Thread: Вопросы по телесериалу "Участок". (Хороший выбор для практики языка!)

"Охотно верю" значит, что он верит?
Охотно - with desire, with pleasure
Левый - чужой, посторонний, непонятно кто

Originally Posted by pushvv

"Охотно верю" значит, что он верит?
Охотно - with desire, with pleasure
Левый - чужой, посторонний, непонятно кто

thanks for the reply but to say that you believe something with desire or pleasure doesn't work in English.

"Охотно верю" значит, что он верит?

Kind of.
If somebody says "охотно верю" -- more often than not some "but" follows. In your case, he says that he believes her, but it (that he believes her) doesn't matter much, because what happened, or rather not happened, was a fluke ("Но ведь могло же быть?" -- refers to past) and even if it didn't happen in the past it may well happen in the future and this is what matters.

Originally Posted by E-learner

Kind of.
If somebody says "охотно верю" -- more often than not some "but" follows. In your case, he says that he believes her, but it (that he believes her) doesn't matter much, because what happened, or rather not happened, was a fluke ("Но ведь могло же быть?" -- refers to past) and even if it didn't happen in the past it may well happen in the future and this is what matters.

ok, thanks. That makes sense.