Usage examples of "parade double" 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.
On a bien aimé regarder la parade de cirque. We enjoyed watching a circus parade.
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."
Ils marchèrent dans une parade à travers les rues de Paris. They marched in a parade through the streets of Paris.
Les prix sont le double de ce qu'ils étaient il y a dix ans. Prices are double what they were ten years ago.
Les gens s'amassèrent le long des rues pour regarder la parade. People massed along the streets to watch the parade.
Ce mot a un double sens. This word has a double meaning.
En principe, pas seulement chez les humains mais aussi chez les animaux, une « parade sexuelle » survient, consciemment ou inconsciemment, à l'égard des individus de sexe opposé. As a rule, not only in humans, but also in animals, "sexual display" occurs, consciously or unconsciously, towards individuals of the opposite sex.
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.
On a vu la parade descendre la rue. We saw the parade move down the street.
J'ai le double de ton âge. I'm twice your age.
La rue principale était bouclée toute la matinée pour la parade. Main Street was blocked off all morning for the parade.
Huit est le double de quatre. Eight is the double of four.
La vie n'est qu'une ombre qui marche, un pauvre acteur qui s'agite et parade une heure sur la scène, puis qu'on n'entend plus. C'est un récit raconté par un idiot, plein de bruit et de fureur, qui n'a aucun sens. Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
J'ai bu un double express brûlant au café ce matin. I drank a very hot double espresso at the coffee shop this morning.
Il y avait plusieurs personnes dans les rues quand la parade est passée. There were lots of people on the street when the parade came by.
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 viens d'obtenir ma première parade militaire. I just got my first tatoo.
Son âge est le double du sien. He is as old again as she is.
Nous allons devoir double notre budget pour l'an prochain. We'll have to double our budget for next year.
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