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The Malefactor


Самый последний мальчишка не станет тебе без грузила ловить.

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The lowliest little boy won’t fish for you without a sinker.

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

У нас и господа так ловят. Even the gentry hereabouts fish that way.

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.

Дураку закон не писан… For a fool no law is written…

The words in this sentence

са́мый
most (superlative marker)
после́дний
last, final (m nom sg)
мальчи́шка
urchin, little boy (pejorative)
не
not
ста́нет
will become/begin (3sg fut of стать) — стать
тебе́
to you (dat/prep, informal) — ты
без
without
грузи́ла
sinkers, net weights (nom/acc pl) — грузило
лови́ть
to catch, to fish

А. П. Чехов, «Злоумышленник», 1885 · sentence 21 of 73

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