les ballasts

ballast

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noun · masculine plural Rare #37,607
ballast
FR: Les ballasts stabilisent le bateau quand la mer est agitée.
EN: The ballast stabilizes the boat when the sea is rough.

On va gonfler les ballasts, pour s'arracher du sable et remonter.

We’re going to inflate the ballast tanks to pull ourselves free of the sand and rise back up.

— Le Bateau (1981)

Gonflez les ballasts.

Inflate the ballast tanks.

— Le Bateau (1981)

Un des ballasts a lâché!

One of the ballasts has failed!

— Le Bateau (1981)

Les ballasts.

The ballasts.

— Le Bateau (1981)

Toute la sauce aux ballasts.

All the sauce is in the ballast.

— Le Bateau (1981)

On gonfle les ballasts?

Are we inflating the ballast tanks?

— Le Bateau (1981)