Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
poorly graded part
French translation:
une section mal nivelée de la route
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NikkoTh
Oct 14, 2017 10:01
6 yrs ago
English term
poorly graded part
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Dale, a truck driver, was transporting a load of sand to a construction site when his dump truck overturned.
He was maneuvering the truck to take a turn and lost control when he hit a poorly graded part of the road.
During the incident investigation a few days later, it was discovered that Dale was not certified to operate this particular size and type of vehicle.
He was maneuvering the truck to take a turn and lost control when he hit a poorly graded part of the road.
During the incident investigation a few days later, it was discovered that Dale was not certified to operate this particular size and type of vehicle.
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| une couche de sable lâche |
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English term (edited):
poorly graded part of the road
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une section mal nivelée de la route
Grading (engineering)
This article is about earthwork. For lumber grading, see Lumber § Grades and standards.
Grading in civil engineering and landscape architectural construction is the work of ensuring a level base, or one with a specified slope, for a construction work such as a foundation, the base course for a road or a railway, or landscape and garden improvements, or surface drainage. The earthworks created for such a purpose are often called the sub-grade or finished contouring (see diagram).
Contents
1 Transportation
2 Process
3 Environmental design
4 See also
5 References
Transportation
In the case of gravel roads and earthworks for certain purposes, grading forms not just the base but the cover and surface of the finished construction, and is often called finished grade.
Process
Modern road grader
It is often done using heavy machinery like bulldozers and excavators to roughly prepare an area and then using a grader for a finer finish.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grading_(engineering)
poorly graded part of the road = uneven road
La première étape dans la construction d'une route est le nivellement. Celui-ci inclue plusieurs couches de sol où du gravier est compacté afin d'assurer la solidité de la chaussée. Les pentes se trouvant sur le tracé sont également renforcées.
https://fr.wikiversity.org/wiki/Construction_d'une_route/Int...
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q="route mal nivelée"
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| Thank you very much. I think I'd rather go for "route accidentée". |
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Jean Dimitriadis
: Nice one, Daryo. I saw your entry when I posted mine. Same reading here, I think. “Route mal nivelée” and “route accidentée” sound both fine in my book.
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Raoul COLIN (X)
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Tony M
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Anne Bohy
: Franchement, c'est bizarre. On parle d'un terrain mal nivelé, mais une route mal nivelée c'est curieux... Pas vraiment le terme approprié.
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Pas vraiment le terme approprié? When is the last time you translated a tender for road building? Companies from Yugoslavia were building roads all over the world, including French speaking countries ...
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GILLES MEUNIER
: plutôt mal répondu que mal nivelé....
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what does your outdated MT has to say about toys & prams?
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Comment: "Merci."
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Jean Dimitriadis
Native in French
Works in field
Fluent translations EN/EL>FR
Native in: French (Variant: Standard-France) 
, Greek (Variant: Modern)
Works in: English to French, Greek to French
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English term (edited):
a poorly graded part of the road
une portion de route accidentée
Here's a possible translation of the phrase: “Le conducteur était en train de prendre un virage quand il a perdu le contrôle du camion sur une portion/section de route accidentée.”
Grade (verb): to make (a road) less steep. To reduce to a level or to practicable degrees of inclination. Example: to grade a road.
A graded road is a “leveled road” (you do that with a machine conveniently called a “grader”), in French, “une route nivelée” or, according to Termium, “une route profilée”.
A poorly graded part of the road would then be a part that is uneven/not well leveled.
Back to French, the collocation “route accidentée” means an uneven (or rough) road, so I think it could make a good fit for a flowing text.
Grade (verb): to make (a road) less steep. To reduce to a level or to practicable degrees of inclination. Example: to grade a road.
A graded road is a “leveled road” (you do that with a machine conveniently called a “grader”), in French, “une route nivelée” or, according to Termium, “une route profilée”.
A poorly graded part of the road would then be a part that is uneven/not well leveled.
Back to French, the collocation “route accidentée” means an uneven (or rough) road, so I think it could make a good fit for a flowing text.
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portion médiocrement nivelée
Suggestion
Afin d'éviter l'emploi de "mal" (nivelé) qui est toujours source de problèmes ......
Afin d'éviter l'emploi de "mal" (nivelé) qui est toujours source de problèmes ......
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portion de route mal entretenue (mal profilée - en mauvais état)
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Tony M
: I don't think you can infer from 'poorly-graded' that it is either 'mal entretenue' or 'mal entretenue' — it rather implies a constructional defect.
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Anne Bohy
: OK pour mal profilée, ou inégale
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GILLES MEUNIER
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Merci !
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Daryo
: "grading" is one of the stages of road building not part of road maintenance // grading an existing road would amount to practically rebuilding it, not maintaining it
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Reference comments
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Reference:
une couche de sable lâche
Might help you this book, pag. 366 (key word: lâche)
Geotechnical Engineering for Transportation Infrastructure: Theory and Practice, Planning and Design, Construction and Maintenance : Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 7-10 June 1999, Volumul 1
Une idee!
Geotechnical Engineering for Transportation Infrastructure: Theory and Practice, Planning and Design, Construction and Maintenance : Proceedings of the Twelfth European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 7-10 June 1999, Volumul 1
Une idee!
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