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  • 1 wealth *** n

    [wɛlθ]
    (money, resources) ricchezza, ricchezze fpl, (fig: abundance)

    wealth (of) — dovizia or abbondanza (di)

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  • 2 came the dawn

    For her sake he... renounced wealth and fame. Love was his guiding star. Came the dawn. (J. B. Priestley, ‘Good Companions’, book III, ch. V) — Ради нее он... отказался от богатства и славы. Теперь его путеводной звездой была любовь. Жизнь стала радостью.

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  • 3 Historical Portugal

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 During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.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

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 4 seek

    [si:k] v (sought)
    I
    1. ( часто for, after) искать, разыскивать; пытаться найти

    to seek an explanation of smb.'s conduct - искать объяснение чьим-л. поступкам /чьему-л. поведению/

    to seek safety in flight - искать спасения в бегстве, спасаться бегством

    to seek shelter - а) искать убежище; to seek shelter from rain - искать укрытие от дождя; б) находить убежище

    to go and seek smb. - отправляться на поиски кого-л.

    she seeks a situation /a place/ as cook - она ищет место кухарки

    what are you seeking for? - что вы ищете?

    the cause is to be sought in his weakness - причину следует искать /причина кроется/ в его слабости

    the reason is not far to seek - причина ясна, за объяснением далеко ходить не надо

    an efficient secretary is yet to seek - хорошего секретаря нелегко найти, квалифицированный секретарь - большая редкость

    talks have brought the results (for) which we were all seeking - переговоры привели к желаемым результатам

    2. добиваться

    to seek smb.'s approval [smb.'s help /smb.'s aid/] - добиваться чьего-л. одобрения [чьей-л. помощи]

    to seek wealth [power, fame, an outlet for one's energies] - добиваться /искать, жаждать/ богатства [власти, славы, простора для приложения своих сил]

    to seek satisfaction from smb. - требовать у кого-л. удовлетворения

    to seek for sleep is only to drive it away - стараться уснуть - это только разгонять сон

    he is going to seek his fortune in London - он отправляется попытать счастья в Лондоне

    a prize much sought after by the contestants - приз, которого упорно добиваются участники соревнования

    seek and ye shall find - библ. ищите и обрящете

    3. просить (чего-л.), обращаться (за чем-л.)

    to seek information [assistance, guidance] (from smb.) - обращаться за сведениями [помощью, руководством] (к кому-л.)

    to seek advice - просить совета, обращаться за советом

    they sought of him a sign - уст. его просили подать знак

    4. уст. посещать

    to seek a saint - посещать храм какого-л. святого

    5. уст. прибегать (к чему-л.), искать спасения (в чём-л.)
    II Б

    to seek to do smth. пытаться /стараться/ что-л. сделать; стремиться к чему-л.

    to seek to kill smb. - покушаться на кого-л.

    he sought to grasp the drowning man on - сделал попытку схватить утопающего

    ♢

    to seek smb.'s life - посягать на чью-л. жизнь

    to seek the shore - а) пытаться пристать к берегу; б) достичь цели, пристать к берегу

    to be (much) to seek - отсутствовать, быть редкостью

    to be much sought after - а) иметь большой спрос, быть нарасхват; б) пользоваться популярностью

    he is much sought after - он пользуется всеобщей любовью, все ищут его общества

    she was sought for in marriage by many young men - многие молодые люди делали ей предложение

    seek dead! - охот. ищи!

    НБАРС > seek

  • 5 vision

    сущ.
    1) общ. зрение

    to lose one's vision — терять зрение, слепнуть

    good [poor\] vision — хорошее [плохое\] зрение

    acute [keen\] vision — острое зрение

    impaired vision — слабое [ослабленное\] зрение

    2) общ. предвидение, проницательность, дальновидность, проникновение
    3) общ. (красивый) вид, (прекрасное) зрелище

    She was a lovely vision in green. — В зеленом она была просто прекрасна.

    4)
    а) общ. видение, мечта; образ, картина, представление

    visions of power [of wealth, of fame\] — мечты о могуществе [о богатстве, о славе\]

    romantic visions of youth — романтические мечты [грезы\] юности

    б) общ. мировоззренческая концепция, видение

    The vision of our company is to earn a profit by providing absolutely the best quality products and services at the lowest prices you will find anywhere. — Наша компания видит свою цель в получении прибыли путем предоставления товаров и услуг наивысшего качества по самым низким ценам, какие вы только можете найти.

    See:
    в) общ. видение, галлюцинация

    The idea came to him in a vision. — Эта идея пришла к нему в видении.

    5) общ. изображение ( на экране телевизора)

    Англо-русский экономический словарь > vision

  • 6 fortune

    ['fɔːtʃuːn] 1.
    1) (wealth) fortuna f.
    2) (luck) fortuna f., sorte f.

    to tell sb.'s fortune — predire il futuro a qcn

    2.
    nome plurale fortunes vicende f.
    ••

    fortune favours the brave — prov. la fortuna aiuta gli audaci

    * * *
    ['fo: ən]
    1) (whatever happens by chance or (good or bad) luck: whatever fortune may bring.) fortuna, sorte, caso
    2) (a large amount of money: That ring must be worth a fortune!) fortuna
    •
    - fortunately
    - fortune-teller
    - tell someone's fortune
    - tell fortune
    * * *
    ['fɔːtʃuːn] 1.
    1) (wealth) fortuna f.
    2) (luck) fortuna f., sorte f.

    to tell sb.'s fortune — predire il futuro a qcn

    2.
    nome plurale fortunes vicende f.
    ••

    fortune favours the brave — prov. la fortuna aiuta gli audaci

    English-Italian dictionary > fortune

  • 7 seek

    si:k гл.
    1) а) искать, разыскивать;
    разузнавать For over 100 years, men have sought for gold in the hills. ≈ В течение ста лет искали золото в горах. Syn: sue, look for, hunt б) рыскать в поисках;
    обыскивать They sought brake and thicket, in vain. ≈ Они обыскали чащу и заросли, но все напрасно.
    2) а) добиваться, стремиться to seek satisfaction ≈ добиваться удовлетворения She sought consolation. ≈ Она искала утешения. б) предпринимать попытку, пытаться to seek for sleep ≈ пытаться уснуть
    3) а) прибегать( к чему-л.) Syn: resort б) обращаться( за помощью), просить to seek advice ≈ просить совета to seek help from smb. ≈ обращаться за помощью к кому-л. Syn: request
    4) разыскиваться;
    быть недостающим, ненайденным She knew the end;
    the means were to seek. ≈ Она знала конец;
    средства не были найдены. ∙ seek after seek for seek out seek through to seek smb.'s life ≈ покушаться на чью-л. Жизнь (часто for, after) искать, разыскивать;
    пытаться найти - to * (for) employment искать работу - to * an explanation of smb.'s conduct искать объяснение чьим-л. поступкам /чьему-л. поведению/ - to * game искать дичь( о собаке) - to * safety in flight искать спасения в бегстве, спасаться бегством - to * shelter искать убежище;
    находить убежище - to * shelter from rain искать укрытие от дождя - to go and * smb. отправляться на поиски кого-л. - they sought through the house они обыскали (весь) дом - she *s a situation /a place/ as cook она ищет место кухарки - what are you *ing for? что вы ищете? - the cause is to be sought in his weakness причину следует искать /причина кроется/ в его слабости - the reason is not far to * причина ясна, за объяснением далеко ходить не надо - you will not have far to * вам не придется долго искать - an efficient secretary is yet to * хорошего секретаря нелегко найти, квалифицированный секретарь - большая редкость - talks have brought the results( for) which we were all *ing переговоры привели к желаемым результатам добиваться - to * smb.'s approval добиваться чьего-л. одобрения - to * wealth добиваться /искать, жаждать/ богатства - to * one's fortune искать счастья - to * satisfaction from smb. требовать у кого-л. удовлетворения - to * for sleep is only to drive it away стараться уснуть - это только разгонять сон - he is going to * his fortune in London он отправляется попытать счастья в Лондоне - they sought each other's company они стремятся быть вместе - a prize much sought after by the contestants приз, которого упорно добиваются участники соревнования - * and ye shall find (библеизм) ищите и обрящете просить (чего-л.), обращаться (за чем-л.) - to * information (from smb.) обращаться за сведениями (к кому-л.) - to * advice просить совета, обращаться за советом - he came *ing advice он пришел за советом - I shall * my doctor's advice я посоветуюсь с доктором - they sought of him a sign (устаревшее) его просили подать знак( устаревшее) посещать - to * a saint посещать храм какого-л. святого (устаревшее) прибегать (к чему-л.), искать спасения (в чем-л.) - to seek to do smth. пытаться /стараться/ что-л. сделать;
    стремиться к чему-л. - to * to make peace стремиться к заключению мира - to * to kill smb. покушаться на кого-л. - they sought to climb Mount Everest им хотелось подняться на Эверест - he sought to grasp the drowning man он сделал попытку схватить утопающего > to * one's bed ложиться спать > to * smb.'s life посягать на чью-л. жизнь > to * the shore пытаться пристать к берегу;
    достичь цели, пристать к берегу > to be (much) to * отсутствовать, быть редкостью > politeness is much to * among them они не отличаются вежливостью > to be much sought after иметь большой спрос, быть нарасхват;
    пользоваться популярностью > he is much sought after он пользуется всеобщей любовью, все ищут его общества > to be sought for in marriage получить предложение > she was sought for in marriage by many young men многие молодые люди делали ей предложение > * dead! (охота) ищи! to be much sought after иметь большой спрос to be much sought after иметь успех, быть популярным ~ (sought) искать, разыскивать;
    разузнавать;
    it is yet to seek это еще не найдено;
    этого еще нет, это еще поискать надо;
    to seek safety искать убежища seek добиваться, стремиться;
    to seek fame стремиться к славе;
    to seek damages( of smb.) требовать возмещения убытков( с кого-л.) ;
    to seek to make peace пытаться помирить ~ добиваться, стремиться ~ искать, разыскивать, разузнавать ~ (sought) искать, разыскивать;
    разузнавать;
    it is yet to seek это еще не найдено;
    этого еще нет, это еще поискать надо;
    to seek safety искать убежища ~ вчт. искать ~ искать ~ вчт. подвод головок ~ просить, обращаться;
    to seek advice обращаться за советом;
    seek after, seek for добиваться (чего-л.) ~ просить, обращаться ~ просить, обращаться;
    to seek advice обращаться за советом;
    seek after, seek for добиваться (чего-л.) seek добиваться, стремиться;
    to seek fame стремиться к славе;
    to seek damages (of smb.) требовать возмещения убытков( с кого-л.) ;
    to seek to make peace пытаться помирить ~ out разыскать( кого-л.) ;
    seek through обыскивать (место и т. п.) ;
    to seek (smb.'s) life покушаться на (чью-л.) жизнь;
    seek dead! охот. ищи! seek добиваться, стремиться;
    to seek fame стремиться к славе;
    to seek damages (of smb.) требовать возмещения убытков (с кого-л.) ;
    to seek to make peace пытаться помирить ~ просить, обращаться;
    to seek advice обращаться за советом;
    seek after, seek for добиваться (чего-л.) ~ out разыскать (кого-л.) ;
    seek through обыскивать (место и т. п.) ;
    to seek (smb.'s) life покушаться на (чью-л.) жизнь;
    seek dead! охот. ищи! ~ out искать, домогаться( чьего-л. общества) ~ out разыскать (кого-л.) ;
    seek through обыскивать (место и т. п.) ;
    to seek (smb.'s) life покушаться на (чью-л.) жизнь;
    seek dead! охот. ищи! ~ (sought) искать, разыскивать;
    разузнавать;
    it is yet to seek это еще не найдено;
    этого еще нет, это еще поискать надо;
    to seek safety искать убежища ~ out разыскать (кого-л.) ;
    seek through обыскивать (место и т. п.) ;
    to seek (smb.'s) life покушаться на (чью-л.) жизнь;
    seek dead! охот. ищи! seek добиваться, стремиться;
    to seek fame стремиться к славе;
    to seek damages (of smb.) требовать возмещения убытков (с кого-л.) ;
    to seek to make peace пытаться помирить

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > seek

  • 8 for

    1. preposition
    1) (representing, on behalf of, in exchange against) für; (in place of) für; anstelle von

    what is the German for "buzz"? — wie heißt "buzz" auf Deutsch?

    2) (in defence, support, or favour of) für

    be for doing something — dafür sein, etwas zu tun

    it's each [man] or every man for himself — jeder ist auf sich selbst gestellt

    3) (to the benefit of) für
    4) (with a view to) für; (conducive[ly] to) zu

    they invited me for Christmas/Monday/supper — sie haben mich zu Weihnachten/für Montag/zum Abendessen eingeladen

    what is it for? — wofür/wozu ist das?

    5) (being the motive of) für; (having as purpose) zu

    take somebody for a ride in the car/a walk — jemanden im Auto spazieren fahren/mit jemandem einen Spaziergang machen

    work for a living — für den Lebensunterhalt arbeiten

    run/jump etc. for it — loslaufen/-springen usw.

    7) (to reach) nach

    set out for England/the north/an island — nach England/Norden/zu einer Insel aufbrechen

    8) (to be received by) für

    that's Jim for you — das sieht Jim mal wieder ähnlich

    be dressed/ready for dinner — zum Dinner angezogen/fertig sein

    have something for breakfast/pudding — etwas zum Frühstück/Nachtisch haben

    enough... for — genug... für

    too... for — zu... für

    there is nothing for it but to do something — es gibt keine andere Möglichkeit, als etwas zu tun

    10) (to the amount of)

    cheque/ bill for £5 — Scheck/Rechnung über od. in Höhe von 5 Pfund

    things don't look very promising for the business — was die Geschäfte angeht, sieht das alles nicht sehr vielversprechend aus

    it is wise/advisable for somebody to do something — es ist vernünftig/ratsam, dass jemand etwas tut

    it's hopeless for me to try and explain the system — es ist sinnlos, dir das System erklären zu wollen

    12) (as being) für

    I/you etc. for one — ich/ du usw. für mein[en]/dein[en] usw. Teil

    famous/well-known for something — berühmt/ bekannt wegen od. für etwas

    jump/ shout for joy — vor Freude in die Luft springen/schreien

    were it not for you/ your help, I should not be able to do it — ohne dich/deine Hilfe wäre ich nicht dazu in der Lage

    for all... — trotz...

    for all that,... — trotzdem...

    16) (on account of the hindrance of) vor (+ Dat.)

    for fear of... — aus Angst vor (+ Dat.)

    but for..., except for... — wenn nicht... gewesen wäre, [dann]...

    17) (so far as concerns)

    for all I know/care... — möglicherweise/was mich betrifft,...

    for one thing,... — zunächst einmal...

