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  • 1 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 During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.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

  • 2 pa|ść2

    pf — pa|dać1 impf (padnę, padniesz, padł, padła, padli — padam) vi 1. (przewrócić się, zwalić się, opaść ciężko) to fall (down), to collapse
    - padł na wznak he fell on his back
    - padła zemdlona na podłogę she fell to the floor in a faint
    - padł na łóżko/na fotel he collapsed onto a. fell into the bed/the armchair
    - drzewa padały na ziemię trees were crashing to the ground
    - paść komuś w objęcia a. ramiona to fall into sb’s arms
    - paść sobie w objęcia a. ramiona to fall into each other’s arms, to fall on each other
    - paść na kolana a. klęczki to fall to a. on one’s knees (przed kimś/czymś before sb/sth)
    - paść komuś do nóg to fall at sb’s feet
    - paść przed kimś plackiem to prostrate oneself before sb
    - padać ze zmęczenia a. wyczerpania to be dead tired; to be dead beat pot.
    - padam z nóg I’m dead tired; I’m dead beat pot.
    - paść martwym a. bez życia a. bez ducha to drop dead
    - padnij! Wojsk. down!
    2. (przemieścić się w dół) to fall down, to drop
    - dojrzałe jabłka padały na trawę ripe apples were dropping onto the grass
    - pocisk padł kilka metrów od naszego domu the missile fell a. came down several metres from our house
    3. (zatrzymać się) [spojrzenie, światło, cień] to fall (na kogoś/coś on sb/sth)
    - smuga światła padła na podłogę a beam of light fell on the floor
    - cienie drzew padały na drogę the trees were casting their shadows on the road
    - promienie słońca padały przez otwarte okna shunshine was flooding in through the open windows
    - jego wzrok padł na mnie his gaze fell on me
    - w naszą stronę padały ukradkowe spojrzenia sekretarki the secretary was giving us furtive glances, the secretary was casting furtive glances in our direction
    - akcent pada na drugą sylabę the stress falls a. is on the second syllable
    4. (zginąć) [żołnierz] to fall; [zwierzę] to die; [roślina] to die, to wither
    - paść w boju/na posterunku/na polu chwały to fall in battle/in the course of duty/with honour
    - paść z głodu i chorób to die a. perish from starvation and disease
    - rośliny padały z braku wody plants were dying a. withering for lack of water
    - padły pod siekierą wielowiekowe wierzby ancient willows were chopped down a. felled
    - zboże padało pod kosą corn was falling before the scythe
    5. (być zdobytym) [miasto, twierdza] to fall
    - miasto padło pod naporem przeważających sił wroga the town fell to overwhelming enemy forces
    6. (ponieść klęskę) [firma] to go bankrupt, to go under; to go bust pot.; [przedstawienie] to fall flat; to flop pot., to lay an egg US pot.; [gospodarka, system] to collapse
    - paść na egzaminie to flunk an exam pot., to come a cropper at an exam pot.
    7. (ogarnąć) padł na nich strach/trwoga they were seized with fear/terror
    - padł na niego gniew królewski he incurred the wrath of the king książk.
    8. (przypaść w udziale) [podejrzenie] to be cast (na kogoś on sb); [głosy] to be cast (na kogoś/coś for a. in favour of sb/sth)
    - padło na niego 100 głosów he got 100 votes
    - padło 10 głosów za i 10 przeciw there were 10 votes for and 10 against
    - wybór padł na niego he was the one to be chosen
    - wygrana padła na numer 275 the winning number is/was 275
    - na jego los padła główna wygrana he won the first prize; he hit the jackpot pot.
    9 (być słyszalnym) [słowo] to be said; [rozkaz] to be issued; [propozycja, wniosek] to be put forward, to be moved; [strzał] to be fired
    - nie padło ani jedno słowo na ten temat not a word was said on this subject
    - padło wiele gorzkich słów there were many bitter words
    - padały cytaty, nazwiska, tytuły quotations, names and titles were being cited
    - czekała, ale pytanie nie padało she was waiting, but the question didn’t come
    - padł wniosek o powołanie komisji specjalnej it was proposed that a special commission be appointed
    - padają głosy, że… there is talk that…
    - padł rozkaz wymarszu marching orders were issued
    - padła komenda: „na ramię broń!” ‘slope a. shoulder arms!’ came the order
    - padło kilka strzałów several shots were fired
    - strzały padały gęsto bullets were hailing down
    10 Sport [bramka] to be scored; [rekord] to be established; [wynik] to be achieved
    - pierwsza bramka padła w drugiej połowie the first goal was scored in the second half
    - na zawodach padły dwa rekordy two new records were established at the championships
    - w drugim meczu padł wynik bezbramkowy the second match was goalless a. a no-score draw
    padać przed kimś na twarz (bać się kogoś) to fall prostrate before sb, to prostrate oneself before sb
    - na mózg a. rozum mu padło pot. he’s gone mad a. off his nut pot.
    - chyba ci na mózg padło! you must be mad a. out of your mind!
    - padam do nóg a. nóżek przest., żart. your humble servant przest.

    The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > pa|ść2

  • 3 instituto

    m.
    1 institute.
    2 high school (centro) (de enseñanza secundaria). (peninsular Spanish)
    instituto de belleza beauty salon
    3 institution.
    * * *
    1 (asociación) institute
    2 EDUCACIÓN state secondary school, US high school
    \
    instituto de bachillerato state secondary school, US high school
    instituto de belleza beauty salon
    instituto de enseñanza media state secondary school, US high school
    Instituto Nacional de la Vivienda ≈ Ministry of Housing
    * * *
    noun m.
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=organismo) institute, institution

    los institutos armados — the army, the military

    instituto de belleza Esp beauty parlour, beauty parlor (EEUU)

    Instituto Nacional de Empleo (INEM) Department of Employment

    Instituto Nacional de Industria (INI) Esp ( Hist) Board of Trade

    2) Esp (Educ) secondary school (Brit), high school (EEUU)

    Instituto de Enseñanza Secundaria (state) secondary school (Brit), high school (EEUU)

    Instituto Nacional de Bachillerato (state) secondary school (Brit), high school (EEUU)

