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Vanka


Убаюканный сладкими надеждами, он час спустя крепко спал…

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Lulled by sweet hopes, an hour later he was sound asleep…

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Ему снилась печка. He dreamed of the stove.

На печи сидит дед, свесив босые ноги, и читает письмо кухаркам… On the stove sits grandfather, his bare feet dangling, reading the letter aloud to the cooks…

The words in this sentence

убаю́канный
lulled to sleep (past pass part, nom sg m)
сла́дкими
sweet (instr pl adj) — сладкий
наде́ждами
hopes (instr pl) — надежда
он
he
час
hour
спустя́
later, after (of time elapsed)
кре́пко
firmly, tightly, soundly
спал
he slept (past m of спать) — спать

А. П. Чехов, «Ванька», 1886 · sentence 66 of 68

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