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  • 1 estallar

    v.
    1 to explode (explotar) (bomba).
    si sigo comiendo voy a estallar if I eat any more I'll burst
    La bomba estalló de repente The bomb exploded suddenly.
    2 to break out (sonar) (ovación).
    La epidemia estalló The epidemic broke out.
    3 to break out (guerra, epidemia).
    ha estallado un nuevo escándalo de corrupción a new corruption scandal has erupted
    4 to blow up, to blow one's top (expresarse bruscamente).
    se metieron tanto conmigo que al final estallé they went on at me so much I eventually blew up o blew my top
    estallar en sollozos to burst into tears
    estallar en una carcajada to burst out laughing
    ¡voy a estallar de nervios! I'm so nervous!
    5 to suffer a nervous breakdown, to crumble emotionally, to crack up, to crumble.
    María estalló Mary suffered a nervous breakdown.
    6 to explode all of a sudden, to appear suddenly, to blaze forth, to blaze out.
    7 to explode on.
    Nos estalló una mina A mine exploded on us
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    1 (reventar) to explode, blow up
    2 (neumático) to burst; (bomba) to explode, go off; (cristal) to shatter
    3 (volcán) to erupt
    4 (látigo) to crack
    5 figurado (rebelión, epidemia) to break out
    6 figurado (pasión, sentimientos) to burst
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    verb
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    VI
    1) (=reventar) [pólvora, globo] to explode; [bomba] to explode, go off; [volcán] to erupt; [neumático] to burst; [vidrio] to shatter; [látigo] to crack

    hacer estallar — to set off; (fig) to spark off, start

    2) [epidemia, guerra, conflicto, sublevación] to break out
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    verbo intransitivo
    a) bomba to explode; neumático to blow out, burst; globo to burst; cristal to shatter
    b) guerra/revuelta to break out; tormenta/escándalo/crisis to break

    estallar en algo — <en llanto/carcajadas> to burst into something

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    = reach + a head, detonate, break out, burst forth, flare, blow up, blow + sky high, blow + a fuse, pop, let off, reach + boiling point, go off.
    Ex. Growing concern reached a head in the mid 1980s when a number of practitioners expressed the view that children's librarianship had lost its way.
    Ex. There has been an explosion in terminology detonated by developments related to XML (eXtensible Markup Language).
    Ex. Loud, unscripted quarrels between unshaven peasants break out in odd corners of the auditorium and add to the liveliness.
    Ex. It seems the passions of the people were only sleeping and burst forth with a terrible fury.
    Ex. The visual manifestation of the recent Hale-Bopp comet reminds us how telling are those rare objects which suddenly flare in the sky.
    Ex. The article 'The library has blown up!' relates the short circuit in the main electrical circuit board of Porstmouth Public Library caused by electricians who were carrying out routine work.
    Ex. This is all that can be done at this point to prevent the current violence from blowing sky-high, destabilising the region, and sending oil prices into the stratosphere.
    Ex. He simply blew a fuse and decided to go out on the road, spitefully apologizing again and again, until he got it right.
    Ex. The azaleas are popping, the redbuds are in their finest attire, and the dogwoods are lacy jewels at the edge of the wood.
    Ex. By this time, firecrackers and fireworks were being let off willy-nilly in the streets by any mug with a match.
    Ex. This hilarious show pranks unsuspecting guests, testing their patience to see just how long before they reach boiling point.
    Ex. My hand looks like a hand grenade went off near it -- all cut up, bruised and with perforations by small bits of flying glass.
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    * estallar a borbotones = splurt out.
    * guerra + estallar = war + break out.
    * hacer estallar = spark, ignite, touch off, blow up, let off.
    * hacer estallar en añicos = blow + sky high.
    * hacer estallar una bomba = bomb.
    * hacer estallar un guerra = ignite + war.
    * rebelión + estallar = rebellion + break out.
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    verbo intransitivo
    a) bomba to explode; neumático to blow out, burst; globo to burst; cristal to shatter
    b) guerra/revuelta to break out; tormenta/escándalo/crisis to break

    estallar en algo — <en llanto/carcajadas> to burst into something

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    = reach + a head, detonate, break out, burst forth, flare, blow up, blow + sky high, blow + a fuse, pop, let off, reach + boiling point, go off.

    Ex: Growing concern reached a head in the mid 1980s when a number of practitioners expressed the view that children's librarianship had lost its way.

    Ex: There has been an explosion in terminology detonated by developments related to XML (eXtensible Markup Language).
    Ex: Loud, unscripted quarrels between unshaven peasants break out in odd corners of the auditorium and add to the liveliness.
    Ex: It seems the passions of the people were only sleeping and burst forth with a terrible fury.
    Ex: The visual manifestation of the recent Hale-Bopp comet reminds us how telling are those rare objects which suddenly flare in the sky.
    Ex: The article 'The library has blown up!' relates the short circuit in the main electrical circuit board of Porstmouth Public Library caused by electricians who were carrying out routine work.
    Ex: This is all that can be done at this point to prevent the current violence from blowing sky-high, destabilising the region, and sending oil prices into the stratosphere.
    Ex: He simply blew a fuse and decided to go out on the road, spitefully apologizing again and again, until he got it right.
    Ex: The azaleas are popping, the redbuds are in their finest attire, and the dogwoods are lacy jewels at the edge of the wood.
    Ex: By this time, firecrackers and fireworks were being let off willy-nilly in the streets by any mug with a match.
    Ex: This hilarious show pranks unsuspecting guests, testing their patience to see just how long before they reach boiling point.
    Ex: My hand looks like a hand grenade went off near it -- all cut up, bruised and with perforations by small bits of flying glass.
    * estallar a borbotones = splurt out.
    * guerra + estallar = war + break out.
    * hacer estallar = spark, ignite, touch off, blow up, let off.
    * hacer estallar en añicos = blow + sky high.
    * hacer estallar una bomba = bomb.
    * hacer estallar un guerra = ignite + war.
    * rebelión + estallar = rebellion + break out.

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    estallar [A1 ]
    vi
    1 (explotar, reventar) «bomba» to explode; «neumático» to blow out, burst; «globo» to burst; «cristal» to shatter
    la policía hizo estallar el dispositivo police detonated the device
    el vestido le estallaba por las costuras her dress was literally bursting at the seams
    un día de estos voy a estallar one of these days I'm going to blow my top ( colloq)
    2 «guerra/revuelta» to break out; «tormenta» to break; «escándalo/crisis» to break
    el conflicto estalló tras un incidente fronterizo the conflict blew up after a border incident
    3
    «persona»: estallar EN algo: estalló en llanto she burst into tears, she burst out crying
    el público estalló en aplausos the audience burst into applause
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    estallar ( conjugate estallar) verbo intransitivo

    [ neumático] to blow out, burst;
    [ globo] to burst;
    [ vidrio] to shatter;

    b) [guerra/revuelta] to break out;

    [tormenta/escándalo/crisis] to break

    estallar en algo ‹en llanto/carcajadas› to burst into sth
    estallar verbo intransitivo
    1 (reventar) to burst
    (explotar) to explode, blow up, go off: a José le estalló la televisión, Jose's TV blew up
    estalló el vaso, the glass shattered
    2 (un suceso) to break out
    3 fig (de rabia, etc) to explode
    ' estallar' also found in these entries:
    English:
    blow up
    - break out
    - burst
    - erupt
    - explode
    - flare up
    - let off
    - live
    - start
    - blow
    - break
    - flare
    - go
    - let
    - pop
    - spark
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    1. [reventar] [bomba] to explode, to go off;
    [misil] to explode; [petardo] to go off; [neumático, globo] to burst; [volcán] to erupt; [cristal] to shatter; [olas] to break, to crash; [botón] to fly off; [cremallera, costura] to burst; [vestido, falda, pantalón] to split;
    hacer estallar un artefacto explosivo to detonate an explosive device;
    si sigo comiendo voy a estallar if I eat any more I'll burst
    2. [sonar] [ovación] to break out;
    [látigo] to crack; [trueno] to crash
    3. [desencadenarse] [guerra, revolución, disturbios, epidemia] to break out;
    [tormenta] to break;
    ha estallado un nuevo escándalo de corrupción a new corruption scandal has erupted
    4. [expresarse bruscamente] to blow up, to blow one's top;
    se metieron tanto conmigo que al final estallé they went on at me so much I eventually blew up o blew my top;
    estallar en aplausos to burst into applause;
    estallar en una carcajada to burst out laughing;
    estallar en llanto o [m5] sollozos to burst into tears;
    ¡voy a estallar de nervios! I'm so nervous!
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    v/i
    1 explode
    2 de guerra break out; de escándalo break;
    estalló en llanto she burst into tears
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    1) reventar: to burst, to explode, to erupt
    2) : to break out
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    1. (explotar) to explode
    2. (romperse) to burst [pt. & pp. burst]
    3. (sobrevenir) to break out [pt. broke; pp. broken]

    Spanish-English dictionary > estallar

  • 2 Kriegsausbruch

    m outbreak of (the) war; bei Kriegsausbruch at the outbreak of war, when (the) war broke out; Zukunft: when war breaks out
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    Kriegs|aus|bruch
    m
    outbreak of war

    es kam zum Kríégsausbruch — war broke out

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    Kriegs·aus·bruch
    m outbreak of war
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    der outbreak of war
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    Kriegsausbruch m outbreak of (the) war;
    bei Kriegsausbruch at the outbreak of war, when (the) war broke out; Zukunft: when war breaks out
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    der outbreak of war

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > Kriegsausbruch

  • 3 aller

    aller [ale]
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    ► aller is conjugated with être.
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    • où vas-tu ? where are you going?
    • vas-y ! go on!
    • allons-y ! let's go!
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    ► aller se traduit souvent par un verbe plus spécifique en anglais.
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    ► aller + préposition
    • je vais sur or vers Lille (en direction de) I'm going towards Lille ; (but du voyage) I'm going to Lille
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    ► Lorsque être allé à/en signifie avoir visité, il se traduit par to have been to.
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    • étiez-vous déjà allés en Sicile ? had you been to Sicily before?
    • plus ça va, plus les gens s'inquiètent people are getting more and more worried
    • plus ça va, plus je me dis que j'ai eu tort the more I think about it, the more I realize how wrong I was► aller en + participe présent
       d. (état, santé) comment allez-vous ? how are you?
    • comment ça va ? -- ça va how are you doing? -- fine
    • non mais ça va pas ! (inf) are you out of your mind? (inf)
    • comment vont les affaires ? -- elles vont bien how's business? -- fine
       e. ( = convenir) ça ira comme ça ? is it all right like that?
    ► aller à qn (forme, mesure) to fit sb ; (style, genre) to suit sb
    • cette robe te va très bien (couleur, style) that dress really suits you ; (taille) that dress fits you perfectly
    • rendez-vous demain 4 heures ? -- ça me va (inf) tomorrow at 4? -- OK, fine (inf)
       f. (exclamations) allons !
    • allez ! go on!
    • allez la France ! come on France!
    • allons, allons, il ne faut pas pleurer come on, don't cry
    • ce n'est pas grave, allez ! come on, it's not so bad!
    • va donc, eh crétin ! you stupid idiot! (inf)
    • allez-y, c'est votre tour go on, it's your turn
    • allez-y, vous ne risquez rien go on, you've nothing to lose
    • non mais vas-y, insulte-moi ! (inf) go on, insult me!
    ► allons bon !
    • allons bon ! qu'est-ce qui t'est encore arrivé ? now what's happened?
    • allons bon, j'ai oublié mon sac ! oh dear, I've left my bag behind!► ça va ! (inf) ( = assez) that's enough! ; ( = d'accord) OK, OK! (inf)
    • tes remarques désobligeantes, ça va comme ça ! I've had just about enough of your nasty comments!
    • alors, tu viens ? -- ça va, j'arrive ! are you coming then? -- OK, OK (inf), I'm coming!
    • ça fait dix fois que je te le dis -- ça va, je vais le faire ! I've told you ten times -- look, I'll do it, OK? (inf)► va pour (inf)
    va pour 30 € ! OK, 30 euros then!
    • j'aimerais aller à Tokyo -- alors va pour Tokyo ! I'd like to go to Tokyo -- Tokyo it is then!
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    • ça y va le whisky chez eux ! they certainly get through a lot of whisky!
    • ça y allait les insultes ! you should have heard the abuse!
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    ► aller + infinitif
       a. (futur)
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    ► Lorsque aller + infinitif sert à exprimer le futur, il se traduit par will + infinitif ; will est souvent abrégé en 'll.
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    ► La forme du futur to be going to s'utilise pour mettre qn en garde.
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    • je vais le dire à ton père I'll tell your father ; ( = menace) I'm going to tell your father
       c. (locutions) n'allez pas vous imaginer que... don't you go imagining that...
    • allez savoir ! (inf) who knows?
    • va lui expliquer ça, toi ! you try explaining that to him!
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       a. ( = partir) to go
    • bon, je m'en vais right, I'm going
    • va-t'en ! go away!
       b. ( = disparaître) [tache] to come off ; (sur tissu) to come out
    • ça s'en ira au lavage [boue] it'll wash off ; [tache] it'll wash out
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       a. ( = billet) single (ticket) (Brit), one-way ticket (US)
       b. ( = trajet) outward journey
    • l'aller et retour Paris-New York coûte 2 500 € Paris-New York is 2,500 euros return (Brit) or round-trip (US)
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    I
    1. ale
    verbe auxiliaire

    ça va aller mal — (colloq) there'll be trouble

    aller atterrir (colloq) sur mon bureau — to end up on my desk


    2.
    verbe intransitif
    1) (se porter, se dérouler, fonctionner)

    comment vas-tu, comment ça va? — how are you?

    bois ça, ça ira mieux — drink this, you'll feel better

    ça ne va pas très fort — ( ma santé) I'm not feeling very well; ( la vie) things aren't too good; ( le moral) I'm feeling a bit low

    ne pas aller sans peine or mal — not to be easy

    ça va de soi or sans dire — it goes without saying

    ça va tout seul — ( c'est facile) it's a doddle (colloq) GB, it's easy as pie

    on fait aller — (colloq) struggling on (colloq)

    ça peut aller — (colloq)

    ça ira — (colloq) could be worse (colloq)

    ça va pas, non (colloq) or la tête? — (colloq) are you mad (colloq) GB ou crazy? (colloq)

    2) ( se déplacer) to go

    aller et venir — ( dans une pièce) to pace up and down; ( d'un lieu à l'autre) to run in and out

    où vas-tu? — where are you going?, where are you off (colloq) to?

    aller en Pologne/au marché — to go to Poland/to the market

    aller sur or vers Paris — to head for Paris

    j'y vais — ( je m'en occupe) I'll get it; ( je pars) (colloq) I'm going, I'm off (colloq)

    où va-t-on? — (colloq)

    où allons-nous? — (colloq) fig what are things coming to?, what's the world coming to?

    aller au pain — (colloq) to go and get the bread

    aller aux courses (colloq) or commissions — (colloq) to go shopping

    5) ( convenir)

    ma robe, ça va? — is my dress all right?

