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The Malefactor


Разве ты не понимаешь, глупая голова, к чему ведёт это отвинчивание?

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Don’t you understand, you stupid head, what this unscrewing leads to?

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

Точно вчера родился или с неба упал. As though he were born yesterday or dropped out of the sky.

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!

Ты людей убил бы! You would have killed people!

The words in this sentence

ра́зве
really?; unless (particle)
ты
you (informal)
не
not
понима́ешь
you understand (2sg) — понимать
глу́пая
stupid, silly (nom f sg) — глупый
голова́
head (nom sg)
к
to, toward (+ dat)
чему́
what (dat sg) — что
ведёт
leads (3sg of вести) — вести
э́то
this; it is — этот
отви́нчивание
unscrewing (verbal noun, nom/acc sg)

А. П. Чехов, «Злоумышленник», 1885 · sentence 27 of 73

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