    18) (considering the usual nature of) für
    19) (during) seit

    we've/we haven't been here for three years — wir sind seit drei Jahren hier/nicht mehr hier gewesen

    we waited for hours/three hours — wir warteten stundenlang/drei Stunden lang

    sit here for now or for the moment — bleiben Sie im Augenblick hier sitzen

    20) (to the extent of)

    walk for 20 miles/for another 20 miles — 20 Meilen [weit] gehen/weiter gehen

    21)

    be for it — (coll.) dran sein (ugs.); sich auf was gefasst machen können (ugs.)

    2. conjunction
    (since, as proof) denn
    * * *
    [fo:] 1. preposition
    1) (to be given or sent to: This letter is for you.) für
    2) (towards; in the direction of: We set off for London.) nach
    3) (through a certain time or distance: for three hours; for three miles.) für
    4) (in order to have, get, be etc: He asked me for some money; Go for a walk.) nach
    5) (in return; as payment: He paid $2 for his ticket.) für
    6) (in order to be prepared: He's getting ready for the journey.) für
    7) (representing: He is the member of parliament for Hull.) für
    8) (on behalf of: Will you do it for me?)
    9) (in favour of: Are you for or against the plan?) dafür
    10) (because of: for this reason.) wegen, aus
    11) (having a particular purpose: She gave me money for the bus fare.) für
    12) (indicating an ability or an attitude to: a talent for baking; an ear for music.) für
    13) (as being: They mistook him for someone else.) für
    14) (considering what is used in the case of: It is quite warm for January (= considering that it is January when it is usually cold).) für
    15) (in spite of: For all his money, he didn't seem happy.) trotz
    2. conjunction
    (because: It must be late, for I have been here a long time.) denn
    * * *
    [fɔ:ʳ, fəʳ, AM fɔ:r, fɚ]
    I. conj ( liter or dated) denn
    II. prep
    1. (intended to be given to) für + akk
    I bought a new collar \for my dog ich habe ein neues Halsband für meinen Hund gekauft
    this is a birthday present \for you hier ist ein Geburtstagsgeschenk für dich
    there are government subsidies available \for farmers für Bauern gibt es Zuschüsse vom Staat
    to vote \for sb/sth für jdn/etw stimmen
    they voted \for independence in a referendum sie haben sich in einem Referendum für die Unabhängigkeit ausgesprochen
    ▪ to be \for sb/sth für jdn/etw sein
    his followers are still \for him seine Anhänger unterstützen ihn noch immer
    to be \for a good cause für einen guten Zweck sein
    to be all \for sth ganz für etw akk sein
    to be \for doing sth dafür sein, dass etw getan wird
    are you \for banning smoking in public places? sind Sie dafür, das Rauchen in der Öffentlichkeit zu verbieten?
    3. (regarding sb) für + akk
    I'm happy \for you that it finally worked out ich freue mich für dich, dass es endlich geklappt hat
    you're not making it easy \for me to tell you the truth du machst es mir nicht gerade einfach, dir die Wahrheit zu sagen
    the coffee was too strong \for me der Kaffee war mir zu stark
    luckily \for me, I already had another job zu meinem Glück hatte ich bereits eine andere Stelle
    the admiration she felt \for him soon died ihre Bewunderung für ihn war schnell verflogen
    is this seat high enough \for you? ist Ihnen dieser Sitz hoch genug?
    I feel sorry \for her sie tut mir leid
    to feel nothing but contempt \for sb/sth nichts als Verachtung für jdn/etw empfinden
    ▪ to be concerned \for sb/sth um jdn/etw besorgt sein
    to feel \for sb mit jdm fühlen
    as \for me was mich betrifft [o angeht]
    Jackie's already left and, as \for me, I'm going at the end of the month Jackie ist schon weg, und was mich angeht, ich gehe Ende des Monats
    4. (regarding sth) für + akk
    how are you doing \for money? wie sieht es bei dir mit dem Geld aus?
    \for my part was mich betrifft
    \for all I know möglicherweise
    \for all I know, he could have left the country möglicherweise hat er schon das Land verlassen
    to be responsible \for sth für etw akk verantwortlich sein
    to prepare \for sth sich akk auf etw akk vorbereiten
    5. (comparing) für + akk
    the summer has been quite hot \for England für England war das ein ziemlich heißer Sommer
    ▪ to be too big/fast \for sb/sth zu groß/schnell für jdn/etw sein
    she's very mature \for her age sie ist für ihr Alter schon sehr reif
    the weather is warm \for the time of year für diese Jahreszeit ist das Wetter mild
    he's quite thoughtful \for a child of 8 für einen Achtjährigen ist er ziemlich rücksichtsvoll
    6. (to get, have)
    oh \for something to drink! hätte ich doch bloß etwas zu trinken!
    oh \for a strong black coffee! und jetzt einen starken schwarzen Kaffee!
    he did it \for the fame er tat es, um berühmt zu werden
    even though he's in this \for the money, we still need him auch wenn er es nur wegen des Geldes tut, wir brauchen ihn
    she's eager \for a chance to show that she's a capable worker sie möchte gerne beweisen, dass sie eine fähige Mitarbeiterin ist
    demand \for money Bedarf m an Geld
    to send \for the doctor den Arzt holen
    to apply \for a job sich akk um eine Stelle bewerben
    to have a need \for sth etw brauchen
    to look \for a way to do sth nach einer Möglichkeit suchen, etw zu tun
    to ask \for sth um etw akk bitten
    7. (on behalf of, representing) für + akk
    he's an agent \for models and actors er ist Agent für Models und Schauspieler
    next time you see them, say hi \for me grüß sie von mir, wenn du sie wieder siehst
    the messenger was there \for his boss der Bote war in Vertretung seines Chefs dort
    to do sth \for sb etw für jdn tun
    to do sth \for oneself etw selbst tun
    8. (as ordered by) für + akk
    ▪ to do sth \for sb/sth etw für jdn/etw tun
    they had to do extra work \for their boss sie mussten noch zusätzliche Arbeiten für ihren Chef erledigen
    I have some things to do \for school ich muss noch etwas für die Schule machen
    9. (employed by) bei + dat
    she is a tutor \for the Open University sie ist Tutorin an der Fernuniversität
    to work \for sb/sth bei jdm/etw [o für jdn/etw] arbeiten
    10. (purpose, aim) für + akk
    what's that \for? wofür ist das?
    that's useful \for removing rust damit kann man gut Rost entfernen
    that's not \for eating das ist nicht zum Essen
    a course \for beginners in Russian ein Russischkurs für Anfänger
    \for your information zu Ihrer Information
    \for the record der Ordnung halber
    the spokesman told the press \for the record that the president was in good health der Sprecher sagte der Presse für das Protokoll, der Präsident sei bei guter Gesundheit
    for rent/sale zu vermieten/verkaufen
    bikes \for rent Räder zu vermieten
    to be not \for sale unverkäuflich sein
    to wait \for sb/sth auf jdn/etw warten
    to wait \for sb to do sth darauf warten, dass jd etw tut
    ▪ to do sth \for sth/sb etw für etw/jdn tun
    what did you do that \for? wozu hast du das getan?
    what do you use these enormous scissors \for? wozu brauchst du diese riesige Schere?
    he is taking medication \for his heart condition er nimmt Medikamente für sein Herz
    you need to move closer \for me to hear you du musst ein bisschen näher herkommen, damit ich dich hören kann
    11. (because of) wegen + gen; (out of) aus + dat; (with) vor + dat
    I don't eat meat \for various reasons ich esse aus verschiedenen Gründen kein Fleisch
    I could dance and sing \for joy! ich könnte vor Freude tanzen und singen!
    he apologized \for being late er entschuldigte sich wegen seiner Verspätung
    Bob was looking all the better \for his three weeks in Spain nach seinen drei Wochen Spanien sah Bob viel besser aus
    how are you? — fine, and all the better \for seeing you! wie geht's? — gut, und jetzt wo ich dich sehe, gleich noch viel besser!
    I could not see \for the tears in my eyes ich konnte vor Tränen in den Augen gar nicht sehen
    if it hadn't been \for him, we wouldn't be here right now ( form) ohne ihn wären wir jetzt nicht hier
    \for fear of sth aus Angst vor etw dat
    \for lack of sth aus Mangel an etw dat
    to be arrested \for murder wegen Mordes verhaftet werden
    \for that [or this] reason aus diesem Grund
    to be famous \for sth für etw akk berühmt sein
    to love sb \for sth jdn für etw akk lieben
    she loves him just \for being himself sie liebt ihn einfach dafür, dass er so ist, wie er ist
    12. (as destination) nach + dat
    this train is \for Birmingham dieser Zug fährt nach Birmingham
    he made \for home in a hurry er eilte schnell nach Hause
    just follow signs \for the town centre folgen Sie einfach den Schildern in die Innenstadt
    to go \for sb [with one's fists] [mit den Fäusten] auf jdn losgehen
    to run \for sb/sth zu jdm/etw laufen
    I had to run \for the bus ich musste laufen, um den Bus noch zu kriegen
    13. (meaning)
    to be \for sth für etw akk stehen
    A is \for ‘airlines’ A steht für ‚Airlines‘
    to stand \for sth etw bedeuten, für etw akk stehen
    what does the M.J. stand \for? María José? was bedeutet M.J.? María José?
    what's the Spanish word \for ‘vegetarian’? was heißt ‚Vegetarier‘ auf Spanisch?
    14. (in return, exchange) für + akk
    she paid a high price \for loyalty to her boss sie hat einen hohen Preis für die Loyalität zu ihrem Chef gezahlt
    that's \for cheating on me! das ist dafür, dass du mich betrogen hast!
    how much did you pay \for your glasses? wie viel hast du für deine Brille gezahlt?
    a cheque \for £100 eine Scheck über 100 Pfund
    not \for a million dollars [or \for all the world] um nichts in der Welt
    I wouldn't go out with him \for a million dollars ich würde für kein Geld der Welt mit ihm ausgehen
    to do sth \for nothing etw umsonst machen
    to buy/sell sth \for 100 euro/a lot of money etw für 100 Euro/viel Geld kaufen/verkaufen
    you can buy a bestseller \for about £6 Sie bekommen einen Bestseller schon für 6 Pfund
    to trade sth \for sth etw gegen etw akk [ein]tauschen
    15. (with a period of time) für + akk; (ongoing) seit + dat
    I'm just going to sleep \for half an hour ich lege mich mal eine halbe Stunde schlafen
    he was jailed \for twelve years er musste für zwölf Jahre ins Gefängnis
    my father has been smoking \for 10 years mein Vater raucht seit 10 Jahren
    \for the next two days in den beiden nächsten Tagen
    \for a bit/while ein bisschen/eine Weile
    play here \for a while! spiel doch mal ein bisschen hier!
    I'm just going out \for a while ich gehe mal kurz raus fam
    \for eternity/ever bis in alle Ewigkeit
    this pact is \for ever dieser Pakt gilt für immer und ewig
    \for the moment im Augenblick
    \for a time eine Zeit lang
    \for a long time seit Langem
    I hadn't seen him \for such a long time that I didn't recognize him ich hatte ihn schon so lange nicht mehr gesehen, dass ich ihn nicht erkannte
    \for some time seit Längerem
    \for the time being für den Augenblick, vorübergehend
    16. (a distance of)
    \for a kilometre/mile einen Kilometer/eine Meile
    he always jogs \for 5 kilometres before breakfast er joggt immer 5 Kilometer vor dem Frühstück
    17. (at a certain date, time, occasion) für + akk
    he booked a table at the restaurant \for nine o'clock er reservierte in dem Restaurant einen Tisch für neun Uhr
    they set their wedding date \for September 15 sie setzten ihre Hochzeit für den 15. September fest
    I need some money \for tonight ich brauche etwas Geld für heute Abend
    what did you buy him \for Christmas? was hast du ihm zu Weihnachten gekauft?
    he arrived at 8.00 \for dinner at 8.30 er kam um acht zu dem für halb neun verabredeten Abendessen
    to invite sb \for dinner/lunch jdn zum Abendessen/Mittagessen einladen
    \for the first time zum ersten Mal
    \for the [very] last time zum [aller]letzten Mal
    \for the first/second time running im ersten/zweiten Durchlauf
    18. (despite) trotz + gen
    , ungeachtet +gen geh
    \for all that trotz alledem
    \for all his effort, the experiment was a failure das Experiment war trotz all seiner Anstrengungen ein Fehlschlag
    19. (per) für + akk
    there is one teacher \for every 25 students in our school in unserer Schule kommt auf 25 Schüler ein Lehrer
    \for every cigarette you smoke, you take off one day of your life mit jeder Zigarette, die du rauchst, verkürzt sich dein Leben um einen Tag
    to repeat sth word \for word etw Wort für Wort wiederholen
    20. (the duty of)
    ▪ to [not] be \for sb to do sth [nicht] jds Sache sein, etw zu tun
    it's not \for me to tell her what to do es ist nicht meine Aufgabe, ihr vorzuschreiben, was sie zu tun hat
    the decision is not \for him to make die Entscheidung liegt nicht bei ihm
    21. (as) für + akk
    she thought it \for a lie but didn't say anything sie hielt es für gelogen, sagte aber nichts
    I \for one am sick of this bickering ich für meinen Teil habe genug von diesem Gezänk
    22.
    ▶ \for Africa SA ( fam) Unmengen + gen
    I've got homework \for Africa ich habe noch jede Menge Hausaufgaben fam
    ▶ to be [in] \for it ( fam) Schwierigkeiten bekommen
    you're in \for it! jetzt bist du dran! fam
    ▶ \for crying out loud um Himmels willen
    ▶ an eye \for an eye Auge um Auge
    ▶ that's Jane/Mark/etc. \for you so ist Jane/Mark/etc. eben!, das sieht Jane/Mark/etc. mal wieder ähnlich!, das ist wieder mal typisch für Jane/Mark/etc.!
    that's children \for you! so sind Kinder eben!
    ▶ that's/there's sth \for you ( pej)
    there's gratitude \for you! und so was nennt sich Dankbarkeit! fam
    there's manners \for you! das sind [mir] ja schöne Manieren! iron fam
    * * *
    I [fɔː(r)]
    1. prep
    1) (intention) für; (purpose) zu, für; (destination) nach

    clothes for children — Kleidung f für Kinder, Kinderkleidung f

    what for? — wofür?, wozu?

    what did you do that for? —

    a room for working in/sewing — ein Zimmer zum Arbeiten/Nähen

    a bag for carrying books (in) — eine Tasche, um Bücher zu tragen

    fit for nothing —

    ready for anything —

    this will do for a hammer — das kann man als Hammer nehmen

    to leave for the USA — in die USA or nach Amerika abreisen

    he swam for the shore — er schwamm auf die Küste zu, er schwamm in Richtung Küste

