Usage examples of "arme à double tranchant" in French with translation to English

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Être un anglophone est à double tranchant. D'un côté, tu parles la langue la plus utile au monde à la perfection; mais de l'autre, personne ne veut parler une autre langue avec toi, ce qui rend difficile l'apprentissage d'une langue étrangère. Being an anglophone is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you speak perfectly the world's most useful language. But on the other, no one wants to speak anything else with you - making foreign language acquisition difficult.
C'est à double tranchant It cuts both ways
Je lui ai offert un briquet à double flamme que j'ai acheté aux États-Unis. I offered him a double-flame lighter that I bought in the United States.
Selon le rapport balistique, cette arme à feu ne peut être l'arme du crime. According to the ballistics report, this gun can't be the murder weapon.
Un tel homme ne va pas chasser et possède rarement une arme à feu. Such a man does not go hunting and seldom owns a gun.
Il y a un homme avec une arme à la main qui se tient à la porte. There's a man with a gun in his hand standing at the door.
On dit que cette arme à feu est très puissante. This gun is reportedly very powerful.
Le voleur a braqué son arme à feu sur l'officier de police. The robber aimed his gun at the police officer.
Vous êtes la seule personne que je connaisse qui possède une arme à feu. You're the only person I know that owns a gun.
Possédez-vous une arme à feu ? Do you own a gun?
Possèdes-tu une arme à feu ? Do you own a gun?
Les Français sont vraiment un peuple bizarre : parmi ceux qui lisent cette phrase, un sur deux va vérifier si l'espace avant le double point est bien fine et insécable. The French are a really strange people: every other person who reads this sentence will check if the space before the colon is really thin and non-breaking.
Il a été tué par une arme émoussée. He was killed by a blunt weapon.
Il laça la chaussure de son fils en faisant un double nœud et il dit : «Voilà, ça devrait aller comme ça.» He tied his son's shoe with a double knot and said, "There, that should do the trick."
Cette arme a une portée de 300 mètres. This gun has a range of 300 meters.
Les prix sont le double de ce qu'ils étaient il y a dix ans. Prices are double what they were ten years ago.
Quand une nation cherche à obtenir une arme nucléaire, le risque d'attaque nucléaire augmente pour toutes les nations. When one nation pursues a nuclear weapon, the risk of nuclear attack rises for all nations.
Ce mot a un double sens. This word has a double meaning.
Il pointa son arme vers moi. He leveled his gun at me.
J'ai le double de ton âge. I'm twice your age.
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