    3) (=regla) [gen] principle, rule; (Rel) rule
    * * *
    masculino institute
    * * *
    = High (School), high school, institute, college, grammar school.
    Ex. The article 'Why girls flock to Sweet Valley High' investigates the appeal to girls of adolescent romances and what, if anything, could be done to broaden the reading habits of such fans of formula fiction.
    Ex. The two had spent almost an hour in an informal discussion of various matters that came within his jurisdiction as head of the library media center at John Brown Junior high school in Los Pasos.
    Ex. The offenders vary from forgetful lecturers to a student who lost the books and cannot pay the fine, to a student who had torn out pages from a book and now faces an expulsion from the institute.
    Ex. Special colleges were established offering technical and practical programs for farmers and laborers.
    Ex. Even so, school library provision has been improved and increased out of all recognition since the days when only the long established grammar schools and public schools had libraries of their own.
    ----
    * Instituto Americano de Documentación (ADI) = American Documentation Institute (ADI).
    * Instituto Australiano de Bibliotecarios (IAB) = Australian Institute of Librarians (AIL).
    * Instituto de Cartografía Americano = US Geological Survey (USGS).
    * Instituto de Cartografía Británico = Ordnance Survey.
    * Instituto de Cartografía Estatal = State Geological Survey.
    * instituto de desarrollo = development institute.
    * instituto de enseñanza secundaria = secondary school.
    * instituto de estadística = statistical institute.
    * instituto de formación profesional = technical school.
    * Instituto de Información Científica (ISI) = Institute of Scientific Information (ISI).
    * instituto de investigación = research institute.
    * Instituto Nacional de la Salud (INSALUD) = National Institutes of Health (NIH).
    * instituto para el desarrollo = development institute.
    * instituto para la investigación y el desarrollo = research and development institute.
    * * *
    masculino institute
    * * *
    = High (School), high school, institute, college, grammar school.

    Ex: The article 'Why girls flock to Sweet Valley High' investigates the appeal to girls of adolescent romances and what, if anything, could be done to broaden the reading habits of such fans of formula fiction.

    Ex: The two had spent almost an hour in an informal discussion of various matters that came within his jurisdiction as head of the library media center at John Brown Junior high school in Los Pasos.
    Ex: The offenders vary from forgetful lecturers to a student who lost the books and cannot pay the fine, to a student who had torn out pages from a book and now faces an expulsion from the institute.
    Ex: Special colleges were established offering technical and practical programs for farmers and laborers.
    Ex: Even so, school library provision has been improved and increased out of all recognition since the days when only the long established grammar schools and public schools had libraries of their own.
    * Instituto Americano de Documentación (ADI) = American Documentation Institute (ADI).
    * Instituto Australiano de Bibliotecarios (IAB) = Australian Institute of Librarians (AIL).
    * Instituto de Cartografía Americano = US Geological Survey (USGS).
    * Instituto de Cartografía Británico = Ordnance Survey.
    * Instituto de Cartografía Estatal = State Geological Survey.
    * instituto de desarrollo = development institute.
    * instituto de enseñanza secundaria = secondary school.
    * instituto de estadística = statistical institute.
    * instituto de formación profesional = technical school.
    * Instituto de Información Científica (ISI) = Institute of Scientific Information (ISI).
    * instituto de investigación = research institute.
    * Instituto Nacional de la Salud (INSALUD) = National Institutes of Health (NIH).
    * instituto para el desarrollo = development institute.
    * instituto para la investigación y el desarrollo = research and development institute.

    * * *
    instituto (↑ instituto a1)
    institute
    Compuestos:
    ( Esp) beauty parlor*
    (en Esp) secondary school
    ( Esp) high school ( AmE), secondary school ( BrE)
    In Spain, a center of secondary education providing ESO - Educación Secundaria Obligatoria (↑ ESO a1), Bachillerato (↑ bachillerato a1). Institutos are part of the state school system so are free of charge.
    * * *

     

    instituto sustantivo masculino
    institute;

    instituto sustantivo masculino
    1 (institución cultural) institute
    2 Educ state secondary school, US high school 3 instituto de belleza, beauty parlour o salon

    ' instituto' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    cátedra
    - catedrática
    - catedrático
    - echar
    - geográfica
    - geográfico
    - INEM
    - Insalud
    - INSERSO
    - secundaria
    English:
    at
    - attend
    - college
    - comprehensive school
    - grammar school
    - high school
    - homecoming
    - institute
    - National Trust
    - old
    - prep school
    - school
    - schoolmaster
    - schoolmistress
    - schoolteacher
    - secondary school
    - comprehensive
    - high
    - secondary
    - stamp
    - teacher
    - technical
    * * *
    1. [corporación] institute
    Instituto Cervantes = organization that promotes Spain and its language in the rest of the world, Br ≈ British Council;
    Instituto Nacional de Meteorología = Spanish national weather forecasting agency, Br ≈ Met Office
    2. Esp [militar]
    el instituto de la Guardia Civil the Civil Guard, = armed Spanish police force who patrol rural areas and highways, and guard public buildings in cities and police borders and coasts
    3. Esp [colegio] high school;
    Antes
    Instituto (Nacional) de Bachillerato o [m5] Enseñanza Media = state secondary school for 14-18-year-olds, US ≈ Senior High School
    instituto de Formación Profesional technical college
    4. [salón] instituto de belleza beauty salon;
    instituto capilar hair clinic
    * * *
    m
    1 institute
    2 Esp
    high school, Br
    secondary school
    * * *
    : institute
    * * *
    1. (organización) institute
    2. (de enseñanza) secondary school

    Spanish-English dictionary > instituto

  • 4 demostrar ser

    v.
    to show oneself to be, to come out to be.
    Ella demostró ser una gran pianista She showed herself to be a great pianist
    * * *
    (v.) = prove + to be, establish + a record
    Ex. This fear was expressed by publishers and booksellers when the first lending libraries were established and by and large it has proved to be unfounded.
    Ex. ACPAD has established a record as an efficient and effective distributor of publications to libraries in the Pacific.
    * * *
    (v.) = prove + to be, establish + a record

    Ex: This fear was expressed by publishers and booksellers when the first lending libraries were established and by and large it has proved to be unfounded.

