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Chameleon


Она маленькая, а ты ведь вон какой здоровила!

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She’s a little thing, and you — look what a great hulking fellow you are!

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— обращается Очумелов к Хрюкину. Ochumelov turns to Khryukin.

— Нешто она достанет до пальца? “Could she even reach as high as your finger?

Ты, должно быть, расковырял палец гвоздиком, а потом и пришла в твою голову идея, чтоб сорвать. You must have picked the finger open with a little nail, and then the idea came into your head of getting something out of it.

Ты ведь… известный народ! You people are… a well-known lot!

The words in this sentence

она́
she
ма́ленькая
small, little (f sg of маленький) — маленький
а
and, but (conjunction)
ты
you (informal)
ведь
after all, you know
вон
over there; out
како́й
what, which (nom sg m)
здорови́ла
hulking fellow (colloq.)

А. П. Чехов, «Хамелеон», 1884 · sentence 27 of 53

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