English-French translations for swamp

marais
Avec le chômage qui approche les 5 millions de personnes dans ce pays, le marais s'étend et le besoin de changement est très clair. With unemployment approaching 5 million in that country, the swamp is getting bigger and the need for change is very clear. Un ministre allemand a déclaré - et je le cite - : "quand il devient nécessaire d'assécher le marais, vous ne demandez pas la permission aux grenouilles." A German minister was quoted as saying 'when it becomes necessary to drain the swamp, you don't stand around asking the frogs'.
marécage
Les terres qui subsistent se transforment en marécages ou en déserts. The land that remains turns into swamp or desert.

abreuver
combler
submergerLe but n'est pas de nous submerger d'informations, mais de disposer d'outils de gestion des informations qui rendent leur échange aussi efficace que possible. The aim is not to swamp ourselves with information, but to have information management tools that make the exchange as effective as possible.

A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes
A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult
To drench or fill with water
To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of
To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck

The boat was swamped in the storm
I have been swamped with paperwork ever since they started using the new system

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