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The Russian-English Dictionary: the American edition.
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борьба не на жизнь, а на смерть

a fight to the finish

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В комнате над моею я услышала шум борьбы, и, судя по этому шуму, то была борьба не на жизнь, а на смерть. Кто-то полупридушенным голосом крикнул: - Помогите! помогите! помогите! - три раза, с судорожной торопливостью.
And overhead- yes, in the room just above my chamber-ceiling- I now heard a struggle: a deadly one it seemed from the noise; and a half-smothered voice shouted- 'Help! help! help!' three times rapidly.
Бронте, Шарлотта / Джен ЭйрBronte, Charlotte / Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
Bronte, Charlotte
© 2009 by Wayne Josephson
Джен Эйр
Бронте, Шарлотта
© Издательство «Правда», 1988 г.

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борьба не на жизнь, а на смерть
a fight to the finish

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    a life and death struggle

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