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1 support

sə'po:t
1. verb
1) (to bear the weight of, or hold upright, in place etc: That chair won't support him / his weight; He limped home, supported by a friend on either side of him.) aguantar, sostener

2) (to give help, or approval to: He has always supported our cause; His family supported him in his decision.) apoyar, secundar, respaldar

3) (to provide evidence for the truth of: New discoveries have been made that support his theory; The second witness supported the statement of the first one.) corroborar, confirmar

4) (to supply with the means of living: He has a wife and four children to support.) mantener

2. noun
1) (the act of supporting or state of being supported: That type of shoe doesn't give the foot much support; The plan was cancelled because of lack of support; Her job is the family's only means of support; I would like to say a word or two in support of his proposal.) apoyo, soporte

2) (something that supports: One of the supports of the bridge collapsed.) soporte

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- supporter
- supporting

support¹ n

1. apoyo

I couldn't have done it without your support no lo habría podido hacer sin tu apoyo

2. soporte

the roof is held up by a central support un soporte central aguanta el techo

support² vb

1. sostener

five stone pillars support the bridge cinco pilares de piedra sostienen el puente

2. mantener

he is the only one with a job and he supports the whole family es el único que trabaja y mantiene a toda la familia

3. apoyar

I'll support the proposal apoyaré la propuesta

4. ser de

which team do you support? ¿de qué equipo eres?

support

tr[sə'pɔːt]

noun

1 (physical - gen) apoyo, sostén nombre masculino; (- thing worn on body) protector nombre masculino

2 (of building) soporte nombre masculino, puntal nombre masculino

3 (moral) apoyo, respaldo

■ you have our full support cuentas con nuestro total apoyo

■ he was a great support to me when my father died me apoyó mucho cuando se murió mi padre

4 (financial) ayuda económica, apoyo económico; (sustenance) sustento; (person) sostén nombre masculino

■ the scheme is run without government support el proyecto funciona sin ninguna ayuda gubernamental

■ he had no means of support no tenía ninguna fuente de ingresos

5 (supporters) afición nombre femenino

6 (evidence) pruebas nombre femenino plural

transitive verb

1 (roof, bridge, etc) sostener; (weight) aguantar, resistir; (part of body) sujetar

■ I don't think that shelf can support so many books no creo que esa estantería aguante tantos libros

2 (back, encourage) apoyar, respaldar, ayudar; (cause, motion, proposal) apoyar, estar de acuerdo con

■ my parents have always supported me in everything I've done mis padres siempre me han apoyado en todo lo que he hecho

3 SMALLSPORT/SMALL (follow) seguir; (encourage) animar

■ which team do you support? ¿de qué equipo eres?

4 (keep, sustain) mantener, sustentar, sostener; (feed) alimentar

5 (corroborate, substantiate) confirmar, respaldar, apoyar, respaldar

6 formal use (endure) soportar, tolerar

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SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL

in support (in reserve) de apoyo

in support of somebody/something en apoyo de alguien/algo, a favor de alguien/algo

to drum up support for somebody/something conseguir apoyo para alguien/algo

to support oneself ganarse la vida

support group (offering help) grupo de apoyo 2 (musicians) grupo telonero

support [sə'port] vt

1) back: apoyar, respaldar

2) maintain: mantener, sostener, sustentar

3) prop up: sostener, apoyar, apuntalar, soportar

support n

1) : apoyo m (moral), ayuda f (económica)

2) prop: soporte m, apoyo m

support

n.

• apoyo s.m.

• arrimadero s.m.

• arrimo s.m.

• ayuda s.f.

• báculo s.m.

• encomienda s.f.

• entibo s.m.

• muleta s.f.

• puntal s.m.

• pábulo s.m.

• respaldo s.m.

• soporte s.m.

• sostenimiento s.m.

• sostén s.m.

• suspensorio s.m.

• sustento s.m.

• sustentáculo s.m.

v.

• afianzar v.

• apadrinar v.

• apoyar v.

• apuntalar v.

• mantener v.

(§pres: -tengo, -tienes...-tenemos) pret: -tuv-

fut/c: -tendr-•)

• respaldar v.

• soportar v.

• sostener v.

(§pres: -tengo, -tienes...-tenemos) pret: -tuv-

fut/c: -tendr-•)

• sustentar v.

I sə'pɔːrt, sə'pɔːt
transitive verb

1) ( hold up) \<\<bridge/structure\>\> sostener*

the roof is supported by six columns — el tejado descansa sobre or se apoya en seis columnas

the chair couldn't support his weight — la silla no pudo aguantar or resistir su peso

2)

a) (maintain, sustain) \<\<family/children\>\> mantener*, sostener*, sustentar

to support oneself — ganarse la vida or (liter) el sustento

the hospital is supported entirely by private donations — el hospital está enteramente financiado por donaciones de particulares

b) ( Comput) admitir

3)

a) ( back) \<\<cause/motion\>\> apoyar

which team do you support? — ¿de qué equipo eres (hincha)?

I support the Greens — estoy con los verdes

b) ( back up) apoyar

4) ( corroborate) \<\<theory\>\> respaldar, confirmar, sustentar

II

noun

1)

a) c ( of structure) soporte m

b) u ( physical)

the pillars provide the support for the arches — los pilares sirven de apoyo a los arcos

to lean on somebody for support — apoyarse en alguien (para sostenerse)

2)

a) u ( financial) ayuda f (económica), apoyo m (económico)

he has no means of support — no tiene ninguna fuente de ingresos

b) c ( person) sostén m

3) u (backing, encouragement) apoyo m, respaldo m

I've had absolutely no support from you — no me has apoyado en absoluto

I went with her to give her (moral) support — la acompañé para que se sintiera apoyada or respaldada

4) u

a) ( Mil) apoyo m, refuerzo m

b) ( backup) servicio m al cliente

technical/dealer support — servicio técnico/de ventas; (before n) <package, material> adicional, suplementario

5)

in support of — (as prep)

he spoke in support of the motion — habló a favor de or en apoyo de la moción

a demonstration in support of the President — una manifestación de apoyo al presidente

she could produce no evidence in support of her claim — no pudo presentar pruebas en apoyo de su demanda

[sǝ'pɔːt]
1. N

1) (for weight)

a) (=object) soporte m

use the stool as a support for your feet — usa el taburete como soporte para los pies

steel supports — soportes mpl de acero

b) (=capacity to support) soporte m

a good bed should provide adequate support for your back — una buena cama debe ofrecerle un soporte adecuado para su espalda

to lean on sb for support — apoyarse en algn

c) (Med) soporte m

back support — espaldera f

2) (fig)

a) (=help) apoyo m

I've had a lot of support from my family — mi familia me ha apoyado mucho or me ha dado mucho apoyo

she was a real support to her mother — fue un verdadero apoyo para su madre

• to give sb support — dar apoyo a algn, apoyar a algn

• moral support — apoyo moral

b) (=backing) apoyo m

he has given his support to the reform programme — ha apoyado or respaldado el programa de reforma, ha dado su apoyo or respaldo al programa de reforma

do I have I your support in this? — ¿puedo contar con tu apoyo para esto?

our support comes from the workers — los que nos apoyan son los obreros

• their capacity to act in support of their political objectives — su capacidad de actuar en pos de sus objetivos políticos

a campaign in support of these aims — una campaña en apoyo de estos objetivos

he spoke in support of the motion — habló en apoyo de la moción

• popular support — apoyo m popular

c) (financial) ayuda f, respaldo m

financial support — ayuda f económica, respaldo m económico

they depend on him for financial support — económicamente dependen de él

with Government support — con la ayuda del Gobierno, respaldado por el Gobierno

a man with no visible means of support — un hombre sin una fuente de ingresos aparente

d) (esp Comm) (=backup) servicio m de asistencia (al cliente)

• after-sales support — servicio m posventa, asistencia f posventa

• technical support — servicio m de asistencia técnica

e) (Mil) apoyo m

military support — apoyo militar

f) (=evidence)

history offers some support for this view — la historia respalda en cierta medida esta opinión

scholars have found little support for this interpretation — los académicos han encontrado pocas pruebas que apoyen or respalden esta interpretación

in support of this argument he states that... — para apoyar or respaldar este argumento aduce que...

evidence in support of a particular theory — pruebas que confirman una determinada teoría

2. VT

1) (=hold up) sostener

his knees wouldn't support him any more — sus rodillas ya no lo sostenían

that chair won't support your weight — esa silla no resistirá or aguantará tu peso

raise your upper body off the ground, supporting your weight on your arms — apoyándose en los brazos levante el tronco del suelo

to support o.s. — (physically) apoyarse (on en)

2) (=help)

a) (emotionally) apoyar

b) (financially) [+ person] mantener; [+ organization, project] financiar

he has a wife and three children to support — tiene una mujer y tres hijos que mantener

to support o.s. — (financially) ganarse la vida

3) (=back) [+ proposal, project, person] apoyar

his colleagues refused to support him — sus colegas se negaron a apoyarlo

4) (Sport) [+ team]

who do you support? — ¿de qué equipo eres (hincha)?

Tim supports Manchester United — Tim es hincha de Manchester United

come and support your team! — ¡ven a animar a tu equipo!

5) (=corroborate) [+ theory, view] respaldar, confirmar

6) (=sustain)

an environment capable of supporting human life — un medio en que existen las condiciones necesarias para que se desarrolle la vida humana

land so poor that it cannot support a small family — un terreno tan poco fértil que no puede sustentar a una familia pequeña

7) frm (=tolerate) tolerar

8) (Mus) [+ band] actuar de telonero/teloneros de

a good band supported by an exciting new group — un buen grupo con unos teloneros nuevos muy interesantes

9) (Cine, Theat) [+ principal actor] secundar

he is supported by a wonderful cast — está secundado por un estupendo reparto

3.

CPD

support band N — (Mus) teloneros mpl

support group N — grupo m de apoyo

a support group for victims of crime — un grupo de apoyo or una asociación de ayuda a las víctimas de la delincuencia

support hose N — medias fpl de compresión graduada

support network N — red f de apoyo

support ship N — barco m de apoyo

support stocking N — media f de compresión graduada

support tights NPL — medias fpl de compresión (graduada)

support troops NPL — tropas fpl de apoyo

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I [sə'pɔːrt, sə'pɔːt]
transitive verb

1) ( hold up) \<\<bridge/structure\>\> sostener*

the roof is supported by six columns — el tejado descansa sobre or se apoya en seis columnas

the chair couldn't support his weight — la silla no pudo aguantar or resistir su peso

2)

a) (maintain, sustain) \<\<family/children\>\> mantener*, sostener*, sustentar

to support oneself — ganarse la vida or (liter) el sustento

the hospital is supported entirely by private donations — el hospital está enteramente financiado por donaciones de particulares

b) ( Comput) admitir

3)

a) ( back) \<\<cause/motion\>\> apoyar

which team do you support? — ¿de qué equipo eres (hincha)?