    2)

    (indicating suitability) it's not for you to ask questions — Sie haben kein Recht, Fragen zu stellen

    it's not for me to say — es steht mir nicht zu, mich dazu zu äußern

    3)

    (= representing, instead of) I'll speak to her for you if you like —

    I need someone to make up my mind for me — ich brauche jemanden, der die Entscheidung für mich trifft

    she works for a bank (in the bank) — sie arbeitet bei or in einer Bank; (outside the bank) sie arbeitet für eine Bank

    4) (= in defence, in favour of) für

    I'm all for it — ich bin ganz or sehr dafür

    I'm all for helping him —

    5)

    (= with regard to) anxious for sb — um jdn besorgt

    as for him/that — was ihn/das betrifft

    warm/cold for the time of year — warm/kalt für die Jahreszeit

    6) (= because of) aus

    he did it for fear of being left — er tat es aus Angst, zurückgelassen zu werden

    he is famous for his jokes/his big nose — er ist für seine Witze bekannt/wegen seiner großen Nase berühmt

    do it for me — tu es für mich

    7) (= in spite of) trotz (+gen or (inf) +dat)

    for all that, you should have warned me — Sie hätten mich trotz allem warnen sollen

    8) (= in exchange) für

    to pay four euros for a ticket — vier Euro für eine Fahrkarte zahlen

    he'll do it for ten pounds —

    9)

    (= in contrast) for every job that is created, two are lost — für jede Stelle, die neu geschaffen wird, gehen zwei verloren

    10) (in time) seit; (with future tense) für

    I had/have known her for years — ich kannte/kenne sie schon seit Jahren

    he won't be back for a week — er wird erst in einer Woche zurück sein

    can you get it done for Monday/this time next week? — können Sie es bis or für Montag/bis in einer Woche fertig haben?

    for a while/time — (für) eine Weile/einige Zeit

    11)

    (distance) the road is lined with trees for two miles — die Straße ist auf or über zwei Meilen mit Bäumen gesäumt

    12)

    (with verbs) to pray for peace — für den or um Frieden beten

    See:
    → vbs
    13) (after n: indicating liking, aptitude etc) für

    his knack for saying the wrong thing — sein Talent, das Falsche zu sagen

    14)

    (with infin clauses) for this to be possible — damit dies möglich wird

    it's easy for him to do it — für ihn ist es leicht, das zu tun, er kann das leicht tun

    I brought it for you to see — ich habe es mitgebracht, damit Sie es sich (dat) ansehen können

    the best thing would be for you to leave — das Beste wäre, wenn Sie weggingen

    their one hope is for him to return — ihre einzige Hoffnung ist, dass er zurückkommt

    15)

    (phrases) to do sth for oneself — etw alleine tun

    2. conj
    denn
    3. adj pred
    (= in favour) dafür

    17 were for, 13 against — 17 waren dafür, 13 dagegen

    II abbr frei Bahn
    * * *
    for [fɔː(r); unbetont fə(r)]
    A präp
    1. allg für:
    it was very awkward for her es war sehr peinlich für sie, es war ihr sehr unangenehm;
    he spoilt their holidays (bes US vacation) for them er verdarb ihnen den ganzen Urlaub;
    she brought a letter for me to sign sie brachte mir einen Brief zur Unterschrift
    2. für, zugunsten von:
    a gift for him ein Geschenk für ihn;
    this letter is for me dieser Brief ist an mich;
    for and against für und wider; → academic.ru/69264/speak_for">speak for 1
    3. für, (mit der Absicht) zu, um (… willen):
    apply for the post sich um die Stellung bewerben;
    die for a cause für eine Sache sterben;
    come for dinner zum Essen kommen
    4. (Wunsch, Ziel) nach, auf (akk):
    a claim for sth ein Anspruch auf eine Sache;
    the desire for sth der Wunsch oder das Verlangen nach etwas;
    call for sb nach jemandem rufen;
    wait for sth auf etwas warten;
    oh, for a car! ach, hätte ich doch nur ein Auto!
    b) (bestimmt) für oder zu:
    tools for cutting Werkzeuge zum Schneiden, Schneidewerkzeuge;
    the right man for the job der richtige Mann für diesen Posten
    6. (Mittel) gegen:
    treat sb for cancer jemanden gegen oder auf Krebs behandeln;
    there is nothing for it but to give in es bleibt nichts (anderes) übrig, als nachzugeben
    8. (als Entgelt) für, gegen, um:
    I sold it for £10 ich verkaufte es für 10 Pfund
    9. (im Tausch) für, gegen:
    10. (Betrag, Menge) über (akk):
    a postal order for £2
    11. (Grund) aus, vor (dat), wegen:
    for this reason aus diesem Grund;
    die for grief aus oder vor Gram sterben;
    weep for joy aus oder vor Freude weinen;
    I can’t see for the fog ich kann nichts sehen wegen des Nebels oder vor lauter Nebel;
    she couldn’t speak for laughing sie konnte vor (lauter) Lachen nicht sprechen
    12. (als Strafe etc) für, wegen:
    13. dank, wegen:
    were it not for his energy wenn er nicht so energisch wäre, dank seiner Energie;
    if it wasn’t for him wenn er nicht wäre, ohne ihn; he would never have done it, if it hadn’t been for me talking him into it wenn ich ihn nicht dazu überredet hätte
    14. für, in Anbetracht (gen), im Hinblick auf (akk), im Verhältnis zu:
    he is tall for his age er ist groß für sein Alter;
    it is rather cold for July es ist ziemlich kalt für Juli;
    for a foreigner he speaks English fairly well für einen Ausländer spricht er recht gut Englisch
    15. (Begabung, Neigung) für, (Hang) zu:
    an eye for beauty Sinn für das Schöne
    16. (zeitlich) für, während, auf (akk), für die Dauer von, seit:
    for a week eine Woche (lang);
    come for a week komme auf oder für eine Woche;
    for hours stundenlang;
    for a ( oder some) time past seit längerer Zeit;
    for a long time past schon seit Langem;
    not for a long time noch lange nicht;
    the first picture for two months der erste Film in oder seit zwei Monaten;
    for months ahead auf Monate (hinaus)
    17. (Strecke) weit, lang:
    run for a mile eine Meile (weit) laufen
    18. nach, auf (akk), in Richtung auf (akk):
    the train for London der Zug nach London;
    the passengers for Rome die nach Rom reisenden Passagiere;
    start for Paris nach Paris abreisen;
    now for it! Br umg jetzt (nichts wie) los oder drauf!, jetzt gilt’s!
    19. für, anstelle von (oder gen), (an)statt:
    20. für, in Vertretung oder im Auftrag oder im Namen von (oder gen):
    act for sb in jemandes Auftrag handeln
    21. für, als:
    books for presents Bücher als Geschenk;
    they were sold for slaves sie wurden als Sklaven verkauft;
    take that for an answer nimm das als Antwort
    22. trotz (gen oder dat), ungeachtet (gen):
    for all that trotz alledem;
    for all his wealth trotz seines ganzen Reichtums, bei allem Reichtum;
    for all you may say sage, was du willst
    23. as for was … betrifft:
    as for me was mich betrifft oder an(be)langt;
    as for that matter was das betrifft;
    for all I know soviel ich weiß;
    for all of me meinetwegen, von mir aus
    24. nach adj und vor inf:
    it is too heavy for me to lift es ist so schwer, dass ich es nicht heben kann;
    it is impossible for me to come es ist mir unmöglich zu kommen, ich kann unmöglich kommen;
    it seemed useless for me to continue es erschien mir sinnlos, noch weiterzumachen
    25. mit s oder pron und inf:
    it is time for you to go home es ist Zeit, dass du heimgehst; es ist Zeit für dich heimzugehen;
    it is for you to decide die Entscheidung liegt bei Ihnen;
    a) es ist nicht deine Sache zu inf,
    b) es steht dir nicht zu inf;
    he called for the girl to bring him some tea er rief nach dem Mädchen und bat es, ihm Tee zu bringen;
    don’t wait for him to turn up yet wartet nicht darauf, dass er noch auftaucht;
    there is no need for anyone to know es braucht niemand zu wissen
    that’s a wine for you das ist vielleicht ein Weinchen, das nenne ich einen Wein
    27. US nach:
    B konj denn, weil, nämlich
    * * *
    1. preposition
    1) (representing, on behalf of, in exchange against) für; (in place of) für; anstelle von

    what is the German for "buzz"? — wie heißt "buzz" auf Deutsch?

    2) (in defence, support, or favour of) für

    be for doing something — dafür sein, etwas zu tun

    it's each [man] or every man for himself — jeder ist auf sich selbst gestellt

    4) (with a view to) für; (conducive[ly] to) zu

    they invited me for Christmas/Monday/supper — sie haben mich zu Weihnachten/für Montag/zum Abendessen eingeladen

    what is it for? — wofür/wozu ist das?

    6) (to obtain, win, save)

    take somebody for a ride in the car/a walk — jemanden im Auto spazieren fahren/mit jemandem einen Spaziergang machen

    run/jump etc. for it — loslaufen/-springen usw.

    7) (to reach) nach

    set out for England/the north/an island — nach England/Norden/zu einer Insel aufbrechen

    be dressed/ready for dinner — zum Dinner angezogen/fertig sein

    have something for breakfast/pudding — etwas zum Frühstück/Nachtisch haben

    enough... for — genug... für

    too... for — zu... für

    there is nothing for it but to do something — es gibt keine andere Möglichkeit, als etwas zu tun

    cheque/ bill for £5 — Scheck/Rechnung über od. in Höhe von 5 Pfund

    11) (to affect, as if affecting) für

    things don't look very promising for the business — was die Geschäfte angeht, sieht das alles nicht sehr vielversprechend aus

    it is wise/advisable for somebody to do something — es ist vernünftig/ratsam, dass jemand etwas tut

    it's hopeless for me to try and explain the system — es ist sinnlos, dir das System erklären zu wollen

    12) (as being) für

    I/you etc. for one — ich/ du usw. für mein[en]/dein[en] usw. Teil

    13) (on account of, as penalty of) wegen

    famous/well-known for something — berühmt/ bekannt wegen od. für etwas

    jump/ shout for joy — vor Freude in die Luft springen/schreien

    were it not for you/ your help, I should not be able to do it — ohne dich/deine Hilfe wäre ich nicht dazu in der Lage

    for all... — trotz...

    for all that,... — trotzdem...

    for fear of... — aus Angst vor (+ Dat.)

    but for..., except for... — wenn nicht... gewesen wäre, [dann]...

    for all I know/care... — möglicherweise/was mich betrifft,...

    for one thing,... — zunächst einmal...

    19) (during) seit

    we've/we haven't been here for three years — wir sind seit drei Jahren hier/nicht mehr hier gewesen

    we waited for hours/three hours — wir warteten stundenlang/drei Stunden lang

    sit here for now or for the moment — bleiben Sie im Augenblick hier sitzen

    walk for 20 miles/for another 20 miles — 20 Meilen [weit] gehen/weiter gehen

    21)

    be for it — (coll.) dran sein (ugs.); sich auf was gefasst machen können (ugs.)

    2. conjunction
    (since, as proof) denn
    * * *
    conj.
    als konj.
    denn konj.
    für konj.
    nach konj.
    zu konj.

    English-german dictionary > for

  • 9 gain

    1. noun
    1) Gewinn, der

    be to somebody's gain — für jemanden von Vorteil sein

    2) (increase) Zunahme, die (in an + Dat.)
    2. transitive verb
    1) (obtain) gewinnen; finden [Zugang, Zutritt]; erwerben [Wissen, Ruf]; erlangen [Freiheit, Ruhm]; erzielen [Vorteil, Punkte]; verdienen [Lebensunterhalt, Geldsumme]

    gain possession of something — in den Besitz einer Sache (Gen.) kommen

    2) (win) gewinnen [Preis, Schlacht]; erringen [Sieg]
    3) (obtain as increase)

    gain weight/five pounds [in weight] — zunehmen/fünf Pfund zunehmen

    4) (reach) gewinnen (geh.), erreichen [Gipfel, Ufer]
    5) (become fast by)
    3. intransitive verb
    1) (make a profit)

    gain in influence/prestige — an Einfluss/Prestige gewinnen

    3) (become fast) [Uhr:] vorgehen
    4)

    gain on somebody — (come closer) jemandem [immer] näher kommen; (increase lead) den Vorsprung zu jemandem vergrößern

    * * *
    [ɡein] 1. verb
    1) (to obtain: He quickly gained experience.) gewinnen
    2) ((often with by or from) to get (something good) by doing something: What have I to gain by staying here?) gewinnen
    3) (to have an increase in (something): He gained strength after his illness.) gewinnen
    4) ((of a clock or watch) to go too fast: This clock gains (four minutes a day).) vorgehen
    2. noun
    1) (an increase (in weight etc): a gain of one kilo.) die Zunahme
    2) (profits, advantage, wealth etc: His loss was my gain; He'd do anything for gain.) der Gewinn
    •
    - academic.ru/116276/gain_ground">gain ground
    - gain on
    * * *
    [geɪn]
    I. n
    1. no pl (increase) Anstieg m kein pl, Zunahme f kein pl; in speed Erhöhung f kein pl
    \gain in height Höhengewinn m
    \gain in numbers zahlenmäßiger Zuwachs
    \gain in profits/productivity Gewinn-/Produktivitätssteigerung f
    weight \gain Gewichtszunahme f
    2. ECON, FIN (profit) Gewinn m
    net \gain Nettogewinn m, Reingewinn m
    pre-tax \gain Vorsteuergewinn m
    3. (achievement) Gewinn m kein pl, Erfolg m
    4. no pl (advantage) Vorteil m
    personal/political \gain persönlicher/politischer Vorteil
    to do sth for \gain etw zu seinem eigenen Vorteil tun; (for money) etw für Geld tun
    5. no pl ELEC, TECH Verstärkungsgrad m
    II. vt
    ▪ to \gain sth etw bekommen [o erlangen]
    you've got nothing to lose and everything to \gain du hast nichts zu verlieren, aber alles zu gewinnen
    what do you hope to \gain from the course? was versprechen Sie sich von diesem Kurs?
    her performance \gained her international fame durch ihre Leistung erlangte sie internationalen Ruhm
    the party have \gained a lot of support die Partei ist in der Sympathie der Wähler stark gestiegen
    to \gain acceptance/popularity akzeptiert/populär werden
    to \gain access to sth sich dat Zugang zu etw dat verschaffen
    to \gain sb's confidence jds Vertrauen gewinnen
    to \gain control of sth etw unter [seine] Kontrolle bekommen
    to \gain entrance/entry [to sth] sich dat Zutritt [zu etw dat] verschaffen
    to \gain experience Erfahrungen sammeln
    to \gain freedom/independence die Freiheit/Unabhängigkeit erlangen
    to \gain ground [an] Boden gewinnen; disease um sich akk greifen; rumours sich akk verbreiten
    to \gain ground on sb gegenüber jdm an Boden gewinnen
    to \gain an impression einen Eindruck gewinnen
    to \gain insight [into sth] einen Einblick [in etw akk] bekommen, [etw] verstehen
    to \gain recognition Anerkennung finden
    to \gain a reputation for being sth sich dat einen Namen als etw machen
    to \gain success Erfolg haben
    to \gain the upper hand die Oberhand gewinnen
    to \gain a victory einen Sieg erringen
    ▪ to \gain sth an etw dat gewinnen
    the share index \gained ten points der Aktienindex stieg um 10 Punkte an
    to \gain altitude [an] Höhe gewinnen
    to \gain knowledge sein Wissen erweitern
    to \gain prestige an Prestige gewinnen
    to \gain self-confidence Selbstvertrauen entwickeln
    to \gain strength kräftiger werden, an Kraft zunehmen
    to \gain time Zeit gewinnen
    to \gain velocity [or speed] schneller werden
    to \gain weight zunehmen
    3. (reach) erreichen
    to \gain one's destination sein Ziel erreichen
    4.
    ▶ to \gain a foothold Fuß fassen
    ▶ nothing ventured, nothing \gained ( prov) wer wagt, gewinnt
    III. vi
    1. (increase) zunehmen; prices, numbers [an]steigen, zulegen; clock, watch vorgehen
    the share index \gained by ten points der Aktienindex stieg um 10 Punkte an
    to \gain in height an Höhe gewinnen
    to \gain in numbers zahlenmäßig ansteigen
    to \gain in profits/productivity einen Gewinn-/Produktivitätszuwachs verzeichnen
    to \gain in weight zunehmen
    2. (profit) profitieren
    ▪ to \gain from sth von etw dat profitieren
    ▪ to \gain by doing sth durch etw akk profitieren
    ▪ to \gain on sb jdn mehr und mehr einholen
    they're \gaining on us sie kommen immer näher
    * * *
    [geɪn]
    1. n
    1) no pl (= advantage) Vorteil m; (= profit) Gewinn m, Profit m

