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И радость вдруг заволновалась в его душе, и он даже остановился на минуту, чтобы перевести дух.

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And joy suddenly stirred in his soul, and he even stopped for a minute to get his breath.

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Прошлое, думал он, связано с настоящим непрерывною цепью событий, вытекавших одно из другого. The past, he thought, is linked to the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.

И ему казалось, что он только что видел оба конца этой цепи: дотронулся до одного конца, как дрогнул другой. And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain: he had touched one end, and the other had quivered.

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и
and; also, even
ра́дость
joy
вдруг
suddenly
заволнова́лась
she grew agitated (past f) — заволноваться
в
in, into
его́
his (poss. pron.) — он
душе́
soul (dat/prep sg of душа) — душа
он
he
да́же
even
останови́лся
stopped, halted (past m of остановиться) — остановиться
на
on, onto; at
мину́ту
minute (acc sg of минута) — минута
что́бы
so that, in order to
перевести́
to catch (one's breath) (v., pf.)
дух
breath (n., m.)

А. П. Чехов, «Студент», 1894 · sentence 49 of 52

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