    ça va, ça peut aller — (colloq) ( en quantité) that'll do; ( en qualité) it'll do

    une soupe, ça (te) va? — how about some soup?

    va pour une soupe — (colloq) soup is okay (colloq)

    si le contrat ne te va pas, ne le signe pas — don't sign the contract if you're not happy with it

    si ça va pour toi, ça va pour moi — (colloq) if it's okay by you, it's okay by me (colloq)

    ça te va bien de faire la morale — (colloq) iron you're hardly the person to preach

    6) (être de la bonne taille, de la bonne forme)
    7) (flatter, mettre en valeur)
    8) ( se ranger) to go
    9) ( faculté)

    la voiture peut aller jusqu'à 200 km/h — the car can do up to 200 kph

    certains modèles peuvent aller jusqu'à 1000 francs — some models can cost up to 1,000 francs

    13) (agir, raisonner)

    vas-y doucement, le tissu est fragile — careful, the fabric is delicate

    vas-y, demande-leur! — ( incitation) go on, ask them!

    vas-y, dis-le! — ( provocation) come on, out with it!

    allons, allez! — (pour encourager, inciter) come on!

    si tu vas par là, rien n'est entièrement vrai — if you take that line, nothing is entirely true

    14) ( contribuer)
    15) (colloq) ( se succéder)
    16) ( servir)
    17) ( enfreindre)

    aller contre la loi — [personne] to break the law; [acte] to be against the law


    3.
    s'en aller verbe pronominal
    1) (partir, se rendre)

    avec le temps, tout s'en va — everything fades with time

    3) fml ( mourir) to pass away
    4) (avoir l'intention de, essayer)

    4.
    verbe impersonnel
    2) ( se passer)

    II ale
    nom masculin
    1) ( trajet)

    j'ai pris le bus à l'aller — ( en allant là) I took the bus there; ( en venant ici) I took the bus here

    il n'arrête pas de faire des allers et retours entre chez lui et son bureau — he keeps running to and fro from his house to the office

    billet aller — gén single ticket GB, one-way ticket US; ( d'avion) one-way ticket

    billet aller (et) retour — return ticket GB, round trip (ticket) US

    2) ( ticket)

    aller (simple) — single (ticket) GB, one-way ticket ( pour to)


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    Lorsque aller fait partie d'une expression figée comme aller dans le sens de, aller de pair avec etc, l'expression est traitée sous l'entrée sens, pair etc
    On notera les différentes traductions de aller verbe de mouvement indiquant: un déplacement unique dans le temps: je vais au théâtre ce soir = I'm going to the theatre [BrE] this evening; ou une habitude: je vais au théâtre tous les lundis = I go to the theatre [BrE] every Monday
    aller + infinitif
    la traduction dépend du temps: je vais apprendre l'italien = I'm going to learn Italian; il est allé voir l'exposition = he went to see the exhibition; j'allais me marier quand la guerre a éclaté = I was going to get married when the war broke out; va voir = go and see; va leur parler = go and speak to them; j'irai voir l'exposition demain = I'll go and see the exhibition tomorrow; je vais souvent m'asseoir au bord de la rivière = I often go and sit by the river; il ne va jamais voir une exposition = he never goes to see exhibitions
    On notera que pour les activités sportives on peut avoir: aller nager/faire du vélo = to go swimming/cycling ou to go for a swim/on a bike ride
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    ale
    1. nm
    1) (= trajet) outward journey

    L'aller nous a pris trois heures. — The journey there took us three hours., The outward journey took us three hours.

    2) (= billet) single Grande-Bretagne ticket, one-way ticket

    Je voudrais un aller pour Angers. — I'd like a single to Angers.

    2. vi

    Je suis allé à Londres. — I went to London.

    Elle ira le voir. — She'll go and see him.

    La boulangerie? Je dois justement y aller. — The baker's? That's just where I need to go.

    2) (= convenir)

    aller à qn [couleur, style] — to suit sb, [forme, pointure] to fit sb, [dispositions, date] to suit sb

    cela me va [couleur, vêtement] — it suits me, (pointure, taille) it fits me, [projet, dispositions] it suits me, that's OK by me

    Cette robe te va bien. — That dress suits you.

    aller avec qch [couleurs, style] — to go with sth

    3) (= se sentir)

    "Comment allez-vous? " - - "Je vais bien." — "How are you?" - - "I'm fine."

    Il va bien. — He's fine.

    Il va mal. — He's not well.

    4) (= marcher, se passer)

    comment ça va? — how are you?, how are things?

    "ça va?" - - "oui ça va!" — "how are things?" - - "fine!"

    Allez! Dépêche-toi! — Come on, hurry up!

    allez, au revoir — OK then, bye-bye

    y aller; allons-y! — let's go!

    Je dois y aller. — I've got to go.

    Tu y vas un peu fort. — You're going a bit too far., You're going a bit far.

    Nous sommes allés jusqu'à Angers. — We went as far as Angers.

    J'irais jusqu'à dire qu'il est trop tard. — I would go so far as to say that it's too late.

    se laisser aller — to let o.s. go

    ça va de soi; ça va sans dire — that goes without saying

    ça va comme ça (= c'est suffisant) — that's fine, (impatience) that's enough

    3. vb aux

    Je vais le faire. — I'm going to do it.

    Je vais me fâcher. — I'm going to get angry.

    Je vais écrire à mes cousins. — I'm going to write to my cousins.

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    I.
    aller ⇒ Note d'usage verb table: aller
    A v aux
    1 ( marque le futur) je vais partir I'm leaving; je vais rentrer chez moi/me coucher I'm going home/to bed; j'allais partir I was just leaving; j'allais partir quand il est arrivé I was about to leave when he arrived; l'homme qui allait inventer la bombe atomique the man who was to invent the atomic bomb; il allait le regretter he was to regret it; il va le regretter he'll regret it; elle va avoir un an she'll soon be one; il va faire nuit it'll soon be dark; ça va aller mal○ there'll be trouble; tu vas me laisser tranquille? will you please leave me alone!;
    2 ( marque le futur programmé) je vais leur dire ce que je pense I'm going to tell them what I think; elle va peindre sa cuisine en bleu she's going to paint her kitchen blue; j'allais te le dire I was just going to tell you;
    3 ( marque le mouvement) aller rouler de l'autre côté de la rue to go rolling across the street; aller valser○ à l'autre bout de la pièce to go flying across the room; aller atterrir○ en plein champ/sur mon bureau to end up in the middle of a field/on my desk;
    4 (marque l'inclination, l'initiative) qu'est-ce que tu vas imaginer là? what a ridiculous idea!; va savoir! who knows?; va or allez (donc) savoir ce qui s'est passé who knows what happened?; qu'es-tu allé te mettre en tête? where did you pick up that idea?; qui irait le soupçonner? who would suspect him?; vous n'iriez pas leur dire ça? you're not going to go and say that, are you?; pourquoi es-tu allé faire ça? why did you have to go and do that?; n'allez pas croire une chose pareille! ( pour réfuter) don't you believe it!; ( pour tempérer l'enthousiasme) don't get carried away!; allez y comprendre quelque chose! just try and work that out!;
    5 ( marque l'évolution) la situation va (en) se compliquant the situation is getting more and more complicated; aller (en) s'améliorant/s'aggravant to be improving/getting worse; la tristesse ira (en) s'atténuant the grief will diminish.
    B vi
    1 (se porter, se dérouler, fonctionner) comment vas-tu, comment ça va? how are you?; ça va (bien) I'm fine; les enfants vont bien? are the children all right?; et ta femme/ton épaule, comment ça va? how's your wife/your shoulder?; comment va la santé? how are you keeping?; ça va la vie○? how's life○?; ça va les amours○? how's the love life going?; aller beaucoup mieux to be much better; bois ça, ça ira mieux drink this, you'll feel better; tout va bien pour toi? is everything going all right?; si tout va bien if everything goes all right; vous êtes sûr que ça va? are you sure you're all right?; les affaires vont bien/mal business is good/bad; ça va l'école? how are things at school?; ça ne va pas très fort or bien ( ma santé) I'm not feeling very well; ( la vie) things aren't too good; ( le moral) I'm feeling a bit low; ça pourrait aller mieux, ça va plus ou moins ( réponse) so-so; ça va mal entre eux things aren't too good between them; qu'est-ce qui ne va pas? what's the matter?; la voiture a quelque chose qui ne va pas there's something wrong with the car; tout va pour le mieux everything's fine; tout est allé si vite! it all happened so quickly!; ne pas aller sans peine or mal not to be easy; ne pas aller sans hésitations to take some thinking about; ça va de soi or sans dire it goes without saying; ça devrait aller de soi it should be obvious; ainsi vont les choses that's the way it goes; ainsi va le monde that's the way of the world; ainsi allait la France this was the state of affairs in France; l'amour ne va jamais de soi love is never straightforward; ça va tout seul ( c'est facile) it's a doddle○ GB, it's as easy as pie; ça ne va pas tout seul it's not that easy, it's no picnic○; les choses vont très vite things are moving fast; on fait aller○ struggling on○; ça peut aller○, ça ira○ could be worse○; ça va pas, non○ or la tête○? are you mad○ GB ou crazy○?; ça va pas, non, de crier or gesticuler comme ça○? what's the matter with you, carrying on like that○?; ⇒ pis;
    2 ( se déplacer) to go; tu vas trop vite you're going too fast; allez tout droit go straight ahead; aller et venir ( dans une pièce) to pace up and down; ( d'un lieu à l'autre) to run in and out; la liberté d'aller et venir the freedom to come and go at will; je préfère aller à pied/en avion I'd rather walk/fly; les nouvelles vont vite news travels fast; aller d'un pas rapide to walk quickly; je sais aller à bicyclette/cheval I can ride a bike/horse; où vas-tu? where are you going?, where are you off○ to?; je vais en Pologne I'm going to Poland; aller au marché/en ville to go to the market/into town; aller chez le médecin/dentiste to go to the doctor's/dentist's; va dans ta chambre go to your room; je suis allé de Bruxelles à Anvers I went from Brussels to Antwerp; je suis allé jusqu'en Chine/au marché ( et pas plus loin) I went as far as China/the market; ( et c'était loin) I went all the way to China/the market; je préfère ne pas y aller I'd rather not go; allons-y! let's go!; je l'ai rencontré en allant au marché I met him on the way to the market; aller vers le nord to head north; j'y vais ( je m'en occupe) I'll get it; ( je pars)○ I'm going, I'm off○; où va-t-il encore? where is he off to now○?; aller sur or vers Paris to head for Paris; où va-t-on○?, où allons-nous○? fig what are things coming to?, what's the world coming to?; va donc, eh, abruti○! get lost○, you idiot!; ⇒ cruche;
    3 (pour se livrer à une activité, chercher un produit) aller à l'école/au travail to go to school/to work; aller à la chasse/pêche to go hunting/fishing; allez-vous à la piscine? do you go to the swimming pool?; il est allé au golf/tennis he's gone to play golf/tennis; aller aux champignons/framboises to go mushroom-/raspberry-picking; aller au pain○ to go and get the bread; dans quelle boulangerie allez-vous? which bakery do you go to?; aller aux courses○ or commissions○ to go shopping; aller au ravitaillement to go and stock up; aller aux nouvelles or informations to go and see if there's any news;
    4 ( s'étendre dans l'espace) la route va au village the road leads to the village; la rue va de la gare à l'église the street goes from the station to the church;
    5 ( convenir) ma robe/la traduction, ça va? is my dress/the translation all right?; ça va, ça ira○, ça peut aller○ ( en quantité) that'll do; ( en qualité) it'll do; ça va comme ça it's all right as it is; ça ne va pas du tout that's no good at all; ça ne va pas du tout, tu dois mettre une cravate you can't go like that, you have to wear a tie; la traduction n'allait pas the translation was no good; lundi ça (te) va? would Monday suit you ou be okay○?; une soupe, ça (te) va? how about some soup?; va pour une soupe○ soup is okay○; ça irait si on se voyait demain? would it it be all right if we met tomorrow?; ça va si je porte un jean? can I wear jeans?; si le contrat ne te va pas, ne le signe pas don't sign the contract if you're not happy with it; si ça va pour toi, ça va pour moi○ or ça me va○ if it's okay by you, it's okay by me○; ça n'irait pas du tout ( inacceptable) that would never do; ma scie ne va pas pour le métal my saw is no good for metal; ça te va bien de faire la morale/parler comme ça○ iron you're hardly the person to preach/make that sort of remark;
    6 (être de la bonne taille, de la bonne forme) aller à qn to fit sb; tes chaussures sont trop grandes, elles ne me vont pas your shoes are too big, they don't fit me; cette vis/clé ne va pas this screw/key doesn't fit;
    7 (flatter, mettre en valeur) aller à qn to suit sb; le rouge ne me va pas or me va mal red doesn't suit me; sa robe lui allait (très) bien her dress really suited her; le rôle t'irait parfaitement the part would suit you perfectly; ta cravate ne va pas avec ta chemise your tie doesn't go with your shirt; les tapis vont bien ensemble the rugs go together well; les meubles vont bien ensemble the furniture all matches; je trouve que ta sœur et son petit ami vont très bien ensemble I think your sister and her boyfriend are ideally suited;
    8 ( se ranger) to go; les assiettes vont dans le placard the plates go in the cupboard; la chaise pliante va derrière la porte de la cuisine the folding chair goes behind the kitchen door;
    9 ( faculté) pouvoir aller dans l'eau to be waterproof; le plat ne va pas au four the dish is not ovenproof;
    10 ( dans une évaluation) la voiture peut aller jusqu'à 200 km/h the car can do up to 200 km/h; certains modèles peuvent aller jusqu'à 1 000 euros some models can cost up to 1,000 euros; une peine allant jusqu'à cinq ans de prison a sentence of up to five years in prison;
    11 ( en arriver à) aller jusqu'au président to take it right up to the president; aller jusqu'à mentir/tuer to go as far as to lie/kill; leur amour est allé jusqu'à la folie their love bordered on madness;
    12 ( dans le temps) aller jusqu'en 1914 to go up to 1914; pendant la période qui va du 8 février au 13 mars between 8 February and 13 March; la période qui va de 1918 à 1939 the period between 1918 and 1939; l'offre va jusqu'à jeudi the offer lasts until Thursday; le contrat allait jusqu'en 1997 the contract ran until 1997; va-t-on vers une nouvelle guerre? are we heading for another war?; aller sur ses 17 ans to be going on 17;
    13 (agir, raisonner) vas-y doucement or gentiment, le tissu est fragile careful, the fabric is delicate; ils n'y sont pas allés doucement avec les meubles○ they were rather rough with the furniture; tu vas trop vite you're going too fast; vas-y, demande-leur! ( incitation) go on, ask them!; vas-y, dis-le! ( provocation) come on, out with it!; allons, allez! (pour encourager, inciter) come on!; j'y vais○ ( je vais agir) here we go!; si tu vas par là or comme ça, rien n'est entièrement vrai if you take that line, nothing is entirely true;
    14 ( contribuer) y aller de sa petite larme to shed a little tear; y aller de sa petite chanson to do one's party piece; y aller de ses économies to dip into one's savings; y aller de sa personne to pitch in; y aller de 100 euros Jeux to put in 100 euros;
    15 ○( se succéder) ça y va la vodka avec lui he certainly gets through the vodka; ça y allait les coups the fur was flying○;
    16 ( servir) où est allé l'argent? where has the money gone?; l'argent ira à la réparation de l'église the money will go toward(s) repairing the church; l'argent est allé dans leurs poches they pocketed the money;
    17 ( enfreindre) aller contre la loi [personne] to break the law; [acte] to be against the law; je ne peux pas aller contre ce qu'il a décidé I can't go against his decision.
    C s'en aller vpr
    1 (partir, se rendre) il faut que je m'en aille I must go ou leave; je m'en vais en Italie cet été I'm going to Italy this summer; je m'en vais du Japon l'année prochaine I'll be leaving Japan next year; va-t'en! go away!; s'en aller faire les courses/en vacances/au travail to go off to do the shopping/on vacation/to work; ils s'en allaient chantant† they went off singing;
    2 ( disparaître) les nuages vont s'en aller the clouds will clear away; la tache ne s'en va pas the stain won't come out; avec le temps, tout s'en va everything fades with time; les années s'en vont the years go by;
    3 fml ( mourir) to pass away;
    4 (avoir l'intention de, essayer) je m'en vais leur dire ce que je pense I'm going to tell them what I think; ne t'en va pas imaginer une chose pareille ( pour réfuter) don't you believe it!; ( pour tempérer l'enthousiasme) don't get carried away!; va-t'en savoir ce qu'il a voulu dire! who knows what he meant?
    D v impers
    1 ( être en jeu) il y va de ma réputation my reputation is at stake; il y va de ta santé your health is at stake, you're putting your health at risk;
    2 ( se passer) il en va souvent ainsi that's often what happens; tout le monde doit aider et il en va de même pour toi everyone must help, and that goes for you too; il en ira de même pour eux the same goes for them; il en va autrement en Corée things are different in Korea; il en ira de lui comme de ses prédécesseurs he'll go the same way as his predecessors;
    3 Math 40 divisé par 12 il y va 3 fois et il reste 4 12 into 40 goes 3 times with 4 left over.
    II.
    aller nm
    1 ( trajet) j'ai fait une escale à l'aller I made a stopover on the way out; j'ai pris le bus à l'aller ( en allant là) I took the bus there; ( en venant ici) I took the bus here; l'aller a pris trois heures the journey there took three hours; il n'arrête pas de faire des allers et retours entre chez lui et son bureau he keeps running to and fro from his house to the office; je suis pressé, je ne fais que l'aller et le retour○ I'm in a hurry, I've just popped in○; billet aller gén single ticket GB, one-way ticket US; ( d'avion) one-way ticket; billet aller (et) retour return ticket GB, round trip (ticket) US;
    2 ( ticket) aller (simple) single (ticket); deux allers (pour) Lille two singles to Lille; aller (et) retour return ticket;
    3 Sport ( match) first leg; à l'aller in the first leg; match or rencontre aller first leg.
    I
    [ale] nom masculin
    1. [voyage] outward journey
    faire des allers et retours [personne, document] to go back and forth, to shuttle back and forth
    ne faire qu'un ou que l'aller et retour: je vais à la banque mais je ne fais qu'un aller et retour I'm going to the bank, but I'll be right back
    2. [billet]
    II
    [ale] verbe auxiliaire
    1. (suivi de l'infinitif) [exprime le futur proche] to be going ou about to
    tu vas tomber! you're going to fall!, you'll fall!
    attendez-le, il va arriver wait for him, he'll be here any minute now
    j'allais justement te téléphoner I was just going to phone you, I was on the point of phoning you
    [pour donner un ordre]
    tu vas faire ce que je te dis, oui ou non? will you do as I say or won't you?
    2. (suivi de l'infinitif) [en intensif] to go
    ne va pas croire/penser que... don't go and believe/think that...
    allez expliquer ça à un enfant de 5 ans! try and explain ou try explaining that to a 5-year-old!
    3. [exprime la continuité] (suivi du gérondif)
    aller en: aller en s'améliorant to get better and better, to improve
    a. [tension] to be rising
    b. [nombre] to be rising ou increasing
    ————————
    [ale] verbe intransitif
    A.[EXPRIME LE MOUVEMENT]
    1. [se déplacer] to go
    b. [à un enfant] run along (now)!
    vous alliez à plus de 90 km/h [en voiture] you were driving at ou doing more than 90 km/h
    a. [de long en large] to pace up and down
    b. [entre deux destinations] to come and go, to go to and fro
    2. [se rendre - personne]
    aller à la mer/à la montagne to go to the seaside/mountains
    b. [institution] to go to university ou college
    aller à la chasse/pêche to go hunting/fishing
    j'irai en avion/voiture I'll fly/drive, I'll go by plane/car
    aller chez: aller chez un ami to go to see a friend, to go to a friend's
    tu n'iras plus chez eux, tu m'entends? you will not visit them again, do you hear me?
    aller en: aller en Autriche to go ou to travel to Austria
    aller en haut/bas to go up/down
    3. (suivi de l'infinitif) [pour se livrer à une activité]
    aller faire quelque chose to go and do something, to go do something (US)
    4. [mener - véhicule, chemin] to go
    5. [fonctionner - machine] to go, to run ; [ - moteur] to run ; [ - voiture, train] to go
    6. [se ranger - dans un contenant] to go, to belong ; [ - dans un ensemble] to fit
    7. [être remis]
    B.[S'ÉTENDRE]
    1. [dans l'espace]
    a. [vers le haut] to go ou to reach up to
    b. [vers le bas] to go ou to reach down to
    c. [en largeur, en longueur] to go to, to stretch as far as
    2. [dans le temps]
    aller de... à... to go from... to...
    aller jusqu'à [bail, contrat] to run till
    3. [dans une série]
    aller de... à... to go ou to range from... to...
    aller jusqu'à: les prix vont jusqu'à 8.000 euros prices go as high as 8,000 euros
    C.[PROGRESSER]
    1. [se dérouler]
    aller vite/lentement to go fast/slow
    plus ça va...: plus ça va, moins je comprends la politique the more I see of politics, the less I understand it
    plus ça va, plus je l'aime I love her more each day
    2. [personne]
    aller jusqu'à: j'irai jusqu'à 1.000 euros pour le fauteuil I'll pay ou go up to 1,000 euros for the armchair
    j'irais même jusqu'à dire que... I would even go so far as to say that...
    aller sur ou vers [approcher de]: il va sur ou vers la cinquantaine he's getting on for ou going on 50
    elle va sur ses cinq ans she's nearly ou almost five, she'll be five soon
    aller à la faillite/l'échec to be heading for bankruptcy/failure
    où va-t-on ou allons-nous s'il faut se barricader chez soi? what's the world coming to if people have to lock themselves in nowadays?
    D.[ÊTRE DANS TELLE OU TELLE SITUATION]
    1. [en parlant de l'état de santé]
    bonjour, comment ça va? — ça va hello, how are you? — all right
    comment va la santé?, comment va? (familier) how are you keeping?
    ça va? [après un choc] are you all right?
    aller mal: il va mal he's not at all well, he's very poorly
    ça va pas (bien) ou la tête!, ça va pas, non? (familier) you're off your head!, you must be mad!
    2. [se passer]
    les choses vont ou ça va mal things aren't too good ou aren't going too well
    comment ça va dans ton nouveau service? how are you getting on ou how are things in the new department?
    ça ne va pas tout seul ou sans problème it's not an ou it's no easy job
    et le travail, ça va comme tu veux? (familier) is work going all right?
    E.[EXPRIME L'ADÉQUATION]
    1. [être seyant]
    a. [taille d'un vêtement] to fit somebody
    b. [style d'un vêtement] to suit somebody
    le bleu lui va blue suits her, she looks good in blue
    cela te va à ravir ou à merveille that looks wonderful on you, you look wonderful in that
    2. [être en harmonie]
    a. [couleurs, styles] to go well together, to match
    b. [éléments d'une paire] to belong together
    ils vont bien ensemble, ces deux-là! those two make quite a pair!
    3. [convenir]
    tu veux de l'aide? — non, ça ira! do you want a hand? — no, I'll manage ou it's OK!
    ça ira pour aujourd'hui that'll be all for today, let's call it a day
    pour un studio, ça peut aller as far as bedsits (UK) ou studio apartments (US) go, it's not too bad
    F.[LOCUTIONS]
    allez, un petit effort come on, put some effort into it
    allez, je m'en vais! right, I'm going now!
    zut, j'ai cassé un verre! — et allez (donc), le troisième en un mois! damn! I've broken a glass! — well done, that's the third in a month!
    allez ou allons donc! [tu exagères] go on ou get away (with you)!,come off it!
    allez-y! go on!, off you go!
    allons-y, ne nous gênons pas! (ironique) don't mind me!
    allons bon, j'ai perdu ma clef maintenant! oh no, now I've lost my key!
    allons bon, voilà qu'il recommence à pleurer! here we go, he's crying again!
    c'est mieux comme ça, va! it's better that way, you know!
    (espèce de) frimeur, va! (familier) you show-off!
    va donc, eh minable! (familier) get lost, you little creep!
    ça va (familier) , ça va bien (familier) , ça va comme ça (familier) OK
    je t'aurai prévenu! — ça va, ça va! don't say I didn't warn you! — OK, OK!
    ça va comme ça hein, j'en ai assez de tes jérémiades! just shut up will you, I'm fed up with your moaning!
    y aller (familier) : une fois que tu es sur le plongeoir, il faut y aller! once you're on the diving board, you've got to jump!
    quand faut y aller, faut y aller when you've got to go, you've got to go
    y aller [le faire]: vas-y doucement, c'est fragile gently ou easy does it, it's fragile
    y aller de: aux réunions de famille, il y va toujours d'une ou de sa chansonnette every time there's a family gathering, he sings a little song
    il ou cela ou ça va de soi (que) it goes without saying (that)
    il ou cela ou ça va sans dire (que) it goes without saying (that)
    il y va de: il y va de ta vie/carrière/réputation your life/career/reputation is at stake
    va pour le Saint-Émilion! (familier) all right ou OK then, we'll have the Saint-Emilion!
    tout le monde est égoïste, si tu vas par là! everybody's selfish, if you look at it like that!
    ————————
    s'en aller verbe pronominal intransitif
    1. [partir - personne] to go
    2. [se défaire, se détacher] to come undone
    3. (soutenu) [mourir - personne] to die, to pass away
    4. [disparaître - tache] to come off, to go (away) ; [ - son] to fade away ; [ - forces] to fail ; [ - jeunesse] to pass ; [ - lumière, soleil, couleur] to fade (away) ; [ - peinture, vernis] to come off
    ça s'en ira au lavage/avec du savon it'll come off in the wash/with soap
    5. (suivi de l'infinitif) [en intensif]

