Костер горел жарко, с треском, освещая далеко кругом вспаханную землю.
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The bonfire burned hot and crackling, lighting up the ploughed earth far around.
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Огороды назывались вдовьими потому, что их содержали две вдовы, мать и дочь. The kitchen gardens were called the widows' because they were kept by two widows, a mother and her daughter.
Вдова Василиса, высокая, пухлая старуха в мужском полушубке, стояла возле и в раздумье глядела на огонь; ее дочь Лукерья, маленькая, рябая, с глуповатым лицом, сидела на земле и мыла котел и ложки. The widow Vasilisa, a tall, plump old woman in a man's sheepskin coat, stood beside it gazing pensively into the fire; her daughter Lukerya, a small woman, pockmarked, with a rather stupid face, sat on the ground washing the pot and the spoons.
Очевидно, только что отужинали. Evidently they had only just finished supper.
The words in this sentence
- костёр
- bonfire, campfire — костёр
- горе́л
- burned, was burning (past m) — гореть
- жа́рко
- hot, hotly (impers)
- с
- with (+instr); from, off (+gen)
- тре́ском
- with a crackle, crash (instr sg) — треск
- освеща́я
- lighting up, illuminating (gerund) — освещать
- далеко́
- far away
- круго́м
- around, all around (adv)
- вспа́ханную
- ploughed (acc f sg, past pass part) — вспаханный
- зе́млю
- earth, ground (acc sg) — земля
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