Sentence examples of "à double base" in French

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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.

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

Si Tatoeba crée une dépendance, cela signifie-t-il que les espérantophones sont plus dépendants que les locuteurs d'autres langues, et cette dépendance peut-elle être la base d'une nouvelle culture commune? If Tatoeba is addictive, does this mean that Esperanto speakers are more addicted than speakers of other languages, and can this addiction be the basis of a new common culture?

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.

Je parle sur la base d'expérience. I speak from experience.

Huit est le double de quatre. Eight is the double of four.

Il fut emprisonné sur la base d'accusations fallacieuses. He was jailed on trumped-up charges.

J'ai bu un double express brûlant au café ce matin. I drank a very hot double espresso at the coffee shop this morning.

C'est l'un des instincts humains de base. It's one of the basic human instincts.

Voudriez-vous une simple ou une double ? Would you like a single or a double?

Cette idée est la base de mon argumentation. This idea is the basis of my argument.

C'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur. It's double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Sa manière de penser se base sur son expérience. His ideas are based on his experience.

Son âge est le double du sien. He is as old again as she is.

Pendant 4 ans, il a coupé l'herbe au prix de base, mais j'ai remarqué qu'à la fin de cette année, il avait un aide avec lui assez souvent. For four years, he cut the grass at the original price, but I noticed that toward the end of that year, he had a helper with him quite often.

Ses revenus sont à présent le double de ce qu'ils étaient il y a dix ans. His income is now double what it was ten years ago.

Ils agirent sur la base de l'information. They acted on the information.

Nous aimerions une chambre double avec bain. We'd like a double room with bath.

Le rapport fut assemblé sur la base de données collectées par le Centre de Contrôle des Maladies. The report was put together from data collected by the Center for Disease Control.

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