He walked out of the fire station and along the midnight street toward the subway where the silent, air-propelled train slid soundlessly down its lubricated flue in the earth and let him out with a great puff of warm air AN to the cream-tiled escalator rising to the suburb.
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an to the cream-tiled escalator, почему здесь артикль AN?
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He walked out of the fire station and along the midnight street toward the subway where the silent, air-propelled train slid soundlessly down its lubricated flue in the earth and let him out with a great puff of warm air onto the cream-tiled escalator rising to the suburb.
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"Выйдя на пустынную ночную улицу, он направился к метро. Бесшумный пневматический поезд поглотил его, пролетел, как челнок, по хорошо смазанной трубе подземного туннеля и вместе с сильной струей теплого воздуха выбросил на выложенный желтыми плитками эскалатор, ...
He walked out of the fire station and along the midnight street toward the subway where the silent, air-propelled train slid soundlessly down its lubricated flue in the earth and let him out with a great puff of warm air ONTO the cream-tiled escalator rising to the suburb.