Уж сколько лет всей деревней гайки отвинчиваем и хранил господь, а тут крушение… людей убил…
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For ever so many years the whole village has been unscrewing nuts and the Lord has preserved us, and here it’s a wreck… killed people…
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— Ну! — Well, now!
Ежели б я рельсу унёс или, положим, бревно поперёк ейного пути положил, ну, тогды, пожалуй, своротило бы поезд, а то… тьфу! гайка! If I had carried off a rail, or, let’s say, laid a log across its track, well, then, maybe, the train would have been turned over, but this… pah! a nut!
The words in this sentence
- уж
- already; indeed (particle)
- ско́лько
- how much, how many
- лет
- years (gen pl of год) — год
- всей
- all, whole (f oblique of весь) — весь
- дере́вней
- with the village (instr sg); всей деревней = all together — деревня
- га́йки
- nuts (nom/acc pl) — гайка
- отви́нчиваем
- we unscrew (1pl) — отвинчивать
- и
- and; also, even
- храни́л
- he kept, preserved (past m) — хранить
- Госпо́дь
- the Lord (nom sg)
- а
- and, but (conjunction)
- тут
- here; at this point
- круше́ние
- wreck, crash, collapse
- люде́й
- people (gen/acc pl of люди) — человек
- уби́л
- he killed (past m of убить) — убить
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