Ежели б я рельсу унёс или, положим, бревно поперёк ейного пути положил, ну, тогды, пожалуй, своротило бы поезд, а то… тьфу! гайка!
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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!
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— Ну! — Well, now!
Уж сколько лет всей деревней гайки отвинчиваем и хранил господь, а тут крушение… людей убил… 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…
The words in this sentence
- е́жели
- if (archaic/colloquial for если)
- б
- would (conditional particle, short for бы)
- я
- I
- ре́льсу
- rail (dat sg) — рельс
- унёс
- carried away, took away (past masc.) — унести
- и́ли
- or
- поло́жим
- let us suppose (parenthetical) — положить
- бревно́
- log, beam
- поперёк
- across, crosswise
- е́йного
- her, hers (arch./dial. gen m) — ейный
- пути́
- way, path (gen/dat/prep sg) — путь
- положи́л
- put, placed (past m of положить) — положить
- ну
- well!, come on (particle)
- тогды́
- then (dial./arch. for тогда) — тогда
- пожа́луй
- perhaps, very well
- свороти́ло
- turned aside; knocked askew (past n) — своротить
- бы
- would (conditional particle)
- по́езд
- train (nom/acc sg)
- а
- and, but (conjunction)
- то
- that; then (если... то)
- тьфу
- pah! ugh! (interj. of disgust)
- га́йка
- nut (for a bolt) (nom sg)
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