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The Malefactor


Не догляди сторож, так ведь поезд мог бы сойти с рельсов, людей бы убило!

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If the watchman hadn’t noticed, the train might have gone off the rails, people would have been killed!

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

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

Ты людей убил бы! You would have killed people!

The words in this sentence

не
not
догляди́
keep an eye on it! (imper, colloq.) — доглядеть
сто́рож
watchman, guard (nom)
так
so, thus
ведь
after all, you know
по́езд
train (nom/acc sg)
мог
he could (past m of мочь) — мочь
бы
would (conditional particle)
сойти́
to go down, get off (inf)
с
with (+instr); from, off (+gen)
ре́льсов
rails (gen pl) — рельс
люде́й
people (gen/acc pl of люди) — человек
уби́ло
it killed (past n of убить) — убить

А. П. Чехов, «Злоумышленник», 1885 · sentence 28 of 73

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