Usage examples of "double prise" in French with translation to English

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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.

Grâce aux piles à biocombustible, on sera bientôt capable d'alimenter un téléphone portable, un baladeur MP3 ou un ordinateur portable sans prise de courant mais juste avec du sucre et de l'eau. Thanks to biofuel cells, one will soon be able to power one's mobile phone, MP3 player or Laptop without power plug but just sugar and water.

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."

Hier, en rentrant de l'école, j'ai été prise sous une averse soudaine. As I returned from school yesterday, I was caught in a sudden shower.

Les prix sont le double de ce qu'ils étaient il y a dix ans. Prices are double what they were ten years ago.

L'équipe de tournage en est à sa cinquième prise parce que l'actrice n'arrête pas de foirer son texte. The film crew is on their fifth take because the actress keeps flubbing her lines.

Ce mot a un double sens. This word has a double meaning.

Excusez-moi, cette place est-elle prise ? Excuse me, is this seat taken?

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.

Je l'ai prise pour Minako. Elles se ressemblent tellement. I mistook her for Minako. They look so much alike.

J'ai le double de ton âge. I'm twice your age.

Je l'ai prise pour sa sœur. I took her for her sister.

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

Retire la fourchette de la prise électrique. Take the fork out of the electric socket.

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

Ils regardèrent la photo de moi prise lorsque j'étais petit garçon et rirent. They looked at the photo taken of me when I was a boy and laughed.

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.

Je l'ai prise pour une Américaine. I took her for an American.

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

Je l'ai prise en photo. I took a picture of her.

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