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  • 1 καταδοκέω

    A think or suppose a thing to any one's prejudice, c. inf., κ. τινὰ ποιέειν τι suspect one of.., Hdt.3.27;

    σφέας κ. εἶναι κλῶπας Id.6.16

    : with inf. understood, Id.1.22, 3.69: c. dat. pers., τοῖσι

    κατεδόκεον νεοχμὸν ἄν τι ποιέειν Id.9.99

    : c. acc. neut.,

    τάδε καταδόξας.. σφέας ἐθελοκακέειν Id.8.69

    :—[voice] Pass., to be suspected,

    ὑφ' ὑμῶν Antipho 2.2.3

    : also c. inf.,

    καταδοχθεὶς φονεὺς εἶναι Id.2.2.2

    ; later in good sense, καταδόξαντα [ ὑπέρμεγαν] εἶναι τοῖς τότε ἀνθρώποις who was recognized to be great by his contemporaries, Numen. ap. Eus.PE14.8.

    Greek-English dictionary (Αγγλικά Ελληνικά-λεξικό) > καταδοκέω

  • 2 che

    1. adj what
    a che cosa serve? what is that for?
    che brutta giornata! what a filthy day!
    2. pron persona: soggetto who
    persona: oggetto who, that, formal whom
    cosa that, which
    che? what?
    ciò che what
    non c'e di che don't mention it, you're welcome
    3. conj dopo il comparativo than
    sono tre anni che non la vedo I haven't seen her for three years
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    che1 agg.interr. ( quale) what ( riferito a numero indeterminato di cose o persone); which ( riferito a numero limitato di cose o persone): che libri leggi?, what (kind of) books do you read?; che libro preferisci tra questi?, which book do you like best?; che musica ti piace?, what music do you like?; che tipo è?, what kind of a person is he?; che vestito mi metto stasera?, what shall I wear tonight? // che ora è?, what time is it (o what's the time)?
    ◆ pron.interr. ( che cosa) what: che è questo?, what's this?; che fai?, what are you doing?; che guardi?, what are you looking at?; che hai?, what's the matter with you?; che importa?, why bother about it?; non so che dire, I don't know what to say; che altro ( c'è)?, what else (is there)? // che succede?, what's going on? // che è che non è, all of a sudden // a che ( pro)?, what for (o to what purpose)?
    che1 agg.escl.
    1 ( quale, quali) what; (con s. che in inglese ammettono il pl.) what a: che bella giornata!, what a lovely day!; che bella notizia mi hai dato!, what good news you've given me!; che simpatico quel vostro amico!, what a nice person that friend of yours is!; che mascalzone!, what a rascal!; che musica meravigliosa!, what wonderful music!; che seccatura!, what a nuisance!; che pazienza ci è voluta per convincerla!, what a lot of patience it took to persuade her!; che idee!, what ideas!; che ingenui siamo stati!, what fools we were!; che vergogna!, what a disgrace!
    2 ( come) how: che strano!, how strange!; che bello!, how lovely!
    ◆ pron.escl. ( che cosa) what: che dici!, what are you saying!; guarda che mi doveva capitare!, just look what's happened to me!; che mi tocca sentire!, what's this I hear?; ''Ti sei divertito?'' ''Altro che!'', ''Did you have a good time?'' ''And how!''
    ◆ inter. (fam.) what!: ''Che! Stai scherzando?'', ''What! Are you kidding?''.
    che1 pron.indef. ( qualcosa) something: le sue parole avevano un che, un non so che di profetico, there was something prophetic about his words // non (un) gran che, ( non molto) not much, not up to much: non ho combinato (un) gran che, I didn't get much done; la commedia non era (un) gran che, the play wasn't up to much.
    che1 pron.rel.invar.
    1 (con funzione di sogg.) who, that ( riferito a persone); which, that ( riferito ad animali e cose): il signore che è entrato ora è il nuovo direttore, the man who (o that) has just come in is the new director; il ragazzo che studiava con me ha cambiato scuola, the boy who (o that) studied with me has changed school; l'ultimo che entra chiuda la porta, per favore, will the last one who comes in (o the last one to come in) please shut the door; gli atleti che sono iscritti alla prossima gara si presentino subito alla linea di partenza, the athletes (who are) entered for the next race should report to the starting line at once; non trovo nessuno che sia in grado di risolvere questo problema, I can't find anyone (who is) capable of solving this problem; c'è qualcuno che sa come funziona questa macchina fotografica?, is there anybody that (o who) knows how this camera works?; il cavallo che ha vinto la corsa era il favorito, the horse that (o which) won the race was the favourite; dammi il libro che sta sulla scrivania, give me the book that's on the desk; i volumi che trattano di anatomia sono nell'ultimo scaffale a destra, the books that deal (o the books dealing) with anatomy are on the top shelf, right-hand side; Dante Alighieri, che nacque a Firenze nel 1265, è il massimo poeta italiano, Dante Alighieri, who was born in Florence in 1265, is Italy's greatest poet; la Torre di Londra, che fu costruita da Guglielmo il Conquistatore, è un castello normanno, the Tower of London, which was built by William the Conqueror, is a Norman castle // colui che, coloro che, → colui, coloro // ciò che, what // tutto ciò che, all that
    2 (con funzione di compl. ogg.; gener. è omesso in inglese) who, (form.) whom, that ( riferito a persone); which, that ( riferito ad animali e cose): sei proprio la persona che volevo vedere, you're the very person (that o who) I wanted to see; avete mangiato tutta la frutta che ho comprato?, have you eaten all the fruit (that) I bought?; eccoti i libri che mi avevi prestato, here are the books (that) you lent me; tutti gli animali che abbiamo citato sono in via di estinzione, all the animals (that) we have mentioned are endangered species; i solisti che abbiamo sentito ieri sera sono famosi in tutto il mondo, the soloists (that) we heard last night are world famous; l'argomento che stiamo per affrontare è della massima importanza, the subject (that) we're about to deal with is of the utmost importance; l'illustre ospite, che abbiamo l'onore di presentarvi, è nientemeno che il Presidente, our distinguished guest, who (m) we are honoured to present to you, is none other than the President; il duomo di Milano, che visiteremo domani, è un capolavoro di architettura gotica, Milan cathedral, which we shall visit tomorrow, is a masterpiece of Gothic architecture ∙ Come si nota dagli esempi, nei significati 1 e 2, quando il pron. che introduce una frase incidentale, viene tradotto con who (m) o which, e non può essere omesso
    3 (in correl. con stesso, medesimo) as, that: ha dato la stessa risposta che ho dato io, he gave the same answer (as o that) I did; è accaduta la stessa cosa che era accaduta ieri, the same thing happened as (o that) had happened yesterday; incontrerete le stesse difficoltà che abbiamo incontrato noi, you'll meet the same difficulties (as o that) we did
    4 (fam.) ( col valore di in cui, con cui, per cui): il giorno che arrivò era il 1o di agosto, the day he arrived was 1st August; ricordi l'estate che ci siamo incontrati?, can you remember the summer we met?; l'ultima volta che lo vidi era molto depresso, the last time I saw him he was very depressed; con quello stipendio ha di che vivere agiatamente, he can live comfortably on that salary; non ha proprio di che lamentarsi, he has nothing at all to complain about // non c'è che dire, you only have to say // non c'è di che, ( forma di cortesia) don't mention it // paese che vai usanze che trovi, (prov.) when in Rome (do as the Romans do)
    5 il che, ( la qual cosa) which: beve come una spugna, il che gli fa male alla salute, he drinks like a fish, which is bad for his health; ha superato la prova, del che ci siamo tutti rallegrati, he passed the test, which delighted us all; cominciò ad alzare la voce, al che gli ordinai di uscire dalla stanza, he started raising his voice, at which I ordered him out of the room; non si sono fatti più vivi, dal che deduco che si sono trasferiti altrove, they haven't shown up any more, from which I presume that they've moved elsewhere // dopo di che, after which, and then; afterwards
    ◆ agg. ( quale) that: da trenta che erano, solo dieci sono arrivati alla fine del corso, out of the original thirty, only ten completed the course; da quel colosso che era, è diventato pelle e ossa, from the giant he was, he has become all skin and bones.
    che2 cong.dichiarativa
    1 (dopo verbi che esprimono opinione; in inglese è spesso omessa) that: dicono che la luna sia abitata, they say (that) the moon is inhabited; so che tu cercherai di comprendermi, I know you'll try to understand; sono certo che arriveremo in tempo, I'm sure (that) we'll get there on time
    2 (dopo verbi di volontà non si traduce e richiede la costruzione oggettiva: compl. ogg. + inf. del verbo): voglio che ( lui) venga immediatamente, I want him to come at once; vuoi che ti accompagni?, do you want me to go with you?; volevano che (io) restassi a cena, they wanted me to stay to dinner; vorrei che mi dicessi come la pensi, I'd like you to tell me what you think // avrei tanto voluto che ci fossi anche tu, I wish you'd been there
    ◆ cong.consecutiva ( spesso in correlazione con così, tanto, tale; in inglese può essere omessa) that: ero così stanco che mi addormentai, I was so tired (that) I fell asleep; c'era una tale nebbia che non si distinguevano le case di fronte, it was so foggy (that) you couldn't see (the houses) across the street
    ◆ cong.compar. than: ha più denaro che cervello, he has more money than sense; è più furbo che intelligente, he's more crafty than intelligent; nell'albergo c'erano più stranieri che italiani, there were more foreigners than Italians in the hotel
    ◆ cong. causale ( in inglese non si traduce): copriti che fa freddo, wrap up warm, it's cold outside
    ◆ cong. finale ( in inglese è spesso omessa) that: bada che non si faccia male, mind he doesn't get hurt; fate in modo che non si accorga di niente, make sure (that) he doesn't notice anything
    ◆ cong.temporale ( quando) when; ( da quando) since, for; ( dopo che) after: arrivai che era già partito, he'd already left when I got there; è da Natale che non abbiamo sue notizie, we haven't heard from him since Christmas; sono due anni che non si vedono, they haven't seen each other for two years // ogni volta che, whenever // una volta che, once: una volta che hai imparato la tecnica, l'uso del computer non è difficile, once you've learnt the technique, it isn't hard to use the computer
    ◆ cong.eccettuativa only, but: non ho che pochi euro, I've only got a few euros; non hai che dirmelo, you only have to tell me; non ho potuto far altro che accettare, I could do nothing but accept; non fa che dire sciocchezze, he talks nothing but nonsense; non potevo fare altrimenti che così, there was nothing else (that) I could do.
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    [ke]
    1. pron
    1) (relativo: persona: soggetto) who, (oggetto) whom, that, (cosa, animale) which, that (spesso omesso)

    i bambini che vedi nel cortile — the children whom o that you see in the yard

    il giorno che... — the day (that)...

    il libro che è sul tavolo — the book which o that is on the table

    dovrei ottenere il massimo dei voti, il che è improbabile — I would have to get top marks, which is unlikely

    3)

    (indefinito) quell'uomo ha un che di losco — there's something suspicious about that man

    un certo non so che — an indefinable something

    quel film non era un gran che — that film was nothing special

    quella ragazza ha un non so che di affascinante — there's something fascinating about that girl

    2. agg

    che vestito ti vuoi mettere? — what (o which) dress do you want to put on?

