engelska-franska översättning av sluice

écluse
Les écluses sont gérées en vertu de règles communes. The sluices are managed according to common rules. Modifier unilatéralement les règles des instruments de protection commerciale revient à affaiblir le barrage pour éviter d'avoir à gérer des écluses. To unilaterally alter the rules of the trade protection instruments would be to weaken the dam in order to avoid managing the sluices. À partir de 2002, Monsieur le Président, la monnaie unique va supprimer l'amortisseur budgétaire, c'est-à-dire les écluses monétaires qui permettent la mise à niveau des différentes économies. As of 2002, the single currency will get rid of the budgetary shock-absorber, i.e. the monetary sluice-gates that enable different economies to rise to different levels.
pertuis

An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow
Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply
The stream flowing through a floodgate
An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing
To emit by, or as by, flood gates
To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice
To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice
To wash (''down'or ''out''
To flow, pour
To elide the C` in a coordinated wh-question. See

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