Очумелов делает полуоборот налево и шагает к сборищу.
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Ochumelov makes a half-turn to the left and strides toward the gathering.
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Около самых ворот склада, видит он, стоит вышеписанный человек в расстёгнутой жилетке и, подняв вверх правую руку, показывает толпе окровавленный палец. Right by the gates of the yard, he sees, stands the aforesaid man in the unbuttoned waistcoat and, raising his right hand aloft, displays a bloodied finger to the crowd.
На полупьяном лице его как бы написано: «Ужо я сорву с тебя, шельма!» да и самый палец имеет вид знамения победы. On his half-drunk face there is written, as it were: “I’ll have it out of you yet, you rogue!” — and the finger itself has the look of a sign of victory.
The words in this sentence
- Очуме́лов
- Ochumelov (name, the police inspector)
- де́лает
- makes, does (3sg pres) — делать
- полуоборо́т
- half-turn (nom/acc sg)
- нале́во
- to the left
- и
- and; also, even
- шага́ет
- strides, paces (3sg) — шагать
- к
- to, toward (+ dat)
- сбо́рищу
- gathering, crowd (dat sg) — сборище
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