И дед крякал, и мороз крякал, а глядя на них, и Ванька крякал.
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Grandfather grunted, and the frost grunted, and, looking at them, Vanka grunted too.
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Он вспомнил, что за елкой для господ всегда ходил в лес дед и брал с собою внука. He remembered that it was always grandfather who went to the forest for the gentlefolk's Christmas tree, and that he took his grandson along with him.
Веселое было время! What a merry time that was!
Бывало, прежде чем вырубить елку, дед выкуривает трубку, долго нюхает табак, посмеивается над озябшим Ванюшкой… Before cutting down the fir, grandfather would smoke a pipe, take a long sniff of snuff, and chuckle at little Vanya, chilled to the bone…
Молодые елки, окутанные инеем, стоят неподвижно и ждут, которой из них помирать? The young firs, muffled in hoarfrost, stand motionless and wait — which of them is to die?
The words in this sentence
- и
- and; also, even
- дед
- grandfather
- кря́кал
- he grunted, quacked (past m) — крякать
- моро́з
- frost (nom sg)
- а
- and, but (conjunction)
- гля́дя
- looking (gerund) — глядеть
- на
- on, onto; at
- них
- them (gen/acc/prep of они after preposition) — они
- Ва́нька
- Vanka (name)
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