晨读英语美文《Address by Engels》

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　　Address by Engels

"On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker ceasedto think. He had been left alone for scarcely two minutes, and when we came back we foundhim in his armchair, peacefully gone to sleep-but forever.

"An immeasurable loss has been sustained both by the militant proletariat of Europe andAmerica, and by historical science, in the death of this man. The gap that has been left by thedeparture of this mighty spirit will soon enough make itself felt.

"Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered thelaw of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth ofideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it canpursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.; that therefore the production of the immediatematerial means of subsistence and consequently the degree of economic development attainedby a given people or during a given epoch form the foundation upon which the stateinstitutions, the legal conceptions, art, and even the ideas on religion, of the peopleconcerned have been evolved, and in the light of which they must, therefore, be explained,instead of vice versa, as had hitherto been the case.

"But that is not all. Marx also discovered the special law of motion governing the present-daycapitalist mode of production and the bourgeois society that this mode of production hascreated. The discovery of surplus value suddenly threw light on the problem, in trying to solvewhich all previous investigations, of both bourgeois economists and socialist critics, had beengroping in the dark.

"Two such discoveries would be enough for one lifetime. Happy the man to whom it is grantedto make even one such discovery. But in every single field which Marx investigated -- and heinvestigated very many fields, none of them superficially -- in every field, even in that ofmathematics, he made independent discoveries.

　　参考翻译：

3月14日下午两点三刻，当代最伟大的思想家停止思想了。他一个人留在房间里还不到两分钟，等我们再进去的时候，他已经坐在安乐椅上静静地睡去了──永远睡去了。

这个人的逝去，对于战斗着的欧美无产阶级来说，对于历史科学来说，都是不可估量的损失。这位巨人逝去后所形成的空白，在不久的将来，我们就会感觉到。

正如达尔文发现生物界的发展规模一样，马克思发现了人类历史的发展规律，即历来为各种思想体系所重重掩盖着的一个简单事实：人们首先必须有了衣食住行，然后才能从事政治、科学、艺术、宗教等活动，所以，直接的物质的生产资料的.生产，因而一个民族和一个时代的经济发展阶段，便构成为基础，人们的国家制度、法律规定、艺术乃至宗教观念便是在这个基础上发展起来的，因此也就必须从这个基础出发来加以说明，而不是像过去那样本末倒置。

不仅如此，马克思还发现了现代资本主义生产方式以及因它所产生的资产阶级社会的特殊运动规律。无论资产阶级经济学家或社会主义批评家过去所作的一切研究都只是在黑暗中摸索，而随着剩余价值的发展，这一领域就豁然开朗了。

一个人能有这样两项发现，可以说是不虚此生了。甚至只要能做出一项这样的发现，也已经是幸福的了。可是，马克思在他所研究的每一个领域，甚至在数学领域，都有独到的发现。这样的领域很多，而且对其中任何一个领域的研究，都不是肤浅的。

　　核心词汇：

Cease: to stop happening or existing; to stop sthfrom happening or existing (使)停止，终止，结束

Welfare payments cease as soon as an individualstarts a job.

一旦就业，即停发福利救济.

You never cease to amaze me!

你总能让我感到惊奇!

They voted to cease strike action immediately.

他们投票决定立即停止罢工.

He ordered his men to cease fire(= stop shooting).

他命令手下人停止射击.

The company ceased trading in June.

这家公司已于六月停业.

conceal: to hide sb/sth 隐藏;隐瞒;掩盖

The paintings were concealed beneath a thick layer of plaster.

那些画被隐藏在厚厚的灰泥层下面。

For a long time his death was concealed from her.

他的死瞒了很长时间都没告诉她。

Tim could barely conceal his disappointment.

蒂姆几乎掩饰不住自己的失望。

She sat down to conceal the fact that she was trembling.

她坐下来以不让人看出她在发抖。

Subsistence: the state of having just enough money or food to stay alive 勉强维持生活

Many families are living below the level of subsistence.

许多家庭难以度日。

to live at/above/below (the) subsistence level

在最低生活水平线上╱以上╱以下

They had no visible means of subsistence.

他们生计无着。

subsistence agriculture/farming(= growing enough only to live on, not to sell)

收成仅够自身口粮的生存农业

subsistence crops

生存作物

He worked a 16-hour day for a subsistence wage(= enough money to buy only basicnecessities).

他一天工作 16 小时的工资仅够活命。

Vice versa: used to say that the opposite of what you have just said is also true 反过来也一样;反之亦然

You can cruise from Cairo to Aswan or vice versa(= also from Aswan to Cairo).

你可以乘船从开罗游览到阿斯旺，也可以从阿斯旺游览到开罗。