Teffi - Sobaka -Erunda

Robert Chandler kcf19 at DIAL.PIPEX.COM
Sun Jul 25 21:56:11 UTC 2010


And a second question.

The narrator has just grasped that Harry has been cheating her in regard to
money.

 И вдруг я поняла: это он съездил к тетке и представился как мой муж, а
старая дура отдала ему мои деньги!
— Сколько она дала вам? — спокойно спросила я.
— Тысяч около тридцати. Ерунда! Я не хотел, чтобы мы растратили их по
мелочам, и вложил их в это автомобильное дело.

Does Harry’s ‘Erunda!’ mean ‘Nothing much!’ (i.e. That 30,000 roubles is
only a small sum of money)?  Or could it mean that his having deceived her
is nothing serious, since he was doing it for a supposedldy sensible reason?

R.

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