    2) escl what

    che bel vestito! — what a lovely dress!

    che buono! — how delicious!

    guarda in che stato sei ridotto! — look at the mess you're in!

    3. cong
    1) (con proposizioni subordinate) that (talvolta omesso)

    ero così felice che corsi a dirlo a tutti — I was so happy (that) I ran off to tell everyone

    nasconditi qui che non ti veda nessuno — hide here, so nobody can see you

    so che tu c'eri — I know (that) you were there

    voglio che tu venga — I want you to come

    2)

    (temporale) mi sono svegliato che era ancora buio — it was still dark when I woke up

    sono anni che non lo vedo — I haven't seen him for o in years, it's years since I saw him

    era appena uscita di casa che suonò il telefono — she had no sooner gone out than o she had hardly gone out when the telephone rang

    arrivai che eri già partito — you had already left when I arrived

    3)

    (in frasi imperative, in concessive) che venga pure! — let him come by all means!

    4)

    non che sia stupido — not that he's stupid

    non è che non mi interessi la commedia, è che sono stanco e vorrei andare a letto — it's not that the play doesn't interest me, it's just that I'm tired and I'd like to go to bed

    che tu venga o no, noi partiamo lo stesso — we're leaving whether you come or not

    5) (comparativo: con più, meno) than

    è più furbo che intelligente — he's more cunning than intelligent

    See:
    non,
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    I 1. [ke]
    1) (soggetto) (persona) who, that; (cosa, animale di sesso imprecisato) that, which

    il cane, che mi aveva riconosciuto, si avvicinò — the dog, which had recognized me, came up

    comparve un uomo che portava un cappello — a man appeared, wearing a hat

    2) (oggetto) (persona) who, whom form., that; (cosa, animale di sesso imprecisato) that, which

    non c'è di che! — (formula di cortesia) you're welcome! don't mention it! (con valore temporale)

    4) (con avverbi di luogo, di tempo)
    2.
    aggettivo interrogativo
    2) che cosa what
    3. 4.
    aggettivo esclamativo

    che strano, bello! — how odd, lovely!

    5. 6. II [ke]

    è probabile che venga — he is likely to come; (dopo verbi di volontà o comando)

    la musica era così forte che... — the music was so loud that

    vestiti, che usciamo — get dressed, (because) we're going out

    non che non fosse contento, ma — he wasn't unhappy, but

    ogni volta che vieni — every time you come; (finché)

    7) (imperativa, ottativa)

    non hanno il diritto, che io sappia, di intervenire — they have no right, as far as I know, to intervene

    sia che..., sia che... — either...or...

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    che1
    /ke/
     1 (soggetto) (persona) who, that; (cosa, animale di sesso imprecisato) that, which; il cane, che mi aveva riconosciuto, si avvicinò the dog, which had recognized me, came up; e tu che pensavi di risparmiare! you were the one who thought (you were going) to save money! comparve un uomo che portava un cappello a man appeared, wearing a hat; è lui che me lo ha detto it was him who told me; lo sentii che parlava con Marco I heard him speaking to Marco
     2 (oggetto) (persona) who, whom form., that; (cosa, animale di sesso imprecisato) that, which; è la donna più bella che (io) abbia mai visto she's the most beautiful woman (that) I've ever seen; non mi piace la macchina che hai comprato I don't like the car (that) you've bought; stupido che sei! you silly thing! you fool!
     3 (complemento indiretto) non ha neanche di che mangiare he doesn't even have enough for food; non c'è di che! (formula di cortesia) you're welcome! don't mention it! (con valore temporale) l'estate che ci siamo conosciuti the summer when o in which we met
     4 (con avverbi di luogo, di tempo) fu allora che it was then that; è qui che si rilasciano i passaporti? is it here that they issue passports?
     5 il che (cosa che) which
     1 (quale) what; (entro un gruppo ristretto) which; di che colore è? what colour is it? che medaglie ha vinto? which medals did he win?
     2 che cosa what; che cosa fai? what are you doing? che cosa c'è? what's up? che cosa? non ho sentito what? I didn't hear; a che cosa stai pensando? what are you thinking of o about?
     what; che fai? what are you doing? che dire? what shall I say? che fare? what is to be done? che c'è di nuovo what's new?
     che strano, bello! how odd, lovely! che uomo! what a man! che coraggio! what courage!
     ma che mi tocca sentire! what I have to listen to! che! vai già via? what? are you off already?
      aveva un che di strano there was something weird about him; non ha fatto un gran che he didn't do a great deal.
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    See also notes... (che.pdf)
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    che2
    /ke/
     1 (dichiarativa) that; penso che dovrebbe cambiare mestiere I think (that) he should do another job; so che è vero I know it's true; è probabile che venga he is likely to come; (dopo verbi di volontà o comando) papà vuole che andiamo con lui dad wants us to go with him; vorrei che fossi qui I wish you were here
     2 (consecutiva) in modo che capisca so that he can understand; la musica era così forte che... the music was so loud that...
     3 (causale) vestiti, che usciamo get dressed, (because) we're going out
     4 (concessiva) non che non fosse contento, ma he wasn't unhappy, but
     5 (finale) sta' attento che non cada mind that it doesn't fall
     6 (temporale) sono dieci anni che ci frequentiamo we've known each other for ten years; ogni volta che vieni every time you come; (finché) aspetto che parta I'm waiting for him to leave
     7 (imperativa, ottativa) che non se ne parli più let's hear no more about this; che Dio abbia misericordia di noi! (may) God have mercy on us!
     8 (limitativa) non hanno il diritto, che io sappia, di intervenire they have no right, as far as I know, to intervene
     9 (correlativa) che venga o no whether he comes or not; sia che..., sia che... either...or...; sia io che mio marito siamo vegetariani both myself and my husband are vegetarians
     10 (interrogativa) che mi sia ingannato? maybe I got it wrong
     11 (nelle comparative) è più diligente che dotato he's more diligent than gifted; studio più che posso I study as much as I can.

    Dizionario Italiano-Inglese > che

  • 3 Historical Portugal

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

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 4 quien

    pron.
    who (sujeto).
    era Pepe a quien vi/de quien no me fiaba it was Pepe (whom) I saw/didn't trust
    * * *
    1 (sujeto) who
    ■ me encontré a Toni, quien me dijo que estabas enfermo I met Toni, who told me you were ill
    2 (complemento) who, whom
    3 (indefinido) whoever, anyone who
    \
    como quien as if
    * * *
    pron.
    1) who, whom
    2) whoever, whomever
    * * *
    PRON REL
    1) [con antecedente]
    a) [como sujeto] who

    hablé con mi abogado, quien me dio la razón — I spoke to my solicitor, who said I was right

    b) [como complemento] who, whom frm

    su profesor, a quien está dedicado el libro, siempre lo apoyó — his teacher, who the book is dedicated to, always supported him, his teacher, to whom the book is dedicated, always supported him frm

    el pintor a quien describe en su libro — the painter he describes in his book, the painter whom he describes in his book frm

    la señorita con quien hablaba — the young lady I was talking to, the young lady to whom I was talking frm

    2) [como indefinido]
    a) + subjun

    pregúntale a quien quieras — ask anyone o whoever you like

    "a quien corresponda" — "to whom it may concern"

    b) + indic

    quien más se quejaba era él — the person who complained most was him, he was the one that o who complained the most

    hay quien no piensa lo mismo — there are some o those who do not think the same

    ¡no hay quien te entienda! — there's no understanding you!

    c)

    quien más, quien menos —

    quien más, quien menos tiene un amigo que ha estudiado en el extranjero — most of us have a friend who has studied abroad

    quien más, quien menos, todos hemos tenido miedo a la oscuridad de pequeños — all of us, to some extent, have been afraid of the dark as children

    nací en Navarra, a un paso, como quien dice, de Francia — I was born in Navarre, just a stone's throw from France, so to speak

    como quien no quiere la cosa —

    se acercó, como quien no quiere la cosa, a enterarse de lo que decíamos — he casually moved closer to us to find out what we were saying

    era capaz de beberse una botella de vino, como quien no quiere la cosa — he was quite capable of drinking a whole bottle of wine, just like that o as if it were nothing

    como quien oye llover —

    estuve una hora intentando convencerlo, y él, como quien oye llover — I spent an hour trying to persuade him but it was like water off a duck's back

    no ser quien —

    tú no eres quien para decirme si tengo que llegar a casa antes de las diez — it's not for you to tell me whether I should come home before ten

    * * *
    1)
    a) (sujeto) who, that; (complemento) who, that, whom (frml)

    tienes que ser tú misma quien lo decida — you are the one who o that has to decide

    b) (frml o liter) ( en frases explicativas) who, whom (frml)

    su hermano, a quien no había visto,... — her brother, who o whom she had not seen,...

    sus padres, para quienes esto había sido un duro golpe,... — her parents, for whom this had been a severe blow,...

    3)

    no ser quien: no soy quien para opinar al respecto I'm not the (right) person to comment on this matter; tú no eres quien para juzgarme — you're nobody to judge me

    * * *
    = who, whom, whoever.
    Ex. The problem is to decide who to select as being mainly responsible.
    Ex. The variety of reader places in a library adds interest to the interior but also provide for the many preferences of the users, some of whom seem to prefer a very busy location.
    Ex. Whoever cataloged it at LC, and I'm willing to bet it happened elsewhere too, probably didn't get much beyond the dust jacket where there was a big clue about something special to the book.
    ----
    * a quien madruga, Dios le ayuda = the early bird catches the worm.
    * de quién sabe dónde = out of the woodwork.
    * dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres = you are known by the company you keep.
    * haz el bien y no mires a quién = cast your bread upon the waters.
    * ¡mira quién habla! = look who's talking!.
    * No importa lo que se conoce, sino a quién se conoce = It's not what you know, but who you know.
    * quien algo quiere algo le cuesta = no pain, no gain.
    * quienes = whom.
    * Quién es quién = Who's Who.
    * quien guarda, halla = waste not, want not.
    * quién iba a decir entonces que... = little did + Verbo + then that....
    * ¿quién más...? = who else...?.
    * quien mucho abarca poco aprieta = bite off more than + Pronombre + can chew.
    * quien nada arriesga nada gana = nothing ventured, nothing gained.
    * quien no malgasta no pasa necesidades = waste not, want not.
    * quién + Pronombre + iba a decir que... = little did + Pronombre + know that....
    * quien quiera peces que se moje el culo = you cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs.
    * ¿quién sabe? = who knows?.
    * quién sabe lo que = who knows what.
    * quién sabe qué = who knows what.
    * quien siembra vientos recoge tempestades = as you sow, so shall you reap.
    * ¿quién si no...? = who else but...?.
    * ¡quién te lo iba a decir! = lo and behold!, lo!.
    * salir de quién sabe dónde = come out of + the woodwork.
    * sálvese quien pueda = the devil take the hindmost, let battle commence.
    * * *
    1)
    a) (sujeto) who, that; (complemento) who, that, whom (frml)

    tienes que ser tú misma quien lo decida — you are the one who o that has to decide

    b) (frml o liter) ( en frases explicativas) who, whom (frml)

    su hermano, a quien no había visto,... — her brother, who o whom she had not seen,...

    sus padres, para quienes esto había sido un duro golpe,... — her parents, for whom this had been a severe blow,...

