Не видал, так, стало быть, зачем врать?
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You didn’t see it, so what do you want to lie for?
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— Врёшь кривой! “You’re lying, one-eye!
Их благородие умный господин и понимают, ежели кто врёт, а кто по совести, как перед богом… Their Honour is a clever gentleman and they understand who is lying and who speaks by his conscience, as before God…
А ежели я вру, так пущай мировой рассудит. And if I’m lying, then let the justice of the peace decide it.
The words in this sentence
- не
- not
- вида́л
- saw, has seen (past m of видать, colloquial) — видать
- так
- so, thus
- ста́ло
- became; began (past n of стать) — стать
- быть
- to be
- заче́м
- why, what for
- врать
- to lie, tell lies (inf)
This is one sentence of «Хамелеон» — 53 sentences long, and the whole story reads like this: every word glossed where it stands, the English out of your eyeline until you ask for it. Free: the reader opens the first instalment with no account and the rest with a free account, and the page with the English under every line needs none at all.
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