I support the Greens — estoy con los verdes

b) ( back up) apoyar

4) ( corroborate) \<\<theory\>\> respaldar, confirmar, sustentar

II

noun

1)

a) c ( of structure) soporte m

b) u ( physical)

the pillars provide the support for the arches — los pilares sirven de apoyo a los arcos

to lean on somebody for support — apoyarse en alguien (para sostenerse)

2)

a) u ( financial) ayuda f (económica), apoyo m (económico)

he has no means of support — no tiene ninguna fuente de ingresos

b) c ( person) sostén m

3) u (backing, encouragement) apoyo m, respaldo m

I've had absolutely no support from you — no me has apoyado en absoluto

I went with her to give her (moral) support — la acompañé para que se sintiera apoyada or respaldada

4) u

a) ( Mil) apoyo m, refuerzo m

b) ( backup) servicio m al cliente

technical/dealer support — servicio técnico/de ventas; (before n) <package, material> adicional, suplementario

5)

in support of — (as prep)

he spoke in support of the motion — habló a favor de or en apoyo de la moción

a demonstration in support of the President — una manifestación de apoyo al presidente

she could produce no evidence in support of her claim — no pudo presentar pruebas en apoyo de su demanda

English-spanish dictionary > support
2 support

support [sə'pɔ:t]

1 noun

(a) (backing) soutien m, appui m;

∎ support for the Socialist Party is declining le parti socialiste est en baisse ou en perte de vitesse;

∎ the rebels have little support les rebelles bénéficient d'un soutien limité;

∎ there is widespread support for the government/these policies le gouvernement bénéficie/ces politiques bénéficient d'un très large soutien;

∎ he's trying to drum up or to mobilize support for his scheme il essaie d'obtenir du soutien pour son projet;

∎ to give or to lend one's support to sth appuyer ou soutenir qch;

∎ she gave us her full support elle nous a pleinement appuyés;

∎ you have my full support on this je vous soutiens à cent pour cent, vous pouvez compter sur mon soutien inconditionnel;

∎ to speak in support of a motion appuyer une motion;

∎ they are striking in support of the miners ils font grève par solidarité avec les mineurs;

∎ a collection in support of the homeless une quête au profit des sans-abri;

∎ insufficient air for the support of life air en quantité insuffisante pour permettre la vie

(b) (assistance, encouragement) appui m, aide f;

∎ I couldn't have managed without the support of the neighbours je n'aurais pas pu y arriver sans l'appui des voisins;

∎ a mutual support scheme un système d'entraide;

∎ she gave me the emotional support I needed elle m'a apporté le soutien affectif dont j'avais besoin

(c) (funding) appui m, soutien m;

∎ they depend on the government for financial support ils sont subventionnés par le gouvernement;

∎ with (financial) support from the council avec l'appui ou le soutien (financier) du conseil;

∎ he has no visible means of support ses sources de revenus sont inconnues;

∎ what are your means of support? quelles sont vos sources de revenus?;

∎ she is their only means of support ils n'ont qu'elle pour les faire vivre

(d) (holding up) soutien m;

∎ the upper floors need extra support les étages supérieurs ont besoin d'un soutien supplémentaire;

∎ I was holding his arm for support je m'appuyais sur son bras;

∎ this bra gives good support ce soutien-gorge maintient bien la poitrine

(e) (person) soutien m;

∎ she's been a great support to me elle m'a été d'un grand soutien;

∎ she is the support of the family (financially) c'est elle qui fait vivre la famille

(f) (supporting structure, prop) appui m; Building industry & Technology support m; Medicine (bandage) bandage m de maintien;

∎ the steel supports had buckled les supports en acier s'étaient déformés

(g) (substantiation, corroboration) corroboration f;

∎ in support of her theory à l'appui de ou pour corroborer sa théorie;

∎ the investigation found no support for this view l'enquête n'a rien trouvé pour corroborer ce point de vue;

∎ this discovery lends support to those who have argued… cette découverte va dans le sens de ceux qui soutiennent que…

(h) American Economics (subsidy) subvention f;

∎ farm supports subventions fpl agricoles

(i) Cinema (supporting actor) second rôle m; Music groupe m en première partie

2 compound-forming noun

(a) (troops, unit) de soutien

(b) (hose, stockings) de maintien; (bandage) de soutien

(c) Building industry & Technology (structure, device, frame) de soutien

3 transitive verb

(a) (back → action, campaign, person) soutenir, appuyer; (→ cause, idea) être pour, soutenir; Military (→ troops) soutenir; Sport (→ team) être pour; (actively) être supporter de; (assist → person) soutenir, aider;

∎ she supports the Labour Party elle est pour ou elle soutient le parti travailliste;

∎ to support a candidate appuyer ou soutenir un candidat;

∎ I can't support their action je ne peux pas approuver leur action;

∎ we support her in her decision nous approuvons sa décision;

∎ the Democrats will support the bill les Démocrates seront pour ou appuieront le projet de loi;

∎ the mayor, supported by the clergy le maire, avec le soutien du clergé;

∎ he supports Tottenham c'est un supporter de Tottenham;

∎ he made it with only her love to support him il a réussi avec son amour comme seul soutien;

∎ Cinema & Theatre supported by a superb cast avec une distribution superbe

(b) (hold up) supporter, soutenir;

∎ the pillars that support the ceiling les piliers qui soutiennent le plafond;

∎ her legs were too weak to support her ses jambes étaient trop faibles pour la porter;

∎ he supported himself on a stick/my arm il s'appuyait sur un bâton/mon bras;

∎ will you support the shelf while I fix it to the wall? tu peux tenir l'étagère le temps ou pendant que je la fixe au mur?;

∎ she held on to the table to support herself elle s'agrippa à la table pour ne pas tomber

(c) (provide for financially → person) subvenir aux besoins de; (→ campaign, project) aider financièrement;

∎ she has three children to support elle a trois enfants à charge;

∎ she earns enough to support herself elle gagne assez pour subvenir à ses propres besoins;

∎ he supports himself by teaching il gagne sa vie en enseignant;

∎ his parents supported him through college ses parents ont financé ses études;

∎ the theatre is supported by contributions le théâtre est financé par des contributions

(d) (sustain) faire vivre;

∎ the land has supported four generations of tribespeople cette terre a fait vivre la tribu pendant quatre générations;

∎ the atmosphere on the planet could not support life l'atmosphère de la planète ne permettrait pas le développement d'êtres vivants

(e) (substantiate, give weight to) appuyer, confirmer, donner du poids à;

∎ there is no evidence to support his claim il n'y a aucune preuve pour appuyer ses dires;

∎ a theory supported by experience une théorie confirmée par l'expérience

(f) Finance (price, currency) soutenir

(g) Computing (file format, device, technology) permettre l'utilisation de, supporter;

∎ this package is supported by all workstations ce progiciel peut être utilisé sur tous les postes de travail

(h) (endure) supporter, tolérer

►► support band groupe m en première partie;

∎ who was the support band? qui est-ce qu'il y avait en première partie?;

support group

(a) (for therapy) groupe m de soutien

(b) (at concert) groupe m en première partie;

Computing support line assistance f technique téléphonique;

support price prix m de soutien;

Administration support services services mpl d'assistance technique;

support staff personnel m de soutien ou des services généraux

Un panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > support
3 support

1. I
abs

he has a wife and five children to support у него на иждивении жена и пятеро детей
2. III
1) support smb., smth. support a candidate (the leader, the president, one another, the new government, a policy, a resolution, a claim, etc.) поддерживать кандидата и т.д., оказывать кандидату и т.д. поддержку; who supports his candidacy? кто выскажется в пользу его кандидатуры?; support a cause (the good name of a school, etc.) бороться за /поддерживать/ идею и т.д.; what supported him was hope (his courage, a clear conscience, your approval, etc.) его поддерживала /ему помогала/ надежда и т.д.; which side /team/ do you support? ты за какую команду болеешь?

2) support smb., smth. support one's family (his parents. his aged mother, an institution, an establishment, etc.) обеспечивать /содержать/ свою семью и т.д.;, support oneself зарабатывать себе на жизнь /содержать себя/; air, food and drink are necessary to support life для поддержания жизни необходимы воздух, пища и вода

3) support smth. support a theory (an argument, a claim, a statement, a principle, etc.) подтверждать /подкреплять/ теорию и т.д.; his discovery supported my suspicions то, что ему удалось обнаружить, подтвердило мои подозрения /догадки/; leading doctors supported his testimony его показания подтвердили /поддержали/ ведущие доктора

4) support smth., smb. support the house (the walls, a column, etc.) подпирать /поддерживать/ дом и т.д., what is supporting the roof? на чем держится /на что опирается/ крыша?; the foundations support the building здание стоит на фундаменте; two policemen supported him его поддерживали два полицейских; you support the bottom of the box while I lift the top держи ящик за дно, а я подниму крышку

5) support smth., smb. support a load (heavy lorries, pressure, much strain. etc.) выдерживать груз и т.д.; that chair will not support a heavy person под тяжелым человеком тот стул развалится; that bridge isn't strong enough to support so much weight этот мост недостаточно крепок, чтобы выдержать такую тяжесть

6) support smth. usually in the negative with can; support fatigue (strain, life, etc.) выдерживать усталость и т.д.; I can support such insolence no longer, I can't support such impudence any longer я не могу больше терпеть такого нахальства /такой наглости/
3. IV
1) support smth., smb. in some manner support smth., smb. loyally (steadfastly, warmly, heartily, enthusiastically. vigorously, continually, financially, etc.) верно и т.д. поддерживать что-л., кого-л.

2) support smth. in some manner support smth. theoretically (adequately, etc.) подтверждать /подкреплять/ что-л. теоретически и т.д.
4. XI
1) be supported by smb. be supported by the army (by the officers, by the clergy, by all, by the mayor, etc.) иметь поддержку /пользоваться поддержкой/ армии и т.д.; I was supported by him both materially and spiritually он поддерживал меня и материально и морально

2) be supported by smb., smth. she is supported by her son (by parents, by relatives. by charity, etc.) ее содержит сын и т.д.; the hospital (the university, the church, etc.) is supported by the public (by voluntary contributions, by the government, by subscription, etc.) больница и т.д. существует на средства, собранные общественностью и т.д.; be supported from smth. students are supported from special funds (from government grants, etc.) студентов содержат за счет специальных фондов и т.д.

3) be supported by smth. be supported by proofs (by facts, by good authority. by evidence from..., by a good conscience, etc.) подкрепляться /подтверждаться/ доказательствами и т.д., основываться на доказательствах и т.д.

4) be supported this branch needs to be supported эту ветвь надо подпереть /подвязать/, для этой ветви нужна подпорка; he was ill and had to be supported as he walked home ему было плохо и пришлось поддерживать его, когда он шел домой; be supported by smth. the gallery (the roof, the wall, etc.) is supported by pillars галерея и т.д. держится на колоннах; be supported on smth. the house is supported on piles дом стоит на сваях
5. XXI1
1) support smb. in smth. support you in your efforts (him in the ordeal, us in trouble, etc.) поддерживать вас в ваших усилиях и т.д.; support smth. with smth. support a statement with his authority поддерживать заявление своем авторитетом

2) support smb., smth. on smth. support a family on that wage (herself on her musical talents, hospitals on voluntary subscriptions, etc.) содержать семью на такую зарплату и т.д.

3) support smb., smth. with /by/ smth. support her with my arm (oneself with a stick, a pier by chains, etc.) поддерживать ее рукой и т.д.; support smth. on smth. support one's chin on one's hand подпереть подбородок рукой; Atlas supports the sky on his shoulders Атлас держит небеса на своих плечах

4) support smth. without smb. usually in the negative she couldn't support life without friends она не могла жить без друзей

English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > support
4 support

[sə'pɔːt] 1. сущ.
1) поддержка; помощь

price supports амер. — субсидии, даваемые правительством фермерам

to derive / draw / get / receive support from — получить поддержку с чьей-л. стороны

to enlist / line up / mobilize / round up support for smth. — заручиться поддержкой для чего-л.

to gain / get / win smb.'s support — завоевать чью-л. поддержку, чьё-л. одобрение

to give lukewarm support to a candidate — вяло, слабо поддерживать кандидата

to have the support of smb. — иметь чью-л. поддержку

to lend / give / offer / provide support to smb. — оказывать поддержку кому-л.

