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The Malefactor


У нас и господа так ловят.

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Even the gentry hereabouts fish that way.

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— Чаво? — Wha’?

Да ведь вы сами спрашиваете! Why, it’s you yourself that’s asking!

Самый последний мальчишка не станет тебе без грузила ловить. The lowliest little boy won’t fish for you without a sinker.

Конечно, который непонимающий, ну, тот и без грузила пойдёт ловить. Of course, a man with no understanding, well, he’ll go fishing without a sinker.

The words in this sentence

у
at, by; belonging to
нас
us (gen/acc/prep of мы) — мы
и
even (particle)
господа́
gentlemen, sirs (nom/voc pl) — господин
так
so, thus
ло́вят
they catch (3pl) — ловить

А. П. Чехов, «Злоумышленник», 1885 · sentence 20 of 73

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