    to do sth for gain — etw aus Berechnung (dat) or zum eigenen Vorteil tun; (for money) etw des Geldes wegen tun

    his loss is our gain — sein Verlust ist unser Gewinn, wir profitieren von seinem Verlust

    2) pl (= winnings) Gewinn m; (= profits) Gewinne pl
    3) (= increase) (in +gen) Zunahme f; (in speed) Erhöhung f; (in wealth) Steigerung f, Zunahme f; (in health) Besserung f; (in knowledge) Erweiterung f, Vergrößerung f

    gain in weight, weight gain — Gewichtszunahme f

    2. vt
    1) (= obtain, win) gewinnen; knowledge, wealth erwerben; advantage, respect, entry, access sich (dat) verschaffen; control, the lead übernehmen; marks, points erzielen; sum of money verdienen; liberty erlangen; (= achieve) nothing, a little etc erreichen

    he gained a better view by climbing onto a wall — dadurch, dass er auf eine Mauer kletterte, hatte er einen besseren Ausblick

    to gain ground — (an) Boden gewinnen; (disease) um sich greifen, sich verbreiten; (rumours) sich verbreiten

    to gain time —

    he gained a reputation as... — er hat sich (dat) einen Namen als... gemacht

    2) (= reach) other side, shore, summit erreichen
    3)

    (= increase) to gain height — (an) Höhe gewinnen, höhersteigen

    to gain speed — schneller werden, beschleunigen

    she has gained weight/3 kilos — sie hat zugenommen/3 Kilo zugenommen

    as he gained confidence — als er sicherer wurde, als seine Selbstsicherheit wuchs or zunahm

    3. vi
    1) (watch) vorgehen
    2) (= get further ahead) den Vorsprung vergrößern; (= close gap) aufholen
    3) (= profit person) profitieren (by von)

    you can only gain by it — das kann nur Ihr Vorteil sein, Sie können dabei nur profitieren

    society/the university would gain from that — das wäre für die Gesellschaft/die Universität von Vorteil

    4)

    to gain in prestige — an Ansehen gewinnen, sich (dat) größeres Ansehen verschaffen

    * * *
    gain [ɡeın]
    A v/t
    1. seinen Lebensunterhalt etc verdienen
    2. Anhänger, jemandes Vertrauen, Zeit etc gewinnen:
    point gained SPORT Pluspunkt m; → ground1 A 2, upper hand
    3. die Küste etc erreichen
    4. fig erreichen, erlangen, erhalten, erringen:
    gain experience Erfahrung(en) sammeln;
    gain wealth Reichtümer erwerben;
    gain admission Einlass finden; → advantage A 1
    5. jemandem etwas einbringen, -tragen:
    it gained him a promotion (a warning)
    6. zunehmen an (dat):
    gain speed (strength) schneller (stärker) werden;
    he gained 10 pounds er nahm 10 Pfund zu; → weight A 3
    7. meist gain over jemanden für sich gewinnen
    8. vorgehen um (Uhr):
    my watch gains two minutes a day meine Uhr geht am Tag zwei Minuten vor
    B v/i
    1. (on, upon)
    a) näher kommen (dat), (an) Boden gewinnen, aufholen (gegenüber)
    b) seinen Vorsprung vergrößern (vor dat, gegenüber)
    2. (an) Einfluss oder Boden gewinnen
    3. besser oder kräftiger werden:
    he gained daily er kam täglich mehr zu Kräften
    4. WIRTSCH Profit oder Gewinn machen
    5. (an Wert) gewinnen, besser zur Geltung kommen, im Ansehen steigen
    6. zunehmen (in an dat):
    gain (in weight) (an Gewicht) zunehmen;
    the days were gaining in warmth die Tage wurden wärmer
    7. (on, upon) übergreifen (auf akk), sich ausbreiten (über akk)
    8. vorgehen (Uhr):
    my watch gains by two minutes a day meine Uhr geht am Tag zwei Minuten vor
    C s
    1. Gewinn m, Vorteil m, Nutzen m ( alle:
    to für)
    2. (in) Zunahme f (an dat), Steigerung f (gen):
    gain in knowledge Wissensbereicherung f;
    gain in weight Gewichtszunahme f;
    have a gain of two pounds zwei Pfund zunehmen
    3. WIRTSCH
    a) Profit m, Gewinn m:
    for gain JUR in gewinnsüchtiger Absicht
    b) pl US Verdienst m (aus Geschäften)
    4. ELEK, PHYS Verstärkung f:
    gain control Lautstärkeregelung f
    * * *
    1. noun
    1) Gewinn, der
    2) (increase) Zunahme, die (in an + Dat.)
    2. transitive verb
    1) (obtain) gewinnen; finden [Zugang, Zutritt]; erwerben [Wissen, Ruf]; erlangen [Freiheit, Ruhm]; erzielen [Vorteil, Punkte]; verdienen [Lebensunterhalt, Geldsumme]
    2) (win) gewinnen [Preis, Schlacht]; erringen [Sieg]

    gain weight/five pounds [in weight] — zunehmen/fünf Pfund zunehmen

    4) (reach) gewinnen (geh.), erreichen [Gipfel, Ufer]
    3. intransitive verb

    gain in influence/prestige — an Einfluss/Prestige gewinnen

    3) (become fast) [Uhr:] vorgehen
    4)

    gain on somebody — (come closer) jemandem [immer] näher kommen; (increase lead) den Vorsprung zu jemandem vergrößern

    * * *
    n.
    Gewinn -e m.
    Verstärkung f.
    Zunahme -n f. v.
    erlangen v.
    erwerben v.
    gewinnen v.
    (§ p.,pp.: gewann, gewonnen)

    English-german dictionary > gain

  • 10 get

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

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > get

  • 11 rise

    rise [raɪz]
    hauteur ⇒ 1 (a) lever ⇒ 1 (b) montée ⇒ 1 (b) hausse ⇒ 1 (c) se lever ⇒ 2 (a), 2 (b) se relever ⇒ 2 (a) s'élever ⇒ 2 (b), 2 (f) augmenter ⇒ 2 (c) monter ⇒ 2 (c), 2 (g)
    (pt rose [rəʊz], pp risen ['rɪzən])
    1 noun
    (a) (high ground) hauteur f, éminence f; (slope) pente f; (hill) côte f;
    ∎ we reached the top of a steep rise nous sommes arrivés au sommet d'une côte raide
    (b) (of moon, sun, curtain) lever m; (to power, influence) montée f, ascension f; (in rank) avancement m, promotion f; (of industry, technology) essor m;
    ∎ the rise and fall of the tide le flux et le reflux de la marée;
    ∎ the rise and fall of the Roman Empire la croissance et la chute ou la grandeur et la décadence de l'Empire romain;
    ∎ the rise and fall of the fascist movement la montée et la chute du mouvement fasciste;
    ∎ her rise to fame came overnight elle est devenue célèbre du jour au lendemain;
    ∎ British familiar to get or to take a rise out of sb faire marcher qn, faire enrager qn
    (c) (increase → of price, cost of living, crime, accidents) hausse f, augmentation f; (→ in bank rate, interest) relèvement m, hausse f; (→ of temperature, pressure) hausse f; (→ in level of river) crue f; (→ of affluence, wealth) augmentation f; British (→ in salary) augmentation f (de salaire);
    ∎ to be on the rise être en hausse;
    ∎ there has been a steep rise in house prices les prix de l'immobilier ont beaucoup augmenté;
    ∎ the rise in the price of petrol la hausse du prix de l'essence;
    ∎ there was a 10 percent rise in the number of visitors le nombre de visiteurs a augmenté de 10 pour cent;
    ∎ there has been a steady rise in the number of accidents les accidents sont en augmentation régulière;
    ∎ rise in value appréciation f;
    ∎ Stock Exchange to speculate on a rise jouer à la hausse;
    ∎ British to be given a rise être augmenté
    (d) (origin → of river) source f;
    ∎ figurative to give rise to sth donner lieu à qch, entraîner qch;
    ∎ it gave rise to a lot of hostility/difficulties cela a provoqué une forte hostilité/beaucoup de difficultés;
    ∎ their disappearance gave rise to great scandal/suspicion leur disparition a provoqué un énorme scandale/éveillé de nombreux soupçons
    (a) (get up → from chair, bed) se lever; (→ from knees, after fall) se relever;
    ∎ he rose (from his chair) to greet me il s'est levé (de sa chaise) pour me saluer;
    ∎ to rise to one's feet se lever, se mettre debout;
    ∎ he rises late every morning il se lève tard tous les matins;
    ∎ all rise! (in courtroom) levez-vous s'il vous plaît!;
    ∎ Horseriding to rise in the saddle faire du trot enlevé;
    ∎ the horse rose on its hind legs le cheval s'est cabré;
    ∎ rise and shine! debout!;
    ∎ Religion to rise from the dead ressusciter d'entre les morts;
    ∎ he looked as if he'd risen from the grave il avait une mine de déterré
    (b) (sun, moon, star, fog) se lever; (smoke, balloon) s'élever, monter; (land) s'élever; (fish) mordre; Theatre (curtain) se lever;
    ∎ to rise into the air (bird, balloon) s'élever (dans les airs); (plane) monter ou s'élever (dans les airs);
    ∎ the birds rose above our heads les oiseaux se sont envolés au-dessus de nos têtes;
    ∎ to rise to the surface (swimmer, whale) remonter à la surface; (anger) faire surface; (doubts, conflict) se faire jour;
    ∎ also figurative to rise to the bait mordre à l'hameçon;
    ∎ the colour rose in or to her cheeks le rouge lui est monté aux joues;
    ∎ his eyebrows rose in surprise il leva les sourcils de surprise;
    ∎ laughter/cheers rose from the crowd des rires/des hourras montèrent de la foule;
    ∎ a feeling of panic rose in me un sentiment de panique s'est emparé de moi;
    ∎ disturbing images rose into my mind des images troublantes me vinrent à l'esprit;
    ∎ to rise to the occasion se montrer à la hauteur de la situation;
    ∎ figurative to rise from the ashes renaître de ses cendres
    (c) (increase → value) augmenter; (→ number, amount) augmenter, monter; (→ prices, costs) monter, augmenter, être en hausse; (→ temperature, pressure) monter; (→ barometer) monter, remonter; (→ wind) se lever; (→ tide, river level) monter; (→ tension, tone) monter; (→ voice) s'élever;
    ∎ gold has risen in value by 10 percent la valeur de l'or a augmenté de 10 pour cent;
    ∎ to rise by 10 dollars/by 10 percent augmenter de 10 dollars/de 10 pour cent;
    ∎ the pound has risen against the dollar la livre s'est appréciée vis-à-vis du dollar;
    ∎ to make prices rise faire monter les prix;
    ∎ prices are rising les prix montent ou sont à la ou en hausse;
    ∎ rents are rising fast les loyers augmentent rapidement;
    ∎ the river has risen by two metres la rivière est montée de deux mètres;
    ∎ the wind has risen to gale force le vent se mit à souffler en tempête;
    ∎ his voice rose above the noise of the crowd sa voix s'élevait au-dessus du bruit de la foule;
    ∎ his spirits rose when he heard the news il a été soulagé ou heureux d'apprendre la nouvelle
    (d) Cookery (dough) lever; (soufflé) monter
    (e) (become erect → hair) se hérisser;
    ∎ the dog's hackles rose le chien s'est hérissé de colère;
    ∎ the hair on the back of her neck rose ses poils se sont hérissés
    (f) (mountains, buildings) se dresser, s'élever;
    ∎ the trees rose above our heads les arbres se dressaient au-dessus de nos têtes;
    ∎ the mountain rises to 2,500 m la montagne a une altitude de ou culmine à ou s'élève à 2500 m;
    ∎ the steeple rises 200 feet into the air le clocher a ou fait 60 mètres de haut;
    ∎ many new apartment blocks have risen in the past ten years de nombreux immeubles neufs ont été construits au cours des dix dernières années
    (g) (socially, professionally) monter, réussir;
    ∎ to rise in society réussir socialement;
    ∎ to rise in the world faire son chemin dans le monde;
    ∎ to rise to fame devenir célèbre;
    ∎ to rise to power accéder au pouvoir;
    ∎ to rise in sb's esteem monter dans l'estime de qn;
    ∎ to rise to the rank of colonel monter jusqu'au grade de colonel;
    ∎ to rise through the ranks monter les échelons un à un;
    ∎ to rise from the ranks sortir du rang;
    ∎ she rose to the position of personnel manager elle a réussi à devenir chef du personnel
    (h) (revolt) se soulever, se révolter ( against contre);
    ∎ to rise in arms prendre les armes;
    ∎ to rise in protest against sth se soulever contre qch
    (i) (adjourn → assembly, meeting) lever la séance; (→ Parliament, court) clore la session;
    ∎ Parliament rose for the summer recess la session parlementaire est close pour les vacances d'été
    (j) (originate → river) prendre sa source
    ►► Computing rise time temps m de montée
    (obstacle, fear) surmonter; (figure) dépasser;
    ∎ this book never rises above the level of potboiler ce livre n'est que de la littérature alimentaire;
    ∎ she seems to rise above that kind of petty jealousy elle semble être au-dessus de ce genre de jalousie mesquine;
    ∎ try to rise above it tâche de rester au-dessus de la mêlée;
    ∎ politics should rise above the level of personal attacks le débat politique ne devrait pas se situer au niveau des attaques personnelles
    (a) (get up) se lever;
    ∎ to rise up from one's chair se lever de sa chaise
    (b) (go up) monter, s'élever;
    ∎ the smoke/the balloon rose up into the sky la fumée/le ballon s'élevait dans le ciel
    (c) (revolt) se soulever, se révolter;
    ∎ to rise up against an oppressor se soulever contre un oppresseur
    (d) Religion ressusciter;
    ∎ to rise up from the dead ressusciter d'entre les morts
    (e) (appear) apparaître;
    ∎ a strange sight rose up before his eyes un spectacle étrange s'offrit alors à son regard;
    ∎ a shadowy figure rose up out of the mist une ombre surgit de la brume