- ardent support
- complete support
- wholehearted support
- active support
- loyal support
- government support
- state support
- popular support
- public support
- mutual support
- financial support
- solid support
- unwavering support
- firm support
- unstinting support
Syn:

help, assistance, countenance, backing

2)

а) основание, опора прям. и перен.

the strongest support of monarchical power — сильнейшая опора монархической власти

A chair which stands unevenly on its feet is useless as a support. — Стул, неровно стоящий на ножках, не годится в качестве опоры.

б) кормилец ( семьи)

He was the sole support of his father. — Он был единственным кормильцем своего отца.

3)

а) средства к существованию

The support of this place is a great export of white wine. — Этот регион живёт за счёт экспорта белого вина в огромном количестве.

б) содержание, материальное обеспечение

child support амер. — алименты

4) тех. опорная стойка; кронштейн; штатив

5) воен. огневая поддержка

6) информ.; = tech(nical) support

а) (техническая) поддержка ( пользователей)

Traditionally, support came with the cost of a computer. — Обычно техническая поддержка входила в стоимость компьютера.

б) отдел технической поддержки, служба технической поддержки

I am going to call tech support. — Я собираюсь позвонить в службу технической поддержки.
2. гл.
1) поддерживать, подпирать; нести нагрузку

More than one hundred stone columns supported a massive roof. — Более сотни каменных колонн служили опорой для массивной крыши.

2) поддерживать; содержать ( материально); обеспечивать

to support one's family — содержать семью

to support charities — поддерживать благотворительные организации

This luxury was supported by a thriving trade. — Такая роскошь обеспечивалась процветающей торговлей.

I must neglect my father as to gain time for writing what may support us. — Я не могу уделять много внимания своему отцу, потому что я должен писать, чтобы прокормить семью.

3)

а) поддерживать ( морально); помогать, содействовать, способствовать

to support completely / strongly / wholeheartedly — горячо поддерживать

My wife supported me enormously. — Моя жена оказала мне большую поддержку.

Syn:

encourage, stand by, back up

б) поддерживать, выступать в защиту, быть сторонником

to support lower taxes — поддерживать снижение налогов

Syn:

advocate 2.

4) сохранять, предохранять (от порчи, упадка)

to support the ancient character of the corps — сохранять старинные традиции в войсках

5) подтверждать; подкреплять; свидетельствовать в пользу (кого-л. / чего-л.)

He supported his story with facts. — Он подтверждал свой рассказ фактами.

The statute does not seem to support the assertions for which it was cited. — Указ, на который сослались ради подкрепления утверждений, этих утверждений не подтверждает.

Syn:

bear out, substantiate

6) выносить, выдерживать; сносить

I cannot support even the idea of it. — Я не могу выносить даже мысли об этом.

He prefers to support the poacher's intrusion than to risk shooting at him. — Он предпочитает мириться с появлением браконьера, а не стрелять в него из ружья.

Syn:

bear II 8), tolerate, put up with

7) исполнять роль; выдерживать роль

The characters were admirably supported. — Роли героев были блестяще исполнены.

8) спорт.; воен. оказывать поддержку

9) информ. поддерживать, быть совместимым (с чем-л.)

Англо-русский современный словарь > support
5 support

1. n
помощь; поддержка; опора; средства к существованию; обеспечение

to abandon support for smb — отказываться от поддержки кого-л.; лишить кого-л. поддержки

to affirm one's support for smb — подтверждать свою поддержку кого-л.

to assure oneself of smb's support — заручаться чьей-л. поддержкой

to attract more public support — добиваться усиления поддержки со стороны общества

to bolster support — усиливать поддержку

to broaden support for smth — обеспечивать более широкую поддержку чего-л.

to build up support for smb — создавать поддержку кому-л.

to buy the support of local population — добиваться поддержки местного населения

to cancel support — прекращать помощь / поддержку

to canvass smb for support — добиваться поддержки с чьей-л. стороны

to cement the support of the right — упрочивать поддержку правых

to command majority support — пользоваться поддержкой большинства

to count on smb's support — рассчитывать на чью-л. поддержку

to court smb's support — добиваться чьей-л. поддержки

to cut off support — лишать кого-л. поддержки

to declare one's support — заявлять о своей поддержке

to deign smb's support — удостаиваться чьей-л. поддержки

to demonstrate one's solid support — демонстрировать единодушную поддержку

to deviate from one's support of smb — прекращать поддержку кого-л.

to double the support — удваивать поддержку

to draw one's support from smb — пользоваться чьей-л. поддержкой; получать поддержку от кого-л.

to drop one's support for smb — отказываться от оказания поддержки кому-л.; прекращать поддержку кого-л.

to drum up support for smth — искать сторонников чего-л.; просить оказать поддержку чему-л.

to enjoy mass support — пользоваться поддержкой народа

to enlist smb's support — заручаться чьей-л. поддержкой

to erode smb's support for smth — ослаблять чью-л. поддержку кого-л.

to express support for smth — выражать поддержку кого-л.

to find wide public support — встречать широкую поддержку общества

to forfeit international support — лишаться международной поддержки

to gain support — получать поддержку

to garner support — собирать голоса ( в ходе предвыборной кампании)

to gather support within the army — находить сторонников в рядах армии

to gauge the support — оценивать размеры поддержки

to get support — получать помощь / поддержку

to give smb support — оказывать кому-л. поддержку

to have smb's support — пользоваться чьей-л. поддержкой

to intensify the support — усиливать / увеличивать помощь

to lean on the support of smb — опираться на чью-л. поддержку

to lend support — оказывать поддержку

to lessen one's support for smb — уменьшать поддержку, оказываемую кому-л.

to lobby for support — добиваться поддержки (парламента и т.п.)

to lose support — терять поддержку

to maintain electoral support — сохранять поддержку избирателей

to meet with support — находить поддержку

to mobilize international political support — мобилизовывать международную политическую поддержку

to muster support for smth — находить поддержку чему-л.

to obtain support — получать помощь / поддержку

to offer support — предлагать помощь / поддержку

to pledge support — обещать поддержку

to provide support — оказывать поддержку / помощь

to raise support for smth — добиваться поддержки чего-л.

to rally support — искать сторонников; заручаться поддержкой

to rally to the support of smth — сплачиваться для поддержки чего-л.

to reaffirm one's support for smb — подтверждать свою поддержку кого-л.

to receive support — получать поддержку / помощь

to recover political support — восстанавливать политическую поддержку

to reevaluate one's support — пересматривать свою поддержку кого-л.

to regain support — вновь добиваться поддержки

to reiterate one's support for smb — подтверждать свою поддержку кого-л.

to rely on the support — опираться на поддержку

to render support — оказывать поддержку

to restate one's support for smth — вновь подтверждать свою поддержку кого-л.

to secure the support of / to seek support from smb — добиваться чьей-л. поддержки

to shout support for smb — поддерживать криками кого-л.

to show support for smth — демонстрировать свою поддержку чего-л.

to step up one's support for smth — усиливать поддержку чего-л.

to swing one's support behind smb — бросаться на поддержку кого-л.

to test support for smb — проверять наличие поддержки кого-л.

to throw one's support behind smb — оказывать поддержку кому-л.

to urge for more measured support for smb — призывать проявлять большую осторожность / взвешенность при поддержке кого-л.

to voice support for smth — высказываться в поддержку чего-л.

to water down one's support for smb — уменьшать свою поддержку, оказываемую кому-л.

to whittle away support for smb — уменьшать поддержку кого-л.

to widen electoral support — усиливать поддержку со стороны избирателей

to win smb's support — добиваться чьей-л. поддержки

to withdraw one's support for smth — отказываться от дальнейшей поддержки чего-л.

- active support
- administrative support
- all-out support
- all-round support
- big surge in support for smb
- broad support
- clear support
- congressional support for smth
- consistent support
- continuous support
- covert support
- decline of support
- delayed support
- diplomatic support
- direct support
- drop in support
- dwindling support
- economic support
- effective support
- engineer support
- fall in electoral support
- financial support
- firm support
- flagging support
- fraternal support
- full-hearted support
- government support
- grass-root support
- high-level support
- indirect support
- informational support
- international support
- lack of support
- loss of support
- managerial support
- mass support
- material and technical support
- material support
- military support
- moral support
- mutual support
- noble support
- organizational support
- overwhelming support
- political support
- popular support
- public support
- renewed support
- resolute support
- resounding support
- resurgence of support
- show of support for smb
- social support
- solid support
- staunch support
- substantial support
- substantive support
- support for smb / smth is fading
- support for smb across the widest political spectrum
- support for the agreement in Westminster has waned
- support for the strike is crumbling
- support is dwindling
- tacit support
- technical support
- technological support
- total support
- unabashed support
- unanimous support
- unconditional support
- unequivocal support
- unfailing support
- unqualified support
- unreserved support
- unshakable support
- unwavering support
- verbal support
- visa support
- voter support
- waning support
- weakening support
- wholehearted support
- wide support
- wide-spread support
- world-wide support 2. v
помогать; поддерживать; содействовать; обеспечивать; финансировать

to support life — обеспечивать средства к существованию

to support smb militarily — оказывать кому-л. военную поддержку

to support smb to the end — поддерживать кого-л. до конца

to support smth without qualification — безоговорочно поддерживать что-л.

to support the motion — поддерживать предложение

to support the peace initiative — поддерживать мирную инициативу

Politics english-russian dictionary > support
6 support

I [sə'pɔːt] n
1) поддержка, помощь

He hasn't got any support for his plan. — Его план не встретил никакой поддержки.

We need all the support we can get. — Нам нужна всякая помощь и поддержка, которую мы можем получить.

Artillery was used as support for infantry. — Артиллерия была использована для поддержки пехоты.

The paper gets support from public subscriptions. — Газета существует на средства подписчиков.

Several relatives depend on him for support. — Он содержит нескольких родственников.

- unanimous support
- artillery support
- medical support
- critical needed support
- mutual support scheme
- government support
- family support
- supply support
- support aviation
- support troops
- support groups
- support line
- support trenches
- support of the people
- support from everywhere
- sole support of the family
- arguments in support of the proposal
- evidence in support of what you say
- sole support of his old age
- means of support
- add support to the rumours
- attract some support from outside the party
- round up enlist
- give support to the poor
- receive financial support
- fight with no support
- find a sure support in religion
- find no support
- give no support to the candidate
- give a lukewarm support to the proposal
- hold meetings in support of the movement
- offer every moral support
- receive support for the scheme
- require support
- speak in support of what he said
- speak in smb's support
- speak in support of disarmament
- turn to smb for support
- win an overwhelming support
- gain an overwhelming support
- project received influential support
2) опора, основание, подпорка

The bridge rests on steel supports. — Мост держится на стальных опорах.

Columns give support to the roof/columns serve for support of the roof. — Колонны поддерживают крышу

- wooden supports
- bell supports
- support of the building
- give support to the rails of the staircase
- hold on to the ladder for support
- pass a rope round one's waist for support
- stand without support
- serve for support II [sə'pɔːt] v
1) поддерживать

Which side do you support? — Ты на чьей стороне?