    3)

    no ser quien: no soy quien para opinar al respecto I'm not the (right) person to comment on this matter; tú no eres quien para juzgarme — you're nobody to judge me

    * * *
    = who, whom, whoever.

    Ex: The problem is to decide who to select as being mainly responsible.

    Ex: The variety of reader places in a library adds interest to the interior but also provide for the many preferences of the users, some of whom seem to prefer a very busy location.
    Ex: Whoever cataloged it at LC, and I'm willing to bet it happened elsewhere too, probably didn't get much beyond the dust jacket where there was a big clue about something special to the book.
    * a quien madruga, Dios le ayuda = the early bird catches the worm.
    * de quién sabe dónde = out of the woodwork.
    * dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres = you are known by the company you keep.
    * haz el bien y no mires a quién = cast your bread upon the waters.
    * ¡mira quién habla! = look who's talking!.
    * No importa lo que se conoce, sino a quién se conoce = It's not what you know, but who you know.
    * quien algo quiere algo le cuesta = no pain, no gain.
    * quienes = whom.
    * Quién es quién = Who's Who.
    * quien guarda, halla = waste not, want not.
    * quién iba a decir entonces que... = little did + Verbo + then that....
    * ¿quién más...? = who else...?.
    * quien mucho abarca poco aprieta = bite off more than + Pronombre + can chew.
    * quien nada arriesga nada gana = nothing ventured, nothing gained.
    * quien no malgasta no pasa necesidades = waste not, want not.
    * quien paga manda = he who pays the piper calls the tune.
    * quién + Pronombre + iba a decir que... = little did + Pronombre + know that....
    * quien quiera peces que se moje el culo = you cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs.
    * ¿quién sabe? = who knows?.
    * quién sabe lo que = who knows what.
    * quién sabe qué = who knows what.
    * quien siembra vientos recoge tempestades = as you sow, so shall you reap.
    * ¿quién si no...? = who else but...?.
    * ¡quién te lo iba a decir! = lo and behold!, lo!.
    * salir de quién sabe dónde = come out of + the woodwork.
    * sálvese quien pueda = the devil take the hindmost, let battle commence.

    * * *
    A
    1 (con antecedente explícito — como sujeto) who, that; (— como objeto) who, that, whom ( frml)
    tienes que ser tú misma quien lo decida you are the one who o that has to decide
    es a él a quien debemos agradecérselo he's the one (who) we must thank, he's the one (that) we must thank, he's the one (whom) we must thank
    la chica con quien salía the girl (who) I was going out with, the girl (that) I was going out with, the girl with whom I was going out
    2 ( frml o liter) (en frases explicativas — como sujeto) who; (— como objeto) who, whom ( frml)
    su hermano, a quien no había visto, … her brother, who o whom she had not seen, …
    sus padres, para quienes esto había sido un duro golpe, … her parents, for whom this had been a severe blow, …
    B
    (con antecedente implícito): quienes hayan terminado pueden irse those who have finished o anybody who has finished may go
    sálvese quien pueda every man for himself
    hubo quien la criticó por esto there were those who criticized her for this
    no encontré quien me lo pudiera explicar I didn't find anybody who could explain it to me
    C
    no ser quien: no soy quien para opinar al respecto I'm not the (right) person to comment on this matter
    tú no eres quien para juzgarme you're nobody to judge me
    * * *

     

    Multiple Entries:
    quien    
    quién
    quien pronombre
    1
    a) ( sujeto) who, that;

    ( complemento) who, that, whom (frml);
    ◊ tienes que ser tú misma quién lo decida you are the one who o that has to decide;

    es a él a quién debemos agradecérselo he's the one (who) we must thank;
    la chica con quién salía the girl (who) I was going out with
    b) (frml o liter) ( en frases explicativas) who, whom (frml);

    ◊ su hermano, a quién no había visto, … her brother, who o whom she had not seen, …

    2 ( la persona que):

    quién lo haya encontrado the person who found it;
    quién se lo haya dicho whoever told him
    quién pronombre
    who;
    ◊ ¿quiénes eran? who were they?;

    ¿quién de ustedes se atrevería? which of you would dare?;
    ¿con quiénes fuiste? who did you go with?;
    ¿de quién es esto? whose is this?;
    llegó una postal — ¿de quién? there's a postcard — who's it from?
    quien pron rel
    1 (sujeto) who: estuve con mi hermana, quien me contó sus problemas, I was with my sister, who told me her problems
    2 (complemento) es en él en quien pienso, he's the one I'm thinking about
    la persona para quien trabajo es muy metódica, the person for whom I work is very methodical
    (como negativa) nobody: no hay quien soporte este calor, nobody can stand this heat
    no hubo quien le defendiera, no one defended him
    3 (indefinido) whoever, anyone who: quien lo haya visto, que lo diga, anyone who has seen him should tell us
    quién pron
    1 (interrogativo) (sujeto) who?
    ¿quién es?, who is it?
    (complemento) who
    aún no sé quién es el ganador, I don't know yet who the winner is
    ¿con quién fuiste?, who did you go with?
    adivina en quién estoy pensando, guess who I'm thinking about
    2 (posesivo) de quién, whose: ¿de quién es ese libro? whose is that book?
    3 (en exclamaciones) ¡quién sabe!, who knows!
    ♦ Locuciones: no es quién para juzgarme, he's not the person to judge me

    ' quién' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abogada
    - abogado
    - acudir
    - callar
    - confesar
    - creerse
    - decir
    - distribuir
    - ganarse
    - garantizar
    - guapa
    - guapo
    - hablar
    - hacer
    - instigación
    - irse
    - mando
    - mirar
    - parte
    - pique
    - quien
    - rienda
    - saber
    - salvarse
    - vela
    - yo
    - a
    - abarcar
    - acertar
    - aguantar
    - andar
    - atender
    - barba
    - comprar
    - diablo
    - importar
    - ir
    - propio
    - salvar
    - ser
    - tocar
    - tomar
    - ver
    English:
    advise
    - alone
    - anybody
    - beauty
    - bird
    - boss
    - call
    - carry-on
    - choose
    - commit
    - conduct
    - control
    - culprit
    - deal
    - do
    - envoy
    - fault
    - god
    - grab
    - guess
    - humour
    - it
    - laugh
    - look up to
    - man
    - matter
    - me
    - misplaced
    - missing
    - most
    - next
    - nobody
    - one-upmanship
    - place
    - put up to
    - repair
    - second
    - speak
    - stare
    - suspect
    - take over
    - that
    - think
    - upkeep
    - us
    - venture
    - who
    - whoever
    - whom
    - whose
    * * *
    quien pron
    1. (relativo) [sujeto] who;
    [complemento] who, Formal whom;
    fue mi hermano quien me lo explicó it was my brother who explained it to me;
    él fue quien me robó he's the one who robbed me;
    era Rosario a quien vi/de quien no me fiaba it was Rosario (who) I saw/didn't trust;
    buscaba a alguien con quien hablar I was looking for someone to talk to;
    el atracador, a quien nadie reconoció, logró escapar the mugger, who nobody recognized, was able to escape;
    gane quien gane, el partido está siendo memorable whoever wins, it has been an unforgettable game
    2. (indefinido)
    quien lo encuentre que se lo quede whoever finds it can keep it;
    quienes quieran verlo que se acerquen whoever wants to see it will have to come closer;
    quien no sabe nada de esto es tu madre one person who knows nothing about it is your mother;
    hay quien lo niega there are those who deny it;
    al billar no hay quien le gane he's unbeatable at billiards;
    quien más quien menos, todo el mundo se lo esperaba that's what everyone expected, to some extent or other;
    CAm, Méx, Ven Fam
    quien quita y… [tal vez] maybe…;
    [ojalá] let's hope…;
    visita nuestra página, quien quita y te gusta visit our website, you may like it o maybe you'll like it;
    ¿mañana sales de viaje? quien quita y te vaya bien so you're off on a trip tomorrow? I hope it all goes well
    * * *
    pron rel sujeto who, that; objeto who, whom fml, that;
    no soy quien para hacerlo I’m not the right person to do it;
    hay quien there are people;
    no hay quien lo haga nobody can do it;
    la mujer con quien llegó the woman he arrived with;
    quien más (y) quien menos some more, (and) some less
    * * *
    quien pron, pl quienes
    1) : who, whom
    no sé quien ganará: I don't know who will win
    las personas con quienes trabajo: the people with whom I work
    2) : whoever, whomever
    quien quiere salir que salga: whoever wants to can leave
    3) : anyone, some people
    hay quienes no están de acuerdo: some people don't agree
    quién pron, pl quiénes
    1) : who, whom
    ¿quién sabe?: who knows?
    ¿con quién hablo?: with whom am I speaking?
    2)
    de quien : whose
    ¿de quién es este libro?: whose book is this?
    * * *
    quien pron
    1. (sujeto) who
    2. (cualquiera) whoever
    quien desee venir, puede hacerlo whoever wants to come can do so
    quien llegue el primero, que nos guarde una mesa whoever gets there first, save us a table

    Spanish-English dictionary > quien

  • 5 mandato

    m.
    1 order, command (orden, precepto).
    2 mandate.
    3 term of office.
    4 period of office, premiership, office, period in office.
    5 mandatum.
    6 terms of reference.
    * * *
    1 (orden) order, command
    2 DERECHO mandate
    3 PLÍTICA term of office
    \
    mandato judicial court order
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=orden) mandate
    2) (=período de mando) term of office, mandate frm

    se acerca el final de su mandato — his term of office o his mandate frm is coming to an end

    • bajo o durante el mandato de algn — during sb's term of office o mandate frm

    • territorio bajo mandato — mandated territory

    3) (Jur) (=estatutos) terms of reference pl ; (=poder) power of attorney
    4) (Inform) command
    5) (Com)
    6) (Rel) maundy
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( período) term of office
    b) ( orden) mandate
    2) (Der) mandate
    * * *
    = commandment, instruction, mandate, parliament, tenure, dictate, injunction, term, edict, term of office, period of office, term in office, watch, behest.
    Ex. The commandment KOLN see COLOGNE should be sufficient cause for the rejection of the illicit proposal to establish OPERA -- KOLN.
    Ex. A command language is the language with which the search proceeds; the commands are instructions that the searcher can issue to the computer.
    Ex. The original mandate was very clear: to consider for inclusion all proposals made.
    Ex. Librarians should not indulge in complacency in the wake of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's decision not to impose any VAT on books for the duration of the present parliament.
    Ex. During his tenure, OSU was recognized for the high quality Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) program it developed in serving both students and faculty.
    Ex. In practice, once the barriers are broken down in children antagonistic to reading, everything blends into the flux of a whole experience split into bits only by the dictates of a school timetable.
    Ex. Familiar injunctions such as 'Enter under...' seem to have been lost.
    Ex. The board consists of seven members elected by popular ballot for three-year terms.
    Ex. A French edict of 1571 set the maximum price of Latin textbooks in large type at 3 deniers a sheet.
    Ex. At the same time we traditionally record the departure of those who have completed terms of office and who have given much of their time and some of their lives to forwarding the cause of libraries and librarianship.
    Ex. This paper identifies the librarians of Glasgow University since 1641 and assesses their periods of office.
    Ex. The book focuses on Nixon's two terms in office and draws on solid, original source material to get inside the minds of the president and his chief hatchetman, Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, in particular.
    Ex. During his watch, the US economy as well as the global monetary situation have been thrown into a precarious situation.
    Ex. Prophet Mohammed told him, "Well look here, so long as they follow my behests, they will not be ill".
    ----
    * al final de su mandato = lame duck.
    * en el mandato = in office.
    * finalizar un mandato = leave + office.
    * mandato judicial = writ.
    * periodo de mandato = period of office.
    * territorio bajo mandato = mandate.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( período) term of office
    b) ( orden) mandate
    2) (Der) mandate
    * * *
    = commandment, instruction, mandate, parliament, tenure, dictate, injunction, term, edict, term of office, period of office, term in office, watch, behest.

