На предложение вырвать больной зуб генерал ответил отказом.
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To the suggestion that the bad tooth be pulled out the general answered with a refusal.
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Приезжал доктор. The doctor came.
Он поковырял в зубе, прописал хину, но и это не помогло. He poked about in the tooth, prescribed quinine, but that did not help either.
Все домашние — жена, дети, прислуга, даже поварёнок Петька предлагали каждый своё средство. The whole household — his wife, the children, the servants, even Petka the kitchen boy — each proposed a remedy of his own.
Между прочим и приказчик Булдеева Иван Евсеич пришёл к нему и посоветовал полечиться заговором. Among others, Buldeyev's steward Ivan Yevseich also came to him and advised him to try a cure by charm.
The words in this sentence
- на
- on, onto; at
- предложе́ние
- proposal, suggestion (nom/acc sg)
- вы́рвать
- to pull out, extract (inf)
- больно́й
- sick, ill (m); patient
- зуб
- tooth
- генера́л
- general (high rank)
- отве́тил
- he answered (past m) — ответить
- отка́зом
- refusal (instr sg) — отказ
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