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Chameleon


— 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; him (gen/acc of он/оно) — он
залива́ется
trills, bursts out; is flooded (3sg) — 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

А. П. Чехов, «Хамелеон», 1884 · sentence 50 of 53

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