    Ex: The commandment KOLN see COLOGNE should be sufficient cause for the rejection of the illicit proposal to establish OPERA -- KOLN.

    Ex: A command language is the language with which the search proceeds; the commands are instructions that the searcher can issue to the computer.
    Ex: The original mandate was very clear: to consider for inclusion all proposals made.
    Ex: Librarians should not indulge in complacency in the wake of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's decision not to impose any VAT on books for the duration of the present parliament.
    Ex: During his tenure, OSU was recognized for the high quality Selective Dissemination of Information (SDI) program it developed in serving both students and faculty.
    Ex: In practice, once the barriers are broken down in children antagonistic to reading, everything blends into the flux of a whole experience split into bits only by the dictates of a school timetable.
    Ex: Familiar injunctions such as 'Enter under...' seem to have been lost.
    Ex: The board consists of seven members elected by popular ballot for three-year terms.
    Ex: A French edict of 1571 set the maximum price of Latin textbooks in large type at 3 deniers a sheet.
    Ex: At the same time we traditionally record the departure of those who have completed terms of office and who have given much of their time and some of their lives to forwarding the cause of libraries and librarianship.
    Ex: This paper identifies the librarians of Glasgow University since 1641 and assesses their periods of office.
    Ex: The book focuses on Nixon's two terms in office and draws on solid, original source material to get inside the minds of the president and his chief hatchetman, Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, in particular.
    Ex: During his watch, the US economy as well as the global monetary situation have been thrown into a precarious situation.
    Ex: Prophet Mohammed told him, "Well look here, so long as they follow my behests, they will not be ill".
    * al final de su mandato = lame duck.
    * en el mandato = in office.
    * finalizar un mandato = leave + office.
    * mandato judicial = writ.
    * periodo de mandato = period of office.
    * territorio bajo mandato = mandate.

    * * *
    A
    1 (período) term of office
    2 (orden) mandate
    la Regencia se ejercerá por mandato constitucional the Regency will operate according to the constitution
    B ( Der) mandate
    * * *

     

    mandato sustantivo masculino
    1


    2 (Der) mandate
    mandato sustantivo masculino
    1 (orden) order, command
    Jur warrant
    2 (periodo de gobierno) term of office
    ' mandato' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    orden
    - ordenar
    - que
    - legislatura
    English:
    expire
    - injunction
    - mandate
    - order
    - term
    - writ
    * * *
    1. [orden, precepto] order, command;
    fue detenido por mandato del juez he was arrested on the judge's instructions
    Der mandato judicial warrant
    2. [poderes de representación] mandate
    mandato electoral electoral mandate
    3. [periodo] term of office;
    durante el mandato del alcalde during the mayor's term of office;
    el candidato republicano aspira a un tercer mandato consecutivo the Republican candidate is seeking his third consecutive term
    * * *
    m
    1 ( orden) order
    2 POL mandate
    * * *
    1) : term of office
    2) : mandate

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  • 6 תפס

    תָּפַס, תָּפַשׂ(b. h.; cmp. תָּפַף) to seize, take hold on; to take effect. Keth.84b את תּוֹפֵס לבעל חובוכ׳ thou seizest property in behalf of a creditor when the debtor owes others, ואמרר׳ י׳ התופסוכ׳ and R. J. has decided that he who seizes in behalf of a creditor when there are other claimants has not taken legal possession. Ib. top והוא שת׳ מחיים (his possession is effectual) when he has seized it during the decedents life-time. Ab. Zar.8b (expl. קרטיסיס) יום שתָּפְסָה בו רומי מלכות the day when Rome took hold of the government (of the east, v. תְּפִיסָה). Y.Taan.IV, 68c top היה משה תוֹפְשָׂן Moses held fast on them (the tablets). R. Hash. 4b, a. fr. תָּפַסְתָּ מרובהוכ׳, v. מוּעָט. B. Mets. 102b, a. e. תְּפוֹס לשון אחרון hold to the latter expression, i. e. if an agreement contains two discrepant clauses, the second is legally recognized; Ten. 26a a. e. תפוס לשון ראשון the first clause (of a vow) is legally recognized. Yeb.10b, a. fr. אין קודושין תּוֹפְסִיןוכ׳, v. קִידּוּש. Y.Dem.VI, 25b תָּפְשָׂה מדת הדיןוכ׳ justice takes hold on him, i. e. the full rigor of the law is applied against him Num. R. s. 111> (ref. to Prov. 3:34) אלו הנזירים שתּוֹפְשִׂים ענוה בעצמןוכ׳ that means the Nazarites who choose humility for themselves, who abstain from wine Ib. 108> ותְפָשָׂם and arrested them, v. לוּפָר. Snh.64a מפני מה תפסה תורה לשון מולך why does the Biblical text choose the word Molekh (in place of idol in general)?, Y.Ber.VII, 11c top, a. e. תופסין אותו seize him, take him to task, v. נַקְדָּן. Ab. Zar.64a דמי … מי תוֹפֶסֶת דמיהוכ׳ how about money which was realized by the sale of an idol, in the hands of a gentile? does the idol hold its equivalent in gentile hands or not?, i. e. does the money in gentile hands retain its character as compensation for an idol, and is it thus forbidden to a Jew? Ex. R. s. 1520> היה שלמה תופס פיווכ׳ Solomon controlled his mouth, in order not to speak before Gen. R. s. 12 כל … תופסין את הלשון וזה אינו תופסוכ׳ all other letters catch the tongue (require an effort of the organs of speech), but this (the Hé) does not catch (is merely a breathing sound).Part. pass. תָּפוּס, תָּפוּשׂ; f. תְּפוּסָה, תְּפוּשָׂה a) (cmp. אָחוּז s. v. אָחַז) holding. Y. Taan. l. c. היה משה ת׳ בטפחיים Moses was holding two handbreadths (of the tablets). Ex. R. s. 46, beg. חיה ת׳ בלוחותוכ׳ he held the tablets, and would not believe that Israel had sinned. Sifra Bḥuck. Par. 2, ch. VIII תְּפוּסֵי מעשהוכ׳ holding to the deeds of their fathers, generation after generation; a. e.b) seized, captured. Mekh. Mishp., s. 17 תפוסה the outraged woman, opp. מפותה the seduced. Nif. נִתְפַּס, נִתְפַּשׂ to be seized, arrested; to have ones property seized; to be made responsible. Ex. R. s. 1518> בן ביתשנ׳ על ידי בעלוכ׳ a domestic servant who was seized for his employers debt. Tosef.Ḥull.II, 24 נ׳ ע״ר מינות, v. מִינוּת. Ib. ונִתְפַּסְתִּי עלוכ׳ and therefore I was arrested on the suspicion of heresy. Ab. Zar.17b כשנִתְפְּסוּר׳ אלעזרוכ׳ when R. El. a. R. H. b. T. were arrested (by Roman officials, for rebellious conduct). Ib. אשריך שנִתְפַּסְתָּ עלוכ׳ happy art thou, for thou hast been arrested on one charge only, and woe me that I have been arrested on five charges. B. Bath.16b אין אדם נ׳ על צערו Ms. M. (ed. בשעת) no man is taken to account for what he speaks in his distress. Sabb.33b נִתְפָּסִים על הדור are seized for the debt (die for the sins) of their generation. Y.Keth.XIII, 35d כל הנ׳ על חבירו חייב ליתן לו in every case if ones property was seized for a neighbors debt, the latter has to reimburse him; ib. אין לך נ׳וכ׳ in no case must he reimburse him, except in the case of annona and head-tax; Y.B. Kam.X, end, 7c; Y.Ned.IV, beg.38c. Deut. R. s. 2, beg. (prov.) הוי זהיר שלא תִתָּפֵס מקום דבורך take care that thou be not caught on the spot where thou speakest (held to thy word); a. fr. Hif. חִתְפִּיס to cause to be seized, cause to take hold. Y.Succ.IV, 54d top ראה שהִתְפִּיסָתְךָ התורה לשוןוכ׳ behold, the Law has made thee use the expression of endearment Tem.2a הכל מַתְפִּיסִין בתמורה all persons can cause the seizure of the substitute together with the original by exchanging a consecrated animal (v. תְּמוּרָה). Ib. 9a מי מַתְפִּיס בדבר שאינו שלו can one cause the seizure of a thing which is not his?; a. e.Ned.11b, sq. מתפיס, v. next w. Pi. תִּפֵּס, תִּפֵּשׂ (v. טָפַס) to climb, rise. Gen. R. s. 66, end (ref. to Prov. 30:28) באיזה זכות השממית מְתַפֶּשֶׂת בזכותוכ׳ for what merit does the spider (Esau-Rome) climb (rise to power)? For the merit of those hands (with which Esau nursed his father, by ref. to Gen. 27:31); Yalk. ib. 115; Yalk. Prov. 963 תְּתַפֵּשׂ. Pirel תִּרְפֵּס, Hithparel הִתַּרְפֵּס same. Y.Erub.V, 22d top רואה אותי כי מִיתַּרְפֵּס ועולה מְתַרְפֵּס ויורד, (v. טָפַס) you look upon it (measure the distance for Sabbath purposes) as if one would climb up and climb down (the wady).

