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The Malefactor


— На то вы и образованные, чтобы понимать, милостивцы наши…

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— That is just what you are educated for, to understand, our gracious benefactors…

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Господь знал, кому понятие давал… The Lord knew to whom He gave understanding…

Вы вот и рассудили, как и что, а сторож тот же мужик, без всякого понятия, хватает за шиворот и тащит… You, now, you reasoned it out, the how and the what of it, but the watchman is a peasant like the rest of us, with no understanding at all — he grabs you by the scruff of the neck and hauls you off…

The words in this sentence

на
on, onto; at
то
that; then (если... то)
вы
you (pl/formal)
и
and; also, even
образо́ванные
educated (nom pl) — образованный
что́бы
so that, in order to
понима́ть
to understand
ми́лостивцы
benefactors, kind sirs (nom pl, arch. deferential) — милостивец
на́ши
our (nom pl) — наш

А. П. Чехов, «Злоумышленник», 1885 · sentence 40 of 73

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