    Ex: ACPAD has established a record as an efficient and effective distributor of publications to libraries in the Pacific.

    Spanish-English dictionary > demostrar ser

  • 5 Mannesmann, Reinhard

    SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy
    [br]
    b. 13 May 1856 Remscheid, Bleidinghausen, Germany
    d. 22 February 1922 Remscheid, Bleidinghausen, Germany
    [br]
    German metallurgical engineer.
    [br]
    Reinhard Mannesmann and his four brothers developed the engineering works at Remscheid that had been founded by their father. With his brother Max, Reinhard devised c. 1885 a method of producing seamless tubes by a rolling process. Factories for manufacturing tubes by this process were established at Remscheid, at Bous in the Saar district and at Komotau in Bohemia. Further developments of the process were patented by the brothers in the years following the initial patent of 1885. The British patent rights for the Mannesmann process were purchased by the Landore Siemens Steel Company in 1888, and the Mannesmann Tube Company was established at Landore in South Wales. This company went into liquidation in 1899 after ten years of production and the Tube Works was then purchased by the Mannesmann family, and a new company, the British Mannesmann Tube Company, was formed. Reinhard and Max Mannesmann took up residence near the Landore works and the business prospered so that by 1914 Landore was employing 1,500 men and producing 35,000 tons of tubing each year. The company was taken over during the First World War by the Custodian of Enemy Property, and after the war a new tube works which had been planned in 1914 was built at Newport, Monmouthshire. The Mannesmann family were able to resume control in 1926 for some ten years, but in 1938 the company became part of the Stewarts \& Lloyds organization.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    G.Evans, 1934, Manufacture of Seamless Tubes Ferrous and Non-Ferrous, London; 1940, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers 143:62–3 (both provide technical details of the Mannesmann process for forming seamless tubes).
    RTS

    Biographical history of technology > Mannesmann, Reinhard

  • 6 Aspdin, Joseph

    [br]
    b. 1778 Leeds, England
    d. 20 March 1855 Wakefield (?), England
    [br]
    English pioneer in the development of the cement industry.
    [br]
    Joseph Aspdin was the eldest of the six children of Thomas Aspdin, a bricklayer. He became interested in making advanced cements for rendering brickwork and, on 21 October 1824, patented a calcined mixture of limestone, clay and water that he called Portland Cement because he thought it resembled Portland Stone in colour.
    Aspdin established his first cement works at Kirkgate in Wakefield in 1825: this was demolished in 1838 due to railway development, and a new works was established in the town in 1843. A year later Joseph Aspdin retired and handed the business over to his elder son James. Meanwhile, William, a younger son of Joseph, had also entered the business of manufacturing cement. Born in Leeds on 23 September 1815, he joined his father's firm at the age of 14, but left in 1841 to set up his own firm at Rotherhithe, London. There he manufactured an improved cement that was better and stronger than Parker's Roman Cement, probably because it contained a higher proportion of clinkered material. Further improvements were made during the following years and new factories were established, first at Northfleet in Kent and later at Gateshead on the south bank of the River Tyne (1853). It is interesting that Sir Marc Brunel later preferred to use William Aspdin's cement in the Thames railway tunnel construction because of its greater strength (see Frost). William Aspdin died at Itzehoe in Germany in 1864.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    A.J.Francis, 1977, The Cement Industry 1796–1914: A History, David \& Charles.
    DY

    Biographical history of technology > Aspdin, Joseph

  • 7 São Tomé and Príncipe

       Comprising a former colony of Portugal, these two islands of volcanic origin are located in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa. The Portuguese first found these tropical islands about 1471, and efforts to settle them began in 1486 on São Tomé and about 1500 on Príncipe Island. Portugal settled them with
       African slaves from the mainland. A significant portion of the Africans who were forced to work the coffee and cocoa plantations were from Angola, and some were from the Cape Verde Islands. The early economy of the islands was dominated by sugar as plantations were established, based on the systems pioneered earlier in Madeira and the Cape Verdes. In the 19th and 20th centuries, however, coffee and cocoa plantations were developed. The cocoa plantations, which were owned largely by Portuguese from Portugal, produced the raw material for chocolate and soon formed the principal wealth of this colony.
       In the early 20th century, forced labor practices and other labor abuses on the Portuguese-owned plantations drew worldwide attention through the famous writings of the British investigative reporter-writer, Henry W. Nevinson. Portugal's colonial rule there, as well as in Angola and Mozambique, whose excesses were now exposed in newspapers and books, also came under the scrutiny of leading humanitarian organizations in London and elsewhere. Although Portugal defended colonial rule in this case and made reform efforts, tragically extensive labor abuse in the islands persisted into the middle of the 20th century. The islands were not involved in a war of African insurgency. In 1975, Portugal granted independence to the archipelago, whose official language of government and instruction remains Portuguese.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > São Tomé and Príncipe

  • 8 calendario de retenciones

    Ex. Based on this enquiry, journal retention schedules were established.
    * * *

    Ex: Based on this enquiry, journal retention schedules were established.

    Spanish-English dictionary > calendario de retenciones

  • 9 compensar

    v.
    1 to make up for (valer la pena).
    no me compensa (perder tanto tiempo) it's not worth my while (wasting all that time)
    2 to compensate, to balance, to compensate for, to make for.
    El dinero compensa la pérdida The money compensates the loss.
    El jefe compensa a la chica The boss compensates the girl.
    El juez compensó a María por el accidente The judge compensated Mary for...
    3 to clear.
    El juez compensó el caso de Ricardo The judge cleared John's case.
    * * *
    1 (pérdida, error) to make up for
    2 (indemnizar) to compensate, indemnify
    3 TÉCNICA to balance, compensate
    4 familiar (merecer la pena) to be worth one's while
    * * *
    verb
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=indemnizar) to compensate ( por for)

    ¿cómo puedo compensarte por lo que has hecho por mí? — how can I repay you for what you have done for me?