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  • 7 תפשׂ

    תָּפַס, תָּפַשׂ(b. h.; cmp. תָּפַף) to seize, take hold on; to take effect. Keth.84b את תּוֹפֵס לבעל חובוכ׳ thou seizest property in behalf of a creditor when the debtor owes others, ואמרר׳ י׳ התופסוכ׳ and R. J. has decided that he who seizes in behalf of a creditor when there are other claimants has not taken legal possession. Ib. top והוא שת׳ מחיים (his possession is effectual) when he has seized it during the decedents life-time. Ab. Zar.8b (expl. קרטיסיס) יום שתָּפְסָה בו רומי מלכות the day when Rome took hold of the government (of the east, v. תְּפִיסָה). Y.Taan.IV, 68c top היה משה תוֹפְשָׂן Moses held fast on them (the tablets). R. Hash. 4b, a. fr. תָּפַסְתָּ מרובהוכ׳, v. מוּעָט. B. Mets. 102b, a. e. תְּפוֹס לשון אחרון hold to the latter expression, i. e. if an agreement contains two discrepant clauses, the second is legally recognized; Ten. 26a a. e. תפוס לשון ראשון the first clause (of a vow) is legally recognized. Yeb.10b, a. fr. אין קודושין תּוֹפְסִיןוכ׳, v. קִידּוּש. Y.Dem.VI, 25b תָּפְשָׂה מדת הדיןוכ׳ justice takes hold on him, i. e. the full rigor of the law is applied against him Num. R. s. 111> (ref. to Prov. 3:34) אלו הנזירים שתּוֹפְשִׂים ענוה בעצמןוכ׳ that means the Nazarites who choose humility for themselves, who abstain from wine Ib. 108> ותְפָשָׂם and arrested them, v. לוּפָר. Snh.64a מפני מה תפסה תורה לשון מולך why does the Biblical text choose the word Molekh (in place of idol in general)?, Y.Ber.VII, 11c top, a. e. תופסין אותו seize him, take him to task, v. נַקְדָּן. Ab. Zar.64a דמי … מי תוֹפֶסֶת דמיהוכ׳ how about money which was realized by the sale of an idol, in the hands of a gentile? does the idol hold its equivalent in gentile hands or not?, i. e. does the money in gentile hands retain its character as compensation for an idol, and is it thus forbidden to a Jew? Ex. R. s. 1520> היה שלמה תופס פיווכ׳ Solomon controlled his mouth, in order not to speak before Gen. R. s. 12 כל … תופסין את הלשון וזה אינו תופסוכ׳ all other letters catch the tongue (require an effort of the organs of speech), but this (the Hé) does not catch (is merely a breathing sound).Part. pass. תָּפוּס, תָּפוּשׂ; f. תְּפוּסָה, תְּפוּשָׂה a) (cmp. אָחוּז s. v. אָחַז) holding. Y. Taan. l. c. היה משה ת׳ בטפחיים Moses was holding two handbreadths (of the tablets). Ex. R. s. 46, beg. חיה ת׳ בלוחותוכ׳ he held the tablets, and would not believe that Israel had sinned. Sifra Bḥuck. Par. 2, ch. VIII תְּפוּסֵי מעשהוכ׳ holding to the deeds of their fathers, generation after generation; a. e.b) seized, captured. Mekh. Mishp., s. 17 תפוסה the outraged woman, opp. מפותה the seduced. Nif. נִתְפַּס, נִתְפַּשׂ to be seized, arrested; to have ones property seized; to be made responsible. Ex. R. s. 1518> בן ביתשנ׳ על ידי בעלוכ׳ a domestic servant who was seized for his employers debt. Tosef.Ḥull.II, 24 נ׳ ע״ר מינות, v. מִינוּת. Ib. ונִתְפַּסְתִּי עלוכ׳ and therefore I was arrested on the suspicion of heresy. Ab. Zar.17b כשנִתְפְּסוּר׳ אלעזרוכ׳ when R. El. a. R. H. b. T. were arrested (by Roman officials, for rebellious conduct). Ib. אשריך שנִתְפַּסְתָּ עלוכ׳ happy art thou, for thou hast been arrested on one charge only, and woe me that I have been arrested on five charges. B. Bath.16b אין אדם נ׳ על צערו Ms. M. (ed. בשעת) no man is taken to account for what he speaks in his distress. Sabb.33b נִתְפָּסִים על הדור are seized for the debt (die for the sins) of their generation. Y.Keth.XIII, 35d כל הנ׳ על חבירו חייב ליתן לו in every case if ones property was seized for a neighbors debt, the latter has to reimburse him; ib. אין לך נ׳וכ׳ in no case must he reimburse him, except in the case of annona and head-tax; Y.B. Kam.X, end, 7c; Y.Ned.IV, beg.38c. Deut. R. s. 2, beg. (prov.) הוי זהיר שלא תִתָּפֵס מקום דבורך take care that thou be not caught on the spot where thou speakest (held to thy word); a. fr. Hif. חִתְפִּיס to cause to be seized, cause to take hold. Y.Succ.IV, 54d top ראה שהִתְפִּיסָתְךָ התורה לשוןוכ׳ behold, the Law has made thee use the expression of endearment Tem.2a הכל מַתְפִּיסִין בתמורה all persons can cause the seizure of the substitute together with the original by exchanging a consecrated animal (v. תְּמוּרָה). Ib. 9a מי מַתְפִּיס בדבר שאינו שלו can one cause the seizure of a thing which is not his?; a. e.Ned.11b, sq. מתפיס, v. next w. Pi. תִּפֵּס, תִּפֵּשׂ (v. טָפַס) to climb, rise. Gen. R. s. 66, end (ref. to Prov. 30:28) באיזה זכות השממית מְתַפֶּשֶׂת בזכותוכ׳ for what merit does the spider (Esau-Rome) climb (rise to power)? For the merit of those hands (with which Esau nursed his father, by ref. to Gen. 27:31); Yalk. ib. 115; Yalk. Prov. 963 תְּתַפֵּשׂ. Pirel תִּרְפֵּס, Hithparel הִתַּרְפֵּס same. Y.Erub.V, 22d top רואה אותי כי מִיתַּרְפֵּס ועולה מְתַרְפֵּס ויורד, (v. טָפַס) you look upon it (measure the distance for Sabbath purposes) as if one would climb up and climb down (the wady).

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  • 8 תָּפַס

    תָּפַס, תָּפַשׂ(b. h.; cmp. תָּפַף) to seize, take hold on; to take effect. Keth.84b את תּוֹפֵס לבעל חובוכ׳ thou seizest property in behalf of a creditor when the debtor owes others, ואמרר׳ י׳ התופסוכ׳ and R. J. has decided that he who seizes in behalf of a creditor when there are other claimants has not taken legal possession. Ib. top והוא שת׳ מחיים (his possession is effectual) when he has seized it during the decedents life-time. Ab. Zar.8b (expl. קרטיסיס) יום שתָּפְסָה בו רומי מלכות the day when Rome took hold of the government (of the east, v. תְּפִיסָה). Y.Taan.IV, 68c top היה משה תוֹפְשָׂן Moses held fast on them (the tablets). R. Hash. 4b, a. fr. תָּפַסְתָּ מרובהוכ׳, v. מוּעָט. B. Mets. 102b, a. e. תְּפוֹס לשון אחרון hold to the latter expression, i. e. if an agreement contains two discrepant clauses, the second is legally recognized; Ten. 26a a. e. תפוס לשון ראשון the first clause (of a vow) is legally recognized. Yeb.10b, a. fr. אין קודושין תּוֹפְסִיןוכ׳, v. קִידּוּש. Y.Dem.VI, 25b תָּפְשָׂה מדת הדיןוכ׳ justice takes hold on him, i. e. the full rigor of the law is applied against him Num. R. s. 111> (ref. to Prov. 3:34) אלו הנזירים שתּוֹפְשִׂים ענוה בעצמןוכ׳ that means the Nazarites who choose humility for themselves, who abstain from wine Ib. 108> ותְפָשָׂם and arrested them, v. לוּפָר. Snh.64a מפני מה תפסה תורה לשון מולך why does the Biblical text choose the word Molekh (in place of idol in general)?, Y.Ber.VII, 11c top, a. e. תופסין אותו seize him, take him to task, v. נַקְדָּן. Ab. Zar.64a דמי … מי תוֹפֶסֶת דמיהוכ׳ how about money which was realized by the sale of an idol, in the hands of a gentile? does the idol hold its equivalent in gentile hands or not?, i. e. does the money in gentile hands retain its character as compensation for an idol, and is it thus forbidden to a Jew? Ex. R. s. 1520> היה שלמה תופס פיווכ׳ Solomon controlled his mouth, in order not to speak before Gen. R. s. 12 כל … תופסין את הלשון וזה אינו תופסוכ׳ all other letters catch the tongue (require an effort of the organs of speech), but this (the Hé) does not catch (is merely a breathing sound).Part. pass. תָּפוּס, תָּפוּשׂ; f. תְּפוּסָה, תְּפוּשָׂה a) (cmp. אָחוּז s. v. אָחַז) holding. Y. Taan. l. c. היה משה ת׳ בטפחיים Moses was holding two handbreadths (of the tablets). Ex. R. s. 46, beg. חיה ת׳ בלוחותוכ׳ he held the tablets, and would not believe that Israel had sinned. Sifra Bḥuck. Par. 2, ch. VIII תְּפוּסֵי מעשהוכ׳ holding to the deeds of their fathers, generation after generation; a. e.b) seized, captured. Mekh. Mishp., s. 17 תפוסה the outraged woman, opp. מפותה the seduced. Nif. נִתְפַּס, נִתְפַּשׂ to be seized, arrested; to have ones property seized; to be made responsible. Ex. R. s. 1518> בן ביתשנ׳ על ידי בעלוכ׳ a domestic servant who was seized for his employers debt. Tosef.Ḥull.II, 24 נ׳ ע״ר מינות, v. מִינוּת. Ib. ונִתְפַּסְתִּי עלוכ׳ and therefore I was arrested on the suspicion of heresy. Ab. Zar.17b כשנִתְפְּסוּר׳ אלעזרוכ׳ when R. El. a. R. H. b. T. were arrested (by Roman officials, for rebellious conduct). Ib. אשריך שנִתְפַּסְתָּ עלוכ׳ happy art thou, for thou hast been arrested on one charge only, and woe me that I have been arrested on five charges. B. Bath.16b אין אדם נ׳ על צערו Ms. M. (ed. בשעת) no man is taken to account for what he speaks in his distress. Sabb.33b נִתְפָּסִים על הדור are seized for the debt (die for the sins) of their generation. Y.Keth.XIII, 35d כל הנ׳ על חבירו חייב ליתן לו in every case if ones property was seized for a neighbors debt, the latter has to reimburse him; ib. אין לך נ׳וכ׳ in no case must he reimburse him, except in the case of annona and head-tax; Y.B. Kam.X, end, 7c; Y.Ned.IV, beg.38c. Deut. R. s. 2, beg. (prov.) הוי זהיר שלא תִתָּפֵס מקום דבורך take care that thou be not caught on the spot where thou speakest (held to thy word); a. fr. Hif. חִתְפִּיס to cause to be seized, cause to take hold. Y.Succ.IV, 54d top ראה שהִתְפִּיסָתְךָ התורה לשוןוכ׳ behold, the Law has made thee use the expression of endearment Tem.2a הכל מַתְפִּיסִין בתמורה all persons can cause the seizure of the substitute together with the original by exchanging a consecrated animal (v. תְּמוּרָה). Ib. 9a מי מַתְפִּיס בדבר שאינו שלו can one cause the seizure of a thing which is not his?; a. e.Ned.11b, sq. מתפיס, v. next w. Pi. תִּפֵּס, תִּפֵּשׂ (v. טָפַס) to climb, rise. Gen. R. s. 66, end (ref. to Prov. 30:28) באיזה זכות השממית מְתַפֶּשֶׂת בזכותוכ׳ for what merit does the spider (Esau-Rome) climb (rise to power)? For the merit of those hands (with which Esau nursed his father, by ref. to Gen. 27:31); Yalk. ib. 115; Yalk. Prov. 963 תְּתַפֵּשׂ. Pirel תִּרְפֵּס, Hithparel הִתַּרְפֵּס same. Y.Erub.V, 22d top רואה אותי כי מִיתַּרְפֵּס ועולה מְתַרְפֵּס ויורד, (v. טָפַס) you look upon it (measure the distance for Sabbath purposes) as if one would climb up and climb down (the wady).

