Day 164: A Yesenin Poem by Heart
At a family dinner in Ryazan, a thirteen-year-old boy tells his grandfather about his literature homework.
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Dialogue
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A
Дед, к понедельнику надо выучить Есенина, а я ни одного стихотворения не знаю.
Grandpa, I have to learn some Yesenin by Monday, and I don't know a single poem of his.
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B
Он же наш, рязанский! Слушай: «Не жалею, не зову, не плачу, всё пройдёт, как с белых яблонь дым».
But he's one of ours, from Ryazan! Listen: "I don't regret, I don't call, I don't weep, all will pass like smoke from white apple trees."
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A
Ого, ты это наизусть помнишь? Ты же его учил лет шестьдесят назад!
Wow, you remember that by heart? You learned it about sixty years ago!
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B
Учил в школе, а по-настоящему выучил в армии. До сих пор знаю его как свои пять пальцев.
I studied it at school, but I really learned it in the army. I still know it like the back of my hand.
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A
Круто! Давай так: я учу своё, а ты какое-нибудь новое. Кто быстрее?
Cool! Let's do this: I learn mine, and you learn a new one. Who'll be faster?
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B
Договорились, до воскресенья. Несмотря на свои семьдесят два, я тебя ещё обгоню!
Deal, by Sunday. Seventy-two or not, I'll still beat you!
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Идёт! Только я тогда беру «Берёзу»: там в строчке по два-три слова.
You're on! But then I'm taking "The Birch": it's only two or three words a line.
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