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185 months ago

Barbara Cochran (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:

French > English

Subject:

Other

Level of diffculty:

Easy / medium

Word or term in question:

trombe mère assez de vie

Context:

Et leurs visages se transformèrent car ils furent pris de panique devant l'énorme trombe..

Keywords:

...d'eau qui envahit l'endroit, le leur, et qui n'allait point cesser de fatalement tourvilloner tant que l'énorme trombe mère assez de vie lui transmettait...."Mother of a downpour/cloudburst?"

 

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185 months ago

  See profile wrote:

mother of all maelstroms...enough lives

My comment:

Oui, je crois que vous êtes sur la bonne piste:

until the ... mother of all maelstroms delivered up enough lives to ...

185 months ago

  See profile wrote:

as long as the primary cloudburst is strong enough

185 months ago

Isabel Ruivo  See profile wrote:

quite strong main waterspout

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185 months ago

Isabel Ruivo  See profile wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterspout

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