Ежели каждый будет кусаться, то лучше и не жить на свете…
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If every one of them is going to bite, then it would be better not to live in this world at all…
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Пущай мне заплатят, потому — я этим пальцем, может, неделю не пошевельну… Let them pay me for it, because this finger, maybe, I shan’t be able to stir for a week…
Этого, ваше благородие, и в законе нет, чтоб от твари терпеть… There’s nothing in the law either, Your Honour, that a man must put up with it from a dumb beast…
The words in this sentence
- е́жели
- if (archaic/colloquial for если)
- ка́ждый
- each, every (nom m sg)
- бу́дет
- will be (3sg of быть) — быть
- куса́ться
- to bite, sting (inf)
- то
- then (conj.)
- лу́чше
- better (comparative of хороший)
- и
- even, too (particle)
- не
- not
- жить
- to live
- на
- on, onto; at
- све́те
- world (n., m.) — свет
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