she's got some trouble with her back — ihr Rücken macht ihr zu schaffen

4) (cause of vexation etc.) Problem, das

half the trouble — (fig.) das größte Problem

your trouble is that... — dein Fehler ist, dass...

5) (inconvenience) Mühe, die

it's more trouble than it's worth — es lohnt sich nicht

I don't want to put you to any trouble — ich möchte Ihnen keine Umstände machen

not worth the trouble — nicht der Mühe wert

give somebody no trouble — jemandem keine Mühe machen

take the trouble to do something, go to the trouble of doing something — sich (Dat.) die Mühe machen, etwas zu tun

go to or take a lot of/some trouble — sich (Dat.) sehr viel/viel Mühe geben

please don't go to a lot of trouble — bitte machen Sie sich (Dat.) nicht allzu viel Umstände

of course I'll help you - [it's] no trouble at all — natürlich helfe ich dir - das macht keine Umstände od. das ist nicht der Rede wert

6) (source of inconvenience)

be a trouble [to somebody] — jemandem zur Last fallen

he won't be any trouble — er wird [Ihnen] keine Schwierigkeiten machen

7) in sing. or pl. (unrest) Unruhen
2. transitive verb
1) (agitate) beunruhigen

don't let it trouble you — mach dir deswegen keine Sorgen

2) (inconvenience) stören

[I'm] sorry to trouble you — bitte entschuldigen Sie die Störung
3. intransitive verb
1) (be disturbed) sich (Dat.) Sorgen machen ( over um)

don't trouble about it — mach dir deswegen keine Gedanken

2) (make an effort) sich bemühen

don't trouble to explain/to get up — du brauchst mir gar nichts zu erklären/bitte bleiben Sie sitzen

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v.

beunruhigen v.

stören v. n.

Mühe -n f.

Plage -n f.

Problem -e n.

Schwierigkeit f.

Sorge -n f.

Störung -en f.

Unruhe -n f.

Ärger nur sing. m.

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