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Одна женщина, увидев его, сказала: «И этот был с Иисусом», то есть, что и его, мол, нужно вести к допросу.

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One woman, seeing him, said: ‘This man was with Jesus too’ — meaning that he too ought to be taken for questioning.

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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. “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.

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.

И все работники, что находились около огня, должно быть, подозрительно и сурово поглядели на него, потому что он смутился и сказал: «Я не знаю его». And all the labourers who were standing about the fire must have looked at him suspiciously and sternly, because he was confused and said: ‘I do not know him.’

Немного погодя опять кто-то узнал в нем одного из учеников Иисуса и сказал: «И ты из них». A little later someone again recognized in him one of Jesus' disciples and said: ‘Thou also art one of them.’

The words in this sentence

одна́
one; alone (f) — один
же́нщина
woman (nom sg)
уви́дев
having seen (gerund of увидеть) — увидеть
его́
his; him (gen/acc of он/оно) — он
сказа́ла
she said (past f) — сказать
и
too, also (particle)
э́тот
this (m nom)
был
was (past m of быть) — быть
с
with (+instr); from, off (+gen)
Иису́сом
Jesus (name, inst) — иисус
то
that; then (если... то)
есть
is, there is; to eat (inf) — быть
что
that (conj.)
мол
says he, supposedly (particle)
ну́жно
it is necessary, one needs
вести́
to lead (inf); без вести = without trace
к
to, toward (+ dat)
допро́су
interrogation (dat sg) — допрос

А. П. Чехов, «Студент», 1894 · sentence 32 of 52

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