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The Student


И опять наступили потемки, и стали зябнуть руки.

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And again darkness came down, and his hands began to grow cold.

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Работники возвращались с реки, и один из них верхом на лошади был уже близко, и свет от костра дрожал на нем. The labourers were coming back from the river, and one of them, on horseback, was already close by, and the light of the bonfire quivered upon him.

Студент пожелал вдовам спокойной ночи и пошел дальше. The student wished the widows good night and walked on.

Дул жестокий ветер, в самом деле возвращалась зима, и не было похоже, что послезавтра Пасха. A cruel wind was blowing; winter really was coming back, and it did not seem as though Easter were the day after tomorrow.

The words in this sentence

и
and; also, even
опя́ть
again
наступи́ли
set in, arrived (past pl) — наступить
потёмки
darkness, the dark (nom/acc pl) — потёмки
ста́ли
became; began (past pl of стать) — стать
зя́бнуть
to feel cold, shiver
ру́ки
hands (nom/acc pl); gen sg = руки́ — рука

А. П. Чехов, «Студент», 1894 · sentence 43 of 52

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