Usage examples of "désastres" in French with translation to English

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Nous avons récemment connu plusieurs désastres. Recently we have had several disasters.

Nous avons récemment éprouvé plusieurs désastres. Recently we have had several disasters.

Nous devons toujours nous préparer face aux désastres. We must always provide against disasters.

La Croix Rouge apporte de l'aide aux victimes de désastres sans retard. The Red Cross gets help to disaster victims without delay.

Les documents relatifs à cette période sont particulièrement rares, peut-être à cause d'une longue série de désastres naturelles qui ont frappé la capitale. Records are particularly scarce for this era, perhaps owing to a long series of natural disasters which befell the capital.

Arianna, tu es un désastre ! Arianna, you're a disaster!

C'est un désastre écologique. It's an ecological disaster.

C'est la recette du désastre. This is a recipe for disaster.

Ils étaient calmes face au désastre. They were calm in the face of disaster.

Nous allons au devant d'un désastre. We're heading for disaster.

Nous allons tout d'abord établir la cause du désastre. We will first ascertain the cause of the disaster.

L'inondation était le plus grand désastre qu'ils ont jamais eu. The flood was the greatest disaster they had ever had.

Si cet accident s'était produit en ville, il aurait causé un désastre. If that accident had happened in a city, it would have caused a disaster.

Fût-il resté chez lui ce jour-là, il n'aurait pas connu le désastre. If he had stayed at home that day, he would not have met with disaster.

La guerre n'est pas un désastre comme un tremblement de terre ou un tsunami. Elle ne vient pas sans avertissement. War is not a natural disaster like an earthquake or a tsunami. It does not come without warning.

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