    2) (=equilibrar) [+ pérdida, falta] to compensate for, make up for; [+ efecto, bajada] to compensate for, offset; [+ gastos] to repay, reimburse; [+ error] to make amends for
    3) (Mec) [+ ruedas] to balance
    4) (Econ) [+ cheque] to clear
    2.
    VI

    no compensa — it's not worth it, it's not worthwhile

    te compensa hacerlo — it's worth you doing it, it's worth your while doing it o to do it

    compensa gastarse más dinero ahora y ahorrarlo después — it pays to spend more now and save money later, it's worth spending more now to save money later on

    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo

    no compensa hacer un viaje tan largo — it's not worth making such a long journey; (+ me/te/le etc)

    2.
    1)
    a) ( contrarrestar) <pérdida/deficiencia> to compensate for, make up for; < efecto> to offset
    b) < persona>

    lo compensaron con $2.000 por los daños — he was awarded $2,000 compensation in damages

    2) < cheque> to clear
    3.
    compensarse v pron
    a) fuerzas (recípr) to compensate each other, cancel each other out
    b) pérdida/efecto
    * * *
    = compensate, offset, repay, even out, balance, make + amends (for/to), balance out, requite.
    Ex. Whatever the immediate difficulties may be, they will be more than compensated for by the long-term benefits of automated bibliographic control.
    Ex. Space requirements are less and capital outlay is considerably less, though this is offset by the higher maintenance costs.
    Ex. The administrator will be more than repaid by high staff morale for all the trouble-shooting and unglamorous behind-the-scenes planning.
    Ex. But damp paper was still preferred for much ordinary printing until late in the nineteenth century, partly because it evened out the minor inequalities of used type in the days before the introduction of hot-metal composing machines which cast type afresh for each job.
    Ex. It often requires careful diplomacy by acquisitions librarians to balance sharp faculty interests.
    Ex. The scholarships were established in 1979 to help make amends for the state's history of excluding blacks from the university.
    Ex. If you do this it should balance out some of the negative thoughts you're having and know that in the end que sera sera, what's meant to be will be.
    Ex. The sultan requited the king of China's present by sending him ten swords with scabbards encrusted in pearls.
    ----
    * compensar a Alguien = make + it + up to + Alguien.
    * compensar por = make up for, outweigh, outbalance.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo intransitivo

    no compensa hacer un viaje tan largo — it's not worth making such a long journey; (+ me/te/le etc)

    2.
    1)
    a) ( contrarrestar) <pérdida/deficiencia> to compensate for, make up for; < efecto> to offset
    b) < persona>

    lo compensaron con $2.000 por los daños — he was awarded $2,000 compensation in damages

    2) < cheque> to clear
    3.
    compensarse v pron
    a) fuerzas (recípr) to compensate each other, cancel each other out
    b) pérdida/efecto
    * * *
    = compensate, offset, repay, even out, balance, make + amends (for/to), balance out, requite.

    Ex: Whatever the immediate difficulties may be, they will be more than compensated for by the long-term benefits of automated bibliographic control.

    Ex: Space requirements are less and capital outlay is considerably less, though this is offset by the higher maintenance costs.
    Ex: The administrator will be more than repaid by high staff morale for all the trouble-shooting and unglamorous behind-the-scenes planning.
    Ex: But damp paper was still preferred for much ordinary printing until late in the nineteenth century, partly because it evened out the minor inequalities of used type in the days before the introduction of hot-metal composing machines which cast type afresh for each job.
    Ex: It often requires careful diplomacy by acquisitions librarians to balance sharp faculty interests.
    Ex: The scholarships were established in 1979 to help make amends for the state's history of excluding blacks from the university.
    Ex: If you do this it should balance out some of the negative thoughts you're having and know that in the end que sera sera, what's meant to be will be.
    Ex: The sultan requited the king of China's present by sending him ten swords with scabbards encrusted in pearls.
    * compensar a Alguien = make + it + up to + Alguien.
    * compensar por = make up for, outweigh, outbalance.

    * * *
    compensar [A1 ]
    vi
    no compensa hacer un viaje tan largo para quedarse sólo tres días it's not worth making such a long journey just to stay three days
    (+ me/te/le etc): no me compensa hacerlo por tan poco dinero it's not worth my while doing it for so little money
    no creo que le compense venirse hasta aquí para trabajar dos horas I don't think it's worth her coming here (just) to work two hours
    ■ compensar
    vt
    A
    1 ‹pérdida› to compensate for, make up for; ‹efecto› to offset
    2 ‹persona› compensar a algn POR algo to compensate sb FOR sth
    lo compensaron con $2.000 por los daños he was awarded $2,000 compensation in damages
    quisiera compensarte de alguna manera por la molestia I would like to repay you in some way for all your trouble
    B ‹cheque› to clear
    1 «fuerzas» ( recípr) to compensate each other, cancel each other out
    2
    «pérdida/efecto»: compensarse CON algo: esto se compensa con una rebaja en los impuestos this is offset by o compensated for by tax cuts
    * * *

     

    compensar ( conjugate compensar) verbo intransitivo:

    no me compensa it's not worth my while
    verbo transitivo
    1
    a) ( contrarrestar) ‹pérdida/deficiencia to compensate for, make up for;

    efecto to offset;

    b) persona› compensar a algn por algo ‹por pérdidas/retraso› to compensate sb for sth;

    lo compensaron con $2.000 por los daños he was awarded $2,000 compensation in damages

    2 cheque to clear
    compensarse verbo pronominal [ fuerzas] ( recípr) to compensate each other, cancel each other out
    compensar
    I verbo transitivo
    1 (equilibrar) to make up for
    2 (indemnizar) to compensate (for)
    II verbo intransitivo (merecer la pena) to be worthwhile: no me compensa vivir tan lejos, it's not worth my while to live so far away
    ' compensar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    amortizar
    - comida
    - comido
    - gratificar
    - suplir
    - recuperar
    - resarcir
    English:
    amends
    - atone
    - compensate
    - good
    - hedge
    - make up
    - make up for
    - offset
    - redeem
    - cancel
    - even
    - off
    * * *
    vt
    1. [contrarrestar] to make up for;
    su talento compensa la falta de educación formal her talent makes up for the fact that she lacks a formal education;
    compensaron las pérdidas con las ganancias the profit they made cancelled out their losses
    2. [indemnizar]
    compensar a alguien (de o [m5] por) to compensate sb (for);
    la compensaron con 2 millones she got 2 million in compensation;
    te compensaré por el esfuerzo I'll make it worth your while
    vi
    to be worthwhile;
    no compensa it's not worth it;
    no me compensa (perder tanto tiempo) it's not worth my while (wasting all that time);
    compensa más comprarlo a granel it pays o it's more economical to buy it in bulk
    * * *
    I v/t compensate ( por for)
    II v/i fig
    be worthwhile
    * * *
    : to compensate for, to make up for
    : to be worth one's while
    * * *
    1. (contrarrestar) to make up for / to compensate
    2. (indemnizar) to pay compensation [pt. & pp. paid]
    3. (valer la pena) to be worth your while

