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The Russian-English Dictionary: the American edition.
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как гром среди ясного неба

out of a clear blue sky; like a bolt from the blue

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В один городок, как гром среди ясного неба, прибыла очень красивая молодая леди.
In a certain town a very beautiful young lady suddenly arrived out of the blue.
Ошо Бхагван Шри Раджниш / Дао: Путь без пути, Том 2Osho, Bhagvan Shree Rajneesh / Tao: The Pathless Path, Volume 2
Tao: The Pathless Path, Volume 2
Osho, Bhagvan Shree Rajneesh
© 2002 by Osho International
Дао: Путь без пути, Том 2
Ошо Бхагван Шри Раджниш
Я уже пересекла двор и собиралась подняться по ступеням террасы, когда вдруг как гром среди ясного неба одна мысль поразила меня.
I was across the dooryard and gettin ready to climb the porch steps when a thought hit me.
Кинг, Стивен / Долорес КлэйборнKing, Stephen / Dolores Claiborne
Dolores Claiborne
King, Stephen
© Copyright Stephen King, 1993
Долорес Клэйборн
Кинг, Стивен
© Copyright Stephen King, 1993
© перевод с английского Е.Харитоновой, 1995
Черт побери, неужели до этого я выглядела настолько дурой, что мой правильный ответ смог поразить их как гром среди ясного неба?
Jeesh, had I really been acting so stupid that they were shocked to hear me answer a question correctly?
Каст, Филис,Каст, Кристин / МеченаяCast, P.C.,Cast, Kristin / Marked
Marked
Cast, P.C.,Cast, Kristin
© 2007 by P. С. Cast and Kristin Cast
Меченая
Каст, Филис,Каст, Кристин
© St. Martin's Griffin Press, LLC, New York, 2007
© ЗАО "ОЛМА Медиа Групп", издание, перевод, 2009
Это было как гром среди ясного неба.
This was a thunderbolt in camp.
Драйзер, Теодор / Сестра КерриDreiser, Theodore / Sister Carrie
Sister Carrie
Dreiser, Theodore
© Nov. 8, 1900 No. A27641 by Doubleday, Page & Co.
© renewed by Theodore Dreiser as Author Nov. 17, 1927 No. R42188
Сестра Керри
Драйзер, Теодор
© Издательство "Правда", 1986
Но в порыве страсти всякая осторожность была забыта, и теперь ее вопрос прогремел для него, как гром среди ясного неба. Гнуснейшее осложнение!
But that caution he had utterly forgotten in emotion, and her question was authentically a surprise, abominably a shock.
Льюис, Синклер / Элмер ГентриLewis, Sinclair / Elmer Gantry
Elmer Gantry
Lewis, Sinclair
© 2002 by Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y.
© 1927 by Harcourt, Inc.
© renewed 1955 by Michael Lewis
Элмер Гентри
Льюис, Синклер
© Издательство "Правда", 1965

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как гром среди ясного неба
out of a clear blue sky; like a bolt from the blue

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    to be a bolt from the blue

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    like a bolt from the blue

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