Придя домой, Червяков рассказал жене о своем невежестве.
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On reaching home, Chervyakov told his wife about his want of manners.
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Жена, как показалось ему, слишком легкомысленно отнеслась к происшедшему; она только испугалась, а потом, когда узнала, что Бризжалов «чужой», успокоилась. His wife, as it seemed to him, took what had happened too lightly; she was only frightened at first, but then, when she learned that Brizzhalov was «someone else's», she was reassured.
The words in this sentence
- придя́
- having arrived (gerund) — прийти
- домо́й
- home, homeward
- червяко́в
- Chervyakov (surname, nom; from червяк, worm)
- рассказа́л
- he told, recounted (past m) — рассказать
- жене́
- to/about wife (dat/prep sg of жена) — жена
- о
- about, of; oh
- своём
- one's own (prep sg m/n) — свой
- неве́жестве
- bad manners, rudeness (n., n.) — невежество
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