    Spanish-English dictionary > compensar

  • 10 escuela

    f.
    school.
    hacer escuela to have a following
    ser de la vieja escuela to be of the old school
    escuela de arte school of art, art school
    escuela de comercio business school
    escuela de hostelería catering school
    escuela Oficial de Idiomas = Spanish State language-teaching institute
    escuela privada private school
    escuela pública state school
    escuela taurina bullfighting school
    escuela universitaria = section of a university which awards diplomas in a vocational discipline (e.g. engineering, business) after three years of study
    escuela de verano summer school
    pres.indicat.
    3rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: escolar.
    imperat.
    2nd person singular (tú) Imperative of Spanish verb: escolar.
    * * *
    1 (gen) school
    2 (experiencia) experience, instruction
    \
    ser de la vieja escuela to be of the old school
    tener buena escuela to be well trained
    escuela de artes y oficios Technical College
    escuela de conducir driving school
    escuela de idiomas language school
    escuela nocturna night school
    escuela privada private school, GB public school
    escuela pública state school
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=colegio) school

    ir a la escuela[alumno, maestro] to go to school

    escuela de párvulos — nursery school, kindergarten

    escuela de primera enseñanza, escuela elemental — primary school

    escuela privada — private school, independent school

    escuela pública — state school, public school (EEUU)

    escuela secundaria — secondary school, high school (EEUU)

    2) (=centro de enseñanza) [gen] school; Chile (=facultad) faculty, school

    escuela de baile — school of dancing, dance school

    Escuela de Bellas Artes — art school, art college

    escuela de chóferes LAm driving school

    escuela de comercio — business school, school of business studies

    escuela de conductores LAm driving school

    escuela de manejo Méx driving school

    escuela laboral — technical school, trade school

    escuela tallervocational training centre

    escuela universitariauniversity college offering diploma rather than degree courses

    buque 1), granja
    3) * (=clases) school

    mañana no hay o no tenemos escuela — there's no school tomorrow

    4) (=formación) experience
    5) (=movimiento) school
    see COLEGIO ESCUELA OFICIAL DE IDIOMAS The Escuelas Oficiales de Idiomas are state-run language schools which offer tuition in a wide range of foreign languages. Examinations are also open to external candidates and the Certificado de la Escuela Oficial de Idiomas, the final qualification, is recognized all over Spain.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( institución) school

    la escuela de la vidathe school o university of life

    b) ( edificio) school
    c) ( facultad) faculty, school
    d) (como adj inv)

    hotel escuela — hotel school, training hotel

    2) ( formación) coaching, training
    3) (de pensamiento, doctrinas) school

    ha creado escuelahis theories (o ideas etc) have many followers

    * * *
    = day school, school, college, seedbed.
    Ex. This boy has never been to day school or Sunday school, can't read but he is said to be one of the best workers in the room.
    Ex. Many infant and junior schools have books in the entrance hall and in the corridors as well as in the classrooms.
    Ex. Special colleges were established offering technical and practical programs for farmers and laborers.
    Ex. The article has the title 'The last thirty years as the seedbed of the future'.
    ----
    * archivo de escuela = school records.
    * dentro de la escuela = in-school.
    * después de la escuela = after-school hours, after-school time.
    * director de escuela = school principal.
    * en la escuela = at school.
    * escuela convencional = mainstream school.
    * escuela de biblioteconomía = library school.
    * escuela de biblioteconomía reconocida = accredited library school.
    * escuela de biblioteconomía y documentación = LIS school.
    * escuela de buceo = diving school, scuba diving school.
    * escuela de capacitación = training school.
    * escuela de enseñanza primaria = primary school.
    * escuela de equitación = riding school.
    * escuela de formación = training school.
    * escuela de formación profesional = vocational school.
    * escuela de gestión = business school.
    * escuela de negocios = business school.
    * escuela de niños menores = infant school.
    * escuela de pago = public school.
    * escuela de pensamiento = school of thought.
    * escuela de pequeños = infant school.
    * escuela de primaria = primary school.
    * escuela de primer ciclo de secundaria = intermediate school.
    * escuela de submarinismo = diving school, scuba diving school.
    * escuela dominical = Sunday school.
    * escuela primaria = lower school, elementary school, grade school, primary school.
    * escuela privada = public school.
    * escuela rural = rural school.
    * escuela secundaria = junior school, middle school, upper school.
    * escuela taller = technical school.
    * escuela universitaria de biblioteconomía y documentación (EUBYD) = school of librarianship and information science (SLIS).
    * expediente académico de la escuela = high school record.
    * granja escuela = animal farm.
    * horas después de la escuela = after-school hours, after-school time.
    * ir a la escuela = go to + school.
    * junta de dirección de la escuela = school board.
    * maestro de escuela = school teacher.
    * más hambre que un maestro de escuela = as hungry as a wolf, as hungry as a bear, as hungry as a hunter.
    * patio de la escuela = schoolyard [school yard].
    * problema en la escuela = school problem.
    * relacionado con la escuela = school-related.
    * vieja escuela, la = old school, the.
    * violencia en la escuela = school violence.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( institución) school

    la escuela de la vidathe school o university of life

    b) ( edificio) school
    c) ( facultad) faculty, school
    d) (como adj inv)

    hotel escuela — hotel school, training hotel

    2) ( formación) coaching, training
    3) (de pensamiento, doctrinas) school

    ha creado escuelahis theories (o ideas etc) have many followers

    * * *
    = day school, school, college, seedbed.

    Ex: This boy has never been to day school or Sunday school, can't read but he is said to be one of the best workers in the room.

