Usage examples of "phrase 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.
Veuillez lier cette phrase à sa version espagnole. Please link this sentence to Spanish.
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.
Peux-tu me donner une autre phrase à traduire ? Can you give me another sentence to translate?
C'est à double tranchant It cuts both ways
Les Grecs inventèrent la virgule, non pour leur littérature mais pour leurs acteurs, pour les avertir de prendre une longue inspiration en préparation d'une longue phrase à venir ; une virgule représente donc une pause. The Greeks invented the comma, not for their literature but for their actors, to warn them to take a deep breath in preparation of an upcoming long phrase; thus a comma represents a pause.
Veuillez proposer une phrase à traduire dans d'autres langues. Please submit a sentence to be translated into other languages.
Pour passer d'une phrase à l'autre, Tom tendait son bras. Mary le saisissait fermement et sautait par-dessus le point en évitant de tomber dans l'espace. In order to cross from one sentence to the other, Tom was stretching out his arm. Mary clinged firmly on to it and jumped over the dot, avoiding to fall in the space.
Comment puis-je supprimer une phrase en double ? How can I delete a repeated sentence?
Cette phrase n'a pas de sens. This sentence doesn't make sense.
Cette phrase a plusieurs sens différents. This sentence has various meanings.
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.
Par cette phrase, l'auteur signifiait à Tom et Mary que leur destin lui échappait, puisqu'il ne comprenait pas le sens profond de ses propres phrases. Through this sentence, the author was making it known to Tom and Mary that their destiny was escaping him, as he didn't understand the deep meaning of his own sentences.
Le sens de cette phrase est obscur. The meaning of this sentence is obscure.
Pourriez-vous m'expliquer le sens de cette phrase ? Will you please explain the meaning of this sentence to me?
Pouvez-vous comprendre le sens de cette phrase ? Can you understand the meaning of this sentence?
Le sens de cette phrase est ambigu. The meaning of this sentence is ambiguous.
Je ne saisis pas le sens exact de cette phrase. I can't get at the exact meaning of the sentence.
Il a expliqué le sens littéral de cette phrase. He explained the literal meaning of the sentence.
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