Открытые двери лавок и кабаков глядят на свет божий уныло, как голодные пасти; около них нет даже нищих.
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The open doors of the shops and taverns look out upon God’s world as dismally as hungry maws; there are not even any beggars near them.
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Кругом тишина… All around, silence…
На площади ни души… Not a soul on the square…
The words in this sentence
- откры́тые
- open (nom/acc pl) — открытый
- две́ри
- door (gen/dat/prep sg); doors (pl) — дверь
- ла́вок
- shop, stall (n., f.) — лавка
- и
- and; also, even
- кабако́в
- of taverns (gen pl) — кабак
- глядя́т
- they look, gaze (3pl of глядеть) — глядеть
- на
- on, onto; at
- свет
- world (n., m.)
- бо́жий
- God's (nom m sg)
- уны́ло
- dejectedly, drearily
- как
- how; as, like
- голо́дные
- hungry (nom/acc pl) — голодный
- па́сти
- maw, jaws (n., f.) — пасть
- о́коло
- near, about, around (+gen)
- них
- them (gen/acc/prep of они after preposition) — они
- нет
- there is no, there are no (pred.)
- да́же
- even
- ни́щих
- beggars (obl pl) — нищий
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