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  • 12 fortune

    noun
    1) (private wealth) Vermögen, das
    2) (prosperous condition) Glück, das; (of country) Wohl, das
    3) (luck, destiny) Schicksal, das

    bad/good fortune — Pech, das/Glück, das

    by sheer good fortune there was... — es war reines Glück, dass... war

    thank one's good fortune that... — dem Glück dafür danken, dass...

    tell somebody's fortune — jemandem wahrsagen od. sein Schicksal vorhersagen

    * * *
    ['fo: ən]
    1) (whatever happens by chance or (good or bad) luck: whatever fortune may bring.) das Glück, das Schicksal
    2) (a large amount of money: That ring must be worth a fortune!) das Vermögen
    •
    - academic.ru/29007/fortunate">fortunate
    - fortunately
    - fortune-teller
    - tell someone's fortune
    - tell fortune
    * * *
    for·tune
    [ˈfɔ:tʃu:n, AM ˈfɔ:rtʃən]
    n
    1. (money) Vermögen nt
    fame and \fortune Ruhm und Reichtum
    a small \fortune ( fam) ein kleines Vermögen
    to be worth a \fortune ( fam) ein Vermögen wert sein
    to cost a \fortune ( fam) ein Vermögen kosten
    to make a/one's \fortune zu Reichtum kommen, ein Vermögen machen
    2. no pl ( form: luck) Schicksal nt
    a stroke of good \fortune ein Glücksfall m
    good/ill \fortune Glück/Pech nt
    to have the good \fortune to do sth das Glück haben, etw zu tun
    to read/tell sb's \fortune jds Schicksal vorhersagen
    to seek one's \fortune sein Glück suchen
    3. no pl ( liter: luck personified) Glück nt, Fortuna f geh
    \fortune always seems to be smiling on him Fortuna scheint ihm immer gewogen zu sein geh
    4. (sb's fate)
    ▪ \fortunes pl Geschick nt
    the \fortunes of war die Wechselfälle [o das Auf und Ab] des Krieges
    5.
    ▶ \fortune favours the brave ( prov) das Glück ist mit den Tüchtigen
    ▶ the slings and arrows of [outrageous] \fortune BRIT die Stricke und Fallen des [entfesselten] Schicksals
    * * *
    ['fɔːtʃuːn]
    n
    1) (= fate) Schicksal nt, Geschick nt; (= chance) Zufall m

    he had the good fortune to have rich parents — er hatte das Glück, reiche Eltern zu haben

    by good fortune — glücklicherweise, zum Glück

    by sheer good fortune —

    fortune has favoured (Brit) or favored (US) him — das Glück war ihm hold

    2) (= money) Reichtum m, Vermögen nt

    to come into/make a fortune — ein Vermögen erben/machen

    to seek/make one's fortune — sein Glück versuchen/machen

    * * *
    fortune [ˈfɔːtʃuːn; -tʃən; US ˈfɔːrtʃən] s
    1. Vermögen n, (großer) Reichtum:
    a man of fortune ein vermögender oder reicher Mann;
    her beauty is her fortune ihre Schönheit ist ihr Kapital;
    come into a fortune ein Vermögen erben;
    a) sich ein Vermögen erwerben,
    b) ein Vermögen verdienen;
    make one’s fortune sein Glück machen;
    marry a fortune eine gute Partie machen, reich heiraten;
    seek one’s fortune sein Glück versuchen (in in dat);
    spend a (small) fortune on sth ein (kleines) Vermögen für etwas ausgeben
    2. (glücklicher) Zufall, Glück(sfall) n(m):
    by sheer good fortune rein zufällig;
    I had the fortune to have …, it was my good fortune to have … zu meinem Glück hatte ich …
    3. meist pl Geschick n, Schicksal n:
    good fortune Glück n;
    bad ( oder ill) fortune Unglück n;
    tell fortunes wahrsagen;
    read sb’s fortune
    a) jemandem die Karten legen,
    b) jemandem aus der Hand lesen;
    have one’s fortune told sich wahrsagen lassen;
    by good fortune glücklicherweise, zum Glück;
    the fortunes of war das Kriegsgeschick, der Krieg;
    during his changing fortunes während seines wechselvollen Lebens;
    try one’s fortune es darauf ankommen lassen
    4. oft Fortune Fortuna f, das Glück, die Glücksgöttin:
    fortune favo(u)red him Fortuna oder das Glück war ihm hold;
    fortune favo(u)rs the brave (Sprichwort) Glück hat nur der Tüchtige;
    fortune favo(u)rs fools (Sprichwort) die Dummen haben das Glück; → smile A 2
    * * *
    noun
    1) (private wealth) Vermögen, das
    2) (prosperous condition) Glück, das; (of country) Wohl, das
    3) (luck, destiny) Schicksal, das

    bad/good fortune — Pech, das/Glück, das

    by sheer good fortune there was... — es war reines Glück, dass... war

    thank one's good fortune that... — dem Glück dafür danken, dass...

    tell somebody's fortune — jemandem wahrsagen od. sein Schicksal vorhersagen

    * * *
    n.
    Glück nur sing. n.
    Schicksaal n.
    Vermögen - n.

    English-german dictionary > fortune

  • 13 get

    1. transitive verb,
    -tt-, p.t. got, p.p. got or (in comb./arch./ Amer. except in sense academic.ru/44353/m">m) gotten ( got also coll. abbr. of has got or have got)
    1) (obtain) bekommen; kriegen (ugs.); (by buying) kaufen; sich (Dat.) anschaffen [Auto usw.]; (by one's own effort for special purpose) sich (Dat.) besorgen [Visum, Genehmigung, Arbeitskräfte]; sich (Dat.) beschaffen [Geld]; einholen [Gutachten]; (by contrivance) kommen zu; (find) finden [Zeit]

    where did you get that? — wo hast du das her?

    he got him by the leg/arm — er kriegte ihn am Bein/Arm zu fassen

    get somebody a job/taxi, get a job/taxi for somebody — jemandem einen Job verschaffen/ein Taxi besorgen od. rufen

    get oneself something/a job — sich (Dat.) etwas zulegen/einen Job finden

    you can't get this kind of fruit in the winter months — dieses Obst gibt es im Winter nicht zu kaufen

    2) (fetch) holen

    what can I get you? — was kann ich Ihnen anbieten?

    is there anything I can get you in town? — soll ich dir etwas aus der Stadt mitbringen?

    3)

    get the bus — etc. (be in time for, catch) den Bus usw. erreichen od. (ugs.) kriegen; (travel by) den Bus nehmen

    4) (prepare) machen (ugs.), zubereiten [Essen]
    5) (coll.): (eat) essen

    get something to eat — etwas zu essen holen; (be given) etwas zu essen bekommen

    6) (gain) erreichen
    7) (by calculation) herausbekommen
    8) (receive) bekommen; erhalten, (ugs.) kriegen [Geldsumme]

    the country gets very little sun/rain — die Sonne scheint/es regnet nur sehr wenig in dem Land

    9) (receive as penalty) bekommen, (ugs.) kriegen [6 Monate Gefängnis, Geldstrafe, Tracht Prügel]

    you'll get it — (coll.) du kriegst Prügel (ugs.); es setzt was (ugs.); (be scolded) du kriegst was zu hören (ugs.)

    10) (kill) töten; erlegen [Wild]; (hit, injure) treffen
    11) (win) bekommen; finden [Anerkennung]; sich (Dat.) verschaffen [Ansehen]; erzielen [Tor, Punkt, Treffer]; gewinnen [Preis, Belohnung]; belegen [ersten usw. Platz]
    12) (come to have) finden [Schlaf, Ruhe]; bekommen [Einfall, Vorstellung, Gefühl]; gewinnen [Eindruck]; (contract) bekommen [Kopfschmerzen, Grippe, Malaria]

    get an idea/a habit from somebody — von jemandem eine Idee/Angewohnheit übernehmen

    13)

    have got — (coll.): (have) haben

    give it all you've got — gib dein Bestes

    have got a toothache/a cold — Zahnschmerzen/eine Erkältung haben od. erkältet sein

    something has got to be done [about it] — dagegen muss etwas unternommen werden

    14) (succeed in bringing, placing, etc.) bringen; kriegen (ugs.)
    15) (bring into some state)

    get things going or started — die Dinge in Gang bringen

    get everything packed/prepared — alles [ein]packen/vorbereiten

    get something ready/done — etwas fertig machen

    get one's hands dirty — sich (Dat.) die Hände schmutzig machen

    you'll get yourself thrown out/arrested — du schaffst es noch, dass du rausgeworfen/verhaftet wirst

    get somebody talking/drunk/interested — jemanden zum Reden bringen/betrunken machen/jemandes Interesse wecken

    get one's hair cut — sich (Dat.) die Haare schneiden lassen

    16) (induce)

    get somebody to do something — jemanden dazu bringen, etwas zu tun

    get something to do something — es schaffen, dass etwas etwas tut

    I can't get the car to start/the door to shut — ich kriege das Auto nicht in Gang/die Tür nicht zu

    17) (Radio, Telev.): (pick up) empfangen [Sender]
    18) (contact by telephone)

    get somebody [on the phone] — jemanden [telefonisch] erreichen

    19) (answer)

    I'll get it! — ich geh' schon!; (answer doorbell) ich mach' auf!; (answer the phone) ich gehe ran (ugs.) od. nehme ab!

    20) (coll.): (perplex) in Verwirrung bringen

    you've got me there; I don't know — da bin ich überfragt - ich weiß es nicht

    21) (coll.) (understand) kapieren (ugs.); verstehen [Personen]; (hear) mitkriegen (ugs.)

    get it? — alles klar? (ugs.)

    22) (coll.): (annoy) aufregen (ugs.)
    2. intransitive verb,
    -tt-, got, gotten
    1) (succeed in coming or going) kommen

    when did you get here/to school? — wann bist du gekommen?/wann warst du in der Schule?

    2) (come to be)

    get talking [to somebody] — [mit jemandem] ins Gespräch kommen

    get going or started — (leave) losgehen; aufbrechen; (start talking) loslegen (ugs.); (become lively or operative) in Schwung kommen

    get going on or with something — mit etwas anfangen

    3)

