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

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Si vous regardez avec attention, vous verrez que la boîte est munie d'un double fond. If you look carefully you'll see that the box has a false bottom.
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.
La glace fond. The ice is melting.
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 reste un peu de vin au fond du verre. There is a little wine left in the bottom of the glass.
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 femmes croient au fond de leur coeur que les hommes sont faits pour gagner de l'argent afin qu'elles puissent le dépenser, si c'est possible, pendant que leur mari est vivant, ou au moins après sa mort. Women in their hearts think that men are intended to earn money so that they may spend it, if possible during their husband’s lifetime, but at any rate after his death.
Ce mot a un double sens. This word has a double meaning.
J'aimerais aller dans une cabane au fond des bois pour profiter de la solitude. I like to go to a cabin in the woods to enjoy solitude.
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.
À vrai dire, je n'aime pas la musique classique. D'un autre côté, Molly est vraiment à fond dedans. To tell the truth, I don't like classical music. On the other hand, Molly is really into it.
J'ai le double de ton âge. I'm twice your age.
Ils se haïssent du fond du cœur. They hate each other from the bottoms of their hearts.
Huit est le double de quatre. Eight is the double of four.
Celui qui lutte contre les monstres doit veiller à ne pas le devenir lui-même. Or, quand on regarde trop longtemps au fond d'un abîme, l'abîme, lui aussi, vous regarde. He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.
J'ai bu un double express brûlant au café ce matin. I drank a very hot double espresso at the coffee shop this morning.
Tous les gens sont bons au fond de leur cœur. All people are good in the bottom of their hearts.
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.
Il conduisit ses hommes et leurs chevaux sur des montagnes enneigées et au fond de chaudes vallées. He led his men and horses over snowy mountains and down into hot valleys.
Son âge est le double du sien. He is as old again as she is.
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