They'll only talk to you if you're bearing gifts. No bread, no banter.
С тобой только пообщаются, если пришел с "презентом". "Без крошок, друган, общаться не будем".
Motherland
The frost had set in
a rather terrible one
and, my goodness, the water in the pond had frozen over!
and ducks waddled over the ice
...in a hungry and angry mood
I approached them:
"Excuse me,
you have neither food nor shelter.
Why don't you fly
to warmer faraway climes?
"Because..."
answered the ducks,
"maybe we'll see pineapples there,
but there we'll die of sorrow
because our Motherland is this pond that has frozen over.
QUACK QUACK!"
Fighting the growling of my belly
I thought
"Man...
These are our ducks!
This is my Fatherland!"
stepping softly
even forgetting to put my shoe on.