A dog's heart (A Monstrous Story) / Собачье сердце (Чудовищная история). Книга для чтения на английском языке

 – Что делается.

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MSPO Meat Trade – МСПО – мясная торговля

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Backstein cheese – сыр бакштейн

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no tipping – на чай не давать

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a tubby, double-sided bitch of a letter that didn't stand for anything he knew: The Cyrillic letter F looks like this: Ф; the word being spelt out is “Professor”. (the translator’s note)

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Now you’re talking, this is it – Вот это да, это я понимаю

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They had their way after all – Все-таки отделали

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From Seville to Granada… in the quiet twilight of the nights: The opening lines of the romance Don Juan's Serenade by Tchaikovsky, based on the poem by Alexei Tolstoy.

(the translator’s note)

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when you get the runs – когда у тебя живот схватит

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got his bearings – собрался

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Parole d’honneur – (фр.

) Честное слово

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Rue de la Paix – Рю де ла Пэ (улица в центре Парижа)

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Zhirkost – «Жиркость» (советское учреждение по изготовлению косметических средств)

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Madame – (фр.) госпожа, сударыня

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Isadora Duncan: A pioneering and extravagant figure in modern dance, Isadora Duncan (1877–1927) had strong connections with the USSR, moving to Russia for a short period in 1922, when she married Soviet poet Sergei Yesenin (1895–1925).

(the translator’s note)

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The Gardens of Semiramide: Semiramide was a legendary Assyrian queen, also known as Semiramis II, for whom the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were supposedly built. (the translator’s note)

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The newly blessed: The Chairman of the People’s Commissars, Alexei Rykov (1881–1938), blessed the introduction of a new vodka with a lower alcoholic content.

(the translator’s note)

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proof – пруф (единица измерения крепости спиртных напитков, равняется приблизительно ½ градуса); «sixty proof» = 30 градусов, «eighty proof» = 40 градусов

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hors d’oeuvres – (фр.