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Коллежским асессором уже второй год и Станислава имею.

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A collegiate assessor these two years now, and I hold the Stanislas.

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— Служу, милый мой! — In the service I am, my dear fellow!

Жалованье плохое… ну, да бог с ним! The salary's poor… well, but never mind it!

Жена уроки музыки даёт, я портсигары приватно из дерева делаю. My wife gives music lessons, and I make cigarette cases privately out of wood.

The words in this sentence

колле́жским
collegiate (instr sg / dat pl adj, rank) — коллежский
асе́ссором
assessor (instr sg, arch.) — асессор
уже́
already
второ́й
second
год
year
и
and; also, even
станисла́ва
Order of St Stanislaus (n., m.) — станислав
име́ю
I have (1sg of иметь) — иметь

А. П. Чехов, «Толстый и тонкий», 1883 · sentence 17 of 33

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