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The Malefactor


Ты рассуди, а потом и тащи!

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First reason it out, and then haul away!

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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…

Сказано — мужик, мужицкий и ум… As the saying goes — a peasant, and a peasant's wits…

Запишите также, ваше благородие, что он меня два раза по зубам ударил и в груди. Write down too, your honour, that he struck me twice in the teeth and in the chest.

The words in this sentence

ты
you (informal)
рассуди́
judge, decide (imper sg of рассудить) — рассудить
а
and, but (conjunction)
пото́м
then, afterwards
и
and; also, even
тащи́
drag, haul it (imper sg) — тащить

А. П. Чехов, «Злоумышленник», 1885 · sentence 42 of 73

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