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Mining

How you get at the rock, and what is left when the shift ends.

La lutte contre les poussières is dust suppression, and the noun in the middle of it is the one to notice. French names a technical programme as a fight, and the pattern is so regular that a whole shelf of official headings is built on it: la lutte contre le bruit, la lutte contre l’incendie, la lutte contre la fraude, la lutte contre les inondations, and, shortened to a prefix, la lutte antipoussière. Nothing dramatic is meant by any of them. They are the ordinary titles of a regulation, and la lutte there sits much closer to « measures against » than to any struggle. English almost never goes that way. It reaches for a noun of management instead — « dust suppression », « noise abatement », « fraud prevention », « flood defence », « pest control » — so anyone who writes « the fight against dust » into a mine safety plan produces a sentence that is grammatical, perfectly clear, and unmistakably translated. The one place English kept the fight is « fire-fighting », which is exactly why that single phrase sounds native and the others do not.

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dynamiterto blastVerbC1
On dynamite la roche avant le chargement.The rock is blasted before it is loaded.

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