Одного только я не понимаю: как она могла тебя укусить?
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There’s only one thing I don’t understand: how could she have bitten you?”
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Ужас как жарко! Frightfully hot it is!
Должно полагать, перед дождём… Must be coming on to rain, I dare say…
— обращается Очумелов к Хрюкину. Ochumelov turns to Khryukin.
— Нешто она достанет до пальца? “Could she even reach as high as your finger?
The words in this sentence
- одного́
- one (gen/acc m/n of один) — один
- то́лько
- only, just
- я
- I
- не
- not
- понима́ю
- I understand — понимать
- как
- how; as, like
- она́
- she
- могла́
- she could (past f of мочь) — мочь
- тебя́
- you (gen/acc, informal) — ты
- укуси́ть
- to bite (pf)
This is one sentence of «Хамелеон» — 53 sentences long, and the whole story reads like this: every word glossed where it stands, the English out of your eyeline until you ask for it. Free: the reader opens the first instalment with no account and the rest with a free account, and the page with the English under every line needs none at all.
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