carnage

carnage, massacre

Le fait de tuer violemment de nombreuses personnes ou de nombreux animaux, souvent avec de grandes destructions.

En anglais simple : The violent killing of many people or animals, often with great destruction.

• The attack caused terrible carnage.
• Doctors struggled to help the victims of the carnage.
• The film shows the carnage of war.

Synonymes : slaughter, massacre

Expressions courantes : terrible carnage, cause carnage, scene of carnage

chaos, pagaille

Une situation où tout est confus, encombré ou hors de contrôle.

En anglais simple : A situation in which everything is confused, crowded, or out of control.

• The kitchen was absolute carnage.
• A broken traffic light caused carnage at the junction.
• There was carnage when the shop opened its sale.

Synonymes : chaos, mayhem

Contraires : order

Expressions courantes : absolute carnage, traffic carnage, cause carnage

restes du massacre

Les cadavres et le sang laissés après le massacre de nombreuses personnes ou de nombreux animaux.

En anglais simple : The dead bodies and blood left after many people or animals have been violently killed.

• Bodies lay amid the carnage.
• The soldiers looked away from the carnage on the ground.
• Workers spent days clearing the carnage from the battlefield.

Expressions courantes : survey the carnage, clear the carnage, amid the carnage

beuverie

Une période où l’on boit énormément d’alcool, avec le désordre ou le malaise qui suit.

En anglais simple : A period of very heavy drinking and the mess or sickness that follows.

• Friday night was pure carnage at the pub.
• He slept all day after the drunken carnage.
• Empty bottles were all that remained of the weekend carnage.

Synonymes : binge, bender

Expressions courantes : weekend carnage, drunken carnage, night of carnage