    Ex: Many infant and junior schools have books in the entrance hall and in the corridors as well as in the classrooms.
    Ex: Special colleges were established offering technical and practical programs for farmers and laborers.
    Ex: The article has the title 'The last thirty years as the seedbed of the future'.
    * archivo de escuela = school records.
    * dentro de la escuela = in-school.
    * después de la escuela = after-school hours, after-school time.
    * director de escuela = school principal.
    * en la escuela = at school.
    * escuela convencional = mainstream school.
    * escuela de biblioteconomía = library school.
    * escuela de biblioteconomía reconocida = accredited library school.
    * escuela de biblioteconomía y documentación = LIS school.
    * escuela de buceo = diving school, scuba diving school.
    * escuela de capacitación = training school.
    * escuela de enseñanza primaria = primary school.
    * escuela de equitación = riding school.
    * escuela de formación = training school.
    * escuela de formación profesional = vocational school.
    * escuela de gestión = business school.
    * escuela de negocios = business school.
    * escuela de niños menores = infant school.
    * escuela de pago = public school.
    * escuela de pensamiento = school of thought.
    * escuela de pequeños = infant school.
    * escuela de primaria = primary school.
    * escuela de primer ciclo de secundaria = intermediate school.
    * escuela de submarinismo = diving school, scuba diving school.
    * escuela dominical = Sunday school.
    * escuela primaria = lower school, elementary school, grade school, primary school.
    * escuela privada = public school.
    * escuela rural = rural school.
    * escuela secundaria = junior school, middle school, upper school.
    * escuela taller = technical school.
    * escuela universitaria de biblioteconomía y documentación (EUBYD) = school of librarianship and information science (SLIS).
    * expediente académico de la escuela = high school record.
    * granja escuela = animal farm.
    * horas después de la escuela = after-school hours, after-school time.
    * ir a la escuela = go to + school.
    * junta de dirección de la escuela = school board.
    * maestro de escuela = school teacher.
    * más hambre que un maestro de escuela = as hungry as a wolf, as hungry as a bear, as hungry as a hunter.
    * patio de la escuela = schoolyard [school yard].
    * problema en la escuela = school problem.
    * relacionado con la escuela = school-related.
    * vieja escuela, la = old school, the.
    * violencia en la escuela = school violence.

    * * *
    A
    todavía no va a la escuela she hasn't started school yet
    la escuela de la vida the school o university of life
    2 (edificio) school
    3 ( Chi) (facultad) faculty, school
    la Escuela de Medicina the Medical Faculty o School
    granja escuela college farm
    hotel escuela hotel school, training hotel
    alto1 (↑ alto (1)), buque
    Compuestos:
    school of architecture
    ballet school
    art school, art college
    escuela de conductores or choferes
    ( AmL) driving school
    riding school
    ( AmL) driving school
    infant school
    primary school
    summer school
    ( RPl) school for children with special needs, special school
    military academy
    naval academy
    night school
    teachers' college ( AmE), teacher training college ( BrE)
    primary school
    public school ( AmE), state school ( BrE)
    technical college
    technical college
    B (formación) coaching, training
    juega bien pero le falta escuela he's a good player but he needs more coaching
    C (de pensamiento, doctrinas) school
    ha creado escuela his theories ( o ideas etc) have many followers
    es de la vieja escuela she's one of the old school
    la escuela flamenca the Flemish school
    * * *

     

    escuela sustantivo femenino
    school;
    escuela de conductores or choferes (AmL) driving school;

    escuela militar/naval military/naval academy;
    escuela pública public (AmE) o (BrE) state school;
    Eescuela de Medicina Medical Faculty o School
    escuela sustantivo femenino school
    escuela naval, naval academy
    buque escuela, training ship

    ' escuela' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    academia
    - antes
    - buque
    - colegio
    - conserje
    - dirigir
    - egresar
    - elemental
    - pizarra
    - recreo
    - aula
    - auto-escuela
    - clase
    - dirección
    - director
    - el
    - funcionamiento
    - fundación
    - fundar
    - hacer
    - inscribir
    - matón
    - merienda
    - monitor
    - normal
    - patio
    - picadero
    - pinta
    - plantel
    - politécnico
    - profesor
    - trabajo
    English:
    busing
    - college
    - disruptive
    - drop out
    - finishing school
    - grade school
    - janitor
    - junior school
    - master
    - primary
    - public school
    - saint
    - school
    - schoolmaster
    - schoolmistress
    - schoolteacher
    - staff college
    - state school
    - teacher
    - art
    - convenient
    - elementary
    - foot
    - get
    - go
    - grade
    - infant
    - intermediate
    - junior
    - military
    - past
    - public
    - settle
    - state
    - technical
    * * *
    1. [establecimiento] school;
    ir a la escuela to go to school;
    no pudo ir a la escuela she was unable to go to school;
    aprendió en la escuela de la vida she's a graduate of the university o school of life
    escuela de arte school of art, art school;
    escuela de artes y oficios = college for the study of arts and crafts;
    Am escuela de choferes driving school;
    escuela de comercio business school;
    CSur escuela diferencial school for children with special needs, special school; Cuba escuela elemental Br primary school, US elementary school;
    escuela de equitación riding school;
    escuela hípica (horse)riding school;
    escuela de hostelería catering school;
    escuela de magisterio Br teacher training college, US teacher's college;
    Am escuela de manejo driving school;
    escuela normal teacher training college;
    Escuela Oficial de Idiomas = Spanish State language-teaching institute;
    escuela de párvulos kindergarten;
    escuela primaria Br primary school, US elementary school;
    escuela privada private school, Br public school;
    escuela pública Br state school, US public school;
    escuela de secretariado secretarial college;
    escuela secundaria Br secondary school, US high school;
    escuela taurina bullfighting school;
    escuela de turismo school of tourism;
    escuela universitaria = section of a university which awards diplomas in a vocational discipline (e.g. engineering, business) after three years of study;
    escuela de verano summer school
    2. [enseñanza, conocimientos] training;
    tiene talento, pero le falta escuela he's talented, but he still has a lot to learn
    3. [de artista, doctrina] school;
    la escuela cervantina the school of Cervantes;
    hacer escuela to have a following;
    su forma de jugar al fútbol hizo escuela his style of football gained quite a following;
    ser de la vieja escuela to be of the old school
    escuela de pensamiento school of thought
    * * *
    f school;
    crear escuela fig create a trend;
    de la vieja escuela fig of the old school
    * * *
    : school
    * * *
    escuela n school

    Spanish-English dictionary > escuela

  • 11 estudio clásico

    Ex. This is a classic study, important because, for the first time, procedures were established and conclusions drawn about obsolescence rates for general classes of books.
    * * *

    Ex: This is a classic study, important because, for the first time, procedures were established and conclusions drawn about obsolescence rates for general classes of books.

