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По лужам протянулись ледяные иглы, и стало в лесу неуютно, глухо и нелюдимо.

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Needles of ice stretched across the puddles, and the forest turned cheerless, muffled and unfriendly.

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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.

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.

Запахло зимой. It began to smell of winter.

The words in this sentence

по
along, by, according to (+dat)
лу́жам
through the puddles (dat pl) — лужа
протяну́лись
stretched out, extended (past pl) — протянуться
ледяны́е
icy, of ice (pl) — ледяной
и́глы
needles (nom/acc pl); of a needle (gen sg) — игла
и
and; also, even
ста́ло
became; began (past n of стать) — стать
в
in, into
лесу́
in the forest (loc sg) — лес
неую́тно
cheerless, uncomfortable
глу́хо
dully, in a muffled voice (adv)
нелюди́мо
bleakly, unsociably

А. П. Чехов, «Студент», 1894 · sentence 4 of 52

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