Там не посмотрели бы в закон, а моментально — не дыши!
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There they wouldn't go looking into the law — in a flash: breathe no more!
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Где же у вас ум? Where are your wits?
Попадись этакая собака в Петербурге или Москве, то знаете, что было бы? If a dog like that turned up in Petersburg or Moscow, do you know what would happen?
Ты, Хрюкин, пострадал и дела этого так не оставляй… You, Khryukin, have suffered damages, and don't let this business drop…
Нужно проучить! They must be taught a lesson!
The words in this sentence
- там
- there
- не
- not
- посмотре́ли
- looked, had a look (past pl) — посмотреть
- бы
- would (conditional particle)
- в
- in, into
- зако́н
- law
- а
- and, but (conjunction)
- момента́льно
- instantly, in a flash
- дыши́
- breathe! (imper of дышать) — дышать
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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