Ни шерсти, ни вида… подлость одна только…
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No coat, no looks about it… nothing but low breeding…
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— Я и сам знаю. — I know it myself.
У генерала собаки дорогие, породистые, а эта — чёрт знает что! The General's dogs are expensive, pedigreed, but this one — the devil knows what it is!
И этакую собаку держать?!.. And to keep a dog like that?!..
Где же у вас ум? Where are your wits?
The words in this sentence
- ни
- not a single; nor (negative particle)
- ше́рсти
- fur, coat (of an animal) (n., f.) — шерсть
- ви́да
- look, appearance (gen sg of вид) — вид
- по́длость
- baseness, vileness (nom sg)
- одна́
- nothing but, only (adj.) — один
- то́лько
- only, just
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