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > aller

  • 4 ved

    at, by, in case of, gentlemanly, on, upon, wood
    * * *
    I. (et) wood;
    (fig) add fuel to the fire.
    II. præp
    a) ( om sted) at ( fx at the end of the street, at the next station),
    ( ved siden af, henne ved) by ( fx he sat at his writing table by
    the window; sit by the fire; he lives by the sea (, the river);
    by the roadside);
    ( nær ved) near ( fx he lives near the castle),
    ( nærmere) close to;
    b) ( om beliggenhed ved flod, kyst etc) on ( fx the towns on the Thames
    (, on the Channel); their house is right on the sea (, road); on the Scottish border),
    (se også I. grænse);
    c) ( om tid) at ( fx at dawn, at breakfast; at his death, at midnight, at the outbreak of the war, at the sight of her);
    ( NB ofte omskrives til bisætning, fx ved krigens udbrud when the war broke out; ved synet af hende when he saw her);
    ( lige efter) on ( fx on (el. at) our arrival in London);
    ( omtrent ved) about, around ( fx about (el. around) this time tomorrow; about (el. around) five o'clock);
    (= senest ved el. om resultat af en udvikling) by ( fx you must be here by five; by the end of the war the country was almost
    bankrupt);
    d) ( om lejlighed) at ( fx at the concert, at the funeral, at the party);
    ( da noget foregik: omskrives til bisætning, fx ved fjernelsen af låget
    when the lid was removed);
    e) ( om ansættelse, arbejdssted) at ( fx teacher at a school, professor at a university (, at Oxford), physician at a hospital; he is at the Royal Theatre), on ( fx a job on the railway (, on a newspaper), he is on the stage), in ( fx he is in the Army (, the Navy), he is in
    agriculture, professor in a university);
    [ rektor ved en skole] headmaster of a school;
    f) ( om middel) by ( fx powered by electricity, read by lamplight, vote by show of hands; take (, seize, grasp) him by the collar; live by writing), through ( fx through their influence);
    [ ved at gøre dette] by doing this, when you (, they etc) do (, did) this;
    g) ( om egenskab) about ( fx there is something funny about him; what is so special (, wonderful etc) about that?);
    [ der er noget godt ved ham] he has his good points;
    [ der er noget farligt ved det] it has its dangers;
    h) ( i færd med) at ( fx he was at his work);
    ( i færd med at nyde) over ( fx discuss it over a glass of beer (, a cup of coffee); sit over one's coffee);
    i) [ Udtryk]
    [ med være:]
    (dvs tilstå) admit ( fx he would not admit that he did not know
    anything about it);
    [ ham (, det) er der ikke meget ved] he (, that) is not much good (el.
    not up to much);
    [ ham (, det) er der ikke noget ved] he (, that) is no good;
    [ enhver lærer der er noget ved kan gøre det] any teacher worth his salt can do it;
    (dvs begynde at; være i færd med at) be -ing ( fx they were getting tired (, hungry); he is washing the car);
    (dvs skulle til at) be (just) about to ( fx leave), be on the point of -ing ( fx of leaving);
    [(dvs men ikke gøre det:) han var lige ved at falde] he nearly fell, he almost fell,
    ( stærkere) he very nearly fell, he all but fell;
    [ det var lige ved at han slog mig] he very nearly struck me;
    j) [ Udtryk]
    [ med det:]
    [ mens du er ved det] while you are at it;
    [ det er det sjove (, vanskelige) ved det] that is the funny (,
    difficult) thing about it, that is the funny (, difficult) part of
    (el. about) it;
    ( også) that is where the fun comes in;
    III. adv:
    [ tæt (el. lige) ved]
    ( med styrelse) near (to), close to,
    ( uden styrelse) near by, nearby, close by, close at hand;
    IV. præs af vide.

    Danish-English dictionary > ved

  • 5 gerra

    iz. ( gerla, guda)
    1. war; \gerra eta bakea war and peace; \gerra irabazi to win the war; \gerra hasi zenean when the war broke out; \gerraren jainkoa the god of war; Bigarren mundu-\gerra the Second World War | World War Two
    2. [ izenen aurrean ] war-; \gerra-denboran during the war; \gerraontzi warship

    Euskara Ingelesa hiztegiaren > gerra

  • 6 ewaku|ować

    pf imp Ⅰ vt to evacuate [ludzi]
    - ewakuować ludność cywilną z terenów zagrożonych atakiem nieprzyjaciela to evacuate the civilian population from areas under threat of enemy attack
    - po wybuchu wojny zostaliśmy ewakuowani w głąb kraju when the war broke out we were evacuated to the interior
    Ⅱ ewakuować się 1. (z zagrożonych terenów) to be evacuated, to evacuate
    - szpital się ewakuuje, bo nieprzyjaciel zbliża się do miasta the hospital is being evacuated because enemy forces are approaching the town
    2. pot., żart. (wychodzić) to take off pot., to bail out US pot., żart.
    - jeszcze jedno rozdanie i będziemy się ewakuować one more round and we’ll be taking off

    The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > ewaku|ować

  • 7 раз-два и обчёлся

    тж. раз-другой (один-два, один-другой) <да> и обчёлся
    разг.
    no more than one or two; one, two and that's it; a mere handful; next to nothing

    - Но о своей читальне ты всё-таки дослушай. Вчера побывал я там... Пустота и мерзость запустения!..А главное, книжонок - раз-два и обчёлся, и те старьё. (М. Шолохов, Поднятая целина) — 'But listen to what I have to say about your reading-room. I was there yesterday and it wasn't a pleasant visit... Sheer desolation!.. And worst of all, there were only two or three books all told, and they were old ones.'

    - Зачем насмехаешься? Земляк ведь ты мне, Дёмин. Сколько нас тут воронежских: раз, два и обчёлся, - заговорил голосом тихой укоризны Калинкин. (Ю. Бондарев, Выбор) — 'Why do you make fun of me? We come from the same parts, you and me, Demin. How many of us from Voronezh are here: one, two and that's it,' Kalinkin said in a tone of mild rebuke.

    Когда война развернулась, мужиков в Северном осталось раз-два и обчёлся. (Г. Баженов, Азбектфан) — When the war broke out there were no more than one or two men left in Severnoye.

    Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > раз-два и обчёлся

  • 8 sobrevenir

    v.
    1 to happen, to ensue.
    sobrevino la guerra the war intervened
    2 to happen unexpectedly, to come about, to occur, to happen.
    3 to happen unexpectedly to, to happen to.
    A María le sobrevino un problema A problem happened unexpectedly to Mary.
    * * *
    Conjugation model [ VENIR], like link=venir venir
    1 to happen to, befall
    * * *
    VI (=ocurrir) to happen, happen unexpectedly; (=resultar) to follow, ensue
    * * *
    verbo intransitivo desgracia/accidente to strike
    * * *
    verbo intransitivo desgracia/accidente to strike
    * * *
    vi
    «desgracia/accidente» to strike
    al sobrevenir la guerra when war broke out
    me sobrevino una extraña sensación a strange feeling came over me
    le sobrevino la muerte he was struck down
    ese año sobrevino un hecho que habría de cambiar el curso de la historia that year something happened which was to change the course of history
    pueden sobrevenir alucinaciones hallucinations may occur
    * * *

    sobrevenir ( conjugate sobrevenir) verbo intransitivo [desgracia/accidente] to strike
    sobrevenir verbo intransitivo
    1 (acontecer repentinamente) to happen all of a sudden
    2 (venir tras, suceder) to follow, come after
    ' sobrevenir' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    acometer
    - dar
    - entrar
    - surgir
    - venir
    English:
    strike
    - supervene
    * * *
    to occur;
    sobrevino la guerra the war intervened;
    estaban en el extranjero cuando sobrevino la epidemia they were abroad when the epidemic broke out o occurred;
    no supieron reaccionar cuando sobrevino el desastre they failed to react when the disaster struck o occurred;
    la enfermedad le sobrevino durante las vacaciones he was struck down by the illness during the holidays
    * * *
    v/i happen; de guerra break out
    * * *
    sobrevenir {87} vi
    acaecer: to take place, to come about
    podrían sobrevenir complicaciones: complications could occur

    Spanish-English dictionary > sobrevenir

  • 9 Г-228

    HE УКЛАДЫВАЕТСЯ (HE УМЕЩАЕТСЯ rare) В ГОЛОВЕ (чьей, у кого) (В СОЗНАНИИ (чьём, у кого)) VP
    1. ( subj: a clause, это, or abstr. ( usu. мысль о том, что...)
    if subj is a clause, it usu. follows the idiom usu. impfv pres or past affirm with the opposite meaning is rare) ( sth. is) unacceptable, incomprehensible (used to express s.o. 's inability to understand the logic of sth., unwillingness to accept some fact as true etc)
    X не укладывается у Y-a в голове = X is beyond Y
    Y cannot fathom
    understand, comprehend) X
    Y finds it difficult to accept X (in limited contexts) Y just (simply) cannot believe X.
    ...Одно только никак не укладывалось у Лёши в голове -зачем отцу нужно было выводить из строя эту самую печь? Неужели он думал, что вместе с этой печью рухнет все советское государство? (Войнович 2)... There was just one thing Lyosha found difficult to accept-why had his father wanted to put that particular furnace out of commission? Could he really have thought the loss of this one furnace would cause the entire Soviet state to collapse? (2a).
    (author's usage) В Калинине я прожила до самой эвакуации, почти два года, и никто меня не тронул, хотя в моем деле лежал неиспользованный ордер на мой арест... В ее (Татьяны Васильевны) голове не могло уложиться, что «они» (чекисты) хотели кого-то взять и не взяли, потому что не нашли... (Мандельштам 1). I lived in Kalinin nearly two years-right till the evacuation after the war broke out—and I was left alone, even though the warrant for my arrest must still have been lying, unused, in my file....She (Tatiana Vasilievna) just could not believe that "they" (the Chekists) would ever fail to arrest anyone they were after, and that I had escaped because I had not been there when they came (1a).
    2. coll
    subj: это, often omitted neg impfv only used as Interj) used to express indignation, incredulity, incomprehension etc
    it's (that's) beyond me (my comprehension)!
    it's (that's) beyond belief! it's (that's) incredible (unbelievable, unthinkable, outrageous)!
    «Это не укладывается в голове! - воскликнула Лена, изумленно вертя в руках газету. - Это чёрным по белому и всерьез... После всех... философий, великих наук и литератур открыто наконец, что чрезмерное образование - зло» (Кузнецов 1). "It's incredible!" Lena exclaimed, bewildered, twisting the newspaper in her hands. "Here it is in black and white, in all seriousness. After..all the philosophers, the great scientists and writers, it is finally discovered that too much education is an evil" (1a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > Г-228

  • 10 не укладывается в голове

    • НЕ УКЛАДЫВАЕТСЯ < НЕ УМЕЩАЕТСЯ rare> В ГОЛОВЕ (чьей, у кого) <В СОЗНАНИИ (чьём, у кого)>
    [VP]
    =====
    1. [subj: a clause, это, or abstr. (usu. мысль о том, что...); if subj is a clause, it usu. follows the idiom; usu. impfv pres or past; affirm with the opposite meaning is rare]
    ⇒ (sth. is) unacceptable, incomprehensible (used to express s.o.'s inability to understand the logic of sth., unwillingness to accept some fact as true etc):
    - X не укладывается у Y-а в голове≈ X is beyond Y < Y's comprehension>;
    - Y cannot fathom <understand, comprehend> X;
    - [in limited contexts] Y just (simply) cannot believe X.
         ♦...Одно только никак не укладывалось у Лёши в голове - зачем отцу нужно было выводить из строя эту самую печь? Неужели он думал, что вместе с этой печью рухнет все советское государство? (Войнович 2)....There was just one thing Lyosha found difficult to accept-why had his father wanted to put that particular furnace out of commission? Could he really have thought the loss of this one furnace would cause the entire Soviet state to collapse? (2a).
         ♦ [author's usage] В Калинине я прожила до самой эвакуации, почти два года, и никто меня не тронул, хотя в моем деле лежал неиспользованный ордер на мой арест... В ее [Татьяны Васильевны] голове не могло уложиться, что "они" [чекисты] хотели кого-то взять и не взяли, потому что не нашли... (Мандельштам 1). I lived in Kalinin nearly two years - right till the evacuation after the war broke out - and I was left alone, even though the warrant for my arrest must still have been lying, unused, in my file....She [Tatiana Vasilievna] just could not believe that "they" [the Chekists] would ever fail to arrest anyone they were after, and that I had escaped because I had not been there when they came (1a).
    2. coll [subj: это, often omitted; neg impfv only; used as Interj]
    ⇒ used to express indignation, incredulity, incomprehension etc:
    - it's (that's) beyond me (my comprehension)!;
    - ift (that's) beyond belief!;
    - it's (thatis) incredible (unbelievable, unthinkable, outrageous)!
         ♦ "Это не укладывается в голове! - воскликнула Лена, изумленно вертя в руках газету. - Это чёрным по белому и всерьез... После всех... философий, великих наук и литератур открыто наконец, что чрезмерное образование - зло" (Кузнецов 1). "It's incredible!" Lena exclaimed, bewildered, twisting the newspaper in her hands. "Here it is in black and white, in all seriousness. After..all the philosophers, the great scientists and writers, it is finally discovered that too much education is an evil" (1a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > не укладывается в голове

  • 11 не укладывается в сознании

    • НЕ УКЛАДЫВАЕТСЯ < НЕ УМЕЩАЕТСЯ rare> В ГОЛОВЕ (чьей, у кого) <В СОЗНАНИИ (чьём, у кого)>
    [VP]
    =====
    1. [subj: a clause, это, or abstr. (usu. мысль о том, что...); if subj is a clause, it usu. follows the idiom; usu. impfv pres or past; affirm with the opposite meaning is rare]
    ⇒ (sth. is) unacceptable, incomprehensible (used to express s.o.'s inability to understand the logic of sth., unwillingness to accept some fact as true etc):
    - X не укладывается у Y-а в голове≈ X is beyond Y < Y's comprehension>;
    - Y cannot fathom <understand, comprehend> X;
    - [in limited contexts] Y just (simply) cannot believe X.
         ♦...Одно только никак не укладывалось у Лёши в голове - зачем отцу нужно было выводить из строя эту самую печь? Неужели он думал, что вместе с этой печью рухнет все советское государство? (Войнович 2)....There was just one thing Lyosha found difficult to accept-why had his father wanted to put that particular furnace out of commission? Could he really have thought the loss of this one furnace would cause the entire Soviet state to collapse? (2a).
         ♦ [author's usage] В Калинине я прожила до самой эвакуации, почти два года, и никто меня не тронул, хотя в моем деле лежал неиспользованный ордер на мой арест... В ее [Татьяны Васильевны] голове не могло уложиться, что "они" [чекисты] хотели кого-то взять и не взяли, потому что не нашли... (Мандельштам 1). I lived in Kalinin nearly two years - right till the evacuation after the war broke out - and I was left alone, even though the warrant for my arrest must still have been lying, unused, in my file....She [Tatiana Vasilievna] just could not believe that "they" [the Chekists] would ever fail to arrest anyone they were after, and that I had escaped because I had not been there when they came (1a).
    2. coll [subj: это, often omitted; neg impfv only; used as Interj]
    ⇒ used to express indignation, incredulity, incomprehension etc:
    - it's (that's) beyond me (my comprehension)!;
    - ift (that's) beyond belief!;
    - it's (thatis) incredible (unbelievable, unthinkable, outrageous)!
         ♦ "Это не укладывается в голове! - воскликнула Лена, изумленно вертя в руках газету. - Это чёрным по белому и всерьез... После всех... философий, великих наук и литератур открыто наконец, что чрезмерное образование - зло" (Кузнецов 1). "It's incredible!" Lena exclaimed, bewildered, twisting the newspaper in her hands. "Here it is in black and white, in all seriousness. After..all the philosophers, the great scientists and writers, it is finally discovered that too much education is an evil" (1a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > не укладывается в сознании

  • 12 не умещается в голове

    • НЕ УКЛАДЫВАЕТСЯ < НЕ УМЕЩАЕТСЯ rare> В ГОЛОВЕ (чьей, у кого) <В СОЗНАНИИ (чьём, у кого)>
    [VP]
    =====
    1. [subj: a clause, это, or abstr. (usu. мысль о том, что...); if subj is a clause, it usu. follows the idiom; usu. impfv pres or past; affirm with the opposite meaning is rare]
    ⇒ (sth. is) unacceptable, incomprehensible (used to express s.o.'s inability to understand the logic of sth., unwillingness to accept some fact as true etc):
    - X не укладывается у Y-а в голове≈ X is beyond Y < Y's comprehension>;
    - Y cannot fathom <understand, comprehend> X;
    - [in limited contexts] Y just (simply) cannot believe X.
         ♦...Одно только никак не укладывалось у Лёши в голове - зачем отцу нужно было выводить из строя эту самую печь? Неужели он думал, что вместе с этой печью рухнет все советское государство? (Войнович 2)....There was just one thing Lyosha found difficult to accept-why had his father wanted to put that particular furnace out of commission? Could he really have thought the loss of this one furnace would cause the entire Soviet state to collapse? (2a).
         ♦ [author's usage] В Калинине я прожила до самой эвакуации, почти два года, и никто меня не тронул, хотя в моем деле лежал неиспользованный ордер на мой арест... В ее [Татьяны Васильевны] голове не могло уложиться, что "они" [чекисты] хотели кого-то взять и не взяли, потому что не нашли... (Мандельштам 1). I lived in Kalinin nearly two years - right till the evacuation after the war broke out - and I was left alone, even though the warrant for my arrest must still have been lying, unused, in my file....She [Tatiana Vasilievna] just could not believe that "they" [the Chekists] would ever fail to arrest anyone they were after, and that I had escaped because I had not been there when they came (1a).
    2. coll [subj: это, often omitted; neg impfv only; used as Interj]
    ⇒ used to express indignation, incredulity, incomprehension etc:
    - it's (that's) beyond me (my comprehension)!;
    - ift (that's) beyond belief!;
    - it's (thatis) incredible (unbelievable, unthinkable, outrageous)!
         ♦ "Это не укладывается в голове! - воскликнула Лена, изумленно вертя в руках газету. - Это чёрным по белому и всерьез... После всех... философий, великих наук и литератур открыто наконец, что чрезмерное образование - зло" (Кузнецов 1). "It's incredible!" Lena exclaimed, bewildered, twisting the newspaper in her hands. "Here it is in black and white, in all seriousness. After..all the philosophers, the great scientists and writers, it is finally discovered that too much education is an evil" (1a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > не умещается в голове

  • 13 не умещается в сознании

    • НЕ УКЛАДЫВАЕТСЯ < НЕ УМЕЩАЕТСЯ rare> В ГОЛОВЕ (чьей, у кого) <В СОЗНАНИИ (чьём, у кого)>
    [VP]
    =====
    1. [subj: a clause, это, or abstr. (usu. мысль о том, что...); if subj is a clause, it usu. follows the idiom; usu. impfv pres or past; affirm with the opposite meaning is rare]
    ⇒ (sth. is) unacceptable, incomprehensible (used to express s.o.'s inability to understand the logic of sth., unwillingness to accept some fact as true etc):
    - X не укладывается у Y-а в голове≈ X is beyond Y < Y's comprehension>;
    - Y cannot fathom <understand, comprehend> X;
    - [in limited contexts] Y just (simply) cannot believe X.
         ♦...Одно только никак не укладывалось у Лёши в голове - зачем отцу нужно было выводить из строя эту самую печь? Неужели он думал, что вместе с этой печью рухнет все советское государство? (Войнович 2)....There was just one thing Lyosha found difficult to accept-why had his father wanted to put that particular furnace out of commission? Could he really have thought the loss of this one furnace would cause the entire Soviet state to collapse? (2a).
         ♦ [author's usage] В Калинине я прожила до самой эвакуации, почти два года, и никто меня не тронул, хотя в моем деле лежал неиспользованный ордер на мой арест... В ее [Татьяны Васильевны] голове не могло уложиться, что "они" [чекисты] хотели кого-то взять и не взяли, потому что не нашли... (Мандельштам 1). I lived in Kalinin nearly two years - right till the evacuation after the war broke out - and I was left alone, even though the warrant for my arrest must still have been lying, unused, in my file....She [Tatiana Vasilievna] just could not believe that "they" [the Chekists] would ever fail to arrest anyone they were after, and that I had escaped because I had not been there when they came (1a).
    2. coll [subj: это, often omitted; neg impfv only; used as Interj]
    ⇒ used to express indignation, incredulity, incomprehension etc:
    - it's (that's) beyond me (my comprehension)!;
    - ift (that's) beyond belief!;
    - it's (thatis) incredible (unbelievable, unthinkable, outrageous)!
         ♦ "Это не укладывается в голове! - воскликнула Лена, изумленно вертя в руках газету. - Это чёрным по белому и всерьез... После всех... философий, великих наук и литератур открыто наконец, что чрезмерное образование - зло" (Кузнецов 1). "It's incredible!" Lena exclaimed, bewildered, twisting the newspaper in her hands. "Here it is in black and white, in all seriousness. After..all the philosophers, the great scientists and writers, it is finally discovered that too much education is an evil" (1a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > не умещается в сознании

  • 14 через пень-колоду

    (делать что-либо, идти, развиваться и т. п.)
    прост., неодобр.
    cf. do smth. anyhow (half-heartedly); do smth. sliphod (in a slipshod way, by fits and starts); go (run, etc.) zigging and zagging

    [Владелец завода] всегда ходил в грязном и мятом чесучовом костюме, всё время чесал пятернёй растрёпанную рыжеватую бородку и говорил невразумительно, спотыкаясь, через пень-колоду. (К. Паустовский, Повесть о жизни) — He always walked around in a dirty, crumpled silk suit, combed his dishevelled reddish beard with his five fingers, and talked in an obscure and slipshod sort of way.

    - Хотя позицию стали укреплять с начала войны, но работа шла через пень-колоду, а когда японцы высадились в Бидзиво, то мы сразу запороли горячку. (А. Степанов, Порт-Артур) — 'We started fortifying the positions as soon as the war broke out, but the work dragged on, and we began to get a move on only when the Japanese landed in Bidziwo.'

    - Да ведь если бы жизнь нормально развивалась, а не вкось да через пень-колоду, я бы и вправду нынче был не меньше как дивврачом, - сказал Иван Дмитриевич, - сиречь генералом медицинской службы. (Ю. Герман, Дорогой мой человек) — 'Ah, yes, of course, if my life had followed a normal course instead of zigging and zagging, I'd certainly be a divisional surgeon now at the very least, or in other words a surgeon general.'

    Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > через пень-колоду

  • 15 guerra

    f.
    declarar la guerra to declare war
    en guerra at war
    guerra sin cuartel all-out war
    guerra atómica nuclear war
    guerra civil civil war
    guerra fría cold war
    guerra de guerrillas guerrilla warfare
    guerra mundial world war
    guerra de nervios war of nerves
    guerra nuclear nuclear war
    guerra psicológica psychological warfare
    guerra química chemical warfare
    guerra santa Holy War
    guerra sucia dirty war
    * * *
    1 war
    \
    dar guerra familiar to cause problems, cause trouble
    declarar la guerra a to declare war on
    en guerra at war
    ser de antes de la guerra familiar to be donkey's years old
    guerra bacteriológica / guerra biológica germ warfare
    guerra civil civil war
    guerra comercial trade war
    guerra de Cuba Spanish-American War
    guerra de la Independencia Spanish War of Independence
    guerra de los Treinta Años Thirty Years' War
    guerra de nervios war of nerves
    guerra fría cold war
    guerra mundial world war
    guerra nuclear nuclear war
    guerra psicológica psychological warfare
    guerra química chemical warfare
    guerra santa holy war
    guerra total all-out war
    la Primer Guerra Mundial World War I, the First World War, World War I
    la Segunda Guerra Mundial World War II, the Second World War
    * * *
    noun f.
    1) war
    * * *
    SF
    1) (Mil, Pol) war; (=arte) warfare

    de guerra — military, war antes de s

    Ministerio de Guerra — Ministry of War, War Office, War Department (EEUU)

    guerra bacteriana, guerra bacteriológica — germ warfare

    guerra caliente — hot war, shooting war

    guerra de agotamiento, guerra de desgaste — war of attrition

    Guerra de la Independencia — LAm War of Independence; Esp Peninsular War

    guerra relámpago — blitzkrieg, lightning war (EEUU)

    guerra santa — holy war, crusade

    declarar 1., 1)
    2) (=problemas)

    dar guerra — [gen] to be a nuisance (a to)

    make trouble (a for) [niño] to carry on

    pedir o querer guerra — [gen] to look for trouble; [sexualmente] * to feel randy o horny *

    3) (=juego) billiards
    GUERRA CIVIL ESPAÑOLA Spain's political climate was extremely volatile in the 1930s. The elections of February 1936 were won by a coalition of socialist and anarchist groups known as the Frente Popular or FP, and were followed by a period of social disorder. On July 18 of that year, General Francisco Franco led a military coup. In the ensuing war Franco's side was known as the Nacionales and the government forces as the Republicanos. Neither army was well-equipped, so foreign support was a decisive factor: the USSR sent aid to the Republicans and volunteers from all over Europe formed Brigadas Internacionales (International Brigades) to fight for the Republican side. Fascist Italy and Germany sent troops and weapons to Franco. The fighting was bitter and protracted, and the Nationalists' superior firepower finally triumphed. The war ended officially on April 1, 1939, when Franco proclaimed himself Jefe del Estado, a position he held for the next 36 years.
    See:
    * * *
    1) (Mil, Pol) war
    2) (fam) ( problemas) trouble, hassle (colloq)
    * * *
    = war, warfare.
    Ex. For example, at Woking, the stock has been split into about thirty sections, such as Health and welfare, war and warfare, retaining the Dewey sequence within each section.
    Ex. For example, at Woking, the stock has been split into about thirty sections, such as Health and welfare, War and warfare, retaining the Dewey sequence within each section.
    ----
    * amenaza de guerra = threat of war.
    * anterior a la guerra = pre-war [prewar], antebellum.
    * anterior a la Guerra Civil = pre-Civil War.
    * arrasado por la guerra = war-torn.
    * arte de la guerra = warfare.
    * avezado en la guerra = battle-hardened.
    * baja de guerra = war casualty.
    * barco de guerra = warship, naval ship, war vessel.
    * botín de guerra = war booty.
    * botín de guerra, el = spoils of war, the, victor's spoils.
    * buque de guerra = warship.
    * causar una guerra = precipitate + war.
    * centro social para veteranos de guerra = Veterans' centre.
    * comienzo de la guerra = outbreak of the war, breakout of + the war.
    * consejo de guerra = courts-martial, court martial.
    * corresponsal de guerra = war correspondent, war journalist, war reporter.
    * crímen de guerra = war crime.
    * criminal de guerra = war criminal.
    * danza de guerra = war dance.
    * dar guerra = act up, play up.
    * de antes de la guerra = pre-war [prewar].
    * declaración de guerra = declaration of war.
    * declarar la guerra = break out into + declared war, go to + war, take up + arms.
    * declarar la guerra a = declare + war on.
    * declarar la guerra a muerte a = declare + open season on.
    * declararse en guerra = go to + war.
    * de la guerra = wartime [wart-time].
    * desatar una guerra = precipitate + war.
    * desenterrar el hacha de guerra = take up + the tomahawk, dig up + the tomahawk, dig up + the hatchet, dig up + the war axe.
    * despojos de la guerra, los = spoils of war, the.
    * destrozado por la guerra = war-ravaged.
    * devastado por la guerra = war-torn.
    * disturbio ocasionado por la guerra = war riot.
    * durante la guerra = during wartime, wartime [wart-time], war years, the.
    * efecto de la guerra = effect of war.
    * embates de la guerra, los = ravages of war, the.
    * en contra de la guerra = antiwar [anti-war].
    * en épocas de guerra = in time(s) of war.
    * en guerra = war-torn, at war.
    * en pie de guerra = on the warpath.
    * en son de guerra = on the warpath.
    * enterrar el hacha de guerra = bury + the hatchet, bury + the tomahawk, bury + the war axe.
    * en tiempo de guerra = wartime [wart-time].
    * en tiempos de guerra = in time(s) of war.
    * escenario de la guerra = theatre [theater, -USA], theatre of war.
    * estar en guerra con = be at war with.
    * estragos de la guerra, los = ravages of war, the.
    * frente de guerra, el = war front, the.
    * ganar una guerra = win + war.
    * grito de guerra = battle cry, war cry.
    * guerra árabe-israelí, la = Arab Israeli war, the.
    * guerra asimétrica = asymmetric war, asymmetric warfare.
    * guerra a través de la red = netwar.
    * guerra civil = civil war.
    * guerra contra el despilfarro = war on waste.
    * guerra contra el terrorismo = war on terror, war on terrorism, war against terrorism.
    * guerra contra las drogas = war on drugs.
    * guerra cósmica = cosmic war.
    * guerra de almohadas = pillow fight.
    * guerra de Bosnia, la = Bosnian War, the.
    * guerra de desgaste = war of attrition.
    * guerra de guerrillas = guerrilla warfare, guerrilla war.
    * Guerra de la Independencia = War of Independence.
    * guerra de la información = information warfare.
    * guerra de las estrellas = battle of the stars.
    * Guerra de las Galaxias = Star Wars.
    * Guerra del Golfo, la = Gulf War, the.
    * Guerra del Golfo Persa, la = Persian Gulf War, the.
    * Guerra de los Boers, la = Anglo-Boer War, the.
    * guerra de nervios = war of nerves.
    * guerra de precios = pricing competition, price war.
    * guerra en red = netwar.
    * Guerra entre España y los Estados Unidos, la = Spanish-American War, the, Spanish-American War, the.
    * guerra + estallar = war + break out.
    * guerra fría, la = cold war, the.
    * guerra fronteriza = border war.
    * guerra legal = legal battle.
    * guerra mundial = world war.
    * guerra nuclear = nuclear warfare, nuclear war.
    * guerra religiosa = religious war.
    * Guerras Médicas, las = Persian Wars, the.
    * guerra sucia = dirty war.
    * guerra tribal = tribal war.
    * Guerra Zulú, la = Zulu War, the.
    * hacer estallar un guerra = ignite + war.
    * hacer la guerra = make + war.
    * hacha de guerra = tomahawk.
    * héroe de guerra = fallen hero, war hero.
    * ir a la guerra = go to + war.
    * juego de guerra = war game [wargame].
    * juzgar en consejo de guerra = court-martial.
    * libro trofeo de guerra = trophy book.
    * los avatares de la guerra = the tides of war.
    * males de la guerra, los = evils of war, the.
    * Marina de Guerra = Royal Navy.
    * misión de guerra = wartime mission.
    * nave de guerra = naval ship.
    * navío de guerra = warship.
    * ocasionar una guerra = precipitate + war.
    * pasión por la guerra = rage militaire.
    * perder una guerra = lose + war.
    * perro de guerra = dog of war, war dog.
    * ponerse en pie de guerra = dig up + the tomahawk, dig up + the hatchet, dig up + the war axe.
    * Primera Guerra Mundial = First World War (World War I), World War I [First World War].
    * prisionero de guerra = prisoner of war, war prisoner.
    * provocar una guerra = ignite + war, precipitate + war.
    * reportero de guerra = war journalist, war correspondent, war reporter.
    * Segunda Guerra Mundial = 2nd World War, World War II [Second World War], Second World War [World War II].
    * tras las guerra = in the postwar period.
    * tribunal de guerra = court martial.
    * veterano de guerra = war veteran.
    * víctima de guerra = casualty of war, war casualty.
    * viuda de guerra = war widow.
    * zona de guerra = war zone.
    * * *
    1) (Mil, Pol) war
    2) (fam) ( problemas) trouble, hassle (colloq)
    * * *
    = war, warfare.

    Ex: For example, at Woking, the stock has been split into about thirty sections, such as Health and welfare, war and warfare, retaining the Dewey sequence within each section.

    Ex: For example, at Woking, the stock has been split into about thirty sections, such as Health and welfare, War and warfare, retaining the Dewey sequence within each section.
    * amenaza de guerra = threat of war.
    * anterior a la guerra = pre-war [prewar], antebellum.
    * anterior a la Guerra Civil = pre-Civil War.
    * arrasado por la guerra = war-torn.
    * arte de la guerra = warfare.
    * avezado en la guerra = battle-hardened.
    * baja de guerra = war casualty.
    * barco de guerra = warship, naval ship, war vessel.
    * botín de guerra = war booty.
    * botín de guerra, el = spoils of war, the, victor's spoils.
    * buque de guerra = warship.
    * causar una guerra = precipitate + war.
    * centro social para veteranos de guerra = Veterans' centre.
    * comienzo de la guerra = outbreak of the war, breakout of + the war.
    * consejo de guerra = courts-martial, court martial.
    * corresponsal de guerra = war correspondent, war journalist, war reporter.
    * crímen de guerra = war crime.
    * criminal de guerra = war criminal.
    * danza de guerra = war dance.
    * dar guerra = act up, play up.
    * de antes de la guerra = pre-war [prewar].
    * declaración de guerra = declaration of war.
    * declarar la guerra = break out into + declared war, go to + war, take up + arms.
    * declarar la guerra a = declare + war on.
    * declarar la guerra a muerte a = declare + open season on.
    * declararse en guerra = go to + war.
    * de la guerra = wartime [wart-time].
    * desatar una guerra = precipitate + war.
    * desenterrar el hacha de guerra = take up + the tomahawk, dig up + the tomahawk, dig up + the hatchet, dig up + the war axe.
    * despojos de la guerra, los = spoils of war, the.
    * destrozado por la guerra = war-ravaged.
    * devastado por la guerra = war-torn.
    * disturbio ocasionado por la guerra = war riot.
    * durante la guerra = during wartime, wartime [wart-time], war years, the.
    * efecto de la guerra = effect of war.
    * embates de la guerra, los = ravages of war, the.
    * en contra de la guerra = antiwar [anti-war].
    * en épocas de guerra = in time(s) of war.
    * en guerra = war-torn, at war.
    * en pie de guerra = on the warpath.
    * en son de guerra = on the warpath.
    * enterrar el hacha de guerra = bury + the hatchet, bury + the tomahawk, bury + the war axe.
    * en tiempo de guerra = wartime [wart-time].
    * en tiempos de guerra = in time(s) of war.
    * escenario de la guerra = theatre [theater, -USA], theatre of war.
    * estar en guerra con = be at war with.
    * estragos de la guerra, los = ravages of war, the.
    * frente de guerra, el = war front, the.
    * ganar una guerra = win + war.
    * grito de guerra = battle cry, war cry.
    * guerra árabe-israelí, la = Arab Israeli war, the.
    * guerra asimétrica = asymmetric war, asymmetric warfare.
    * guerra a través de la red = netwar.
    * guerra civil = civil war.
    * guerra contra el despilfarro = war on waste.
    * guerra contra el terrorismo = war on terror, war on terrorism, war against terrorism.
    * guerra contra las drogas = war on drugs.
    * guerra cósmica = cosmic war.
    * guerra de almohadas = pillow fight.
    * guerra de Bosnia, la = Bosnian War, the.
    * guerra de desgaste = war of attrition.
    * guerra de guerrillas = guerrilla warfare, guerrilla war.
    * Guerra de la Independencia = War of Independence.
    * guerra de la información = information warfare.
    * guerra de las estrellas = battle of the stars.
    * Guerra de las Galaxias = Star Wars.
    * Guerra del Golfo, la = Gulf War, the.
    * Guerra del Golfo Persa, la = Persian Gulf War, the.
    * Guerra de los Boers, la = Anglo-Boer War, the.
    * guerra de nervios = war of nerves.
    * guerra de precios = pricing competition, price war.
    * guerra en red = netwar.
    * Guerra entre España y los Estados Unidos, la = Spanish-American War, the, Spanish-American War, the.
    * guerra + estallar = war + break out.
    * guerra fría, la = cold war, the.
    * guerra fronteriza = border war.
    * guerra legal = legal battle.
    * guerra mundial = world war.
    * guerra nuclear = nuclear warfare, nuclear war.
    * guerra religiosa = religious war.
    * Guerras Médicas, las = Persian Wars, the.
    * guerra sucia = dirty war.
    * guerra tribal = tribal war.
    * Guerra Zulú, la = Zulu War, the.
    * hacer estallar un guerra = ignite + war.
    * hacer la guerra = make + war.
    * hacha de guerra = tomahawk.
    * héroe de guerra = fallen hero, war hero.
    * ir a la guerra = go to + war.
    * juego de guerra = war game [wargame].
    * juzgar en consejo de guerra = court-martial.
    * libro trofeo de guerra = trophy book.
    * los avatares de la guerra = the tides of war.
    * males de la guerra, los = evils of war, the.
    * Marina de Guerra = Royal Navy.
    * misión de guerra = wartime mission.
    * nave de guerra = naval ship.
    * navío de guerra = warship.
    * ocasionar una guerra = precipitate + war.
    * pasión por la guerra = rage militaire.
    * perder una guerra = lose + war.
    * perro de guerra = dog of war, war dog.
    * ponerse en pie de guerra = dig up + the tomahawk, dig up + the hatchet, dig up + the war axe.
    * Primera Guerra Mundial = First World War (World War I), World War I [First World War].
    * prisionero de guerra = prisoner of war, war prisoner.
    * provocar una guerra = ignite + war, precipitate + war.
    * reportero de guerra = war journalist, war correspondent, war reporter.
    * Segunda Guerra Mundial = 2nd World War, World War II [Second World War], Second World War [World War II].
    * tras las guerra = in the postwar period.
    * tribunal de guerra = court martial.
    * veterano de guerra = war veteran.
    * víctima de guerra = casualty of war, war casualty.
    * viuda de guerra = war widow.
    * zona de guerra = war zone.