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  • 9 תָּפַשׂ

    תָּפַס, תָּפַשׂ(b. h.; cmp. תָּפַף) to seize, take hold on; to take effect. Keth.84b את תּוֹפֵס לבעל חובוכ׳ thou seizest property in behalf of a creditor when the debtor owes others, ואמרר׳ י׳ התופסוכ׳ and R. J. has decided that he who seizes in behalf of a creditor when there are other claimants has not taken legal possession. Ib. top והוא שת׳ מחיים (his possession is effectual) when he has seized it during the decedents life-time. Ab. Zar.8b (expl. קרטיסיס) יום שתָּפְסָה בו רומי מלכות the day when Rome took hold of the government (of the east, v. תְּפִיסָה). Y.Taan.IV, 68c top היה משה תוֹפְשָׂן Moses held fast on them (the tablets). R. Hash. 4b, a. fr. תָּפַסְתָּ מרובהוכ׳, v. מוּעָט. B. Mets. 102b, a. e. תְּפוֹס לשון אחרון hold to the latter expression, i. e. if an agreement contains two discrepant clauses, the second is legally recognized; Ten. 26a a. e. תפוס לשון ראשון the first clause (of a vow) is legally recognized. Yeb.10b, a. fr. אין קודושין תּוֹפְסִיןוכ׳, v. קִידּוּש. Y.Dem.VI, 25b תָּפְשָׂה מדת הדיןוכ׳ justice takes hold on him, i. e. the full rigor of the law is applied against him Num. R. s. 111> (ref. to Prov. 3:34) אלו הנזירים שתּוֹפְשִׂים ענוה בעצמןוכ׳ that means the Nazarites who choose humility for themselves, who abstain from wine Ib. 108> ותְפָשָׂם and arrested them, v. לוּפָר. Snh.64a מפני מה תפסה תורה לשון מולך why does the Biblical text choose the word Molekh (in place of idol in general)?, Y.Ber.VII, 11c top, a. e. תופסין אותו seize him, take him to task, v. נַקְדָּן. Ab. Zar.64a דמי … מי תוֹפֶסֶת דמיהוכ׳ how about money which was realized by the sale of an idol, in the hands of a gentile? does the idol hold its equivalent in gentile hands or not?, i. e. does the money in gentile hands retain its character as compensation for an idol, and is it thus forbidden to a Jew? Ex. R. s. 1520> היה שלמה תופס פיווכ׳ Solomon controlled his mouth, in order not to speak before Gen. R. s. 12 כל … תופסין את הלשון וזה אינו תופסוכ׳ all other letters catch the tongue (require an effort of the organs of speech), but this (the Hé) does not catch (is merely a breathing sound).Part. pass. תָּפוּס, תָּפוּשׂ; f. תְּפוּסָה, תְּפוּשָׂה a) (cmp. אָחוּז s. v. אָחַז) holding. Y. Taan. l. c. היה משה ת׳ בטפחיים Moses was holding two handbreadths (of the tablets). Ex. R. s. 46, beg. חיה ת׳ בלוחותוכ׳ he held the tablets, and would not believe that Israel had sinned. Sifra Bḥuck. Par. 2, ch. VIII תְּפוּסֵי מעשהוכ׳ holding to the deeds of their fathers, generation after generation; a. e.b) seized, captured. Mekh. Mishp., s. 17 תפוסה the outraged woman, opp. מפותה the seduced. Nif. נִתְפַּס, נִתְפַּשׂ to be seized, arrested; to have ones property seized; to be made responsible. Ex. R. s. 1518> בן ביתשנ׳ על ידי בעלוכ׳ a domestic servant who was seized for his employers debt. Tosef.Ḥull.II, 24 נ׳ ע״ר מינות, v. מִינוּת. Ib. ונִתְפַּסְתִּי עלוכ׳ and therefore I was arrested on the suspicion of heresy. Ab. Zar.17b כשנִתְפְּסוּר׳ אלעזרוכ׳ when R. El. a. R. H. b. T. were arrested (by Roman officials, for rebellious conduct). Ib. אשריך שנִתְפַּסְתָּ עלוכ׳ happy art thou, for thou hast been arrested on one charge only, and woe me that I have been arrested on five charges. B. Bath.16b אין אדם נ׳ על צערו Ms. M. (ed. בשעת) no man is taken to account for what he speaks in his distress. Sabb.33b נִתְפָּסִים על הדור are seized for the debt (die for the sins) of their generation. Y.Keth.XIII, 35d כל הנ׳ על חבירו חייב ליתן לו in every case if ones property was seized for a neighbors debt, the latter has to reimburse him; ib. אין לך נ׳וכ׳ in no case must he reimburse him, except in the case of annona and head-tax; Y.B. Kam.X, end, 7c; Y.Ned.IV, beg.38c. Deut. R. s. 2, beg. (prov.) הוי זהיר שלא תִתָּפֵס מקום דבורך take care that thou be not caught on the spot where thou speakest (held to thy word); a. fr. Hif. חִתְפִּיס to cause to be seized, cause to take hold. Y.Succ.IV, 54d top ראה שהִתְפִּיסָתְךָ התורה לשוןוכ׳ behold, the Law has made thee use the expression of endearment Tem.2a הכל מַתְפִּיסִין בתמורה all persons can cause the seizure of the substitute together with the original by exchanging a consecrated animal (v. תְּמוּרָה). Ib. 9a מי מַתְפִּיס בדבר שאינו שלו can one cause the seizure of a thing which is not his?; a. e.Ned.11b, sq. מתפיס, v. next w. Pi. תִּפֵּס, תִּפֵּשׂ (v. טָפַס) to climb, rise. Gen. R. s. 66, end (ref. to Prov. 30:28) באיזה זכות השממית מְתַפֶּשֶׂת בזכותוכ׳ for what merit does the spider (Esau-Rome) climb (rise to power)? For the merit of those hands (with which Esau nursed his father, by ref. to Gen. 27:31); Yalk. ib. 115; Yalk. Prov. 963 תְּתַפֵּשׂ. Pirel תִּרְפֵּס, Hithparel הִתַּרְפֵּס same. Y.Erub.V, 22d top רואה אותי כי מִיתַּרְפֵּס ועולה מְתַרְפֵּס ויורד, (v. טָפַס) you look upon it (measure the distance for Sabbath purposes) as if one would climb up and climb down (the wady).

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  • 10 dinámico

    adj.
    dynamic, energetic.
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    1 dynamic
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    (f. - dinámica)
    adj.
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    - ca adjetivo dynamic
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    = aggressive, dynamic, brisk [brisker -comp., briskest -sup.], fluid, proactive [pro-active], time-dependent, organic, dynamical, time-variant, vibrant, breezy [breezier -comp., breeziest -sup.], spry [spryer comp., spryest -sup.], sprightly [sprightlier -comp., sprightliest -sup.], fast and furious, energetic.
    Ex. During his tenure, OSU was recognized for the aggressive approach the library staff adopted with respect to publicizing OSU's many bibliographical services and encouraging patrons' use of them.
    Ex. A data base must respond to a dynamic reality in which terms, 'strain, crack and sometimes break under the burden, under the tension, slip, slide, perish, decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, will not stay still'.
    Ex. The classic example quoted by Jourard is the brisk, super-efficient nurse, whose manner appears to be something that she puts on when she dons her uniform.
    Ex. Literary language is vital, shifting, fluid; it looks constantly for new structures, new combinations that create new meanings.
    Ex. Compiling information of this nature requires a proactive and not a reactive approach to the task.
    Ex. This paper studies time-dependent (dynamical) aspects of scientific activities, as expressed in research publications.
    Ex. Innovation in organisations is a continuous and organic process.
    Ex. This paper studies time-dependent ( dynamical) aspects of scientific activities, as expressed in research publications.
    Ex. A data warehouse is a subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant, nonvolatile collection of data in support of management's decision making process.
    Ex. All these issues were successfully addressed by rearranging study, reference, and stack areas and enclosing a small office to create a more vibrant, reference oriented library environment.
    Ex. This knowing sequel to the breezy glamor of 'Ocean's Eleven' provides more thieves, more heists, more twists, more locations, and more playfulness than the original.
    Ex. A spry 80 years young, Virginia has been painting murals for the last 50 years and a lot can be said for the advantages of experience.
    Ex. He was described as a ' sprightly nonagenarian' who was born in 1905.
    Ex. The pace was fast and furious and the noise was non-stop.
    Ex. She has been a vital and energetic voice in the movement to increase the sensitivity and responsibility of libraries to social issues, as well as a first-rate cataloger.
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    * dinámica de trabajo = workflow [work flow].
    * dinámica social = social dynamics.
    * entrar en la dinámica = enter + the fray.
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    - ca adjetivo dynamic
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    = aggressive, dynamic, brisk [brisker -comp., briskest -sup.], fluid, proactive [pro-active], time-dependent, organic, dynamical, time-variant, vibrant, breezy [breezier -comp., breeziest -sup.], spry [spryer comp., spryest -sup.], sprightly [sprightlier -comp., sprightliest -sup.], fast and furious, energetic.

    Ex: During his tenure, OSU was recognized for the aggressive approach the library staff adopted with respect to publicizing OSU's many bibliographical services and encouraging patrons' use of them.

    Ex: A data base must respond to a dynamic reality in which terms, 'strain, crack and sometimes break under the burden, under the tension, slip, slide, perish, decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, will not stay still'.
    Ex: The classic example quoted by Jourard is the brisk, super-efficient nurse, whose manner appears to be something that she puts on when she dons her uniform.
    Ex: Literary language is vital, shifting, fluid; it looks constantly for new structures, new combinations that create new meanings.
    Ex: Compiling information of this nature requires a proactive and not a reactive approach to the task.
    Ex: This paper studies time-dependent (dynamical) aspects of scientific activities, as expressed in research publications.
    Ex: Innovation in organisations is a continuous and organic process.
    Ex: This paper studies time-dependent ( dynamical) aspects of scientific activities, as expressed in research publications.
    Ex: A data warehouse is a subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant, nonvolatile collection of data in support of management's decision making process.
    Ex: All these issues were successfully addressed by rearranging study, reference, and stack areas and enclosing a small office to create a more vibrant, reference oriented library environment.
    Ex: This knowing sequel to the breezy glamor of 'Ocean's Eleven' provides more thieves, more heists, more twists, more locations, and more playfulness than the original.
    Ex: A spry 80 years young, Virginia has been painting murals for the last 50 years and a lot can be said for the advantages of experience.
    Ex: He was described as a ' sprightly nonagenarian' who was born in 1905.
    Ex: The pace was fast and furious and the noise was non-stop.
    Ex: She has been a vital and energetic voice in the movement to increase the sensitivity and responsibility of libraries to social issues, as well as a first-rate cataloger.
    * dinámica de trabajo = workflow [work flow].
    * dinámica social = social dynamics.
    * entrar en la dinámica = enter + the fray.

