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The Malefactor


— Подойди поближе и отвечай на мои вопросы.

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— Step closer and answer my questions.

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Where it stands

— Денис Григорьев! — Denis Grigoryev!

— начинает следователь. — the magistrate begins.

Седьмого числа сего июля железнодорожный сторож Иван Семёнов Акинфов, проходя утром по линии, на 141-й версте, застал тебя за отвинчиванием гайки, коей рельсы прикрепляются к шпалам. On the seventh day of this July the railway watchman Ivan Semyonov Akinfov, passing along the line in the morning at the 141st verst, came upon you unscrewing a nut, by which nut the rails are fastened to the sleepers.

Вот она, эта гайка!.. Here it is, this very nut!..

The words in this sentence

подойди́
come up (imper) — подойти
побли́же
a bit closer
и
and; also, even
отвеча́й
answer! (imper sg) — отвечать
на
on, onto; at
мои́
my, mine (nom/acc pl of мой) — мой
вопро́сы
questions (nom/acc pl) — вопрос

А. П. Чехов, «Злоумышленник», 1885 · sentence 4 of 73

This is one sentence of «Злоумышленник» — 73 sentences long, and the whole story reads like this: every word glossed where it stands, the English out of your eyeline until you ask for it. Free: the reader opens the first instalment with no account and the rest with a free account, and the page with the English under every line needs none at all.

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