43.Disasters Flashcards by Mathilde Lacroix

Q

une catastrophe naturelle

A

a natural disaster

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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 pleins vol

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a mid-air crash

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un accident de la route

A

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 déclaré 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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sortir de son lit

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to overflow / to break one’s bank

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un orage, une tempête

A

a storm

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un ouragan

A

a hurricane

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des vents violents

A

strong winds

Q

souffler à 160 km à l’heure

A

to blow at 100 miles per hour

Q

une tornade

A

a tornado

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un cyclone

A

a cyclone

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un typhon

A

a typhoon

Q

la mousson

A

monsoon

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la sécheresse

A

drought

un incendie de forêt

a forest fire

une canicule

a heat wave

une vague de froid

a cold spell

une éruption volcanique

a volcanic eruption

un glissement de terrain

a landslide

un tremblement de terre

an earthquake

un tremblement de terre de 7,8 sur l'échelle de Richter

an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale

une réplique

an aftershock

un raz-de-marée

a tidal wave

un tsunami

a tsunami

une avalanche

an avalanche

dévaster

to devastate

être sans abri

to be homeless

prévenir des risques

to anticipate hazards