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 Translation for 'bad harvest' from English to French
NOUN   a bad harvest | bad harvests
agr.
mauvaise récolte {f}
bad harvest
agr.
insuffisance {f} de la récolte
bad harvest
Partial Matches
agr.
moisson {f} [activité, produits récoltés]
harvest
agr.
faire la moisson
to harvest
agr.
moissonner
to harvest
faire la récolteto harvest
agr.
récolte {f}
harvest
récolter qc.to harvest sth.
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fête {f} de la moissonharvest festival
relig.
jour {m} d'action de grâce [pour les moissons et les récoltes]
harvest festival
agr.
mauvaise récolte {f}
failed harvest
agr.relig.
fête {f} de la récolte
harvest festival
œnol.
vendange {f}
grape harvest
œnol.
vendanger qc. [raisin]
to harvest sth.
agr.
moissonner qc.
to harvest sth.
œnol.
vendange {f} tardive
late harvest
agr.
moisson {f} [époque]
harvest time
œnol.
faire les vendanges [vigneron]
to harvest the grapes
œnol.
faire la vendange [vigneron]
to harvest the grapes
œnol.
vendanger
to harvest the grapes
agr.
avoir une grosse récolte
to have a bumper harvest
payer les pots cassés [loc.]to reap a bitter harvest [also idiom]
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Usage Examples English
  • Semide has not always been what it is today. Formerly, the chalky soil gave bad harvest. This poor land, where resinous had been plant under the Second Empire provided to the sheep kine sparse grass.
  • In 2007, a bad harvest caused a "major food crisis" in East Timor. By November, eleven sub-districts still needed food supplied by international aid.
  • From the 14th century until the Aragonese conquest a darken epoch follows, in which the first conflicts started with the local pasture of the Teutonic Knights and continued having bad harvest and epidemic dating back to 1348, when the local province — also called "Capitanata" or "Daunia" — was struck by the Black Death that reduced the number of inhabitants by 35%.
  • In 1882, following a very bad harvest in 1881, a scheme of irrigation ditches from a new canal would ensure consistent watering of crops and deal with the vagaries of the flow of the Chubut.
  • In the 2010 video game "Fallout: New Vegas", a location in the game, Vault 11, takes inspirations from the story, with a main difference being a tangible threat instead of the superficial threat of a bad harvest.

  • In the middle of the 1800s to the beginning of the 1900s, there was a bad harvest and a high unemployment rate in Sweden.
  • After the bad harvest of 1527, Wolsey bought up surplus grain and sold it off cheaply to the needy.
  • According to a legend, in 1787, when Catherine passed through Tula on her way back from the trip, the local governor Mikhail Krechetnikov attempted a deception of that kind in order to hide the effects of a bad harvest.
  • After a bad harvest is linked to his presence, the superstitious views of the Druid win out, and Beric is exiled from the tribe.
  • In a study published in 1999, Bojan Jovanović argues that earlier anthropologists such as Trojanović, Georgevitch, and Čajkanović had confused myth with reality and that the well-known story of a grandson who had hidden his grandfather to protect him from lapot after a bad harvest, bringing him back to the village when the old man's wisdom had shown a way to survive, was the basis for establishing that the old should be respected for their knowledge and wise counsel.

  • The Oxfordshire rising took place in November 1596 under the rule of Queen Elizabeth I of England during times of bad harvest and unprecedented poverty.
  • The value of the peseta fell against foreign currencies, 1929 brought a bad harvest, and Spain's imports far outstripped the worth of its exports.
  • Exports were severely restricted in 1891 to help alleviate the shortages caused by the bad harvest in the rest of Russia that year; they did not recover until 1895.
  • Gregory, state that Nonnosus removed an enormous rock that had occupied land on which he wanted to grow cabbage –fifty pairs of oxen had not been able to move it; that he miraculously restored a glass lamp that had been shattered against the floor; and that he completely filled several receptacles with olive oil after a particularly bad harvest for the olive crop.
  • As viceroy, he was confronted with multiple problems: yet another Italian War over the Valtellina valley; a bad harvest and high food prices in 1624; the 1626 Naples earthquake which killed nearly 10,000 people in the town; frequent attacks by Turkish pirates; and constant requisitions of funds and resources by Conde-Duque de Olivares, the prime minister of Spain.

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