Les catastrophes naturelles Flashcards

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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

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a displaced person

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fuir son domicile

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to flee one’s home

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un cadavre

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a corpse

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une victime

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a casualty

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le nombre de victime, le bilan

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the death toll

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faire 25 morts

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To claim 25 lives

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un sinistré

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a disaster victim

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la secheresse

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drought

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une zone frappée par la secheresse

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a drought-strikken area

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une famine

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a famine

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avoir faim

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to be hungry

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la faim

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hunger

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mourrir de soif

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to die of thirst

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mourrir de faim

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to starve to death

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risquer de mourrir de faim

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to be threatened with starvation

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la malnutrition

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malnutrinition

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souffrir de malnutrition

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to be malnourished, undernourished

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une vague de froid

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a cold spell, a cold wave

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une canicule

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a heat wave

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une tempete, un orage

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a storm

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une tornade

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a tournado, a twister

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un ouragan, un cyclone

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a hurricane, a cyclone

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un typhon

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a typhoon

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balayer la thailande

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to sweep across thailand

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le tonnerre

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thunder

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les eclairs, la foudre

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lightning

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un eclair

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a flash of lightning

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de fortes précipitations, chute de pluie

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heavy rainfall

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des pluies torrentielles, diluviennes

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torrential rain

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deborder

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to overflow

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une zone inondable

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a flood-risk area

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une crue subite

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a flash flood

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des innondations

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flooding

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une innondation

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a flood

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un tsunami

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a tsunami

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un raz de marée

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a tidal wave

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un glissement de terrain

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a landslide

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une coulée de boue

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a mudslide

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un tempete de neige

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a snowstorm

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une avalanche

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an avalanche

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la glace ou le verglas

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ice

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congere

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snowdrift

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un tremblement de terre

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an eathquake

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une faille

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a fault

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une ligne de faille

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a fault line

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l’epicentre

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the epicentre

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secousse tellurique

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earth tremor

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l’echelle de richter

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the richter scale

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de magnitude 6

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of magnitude 6

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les décombres

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rubble, debris

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etre prisonnier / etre enterré sous les decombres

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to be trapped/ burried in rubble

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se propager

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to spread

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la propagation des maladies

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the spread of diseases

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penurie d’eau potable

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the lack of drinking water

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etre porté disparu

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to be reported missing

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un volcan

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a volcano

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un cratere

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a crater

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entrer en eruption

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to erupt

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une coulée de lave

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a lava flow

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la lave

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lava

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une eruption

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an eruption

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les cendres

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ash

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un incendie

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a fire

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des incendies de foret

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a wildfire

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feu de brousse

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bush fire

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sauver

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to rescue

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un secouriste, un sauveteur

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a rescuer, a rescue worker

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une equipe de secours

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a rescue party

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un survivant, un rescapé

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a survivor

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survivre

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to survive

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sortir indemne de qqchose

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to escape unscathed, unharmed, unhurt from sth

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sain et sauf

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safe and sound

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etre en sécurité, hors de danger

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to be safe

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un evacué

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an evacuee

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evacuer

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to evacuate

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un pompier

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a fireman, a firefighter

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le principe de précaution

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the precautionary principle, the safety first principle

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indemniser qqn de qqchose

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to compensate sb for sth

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se faire indemniser

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to get compensation, to get reimbursed

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une compagnie d’assurances

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an insurance compagny

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une indemnité, des indemnités

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compensation

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un assureur

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an insurer

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assurer qqchose

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to insure sth

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fournir de l’aide

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to provide, supply aid

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aide alimentaire

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food aid

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secours, aide d’urgence

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emergency aid, emergency relief, emergency assistance

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aide, assistance humanitaire

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humanitarian aid, assistance

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un travailleur humanitaire

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a relief worker

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une organisation humanitaire

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a relief agency

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une organisation charitative

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a charity

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une ong

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a ngo