Which team do you support? — За какую команду ты болеешь?

- support smb's suggestion

2) содержать

- support a family

English-Russian combinatory dictionary > support
7 government relations
1. взаимодействие с госструктурами
взаимодействие с госструктурами
Целью этой функциональной деятельности является взаимодействие ОКОИ с органами государственной власти и правительством. Налаженные отношения с госструктурами необходимы для обеспечения общественной поддержки Игр на местном и национальном уровне, а также для укрепления позиций ОКОИ на переговорах правительственными учреждениями о предоставлении средств и услуг, необходимых для организации и проведения Игр. ОКОИ может учредить функциональное подразделение, занимающееся взаимодействием с госструктурами.
[Департамент лингвистических услуг Оргкомитета «Сочи 2014». Глоссарий терминов]

EN

government relations
Government Relations fosters and manages relations between the OCOG, state and national government agencies. A good relationship with the government is important to generate national and community support for the Games and it also underpins the negotiations between functional areas and specific government agencies for services or facilities necessary for Games planning and operations. The OCOG may establish a functional area dealing with Government Relations aspects.
[Департамент лингвистических услуг Оргкомитета «Сочи 2014». Глоссарий терминов]

Тематики
- спорт (управление Играми)
EN
- government relations
Англо-русский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > government relations
8 support

سَنَدٌ (اسم)‏ \ authority: sb. with special, knowledge: He is on authority an ancient Roman gods. bond: a piece of paper in which a government or company promises to pay back with interest money that has been lent. support: sth. that supports; help: Steel supports held up the roof. I need your support at this meeting. \ See Also حجة (حُجَّة)، دَيْن حكوميّ، دعم (دَعْم)‏

Arabic-English glossary > support
9 Hilfe

Hilfe f 1. COMP help (Programme); 2. GEN help, support; 3. PERS help; 4. FIN, WIWI assistance; aid (Entwicklungsländer) • Hilfe suchen bei GEN fall back on, enlist the help of
* * *

f 1. < Comp> Programme help; 2. < Geschäft> help, support; 3. < Person> help; 4. <Finanz, Vw> assistance, Entwicklungsländer aid ■ Hilfe suchen bei < Geschäft> fall back on, enlist the help of

* * *
Hilfe
help[ing], assistance, hand, backing, aid, favo(u)r, (Hilfsaktion) relief, rescue;
• mit staatlicher Hilfe with government support, state-aided;
• ohne [fremde] Hilfe off one’s own bat;
• von ausländischer Hilfe abhängig aid-dependent;
• finanzielle Hilfe grant, financial aid (assistance);
• geldliche Hilfe (Vorschuss) accommodation;
• humanitäre Hilfe humanitarian aid;
• internationale Hilfe international aid;
• projektgebundene Hilfe (Entwicklungsländer) commodity (tied) aid;
• wenig oder gar keine Hilfe little or no help;
• zuverlässige (brauchbare) Hilfe standby;
• Hilfen für Entwicklungsmaßnahmen development aid;
• Hilfe bei der Erstellung der Rechnungsunterlagen accountancy service;
• Hilfe für Junglandwirte help for young farmers;
• Hilfe anbieten to extend help;
• Hilfe des Gerichts anrufen to appeal to the law;
• sofortiger Hilfe bedürfen to be in instant need of help;
• massive finanzielle Hilfe gewähren to step in with massive aid;
• Hilfe des Gerichts (richterliche Hilfe) in Anspruch nehmen to seek redress in court.

Business german-english dictionary > Hilfe
10 mit staatlicher Hilfe

mit staatlicher Hilfe
with government support, state-aided

Business german-english dictionary > mit staatlicher Hilfe
11 взаимодействие с госструктурами
1. government relations
взаимодействие с госструктурами
Целью этой функциональной деятельности является взаимодействие ОКОИ с органами государственной власти и правительством. Налаженные отношения с госструктурами необходимы для обеспечения общественной поддержки Игр на местном и национальном уровне, а также для укрепления позиций ОКОИ на переговорах правительственными учреждениями о предоставлении средств и услуг, необходимых для организации и проведения Игр. ОКОИ может учредить функциональное подразделение, занимающееся взаимодействием с госструктурами.
[Департамент лингвистических услуг Оргкомитета «Сочи 2014». Глоссарий терминов]

EN

government relations
Government Relations fosters and manages relations between the OCOG, state and national government agencies. A good relationship with the government is important to generate national and community support for the Games and it also underpins the negotiations between functional areas and specific government agencies for services or facilities necessary for Games planning and operations. The OCOG may establish a functional area dealing with Government Relations aspects.
[Департамент лингвистических услуг Оргкомитета «Сочи 2014». Глоссарий терминов]

Тематики
- спорт (управление Играми)
EN
- government relations
Русско-английский словарь нормативно-технической терминологии > взаимодействие с госструктурами
12 Historical Portugal

   Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.

   A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.

   Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140

   The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."

   In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.

   The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.

   Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385

   Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in

   Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.

   The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.

   Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580

   The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.

   The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.

   What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.

   By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.

   Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.

   The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.

   By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.

   In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.

   Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640

   Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.

   Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.

   On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.

   Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822

   Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.

   Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.

   In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the

   Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.

   Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.

   Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.

   Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910

   During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.

   Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.

   Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.

   Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.

   Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.

   As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.

   First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26

   Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.

   The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.

   Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.

   The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74

   During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."

   Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.

   For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),

   and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.

   The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.

   With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.

   During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.

   The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.

   At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.

   The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.

   Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76

   Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.

   Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.

   In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.

   In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.

   In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.

   The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until

   UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.

   Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000

   After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.

   From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.

   Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.

   Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.

   In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.

   In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.

   Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.

    Contemporary Portugal

   Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.

   The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.

   Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.

   Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).

   All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.

   The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.

   After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.

   Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.

   Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.

   From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.

   Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.

   In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.

   An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

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13 ayuda

f.

1 help, assistance (asistencia).

acudir en ayuda de alguien to come/go to somebody's assistance

nos fuiste de gran ayuda you were a great help to us

no me sirvió de mucha ayuda it wasn't much help to me

prestar ayuda to help, to assist

ayuda en carretera breakdown service

2 aid.

ayuda al desarrollo development aid

ayuda humanitaria humanitarian aid

pres.indicat.

3^rd person singular (él/ella/ello) present indicative of spanish verb: ayudar.

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ayuda

► nombre femenino

1 help, aid, assistance

2 (lavativa) enema

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FRASEOLOGÍA

ir en ayuda de alguien to come to somebody's assistance

prestar ayuda to help (a, -)

ayuda de cámara valet

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noun f.

help, assistance, aid

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1. SF

1) (=asistencia) help, assistance más frm

ayuda a domicilio — home help, home helper (EEUU)

ayudas a la navegación — aids to navigation, navigational aids

ayuda compensatoria — ≈ income support, welfare (EEUU)

ayuda económica — economic aid

ayuda humanitaria — humanitarian aid

ayuda visual — visual aid

ayudas audiovisuales — audiovisual aids

ayudas familiares — family allowances

2) (Med) (=enema) enema; LAm (=laxante) laxative

2.

SM (=paje) page

ayuda de cámara — valet

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femenino

1) ( asistencia) help

nadie fue or acudió en su ayuda — nobody went to his aid

pedir ayuda — to ask for help

ayudas para la inversión — incentives for investment

organizaciones de ayuda internacional — international aid agencies

ha sido de gran ayuda — it has been a great help

poca ayuda no es estorbo — every little helps

- ayuda de cámara

2) (fam & euf) ( enema) enema

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= aid, assistance, guidance, help, helpfulness, support, relief, enhancer, helper, facilitator, bursary, good offices, jump-start [jumpstart], helping hand, succour [succor, -USA].

Ex. Indexing may be conducted entirely without the aid of a computer, or may rely to varying extents upon the facilities for the manipulation and ordering of data offered by the computer.

Ex. Most information about terms and their relationships that could be of assistance to the user of the index will be transferred from the list to the index or catalogue.

Ex. The command function 'HELP' is used to obtain guidance online when in difficulty.

Ex. The entry is first located with the help of searching.

Ex. Sometimes, in the interest of comprehension or helpfulness, modifications to the standard pattern are desirable.

Ex. BSO was prepared by the International Federation for Documentation with the support of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization), and was published in 1978/79.

Ex. The report concluded that the problems of rural populations 'do not differ greatly from those of the urban population though the difficulties in obtaining help and relief can be exacerbated by isolation'.

Ex. The low regard that many publishers have shown for indexers as enhancers of book sales and profitability may well have been justified in the past.

Ex. Once again careful planning pays dividends, and plenty of time and helpers are needed.

Ex. Information technology may have acted as a catalyst or facilitator for some of the changes which have occurred.

Ex. This article describes a 12 week study tour of the UK undertaken with the help of a bursary from the EU by a lecturer in library studies from Papua New Guinea.

Ex. This enables the library to use the MPEs' good offices and contacts to influence the national government on projects which are important for the area.

Ex. No hospital creates a healthier community all by itself but it can give its neighbors a jump-start.

Ex. Fish hawks needed a helping hand and their comeback is one of the great wildlife success stories of our time.

Ex. The Government has vowed to provide 'all possible succour' to the people affected by the cyclone that has left a trail of death and devastation.

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* ayuda a las víctimas de una catástrofe = disaster relief.

* ayuda al desarrollo = development aid.

* ayuda alimentaria = food aid.

* ayuda con la declaración de hacienda = income tax assistance.

* ayuda de asistencia = attendance grant.

* ayuda de asistencia a congreso = conference attendance grant.

* ayuda de cámara = valet.

* ayuda de emergencia = emergency relief.

* ayuda del gobierno = state aid, state support.

* ayuda doméstica = domestic help.

* ayuda económica = grant, financial support, fund assistance, financial assistance, grant money, cash grant.

* ayuda educativa = educational aid.

* ayuda en caso de catástrofe = disaster relief.

* ayuda en pantalla = aid page.

* ayuda estatal = state aid, state support.

* ayuda familiar = family income supplement, family worker.

* ayuda financiera = financial assistance, fund assistance.

* ayuda humanitaria = humanitarian aid, disaster relief, humanitarian assistance.

* Ayuda Internacional de Libros (BAI) = Book Aid International (BAI).

* ayuda legal = legal assistance.

* ayuda memoria = aide-mémoire.

* ayuda mutua = mutual help, mutual aid.

* ayuda para dormir = sleeping aid.

* ayuda para el desplazamiento = travel grant.

* ayuda para la memoria = memory aid.

* ayuda para recordar = memory aid.

* ayudas = monies [money, -sing.].

* ayuda sensible al contexto = context-sensitive help.

* ayuda social = welfare benefits.

* ayudas para la escritura = writing tools.

* ayuda visual = visual aid.

* buscar ayuda = seek + assistance, seek + help.

* centro de ayuda al empleo = job-help centre.

* con la ayuda de = under the guidance of.

* con + Posesivo + ayuda = under + Posesivo + guidance.

* conseguir ayuda = secure + help.

* dispositivo de ayuda a usuarios con necesidades especiales = assistive device.

* hacerlo sin la ayuda de nadie = do + it + on + Posesivo + own.

* herramienta de ayuda a la escritura = writing aid.

* herramienta de ayuda a la lectura = reading aid.

* herramientas de ayuda = helper utility.

* herramientas de ayuda para la búsqueda = searching aid.

* instrumento de ayuda a la enseñanza = teaching aid.