    he got to like/hate her — mit der Zeit mochte er sie/begann er, sie zu hassen

    get to do something — (succeed in doing) etwas tun können

    4) (become) werden

    get ready/washed — sich fertig machen/waschen

    get frightened/hungry — Angst/Hunger kriegen

    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    [ɡet]
    past tense - got; verb
    1) (to receive or obtain: I got a letter this morning.) erhalten
    2) (to bring or buy: Please get me some food.) besorgen
    3) (to (manage to) move, go, take, put etc: He couldn't get across the river; I got the book down from the shelf.) kommen, holen
    4) (to cause to be in a certain condition etc: You'll get me into trouble.) bringen
    5) (to become: You're getting old.) werden
    6) (to persuade: I'll try to get him to go.) veranlassen
    7) (to arrive: When did they get home?) gelangen
    8) (to succeed (in doing) or to happen( to do) something: I'll soon get to know the neighbours; I got the book read last night.) bekommen
    9) (to catch (a disease etc): She got measles last week.) bekommen
    10) (to catch (someone): The police will soon get the thief.) erwischen
    11) (to understand: I didn't get the point of his story.) verstehen
    •
    - getaway
    - get-together
    - get-up
    - be getting on for
    - get about
    - get across
    - get after
    - get ahead
    - get along
    - get around
    - get around to
    - get at
    - get away
    - get away with
    - get back
    - get by
    - get down
    - get down to
    - get in
    - get into
    - get nowhere
    - get off
    - get on
    - get on at
    - get out
    - get out of
    - get over
    - get round
    - get around to
    - get round to
    - get there
    - get through
    - get together
    - get up
    - get up to
    * * *
    <got, got or AM, CAN usu gotten>
    [get]
    ▪ to \get sth [from sb] etw [von jdm] erhalten [o bekommen]
    let's \get some breakfast/groceries lass uns frühstücken/Lebensmittel besorgen
    have you got a moment? haben Sie einen Augenblick Zeit?
    where did you \get your radio from? woher hast du dein Radio?
    to \get a glimpse of sb/sth einen Blick auf jdn/etw erhaschen
    to \get a radio station einen Sender empfangen [o fam reinbekommen]
    to \get time off freibekommen
    ▪ to \get sth [from sb] etw [von jdm] bekommen [o fam kriegen]
    to \get sth for one's birthday etw zum Geburtstag bekommen
    to \get a [telephone] call from sb von jdm angerufen werden
    ▪ to \get sth etw erleben
    we don't \get much snow in this country in diesem Land schneit es nicht sehr viel
    I got quite a shock ich habe einen ganz schönen Schock bekommen! fam
    I got quite a surprise ich war ganz schön überrascht
    to \get the impression that... den Eindruck gewinnen, dass...
    4. (deliver)
    ▪ to \get sth to sb jdm etw bringen
    5. ( fam: contract)
    ▪ to \get sth sich dat etw holen fam
    you can't \get measles twice Masern kannst du nicht zweimal bekommen
    to \get the flu sich dat die Grippe einfangen [o ÖSTERR a. holen] fam
    to \get food poisoning sich dat eine Lebensmittelvergiftung zuziehen [o ÖSTERR fam a. holen
    ▪ to \get [sb] sth [or sth for sb] jdm etw besorgen [o holen]
    can I \get you a drink? möchtest du was trinken?, kann ich Ihnen etwas zu trinken anbieten?; ( form)
    could you \get a newspaper for me, please? könntest du mir bitte eine Zeitung mitbringen?
    ▪ to \get sth somewhere irgendwo auf etw akk treffen
    you \get lions in Africa in Afrika gibt es Löwen
    8.
    to \get a plane/train (travel with) ein Flugzeug/einen Zug nehmen; (catch) ein Flugzeug/einen Zug erwischen fam
    9. (earn)
    ▪ to \get sth etw verdienen
    10. (exchange)
    ▪ to \get sth for sth etw für etw akk bekommen
    11. (buy)
    ▪ to \get sth etw kaufen
    12. (derive)
    ▪ to \get sth out of sth:
    what do I \get out of it? was habe ich davon?
    sb \gets a lot of pleasure out of [or from] sth etw bereitet jdm viel Freude
    to \get something out of sth aus etw dat seine Vorteile ziehen
    13. (calculate)
    ▪ to \get sth etw berechnen
    14. (capture)
    ▪ to \get sb/sth jdn/etw fangen
    15. ( fam: punish)
    ▪ to \get sb [for sth] jdn [für etw akk] kriegen fam
    I'll \get you for this/that! ich kriege dich dafür! fam
    16. ( fam: suffer)
    to \get it es bekommen, bestraft werden
    ▪ to \get sb to oneself jdn für sich akk haben
    to \get the door die Tür aufmachen
    to \get the telephone das Telefon abnehmen, ans Telefon gehen
    19. AM ( fam: pay for)
    ▪ to \get sth etw bezahlen
    20. + adj, pp (cause to be)
    he got his bag caught in the door seine Tasche verfing sich in der Tür
    she got the kids ready sie machte die Kinder fertig
    to \get sth confused etw verwechseln
    to \get sth delivered sich dat etw liefern lassen
    to \get sth finished etw fertig machen
    to \get sth typed etw tippen lassen
    ▪ to \get sb/sth doing sth:
    we'll soon \get you talking wir werden Sie schon zum Reden bringen
    haven't you got the photocopier working yet? hast du den Kopierer noch nicht zum Laufen gekriegt? fam
    ▪ to \get sb/sth to do sth jdn/etw dazu bringen, etw zu tun
    to \get one's computer to work seinen Computer zum Laufen [o ÖSTERR, SCHWEIZ a. Funktionieren] kriegen fam
    22. (transport)
    ▪ to \get sb/sth somewhere jdn/etw irgendwohin bringen
    we can't \get the bed through the door wir bekommen das Bett nicht durch die Tür
    23. (learn)
    ▪ to \get sth etw herausbekommen [o fam herauskriegen
    ▪ to \get sth etw verstehen
    to \get the meaning es verstehen
    to \get the message es kapieren fam
    to \get the picture ( fam) kapieren fam
    \get the picture? kapiert? fam, kapische? fam
    to \get sb/sth wrong jdn/etw falsch verstehen
    25.
    to \get dinner (prepare) das Abendessen zubereiten; (eat) zu Abend essen
    26. (baffle)
    ▪ to \get sb jdn verwirren
    this problem's simply got me mit diesem Problem bin ich einfach überfordert
    you've got me there da bin ich [aber] überfragt
    we'll get them with this tactic mit dieser Taktik kriegen wir sie fam
    27. ( fam: amuse)
    ▪ to \get sb jdn amüsieren
    28. ( fam: irk)
    ▪ to \get sb jdm auf die Nerven gehen fam
    29. ( fam: sadden)
    ▪ to \get sb jdm unter die Haut gehen fam
    30. (hit)
    ▪ to \get sb [in sth]:
    that nearly got me in the eye! das ist mir fast ins Auge geflogen!
    she got him right in the face sie hat ihn mitten ins Gesicht getroffen
    the shot got him in the arm der Schuss traf ihn in den Arm [o fam erwischte ihn am Arm
    \get him/her! sieh dir mal den/die an!
    32.
    ▶ to get one's own back [on sb] BRIT ( fam) sich akk [an jdm] rächen
    ▶ to \get it on ( fam: succeed) es schaffen; ( fam: fight) es sich dat geben; ( fam: have sex) es treiben euph fam
    1. + adj (become) werden
    are you \getting better? geht es dir besser?
    to \get real (sl) am Boden bleiben fam
    to \get used to sth sich akk an etw akk gewöhnen
    2. + vb (become)
    to \get to be sth etw werden
    how did you \get to be a belly dancer? wie bist du zu einer Bauchtänzerin geworden?
    to \get to like sth etw langsam mögen
    3. + pp (in passives) werden
    the dog got drowned der Hund ist ertrunken
    this window got broken jemand hat dieses Fenster zerbrochen
    to \get married heiraten
    4. (reach)
    ▪ to \get somewhere irgendwohin kommen
    to \get home [from somewhere] [von irgendwo] nach Hause kommen
    to get nowhere/somewhere [with sth] es nicht weit/weit [mit etw dat] bringen
    we were not \getting far with the negotiations unsere Verhandlungen kamen nicht weit voran
    6. (have opportunity)
    ▪ to \get to do sth die Möglichkeit haben, etw zu tun
    to \get to see sb jdn zu Gesicht bekommen
    ▪ to \get to do sth schaffen, etw zu tun
    8. (must)
    ▪ to have got to do sth etw machen müssen
    9. (start)
    ▪ to \get doing sth anfangen, etw zu tun
    to \get going [or moving] gehen
    we'd better \get going wir sollten besser gehen
    to \get with it sich akk informieren
    \get with it! setz dich damit auseinander!
    11. usu imper ( fam: go)
    [go on,] \get! hau [doch] ab! fam
    III. NOUN
    2. COMPUT Holanweisung f
    * * *
    [get] pret got, ptp got or ( US) gotten
    1. TRANSITIVE VERB
    When get is part of a set combination, eg. get the sack, get hold of, get it right, look up the other word.
    1) = receive bekommen, kriegen (inf); sun, light, full force of blow abbekommen, abkriegen (inf); wound sich (dat) zuziehen; wealth, glory kommen zu; time, personal characteristics haben (from von)

    this country gets very little rain —

    he got the idea for his book while he was abroad/from an old document — die Idee zu dem Buch kam ihm, als er im Ausland war/hatte er von einem alten Dokument

    I get the feeling that... — ich habe das Gefühl, dass...

    2) = obtain by one's own efforts object sich (dat) besorgen; visa, money sich (dat) beschaffen or besorgen; (= find) staff, finance, partner, job finden; (= buy) kaufen; (= buy and keep) large item, car, cat sich (dat) anschaffen

    to get sb/oneself sth, to get sth for sb/oneself — jdm/sich etw besorgen; job jdm/sich etw verschaffen

    to get a glimpse of sb/sth — jdn/etw kurz zu sehen bekommen

    you'll have to get a job/more staff —

    he's been trying to get a house/job — er hat versucht, ein Haus/eine Stelle zu bekommen

    he got himself a wife/a good job — er hat sich (dat) eine Frau zugelegt (inf)

    we could get a taxi — wir könnten (uns dat ) ein Taxi nehmen

    3) = fetch person, doctor, object holen

    I got him/myself a drink — ich habe ihm/mir etwas zu trinken geholt

    4) = catch bekommen, kriegen (inf); (in children's game) fangen; (= take) train, bus fahren mit

    to get sb by the arm/leg — jdn am Arm/Bein packen

    get him/it! (to dog) — fass!

    (I've) got him! (inf) — ich hab ihn! (inf)

    ha, ha, can't get me! — ha, ha, mich kriegst du nicht! (inf)

    my big brother will get you! (inf) — mein großer Bruder, der zeigts dir or der macht dich fertig! (inf)

    5) = hit treffen, erwischen (inf)
    6) RAD, TV bekommen, kriegen (inf)
    7) TELEC = contact erreichen; number bekommen; (= put through to, get for sb) geben

    get me 339/Mr Johnston please (to secretary) — geben Sie mir bitte 339/Herrn Johnston; (to switchboard) verbinden Sie mich bitte mit 339/Herrn Johnston

    8) = prepare meal machen

    I'll get you/myself some breakfast — ich mache dir/mir etwas zum Frühstück

    9) = eat essen

    let's get Italian/Chinese/Indian etc — gehen wir zum Italiener/Chinesen/Inder (essen)

    10) = send, take bringen

    this discussion isn't getting us anywhere —

    get the cat out of the room — tu die Katze aus dem Zimmer (inf)

    tell him to get it there as quickly as possible — er soll zusehen, dass das so schnell wie möglich dorthin gebracht wird

    11) = manage to move bekommen, kriegen (inf)
    12) = understand kapieren (inf), mitbekommen; (= hear) mitbekommen, mitkriegen (inf); (= make a note of) notieren

    I don't get you or your meaning — ich verstehe nicht, was du meinst

    13)

    = profit, benefit what do you get from it? — was hast du davon?, was bringt es dir? (inf)

    14)

    in exclamations iro inf get (a load of) that! — was sagst du dazu! (inf), hat man Töne! (inf)

    get her! (regarding looks) — was sagst du zu der da? (inf); (iro) sieh dir bloß die mal an! (inf)

    15) person inf = annoy ärgern, aufregen; (= upset) an die Nieren gehen (+dat) (inf); (= thrill) packen (inf); (= amuse) amüsieren
    17) set structures __diams; to get sb to do sth (= have sth done by sb) etw von jdm machen lassen; (= persuade sb) jdn dazu bringen, etw zu tun

    I'll get him to phone you back — ich sage ihm, er soll zurückrufen

    you'll never get him to understand — du wirst es nie schaffen, dass er das versteht

    you'll get me/yourself thrown out —

    to get sth made for sb/oneself — jdm/sich etw machen lassen

    to get one's hair cut — sich (dat) die Haare schneiden lassen

    I'll get the grass cut/the house painted soon (by sb else) — ich lasse bald den Rasen mähen/das Haus streichen

    did you get your expenses paid/your question answered? — haben Sie Ihre Spesen erstattet/eine Antwort auf Ihre Frage bekommen?

    to get sb/sth/oneself ready — jdn/etw/sich fertig machen

    to get sth clean/open/shut (person) — etw sauber kriegen/aufkriegen/zukriegen (inf)

    that'll get it open/shut — damit geht es auf/zu

    to get one's arm broken — sich (dat) den Arm brechen

    to get one's hands dirty (lit, fig) — sich (dat) die Hände schmutzig machen

    he can't get the sum to work out/the lid to stay open — er kriegt es nicht hin, dass die Rechnung aufgeht/dass der Deckel aufbleibt (inf)

    can you get the wound to stop bleeding? — können Sie etwas machen, dass die Wunde nicht mehr blutet?

    to get sth going (car, machine) — etw in Gang bringen; party etw in Fahrt bringen

    to get sb talking — jdn zum Sprechen bringen __diams; to have got sth ( Brit

    2. INTRANSITIVE VERB
    1) = arrive kommen

    I've got as far as page 16 — ich bin auf Seite 16 __diams; to get there ( fig inf

    how's the work going? – we're getting there! — wie geht die Arbeit voran? – langsam wirds was! (inf) __diams; to get somewhere/nowhere (in job, career etc) es zu etwas/nichts bringen; (with work, in discussion etc) weiterkommen/nicht weiterkommen

    to get somewhere/nowhere (with sb) —

    now we're getting somewhere (in project etc) — jetzt wird die Sache (inf); (in interrogation, discussion etc) jetzt kommen wir der Sache schon näher

    to get nowhere fast (inf) — absolut nichts erreichen __diams; to get far (lit) weit kommen; (fig) es weit bringen

    you won't get far on £10 — mit £ 10 kommst du nicht weit

    2) = become werden

    to get old/tired etc — alt/müde etc werden

    I'm getting cold/warm — mir wird es kalt/warm

    the weather is getting cold/warm — es wird kalt/warm

    to get dressed/shaved/washed etc — sich anziehen/rasieren/waschen etc

    things can only get better —

    how lucky can you get? — so ein Glück!

    how stupid can you get? — wie kann man nur so dumm sein? __diams; to get started anfangen

    to get to know sb/sth — jdn/etw kennenlernen

    to get to like sth — an etw (dat) Gefallen finden

    after a time you get to realize... — nach einiger Zeit merkt man...

    to get to be... — (mit der Zeit)... werden

    to get to see sb/sth — jdn/etw zu sehen bekommen

    to get working/scrubbing etc —

    you lot, get cleaning/working! — ihr da, ans Putzen/an die Arbeit!

    get going! — fang an!

    3. REFLEXIVE VERB
    __diams; to get oneself... = convey oneself gehen; (= come) kommen

    how did you get yourself home? —

    to get oneself dirty/wet — sich schmutzig/nass machen

    to get oneself pregnant/fit — schwanger/fit werden

    to get oneself washed/dressed — sich waschen/anziehen

    he managed to get himself promoted —

    in order to get oneself elected — um gewählt zu werden

    you'll get yourself killed if you go on driving like that — du bringst dich noch um, wenn du weiter so fährst

