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— Пришли к первосвященнику, — продолжал он, — Иисуса стали допрашивать, а работники тем временем развели среди двора огонь, потому что было холодно, и грелись.

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“They came to the high priest,” he went on, “and they began to question Jesus, while the labourers meanwhile had lit a fire in the middle of the courtyard, because it was cold, and were warming themselves.

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С ними около костра стоял Петр и тоже грелся, как вот я теперь. Peter stood with them by the fire and warmed himself too, just as I am doing now.

Одна женщина, увидев его, сказала: «И этот был с Иисусом», то есть, что и его, мол, нужно вести к допросу. One woman, seeing him, said: ‘This man was with Jesus too’ — meaning that he too ought to be taken for questioning.

The words in this sentence

пришли́
they came (past pl) — прийти
к
to, toward (+ dat)
первосвяще́ннику
high priest (dat sg) — первосвященник
продолжа́л
he continued (past m) — продолжать
он
he
Иису́са
Jesus (name, gen/acc) — иисус
ста́ли
became; began (past pl of стать) — стать
допра́шивать
to interrogate, question (inf)
а
and, but (conjunction)
рабо́тники
workmen, farmhands (nom pl) — работник
тем
that (instr sg); by that; тем не менее — тот
вре́менем
time (instr sg) — время
развели́
to light, kindle (a fire) (v., pf.) — развести
среди́
among, amid
двора́
yard, courtyard (gen sg) — двор
ого́нь
fire, light (nom/acc sg)
потому́
because (in потому что) (conj.)
что
because (in потому что) (conj.)
бы́ло
was (past n of быть) — быть
хо́лодно
cold (pred.)
и
and; also, even
гре́лись
they warmed themselves (past pl) — греться

А. П. Чехов, «Студент», 1894 · sentence 30 of 52

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