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    dynamic
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    dinámico
    ◊ -ca adjetivo

    dynamic
    dinámico,-a adjetivo dynamic

    ' dinámico' also found in these entries:
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    dinámica
    English:
    aggressive
    - brisk
    - dynamic
    - breezy
    - high
    - spry
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    dinámico, -a adj
    1. [del movimiento, la dinámica] dynamic
    2. [activo] dynamic;
    necesitamos ejecutivos dinámicos y emprendedores we need dynamic and enterprising executives
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    : dynamic
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  • 11 Art

       Portugal did not produce an artist of sufficient ability to gain recognition outside the country until the 19th century. Domingos Antônio Segueira (1768-1837) became well known in Europe for his allegorical religious and historical paintings in a neoclassical style. Portuguese painting during the 19th century emphasized naturalism and did not keep abreast of artistic innovations being made in other European countries. Portugal's best painters lived abroad especially in France. The most successful was Amadeo Souza- Cardoso who, while living in Paris, worked with the modernists Modigliani, Georges Braque, and Juan Gris. Souza-Cardoso introduced modernism into Portuguese painting in the early 20th century. A sustained modernist movement did not develop in Portugal, however. Naturalism remained the dominant school, and Portugal remained isolated from international artistic trends, owing to Portugal's conservative artistic climate, which prevented new forms of art from taking root, and the lack of support from an artistically sophisticated, art-buying elite supported by a system of galleries and foundations.
       Interestingly, it was during the conservative Estado Novo that modernism began to take root in Portugal. As Prime Minister Antônio de Oliveira Salazar's secretary for national propaganda, Antônio Ferro, a writer, journalist, and cultural leader who admired Mussolini, encouraged the government to allow modern artists to create the heroic imagery of the Estado Novo following the Italian model that linked fascism with futurism. The most important Portuguese artist of this period was Almada Negreiros, who did the murals on the walls of the legendary café A Brasileira in the Chiado district of Lisbon, the paintings at the Exposition of the Portuguese World (1940), and murals at the Lisbon docks. Other artists of note during this period included Mário Eloy (1900-51), who was trained in Germany and influenced by George Grosz and Otto Dix; Domingos Alvarez (1906-42); and Antônio Pedro (1909-66).
       During the 1950s, the Estado Novo ceased to encourage artists to collaborate, as Portuguese artists became more critical of the regime. The return to Portugal of Antônio Pedro in 1947 led to the emergence of a school of geometric abstract painting in Oporto and the reawakening of surrealism. The art deco styles of the 1930s gave way to surrealism and abstract expression.
       In the 1960s, links between Portugal's artistic community and the international art world strengthened. Conscription for the wars against the nationalist insurgencies in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea- Bissau (1961-75) resulted in a massive exodus of Portugal's avante-garde artists to Europe to avoid military service. While abroad, artists such as Joaquin Rodrigo (1912-93), Paula Rego (1935-), João Cutileiro (1947-), and others forged links with British, French, Italian, and Spanish artistic communities.
       The Revolution of 25 April 1974 created a crisis for Portugal's artists. The market for works of art collapsed as left-wing governments, claiming that they had more important things to do (eliminate poverty, improve education), withdrew support for the arts. Artists declared their talents to be at the "service of the people," and a brief period of socialist realism prevailed. With the return of political stability and moderate governments during the 1980s, Portugal's commercial art scene revived, and a new period of creativity began. Disenchantment with the socialist realism (utopianism) of the Revolution and a deepening of individualism began to be expressed by Portuguese artists. Investment in the arts became a means of demonstrating one's wealth and social status, and an unprecedented number of art galleries opened, art auctions were held, and a new generation of artists became internationally recognized. In 1984, a museum of modern art was built by the Gulbenkian Foundation adjacent to its offices on the Avenida de Berna in Lisbon. A national museum of modern art was finally built in Oporto in 1988.
       In the 1980s, Portugal's new generation of painters blended post-conceptualism and subjectivism, as well as a tendency toward decon-structionism/reconstructionism, in their work. Artists such as Cabrita Reis (1956-), Pedro Calapez (1953-), José Pedro Croft (1957-), Rui Sanches (1955-), and José de Guimarães (1949-) gained international recognition during this period. Guimarães crosses African art themes with Western art; Sarmento invokes images of film, culture, photography, American erotica, and pulp fiction toward sex, violence, and pleasure; Reis evolved from a painter to a maker of installation artist using chipboard, plaster, cloth, glass, and electrical and plumbing materials.
       From the end of the 20th century and during the early years of the 21st century, Portugal's art scene has been in a state of crisis brought on by a declining art trade and a withdrawal of financial support by conservative governments. Although not as serious as the collapse of the 1970s, the current situation has divided the Portuguese artistic community between those, such as Cerveira Pito and Leonel Moura, who advocate a return to using primitive, strongly textured techniques and others such as João Paulo Feliciano (1963-), who paint constructivist works that poke fun at the relationship between art, money, society, and the creative process. Thus, at the beginning of the 21st century, the factors that have prevented Portuguese art from achieving and sustaining international recognition (the absence of a strong art market, depending too much on official state support, and the individualistic nature of Portuguese art production) are still to be overcome.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Art

  • 12 Ж-38

    В ЖИЗНИ (B ЖИЗНЬ) coll PrepP Invar used with negated ( usu. pfv) verbs to intensify negation) not ever
    never in one's life
    not in a lifetime never (ever) (in limited contexts) such NP as one has never seen (met etc) in one's entire life the best (greatest etc) NP
    one has ever seen (met etc) in onefc life.
    Летом, когда мама была у сестры на даче, она (Катя) приходила к нему, глаза сердитые, стеснялась сидевших у подъезда женщин. «Пялят зенки. Больше в жизни не приду» (Рыбаков 2). She (Katya) came to see him in the summer, when his mother was away at her sister's dacha. Her eyes were angry and she was embarrassed by the women sitting at the entrance. "All eyes! I'll never come here again in my life!" (2a).
    ...Вам в жизни не разрешить эту задачу (Терц 1)....You won't solve this problem in a lifetime (1a).
    Абарчук постепенно различил в полумраке лицо Магара. Он не узнал бы его... умирающий старик!.. Ощущая на себе взгляд Магара, он подумал: «Тоже, наверно, считает: в жизни б не узнал» (Гроссман 2). Gradually, in the half-light, he (Abarchuk) made out Magar's face. He would never have recognized him...he was an old man who was about to die....Sensing that Magar was looking at him, he thought: "He's probably thinking the same thing-" "Well, I'd never have recognized him" (2a).
    ...Встретил меня старый и седой слуга с тёмным, медного цвета, лицом... и такими глубокими морщинами на лбу и на висках, каких я в жизни не видывал... (Тургенев 3)____I was met by a grey-haired old servant with a face the colour of dark copper...and the deepest wrinkles on his forehead and temples I had ever seen in my life (3b).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > Ж-38

  • 13 в жизни

    [PrepP; Invar; used with negated (usu. pfv) verbs to intensify negation]
    =====
    ⇒ not ever:
    - [in limited contexts] such [NP] as one has never seen (met etc) in one's entire life;
    - the best (greatest etc) [NP] one has ever seen (met etc) in one's life.
         ♦ Летом, когда мама была у сестры на даче, она [Катя] приходила к нему, глаза сердитые, стеснялась сидевших у подъезда женщин. "Пялят зенки. Больше в жизни не приду" (Рыбаков 2). She [Katya] came to see him in the summer, when his mother was away at her sister's dacha. Her eyes were angry and she was embarrassed by the women sitting at the entrance. "All eyes! I'll never come here again in my life!" (2a).
         ♦...Вам в жизни не разрешить эту задачу (Терц 1)....You won't solve this problem in a lifetime (1a).
         ♦ Абарчук постепенно различил в полумраке лицо Магара. Он не узнал бы его... умирающий старик!.. Ощущая на себе взгляд Магара, он подумал: "Тоже, наверно, считает: в жизни б не узнал" (Гроссман 2). Gradually, in the half-light, he [Abarchuk] made out Magar's face. He would never have recognized him...he was an old man who was about to die....Sensing that Magar was looking at him, he thought: "He's probably thinking the same thing-" "Well, I'd never have recognized him" (2a).
         ♦...Встретил меня старый и седой слуга с тёмным, медного цвета, лицом... и такими глубокими морщинами на лбу и на висках, каких я в жизни не видывал... (Тургенев 3) I was met by a grey-haired old servant with a face the colour of dark copper...and the deepest wrinkles on his forehead and temples I had ever seen in my life (3b).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > в жизни

  • 14 в жизнь

    [PrepP; Invar; used with negated (usu. pfv) verbs to intensify negation]
    =====
    ⇒ not ever:
    - [in limited contexts] such [NP] as one has never seen (met etc) in one's entire life;
    - the best (greatest etc) [NP] one has ever seen (met etc) in one's life.
         ♦ Летом, когда мама была у сестры на даче, она [Катя] приходила к нему, глаза сердитые, стеснялась сидевших у подъезда женщин. "Пялят зенки. Больше в жизни не приду" (Рыбаков 2). She [Katya] came to see him in the summer, when his mother was away at her sister's dacha. Her eyes were angry and she was embarrassed by the women sitting at the entrance. "All eyes! I'll never come here again in my life!" (2a).
         ♦...Вам в жизни не разрешить эту задачу (Терц 1)....You won't solve this problem in a lifetime (1a).
         ♦ Абарчук постепенно различил в полумраке лицо Магара. Он не узнал бы его... умирающий старик!.. Ощущая на себе взгляд Магара, он подумал: "Тоже, наверно, считает: в жизни б не узнал" (Гроссман 2). Gradually, in the half-light, he [Abarchuk] made out Magar's face. He would never have recognized him...he was an old man who was about to die....Sensing that Magar was looking at him, he thought: "He's probably thinking the same thing-" "Well, I'd never have recognized him" (2a).
         ♦...Встретил меня старый и седой слуга с тёмным, медного цвета, лицом... и такими глубокими морщинами на лбу и на висках, каких я в жизни не видывал... (Тургенев 3) I was met by a grey-haired old servant with a face the colour of dark copper...and the deepest wrinkles on his forehead and temples I had ever seen in my life (3b).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > в жизнь

  • 15 bajo el manto de la noche

    = under the cover of darkness, under the cloak of darkness
    Ex. Trashing books, however, was recognized to be a perilous undertaking, something to be done 'quietly,' ' under the cover of darkness,' and 'in a locked dumpster' because discarded materials have occasionally been 'returned by dumpster rats who cannot bear to see books thrown away'.
    Ex. For the next three months, Walsh and the team made house calls under the cloak of darkness into the dangerous city to help the baby.
    * * *
    = under the cover of darkness, under the cloak of darkness

    Ex: Trashing books, however, was recognized to be a perilous undertaking, something to be done 'quietly,' ' under the cover of darkness,' and 'in a locked dumpster' because discarded materials have occasionally been 'returned by dumpster rats who cannot bear to see books thrown away'.

