Протянул один вальдшнеп, и выстрел по нем прозвучал в весеннем воздухе раскатисто и весело.
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A solitary woodcock came flighting over, and the shot fired at it rang out in the spring air, rolling and gay.
Where it stands
Погода вначале была хорошая, тихая. At first the weather was fine and still.
Кричали дрозды, и по соседству в болотах что-то живое жалобно гудело, точно дуло в пустую бутылку. Thrushes were calling, and close by in the marshes something alive was humming plaintively, as though blowing into an empty bottle.
Но когда стемнело в лесу, некстати подул с востока холодный пронизывающий ветер, всё смолкло. But when it grew dark in the forest, a cold, piercing wind blew up out of the east, quite out of season, and everything fell silent.
По лужам протянулись ледяные иглы, и стало в лесу неуютно, глухо и нелюдимо. Needles of ice stretched across the puddles, and the forest turned cheerless, muffled and unfriendly.
The words in this sentence
- протяну́л
- held out, stretched (past m) — протянуть
- оди́н
- one; alone (m)
- ва́льдшнеп
- woodcock (nom sg)
- и
- and; also, even
- вы́стрел
- shot (nom/acc sg)
- по
- along, by, according to (+dat)
- нем
- him, it (prep of он: о нём) — он
- прозвуча́л
- rang out, sounded (past m) — прозвучать
- в
- in, into
- весе́ннем
- spring (prep m/n sg) — весенний
- во́здухе
- in the air (prep sg) — воздух
- раска́тисто
- in rolling peals, resoundingly (adv)
- ве́село
- merrily; cheerful (short n)
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