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

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La longue sécheresse fut suivie de famine. The long drought was followed by famine.
La sécheresse conduisit à une pénurie de nourriture. The drought led to an insufficiency of food.
De nombreux paysans sont morts pendant la sécheresse. Many peasants died during the drought.
La sécheresse peut se ressentir sur la récolte cette année. The drought may tell on the harvest this year.
Les villes et les provinces le long du fleuve Yangtsé, au centre de la Chine, sont aux prises avec la pire sécheresse que le pays ait connu depuis plus de cinquante ans. Cities and provinces along the Yangtze River in central China are grappling with the country's worst drought in more than 50 years.
Lors des sécheresses, les fermiers sont à peine en mesure de survivre. During droughts, farmers are barely able to eke out a living.
Les habitants furent frappés d'une durable sécheresse. The natives were tormented by a long spell of dry weather.
Une période de sécheresse explique la maigre récolte. A dry spell accounts for the poor crop.
C'était une année de sécheresse et de nombreux animaux furent affamés. It was a dry year, and many animals starved.
Quand il y avait du désespoir dans les régions atteintes par la sécheresse et la crise économique à travers le pays, elle a vu une nation qui conquérait la peur elle-même avec un New Deal, de nouveaux emplois et d'un nouveau sens d'un but commun. Oui, nous pouvons. When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes, we can.
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