Usage examples of "rue à double sens" in French with translation to English

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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.
Ce mot a un double sens. This word has a double meaning.
Dois-je prendre la deuxième rue à gauche ? Do I take the second street on the left?
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.
Faites attention à ne pas conduire en contre sens dans une rue à sens unique. Be careful not to drive the wrong way on a one-way street.
C'est à double tranchant It cuts both ways
Je trouve étrange qu'il n'y ait personne dans la rue à cette heure-ci. I think it strange that there is no one on the street at this time of the day.
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.
J'ai croisé un jeune homme sur la rue. I passed a boy in the street.
Son discours n'avait aucun sens pour moi. His speech made no sense to me.
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."
Il marchait dans la rue. He walked along the street.
Connaissez-vous le sens de ce mot ? Do you know the meaning of this word?
Les prix sont le double de ce qu'ils étaient il y a dix ans. Prices are double what they were ten years ago.
Je vis un garçon traverser la rue. I saw a boy crossing the street.
Tu ne sens pas la maison trembler ? Don't you feel the house shaking?
J'ai le double de ton âge. I'm twice your age.
Merci de m'avoir aidée à traverser la rue ! Thank you for helping me to cross the road.
Danny n'a pas le sens de la beauté. Danny has no sense of beauty.
Huit est le double de quatre. Eight is the double of four.
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