    * * *
    Guerra Civil (↑ guerra a1), Guerras de Independencia (↑ guerra a1)
    A ( Mil, Pol) war
    nos declararon la guerra they declared war on us
    están en guerra they are at war
    hacerle la guerra a algn to wage war on o against sb
    cuando estalló la guerra when war broke out
    los soldados se iban a la guerra the soldiers were going off to war o to fight in the war
    los niños jugaban a la guerra the children were playing soldiers
    le tienen declarada la guerra a la pornografía they've declared war on pornography
    Compuestos:
    open warfare
    fight to the death
    asymmetrical warfare
    ● guerra bacteriológica or biológica
    germ o biological warfare
    civil war
    trade war
    conventional warfare
    (Arg, Chi) pillow fight
    low intensity warfare
    war of attrition
    guerrilla war
    Hundred Years' War
    Six Day War
    war of nerves
    price war
    war of religion, religious war
    American Civil War
    War of Spanish Succession
    trench warfare
    cold war
    just war
    world war
    la Primera/Segunda Guerra Mundial the First/Second World War
    nuclear war
    psychological warfare
    chemical warfare
    blitzkrieg
    holy war
    all-out war
    fpl Persian Wars (pl)
    fpl Punic Wars (pl)
    dirty war
    total war
    B ( fam) (problemas) trouble, hassle ( colloq)
    estos niños me dan mucha guerra these kids give me a lot of hassle o trouble
    quieren/buscan guerra they're looking for trouble
    * * *

     

    guerra sustantivo femenino
    1 (Mil, Pol) war;

    estar en guerra to be at war;
    hacerle la guerra a algn to wage war on o against sb;
    guerra bacteriológica or biológica germ o biological warfare;
    guerra civil civil war;
    guerra fría cold war;
    guerra mundial world war;
    guerra nuclear nuclear war;
    guerra química chemical warfare
    2 (fam) ( problemas) trouble, hassle (colloq);

    guerra sustantivo femenino war: nos declararon la guerra, they declared war on us
    estamos en guerra, we are at war
    guerra bacteriológica, germ warfare
    guerra civil/mundial, civil/world war
    guerra fría, cold war
    ♦ Locuciones: familiar dar guerra, (dar problemas, trabajo) to give problems
    (dar la lata) to be a pain
    enterrar el hacha de guerra, to bury the hatchet
    en pie de guerra, on the warpath
    nombre de guerra, nom de guerre
    ' guerra' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    adscribirse
    - bacteriológica
    - bacteriológico
    - buque
    - cuando
    - declararse
    - desastre
    - desnaturalizar
    - durante
    - enterrar
    - estado
    - estallido
    - fantasma
    - guerrilla
    - haber
    - hacer
    - hornada
    - intensificación
    - ración
    - sangrienta
    - sangriento
    - secuela
    - umbral
    - unirse
    - venir
    - vencedor
    - vencedora
    - asolar
    - barco
    - borde
    - botín
    - caído
    - consejo
    - continuar
    - corresponsal
    - crimen
    - crucero
    - declaración
    - declarar
    - desencadenar
    - durar
    - embromar
    - entrar
    - estallar
    - estragos
    - ganar
    - horror
    - lisiado
    - marina
    - miseria
    English:
    act up
    - alleged
    - assume
    - atrocity
    - badly
    - battle-cry
    - blissful
    - brink
    - capture
    - ceasefire
    - civil war
    - cold war
    - court martial
    - danger
    - declaration
    - declare
    - diminish
    - drag on
    - ensue
    - escalate
    - fight
    - flatten
    - for
    - full-scale
    - germ warfare
    - go on
    - guerilla
    - guerrilla
    - in
    - intervene
    - long
    - monstrosity
    - monument
    - neutrality
    - nuclear war
    - orphan
    - outbreak
    - over
    - P.O.W.
    - pen name
    - play up
    - prewar
    - prisoner
    - ravage
    - refugee
    - shell-shocked
    - shellshock
    - start
    - stem
    - through
    * * *
    guerra nf
    [conflicto] war; [referido al tipo de conflicto] warfare; [pugna] struggle, conflict; [de intereses, ideas] conflict;
    nombre de guerra nom de guerre;
    declarar la guerra to declare war;
    Fig
    le tiene declarada la guerra a García he's at daggers drawn with García, he really has it in for García;
    en guerra at war;
    ir a la guerra to go to war;
    dar guerra to be a pain, to be annoying;
    los niños han estado todo el día dando guerra the children have been misbehaving all day;
    ¡la guerra que da este niño! this child is such a handful!;
    Fam
    de antes de la guerra ancient, prehistoric;
    buscar o [m5] pedir guerra [problemas] to look for trouble;
    Fam [sexualmente] to be looking to get laid, Br to be up for it guerra abierta open warfare;
    guerra atómica nuclear war;
    guerra bacteriológica germ warfare;
    la Guerra de los Cien Años the Hundred Years War;
    guerra de cifras war of numbers;
    guerra civil civil war;
    la Guerra Civil española the Spanish Civil War;
    guerra comercial trade war;
    guerra convencional conventional warfare;
    la Guerra de Crimea the Crimean War;
    guerra sin cuartel all-out war;
    guerra espacial star wars;
    la guerra del fletán the halibut war [between Spain and Canada over halibut fishing in the North Atlantic];
    guerra fría cold war;
    la guerra del Golfo the Gulf War;
    guerra de guerrillas guerrilla warfare;
    las guerras médicas the Persian Wars;
    guerra mundial world war;
    guerra de nervios war of nerves;
    guerra nuclear nuclear war;
    guerra de precios price war;
    guerra psicológica psychological warfare;
    las guerras púnicas the Punic Wars;
    guerra química chemical warfare;
    guerra relámpago blitzkrieg;
    guerra santa Holy War;
    la Guerra de Secesión the American Civil War;
    la Guerra de los Seis Días the Six Day War;
    la Guerra de Sucesión the War of (the) Spanish Succession;
    guerra sucia dirty war;
    la Guerra de los Treinta Años the Thirty Years War;
    la Guerra de Troya the Trojan War;
    la Guerra de Vietnam the Vietnam War
    * * *
    f war;
    dar guerra a alguien fam give s.o. trouble
    * * *
    guerra nf
    1) : war
    declarar la guerra: to declare war
    guerra sin cuartel: all-out war
    2) : warfare
    3) lucha: conflict, struggle
    * * *
    guerra n war
    dar guerra a alguien to give somebody trouble / to be a handful

    Spanish-English dictionary > guerra

  • 16 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

  • 17 deshacerse

    1 (nudo) to come undone, come untied; (puntada) to come unsewn
    2 (disolverse) to dissolve; (derretirse) to melt
    3 (desaparecer) to disappear, fade away
    4 (afligirse) to go to pieces, be shattered
    5 (librarse) to get rid (de, of)
    6 (agotarse) to break one's back, wear oneself out
    7 (desvivirse) to go out of one's way ( por, to), bend over backwards
    8 (chiflarse) to be crazy ( por, about), be mad ( por, about)
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    VPR
    1) (=separarse) [nudo] to come undone, come untied; [costura] to come undone, split; [moño, trenza] to come undone
    2) (=romperse) to smash, shatter

    cuando lo levanté, se me deshizo todo — when I lifted it up it all fell to bits

    3) (=derretirse) [caramelo, hielo] to melt
    4) (=desmembrarse) [organización, manifestación] to break up; [ejército] to be routed
    5) (=desaparecer) to vanish
    6) [persona] (=afligirse) to go to pieces; (=impacientarse) to be at one's wits' end
    7)

    • deshacerse de — [queriendo] to get rid of; [sin querer] to part with; (Dep) to dispose of; (Com) to dump

    8) (=esforzarse)

    • deshacerse en, deshacerse en cumplidos con algn — to be very complimentary towards sb, shower sb with compliments

    deshacerse en elogios con algn — to be full of praise for sb, shower sb with praise

    deshacerse en lágrimas — to burst o dissolve into tears

    • se deshace por su familia — he bends over backwards for his family

    deshacerse por hacer algo — to strive to do sth, do one's utmost to do sth

    deshacerse por complacer a algn — to strive to please sb, do one's utmost to please sb

    9) (Med) (=debilitarse) to get weak, grow feeble; (=consumirse) to waste away
    * * *
    Ex. The person who never throws away a newspaper is regarded as an eccentric; the person who never throws away a book is more likely to be regarded as a bibliophile no matter what the resulting motley assortment of books may be.
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    * deshacerse de = dispense with, dispose of, get + rid of, rid of, axe [ax, -USA], shed, jettison, shake off, break + loose from, chuck + Nombre + out, fob + Algo + off on + Alguien, land + Alguien + with + Nombre, fob + Alguien + off with + Algo.
    * deshacerse de Algo = drive out + with a pitchfork.
    * deshacerse de Alguien/Algo = get + Nombre + off + Posesivo + back.
    * deshacerse de + Nombre/Pronombre = let + Nombre + go.
    * deshacerse de = offload + Nombre + onto.
    * * *

    Ex: The person who never throws away a newspaper is regarded as an eccentric; the person who never throws away a book is more likely to be regarded as a bibliophile no matter what the resulting motley assortment of books may be.

    * deshacerse de = dispense with, dispose of, get + rid of, rid of, axe [ax, -USA], shed, jettison, shake off, break + loose from, chuck + Nombre + out, fob + Algo + off on + Alguien, land + Alguien + with + Nombre, fob + Alguien + off with + Algo.
    * deshacerse de Algo = drive out + with a pitchfork.
    * deshacerse de Alguien/Algo = get + Nombre + off + Posesivo + back.
    * deshacerse de + Nombre/Pronombre = let + Nombre + go.
    * deshacerse de = offload + Nombre + onto.

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    ■deshacerse verbo reflexivo
    1 (una lazada, un nudo) to come undone
    2 (en un líquido) to dissolve
    3 (derretirse) to melt
    4 (por la tristeza) to go to pieces
    deshacerse en lágrimas, to cry one's eyes out
    (prodigarse) se deshizo en elogios, she praised it to the skies 5 deshacerse de alguien/algo, to get rid of sb/sthg
    ' deshacerse' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    descomponerse
    - desprenderse
    - disolverse
    - librarse
    - prescindir
    - tirar
    - deshacer
    English:
    apart
    - cast off
    - destruction
    - discard
    - dispose of
    - ditch
    - do away with
    - hand
    - heart
    - jettison
    - part with
    - rid
    - shed
    - undone
    - come
    - disposal
    - fall
    - see
    - shake
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    vpr
    1. [desarmarse] to fall apart;
    [costura] to come undone o unstitched; [trenza, moño] to come undone; [peinado] to get messed up;
    el jarrón se deshizo en pedazos the vase smashed to pieces
    2. [disolverse] [helado, mantequilla, nieve] to melt;
    [pastilla, terrón de azúcar] to dissolve; [niebla] to lift;
    el azúcar se deshace al contacto con el agua sugar dissolves when it comes into contact with water;
    los caramelos se van deshaciendo en la boca the sweets gradually melt in your mouth;
    la organización se deshizo tras la guerra the organization broke up after the war;
    la concentración se deshizo antes de que llegara la policía the crowd dispersed before the police arrived
    3.
    deshacerse de [desprenderse de, librarse de] to get rid of;
    se resiste a deshacerse de sus joyas she's reluctant to part with her jewels;
    se deshicieron de un sofá viejo they got rid of an old sofa;
    salió por una puerta trasera para deshacerse del detective he left by a back door to lose the detective;
    nos costó mucho deshacernos de él it wasn't easy to get rid of him
    4.
    deshacerse en [prodigarse en] [m5] se deshizo en elogios con o [m5] hacia su anfitrión she lavished praise on her host;
    se deshizo en lágrimas al enterarse he cried his heart out when he found out;
    siempre se deshace en atenciones con nosotros she is always extremely attentive towards us
    5.
    deshacerse por alguien [desvivirse] to bend over backwards for sb;
    [estar enamorado] to be madly in love with sb;
    se deshace por la empresa, y nadie se lo reconoce he does everything he can for the company, and no one appreciates it;
    está que se deshace por o [m5] con su nietecilla he absolutely dotes on his little granddaughter;
    deshacerse por hacer/conseguir algo to go out of one's way to do/get sth
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    v/r
    1 de nudo de corbata, lazo etc come undone
    2 de hielo melt; fig
    go to pieces
    3
    :
    deshacerse de get rid of
    4
    :
    deshacerse en elogios be full of praise;
    deshacerse en insultos let fly a series of insults
    5
    :
    deshacerse por alguien fam bend over backward for s.o.
    * * *
    vr
    1) : to fall apart, to come undone
    2)
    deshacerse de : to get rid of
    * * *
    1. (nudo) to come undone
    2. (hielo, nieve, helado) to melt
    3. (sólidos) to dissolve
    deshacerse de to get rid of / to dispose of

    Spanish-English dictionary > deshacerse

  • 18 sospechoso

    adj.
    1 suspicious, suspect, on suspicion, shady.
    2 suspicious, distrustful.
    3 suspicious, open to suspicion, doubtable, dubious.
    m.
    suspect, suspected criminal.
    * * *
    1 suspicious
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 suspect
    * * *
    1. (f. - sospechosa)
    noun
    2. (f. - sospechosa)
    adj.
    suspect, suspicious
    * * *
    sospechoso, -a
    1.
    2.
    SM / F suspect
    * * *
    I
    - sa adjetivo <movimiento/comportamiento> suspicious; < paquete> suspicious, suspect

    me parece muy sospechoso — I find it very o highly suspicious

    II
    - sa masculino, femenino suspect
    * * *
    = suspect, fishy [fishier -comp., fishiest -sup.], shady, suspect, dodgy [dodgier -comp., dodgiest -sup.], fly-by-night, dubious-sounding, dubious, under suspicion.
    Ex. The utility, in information service terms, of a narrow technical education is suspect.
    Ex. This is when children are not really concerned with scientific truth; they believe in Father Christmas anyway, even if there lurks the suspicion that there is something rather fishy about it all.
    Ex. Moreover, the shady image of video libraries drove away discerning customers.
    Ex. Results show that newsworthiness of a homicide is enhanced when whites are suspects or victims, males are suspects and victims are females, children or senior citizens.
    Ex. The statistical procedures from Czchekoslovakia and Romania have been pretty dodgy and unsatisfactory.
    Ex. What I was reading about looked like a really genuine and reliable way of earning good money that didn't involve some fly-by-night, get-rich-quick scheme.
    Ex. But I seem to get an awful lot of people trying to interest me in dubious-sounding business propositions.
    Ex. On no account should the schedules of a classification scheme be modified in order to gain some dubious advantage of this kind.
    Ex. When war broke out against Germany, immigrants from that country were suddenly under suspicion of being possible enemy.
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    * haber algo sospechoso con = there + be + something fishy going on with.
    * principal sospechoso = leading suspect.
    * que parece sospechoso = dubious-sounding.
    * ruedad de sospechosos = identity parade.
    * rueda de sospechosos = police line-up, identification parade.
    * * *
    I
    - sa adjetivo <movimiento/comportamiento> suspicious; < paquete> suspicious, suspect

    me parece muy sospechoso — I find it very o highly suspicious

    II
    - sa masculino, femenino suspect
    * * *
    = suspect, fishy [fishier -comp., fishiest -sup.], shady, suspect, dodgy [dodgier -comp., dodgiest -sup.], fly-by-night, dubious-sounding, dubious, under suspicion.

    Ex: The utility, in information service terms, of a narrow technical education is suspect.

    Ex: This is when children are not really concerned with scientific truth; they believe in Father Christmas anyway, even if there lurks the suspicion that there is something rather fishy about it all.
    Ex: Moreover, the shady image of video libraries drove away discerning customers.
    Ex: Results show that newsworthiness of a homicide is enhanced when whites are suspects or victims, males are suspects and victims are females, children or senior citizens.
    Ex: The statistical procedures from Czchekoslovakia and Romania have been pretty dodgy and unsatisfactory.
    Ex: What I was reading about looked like a really genuine and reliable way of earning good money that didn't involve some fly-by-night, get-rich-quick scheme.
    Ex: But I seem to get an awful lot of people trying to interest me in dubious-sounding business propositions.
    Ex: On no account should the schedules of a classification scheme be modified in order to gain some dubious advantage of this kind.
    Ex: When war broke out against Germany, immigrants from that country were suddenly under suspicion of being possible enemy.
    * haber algo sospechoso con = there + be + something fishy going on with.
    * principal sospechoso = leading suspect.
    * que parece sospechoso = dubious-sounding.
    * ruedad de sospechosos = identity parade.
    * rueda de sospechosos = police line-up, identification parade.

    * * *
    ‹movimiento/comportamiento› suspicious; ‹paquete› suspicious, suspect
    tres hombres de aspecto sospechoso three suspicious-looking men
    relojes baratos de origen sospechoso cheap watches of dubious origin
    me parece muy sospechoso I find it very o highly suspicious
    masculine, feminine
    suspect
    * * *

    sospechoso
    ◊ -sa adjetivo ‹movimiento/comportamiento› suspicious;


    ‹ paquete› suspicious, suspect;

    ■ sustantivo masculino, femenino
    suspect
    sospechoso,-a
    I sustantivo masculino y femenino suspect
    II adjetivo suspicious: era sospechoso de asesinato, he was suspected of committing a murder

    ' sospechoso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    detener
    - detenida
    - detenido
    - enjuiciar
    - interrogar
    - oscura
    - oscuro
    - rondar
    - sospechosa
    - interrogación
    - llevar
    - vaina
    English:
    detention
    - doubtful
    - dubious
    - funny business
    - grill
    - shady
    - shifty
    - suspect
    - suspicious
    - up
    - Caucasian
    - fishy
    - furtive
    - name
    * * *
    sospechoso, -a
    ♦ adj
    suspicious;
    me parece sospechoso que no haya venido it strikes me as suspicious that he hasn't come
    ♦ nm,f
    suspect
    * * *
    I adj suspicious
    II m, sospechosa f suspect
    * * *
    sospechoso, -sa adj
    : suspicious, suspect
    sospechoso, -sa n
    : suspect
    * * *
    sospechoso1 adj suspicious
    sospechoso2 n suspect

    Spanish-English dictionary > sospechoso

  • 19 guerra + estallar

    (n.) = war + break out
    Ex. When the Second World War broke out, my motherland was arduously fighting against Japanese imperialism.
    * * *
    (n.) = war + break out

    Ex: When the Second World War broke out, my motherland was arduously fighting against Japanese imperialism.