    Ex: For the next three months, Walsh and the team made house calls under the cloak of darkness into the dangerous city to help the baby.

    Spanish-English dictionary > bajo el manto de la noche

  • 16 contenedor de la basura

    (n.) = dumpster
    Ex. Trashing books, however, was recognized to be a perilous undertaking, something to be done 'quietly,' 'under the cover of darkness,' and 'in a locked dumpster' because discarded materials have occasionally been 'returned by dumpster rats who cannot bear to see books thrown away'.
    * * *
    (n.) = dumpster

    Ex: Trashing books, however, was recognized to be a perilous undertaking, something to be done 'quietly,' 'under the cover of darkness,' and 'in a locked dumpster' because discarded materials have occasionally been 'returned by dumpster rats who cannot bear to see books thrown away'.

    Spanish-English dictionary > contenedor de la basura

  • 17 mendigo que rebusca en la basura

    (n.) = dumpster rat
    Ex. Trashing books, however, was recognized to be a perilous undertaking, something to be done 'quietly,' 'under the cover of darkness,' and 'in a locked dumpster' because discarded materials have occasionally been 'returned by dumpster rats who cannot bear to see books thrown away'.
    * * *

    Ex: Trashing books, however, was recognized to be a perilous undertaking, something to be done 'quietly,' 'under the cover of darkness,' and 'in a locked dumpster' because discarded materials have occasionally been 'returned by dumpster rats who cannot bear to see books thrown away'.

    Spanish-English dictionary > mendigo que rebusca en la basura

  • 18 Vicente, Gil

    (ca. 1465-ca. 1537)
       Sixteenth-century Portuguese playwright, perhaps Portugal's greatest, who was also a talented goldsmith, musician, actor, and dramatist. Born in humble circumstances, Gil Vicente rose to become an important figure, recognized and celebrated in the royal court of his day. His first play or auto was performed in 1502, and his last piece was produced in 1536. Vicente's work was influenced not only by the religious plays of late medieval Portugal, but by work from contemporary humanism and the Renaissance.
       There were at least four basic aspects of Vicentine plays: dramatization of rural folklore, social satire, imaginative analysis of nature, and religious themes. What was remarkable about Vicente, in addition to his great versatility (he was the goldsmith who produced the gold monstrance in the Monastery of Jerônimos) and brilliance, was that he was popular with both the people and the elite, and was a masterful dramatist in a country lacking extraordinary dramatic traditions. Some of his plays were censored by the Inquisition after his death, and it was only during the 19th-century romantic era that Portuguese writers sought a revival of his reputation.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Vicente, Gil

  • 19 Maybach, Wilhelm

    [br]
    b. 9 February 1846 Heilbronn, Württemberg, Germany
    d. 14 December 1929 Stuttgart, Germany
    [br]
    German engineer and engine designer, inventor of the spray carburettor.
    [br]
    Orphaned at the age of 10, Maybach was destined to become one of the world's most renowned engine designers. From 1868 he was apprenticed as a draughtsman at the Briiderhaus Engineering Works in Reurlingen, where his talents were recognized by Gottlieb Daimler, who was Manager and Technical Director. Nikolaus Otto had by then developed his atmospheric engine and reorganized his company, Otto \& Langen, into Gasmotorenfabrik Deutz, of which he appointed Daimler Manager. After employment at a machine builders in Karlsruhe, in 1872 Maybach followed Daimler to Deutz where he worked as a partner on the design of high-speed engines: his engines ran at up to 900 rpm, some three times as fast as conventional engines of the time. Maybach made improvements to the timing, carburation and other features. In 1881 Daimler left the Deutz Company and set up on his own as a freelance inventor, moving with his family to Bad Cannstatt; in April 1882 Maybach joined him as Engineer and Designer to set up a partnership to develop lightweight high-speed engines suitable for vehicles. A motor cycle appeared in 1885 and a modified horse-drawn carriage was fitted with a Maybach engine in 1886. Other applications to small boats, fire-engine pumps and small locomotives quickly followed, and the Vee engine of 1890 that was fitted into the French Peugeot automobiles had a profound effect upon the new sport of motor racing. In 1895 Daimler won the first international motor race and the same year Maybach became Technical Director of the Daimler firm. In 1899 Emil Jellinek, Daimler agent in France and also Austro-Hungarian consul, required a car to compete with Panhard and Levassor, who had been victorious in the Paris-Bordeaux race; he wanted more power and a lower centre of gravity, and turned to Maybach with his requirements, the 35 hp Daimler- Simplex of 1901 being the outcome. Its performance and road holding superseded those of all others at the time; it was so successful that Jellinek immediately placed an order for thirty-six cars. His daughter's name was Mercedes, after whom, when the merger of Daimler and Benz came about, the name Mercedes-Benz was adopted.
    In his later years, Maybach designed the engine for the Zeppelin airships. He retired from the Daimler Company in 1907.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Society of German Engineers Grashof Medal (its highest honour). In addition to numerous medals and titles from technical institutions, Maybach was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Stuttgart Institute of Technology.
    Further Reading
    F.Schidberger, Gottlieb Daimler, Wilhelm Maybach and Karl Benz, Stuttgart: Daimler Benz AG.
    1961, The Annals of Mercedes-Benz Motor Vehicles and Engines, 2nd edn, Stuttgart: Daimler Benz AG.
    E.Johnson, 1986, The Dawn of Motoring.
    KAB / IMcN

    Biographical history of technology > Maybach, Wilhelm

  • 20 adgnosco

    agnosco ( adgn-; also adn-; cf. Wagn. Orthog. Verg. p. 407), nōvi, nitum (like cognĭtum from cognosco; cf. pejĕro and dejĕro from jūro), 3, v. a. [ad, intens. -gnosco, nosco] ( part. perf. agnōtus, Pac. ap. Prisc. p. 887 P.; part. fut. act. agnoturus, Sall. H. Fragm. 2, 31; cf. Diom. 383 P.; class.; used very freq. by Cicero).
    I.
    As if to know a person or thing well, as having known it before, to recognize: agnoscere always denotes a subjective knowledge or recognition; while cognoscere designates an objective perception; another distinction v. in II.): in turbā Oresti cognitā agnota est soror, was recognized by Orestes as his sister, Pac. ap. Prisc. 887 P.:

    virtus cum se extollit et ostendit suum lumen et idem aspexit agnovitque in alio,

    and when she has perceived the same in another, and has recognized it, Cic. Lael. 27, 100:

    id facillime accipiunt animi, quod agnoscunt,

    Quint. 8, 3, 71:

    cum se collegit (animus) atque recreavit, tum agnoscit illa reminiscendo,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 24, 58:

    quod mihi de filiā gratularis, agnosco humanitatem tuam,

    id. Fam. 1, 7 (cf. on the contr. id. ib. 5, 2, where Cic., speaking of himself, says: Cognosce nunc humanitatem meam, learn from this, etc.):

    nomine audito extemplo agnovere virum,

    Liv. 7, 39:

    veterem amicum,

    Verg. A. 3, 82:

    matrem,

    id. ib. 1, 405: Figulum in patriam suam venisse atque ibi agnosci, and is there recognized (by those who had already known him), Quint. 7, 2, 26:

    formas quasdam nostrae pecuniae agnoscunt,

    Tac. G. 5:

    agnoscent Britanni suam causam,

    id. Agr. 32:

    nitorem et altitudinem horum temporum agnoscimus,

    id. Or. 21:

    quam (tunicam) cum agnovisset pater,

    Vulg. Gen. 37, 33.—
    B.
    Transf., as a result of this knowledge or recognition, to declare, announce, allow, or admit a thing to be one's own, to acknowledge, own: qui mihi tantum tribui dicis, quantum ego nec agnosco ( neither can admit as due to me) nec postulo, Cic. Lael. 9:

    natum,

    Nep. Ages. 1, 4:

    Aeacon agnoscit summus prolemque fatetur Juppiter esse suam,

    Ov. M. 13, 27 (cf. in Pandects, 25, Tit. 3:

    de agnoscendis vel alendis liberis): an me non agnoscetis ducem?

    will you not acknowledge me as your general? Liv. 6, 7:

    agnoscere bonorum possessionem,

    to declare the property as one's own, to lay claim to it, Dig. 26, 8, 11 (cf. agnitio, I.):

    agnoscere aes alienum,

    ib. 28, 5, 1:

    facti gloriam,

    Cic. Mil. 14 fin.:

    susciperem hoc crimen, agnoscerem, confiterer,

    id. Rab. Perd. 6:

    fortasse minus expediat agnoscere crimen quam abnuere,

    Tac. A. 6, 8:

    sortilegos,

    Cic. Div. 1, 58, 132: et ego ipse me non esse verborum admodum inopem agnosco, and I myself confess, allow, etc., id. Fam. 4, 4:

    id ego agnovi meo jussu esse factum,

    id. ib. 5, 20, 3: carmina spreta exolescunt;

    si irascare, agnita videntur,

    Tac. A. 4, 34.—
    II.
    To understand, recognize, know, perceive by, from, or through something:

    ut deum agnoscis ex operibus ejus, sic ex memoriā rerum et inventione, vim divinam mentis agnoscito,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 70; id. Planc. 14, 35:

    ex fructu arbor agnoscitur,

    Vulg. Matt. 12, 33:

    inde agnosci potest vis fortunae,

    Vell. 2, 116, 3.—Also, absol.: Augusti laudes agnoscere possis, you can recognize the praises of Augustus, * Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 29:

    accipio agnoscoque deos,

    Verg. A. 12, 260 (cf. accipio):

    agniti dempsere sollicitudinem,

    Tac. H. 2, 68:

    Germanicus, quo magis agnosceretur, detraxerat tegimen,

    id. A. 2, 21:

    terram non agnoscebant,

    Vulg. Act. 27, 39.—In gen., to become acquainted with, to know; to perceive, apprehend, understand, discern, remark, see:

    quin puppim flectis, Ulixe, Auribus ut nostros possis agnoscere cantus,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 18, 49 (as transl. of Hom. Od. 12, 185, Nêa katastêson, hina nôïterên op akousêis):

    haec dicta sunt subtilius ab Epicuro quam ut quivis ea possit agnoscere,

    understand, id. N. D. 1, 18, 49; Verg. A. 10, 843; Phaedr. 2, 5, 19:

    alienis pedibus ambulamus, alienis oculis agnoscimus,

    Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 19.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > adgnosco

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