— спрашивает Очумелов, и всё лицо его заливается улыбкой умиления.— Ишь ты, господи!
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— asks Ochumelov, and his whole face floods with a smile of tenderness. — Well I never, good Lord!
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— Да разве братец ихний приехали? — You don't mean to say their brother has arrived?
Владимир Иваныч? Vladimir Ivanych?
А я и не знал! And I never knew!
Погостить приехали? Come to stay a while, have they?
The words in this sentence
- спра́шивает
- he/she asks (3sg) — спрашивать
- Очуме́лов
- Ochumelov (name, the police inspector)
- и
- and; also, even
- все
- everyone, all (pl) — весь
- лицо́
- face; personage (nom/acc sg)
- его́
- his, its (poss. pron.) — он
- залива́ется
- to be flooded, suffused (v., impf.) — заливаться
- улы́бкой
- smile (instr sg) — улыбка
- умиле́ния
- tender emotion (gen sg) — умиление
- ишь
- look at that! (colloq. particle)
- ты
- you (informal)
- го́споди
- Lord! good heavens! (excl.) — господь
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