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Mederic resumed : " It is affirmed that, at distant intervals, frightful earthquakes wreck continents, upheave the seas, and transform the horizon.
Médéric continua : – À de longs intervalles, assure-t-on, d’effrayantes secousses brisent les continents, soulèvent les mers, changent les horizons.
Zola, Emile / Contes à NinonZola, Emile / Stories for Ninon
Stories for Ninon
Zola, Emile
Contes à Ninon
Zola, Emile
For I assure you that if this young man will only listen to me, he will then become the agent of destruction, the avenger and punisher, implanted in the factory to wreck it! "
Car je vous promets que, si ce garçon m’écoute, il sera dès lors la destruction, le châtiment vengeur introduit dans l’usine, et qui la fera sauter. »
Zola, Emile / FruitfulnessZola, Emile / Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite
Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite
Zola, Emile
Fruitfulness
Zola, Emile
And the battles which wreck ministers are waged round his name. One and all set upon him and make use of him and beat him down!"
Salvat, le champ de bataille où se défont et se font les ministères ! tous l’exploitent et tous l’égorgent. »
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - ParisZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Paris
Les Trois Villes - Paris
Zola, Emile
The Three Cities - Paris
Zola, Emile
'As you may well imagine,' continued the doctor, 'the Paradou, what with its sun, its stones, and its thistles, would wreck a whole outfit every day.
- Tu comprends, reprit le docteur, que le Paradou, avec son soleil, ses cailloux, ses chardons, mangerait une toilette par jour.
Zola, Emile / Abbe Mouret's TransgressionZola, Emile / La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret
La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret
Zola, Emile
Abbe Mouret's Transgression
Zola, Emile
© BiblioBazaar, LLC
At each new wreck her face became a little more sad.
À chaque nouveau naufrage, son visage devenait un peu plus triste.
Zola, Emile / Contes à NinonZola, Emile / Stories for Ninon
Stories for Ninon
Zola, Emile
Contes à Ninon
Zola, Emile
I crawled out a decrepit wreck.
J’en ressortis tel un vieillard décrépit.
Jerome, Jerome Klapka / Three Men in a BoatJerome, Jerome Klapka / Trois hommes dans le bateau
Trois hommes dans le bateau
Jerome, Jerome Klapka
Three Men in a Boat
Jerome, Jerome Klapka
Rather than wreck my command on the Canada shore, I shall feel it a duty to take Jasper out of arrest."
Plutôt que de voir les hommes que je commande jetés sur la côte du Canada, je regarderai comme mon devoir de lever les arrêts auxquels j’ai mis Jasper.
Cooper, James Fenimore / The Pathfinder, or, the Inland SeaCooper, James Fenimore / Le lac Ontario
Le lac Ontario
Cooper, James Fenimore
The Pathfinder, or, the Inland Sea
Cooper, James Fenimore
© State University of New York 1981
Luck was still with us. There'd been a big train wreck near Washington, and there'd be no trains before morning.
Comble de chance : pas un seul train pour Washington avant le lendemain matin.
Holiday, Billie,Dufty, William / Lady sings the bluesHoliday, Billie,Dufty, William / Lady sings the blues
Lady sings the blues
Holiday, Billie,Dufty, William
© 1956, by Eleonora Fagan and William F. Dufty.
© 1984, 2003, 2009, pour la traduction francaise: Editions Parentheses
Lady sings the blues
Holiday, Billie,Dufty, William
© 1956, by Eleonora Fagan and William F. Dufty.
On the top of this Captain Schenk got an ague, and by that evening was a blue and shivering wreck.
Puis le capitaine Schenk s’alita avec une attaque de fièvre intermittente, et le soir venu, il n’était plus qu’une loque grelottante.
Buchan, John / GreenmantleBuchan, John / Le prophète au manteau vert
Le prophète au manteau vert
Buchan, John
Greenmantle
Buchan, John
© Wordsworth Editions Limited 1994
damage or alter a heritage wreck or remove any heritage object from a heritage wreck;
d'endommager ou de modifier une épave à valeur patrimoniale ou d'en retirer un objet patrimonial;
To permit rapid evacuation in the event of wreck or fire, the accommodation must be provided with emergency exits, distant from each other if possible, and where possible to port and starboard.
Pour permettre l'évacuation rapide en cas de naufrage ou d'incendie, les logements doivent être pourvus d'issues de secours si possible éloignées les unes des autres et devant se trouver autant que possible à babord et à tribord.
In a second there would have been the deuce of a wreck.
Une seconde de plus et c'était l'écrabouillement.
Buchan, John / Thirty-Nine StepsBuchan, John / Les Trente-Neuf Marches
Les Trente-Neuf Marches
Buchan, John
Thirty-Nine Steps
Buchan, John
And as Ambroise at last came in and gayly embraced him, after receiving Celeste's thanks, he felt a thrill of anguish, for the decisive moment which would save or wreck the family was now at hand.
Et, comme Ambroise rentrait enfin, l’embrassait gaiement, après avoir reçu les remerciements de Céleste, il fut pris d’une grande angoisse, à cette minute décisive qui allait décider, selon son cœur, du salut fraternel de la famille.
Zola, Emile / FruitfulnessZola, Emile / Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite
Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite
Zola, Emile
Fruitfulness
Zola, Emile
There were no signs of Sandy; somewhere within a hundred yards he was fighting his own battles, and I was tormented by the thought that he might get jumpy again and wreck everything.
Sandy ne donnait plus signe de vie, car il était tout occupé à livrer ses propres batailles à une centaine de mètres de nous, et j’étais tourmenté par la pensée qu’il pouvait tout perdre en redevenant la proie de ses nerfs.
Buchan, John / GreenmantleBuchan, John / Le prophète au manteau vert
Le prophète au manteau vert
Buchan, John
Greenmantle
Buchan, John
© Wordsworth Editions Limited 1994
We thought he might, at least, have had it whitewashed or tarred - had SOMETHING done to it to distinguish it from a bit of a wreck; but he could not see any fault in it.
Il aurait pu au moins, grognâmes-nous, le faire badigeonner à la chaux ou au goudron, y ajouter quoi que ce fût susceptible de le distinguer d’une épave. Mais il se refusait à lui trouver un seul défaut.
Jerome, Jerome Klapka / Three Men in a BoatJerome, Jerome Klapka / Trois hommes dans le bateau
Trois hommes dans le bateau
Jerome, Jerome Klapka
Three Men in a Boat
Jerome, Jerome Klapka