    Spanish-English dictionary > estudio clásico

  • 12 expresar miedo

    (v.) = express + fear
    Ex. This fear was expressed by publishers and booksellers when the first lending libraries were established and by and large it has proved to be unfounded.
    * * *
    (v.) = express + fear

    Ex: This fear was expressed by publishers and booksellers when the first lending libraries were established and by and large it has proved to be unfounded.

    Spanish-English dictionary > expresar miedo

  • 13 homeland

    Nota: En Sud †frica, término utilizado para referirse a una región dentro del país donde vive la región de raza negra.
    Ex. During the late 70s and early 80s national library services were established in South Africa's 10 homelands as a by-product of the apartheid policy.
    * * *
    Nota: En Sud †frica, término utilizado para referirse a una región dentro del país donde vive la región de raza negra.

    Ex: During the late 70s and early 80s national library services were established in South Africa's 10 homelands as a by-product of the apartheid policy.

    Spanish-English dictionary > homeland

  • 14 jornalero

    m.
    day laborer, field hand, workman, laborer.
    * * *
    nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 day labourer
    * * *
    (f. - jornalera)
    noun f.
    * * *
    jornalero, -a
    SM / F (day) labourer, (day) laborer (EEUU)
    * * *
    - ra masculino, femenino day laborer*
    * * *
    = labourer [laborer, -USA], seasonal worker, seasonal farmworker, farm labourer, farm worker.
    Ex. Special colleges were established offering technical and practical programs for farmers and laborers.
    Ex. These people are seasonal workers who are here on a temporary work permit and who should be leaving at the end of their legal contract.
    Ex. Results indicate that untreated dental decay is significant among seasonal farmworkers who seek care at this dental clinic.
    Ex. Despite these hardships, farm laborers enjoy their work since they like to be outdoors near plants and animals.
    Ex. In rural areas, too, great variations in wealth exist side by side, from affluent farmers and landowners on the one hand, to extremely low-paid farm workers on the other.
    ----
    * jornalero agrícola = farm labourer, farm worker.
    * * *
    - ra masculino, femenino day laborer*
    * * *
    = labourer [laborer, -USA], seasonal worker, seasonal farmworker, farm labourer, farm worker.

    Ex: Special colleges were established offering technical and practical programs for farmers and laborers.

    Ex: These people are seasonal workers who are here on a temporary work permit and who should be leaving at the end of their legal contract.
    Ex: Results indicate that untreated dental decay is significant among seasonal farmworkers who seek care at this dental clinic.
    Ex: Despite these hardships, farm laborers enjoy their work since they like to be outdoors near plants and animals.
    Ex: In rural areas, too, great variations in wealth exist side by side, from affluent farmers and landowners on the one hand, to extremely low-paid farm workers on the other.
    * jornalero agrícola = farm labourer, farm worker.

    * * *
    masculine, feminine
    day laborer*
    * * *

    jornalero
    ◊ -ra sustantivo masculino, femenino

    day laborer( conjugate laborer)

    ' jornalero' also found in these entries:
    English:
    casual
    - farmhand
    - farmlabourer
    - hired hand
    * * *
    jornalero, -a nm,f
    day labourer
    * * *
    m, jornalera f day laborer, Br
    day labourer
    * * *
    jornalero, -ra n
    : day laborer
    * * *
    jornalero n casual labourer

    Spanish-English dictionary > jornalero

  • 15 no tener fundamento

    (v.) = be unfounded
    Ex. This fear was expressed by publishers and booksellers when the first lending libraries were established and by and large it has proved to be unfounded.
    * * *

    Ex: This fear was expressed by publishers and booksellers when the first lending libraries were established and by and large it has proved to be unfounded.

    Spanish-English dictionary > no tener fundamento

  • 16 peón

    m.
    1 unskilled laborer, labourer, laborer, day laborer.
    2 pawn, chess pawn.
    3 farm-hand, ranch hand.
    4 top, spinning top.
    5 mine prop.
    * * *
    1 (trabajador) unskilled labourer (US laborer)
    2 (agrícola) farm hand, farm worker
    4 (peonza) top, spinning top
    \
    peón caminero road mender
    peón de albañil building labourer (US laborer)
    * * *
    SM
    1) (Téc) labourer, laborer (EEUU); esp LAm (Agr) farm labourer, farmhand; (Taur) assistant; Méx (=aprendiz) apprentice; (=ayudante) assistant

    peón caminero — navvy, roadmender

    2) (Ajedrez) pawn
    3) (Mil, Hist) infantryman, foot-soldier
    4) (=peonza) spinning top
    5) (Mec) spindle, shaft
    * * *
    1) (Const) laborer*; (Agr) (esp AmL) agricultural laborer*, farm worker
    2) ( en ajedrez) pawn; ( en damas) piece, checker (AmE), draughtsman (BrE)
    * * *
    = hand, farm worker, labourer [laborer, -USA], jockey, pawn, farmworker [farm worker], farm-hand, farm labourer, harvest hand.
    Ex. The clicker paid each man according to what he had set, keeping for himself a share equal to that of the most productive hand.
    Ex. In rural areas, too, great variations in wealth exist side by side, from affluent farmers and landowners on the one hand, to extremely low-paid farm workers on the other.
    Ex. Special colleges were established offering technical and practical programs for farmers and laborers.
    Ex. But unless technical staff want to remain in a servant role as mere tool jockeys, they must complete the evolution from craftsperson to professional.
    Ex. The protagonist becomes a bewildered, horror-stricken pawn in a game of vengeance and betrayal.
    Ex. School librarians regularly visit farmworkers' labour camps to help with the literacy needs of migrant children.
    Ex. The agricultural labourer receiving payment in kind was a married farm-hand with a one-year contract and whose wife had the duty to milk the cows morning and night.
    Ex. Despite these hardships, farm laborers enjoy their work since they like to be outdoors near plants and animals.
    Ex. So thousands of harvest hands come and go every year like birds of passage.
    ----
    * peón agrícola = farm labourer, farm worker.
    * peón caminero = road worker.
    * * *
    1) (Const) laborer*; (Agr) (esp AmL) agricultural laborer*, farm worker
    2) ( en ajedrez) pawn; ( en damas) piece, checker (AmE), draughtsman (BrE)
    * * *
    = hand, farm worker, labourer [laborer, -USA], jockey, pawn, farmworker [farm worker], farm-hand, farm labourer, harvest hand.

