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poorly graded part

French translation: une section mal nivelée de la route

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English term or phrase:poorly graded part
French translation:une section mal nivelée de la route
Entered by: NikkoTh

10:01 Oct 14, 2017
English to French translations [PRO]
Transport / Transportation / Shipping
English term or phrase: poorly graded part
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.
NikkoTh
une section mal nivelée de la route
Explanation:




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.
...
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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Daryo
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:56
Grading comment
Merci.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +1une section mal nivelée de la route
Daryo
4une portion de route accidentée
Jean Dimitriadis
4portion médiocrement nivelée
Proelec
4portion de route mal entretenue (mal profilée - en mauvais état)
Marcombes (X)
Summary of reference entries provided
une couche de sable lâche
Christine007

Discussion entries: 3





  

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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
poorly graded part of the road
une section mal nivelée de la route


Explanation:




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.
...
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"

Daryo
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:56
Native speaker of: Native in SerbianSerbian, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 20
Grading comment
Merci.
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you very much. I think I'd rather go for "route accidentée".


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  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.
8 mins
  -> Happens.
agree  Raoul COLIN (X)
2 hrs
  -> Merci!
agree  Tony M
5 hrs
  -> Thanks!
neutral  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.
1 day 8 hrs
  -> 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 ...
disagree  GILLES MEUNIER: plutôt mal répondu que mal nivelé....
2 days 17 hrs
  -> what does your outdated MT has to say about toys & prams?
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a poorly graded part of the road
une portion de route accidentée


Explanation:
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.

Jean Dimitriadis
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in GreekGreek
PRO pts in category: 4
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
portion médiocrement nivelée


Explanation:
Suggestion
Afin d'éviter l'emploi de "mal" (nivelé) qui est toujours source de problèmes ......

Proelec
France
Local time: 23:56
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 405
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
portion de route mal entretenue (mal profilée - en mauvais état)


Explanation:
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Marcombes (X)
France
Local time: 23:56
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 14

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  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.
2 hrs
agree  Anne Bohy: OK pour mal profilée, ou inégale
1 day 4 hrs
  -> Thanks!
agree  GILLES MEUNIER
2 days 17 hrs
  -> Merci !
disagree  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
6 days
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Reference comments


2 hrs
Reference: une couche de sable lâche

Reference information:
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!

Christine007
Romania
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