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The Malefactor


На голове целая шапка давно уже нечёсанных, путаных волос, что придаёт ему ещё большую, паучью суровость.

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On his head is a whole mop of long-uncombed, tangled hair, which lends him a still greater, spiderish severity.

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Перед судебным следователем стоит маленький, чрезвычайно тощий мужичонко в пестрядинной рубахе и латаных портах. Before the examining magistrate stands a small, exceedingly scrawny little peasant in a shirt of coarse striped homespun and patched trousers.

Его обросшее волосами и изъеденное рябинами лицо и глаза, едва видные из-за густых, нависших бровей, имеют выражение угрюмой суровости. His face, overgrown with hair and eaten away by pockmarks, and his eyes, barely visible from under thick, overhanging brows, wear an expression of sullen severity.

Он бос. He is barefoot.

The words in this sentence

на
on, onto; at
голове́
head (dat/prep sg) — голова
це́лая
whole, entire (f nom) — целый
ша́пка
cap, hat (nom)
давно́
long ago; for a long time
уже́
already
нечёсанных
uncombed, unkempt (gen pl) — нечёсаный
пу́таных
tangled, muddled (gen/prep pl adj) — путаный
воло́с
hair (gen pl of волос)
что
which (rel. pron.)
придаёт
lends, imparts (3sg of придавать) — придавать
ему́
to him (dat of он/оно) — он
ещё
still, yet, more (= ещё) — еще
большу́ю
greater (acc f of бо́льший; ещё большую — still greater) — большой
пау́чью
spidery, spider's (acc f sg) — паучий
суро́вость
sternness, severity

А. П. Чехов, «Злоумышленник», 1885 · sentence 3 of 73

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