    Spanish-English dictionary > guerra + estallar

  • 20 AF

    of
    * * *
    prep. w. dat.
    I. Of place:
    1) off, from;
    G. hljóp af hesti sínum, G. jumped off his horse;
    ganga af mótinu, to go away from the meeting;
    Flosi kastaði af sér skikkjunni, threw off his cloak;
    Gizzur gekk af útsuðri at gerðinu, from the south-west;
    hann hafði leyst af sér skúa sína, he had taken off his shoes;
    Steinarr vildi slíta hann af sér, throw him off;
    tók Gísli þá af sér vápnin, took off his arms;
    bréf af Magnúsi konungi, a letter from king Magnus;
    hverr af öðrum, one after another, in succession;
    vil ek þú vinnir af þér skuldina, work off the debt;
    muntu enga sætt af mér fá, no peace at my hand;
    rísa af dauða, to rise from the dead;
    vakna af draumi, to awaken from a dream;
    lúka upp af hrossi, to open a gate from off a horse;
    vindr stóð af landi, the wind blew from the land;
    2) out of;
    verða tekinn af heimi, to be taken out of the world;
    gruflar hón af læknum, she scrambles out of the brook;
    Otradalr var mjök af vegi, far out of the way.
    Connected with út; föstudaginn fór út herrinn af borginni, marched out of the town.
    II. Of time; past, beyond:
    af ómagaaldri, able to support oneself, of age;
    ek em nú af léttasta skeiði, no longer in the prime of life;
    þá er sjau vikur eru af sumri, when seven weeks of summer are past;
    var mikit af nótt, much of the night was past.
    III. In various other relations:
    1) þiggja lið af e-m, to receive help from one;
    hafa umboð af e-m, to be another’s deputy;
    vera góðs (ills) maklegr af e-m, to deserve good (bad) of one;
    féll þar lið mart af Eyvindi, many of Eyvind’s men fell there;
    þá eru þeir útlagir ok af goðorði sínu, have forfeited their goðorð;
    þá skalt þú af allri fjárheimtunni, forfeit all the claim;
    ek skal stefna þér af konunni, summon thee to give up;
    2) off, of;
    höggva fót, hönd, af e-m, to cut off one’s foot, hand;
    vil ek, at þú takir slíkt sem þér líkar af varningi, whatever you like of the stores;
    þar lá forkr einn ok brotit af endanum, with the point broken off;
    absol., beit hann höndina af, bit the hand off;
    fauk af höfuðit, the head flew off;
    3) of, among;
    hinn efniligasti maðr af ungum mönnum, the most promising of the young men;
    4) with;
    hláða, (ferma) skip af e-u, to load (freight) a ship with;
    fylla heiminn af sínu kyni, to fill the world with his offspring;
    5) of (= ór which is more frequent);
    húsit var gert af timbr stokkum, was built of trunks of trees;
    6) fig., eigi vita menn hvat af honum er orðit, what has become of him;
    hvat hefir þú gert af Gunnari, what hast thou done with Gunnar?;
    7) denoting parentage, descent, origin;
    ok eru af þeim komnir Gilsbekkingar, are descended from them;
    kominn af Trójumönnum, descended from the Trojans;
    8) by, of (after passive);
    ek em sendr hingat af Starkaði, sent hither by;
    ástsæll af landsmónnum, beloved of;
    9) on account of, by reason of, by;
    úbygðr at frosti ok kulda, because of frost and cold;
    ómáli af áverkum, speechless from wounds;
    af ástæld hans, by his popularity;
    af því, therefore;
    af hví, wherefor why;
    af því at, because;
    10) by means of, by;
    framfœra e-n af verkum sínum, by means of his own labour;
    af sínu fé, by one’s own means;
    absol., hann fekk af hina mestu sœmd, derived great honour from it;
    11) with adjectives, in regard to;
    mildr af fé, liberal of money;
    góðr af griðum, merciful;
    12) used absol. with a verb, off away;
    hann bað hann þá róa af fjörðinn, to row the firth off;
    ok er þeir höfðu af fjörðung, when they had covered one forth of the way;
    sofa af nóttina, to sleep the night away.
    * * *
    prep. often used elliptically by dropping the case, or even merely adverbially, [Ulf. af; A. S. and Engl. of, off; Hel. ab; Germ. ab; Gr. άπό; Lat. a, ab.] With dat. denoting a motion a loco; one of the three prepp. af, ór, frá, corresponding to those in loco—á, í, við, and ad locum—á, í, at. It in general corresponds to the prepp. in loco—á, or in locum— til, whilst ór answers more to í; but it also frequently corresponds to yfir, um or í. It ranges between ór and frá, generally denoting the idea from the surface of, while ór means from the inner part, and frá from the outer part or border. The motion from a hill, plain, open place is thus denoted by af; by ór that from an enclosed space, depth, cavity, thus af fjalli, but ór of a valley, dale; af Englandi, but ór Danmörk, as mörk implies the notion of a deep wood, forest. The wind blows af landi, but a ship sets sail frá landi; frá landi also means a distance from: af hendi, of a glove, ring; ór hendi, of whatever has been kept in the hand (correl. to á hendi and í hendi). On the other hand af is more general, whilst frá and ór are of a more special character; frá denoting a departure, ór an impulse or force; a member goes home af þingi, whereas ór may denote an inmate of a district, or convey the notion of secession or exclusion from, Eb. 105 new Ed.; the traveller goes af landi, the exile ór landi: taka e-t af e-m is to take a thing out of one’s hand, that of taka frá e-m to remove out of one’s sight, etc. In general af answers to Engl. of, off, ór to out of, and frá to from: the Lat. prepp. ab, de, and ex do not exactly correspond to the Icelandic, yet as a rule ór may answer to ex, af sometimes to ab, sometimes to de. Of, off, from among; with, by; on account of by means of, because of concerning, in respect of.
    A. Loc.
    I. With motion, off, from:
    1. prop. corresp. to á,
    α. konungr dró gullhring af hendi sér (but á hendi), Ld. 32; Höskuldr lætr bera farm af skipi, unload the ship (but bera farm á skip), id.; var tekit af hestum þeirra, they were unsaddled, Nj. 4; Gunnarr hafði farit heiman af bæ sínum, he was away from home, 82; Gunnarr hljóp af hesti sínum, jumped off his horse (but hl. á hest), 83; hlaupa, stökkva af baki, id., 112, 264 ; Gunnarr skýtr til hans af boganum, from the bow, where af has a slight notion of instrumentality, 96; flýja af fundinum, to fly from off the battle-field, 102; ríða af Þríhyrningshálsum, 206; út af Langaholti, Eg. 744 ; sunnan ór Danmörk ok af Saxlandi, 560; ganga af mótinu, to go from the meeting, Fms. vii. 130; af þeirra fundi reis María upp ok fór, 625. 85 ; Flosi kastaði af ser skikkjunni, threw his cloak off him (but kasta á sik),Nj. 176; taka Hrungnis fót af honum, of a load, burden, Edda 58; land þat er hann fiskði af, from which he set off to fish, Grág. i. 151, is irregular, frá would suit better; slíta af baki e-s, from off one’s back, ii. 9 ; bera af borði, to clear the table, Nj. 75.
    β. where it more nearly answers to í; þeir koma af hafi, of sailors coming in (but leggja í haf), Nj. 128 ; fara til Noregs af Orkneyjum (but í or til O.), 131; þeim Agli fórst vel ok komu af hafi i Borgarfjörð, Eg. 392 ; hann var útlagi ( outlawed) af Noregi, where ór would be more regular, 344; af Islandi, of a traveller, Fms. x. 3; búa her af báðum ríkjunum, to take a levy from, 51; hinir beztu bændr ór Norðlendingafjórðungi ok af Sunnlendingafjórðungi, the most eminent Southerners and Northerners, 113; Gizzurr gékk af útsuðri at gerðinu, from south-west, Sturl. ii. 219; prestar af hvárutveggja biskupsdæmi, from either diocess, Dipl. ii. 11; verða tekinn af heimi, to be taken out of the world, 623. 21; gruflar hon af læknum, scrambles out of the brook, Ísl. ii. 340; Egill kneyfði af horninu í einum drykk, drained off the horn at one draught, literally squeezed every drop out of it, Eg. 557; brottuaf herbúðunurn, Fms. x. 343.
    γ. of things more or less surrounding the subject, corresp. to yfir or um; láta þeir þegar af sér tjöldin, break off, take down the tents in preparing for battle, Eg. 261; kyrtillinn rifnaði af honum, his coat burst, caused by the swollen body, 602; hann hafði leyst af sér skúa sína, he untied his shoes (but binda á sik), 716; Steinarr vildi slíta hann af sér, throw him off, of one clinging to one’s body, 747; tók Gísli þá af sér vápnin, took off his arms, Fms. vii. 39. Of putting off clothes; fara af kápu, Nj. 143; far þú eigi af brynjunni, Bs. i. 541; þá ætlaði Sigurðr at fara af brynjunni, id.; þá var Skarphéðinn flettr af klæðunum, Nj. 209: now more usually fara or klæðum, fötum, exuere, to undress.
    δ. connected with út; föstudaginn for út herrinn af borginni, marched out of the town, Nj. 274; ganga út af kirkjunni, to go out of the church, now út úr, Fms. vii. 107: drekki hann af þeirri jörðunni, of something impregnated with the earth, Laekn. 402.
    ε. more closely corresponding to frá, being in such cases a Latinism (now frá); bréf af páfa, a pope’s bull, Fms. x. 6; rit af hánum, letter from him, 623. 52; bréf af Magnúsi konungi, a letter from king Magnus, Bs. i. 712; farið þér á brautu af mér í eilífan eld, Hom. 143; brott af drottins augliti, Stj. 43.
    ζ. denoting an uninterrupted continuity, in such phrases as land aflandi, from land to land, Eg. 343, Fas. ii. 539; skip af skipl. from ship to ship, Fms. v. 10; brann hvat af öðru, one after another, of an increasing fire, destroying everything, i. 128; brandr af brandi brenn, funi kveykist af funa, one from another, Hm. 56; hverr af öðrum, one after another, in succession, also hverr at öðrum, Eb. 272, 280 (where at in both passages).
    2. metaph., at ganga af e-m dauðum, to go from, leave one dead on the spot, of two combatants; en hann segiz bani hins ef hann gekk af dauðum manni, Grág. ii. 88, Hkr. 1. 327; undr þykir mér er bróðir þinn vildi eigi taka af þér starf þetta, would not take this toil from thee, Nj. 77; þegnar hans glöddust af honum, were fain of him, Fms. x. 380; at koma þeim manni af sér er settr var á fé hans, to get rid of, Ld. 52; vil ek þú vinriir af þér skuldina, work off the debt, Njarð. 366; reka af sér, to repel, Sturl. ii. 219; hann á þá sonu er aldri munu af oss ganga, who will never leave us, whom we shall never get rid of, Fas. i. 280; leysa e-n af e-u, to relieve, 64; taka e-n af lífi, to kill, Eg. 48, 416, Nj. 126; af lífdögum, Fms. vii. 204; ek mun ná lögum af því máli, get the benefit of the law in this case, Eg. 468; muntu enga sætt af mér fá, no peace at my hand, 414; rísa af dauða, to rise from death, Fms. ii. 142; guð bætti honum þó af þessi sótt, healed him of this sickness, ix. 390; vakna af sýn, draumi, svefni, to awaken from a vision, dream, sleep, 655 xxxii. I, Gísl. 24, Eb. 192, Fas. i. 41. Rather with the notion out of, in the phrase af sér etc., e. g. sýna e-t af scr, to shew, exhibit a disposition for or against, Ld. 18; gera mikit af sér, to shew great prowess, Ísl. ii. 368; éf þú gerir eigi meira af þér um aðra leika, unless you make more of thyself, Edda 32; Svipdagr hafði mikit af sér gert, fought bravely, Fas. i. 41; góðr (illr) af sér, good ( bad) of oneself, by nature; mikill af sjálfum sér, proud, bold, stout, Nj. 15; ágætastr maðr af sjálfum sér, the greatest hero, Bret.: góðr af ser, excellent, Hrafn. 7; but, on the contrary, af sér kominn, ruinous, in decay; this phrase is used of old houses or buildings, as in Bs. i. 488 = Sturl. l. c.; af sér kominn af mæði can also be said of a man fallen off from what he used to be; kominn af fotum fram, off his legs from age, Sturl. i. 223, Korm. 154 (in a verse).
    II. WITHOUT MOTION:
    1. denoting direction from, but at the same time continuous connection with an object from which an act or thing proceeds, from; tengja skip hvárt fram af stafni annars, to tie the ships in a line, stem to stern, Fms. i. 157, xi. 111; svá at þeir tóku út af borðum, jutted out of the boards, of rafters or poles, iv. 49; stjarna ok af sem skaft, of a comet, ix. 482; lúka upp af hrossi, to open a gate from off a horse, Grág. ii. 264; hon svarar af sínu sæti sem álpt af baru, Fás. i. 186; þar er sjá mátti utau af firði, af þjóðleið, that might be seen from the fareway on the sea when sailing in the firth, Hkr. ii. 64; þá mun hringt af (better at) Burakirkju, of bells rung at the church, Fms. xi. 160; gengr þar af Meðalfellsströnd, projects from, juts out, of a promontory, Ld. 10.
    2. denoting direction alone; upp af víkinni stóð borg mikil, a burg inland from the inlet, Eg. 161; lokrekkja innar af seti, a shut bed inward from the benches in the hall, Ísl. ii. 262; kapella upp af konungs herbergjum, upwards from, Fms. x. 153; vindr stóð af landi, the wind stood off the land, Bárð. 166.
    β. metaph., stauda af e-u, vide VI. 4.
    γ. ellipt., hallaði af norðr, of the channel, north of a spot, Boll. 348; also, austr af, suðr af, vestr af, etc.
    3. denoting absence; þingheyendr skulu eigi vera um nótt af þingi ( away from the meeting), eðr lengr, þá eru þeir af þingi ( away from (be meeting) ef þeir eru or ( out of) þingmarki, Grág. i. 25; vera um nótt af várþingi, 115; meðan hann er af landi héðan, abroad, 150.
    β. metaph., gud hvíldi af öllum verkum sínum á sjaunda degi, rested from his labours, Ver. 3.
    4. denoting distance; þat er komit af þjóðleið, out of the high road, remote, Eg. 369; af þjóðbraut, Grág. ii. 264, i. 15; Otradalr (a farm) var mjök af vegi, far out of the way, Háv. 53.
    B. TEMP, past, from, out of, beyond:
    1. of a person’s age, in the sense of having past a period of life; af ómaga aldri, of age, able to support oneself, Grág. i. 243; af aeskualdri, stricken in years, having past the prime of life, Eg. 202; lítið af barnsaldri, still a child, Ld. 74; ek em nú af léttasia skeiði, no longer in the prime of life, Háv. 40.
    2. of a part or period of time, past; eigi síðar en nótt er af þingi, a night of the session past, Grág. i. 101; þá er sjau vikur eru af sumri, seven weeks past of the summer, 182; tíu vikur af sumri, Íb. 10; var mikit af nótt, much of the night was past, Háv. 41; mikið af vetri, much of the winter was past, Fas. ii. 186; þriðjungr af nótt, a third of the night past, Fms. x. 160; stund af degi, etc.; tveir mánoðr af sumri, Gþl. 103.
    3. in adverbial phrases such as, af stundu, soon; af bragði, at once; af tómi, at leisure, at ease; af nýju, again; af skyndingu, speedily; af bráðungu, in a hurry, etc.
    C. In various other relations:
    I. denoting the passage or transition of an object, concrete or abstract, of, from.
    1. where a thing is received, derived from, conferred by a person or object; þiggja lið af e-m, to derive help from, Edda 26; taka traust af e-m, to receive support, comfort from, Fms. xi. 243; taka mála af e-m, to be in one’s pay, of a soldier, Eg. 266; halda land af e-m, to hold land of any one, 282; verða viss af e-m, to get information from, 57, Nj. 130; taka við sök af manni (a law term), to undertake a case, suit, Grág. i. 142; hafa umboð af e-m, to be another’s deputy, ii. 374; vera góðs (ills) maklegr af e-m, to deserve good (bad) of, Vd. 88 (old Ed., the new reads frá), Fs. 45; afla matar af eyjum, to derive supplies from, Eb. 12.