* material de ayuda = help pack.

* mostrador de ayuda = help desk [helpdesk].

* ofrecer ayuda = offer + guidance, offer + assistance, provide + support.

* ojo humano sin ayuda de lente, el = unaided eye, the.

* pantalla de ayuda = help screen.

* pedir ayuda = seek + assistance, seek + help.

* pedir ayuda a = enlist + the cooperation of.

* política de ayuda = assistance policy.

* prestar ayuda = provide + assistance, render + assistance, offer + guidance, offer + assistance, lend + a (helping) hand.

* proyecto de ayuda = aid project.

* proyecto de ayuda humanitaria = relief project.

* recabar ayuda = solicit + help, solicit + support.

* ser de ayuda = be of assistance.

* ser de gran ayuda para = be a boon to.

* ser una gran ayuda = be a tower of strength.

* servicio de ayuda = help desk [helpdesk], help facility.

* servir de ayuda = be of assistance.

* sin ayuda = unaided, unassisted.

* sin ayuda de nadie = all by + Reflexivo, by + Reflexivo.

* sin la ayuda de nadie = single-handedly.

* sistema de ayuda = help system.

* sistema de ayuda a la gestión = management support system (MSS).

* solicitar ayuda = summon + help, seek + assistance, seek + help.

* tecla de ayuda = help key.

* teléfono de ayuda = help desk [helpdesk], help line, telephone help line.

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femenino

1) ( asistencia) help

nadie fue or acudió en su ayuda — nobody went to his aid

pedir ayuda — to ask for help

ayudas para la inversión — incentives for investment

organizaciones de ayuda internacional — international aid agencies

ha sido de gran ayuda — it has been a great help

poca ayuda no es estorbo — every little helps

- ayuda de cámara

2) (fam & euf) ( enema) enema

* * *

= aid, assistance, guidance, help, helpfulness, support, relief, enhancer, helper, facilitator, bursary, good offices, jump-start [jumpstart], helping hand, succour [succor, -USA].

Ex: Indexing may be conducted entirely without the aid of a computer, or may rely to varying extents upon the facilities for the manipulation and ordering of data offered by the computer.

Ex: Most information about terms and their relationships that could be of assistance to the user of the index will be transferred from the list to the index or catalogue.

Ex: The command function 'HELP' is used to obtain guidance online when in difficulty.

Ex: The entry is first located with the help of searching.

Ex: Sometimes, in the interest of comprehension or helpfulness, modifications to the standard pattern are desirable.

Ex: BSO was prepared by the International Federation for Documentation with the support of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization), and was published in 1978/79.

Ex: The report concluded that the problems of rural populations 'do not differ greatly from those of the urban population though the difficulties in obtaining help and relief can be exacerbated by isolation'.

Ex: The low regard that many publishers have shown for indexers as enhancers of book sales and profitability may well have been justified in the past.

Ex: Once again careful planning pays dividends, and plenty of time and helpers are needed.

Ex: Information technology may have acted as a catalyst or facilitator for some of the changes which have occurred.

Ex: This article describes a 12 week study tour of the UK undertaken with the help of a bursary from the EU by a lecturer in library studies from Papua New Guinea.

Ex: This enables the library to use the MPEs' good offices and contacts to influence the national government on projects which are important for the area.

Ex: No hospital creates a healthier community all by itself but it can give its neighbors a jump-start.

Ex: Fish hawks needed a helping hand and their comeback is one of the great wildlife success stories of our time.

Ex: The Government has vowed to provide 'all possible succour' to the people affected by the cyclone that has left a trail of death and devastation.

* ayuda a las víctimas de una catástrofe = disaster relief.

* ayuda al desarrollo = development aid.

* ayuda alimentaria = food aid.

* ayuda con la declaración de hacienda = income tax assistance.

* ayuda de asistencia = attendance grant.

* ayuda de asistencia a congreso = conference attendance grant.

* ayuda de cámara = valet.

* ayuda de emergencia = emergency relief.

* ayuda del gobierno = state aid, state support.

* ayuda doméstica = domestic help.

* ayuda económica = grant, financial support, fund assistance, financial assistance, grant money, cash grant.

* ayuda educativa = educational aid.

* ayuda en caso de catástrofe = disaster relief.

* ayuda en pantalla = aid page.

* ayuda estatal = state aid, state support.

* ayuda familiar = family income supplement, family worker.

* ayuda financiera = financial assistance, fund assistance.

* ayuda humanitaria = humanitarian aid, disaster relief, humanitarian assistance.

* Ayuda Internacional de Libros (BAI) = Book Aid International (BAI).

* ayuda legal = legal assistance.

* ayuda memoria = aide-mémoire.

* ayuda mutua = mutual help, mutual aid.

* ayuda para dormir = sleeping aid.

* ayuda para el desplazamiento = travel grant.

* ayuda para la memoria = memory aid.

* ayuda para recordar = memory aid.

* ayudas = monies [money, -sing.].

* ayuda sensible al contexto = context-sensitive help.

* ayuda social = welfare benefits.

* ayudas para la escritura = writing tools.

* ayuda visual = visual aid.

* buscar ayuda = seek + assistance, seek + help.

* centro de ayuda al empleo = job-help centre.

* con la ayuda de = under the guidance of.

* con + Posesivo + ayuda = under + Posesivo + guidance.

* conseguir ayuda = secure + help.

* dispositivo de ayuda a usuarios con necesidades especiales = assistive device.

* hacerlo sin la ayuda de nadie = do + it + on + Posesivo + own.

* herramienta de ayuda a la escritura = writing aid.

* herramienta de ayuda a la lectura = reading aid.

* herramientas de ayuda = helper utility.

* herramientas de ayuda para la búsqueda = searching aid.

* instrumento de ayuda a la enseñanza = teaching aid.

* material de ayuda = help pack.

* mostrador de ayuda = help desk [helpdesk].

* ofrecer ayuda = offer + guidance, offer + assistance, provide + support.

* ojo humano sin ayuda de lente, el = unaided eye, the.

* pantalla de ayuda = help screen.

* pedir ayuda = seek + assistance, seek + help.

* pedir ayuda a = enlist + the cooperation of.

* política de ayuda = assistance policy.

* prestar ayuda = provide + assistance, render + assistance, offer + guidance, offer + assistance, lend + a (helping) hand.

* proyecto de ayuda = aid project.

* proyecto de ayuda humanitaria = relief project.

* recabar ayuda = solicit + help, solicit + support.

* ser de ayuda = be of assistance.

* ser de gran ayuda para = be a boon to.

* ser una gran ayuda = be a tower of strength.

* servicio de ayuda = help desk [helpdesk], help facility.

* servir de ayuda = be of assistance.

* sin ayuda = unaided, unassisted.

* sin ayuda de nadie = all by + Reflexivo, by + Reflexivo.

* sin la ayuda de nadie = single-handedly.

* sistema de ayuda = help system.

* sistema de ayuda a la gestión = management support system (MSS).

* solicitar ayuda = summon + help, seek + assistance, seek + help.

* tecla de ayuda = help key.

* teléfono de ayuda = help desk [helpdesk], help line, telephone help line.

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ayuda

feminine

A (asistencia, auxilio) help

le prestaron toda la ayuda necesaria they gave him all the help he needed

nadie fue or acudió en su ayuda nobody went to help him o went to his aid

no quiso pedir ayuda she didn't want to ask for help

ayudas para los proyectos de inversión incentives for investment projects

ofrecieron ayuda económica a los damnificados they offered financial help o aid o assistance to the victims

organizaciones de ayuda internacional international aid agencies

no tiene ninguna ayuda en casa she has no help at home

ha sido de gran ayuda it has been a great help

poca ayuda no es estorbo every little helps

con ayuda de un vecino mató mi padre un cochino well, with a little help from my/your/his friends …

Compuestos:

● ayuda a domicilio

( Esp) home-help service

● ayuda audiovisual/visual

audiovisual/visual aid

● ayuda de cámara

masculine valet

● ayuda humanitaria

humanitarian aid

● ayuda memoria

masculine aide-mémoire

● ayuda regional

regional aid

● ayudas familiares

fpl (en Esp) family benefit

B ( fam euf) (enema) enema

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Del verbo ayudar: ( conjugate ayudar)

ayuda es:

3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente indicativo

2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

Multiple Entries:
ayuda
ayudar
ayuda sustantivo femenino ( asistencia) help;
◊ nadie acudió en su ayuda nobody went to his aid;

ayudas para la inversión incentives for investment;
ha sido de gran ayuda it has been a great help
ayudar ( conjugate ayudar) verbo transitivo
to help;
ayuda al prójimo to help one's neighbor;
¿te ayudo? do you need any help?;
vino a ayudame she came to help me out;
ayúdame a poner la mesa help me (to) set the table
verbo intransitivo
to help;
¿puedo ayuda en algo? can I do anything to help?
ayuda sustantivo femenino help, assistance, aid: un joven vino en ayuda de los accidentados, a young man came to the aid of the injured people
ayudar verbo transitivo to help: ¿puedes ayudarme a mover la mesa?, can you help me to move the table? ➣ Ver nota en help

' ayuda' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
abogada
- abogado
- acudir
- asistencia
- balón
- beneficio
- blandengue
- colaboración
- confiar
- demanda
- espaldarazo
- estimar
- facilidad
- fortalecimiento
- goteo
- gratificación
- nos
- nunca
- ofrecer
- paliar
- prestación
- prioritaria
- prioritario
- recabar
- retirar
- sola
- solo
- urgir
- utilidad
- vital
- agradecer
- apreciar
- auxilio
- beca
- becar
- contar
- desechar
- desinteresado
- despreciar
- dispensar
- disponer
- espontáneo
- evaporarse
- favor
- gracia
- gritar
- implorar
- inapreciable
- inestimable
- material
English:
aid
- appreciate
- appreciative
- ask for
- assistance
- backing
- bat
- bird
- bootstrap
- by
- canvass
- contribute
- contribution
- deny
- do without
- dramatically
- foreign aid
- forthcoming
- give
- grateful
- greatly
- help
- hesitate
- immediate
- instrumental
- major
- navigate
- own
- quarter
- relief
- seek
- service
- single-handed
- summon
- support
- supportive
- unaided
- valet
- virtually
- volunteer
- without
- afield
- any
- boon
- deserving
- hand
- position
- public
- shape
- single

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ayuda

♦ nf

1. [asistencia] help, assistance;

acudir en ayuda de alguien to come/go to sb's assistance;

nos fuiste de gran ayuda you were a great help to us;

no me sirvió de mucha ayuda it wasn't much help to me;

prestar ayuda to help, to assist

Comp
ayuda en carretera Br breakdown service, US emergency road service; Informát ayuda en línea on-line help; Informát ayuda en pantalla onscreen help
2. [económica, alimenticia] aid;

un paquete de ayudas a la pequeña empresa a package of measures to help small businesses

Comp
ayuda al desarrollo development aid;
ayuda exterior foreign aid;

ayuda extranjera foreign aid;

ayuda humanitaria humanitarian aid;

un convoy de ayuda humanitaria a relief convoy

3. [limosna]
una ayuda, por favor could you spare me some change, please?

