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Но когда стемнело в лесу, некстати подул с востока холодный пронизывающий ветер, всё смолкло.

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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.

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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.

Протянул один вальдшнеп, и выстрел по нем прозвучал в весеннем воздухе раскатисто и весело. A solitary woodcock came flighting over, and the shot fired at it rang out in the spring air, rolling and gay.

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.

Запахло зимой. It began to smell of winter.

The words in this sentence

но
but
когда́
when
стемне́ло
it grew dark (past n, impers.) — стемнеть
в
in, into
лесу́
in the forest (loc sg) — лес
некста́ти
inopportunely, out of place
поду́л
it blew, began to blow (past m) — подуть
с
with (+instr); from, off (+gen)
восто́ка
east (gen sg) — восток
холо́дный
cold (nom sg m)
прони́зывающий
piercing, penetrating (pres act part, nom m)
ве́тер
wind (nom sg)
все
everyone, all (pl) — весь
смо́лкло
fell silent, died away (past n) — смолкнуть

А. П. Чехов, «Студент», 1894 · sentence 3 of 52

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