La Pollution Flashcards by Leighvi Pilcher

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Les polluants

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Pollutants

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Jetable

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Disposable

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Toxique

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Poisonous

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La centrale thermique

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Power station

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Les décharges industrielles

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Industrial waste

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Les émissions de gaz carbonique

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Discharge of carbon gas

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Les gaz d’échappement

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Exhaust fumes

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Le dioxyde de carbone

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Carbon dioxide

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Se diffuser

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To spread

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Les métaux lourds

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Heavy metals

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Les ordures ménagères

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Household waste

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Les eaux usées

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Sewage

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Les déchets urbains

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Rubbish from towns

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Les déchets industrielles

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Industrial waste

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Le gaz à effet de serre

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Greenhouse gas

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Le système réfrigérant

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Refrigeration system

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Les chloroflurocarbones

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CFC gases

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Le pesticide

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Pesticide

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La vidnage des pétroliers

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Draining of oil tankers

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La marée noire

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Oil spill/slick

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Se déverser dans la mer

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To flow into the sea

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Les retombées

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The consequences

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Contaminer

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To contaminate

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Les dégâts

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Damage

Les effets néfastes

Harmful effects

La nocivité de qqch.

Harmful nature of something

Stériliser le sol

To make the Earth sterile

Avoir un effet dévastateur

To have a devastating effect

Le seuil catastrophe

Disaster level

Malodorant(e)

Smelly

L'air irrespirable

Unbreathable air

La dégradation de l'eau

Deterioration of water

La dégradation des sols

Deterioration of soil

Dégrader le milieu naturel

To damage the natural environment

Enlaidir la nature

To ruin the landscape

La chaîne alimentaire

Food chain

L'effet de serre

Greenhouse effect

Arriver au seuil de saturation

To reach saturation point

Dépasser le seuil

To go beyond the point

Les pluies acides

Acid rain

Le dépérissement des forêts

Dying off of forests

Les malformations génétiques

Genetic disorders

Les changements climatiques

Climate change

Selon les climatologues

According to climatologists

Le réchauffement de la planète

Global warming

La hausse généralisée de la température

General rise in temperature

Le trou dans la couche d'ozone

Hole in the ozone layer

La sécheresse

Drought

La canicule

Heatwave

La désertification

Turning into desert

La fonte des calottes polaires

Melting of polar ice caps

Faire monter le niveau des océans

To cause a rise in sea-levels

L'ouragan

Hurricane

La tornade

Tornado

La trombe

Whirlwind

L'inondation

Flood

Le raz-de-marée

Tidal wave