14. The Sky and The Earth Flashcards by Mélissa Gusto

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sans bornes, sans limites (ciel)

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boundless

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le firmament

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the heavens

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tourner, graviter

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to revolve

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un croissant (lune)

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a crescent

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miroiter

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to glimmer

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le clair de lune

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moonlight

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scintiller

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to twinkle

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une étoile filante

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a shooting star

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le littoral

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the coastline

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une baie

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a bay

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une crique

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a cove, a creek

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le continent

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the mainland

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un archipel

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an archipelago

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le rivage

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the shore

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des galets

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pebbles, shingle

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une falaise

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a cliff

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rocheux

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rocky

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un récif

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a reef

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uni, uniforme (montagne)

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even (mountains)

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inégal (montagne)

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uneven (mountains)

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montagneux

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mountainous

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une chaîne de montagnes

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a mountain range

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au-dessus du niveau de la mer

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above the level of the sea

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enneigé

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snow-capped

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se dresser (montagne)

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to tower

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entourer

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to surround

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un champ de glace

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an ice-field

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infranchissable

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impassable

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une crête

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a ridge

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une vallée

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a valley

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la pente

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the slope

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escarpé, raide (pente)

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steep

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une gorge, un ravin

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a gorge, a glen

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à pic (pente)

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precipitous

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surplomber

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to overhang

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une colline

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a hill

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par monts et par vaux

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over hill and dale

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accidenté, escarpé (chemin)

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rugged, craggy

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une carrière (travaux)

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a quarry

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le silex

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flint

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cassant

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brittle

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l’argile

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clay

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la chaux

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lime

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le calcaire

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limestone

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le grès

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sandstone

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le marbre

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marble

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un gisement

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a deposit

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un minerai

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an ore

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le cuivre rouge

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copper

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l’étain

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tin

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le plomb

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lead

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l’argent massif

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solid silver

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plaqué or

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gold-plated

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découvrir du pétrole

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to strike oil

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un puits

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a well

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un gisement pétrolifère

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an oilfield

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forer

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to drill, to bore

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le pétrole brut

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crude oil

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une raffinerie

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a refinery

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un pétrolier

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a tanker

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les industries pétrochimiques

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petrochemical industries

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une plate-forme de forage

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an oil(-drilling) rig

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des zones “offshore”, en haute mer

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offshore areas

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une marée noire, une nappe de pétrole

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an oil slick

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A l’aube

A

At daybreak, At dawn