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The Malefactor


Точно вчера родился или с неба упал.

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As though he were born yesterday or dropped out of the sky.

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— Дураком каким прикидывается! — What a fool he makes himself out to be!

Разве ты не понимаешь, глупая голова, к чему ведёт это отвинчивание? Don’t you understand, you stupid head, what this unscrewing leads to?

Не догляди сторож, так ведь поезд мог бы сойти с рельсов, людей бы убило! If the watchman hadn’t noticed, the train might have gone off the rails, people would have been killed!

The words in this sentence

то́чно
exactly; as if
вчера́
yesterday
роди́лся
he was born (past m) — родиться
и́ли
or
с
with (+instr); from, off (+gen)
не́ба
sky, heaven (gen sg) — небо
упа́л
fell (past m of упасть) — упасть

А. П. Чехов, «Злоумышленник», 1885 · sentence 26 of 73

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