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les catastrophes naturelles

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natural disasters

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les risques naturels

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natural hazards

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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 a haut risque

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a high-risk area

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frapper

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to hit, to strike

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faire des ravages

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to wreak havoc

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éviter, prevenir une catastrophe

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to avert a disaster

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l’etendue, l’ampleur du sinistre

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the scope, the extent of a disaster

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tres 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 degats

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damage

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abimer qqchose

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to damage something

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les previsions meteo

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the weather forecast

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causer des degats

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to do damage, to cause damage

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devaster, ravager une region

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to devastate, to ravage a region

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la zone la plus durement frappée

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the worst hit area

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etre declarée zone sinistrée

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to be declared as a disaster area

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declarer l’etat d’urgence

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to declare a state of emergency

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une personne déplacée
a displaced person
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fuir son domicile
to flee one's home
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un cadavre
a corpse
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une victime
a casualty
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le nombre de victime, le bilan
the death toll
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faire 25 morts
To claim 25 lives
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un sinistré
a disaster victim
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la secheresse
drought
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une zone frappée par la secheresse
a drought-strikken area
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une famine
a famine
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avoir faim
to be hungry
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la faim
hunger
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mourrir de soif
to die of thirst
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mourrir de faim
to starve to death
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risquer de mourrir de faim
to be threatened with starvation
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la malnutrition
malnutrinition
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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 tempete, un orage
a storm
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une tornade
a tournado, 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 thailande
to sweep across thailand
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le tonnerre
thunder
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les eclairs, la foudre
lightning
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un eclair
a flash of lightning
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de fortes précipitations, chute de pluie
heavy rainfall
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des pluies torrentielles, diluviennes
torrential rain
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deborder
to overflow
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une zone inondable
a flood-risk area
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une crue subite
a flash flood
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des innondations
flooding
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une innondation
a flood
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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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un tempete 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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congere
snowdrift
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un tremblement de terre
an eathquake
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une faille
a fault
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une ligne de faille
a fault line
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l'epicentre
the epicentre
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secousse tellurique
earth tremor
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l'echelle de richter
the richter scale
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de magnitude 6
of magnitude 6
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les décombres
rubble, debris
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etre prisonnier / etre enterré sous les decombres
to be trapped/ burried in rubble
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se propager
to spread
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la propagation des maladies
the spread of diseases
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penurie d'eau potable
the lack of drinking water
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etre porté disparu
to be reported missing
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un volcan
a volcano
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un cratere
a crater
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entrer en eruption
to erupt
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une coulée de lave
a lava flow
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la lave
lava
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une eruption
an eruption
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les cendres
ash
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un incendie
a fire
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des incendies de foret
a wildfire
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feu de brousse
bush fire
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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 equipe de secours
a rescue party
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un survivant, un rescapé
a survivor
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survivre
to survive
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sortir indemne de qqchose
to escape unscathed, unharmed, unhurt from sth
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sain et sauf
safe and sound
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etre en sécurité, hors de danger
to be safe
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un evacué
an evacuee
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evacuer
to evacuate
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un pompier
a fireman, a firefighter
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le principe de précaution
the precautionary principle, the safety first principle
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indemniser qqn de qqchose
to compensate sb for sth
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se faire indemniser
to get compensation, to get reimbursed
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une compagnie d'assurances
an insurance compagny
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une indemnité, des indemnités
compensation
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un assureur
an insurer
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assurer qqchose
to insure sth
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fournir de l'aide
to provide, supply aid
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aide alimentaire
food aid
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secours, aide d'urgence
emergency aid, emergency relief, emergency assistance
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aide, assistance humanitaire
humanitarian aid, assistance
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un travailleur humanitaire
a relief worker
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une organisation humanitaire
a relief agency
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une organisation charitative
a charity
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une ong
a ngo

Anglais ECE 3 (10 decks)

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