4. [enema] enema

♦ nm
Hist ayuda de cámara royal valet
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ayuda

I f help, assistance;

ayuda financiera financial help o aid o

assistance;

con la ayuda de with the help of;

prestar ayuda help;

pedir ayuda a alguien ask s.o. for help;

venir en ayuda de come to the aid o help of

II m aide

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ayuda nf

1) : help, assistance

2)

ayuda de cámara : valet

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ayuda n

1. (en general) help

no le gusta pedir ayuda he doesn't like asking for help

2. (cosa material) aid

ayuda humanitaria humanitarian aid

Spanish-English dictionary > ayuda
14 Unterstützung

Unterstützung f 1. COMP support; 2. GEN aid, boost, backing, backup, encouragement, promotion, subsidization, sponsorship; 3. MGT support; 4. SOZ assistance, support, benefit; 5. WIWI backing, support (finanziell); maintenance payments, maintenance allowances, relief payments (ZB) • mit Unterstützung von GEN through the agency of
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f 1. < Comp> support; 2. < Geschäft> aid, boost, backing, backup, encouragement, promotion, subsidization, sponsorship; 3. < Mgmnt> support; 4. < Sozial> assistance, support, benefit; 5. <Vw> finanziell backing, support, ZB maintenance payments, maintenance allowances, relief payments ■ mit Unterstützung von < Geschäft> through the agency of

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Unterstützung
(Arbeitslose) unemployment benefit, dole (Br.), (Förderung) furtherance, encouragement, patronization, boost, promotion, support, arm, (Fürsorge) relief, (Hilfe) support, help[ing], assistance, aid, (Sozialversicherungsleistung) benefit, (Spende) contribution, sign-up, (Subvention) grant, (Unterhaltsgewährung) maintenance, alimony;
• auf Ihre Unterstützung angewiesen depending on you for support;
• auf städtische Unterstützung angewiesen on the parish (town, US);
• mit Unterstützung von with the support of, (Rundfunkprogramm) presented by courtesy of;
• mit mit kommunaler Unterstützung rate-aided (Br.);
• mit Unterstützung aus staatlichen Mitteln state-aided, bountyfed;
• ohne Unterstützung unbacked, unhelped, (Wohlfahrtsempfänger) unaided, unrelieved;
• zur Unterstützung von in aid of;
• anstaltsinterne Unterstützung institutional (indoor) relief (Br.);
• von der Gewerkschaft ausgehandelte Unterstützung union benefit;
• bar ausgezahlte Unterstützung cash assistance;
• fachliche Unterstützung technical aid;
• finanzielle Unterstützung pecuniary assistance, financial help (backing), accommodation, (durch kommunale Stellen) municipal aid;
• maßgebliche finanzielle Unterstützung substantial funding;
• gegenseitige Unterstützung mutual aid (assistance), log-rolling (US);
• geldliche Unterstützung pecuniary aid (assistance);
• von der Gemeinde gewährte (gemeindliche) Unterstützung parish relief (Br.), community support;
• in der arbeitslosen Zeit gezahlte Unterstützung off-season subsidy;
• kommunale Unterstützung rate aid (Br.), parish relief;
• mangelnde Unterstützung lack of support;
• öffentliche Unterstützung pauper (poor) relief (Br.), public welfare (aid, assistance), outdoor (Br.) (public, US) relief;
• politische Unterstützung endorsement, political backing;
• staatliche Unterstützung government support (backing), government[al] assistance, grant, subsidy, subsidizing, subvention, state-aid (US), (für Kommunalaufgaben) municipal support, grant-in-aid (US), Exchequer equalization grant (Br.);
• tatkräftige Unterstützung strong-arm treatment;
• technische Unterstützung technical aid;
• vorläufige Unterstützung interim relief;
• vorübergehende Unterstützung temporary relief;
• weitgehende Unterstützung large support;
• werbliche Unterstützung advertising support;
• wesentliche Unterstützung material support;
• projektgebundene wirtschaftliche Unterstützung (Entwicklungsländer) commodity (tied) aid;
• zuerkannte Unterstützung affirmative relief;
• zusätzliche Unterstützung additional benefit;
• Unterstützung durch die Aktionäre shareholder (stockholder, US) support;
• Unterstützung durch Anstaltsfürsorge indoor (institutional, Br.) relief;
• Unterstützung eines Antrags seconding a motion;
• Unterstützung durch Arbeiterstimmen im ganzen Land labo(u)r’s national support;
• Unterstützung der Armen contribution to the poor, pauper (poor) relief (Br.);
• staatliche Unterstützung für die Beschäftigung von Kurzarbeitern temporary employment subsidy;
• Unterstützung eines Bewerbers backing up of a candidate;
• Unterstützung für Familien mit abhängigen Familienangehörigen aid to families with dependent children;
• Unterstützung der obersten Führungskräfte durch Arbeitnehmervertreter multiple management;
• Unterstützung örtlicher Gebietskörperschaften help to local authorities;
• werbliche Unterstützung des Händlers dealer-aid advertising;
• Unterstützung der Industrie encouragement of industry;
• Unterstützung der Informationskampagnen in den Mitgliedstaaten support of member states’ information campaigns;
• Unterstützung der Minderheit minority support;
• Unterstützung in Notfällen emergency support;
• Unterstützung durch Öffentlichkeitsarbeit public-relations support;
• Unterstützung beider Parteien bipartisan support;
• Unterstützung vonseiten der Regierung government support;
• Unterstützung der kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU) support for small and medium enterprises (SMEs);
• Unterstützung durch die Werbewirtschaft advertiser support;
• Unterstützung aus Wirtschaftskreisen business support;
• Unterstützung bei der Wohnungsbeschaffung subsidized housing;
• j. um Unterstützung angehen to call upon s. o. to give assistance;
• sich um Unterstützung bemühen to gun for support (US);
• Unterstützung beziehen (erhalten) to obtain (receive) state relief, to be (go) on the parish (town, US), to receive aid from a public poor fund, to be on relief, (Arbeitsloser) to draw unemployment benefit (Br.), to receive unemployment compensation (US), to be on (draw) the dole (Br.);
• Unterstützung einstellen to pull the plug (sl.);
• Unterstützung empfangen to go on relief rolls (US);
• Unterstützung entziehen to siphon support away;
• Geld zur Unterstützung für Sozialfälle geben to spend money in alms;
• allgemeine Unterstützung genießen to enjoy popular support;
• Unterstützung gewähren to grant relief;
• finanzielle Unterstützung gewähren to extend pecuniary assistance;
• j. zur Unterstützung heranziehen to enlist the services of s. o.;
• mit der vollen Unterstützung eines Ausschusses rechnen können to be solid with a committee;
• einem Unternehmen seine Unterstützung angedeihen lassen to confer one’s patronage upon an undertaking;
• der Exportwirtschaft jedmögliche Unterstützung zuteil werden lassen to shore up export industries;
• von staatlicher Unterstützung leben to live off government aid (assistance);
• auf Unterstützungen angewiesen sein to be dependent on alms;
• auf öffentliche Unterstützung angewiesen sein to be thrown upon the parish (on the town, US), to be a public charge;
• sich zur Unterstützung verpflichten to pledge one’s support;
• durch Unterstützungen unterhalten werden to be supported by voluntary contributions.
durch Anstaltsfürsorge indoor (institutional, Br.) relief

Business german-english dictionary > Unterstützung
15 поддержка

жен.
1) backing, seconding, support, supporting;
encouragement, moral support (моральная) ;
approval государственная поддержка ≈ government support, state support материальная поддержка ≈ moneyed assistance получать поддержку ≈ (от кого-л.) to get/derive encouragement (from), to receive powerful backing (from) пользоваться поддержкой ≈ (кого-л.) to enjoy the support (of) находить поддержку ≈ (у кого-л.) to meet with approval/support (among/from) заручаться поддержкой ≈ to enlist the support моральная поддержка ≈ countenance активная поддержка ≈ active support
2) (опора) support, prop, stay

поддержка: support

Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > поддержка
16 elección

f.

1 election, referendum, votation, voting.

2 choice, selection, pick, preference.

3 choosing, choice, elective, election.

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elección

► nombre femenino

1 (nombramiento) election

2 (opción) choice

■ lo dejamos a tu elección we'll leave it up to you

■ el color es a elección del cliente the choice of colour is left up to the customer

► nombre femenino plural elecciones

1 elections

\

FRASEOLOGÍA

convocar elecciones to call an election

no tener elección to have no choice, have no option

elecciones generales general election sing

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noun f.

1) election

2) choice, selection

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SF

1) (=selección) choice

una elección muy acertada — an excellent choice

lo dejo a su elección — I'll leave the choice to you

no tuve otra elección que irme — I had no choice o alternative but to leave

no queda otra elección — there is no choice o alternative

su patria de elección — his chosen country

elección al azar — (Mat) random sampling

2) (Pol) election (a for)

elecciones autonómicas — regional election sing

elecciones generales — general election sing

elecciones legislativas — parliamentary election sing

elecciones municipales — local elections

elecciones primarias — primaries

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femenino

1)

a) ( acción de escoger) choice

dejo la fecha a su elección — I will leave it up to you to choose the date

llévate tres, a tu elección — take o choose any three

b) (Pol) ( de candidato) election

2) elecciones femenino plural (Pol) election

convocaron elecciones — they called an election

elecciones legislativas/municipales — legislative/local elections

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= choice, designation, election.

Ex. Users are able to use terminals many miles distant to search the computer data base of their choice, with the support of a telecommunications network to link terminal to computer.

Ex. It distinguishes between pure anonymity, official designations or descriptions which render the author's identity unmistakable.

Ex. After the election of a new president, government executives have two opportunities to propose agenda items to the new administration.

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* celebrar elecciones = hold + elections.

* como primera elección = as a first preference.

* día de las elecciones = election day.

* elección al congreso = congressional race.

* elección del gobierno = political election.

* elecciones = elections.

* elecciones a la alcaldía = mayoral election.

* elecciones generales = general election.

* elecciones municipales = municipal elections.

* elección para gobernador = gubernatorial election.

* elección política = political election.

* elección presidencial = presidential election.

* elección primaria = primary election.

* elección profesional = career choice.

* ganar una elección = win + election.

* hacer elección = make + choices.

* libertad de elección = freedom of choice.

* por elección propia = by choice.

* presentarse a una elección = stand for + election, run for + election.

* ser la elección lógica = be a/the natural choice.

* ser la elección natural = be a/the natural choice.

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femenino

1)

a) ( acción de escoger) choice

dejo la fecha a su elección — I will leave it up to you to choose the date

llévate tres, a tu elección — take o choose any three

b) (Pol) ( de candidato) election

2) elecciones femenino plural (Pol) election

convocaron elecciones — they called an election

elecciones legislativas/municipales — legislative/local elections

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= choice, designation, election.

Ex: Users are able to use terminals many miles distant to search the computer data base of their choice, with the support of a telecommunications network to link terminal to computer.

Ex: It distinguishes between pure anonymity, official designations or descriptions which render the author's identity unmistakable.

Ex: After the election of a new president, government executives have two opportunities to propose agenda items to the new administration.

* celebrar elecciones = hold + elections.

* como primera elección = as a first preference.

* día de las elecciones = election day.

* elección al congreso = congressional race.

* elección del gobierno = political election.

* elecciones = elections.

* elecciones a la alcaldía = mayoral election.

* elecciones generales = general election.

* elecciones municipales = municipal elections.

* elección para gobernador = gubernatorial election.

* elección política = political election.

* elección presidencial = presidential election.

* elección primaria = primary election.

* elección profesional = career choice.

* ganar una elección = win + election.

* hacer elección = make + choices.

