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Chameleon


Скажешь, что я нашёл и прислал…

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Знобит… It gives me the shivers…

Ты отведёшь её к генералу и спросишь там. You'll take her round to the General's and ask them there.

И скажи, чтобы её не выпускали на улицу… And tell them not to let her out into the street…

Она, может быть, дорогая, а ежели каждый свинья будет ей в нос сигаркой тыкать, то долго ли испортить. She may well be a valuable dog, and if every swine goes poking a cigar at her nose, it won't take long to ruin her.

The words in this sentence

ска́жешь
you'll say (2sg pf) — сказать
что
that (conj.)
я
I
нашёл
found (past m of найти) — найти
и
and; also, even
присла́л
sent (past m of прислать) — прислать

А. П. Чехов, «Хамелеон», 1884 · sentence 43 of 53

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