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Deck 33: Natural Disasters Flashcards

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Désastreux

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Disastrous

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Un drame, une tragédie

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A tragedy

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Dramatique, tragique

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Tragic

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Une catastrophe, un sinistre

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A catastrophe

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Catastrophique

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Catastrophic

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Un cataclysme

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A cataclysm

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Toucher une région

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To affect a region

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Une zone à haut risque

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A high-risk area

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Frapper

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To strike, to hit

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Faire des ravages

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To wreak havoc

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Éviter, prévenir une catastrophe

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To avert a disaster

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L’étendue, l’ampleur du sinistre

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The scope, the extent of the disaster

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Très mauvais temps

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Severe, extreme weather

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Prévoir le temps

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To predict, to forecast the weather

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Les prévisions météo(rologiques)

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The weather forecast

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Les dégâts

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Damage

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Abîmer qqch

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To damage sth

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Causer des dégâts

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To do damage, to cause damage

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Dévaster, ravager une région

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To devastate, to ravage a region

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La zone la plus durement frappé

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The worst-hit area

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Être déclaré zone sinistrée

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To be declared a disaster area

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Déclarer l’Etat d’urgence

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To declare a state of emergency

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Un sinistré

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A disaster victim

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Faire 25 morts

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To claim 25 lives

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Le nombre de victimes, le bilan
The death toll
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Une victime
A casualty
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Un cadavre
A corpse
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Fuir son domicile
To flee one’s home
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Une personne déplacée
A displaced person
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La sécheresse
Drought
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La zone frappée par la sécheresse
A drought-stricken area
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Une famine
A famine
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La faim
Hunger
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Mourrir de soif
To die of thrist
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Avoir faim
To be hungry
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Mourrir de faim
To starve of death
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Risquer de mourir de faim
To be threatened with starvation
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La malnutrition
Malnutrition
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Souffrir de malnutrition
To be malnourished, undernourished
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Une vague de froid
A cold spell, a cold wave
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Une canicule
A heat wave
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Une tempête, un orage
A storm
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Une tornade
A tornado, a twister
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Un ouragan, un cyclone
A hurricane, a cyclone
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Un typhon
A typhoon
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Balayer la Thaïlande
To sweep across Thailand
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Le tonnerre
Thunder
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Les éclairs, la foudre
Lightning
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Un éclair
A flash of lightning
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Les fortes précipitations, chutes de pluie
Heavy rainfall
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Les pluies torrentielles, diluviennes
Torrential rain
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Une inondation
A flood
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Des inondations
Flooding
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Une crue subite
A flash flood
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Une zone inondable
A flood-risk area
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Déborder
To overflow
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Un tsunami
A tsunami
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Un raz de marée
A tidal wave
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Un glissement de terrain
A landslide
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Une coulée de boue
A mudslide
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Une tempête de neige
A snowstorm
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Une avalanche
An avalanche
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La glace OU le verglas
Ice
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Congère
Snowdrift
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Un tremblement de terre, un séisme
An earthquake
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Une faille
A fault
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Une ligne de faille
A fault line
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L’épicentre
The epicenter
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Secousse tellurique, sismique
(Earth) tremor
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L’échelle de Richter
The Richter scale
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De magnitude 6
Of magnitude 6
72
Les décombres
Rubble, debris
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Être prisonnier, enterré sous les décombres
To be trapped, buried in rubble
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Être porté disparu
To be reported missing
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Pénurie d’eau potable
The lack of drinkable water
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Se propager
To spread
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La propagation de maladies
The spread of diseases
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Un volcan
A volcano
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Un cratère
A crater
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Entrer en éruption
To erupt
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La lave
Lava
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Une coulée de lave
A lava flow
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Les cendres
Ash
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Un incendie
Fire
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Des incendies de forêt
Wildfire
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Feu de brousse
Bush fire
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Une éruption
An eruption
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Sauver
To rescue
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Un secouriste, un sauveteur
A rescuer, a rescue worker
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Une équipe de secours
A rescue party
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Un pompier
A fireman, a firefighter
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Évacuer
To evacuate
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Un évacué
An evacuee
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Être en sécurité, hors de danger
To be safe
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Sain et sauf
Safe and sound
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Sortir indemne de qqch
To escape unscathed, unharmed, unhurt from sth
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Survivre
To survive
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Un survivant, un rescapé
A survivor
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Une ONG
An NGO
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Une organisation caritative
A charity, a charitable organization
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Une organisation humanitaire
A relief agency, a relief organization
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Un travailleur humanitaire
A relief worker
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Aide, assistance humanitaire
Humanitarian aid, assistance
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Secours, aide d’urgence
Emergency aid, emergency relief, emergency assistance
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Aide alimentaire
Food aid
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Fournir de l’aide
To provide, supply aid
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Assurer qqch
To insure sth
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Un assureur
An insurer
109
Une compagnie d’assurance
An insurance company
110
Une indemnité, des indemnités
Compensation
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Indemniser qqn de qqch
To compensate sb to sth
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Se faire indemniser
To get compensation, to get reimbursed
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Le principe de précaution
The precautionary principle, the safety-first principle

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