    Ex: The clicker paid each man according to what he had set, keeping for himself a share equal to that of the most productive hand.

    Ex: In rural areas, too, great variations in wealth exist side by side, from affluent farmers and landowners on the one hand, to extremely low-paid farm workers on the other.
    Ex: Special colleges were established offering technical and practical programs for farmers and laborers.
    Ex: But unless technical staff want to remain in a servant role as mere tool jockeys, they must complete the evolution from craftsperson to professional.
    Ex: The protagonist becomes a bewildered, horror-stricken pawn in a game of vengeance and betrayal.
    Ex: School librarians regularly visit farmworkers' labour camps to help with the literacy needs of migrant children.
    Ex: The agricultural labourer receiving payment in kind was a married farm-hand with a one-year contract and whose wife had the duty to milk the cows morning and night.
    Ex: Despite these hardships, farm laborers enjoy their work since they like to be outdoors near plants and animals.
    Ex: So thousands of harvest hands come and go every year like birds of passage.
    * peón agrícola = farm labourer, farm worker.
    * peón caminero = road worker.

    * * *
    A
    1 ( Const) laborer*
    2 ( esp AmL) ( Agr) agricultural laborer*, farm worker, ranch hand
    Compuestos:
    (bricklayer's) laborer*, building laborer*
    road worker, roadmender, navvy ( BrE colloq)
    bullfighter's assistant ( who draws the bull to the picador)
    B ( Jueg)
    1 (en ajedrez) pawn; (en damas) piece, checker ( AmE), draughtsman ( BrE)
    2 (trompo) spinning top
    * * *

    peón sustantivo masculino
    1 (Const) laborer( conjugate laborer);
    (Agr) (esp AmL) agricultural laborer( conjugate laborer), farm worker;
    peón albañil (building) laborer( conjugate laborer);

    peón caminero road worker
    2 ( en ajedrez) pawn;
    ( en damas) piece, checker (AmE), draughtsman (BrE)
    peón sustantivo masculino
    1 unskilled labourer o US laborer
    2 Ajedrez pawn
    ' peón' also found in these entries:
    English:
    farmhand
    - labourer
    - pawn
    - farm
    - hand
    - laborer
    * * *
    peón nm
    1. [obrero] unskilled labourer
    Taurom peón de brega bullfighter's assistant;
    peón caminero roadworker, Br navvy
    2. [en granja] farmhand, farm worker
    3. [en ajedrez] pawn
    4. [peonza] (spinning) top
    * * *
    m
    1 en ajedrez pawn
    2 trabajador laborer, Br
    labourer
    * * *
    peón nm, pl peones
    1) : laborer, peon
    2) : pawn (in chess)
    * * *
    1. (obrero) labourer
    2. (en ajedrez) pawn

    Spanish-English dictionary > peón

  • 17 reciprocidad

    f.
    reciprocity.
    en reciprocidad a in return for
    * * *
    1 reciprocity
    * * *
    * * *
    = reciprocity, mutuality.
    Ex. Interlibrary loan practices were established on the basis of reciprocity among institutions.
    Ex. Mutuality cannot occur if one partner holds the power all the time in a relationship.
    * * *
    = reciprocity, mutuality.

    Ex: Interlibrary loan practices were established on the basis of reciprocity among institutions.

    Ex: Mutuality cannot occur if one partner holds the power all the time in a relationship.

    * * *
    reciprocity
    * * *
    reciprocity;
    en reciprocidad a in return for
    * * *
    f reciprocity
    * * *
    : reciprocity

    Spanish-English dictionary > reciprocidad

  • 18 reparar un agravio

    (v.) = right + a wrong, right + an injustice, make + amends (for/to)
    Ex. Southerners are more prone to violence in situations culturally defined as requiring a violent response, such as righting a wrong or defending one's honor.
    Ex. This was considered a partial down payment in righting the injustice caused the victim.
    Ex. The scholarships were established in 1979 to help make amends for the state's history of excluding blacks from the university.
    * * *
    (v.) = right + a wrong, right + an injustice, make + amends (for/to)

    Ex: Southerners are more prone to violence in situations culturally defined as requiring a violent response, such as righting a wrong or defending one's honor.

    Ex: This was considered a partial down payment in righting the injustice caused the victim.
    Ex: The scholarships were established in 1979 to help make amends for the state's history of excluding blacks from the university.

    Spanish-English dictionary > reparar un agravio

  • 19 reparar un daño

    (v.) = right + a wrong, make + amends (for/to)
    Ex. Southerners are more prone to violence in situations culturally defined as requiring a violent response, such as righting a wrong or defending one's honor.
    Ex. The scholarships were established in 1979 to help make amends for the state's history of excluding blacks from the university.
    * * *
    (v.) = right + a wrong, make + amends (for/to)

    Ex: Southerners are more prone to violence in situations culturally defined as requiring a violent response, such as righting a wrong or defending one's honor.

    Ex: The scholarships were established in 1979 to help make amends for the state's history of excluding blacks from the university.

    Spanish-English dictionary > reparar un daño

  • 20 reparar un perjuicio

    (v.) = make + amends (for/to)
    Ex. The scholarships were established in 1979 to help make amends for the state's history of excluding blacks from the university.
    * * *
    (v.) = make + amends (for/to)

    Ex: The scholarships were established in 1979 to help make amends for the state's history of excluding blacks from the university.

    Spanish-English dictionary > reparar un perjuicio

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