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industrial grooves

French translation: bassins industriels

09:34 Apr 29, 2005
English to French translations [PRO]
Geology
English term or phrase: industrial grooves
Also, despite strict environmental regulations, industrial grooves and environmental accidents have caused the quality of our groundwater to continue to deteriorate.
Krystrad
Local time: 01:58
French translation:bassins industriels
Explanation:
Groove : a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool.
furrow : a long shallow trench in the ground (especially one made by a plow).

L'image qui me vient à l'esprit est donc celle d'une longue "bande" industrielle dans un creux géologique, une vallée, où il y a eu intervention humaine, "transformation du sol" (plow).

Je choisirais ici une modulation : "bassins industriels", qui évoque à l'esprit une image similaire.
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Joëlle Bouille
France
Local time: 01:58
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merci
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Summary of answers provided
4rejets industriels
Didier Fourcot
4décharges industrielles
kelime
4bassins industriels
Joëlle Bouille


  

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rejets industriels


Explanation:
L'image est celle d'une industrie qui crée des tranchées ou des vallées qui s'ajoutent aux flux naturels d'évacuation des eaux, mais à mon sens "vallées industrielles" rendrait plus l'image d'une concentration d'usines que d'un canal de rejet, peut-être "canaux industriels" si il faut reprendre l'image d'origine?

Didier Fourcot
Local time: 01:58
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décharges industrielles


Explanation:
c'est la même idée que Didier, mais en désignant le lieu où sont accumulés et enterrés les déchets industriels

kelime
France
Local time: 01:58
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bassins industriels


Explanation:
Groove : a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool.
furrow : a long shallow trench in the ground (especially one made by a plow).

L'image qui me vient à l'esprit est donc celle d'une longue "bande" industrielle dans un creux géologique, une vallée, où il y a eu intervention humaine, "transformation du sol" (plow).

Je choisirais ici une modulation : "bassins industriels", qui évoque à l'esprit une image similaire.

Joëlle Bouille
France
Local time: 01:58
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 4
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merci
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