Day 96: How Do Cosmonauts Brush Their Teeth?
At the Moscow Planetarium on Cosmonautics Day, a boy asks his father a question about life in space.
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Dialogue
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A
Пап, а как космонавты зубы чистят? Вода же в невесомости улетает.
Dad, how do cosmonauts brush their teeth? Water just floats away in zero gravity.
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B
Не знаю, сынок. Извините, а не могли бы вы ответить юному космонавту?
I don't know, son. Excuse me, could you answer a young cosmonaut's question?
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C
Щёткой, как и ты, только пасту глотают, поскольку раковины на станции нет.
With a toothbrush, like you, only they swallow the toothpaste, since there's no sink on the station.
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A
Фу! А спят как? Они же по станции летать будут.
Yuck! And how do they sleep? They'll be floating all over the station.
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C
В спальниках, пристёгнутых к стене. А мы им из Центра управления музыку для подъёма ставили.
In sleeping bags strapped to the wall. And we used to play them wake-up music from Mission Control.
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A
А меня возьмут в космонавты? Я бы хоть завтра полетел!
Would they take me as a cosmonaut? I'd fly tomorrow!
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C
Поживём, увидим. Только зубы чисти каждый день: с плохими зубами в космос не берут.
We'll see. Just brush your teeth every day: they don't take people with bad teeth into space.
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