Usage examples of "ligne latérale de 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.
Il a lancé sa ligne dans le lac. He cast his line into the lake.
Michael a été vu entrain de partir par la porte latérale. Michael was seen to leave by the side door.
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."
Un homme qui n'a jamais été à l'école peut voler d'un wagon, mais s'il dispose d'un diplôme, il peut voler toute la ligne de chemin de fer. A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Les prix sont le double de ce qu'ils étaient il y a dix ans. Prices are double what they were ten years ago.
Cette ligne marque ta taille. This line marks your height.
Ce mot a un double sens. This word has a double meaning.
Une ligne droite est un cas particulier de courbe. A straight line is a trivial example of a curve.
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.
Savez-vous comment utiliser ces outils en ligne de commande ? Do you know how to use these command line tools?
J'ai le double de ton âge. I'm twice your age.
Écris une ligne sur deux. Write on every other line.
Huit est le double de quatre. Eight is the double of four.
Il traça une ligne droite de son crayon. He drew a straight line with his pencil.
J'ai bu un double express brûlant au café ce matin. I drank a very hot double espresso at the coffee shop this morning.
Ne raccrochez pas, restez en ligne s'il vous plaît. Don't hang up, but hold on please.
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.
J'ai essayé tout le matin de joindre Monsieur Jones, mais sa ligne est toujours occupée. I have been trying all morning to get in touch with Mr Jones, but his line is always busy.
Son âge est le double du sien. He is as old again as she is.
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