    * * *
    get [ɡet]
    A s
    1. Tennis: umg Rückschlag m
    2. ZOOL Nachkomme(n) m(pl)
    3. Br Fördermenge f
    B v/t prät got [ɡɒt; US ɡɑt], obs gat [ɡæt], pperf got [ɡɒt; US ɡɑt], US auch gotten [ˈɡɑtn]
    1. einen Brief, keine Antwort etc bekommen, erhalten, kriegen umg:
    he didn’t get much for his old car;
    get it umg sein Fett (ab)kriegen, eins aufs Dach kriegen;
    get a good start einen guten Start haben;
    get a station ( RADIO, TV) einen Sender empfangen oder reinbekommen;
    we could get no leave wir konnten keinen Urlaub bekommen;
    in autumn you get a lot of rain here umg im Herbst regnet es hier sehr viel;
    he’s got it bad(ly) umg ihn hat es schwer erwischt (er ist schwer erkrankt, heftig verliebt etc)
    2. sich etwas verschaffen oder besorgen:
    money can get you anything für Geld bekommt man alles;
    get a pregnancy test einen Schwangerschaftstest machen lassen
    3. erwerben, gewinnen, verdienen, erringen, erzielen:
    get fame Ruhm erringen oder erwerben oder erlangen;
    get a victory einen Sieg erringen oder erzielen;
    get wealth Reichtum erwerben
    4. Wissen, Erfahrung etc erwerben, sich aneignen, (er)lernen:
    get by heart auswendig lernen
    5. Kohle etc gewinnen, fördern
    6. erwischen:
    a) (zu fassen) kriegen, fassen, packen, fangen
    b) ertappen
    c) treffen:
    he’ll get you in the end er kriegt dich doch;
    you’ve got me there! umg da bin ich überfragt!;
    that gets me umg das kapiere ich nicht; das geht mir auf die Nerven; das packt mich, das geht mir unter die Haut
    7. a) Hilfe etc holen:
    get sb a taxi jemandem ein Taxi rufen;
    I’ll get it ich mach schon auf; TEL ich geh schon ran
    b) abholen ( from von)
    c) (hin)bringen:
    get sb to bed jemanden ins Bett bringen;
    get me a chair bring oder hol mir einen Stuhl!
    d) schaffen, bringen, befördern:
    get it out of the house schaffe es aus dem Haus!;
    get o.s. home sich nach Hause begeben; → anywhere 1, nowhere A 2
    8. beschaffen, besorgen ( beide:
    for sb jemandem):
    please get me … TEL verbinden Sie mich bitte mit …
    10. a) have got haben:
    I’ve got no money;
    she’s got a pretty face;
    got a knife? umg hast du ein Messer?
    b) have got to müssen:
    11. machen, werden lassen, in einen (bestimmten) Zustand versetzen oder bringen:
    get one’s feet wet nasse Füße bekommen;
    get sth ready etwas fertig machen;
    get sb nervous jemanden nervös machen;
    I got my arm broken ich habe mir den Arm gebrochen
    12. (mit pperf) lassen:
    get one’s hair cut sich die Haare schneiden lassen;
    a) etwas erledigen (lassen),
    b) etwas zustande bringen
    13. (mit inf) dazu oder dahin bringen, bewegen, veranlassen:
    get sb to speak jemanden zum Sprechen bringen oder bewegen;
    get sth to burn etwas zum Brennen bringen
    14. (mit ppr) get going
    a) eine Maschine etc, fig a. Verhandlungen etc in Gang bringen,
    b) fig Schwung in eine Party etc bringen;
    get sth working again TECH etwas wieder zum Gehen bringen
    15. get sb for sth umg jemandem etwas heimzahlen
    16. eine Mahlzeit zu-, vorbereiten, herrichten
    17. Br umg essen:
    get breakfast frühstücken
    18. umg kapieren, (auch akustisch) verstehen:
    I didn’t get his name;
    I don’t get him ich versteh nicht, was er will;
    I don’t get that das kapier ich nicht;
    got it? kapiert?; → wrong B 1
    19. US umg erledigen (töten)
    20. umg nicht mehr loslassen, überwältigen
    C v/i
    1. kommen, gelangen:
    get as far as Munich bis nach München kommen;
    get home nach Hause kommen, zu Hause ankommen;
    where has it got to? wo ist es hingekommen?;
    how far have you got with your homework? wie weit bist du mit deinen Hausaufgaben gekommen?;
    a) es schaffen, sein Ziel erreichen,
    b) dahinterkommen (es verstehen); → anywhere 1, nowhere A 2
    2. (mit inf) dahin gelangen oder kommen, dazu übergehen:
    he got to like it er hat es lieb gewonnen;
    they got to be friends sie wurden Freunde;
    get to know sth etwas erfahren oder kennenlernen;
    get to know sb (better) jemanden (näher) kennenlernen
    3. (mit adj oder pperf) werden, in einen bestimmten Zustand etc geraten:
    get caught gefangen oder erwischt werden;
    get dressed sich anziehen;
    get tired müde werden, ermüden; → busy A 2, drunk B 1, etc
    4. (mit ppr) beginnen, anfangen:
    they got quarrel(l)ing sie fingen an zu streiten;
    a) in Gang kommen (Maschine etc, fig a. Verhandlungen etc),
    b) fig in Schwung kommen (Party etc);
    get going on ( oder with) sth etwas in Angriff nehmen;
    a) zu reden anfangen,
    b) ins Gespräch kommen
    5. reich werden
    6. sl verduften, abhauen (beide umg)
    * * *
    1. transitive verb,
    -tt-, p.t. got, p.p. got or (in comb./arch./ Amer. except in sense m) gotten ( got also coll. abbr. of has got or have got)
    1) (obtain) bekommen; kriegen (ugs.); (by buying) kaufen; sich (Dat.) anschaffen [Auto usw.]; (by one's own effort for special purpose) sich (Dat.) besorgen [Visum, Genehmigung, Arbeitskräfte]; sich (Dat.) beschaffen [Geld]; einholen [Gutachten]; (by contrivance) kommen zu; (find) finden [Zeit]

    he got him by the leg/arm — er kriegte ihn am Bein/Arm zu fassen

    get somebody a job/taxi, get a job/taxi for somebody — jemandem einen Job verschaffen/ein Taxi besorgen od. rufen

    get oneself something/a job — sich (Dat.) etwas zulegen/einen Job finden

    2) (fetch) holen
    3)

    get the bus — etc. (be in time for, catch) den Bus usw. erreichen od. (ugs.) kriegen; (travel by) den Bus nehmen

    4) (prepare) machen (ugs.), zubereiten [Essen]
    5) (coll.): (eat) essen

    get something to eat — etwas zu essen holen; (be given) etwas zu essen bekommen

    6) (gain) erreichen
    7) (by calculation) herausbekommen
    8) (receive) bekommen; erhalten, (ugs.) kriegen [Geldsumme]

    the country gets very little sun/rain — die Sonne scheint/es regnet nur sehr wenig in dem Land

    9) (receive as penalty) bekommen, (ugs.) kriegen [6 Monate Gefängnis, Geldstrafe, Tracht Prügel]

    you'll get it — (coll.) du kriegst Prügel (ugs.); es setzt was (ugs.); (be scolded) du kriegst was zu hören (ugs.)

    10) (kill) töten; erlegen [Wild]; (hit, injure) treffen
    11) (win) bekommen; finden [Anerkennung]; sich (Dat.) verschaffen [Ansehen]; erzielen [Tor, Punkt, Treffer]; gewinnen [Preis, Belohnung]; belegen [ersten usw. Platz]
    12) (come to have) finden [Schlaf, Ruhe]; bekommen [Einfall, Vorstellung, Gefühl]; gewinnen [Eindruck]; (contract) bekommen [Kopfschmerzen, Grippe, Malaria]

    get an idea/a habit from somebody — von jemandem eine Idee/Angewohnheit übernehmen

    13)

    have got — (coll.): (have) haben

    have got a toothache/a cold — Zahnschmerzen/eine Erkältung haben od. erkältet sein

    something has got to be done [about it] — dagegen muss etwas unternommen werden

    14) (succeed in bringing, placing, etc.) bringen; kriegen (ugs.)

    get things going or started — die Dinge in Gang bringen

    get everything packed/prepared — alles [ein]packen/vorbereiten

    get something ready/done — etwas fertig machen

    get one's hands dirty — sich (Dat.) die Hände schmutzig machen

    you'll get yourself thrown out/arrested — du schaffst es noch, dass du rausgeworfen/verhaftet wirst

    get somebody talking/drunk/interested — jemanden zum Reden bringen/betrunken machen/jemandes Interesse wecken

    get one's hair cut — sich (Dat.) die Haare schneiden lassen

    get somebody to do something — jemanden dazu bringen, etwas zu tun

    get something to do something — es schaffen, dass etwas etwas tut

    I can't get the car to start/the door to shut — ich kriege das Auto nicht in Gang/die Tür nicht zu

    17) (Radio, Telev.): (pick up) empfangen [Sender]

    get somebody [on the phone] — jemanden [telefonisch] erreichen

    I'll get it! — ich geh' schon!; (answer doorbell) ich mach' auf!; (answer the phone) ich gehe ran (ugs.) od. nehme ab!

    20) (coll.): (perplex) in Verwirrung bringen

    you've got me there; I don't know — da bin ich überfragt - ich weiß es nicht

    21) (coll.) (understand) kapieren (ugs.); verstehen [Personen]; (hear) mitkriegen (ugs.)

    get it? — alles klar? (ugs.)

    22) (coll.): (annoy) aufregen (ugs.)
    2. intransitive verb,
    -tt-, got, gotten

    when did you get here/to school? — wann bist du gekommen?/wann warst du in der Schule?

    get talking [to somebody] — [mit jemandem] ins Gespräch kommen

    get going or started — (leave) losgehen; aufbrechen; (start talking) loslegen (ugs.); (become lively or operative) in Schwung kommen

    get going on or with something — mit etwas anfangen

    3)

    he got to like/hate her — mit der Zeit mochte er sie/begann er, sie zu hassen

    4) (become) werden

    get ready/washed — sich fertig machen/waschen

    get frightened/hungry — Angst/Hunger kriegen

    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    (give) the stick expr.
    eine Tracht Prügel bekommen (verabreichen) ausdr. (oneself) something expr.
    sich etwas anschaffen ausdr.
    sich etwas zulegen ausdr. v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: got)
    or p.p.: gotten•) = aneignen v.
    bekommen v.
    besorgen v.
    bringen v.
    (§ p.,pp.: brachte, gebracht)
    erhalten v.
    erreichen v.
    erringen v.
    erwerben v.
    holen v.
    kapieren v.
    schaffen v.
    sich etwas verschaffen ausdr.
    verstehen v.

    English-german dictionary > get

  • 14 seek

    1) suchen; anstreben [Posten, Amt]; sich bemühen um [Anerkennung, Freundschaft, Interview, Einstellung]; (try to reach) aufsuchen
    2) (literary/formal): (attempt) suchen (geh.); versuchen

    seek to do something — suchen, etwas zu tun (geh.)

    Phrasal Verbs:
    - academic.ru/91368/seek_after">seek after
    * * *
    [si:k]
    past tense, past participle - sought; verb
    1) ((sometimes with for) to try to find, get or achieve: He is seeking (for) an answer; You should seek your lawyer's advice; She's seeking fame in the world of television.) suchen
    2) (to try: These men are seeking to destroy the government.) trachten
    •
    * * *
    <sought, sought>
    [si:k]
    I. vt
    1. ( form: look for)
    ▪ to \seek sb/sth jdn/etw suchen
    2. (try to obtain or achieve)
    ▪ to \seek sth etw erstreben
    to \seek asylum/refuge/shelter Asyl/Zuflucht/Schutz suchen
    to \seek damages/redress Schadenersatz/Entschädigung beantragen
    to \seek election sich akk zur Wahl stellen
    to \seek employment [or a job] eine Stelle suchen
    to \seek one's fortune sein Glück suchen
    to \seek justice/revenge nach Gerechtigkeit/Rache streben
    3. (ask for)
    ▪ to \seek sth etw erbitten geh
    to \seek advice from sb bei jdm Rat suchen, jdn um Rat bitten
    to \seek approval from sb jds Zustimmung einholen
    to \seek permission from sb jdn um Erlaubnis bitten
    II. vi
    1. ( form: search) suchen; REL
    \seek and ye shall find suchet, so werdet ihr finden; ( hum) wer such[e]t, der findet prov
    ▪ to \seek for [or ( liter) after] sb/sth nach jdm/etw suchen
    2. ( form: attempt)
    ▪ to \seek to do sth danach trachten geh [o [ver]suchen], etw zu tun
    * * *
    [siːk] pret, ptp sought
    vt
    1) (= look for) suchen; fame, wealth erlangen wollen, streben nach

    the prosecutors are seeking the death penalty — die Staatsanwaltschaft will die Todesstrafe

    the reason is not far to seek —

    2) (liter: attempt) suchen (geh)

    to seek to do sth — sich bemühen, etw zu tun

    those who sought his downfall — die(jenigen), die ihn zu Fall bringen wollten

    * * *
    seek [siːk] prät und pperf sought [sɔːt]
    A v/t
    1. suchen:
    the reasons are not far to seek nach den Gründen muss man nicht (erst) lange suchen
    2. den Schatten, eine Wahrsagerin etc aufsuchen
    3. erbitten:
    seek sb’s advice, seek advice from sb jemanden um Rat bitten, Rat bei jemandem suchen
    4. begehren, erstreben, trachten oder streben nach:
    seek fame nach Ruhm trachten; → life Bes Redew
    5. JUR etc beantragen, begehren:
    seek a divorce auf Scheidung klagen;
    I am seeking a divorce ich habe die Scheidung eingereicht
    6. (ver)suchen ( to do zu tun)
    7. zu ergründen suchen:
    seek through durchforschen
    8. be to seek obs (noch) fehlen, nicht zu finden sein;
    education is much to seek ( oder is much to be sought) with him die Erziehung fehlt bei ihm in hohem Maße;
    a solution is yet to seek eine Lösung muss (erst) noch gefunden werden
    9. be to seek (in) obs ermangeln (gen)
    a) herausfinden, ausfindig machen,
    b) fig aufs Korn nehmen umg
    B v/i suchen, fragen, forschen ( alle:
    for, after nach):
    (much) sought-after (sehr) gefragt, (sehr) begehrt
    * * *
    1) suchen; anstreben [Posten, Amt]; sich bemühen um [Anerkennung, Freundschaft, Interview, Einstellung]; (try to reach) aufsuchen
    2) (literary/formal): (attempt) suchen (geh.); versuchen

    seek to do something — suchen, etwas zu tun (geh.)

    Phrasal Verbs:
    * * *
    v.
    (§ p.,p.p.: sought)
    = positionieren v.
    suchen v.
    suchen nach v.

    English-german dictionary > seek

  • 15 bring

    bring [brɪŋ]
    (preterite, past participle brought) transitive verb
       a. [+ person, animal, vehicle, peace] amener ; [+ object, news, information] apporter
    • to bring sb up/down faire monter/faire descendre qn (avec soi)
    • to bring sth up/down monter/descendre qch
       b. ( = cause) [+ problems] créer
    • to bring sth (up)on o.s. s'attirer qch
    • to bring sth to a close or an end mettre fin à qch
       c. ► to bring o.s. to do sth
       a. [+ person] ramener ; [+ object] rapporter ; [+ institution, system] réintroduire
       b. ( = call to mind) rappeler
       a. [+ plane] faire atterrir ; ( = shoot down) [+ animal, bird, plane] abattre
       b. [+ dictator, government] faire tomber ; [+ temperature, prices, cost of living] faire baisser
       a. [+ person] faire avancer ; [+ witness] produire ; [+ evidence, proof, argument] avancer
       b. ( = advance time of) avancer
       a. [+ person] faire entrer ; [+ object, harvest] rentrer
       b. [+ custom, legislation] introduire ; [+ expert, army] faire appel à
       c. [+ income] rapporter
    [+ plan, deal] mener à bien
    ( = cause) [+ illness, quarrel] provoquer
       a. [+ object] sortir ; [+ meaning] mettre en évidence ; [+ qualities] mettre en valeur
       b. [+ book] faire paraître ; [+ new product] lancer
       b. [+ unconscious person] ranimer
       c. ( = convert) gagner (to à)
       a. ( = put in touch) [+ people] mettre en contact
       b. ( = end quarrel between) réconcilier
       c. [+ facts, documents] rassembler
       a. [+ person] faire monter ; [+ object] monter
       b. [+ child] élever
    • well/badly brought-up child enfant m bien/mal élevé
       c. ( = vomit) vomir
       d. [+ fact, allegation, problem] mentionner ; [+ question] soulever
    * * *
    [brɪŋ] 1.
    (prét, pp brought) transitive verb
    1) (convey, carry) apporter

    to bring somebody wealth/fame — rendre quelqu'un riche/célèbre

    to bring something to — ( contribute) apporter quelque chose à [school, work, area]

    to bring something into — faire entrer quelque chose dans [room]; introduire quelque chose dans [conversation]

    to bring shame/disgrace on somebody — attirer la honte/le déshonneur sur quelqu'un

    to bring something on ou upon oneself — attirer quelque chose

    2) ( come with) amener [friend, relative, dog]
    3) (lead, draw)

    to bring somebody/a dog into the country — faire entrer or introduire quelqu'un/un chien dans le pays

    to bring somebody home — ( transport home) raccompagner quelqu'un, ramener quelqu'un; ( to meet family) amener quelqu'un à la maison

    4) Television, Radio
    5) Law, Administration
    2.

