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Воображаю: тихий-тихий, темный-темный сад, и в тишине едва слышатся глухие рыдания…

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I can imagine it: a hushed, hushed garden, dark, dark, and in the silence muffled sobbing, barely to be heard…”

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Вспомнил, очнулся, пошел со двора и горько-горько заплакал. He remembered, he came to himself, went out of the courtyard and wept bitterly, bitterly.

В евангелии сказано: «И исшед вон, плакася горько». In the Gospel it is said: ‘And he went out, and wept bitterly.’

The words in this sentence

вообража́ю
I imagine, picture (1sg pres) — воображать
ти́хий-ти́хий
ever so quiet (reduplicated intensive) — тихий
тёмный-тёмный
pitch-dark (reduplicated intensive) — тёмный
сад
garden
и
and; also, even
в
in, into
тишине́
silence (dat/prep sg) — тишина
едва́
hardly, scarcely, barely
слы́шатся
are heard, can be heard (3pl) — слышаться
глухи́е
muffled, dull (adj.) — глухой
рыда́ния
sobs, sobbing (nom/acc pl or gen sg) — рыдание

А. П. Чехов, «Студент», 1894 · sentence 39 of 52

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