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wrecking ball
boulet de démolition

Word forms

wreck

noun
SingularPlural
Common casewreckwrecks
Possessive casewreck'swrecks'

wreck

verb
Basic forms
Pastwrecked
Imperativewreck
Present Participle (Participle I)wrecking
Past Participle (Participle II)wrecked
Present Indefinite, Active Voice
I wreckwe wreck
you wreckyou wreck
he/she/it wrecksthey wreck
Present Continuous, Active Voice
I am wreckingwe are wrecking
you are wreckingyou are wrecking
he/she/it is wreckingthey are wrecking
Present Perfect, Active Voice
I have wreckedwe have wrecked
you have wreckedyou have wrecked
he/she/it has wreckedthey have wrecked
Present Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I have been wreckingwe have been wrecking
you have been wreckingyou have been wrecking
he/she/it has been wreckingthey have been wrecking
Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I wreckedwe wrecked
you wreckedyou wrecked
he/she/it wreckedthey wrecked
Past Continuous, Active Voice
I was wreckingwe were wrecking
you were wreckingyou were wrecking
he/she/it was wreckingthey were wrecking
Past Perfect, Active Voice
I had wreckedwe had wrecked
you had wreckedyou had wrecked
he/she/it had wreckedthey had wrecked
Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I had been wreckingwe had been wrecking
you had been wreckingyou had been wrecking
he/she/it had been wreckingthey had been wrecking
Future Indefinite, Active Voice
I shall/will wreckwe shall/will wreck
you will wreckyou will wreck
he/she/it will wreckthey will wreck
Future Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will be wreckingwe shall/will be wrecking
you will be wreckingyou will be wrecking
he/she/it will be wreckingthey will be wrecking
Future Perfect, Active Voice
I shall/will have wreckedwe shall/will have wrecked
you will have wreckedyou will have wrecked
he/she/it will have wreckedthey will have wrecked
Future Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will have been wreckingwe shall/will have been wrecking
you will have been wreckingyou will have been wrecking
he/she/it will have been wreckingthey will have been wrecking
Future in the Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I should/would wreckwe should/would wreck
you would wreckyou would wreck
he/she/it would wreckthey would wreck
Future in the Past Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would be wreckingwe should/would be wrecking
you would be wreckingyou would be wrecking
he/she/it would be wreckingthey would be wrecking
Future in the Past Perfect, Active Voice
I should/would have wreckedwe should/would have wrecked
you would have wreckedyou would have wrecked
he/she/it would have wreckedthey would have wrecked
Future in the Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would have been wreckingwe should/would have been wrecking
you would have been wreckingyou would have been wrecking
he/she/it would have been wreckingthey would have been wrecking
Present Indefinite, Passive Voice
I am wreckedwe are wrecked
you are wreckedyou are wrecked
he/she/it is wreckedthey are wrecked
Present Continuous, Passive Voice
I am being wreckedwe are being wrecked
you are being wreckedyou are being wrecked
he/she/it is being wreckedthey are being wrecked
Present Perfect, Passive Voice
I have been wreckedwe have been wrecked
you have been wreckedyou have been wrecked
he/she/it has been wreckedthey have been wrecked
Past Indefinite, Passive Voice
I was wreckedwe were wrecked
you were wreckedyou were wrecked
he/she/it was wreckedthey were wrecked
Past Continuous, Passive Voice
I was being wreckedwe were being wrecked
you were being wreckedyou were being wrecked
he/she/it was being wreckedthey were being wrecked
Past Perfect, Passive Voice
I had been wreckedwe had been wrecked
you had been wreckedyou had been wrecked
he/she/it had been wreckedthey had been wrecked
Future Indefinite, Passive Voice
I shall/will be wreckedwe shall/will be wrecked
you will be wreckedyou will be wrecked
he/she/it will be wreckedthey will be wrecked
Future Perfect, Passive Voice
I shall/will have been wreckedwe shall/will have been wrecked
you will have been wreckedyou will have been wrecked
he/she/it will have been wreckedthey will have been wrecked