    I couldn't bring myself to get up/to tell him — je n'ai pas pu me lever/le lui dire

    Phrasal Verbs:

    English-French dictionary > bring

  • 16 _добро і зло

    an act of kindness is well repaid bad to do evil, but worse to boast of it the best is the enemy of the good black will take no other hue blushing is virtue's color do good by stealth and blush find it fame evil doers are evil dreaders a good heart cannot lie good can never grow out of evil good men scarce a good word costs no more than a bad one good words cost nothing and are worth much the good you do to others will always come back to you he that spares the bad injures the good heaven protects the good man injure others, injure yourself it is well to remember people's virtues and not their deficiencies it's great to be great, but it's greater to be human kind hearts are more than coronets kind hearts are soonest wronged a kind wife makes a faithful husband kind words are the music of the world kindness always begets kindness kind words never die kindness does more than violence kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with let well alone malice drinks its own poison malice has a sharp sight and a strong memory a man's true wealth is the good he does in the world one never did repent of doing good one scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock the reward of a good deed is to have done it repay kindness with kindness see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil a shady business never yields a sunny life the sun never repents of the good it does, nor does it ever demand a recompense an unkind word is better left unspoken virtue is the best title of nobility virtue is its own reward virtue would not go far if a little vanity walked not with it we cannot do evil to others without doing it to ourselves

    English-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > _добро і зло

  • 17 desire

    1. noun
    (a wish or longing: I have a sudden desire for a bar of chocolate; I have no desire ever to see him again.) deseo

    2. verb
    (to long for or feel desire for: After a day's work, all I desire is a hot bath.) desear
    - desirability
    desire1 n deseo
    desire2 vb desear
    tr[dɪ'zaɪəSMALLr/SMALL]
    1 (wish, urge, longing) deseo, anhelo, ansia; (sexual) deseo
    1 formal use (gen) desear, anhelar, ansiar; (sexually) desear
    2 formal use (request) rogar, solicitar
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    one's heart's desire su mayor deseo, su deseo ferviente
    to leave a lot to be desired dejar mucho que desear
    desire [di'zaɪr] vt, - sired ; - siring
    1) want: desear
    2) request: rogar, solicitar
    : deseo m, anhelo m, ansia m
    n.
    • apetencia s.f.
    • comezón s.m.
    • dentera s.f.
    • deseo s.m.
    • gana s.f.
    • querer s.m.
    v.
    • ambicionar v.
    • desear v.
    • envidiar v.
    • querer v.
    (§pret: quis-) fut/c: querr-•)

    I dɪ'zaɪr, dɪ'zaɪə(r)
    1) c ( wish) deseo m, anhelo m (liter)
    2) u ( lust) deseo m

    II
    a) ( want) \<\<happiness/success\>\> desear

    to leave much/a lot to be desired — dejar mucho/bastante que desear

    b) ( lust after) \<\<person\>\> desear
    c) desired past p deseado
    [dɪ'zaɪǝ(r)]
    1.
    N deseo m ( for de) ( to do sth de hacer algo)
    2. VT
    1) (=want) [+ wealth, success] desear
    2) (sexually) [+ person] desear
    3) (=request)

    to desire that... — rogar que...

    * * *

    I [dɪ'zaɪr, dɪ'zaɪə(r)]
    1) c ( wish) deseo m, anhelo m (liter)
    2) u ( lust) deseo m

    II
    a) ( want) \<\<happiness/success\>\> desear

    to leave much/a lot to be desired — dejar mucho/bastante que desear

    b) ( lust after) \<\<person\>\> desear
    c) desired past p deseado

    English-spanish dictionary > desire

  • 18 fortune

    fortune [ˈfɔ:t∫ən]
    1. noun
       a. ( = chance) chance f
       b. ( = riches) fortune f
    • to spend/cost a fortune dépenser/coûter une fortune
    ► fortune-teller noun diseur m, - euse f de bonne aventure ; (with cards) tireuse f de cartes
    ► fortune-telling noun (art m de la) divination ; (with cards) cartomancie f
    * * *
    ['fɔːtʃuːn] 1.
    1) ( wealth) fortune f
    2) ( luck) chance f
    2.
    fortunes plural noun (of team, country) destin m
    ••

    English-French dictionary > fortune

  • 19 bring

    A vtr
    1 (convey, carry) apporter [present, powers, supplies, message, news, rain, destruction, change, happiness, consolation, hope] ; have you brought your camera? as-tu pris or apporté ton appareil-photo? ; wait and see what tomorrow brings attends de voir ce que demain nous apportera ; to bring sth with one apporter qch ; to bring sb flowers/a cake apporter des fleurs/un gâteau à qn ; the case has brought him publicity l'affaire lui a fait de la publicité ; to bring sb wealth/fame rendre qn riche/célèbre ; to bring sth to ( contribute) apporter qch à [school, work, area] ; it has brought prosperity to the region cela a rendu la région prospère ; to bring one's talents to sth apporter son talent à qch ; to bring one's experience to sth faire bénéficier qch de son expérience ; that brings the total to 100 cela fait un total de 100 ; to bring a smile to sb's face faire sourire qn ; to bring a blush to sb's cheeks faire rougir qn ; to bring sth to a halt arrêter qch ; to bring the conversation round ou around to amener la conversation à ; to bring sth into faire entrer qch dans [house, room] ; introduire qch dans [conversation, story] ; to bring sth into existence créer qch ; to bring sth upstairs monter qch ; the wind brought the tree down le vent a fait tomber l'arbre ; don't forget to bring it home n'oublie pas de le rapporter ; to bring shame/disgrace on sb attirer la honte/le déshonneur sur qn ; to bring sth on ou upon oneself attirer qch ; you brought it on yourself tu l'as cherché ; her remarks brought gasps of surprise from the audience ses propos ont provoqué l'étonnement dans le public ; his novel brought praise from the critics son roman lui a valu les louanges de la critique ;
    2 ( come with) amener [friend, relative, dog] ; to bring sb with one amener qn (avec soi) ; to bring sb to amener qn à [wedding, party, office] ;
    3 (lead, draw) the path brings you to the church le chemin te conduit jusqu'à l'église ; the Games brought people to the city les Jeux ont attiré du monde vers la ville ; the noise brought them to the window le bruit les a attirés à la fenêtre ; I brought him to the ground je l'ai fait tomber ; that brings me to the question of ceci m'amène à la question de ; to bring sb to himself/herself ramener qn à la réalité ; what brings you here? qu'est-ce qui t'amène? ; to bring sb to do sth faire faire qch à qn ; I couldn't bring him to accept je n'ai pas pu lui faire accepter ; to bring sb/a dog into the country faire entrer or introduire qn/un chien dans le pays ; to bring sb into the room faire entrer qn dans la pièce ; to bring sb into contact with sth faire connaître qch à qn ; to bring sb into contact with sb mettre qn en contact avec qn ; to bring sb home ( transport home) raccompagner qn, ramener qn ; ( to meet family) amener qn à la maison ;
    4 TV, Radio the game will be brought to you live from Sydney le match sera retransmis en direct de Sydney ; modern technology brings the war into your living room la technologie moderne fait entrer la guerre jusque chez vous ; we bring you all the latest news on vous donne les dernières nouvelles ; ‘brought to you by Sudso Soap’ ‘qui vous est offert par Sudso Soap’
    5 Jur, Admin to bring a case/a dispute before the court porter une affaire/un litige devant le tribunal ; to bring sb before the court faire comparaître qn devant le tribunal ; to bring a matter before the committee/a bill before parliament soumettre une question au comité/un projet de loi au parlement.
    B v refl to bring oneself to do se décider à faire ; I couldn't bring myself to get up/to tell him je n'ai pas pu me lever/le lui dire.
    ▶ bring about [sth], bring [sth] about provoquer [change, reform, war, disaster, death] ; amener [settlement, reconciliation] ; entraîner [success, failure, defeat].
    ▶ bring along [sth], bring [sth] along apporter [object] ;
    ▶ bring along [sb], bring [sb] along amener, venir avec [friend, partner].
    ▶ bring back [sth], bring [sth] back
    1 ( return with) rapporter [souvenir, gift] (from de) ; to bring sb back sth rapporter qch à qn ;
    2 ( restore) redonner [colour, shine] ; to bring sb's memory/sight back rendre la mémoire/vue à qn ;
    3 ( reintroduce) rétablir [currency, custom] ; restaurer [monarchy, democracy] ;
    4 ( restore memory of) rappeler [night, time, occasion] ; seeing her brought it all back to me tout m'est revenu lorsque je l'ai vue ; to bring back memories ranimer des souvenirs ; to bring back memories of sth ranimer le souvenir de qch.
    ▶ bring down [sth], bring [sth] down
    1 ( cause collapse of) renverser [government, dictator] ;
    2 ( reduce) réduire [inflation, unemployment, expenditure] ; faire baisser [rate, level, price, temperature] ; diminuer [cost of living, swelling] ;
    3 ( shoot down) abattre [plane, grouse, tiger] ;
    4 ( cause to hit) to bring [sth] down on sb/sth abattre [qch] sur qn/qch [cane, hammer] ; to bring sb's wrath down on sb littér ou hum attirer la colère de qn sur qn ;
    ▶ bring [sb] down ○ déprimer [person].
    ▶ bring forth [sth], bring [sth] forth
    1 ( provoke) susciter [question, protest, scorn] ;
    2 littér ( produce) produire [object, fruit, blossom] ; faire jaillir [water] ;
    3 littér donner naissance à [child].
    ▶ bring forward [sth], bring [sth] forward
    1 ( make sooner) avancer [meeting, wedding, election] (by de) ;
    2 ( propose) avancer [proposals, plan] ; proposer [bill, amendment, motion] ;
    3 Accts reporter [total, balance, deficit] ; balance brought forward: £354.90 report: £354.90 ;
    4 ( bring in) présenter [witness, person].
    ■ bring in:
    ▶ bring in [sth] rapporter [amount, money, interest] ; introduire [custom] ;
    ▶ bring in [sth], bring [sth] in
    1 ( introduce) introduire [legislation, measure, reference, new character] ;
    2 Agric rentrer [crop, harvest] ; récolter [wheat, corn, fruit] ;
    ▶ bring in [sb], bring [sb] in
    1 ( involve) faire appel à [consultant, expert, reinforcements, police, army] (from de ; as pour être) ; if I could bring in Mrs Cox at this point… j'aimerais faire intervenir Mme Cox sur ce point… ;
    2 ( to police station) amener [qn] (au poste) [suspect] ; to be brought in for questioning être amené au poste pour être interrogé.
    ▶ bring [sb] into faire participer [qn] à [conversation, organization] ; don't bring my mother into this! laisse ma mère en dehors de ça!
    ■ bring off:
    ▶ bring off [sth], bring [sth] off réussir [feat, performance] ; conclure [deal] ; décrocher [victory]
    ■ bring on:
    ▶ bring on [sth], bring [sth] on
    1 ( provoke) provoquer [attack, migraine, fit, labour] ; être à l'origine de [bronchitis, rheumatism, pneumonia] ; what brought that on? ( to someone) qu'est-ce qui t'a pris? ;
    2 ( encourage) accélérer la pousse de [plant, crop] ;
    ▶ bring on [sb], bring [sb] on
    1 (to stage, field) faire entrer [dancer, substitute] ;
    2 ( encourage) pousser [player, child].
    ■ bring out:
    ▶ bring out [sth], bring [sth] out
    1 sortir [gun, handkerchief etc] ;
    2 Comm sortir [edition, volume, new model] ;
    3 ( highlight) faire ressortir [detail, colour, melody, flavour, meaning, instinct, spirit] ; to bring out the artist/the child in sb faire ressortir l'artiste/l'enfant en qn ;
    ▶ bring out [sb], bring [sb] out
    1 ( draw out) faire parler [guest, interviewee] ;
    2 ( on strike) mettre [qn] en grève [workers] ;
    3 to bring sb out in spots donner des boutons à qn.
    ▶ bring [sb] round
    1 ( revive) faire revenir [qn] à soi ;
    2 ( convince) convaincre ; to bring sb round to one's way of thinking amener qn à partager ses vues.
    ▶ bring together [sth/sb], bring [sth/sb] together
    1 ( assemble) réunir [family, experts, sides, themes] ;
    2 ( create bond between) rapprocher [couple, lovers, siblings] ; it brought us closer together cela nous a rapprochés.
    ■ bring up:
    ▶ bring up [sth], bring [sth] up
    1 ( mention) aborder, parler de [question, subject] ;
    2 ( vomit) vomir, rendre [food] ;
    ▶ bring up [sb], bring [sb] up élever ; to bring sb up to do apprendre à [qn] à faire ; to be brought up by sb/in China être élevé par qn/en Chine ; to be brought up as a Catholic recevoir une éducation catholique ; to be brought up on stories of war être nourri de récits de guerre ; it's the way I was brought up c'est comme ça que j'ai été élevé ; well/badly brought up bien/mal élevé.

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  • 20 fortune

    A n
    1 ( wealth) fortune f ; a small fortune une petite fortune ; to make a fortune faire fortune ; to spend/cost a fortune dépenser/coûter une fortune ; a man of fortune un homme riche ; to seek fame and fortune chercher fortune ;
    2 ( luck) chance f ; to have the good fortune to do avoir la chance or le bonheur de faire ; by good fortune par chance, par un heureux hasard ; ill fortune malchance f ; to tell sb's fortune dire la bonne aventure à qn.
    B fortunes npl (of team, party, country) destin m ; the fortunes of war les hasards de la guerre.
    fortune favours the brave Prov la fortune sourit aux audacieux Prov ; fortune smiled on us la chance nous a souri.

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