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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.
參考翻譯：
3月14日下午兩點三刻，當代最偉大的思想家停止思想了。他一個人留在房間裡還不到兩分鐘，等我們再進去的時候，他已經坐在安樂椅上靜靜地睡去了──永遠睡去了。
這個人的逝去，對於戰鬥著的歐美無產階級來說，對於歷史科學來說，都是不可估量的損失。這位巨人逝去後所形成的空白，在不久的將來，我們就會感覺到。
正如達爾文發現生物界的發展規模一樣，馬克思發現了人類歷史的發展規律，即歷來為各種思想體系所重重掩蓋著的一個簡單事實：人們首先必須有了衣食住行，然後才能從事政治、科學、藝術、宗教等活動，所以，直接的物質的生產資料的.生產，因而一個民族和一個時代的經濟發展階段，便構成為基礎，人們的國家制度、法律規定、藝術乃至宗教觀念便是在這個基礎上發展起來的，因此也就必須從這個基礎出發來加以說明，而不是像過去那樣本末倒置。
不僅如此，馬克思還發現了現代資本主義生產方式以及因它所產生的資產階級社會的特殊運動規律。無論資產階級經濟學家或社會主義批評家過去所作的一切研究都只是在黑暗中摸索，而隨著剩餘價值的發展，這一領域就豁然開朗了。
一個人能有這樣兩項發現，可以說是不虛此生了。甚至只要能做出一項這樣的發現，也已經是幸福的了。可是，馬克思在他所研究的每一個領域，甚至在數學領域，都有獨到的發現。這樣的領域很多，而且對其中任何一個領域的研究，都不是膚淺的。
核心詞彙：
Cease: to stop happening or existing; to stop sthfrom happening or existing (使)停止，終止，結束
Welfare payments cease as soon as an individualstarts a job.
一旦就業，即停發福利救濟.
You never cease to amaze me!
你總能讓我感到驚奇!
They voted to cease strike action immediately.
他們投票決定立即停止罷工.
He ordered his men to cease fire(= stop shooting).
他命令手下人停止射擊.
The company ceased trading in June.
這家公司已於六月停業.
conceal: to hide sb/sth 隱藏;隱瞞;掩蓋
The paintings were concealed beneath a thick layer of plaster.
那些畫被隱藏在厚厚的灰泥層下面。
For a long time his death was concealed from her.
他的死瞞了很長時間都沒告訴她。
Tim could barely conceal his disappointment.
蒂姆幾乎掩飾不住自己的失望。
She sat down to conceal the fact that she was trembling.
她坐下來以不讓人看出她在發抖。
Subsistence: the state of having just enough money or food to stay alive 勉強維持生活
Many families are living below the level of subsistence.
許多家庭難以度日。
to live at/above/below (the) subsistence level
在最低生活水平線上╱以上╱以下
They had no visible means of subsistence.
他們生計無著。
subsistence agriculture/farming(= growing enough only to live on, not to sell)
收成僅夠自身口糧的生存農業
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 小時的工資僅夠活命。
Vice versa: used to say that the opposite of what you have just said is also true 反過來也一樣;反之亦然
You can cruise from Cairo to Aswan or vice versa(= also from Aswan to Cairo).
你可以乘船從開羅遊覽到阿斯旺，也可以從阿斯旺遊覽到開羅。
