43. Disasters Flashcards

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Une catastrophe naturelle

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A natural disaster

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Les catastrophes

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Disasters

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Une catastrophe climatique

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A climate-related disaster

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Une catastrophe causée par l’homme

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A man-made disaster

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Une catastrophe aérienne

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An air disaster

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Une collision en plein vol

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A mid-air crash

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Un accident de la route

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A car crash / a car accident

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Entrer en collision avec

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To collide with

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Un déraillement

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A derailment

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Dérailler

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To derail / to be derailed

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Un naufrage

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A shipwreck

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Couler, sombrer

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To sink (sank, sunk)

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Être déclarée zone sinistrée

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To be declared a disaster area

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Une inondation

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A flood

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Être en crue

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To be in spate

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Sortie de son lit

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To overflow / to bask one’s banks

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Un orage, une tempête

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A storm

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Un ouragan

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Souffle à 160 km à l’heure

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To blow at 100 miles per hour

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Des vents violents

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Une tornade

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Un cyclone

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Un typhon

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La mousson

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La sécheresse
Drought
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Un incendie de forêt
A forest fire
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Une canicule
A heat wave
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Une vague de froid
A cold spell
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Une éruption volcanique
A volcanic eruption
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Un glissement de terrain
A landslide
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Un tremblement de terre
An earthquake
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Un tremblement de terre de 7.8 sur l'échelle de Richter
An earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale
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Une réplique
An aftershock
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Un raz-de-marée
A tidal wave
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Un tsunami
A tsunami
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Une avalanche
An avalanche
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Dévaster
To devastate
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Être sans-abris
To be homeless
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Prévenir les risques
To anticipate hazards
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Les catastrophes naturelles ont fait 880000 victimes
Natural disasters took 880000 lives
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Des villages entiers ont été rayées de la carte par le tremblement de terre
Whole villages were wiped out by the earthquake
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La Californie est obsédée depuis longtemps par la menace d'un méga-séisme
California has long been obsessed by the threat of a «big one»
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Des immeubles capables de résister aux tremblements de terre
Earthquake-proof buildings
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Les personnes âgées
The elderly