Vocabulary 2 Flashcards by Anaïs Trr

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Dégager, émettre des gaz toxiques

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To emit fumes

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Déverser

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To spill

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«Vert», écologique

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Green

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Se convertir à l’écologie

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To go green

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Un égout

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A sewer

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La sécheresse

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Drought

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Les calottes glaciaires

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Ice caps

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Le blanchiment des coraux

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Coral bleaching

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Les rayons ultraviolets

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Ultraviolet rays

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Les déchets toxiques

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Toxic waste

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Être menacé d’extinction

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To be threatened with extinction

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Être au bord de l’extinction

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To be on the brink of extinction

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Les décharges en mer

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Dumping at sea

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Jonché de

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Littered with/strewn with

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Les boues d’épuration

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Sewage sludge

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L’amiante

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Asbestos

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Un désherbant

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A weedkiller

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Un (produit) conservateur

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A preservative

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Une plate-forme de forage

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An oil rig

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Forer

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To drill

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Une exposition

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An exposure

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Jetable

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Disposable

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Être dans un piteux/piètre état

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To be in a sorry state

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Menacer les écosystèmes

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To jeopardize ecosystems

Atteindre le point de rupture

To reach the breaking point

Traîner d’immenses filets (de pêche)

To drag huge (fishing) nets

Racler le fond des mers

To scrape the ocean’s bottom

Décharger, déverser

To dump

Les déchets

Waste

Fuir, s’échapper

To leak

Une station d’épuration

A sewage plant

L’effet de serre

The greenhouse effect

Les gaz d’échappement

Exhaust fumes

Le plomb

Lead

La couche d’ozone

The ozone layer

Du fumier

Manure

Une récolte

A crap

Une marée noire

An oil slick/spill

Salir, souiller

To soil

Une centrale

A power plant

Stocker

To store

Un risque

Hazard

Nocif

Noxious

Endommager

To damage

Appauvrir la couche d’ozone

To deplete the ozone layer

Le sommet de la Terre

The Earth summit

Une tâche redoutable

A daunting task

Puiser dans les ressources de la nature

To draw on the earth’s resources

Qui ne nuit pas à l’environnement

Ecofriendly/environmentally friendly

Organiser une marche de protestation

To stage a protest march

Un équipement sophistiqué, à la pointe de la technologie

State-of-the-art equipment