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Дед не может чтоб не крикнуть:

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Grandfather cannot help shouting:

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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?

Откуда ни возьмись, по сугробам летит стрелой заяц… From out of nowhere a hare comes flying like an arrow over the snowdrifts…

The words in this sentence

дед
grandfather
не
not
мо́жет
can; может быть = perhaps (3sg of мочь) — мочь
чтоб
so that, in order to
кри́кнуть
to shout out, call

А. П. Чехов, «Ванька», 1886 · sentence 49 of 68

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