* libertad de elección = freedom of choice.

* por elección propia = by choice.

* presentarse a una elección = stand for + election, run for + election.

* ser la elección lógica = be a/the natural choice.

* ser la elección natural = be a/the natural choice.

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elección

feminine

A

1 (acción de escoger) choice

dejo la fecha a su elección I will leave it up to you to choose the date, I will leave the choice of date to you

el formato es a elección del cliente the choice of format is left up to the client

hicimos una mala elección it was a bad choice

llévese tres, a su elección, por el precio de dos take o choose any three for the price of two

2 ( Pol) (de un candidato) election

B elecciones fpl ( Pol):

convocaron elecciones anticipadas they called an early election

llamaron a elecciones generales ( AmL); they called a general election

las elecciones municipales the local elections

se presentó a las elecciones por el Partido Radical he stood as a Radical Party candidate

elecciones legislativas legislative elections

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elección sustantivo femenino
a) ( acción de escoger) choice;

◊ llévate tres, a tu elección take o choose any three

b) (Pol) ( de candidato) election

c)

◊ elecciones sustantivo femenino plural (Pol) election;

convocar elecciones to call an election
elección sustantivo femenino
1 choice
2 Pol election (usu en pl) elecciones, election(s): han decidido convocar elecciones para noviembre, it has been decided to call elections for November
se presentó a las elecciones generales/municipales, she stood in the general/local election(s)
' elección' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
acierto
- albedrío
- concurrir
- desgraciada
- desgraciado
- errar
- opción
- sufragio
- acertado
- afortunado
- planilla
- por
- voluntario
English:
choice
- election
- fair
- gain
- pick
- primary
- return
- selection
- uncontested
- win

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elección

♦ nf

1. [opción de escoger] choice;

no tenemos elección we have no choice;

el color lo dejo a tu elección I'll leave the (choice of) colour up to you;

un regalo de su elección a gift of his own choosing

2. [por nombramiento] appointment;
[por votación] election;
su elección como ministro his appointment as minister;

la elección del árbitro no llevó mucho tiempo it didn't take long to choose the referee

♦ elecciones nfpl
[votación] election;
convocar elecciones to call an election;

las elecciones se celebrarán en octubre the elections will be held in October;

presentarse a las elecciones to run o Br stand in the elections

Comp
elecciones anticipadas an early election;
convocar elecciones anticipadas to call an early election;

elecciones autonómicas elections to the regional parliament;

elecciones generales elections to the national parliament, Br ≈ general election, US ≈ congressional elections;

elecciones legislativas elections to the national parliament, Br ≈ general election, US ≈ congressional elections;

elecciones municipales local elections;

elección parcial by-election;

elecciones presidenciales presidential election;

elecciones primarias primary election

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elección

f choice

* * *

elección nf, pl - ciones

1) selección: choice, selection

2) : election

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elección n (selección) choice

una elección acertada a good choice

no tienes elección you've got no choice

Spanish-English dictionary > elección
17 поддержка

жен.

1) backing, seconding, support, supporting; encouragement, moral support (моральная); approval

активная поддержка — active support

государственная поддержка — government support, state support

заручаться поддержкой — to enlist the support

материальная поддержка — moneyed assistance

моральная поддержка — countenance

находить поддержку — (у кого-л.) to meet with approval/support (among/from)

получать поддержку — (от кого-л.) to get/derive encouragement (from), to receive powerful backing (from)

пользоваться поддержкой — (кого-л.) to enjoy the support (of)

2) ( опора) support, prop, stay

Русско-английский словарь по общей лексике > поддержка
18 line

line [laɪn]

ligne ⇒ 1 (a)-(c), 1 (e), 1 (j)-(o), 1 (r), 1 (v) trait ⇒ 1 (a) ride ⇒ 1 (a) rang ⇒ 1 (c) queue ⇒ 1 (c) mot ⇒ 1 (f) corde ⇒ 1 (g) tuyau ⇒ 1 (h) voie ⇒ 1 (i) frontière ⇒ 1 (p) branche ⇒ 1 (q) chaîne ⇒ 1 (s) lignée ⇒ 1 (t) border ⇒ 2 (a) régler ⇒ 2 (b) doubler ⇒ 2 (c) garnir ⇒ 2 (c), 2 (d)

1 noun

(a) (mark, stroke) ligne f, trait m; (wrinkle) ride f; Mathematics, Sport & Television ligne f;

∎ to draw a line tracer ou tirer une ligne;

∎ Sport to beat sb on the line (at the finishing line) coiffer qn au poteau;

∎ to score 50 points above/below the line (in bridge) marquer 50 points d'honneur/de marche;

∎ straight line (gen) ligne f droite; Mathematics droite f;

∎ there are five lines to a stave une portée est constituée de cinq lignes;

∎ his face was covered with lines son visage était plein de rides

(b) (path) ligne f;

∎ light travels in a straight line la lumière se propage en ligne droite;

∎ it's on a line between Houston and Dallas c'est sur la ligne qui va de Houston à Dallas;

∎ the two grooves must be exactly in line les deux rainures doivent être parfaitement alignées;

∎ I don't follow your line of thinking je ne suis pas ton raisonnement;

∎ to be in the line of fire être dans la ligne de tir;

∎ line of sight or of vision ligne f de visée;

∎ let's try a different line of attack essayons une approche différente;

∎ it's all in the line of duty cela fait partie de mes fonctions;

∎ the problems I meet in the line of duty les problèmes auxquels je suis confronté dans l'exercice de mes fonctions;

∎ to be killed in the line of duty (policeman) mourir dans l'exercice de ses fonctions; (soldier) mourir au champ d'honneur;

∎ British to take the line of least resistance choisir la solution de facilité;

∎ there's been a terrible mistake somewhere along the line il s'est produit une erreur grave quelque part;

∎ I'll support them all along or right down the line je les soutiendrai jusqu'au bout ou sur toute la ligne;

∎ the population is split along religious lines la population est divisée selon des critères religieux;

∎ he reorganized the company along more rational lines il a réorganisé l'entreprise sur une base plus rationnelle;

∎ we shall take action along the lines suggested nous agirons dans le sens de ce qui a été proposé;

∎ another idea along the same lines une autre idée dans le même genre;

∎ we seem to be thinking along the same lines il semble que nous voyions les choses de la même façon;

∎ to be on the right lines être sur la bonne voie

(c) (row → side by side) ligne f, rang m, rangée f; (→ one behind another) rang m, file f; American (queue) file f (d'attente), queue f;

∎ a line of traffic une colonne de véhicules;

∎ to fall or get into line, to form a line (people) se mettre en ligne; (children) se mettre en rang; (soldiers) former les rangs;

∎ stand in line, children mettez-vous en rang, les enfants;

∎ to step into line se mettre en rang;

∎ a line of trees une rangée d'arbres;

∎ we joined the line at the bus stop nous avons fait la queue à l'arrêt de bus;

∎ they wanted to be first in line ils voulaient être les premiers dans la file d'attente;

∎ figurative he's in line for promotion il est sur les rangs pour une promotion;

∎ he's next in line for promotion la prochaine promotion sera pour lui;

∎ he's first in line for the throne c'est l'héritier du trône;

∎ to be on the line (job, reputation) être en jeu;

∎ to put one's job/reputation on the line mettre son travail/sa réputation en jeu;

∎ to lay one's reputation/life on the line (for sb/sth) mettre sa réputation/vie en jeu (pour qn/qch)

(d) figurative (conformity)

∎ it's in/out of line with company policy c'est conforme/ce n'est pas conforme à la politique de la société;

∎ it's more or less in line with what we'd expected cela correspond plus ou moins à nos prévisions;

∎ to bring wages into line with inflation actualiser les salaires en fonction de l'inflation;

∎ the rebels have been brought into line les rebelles ont été mis au pas;

∎ to fall into line with government policy accepter la politique gouvernementale;

∎ to step out of line s'écarter du droit chemin

(e) (of writing, text) ligne f; (of poem, song) vers m; (of play) réplique f;

∎ new line (in dictation) à la ligne;

∎ Computing a 20-line program un programme de 20 lignes;

∎ School she gave me 100 lines elle m'a donné 100 lignes (à faire);

∎ she quoted a line from Wordsworth elle a cité un vers de Wordsworth;

∎ I only have two lines in the whole play! je n'ai que deux répliques dans toute la pièce!;

∎ he forgot his lines il a oublié son texte;

∎ he gave me the usual line about his wife not understanding him il m'a fait son numéro habituel comme quoi sa femme ne le comprend pas;

∎ familiar to shoot a line (boast) frimer; (smooth talk) baratiner;

∎ American familiar to hand or give or pass sb a line (chat up) draguer qn

(f) familiar (letter) mot m;

∎ to drop sb a line envoyer un mot à qn

(g) (rope) corde f; Nautical bout m; Fishing ligne f; (in surveying) & Building industry cordeau m;

∎ to hang the washing on the line mettre le linge à sécher, étendre le linge;

∎ your clothes are out on the line tes vêtements sont sur la corde à linge

(h) (pipe) tuyau m; (pipeline) pipeline m

(i) British Railways (track) voie f; (single rail) rail m;

∎ the train left the line le train a déraillé

(j) (travel route) ligne f;

∎ underground line ligne f de métro;

∎ there's a new coach line to London il y a un nouveau service d'autocars pour Londres;

∎ to keep the lines of communication open maintenir ouvertes les lignes de communication;

∎ shipping line compagnie f de navigation

(k) Electricity ligne f;

∎ the power lines have been cut les lignes électriques ont été coupées;

∎ the lines are still down after the gale les lignes n'ont pas été rétablies depuis la tempête;

∎ the power station comes on line in June la centrale entre en service en juin

(l) Telecommunications ligne f;

∎ the line went dead la communication a été coupée;

∎ I was on the line to Paris je téléphonais à Paris;

∎ all the lines to London are busy toutes les lignes pour Londres sont occupées;

∎ then a voice came on the other end of the line alors une voix a répondu à l'autre bout du fil;

∎ I have Laura on the line j'ai Laura en ligne;

∎ a direct line to Washington une ligne directe avec Washington;

∎ hold the line ne quittez pas;

∎ the line is British engaged or American busy la ligne est occupée;

∎ there's someone on the line il y a quelqu'un sur la ligne;

∎ the line's very bad la communication est mauvaise;

∎ she's on the other line elle est sur l'autre ligne;

∎ Computing on line en ligne

(m) (outline) ligne f;

∎ the graceful line or lines of the new model la ligne harmonieuse du nouveau modèle;

∎ can you explain the main or broad lines of the project to me? pouvez-vous m'expliquer les grandes lignes du projet?