    2. where an object is taken by force:
    α. prop. out of a person’s hand; þú skalt hnykkja smíðit af honum, wrest it out of his hand, Nj. 32; cp. taka, þrífa, svipta e-u (e-t) af e-m, to wrest from.
    β. metaph. of a person’s deprival of anything in general; hann tók af þér konuna, carried thy wife off, Nj. 33; tók Gunnarr af þér sáðland þitt, robbed thee of seedland, 103; taka af honum tignina, to depose, degrade him, Eg. 271; vinna e-t af e-m, to carry off by force of arms, conquer, Fms. iii. 29; drepa menn af e-m, for one, slay one’s man, Eg. 417; fell þar lið mart af Eyvindi, many of Eyvind’s people fell there, 261.
    γ. in such phrases as, hyggja af e-u (v. afhuga), hugsa af e-u, to forget; hyggja af harmi; sjá af e-u, to lose, miss; var svá ástúðigt með þeim, at livargi þóttist mega af öðrum sjá, neither of them could take his eyes off the other, Sturl. i. 194; svá er mörg við ver sinn vær, at varla um sér hon af hoiuun nær, Skálda 163.
    3. denoting forfeiture; þá eru þeir útlagir, ok af goðorði sínu, have forfeited their priesthood, Grág. i. 24; telja hann af ráðunum fjár síns alls, to oust one, on account of idiocy or madness, 176; verða af kaupi, to be off the bargain, Edda 26; þá skalt þú af allri fjárheimtunni, forfeit all the claim, Nj. 15; ek skal stefna þér af konunni, summon thee to forfeit, a case of divorce, id.; ella er hann af rettarfari um hana, has forfeited the suit, Grág. i. 381.
    β. ellipt., af ferr eindagi ef, is forfeited, Grág. i. 140.
    II. denoting relation of a part to a whole, off, of, Lat. de; höggva hönd, höfuð, fót af e-um, to cut one’s hand, head, foot off, Nj. 97, 92, Bs. i. 674; höggva spjót af skapti, to sever the blade from the shaft, 264; hann lét þá ekki hafa af föðurarfi sínum, nothing of their patrimony, Eg. 25; vil ek at þú takir slíkt sem þér líkar af varningi, take what you like of the stores, Nj. 4; at þú eignist slíkt af fé okkru sem þú vili, 94.
    β. ellipt., en nú höfum vér kjörit, en þat er af krossinum, a slice of, Fms. vii. 89; Þórðr gaf Skólm frænda sínum af landnámi sínu, a part of, Landn. 211; hafði hann þat af hans eigu er hann vildi, Sturl. ii. 169; þar lá forkr einn ok brotið af endanum, the point broken off, Háv. 24, Sturl. i. 169.
    γ. absol. off; beit hann höndina af, þar sem nú heitir úlfliðr, bit the hand off, Edda 17; fauk af höfuðit, the head flew off, Nj. 97; jafnt er sem þér synist, af er fótrinn, the foot is off, id.; af bæði eyru, both ears off, Vm. 29.
    2. with the notion of—among; mestr skörungr af konum á Norðrlöndum, the greatest heroine in the North, Fms. i. 116; hinn efniligasti maðr af ungum mönnum í Austfjörðum, the most hopeful of youths in the Eastfirths, Njarð. 364; af ( among) öllurn hirðmönnuni virði konungr mest skáld sín, Eg. 27; ef hann vildi nokkura kaupa af þessum konum, Ld. 30; ör liggr þar útiá vegginum, ok er sú af þeirra örum, one of their own arrows, Nj. 115.
    β. from, among, belonging to; guð kaus hana af ollum konum sér til móður, of the Virgin Mary, Mar. A. i. 27.
    γ. metaph., kunna mikit (lítið) af e-u, to know much, little of, Bragi kann mest af skáldskap, is more cunning of poetry than any one else, Edda 17.
    δ. absol. out of, before, in preference to all others; Gunnarr bauð þér góð boð, en þú vildir eingi af taka, you would choose none of them, Nj. 77; ráða e-t af, to decide; þó mun faðir minn mestu af ráða, all depends upon him, Ld. 22; konungr kveðst því mundu heldr af trúa, preferred believing that of the two, Eg. 55; var honum ekki vildara af ván, he could expect nothing better, 364.
    3. with the additional sense of instrumentality, with; ferma skip af e-u, to freight a ship with, Eg. 364; hlaða mörg skip af korni, load many ships with corn, Fms. xi. 8; klyfja tvá hesta af mat, Nj. 74; var vágrinn skipaðr af herskipum, the bay was covered with war ships, 124; fylla ker af glóðum, fill it with embers, Stj. 319; fylla heiminn af sínu kyni, to fill the world with his offspring, Ver. 3.
    III. denoting the substance of which a thing is made, of; used indifferently with ór, though ór be more frequent; þeir gerðu af honum jörðina, af blóði hans sæinn ok vötnin, of the creation of the world from the corpse of the giant Ymir; the poem Gm. 40, 41, constantly uses ór in this sense, just as in modern Icelandic, Edda 5; svá skildu þeir, at allir hlutir væri smíðaðir af nokkru efni, 147 (pref.); húsit var gert af timbrstokkum, built of trunks of timber, Eg. 233; hjöhin vóru af gulli, of gold, golden, Fms. i. 17; af osti, of cheese, but in the verse 1. c. ór osti, Fms. vi. 253; línklæði af lérepti, linen, Sks. 287.
    2. metaph. in the phrases, göra e-t af e-n ( to dispose of), verða af ( become of), hvat hefir þú gört af Gunnari, what hast thou done with Gunnar? Njarð. 376; hvat af motrinuni er orðit, what has become of it? of a lost thing, Ld. 208; hverfr Óspakr á burt, svá eigi vita menn hvat af honum er orðit, what has become of him? Band. 5.
    IV. denoting parentage, descent, origin, domicile, abode:
    1. parentage, of, from, used indifferently with frá; ok eru af þeim komnir Gilsbekkingar, descend from them, but a little below—frá honum eru konmir Sturlungar, Eb. 338, cp. afkvæmi; af ætt Hörðakára, Fms. i. 287; kominn af Trojumönnum, xi. 416; af Ása-ætt (Kb. wrongly at), Edda I.
    β. metaph., vera af Guði (theol.), of God, = righteous, 686 B. 9; illr ávöxtr af íllri rót, Fms. ii. 48; Asia er kölluð af nafni nokkurar konu, derives her name from, Stj. 67; af honum er bragr kallaðr skáldskapr, called after his name, Edda 17.
    2. of domicile; af danskri tungu, of Danish or Scandinavian origin, speaking the Danish tongue, Grág. ii. 73; hvaðan af löndum, whence, native of what country? Ísl.
    β. especially denoting a man’s abode, and answering to á and í, the name of the farm (or country) being added to proper names, (as in Scotland,) to distinguish persons of the same name; Hallr af Síðu, Nj. 189; Erlingr af Straumey, 273; Ástríðr af Djúpárbakka, 39; Gunnarr af Hlíðarenda (more usual frá); þorir haklangr konungr af Ögðum, king of Agdir, Eg. 35, etc.; cp. ór and frá.
    V. denoting a person with whom an act, feeling, etc. originates, for the most part with a periphrastic passive:
    1. by, the Old Engl. of; as, ek em sendr hingað af Starkaði ok sonum hans, sent hither by, Nj. 94; inna e-t af hendi, to perform, 257; þó at alþýða væri skírð af kennimönnum, baptized of, Fms. ii. 158; meira virðr af mönnum, higher esteemed, Ld. 158; ástsæll af landsmönnum, beloved, íb. 16; vinsæll af mönnum, Nj. 102; í allgóðu yfirlæti af þeim feðgum, hospitably treated by them, Eg. 170; var þá nokkut drukkið af alþjóð, there was somewhat hard drinking of the people, Sturl. iii. 229; mun þat ekki upp tekið af þeim sükudólgum mínum, they will not clutch at that, Nj. 257; ef svá væri í hendr þér búit af mér, if í had so made everything ready to thy hands, Ld. 130; þá varð fárætt um af föður hans, his father said little about it, Fms. ii. 154.
    2. it is now also sometimes used as a periphrase of a nom., e. g. ritað, þýtt af e-m, written, translated, edited by, but such phrases scarcely occur in old writers.
    VI. denoting cause, ground, reason:
    1. originating from, on account of, by reason of; af frændsemis sökum, for kinship’s sake, Grág. ii. 72; ómáli af áverkum, speechless from wounds, 27; af manna völdum, by violence, not by natural accident, of a crime, Nj. 76; af fortölum Halls, through his pleading, 255; af ástsæld hans ok af tölum þeirra Sæmundar, by his popularity and the eloquence of S., Íb. 16; af ráðum Haralds konungs, by his contriving, Landn. 157; úbygðr af frosti ok kulda, because of frost and cold, Hkr. i. 5.
    β. adverbially, af því, therefore, Nj. 78; af hví, why? 686 B. 9; þá verðr bóndi heiðinn af barni sínu, viz. if he does not cause his child to be christened, K. Þ. K. 20.
    2. denoting instrumentality, by means of; af sinu fé, by one’s own means, Grág. i. 293; framfæra e-n af verkum sinum, by means of one’s own labour, K. Þ. K. 142; draga saman auð af sökum, ok vælum ok kaupum, make money by, 623. I; af sínum kostnaði, at hi s own expense, Hkr. i. 217.
    β. absol., hún fellir á mik dropa svá heita at ek brenn af öll, Ld. 328; hann fékk af hina mestu sæmd, derived great honotur from it, Nj. 88; elli sótti á hendr honum svá at hann lagðist í rekkju af, he grew bedridden from age, Ld. 54; komast undan af hlaupi, escape by running, Fms. viii. 58; spinna garn af rokki, spin off a wheel (now, spinna á rokk), from a notion of instrumentality, or because of the thread being spun out (?), Eb. 92.
    3. denoting proceeding, originating from; lýsti af höndum hennar, her hands spread beams of light, Edda 22; allir heimar lýstust ( were illuminated) af henni, id.; en er lýsti af degi, when the day broke forth, Fms. ii. 16; lítt var lýst af degi, the day was just beginning to break, Ld. 46; þá tók at myrkja af nótt, the ‘mirk-time’ of night began to set in, Eg. 230; tók þá brátt at myrkva af nótt, the night grew dark, Hkr. ii. 230.
    4. metaph., standa, leiða, hljótast af, to be caused by, result from; opt hlýtst íllt af kvenna hjali, great mischief is wrought by women’s gossip (a proverb), Gísl. 15, 98; at af þeim mundi mikit mein ok úhapp standa, be caused by, Edda 18; kenna kulda af ráðum e-s, to feel sore from, Eb. 42; þó mun her hljótast af margs manns bani, Nj, 90.
    5. in adverbial phrases, denoting state of mind; af mikilli æði, in fury, Nj. 116; af móð, in great emotion, Fms. xi. 221; af áhyggju, with concern, i. 186; af létta, frankly, iii. 91; af viti, collectedly, Grág. ii. 27; af heilu, sincerely, Eg. 46; áf fári, in rage; af æðru, timidly, Nj. (in a verse); af setning, composedly, in tune, Fms. iii. 187; af mikilli frægð, gallantly, Fas. i. 261; af öllu afli, with all might, Grág. ii. 41; af riki, violently, Fbr. (in a verse); af trúnaði, confidently, Grág. i. 400.
    VII. denoting regard to, of, concerning, in respect of, as regards:
    1. with verbs, denoting to tell of, be informed, inquire about, Lat. de; Dioscorides segir af grasi því, speaks of, 655 xxx. 5; er menn spurðu af landinu, inquired about it, Landn. 30; halda njósn af e-u, Nj. 104; er þat skjótast þar af at segja, Eg. 546, Band. 8.
    β. absol., hann mun spyrja, hvárt þér sé nokkut af kunnigt hversu for með okkr, whether you know anything about, how, Nj. 33; halda skóla af, to hold a school in a science, 656 A. i. 19 (sounds like a Latinism); en ek gerða þik sera mestan mann af öllu, in respect of all, that you should get all the honour of it, Nj. 78.
    2. with adjectives such as mildr, illr, góðrafe-u, denoting disposition or character in respect to; alira manna mildastr af fo, very liberal, often-banded, Fms. vii. 197; mildr af gulli, i. 33; góðr af griðum, merciful, Al. 33; íllr af mat en mildr af gulli, Fms. i. 53; fastr af drykk, close, stingy in regard to, Sturl. ii. 125; gat þess Hildigunnr at þú mundir góðr af hestinum, that you would be good about the horse, Nj. 90, cp. auðigr at, v. at, which corresponds to the above phrases; cp. also the phrase af sér above, p. 4, col. I, ll. 50 sqq.
    VIII. periphrasis of a genitive (rare); provincialis af öllum Predikaraklaustrum, Fms. x. 76; vera af hinum mesta fjandskap, to breathe deep hatred to, be on bad terms with, ix. 220; af hendi, af hálfu e-s, on one’s behalf, v. those words.
    IX. in adverbial phrases; as, af launungu, secretly; af hljóði, silently; v. those words.
    β. also used absolutely with a verb, almost adverbially, nearly in the signification off, away; hann bað þá róa af fjörðinn, pass the firth swiftly by rowing, row the firth off, Fms. ix. 502; var pá af farit þat seni skerjóttast var, was past, sailed past, Ld. 142; ok er þeir höfðu af fjórðung, past one fourth of the way, Dropl. 10: skína af, to clear up, of the skv, Eb. 152; hence in common language, skína af sér, when the sun breaks forth: sofa af nóttina, to sleep it away, Fms. ii. 98; leið af nóttin, the night past away, Nj. 53; dvelja af stundir, to kill the time, Band. 8; drepa af, to kill; láta af, to slaughter, kill off;
    γ. in exclamations; af tjöldin, off with the awnings, Bs. i. 420, Fins, ix. 49.
    δ. in the phrases, þar af, thence; hér af, hence, Fms. ii. 102; af fram, straight on, Nj. 144; now, á fram, on, advance.
    X. it often refers to a whole sentence or to an adverb, not only like other prepp. to hér, hvar, þar, but also redundantly to hvaðan, héðan, þaðan, whence, hence, thence.
    2. the preposition may sometimes be repeated, once elliptically or adverbially, and once properly, e. g. en er af var borit at borðinu, the cloth was taken off from the table, Nj. 176; Guð þerrir af (off, away) hvert tár af ( from) augum heilagra manna, God wipes off every tear from the eyes of his saints, 655 xx. vii. 17; skal þó fyrst bætr af lúka af fé vegaiula, pay off, from, Gþl. 160, the last af may be omitted—var þá af borið borðinu—and the prep. thus be separated from its case, or it may refer to some of the indecl. relatives er or sem, the prep. hvar, hér, þar being placed behind them without a case, and referring to the preceding relative, e. g. oss er þar mikit af sagt auð þeim, we have been told much about these riches, Band. 24; er þat skjótast þar af at segja, in short, shortly. Eg. 546; þaðan af veit ek, thence í infer, know, Fms. i. 97.
    XI. it is moreover connected with a great many verbs besides those mentioned above, e. g. bera af, to excel, whence afbragð, afbrigði; draga af, to detract, deduct, hence afdráttr; veita ekki af, to be hard with; ganga at, to be left, hence afgangr; standast af um e-t, to stand, how matters stand; sem af tekr, at a furious rate; vita af, to be conscious, know about (vide VII).
    D. As a prefix to compounds distinction is to be made between:
    I. af privativum, denoting diminution, want, deduction, loss, separation, negation of, etc., answering indifferently to Lat. ab-, de-, ex-, dis-, and rarely to re- and se-, v. the following COMPDS, such as segja, dicere, but afsegja, negare; rækja, colere, but afrækja, negligere; aflaga, contra legem; skapligr, normalis, afskapligr, deformis; afvik, recessus; afhús, afhellir, afdalr, etc.
    II. af intensivum, etymologically different, and akin to of, afr-, e. g. afdrykkja = ofdrykkja, inebrietas; afbrýði, jealously; afbendi, tenesmus; afglapi, vir fatuus, etc. etc. Both the privative and the intensive af may be contracted into á, esp. before a labial f, m, v, e. g. á fram = af fram; ábrýði = afbrýði; ávöxtr = afvöxtr; áburðr = afburðr; ávíta = afvíta (?). In some cases dubious. With extenuated and changed vowel; auvirðiligr or övirðiligr, depreciated, = afv- etc., v. those words.

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