(n) (policy) ligne f;

∎ they took a hard or tough line on terrorism ils ont adopté une politique de fermeté envers le terrorisme;

∎ the opposition takes a harder line on this issue l'opposition a une politique plus dure sur cette question;

∎ to follow or to toe the party line suivre la ligne du parti;

∎ what line are you going to take? quel parti allez-vous prendre?;

∎ we must take a firm line with such people il nous faut être ferme avec des gens comme ça

(o) Military ligne f;

∎ they struggled vainly to hold the line ils ont vainement tenté de maintenir leur position;

∎ battle lines lignes fpl de bataille;

∎ to infiltrate enemy lines infiltrer les lignes ennemies;

∎ regiment/ship of the line régiment m/navire m de ligne

(p) (boundary) frontière f, limite f;

∎ the distant line of the horizon la ligne lointaine de l'horizon;

∎ the (dividing) line between frankness and rudeness la limite entre la franchise et l'impolitesse;

∎ to overstep the line dépasser la mesure;

∎ the poverty line le seuil de pauvreté;

∎ they crossed the state line into Nevada ils ont franchi la frontière du Nevada;

∎ to cross the Line (equator) traverser l'équateur

(q) (field of activity) branche f; (job) métier m; (field of interest) domaine m;

∎ she's in the same line (of work) as you elle travaille dans la même branche que toi;

∎ what line (of business) are you in?, what's your line (of business)? qu'est-ce que vous faites dans la vie?;

∎ if you need anything doing in the plumbing line si vous avez besoin de faire faire des travaux de plomberie;

∎ that's not my line ce n'est pas mon rayon;

∎ that's more in Katy's line c'est plus du domaine de Katy;

∎ opera isn't really my line l'opéra n'est pas vraiment mon genre

(r) (range → of products) ligne f;

∎ a new line of office furniture une nouvelle ligne de meubles de bureau;

∎ they produce or do an interesting line in chairs ils produisent une gamme intéressante de chaises;

∎ familiar a rice pudding or something in that line un gâteau de riz ou quelque chose dans ce genre(-là)

(s) (production line) chaîne f;

∎ the new model will be coming off the line in May le nouveau modèle sortira de l'usine en mai

(t) (lineage, ancestry) lignée f;

∎ line of descent filiation f;

∎ to be descended in (a) direct line from sb descendre en droite ligne de qn;

∎ the Windsor line la lignée des Windsor;

∎ the title is transmitted by the male line le titre se transmet par les hommes;

∎ he comes from a long line of doctors il est issu d'une longue lignée de médecins

(u) familiar (information)

∎ I'll try and get a line on what actually happened j'essaierai d'avoir des tuyaux sur ce qui s'est réellement passé;

∎ the police have got a line on him la police sait des choses sur lui

(v) familiar drugs slang (of powdered drugs) ligne f

2 transitive verb

(a) (road, river) border;

∎ the avenue is lined with trees l'avenue est bordée d'arbres;

∎ crowds lined the streets la foule était ou s'était massée sur les trottoirs

(b) (paper) régler, ligner

(c) Sewing (clothes, curtains) doubler; (container, drawer, cupboard) tapisser, garnir;

∎ lined with silk doublé de soie;

∎ the tissue that lines the digestive tract la paroi interne de l'appareil digestif;

∎ you need something to line your stomach il faut que tu avales quelque chose avant;

∎ Cookery line the baking tin with pastry disposez la pâte dans le moule;

∎ walls lined with books des murs tapissés de livres;

∎ familiar to line one's (own) pockets s'en mettre plein les poches

(d) Technology (bearing) garnir, recouvrir; (brakes) garnir; (wall, furnace) revêtir, incruster; (well) cuveler;

∎ to line a shaft with metal blinder un puits;

∎ the tubes are lined with plastic l'intérieur des tubes est revêtu d'une couche de plastique

►► Marketing line addition ajout m à la ligne;

Typography line block cliché m au trait;

Computing line break saut m de ligne;

line call (in tennis) décision f du juge de ligne;

Computing line command ligne f de commande;

Finance line of credit ligne f de crédit, ligne f de découvert;

line dancing = danse de style country effectuée en rangs;

Marketing line differentiation différenciation f de ligne;

line drawing dessin m au trait;

Sport line drive (in baseball) flèche f;

Typography & Computing line end fin f de ligne;

Typography & Computing line end hyphen tiret m de fin de ligne;

line engraving gravure f au trait;

Marketing line extension extension f de ligne;

Computing line feed changement m de ligne;

American line fence clôture f;

Marketing line filling consolidation f de ligne;

line fishing pêche f à la ligne;

Typography line gauge typomètre m;

Sport line judge juge m de ligne;

Commerce line management organisation f hiérarchique;

Commerce line manager chef m hiérarchique;

line noise parasites mpl;

line organization organisation f hiérarchique;

Computing line printer imprimante f ligne à ligne;

Computing line printout imprimé m ligne à ligne;

Theatre line rehearsal lecture f collective;

Telecommunications line rental abonnement m;

Typography & Computing line space interligne m;

∎ three line spaces un triple interligne;

Typography & Computing line spacing interlignage m, espacement m de lignes;

Marketing line stretching extension f de ligne;

Typography & Computing line width longueur f de ligne

➲ line up

1 separable transitive verb

(a) (put in line → objects) aligner, mettre en ligne; (→ people) faire aligner;

∎ he lined up the troops for inspection il fit aligner les hommes pour passer l'inspection

(b) (bring into alignment) aligner;

∎ the two grooves must be lined up exactly les deux rainures doivent être parfaitement alignées;

∎ he had the pheasant lined up in his sights il avait le faisan dans sa ligne de mire

(c) familiar (plan) préparer^□, prévoir^□ ;

∎ I've got a treat lined up for the kids j'ai préparé une surprise pour les gosses;

∎ he's lined up an all-star cast for his new film la distribution de son nouveau film ne comprend que des stars;

∎ have you got anyone lined up for the job? avez-vous quelqu'un en vue pour le poste?;

∎ what have you got lined up for us? qu'est-ce que vous nous préparez?

2 intransitive verb

(stand in line) s'aligner, se mettre en ligne; American (queue up) faire la queue;

∎ figurative the Liberals lined up behind the government les libéraux ont apporté leur soutien au gouvernement

Un panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > line
19 Langley, Samuel Pierpont

SUBJECT AREA: Aerospace

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b. 22 August 1834 Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA

d. 27 February 1906 Aiken, South Carolina, USA

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American scientist who built an unsuccessful aeroplane in 1903, just before the success of the Wright brothers.

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Professor Langley was a distinguished mathematician and astronomer who became Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (US National Museum) in 1887. He was also interested in aviation and embarked on a programme of experiments with a whirling arm to test wings and with a series of free-flying models. In 1896 one of his steam-powered models made a flight of 4,199 ft (1,280 m): this led to a grant from the Government to subsidize the construction of a manned aeroplane. Langley commissioned Stephen M. Balzer, an automobile engine designer, to build a lightweight aero-engine and appointed his assistant, Charles M.Manly, to oversee the project. After many variations, including rotary and radical designs, two versions of the Balzer-Manly engine were produced, one quarter size and one full size. In August 1903 the small engine powered a model which thus became the first petrol-engined aeroplane to fly. Langley designed his full-size aeroplane (which he called an Aerodrome) with tandem wings and a cruciform tail unit. The Balzer-Manly engine drove two pusher propellers. Manly was to be the pilot as Langley was now almost 70 years old. Most early aviators tested their machines by making tentative hops, but Langley decided to launch his Aerodrome by catapult from the roof of a houseboat on the Potomac river. Two attempts were made and on both occasions the Aerodrome crashed into the river: catapult problems and perhaps a structural weakness were to blame. The second crash occurred on 8 December 1903 and it is ironic that the Wright brothers, with limited funds and no Government support, successfully achieved a manned flight just nine days later. Langley was heartbroken. After his death there followed a strange affair in 1914 when Glenn Curtiss took Langley's Aerodrome, modified it, and tried to prove that but for the faulty catapult it would have flown before the Wrights' Flyer. A brief flight was made with floats instead of the catapult, and it flew rather better after more extensive modifications and a new engine.

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Bibliography

1897, Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight, Part 1, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution; 1911, Part 2.

Further Reading

J.Gordon Vaeth, 1966, Langley: Man of Science and Flight, New York (biography).

Charles H. Gibbs-Smith, 1985, Aviation, London (includes an analysis of Langley's work).

Tom D.Crouch, 1981, A Dream of Wings, New York.

Robert B.Meyer Jr (ed.), 1971, Langley's Aero Engine of 1903, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Annals of Flight, No. 6 (provides details about the engine).

JDS

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20 prop

̈ɪprɔp I
1. сущ.
1) подпорка;
опора;
стойка;
подставка Syn: support
1., stay
2) диал., разг. а) нога б) вытянутая рука в боксе
3) опора, поддержка He needs no props to support his faith. ≈ Ему не нужно никакой поддержки, чтобы сохранять свою веру.
2. гл.
1) подпирать;
снабжать подпорками;
поддерживать Use these heavy books to prop the door open. ≈ Подложи эти тяжелые книги под дверь, она перестанет закрываться. Propping myself up on my elbow, I could talk more easily to my visitors. ≈ Я приподнялся на локте, так мне было легче разговаривать с моими гостями.
2) прислонить(ся) ( к чему-н.) He propped himself against the door. ≈ Он оперся о дверь.
3) поддерживать, помогать, способствовать The shipbuilding industry had to be propped up with government money. ≈ Кораблестроительная промышленность нуждается в финансовой помощи правительства. II сущ.;
сокр.;
школ.;
сл.;
см. proposition
3) III сущ.;
сокр.;
авиац.;
сл.;
см. propeller IV сокр.;
театр.;
сл.;
см. property
4) стойка, подпорка, раскос, подкос колышек (для подвязки растений) (горное) крепь;
крепежный лес подставка опора, поддержка - the * and stay of the home опора и поддержка семьи ноги, "подпорки" подпирать, снабжать подпорками, поддерживать - to * up a roof with timbers подпереть крышу стойками прислонить( к чему-либо) - to * a ladder against a wall приставить лестницу к стене - to * oneself firmly against smth. твердо опереться на что-либо( горное) закреплять( стойками) поддерживать, помогать - to * up smb.'s morale поддержать чье-либо моральное состояние( грубое) ударить( грубое) свалить, сбить с ног (австралийское) внезапно остановиться на полном ходу (о лошади) (театроведение) (разговорное) бутафор;
реквизитор (сленг) булавка для галстука( сленг) брошка (американизм) "ракушки" (азартная игра) ~ опора, поддержка;
he is the prop of his parents он опора для своих родителей prop сокр. театр. жарг. см. property ~ сокр. ав. жарг. см. propeller ~ сокр. школ. жарг. см. proposition ~ опора, поддержка;
he is the prop of his parents он опора для своих родителей ~ поддерживать, помогать ~ (тж. prop up) подпирать;
снабжать подпорками ~ подпорка;
опора;
стойка;
подставка ~ сокр. ав. жарг. см. propeller propeller: propeller движитель ~ пропеллер;
воздушный или гребной винт prop сокр. театр. жарг. см. property property: property (обыкн. pl) театр., кино бутафория;
реквизит ~ перен. достояние;
the news soon became a common property известие вскоре стало всеобщим достоянием ~ земельная собственность ~ имение ~ имущество;
собственность;
хозяйство;
a property земельная собственность, поместье;
имение;
a man of property собственник;
богач ~ имущество;
собственность;
хозяйство;
a property земельная собственность, поместье;
имение;
a man of property собственник;
богач ~ имущество ~ качество ~ объект права собственности, имущество, вещь ~ объект права собственности ~ перевозимый груз ~ право собственности ~ свойство, качество;
the chemical properties of iron химические свойства железа ~ вчт. свойство ~ свойство ~ собственность, право собственности ~ собственность ~ сокр. школ. жарг. см. proposition proposition: proposition разг. дело, проблема;
he's a tough proposition с ним трудно иметь дело ~ заявление ~ план ~ предложение;
план, проект ~ предложение, план, проект ~ предложение ~ разг. предприятие ~ мат. теорема ~ утверждение, заявление ~ утверждение

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