AK47突擊步槍的發明者卡拉什尼科夫去世 享年94歲
Festivities were held at the Kremlin fouryears ago to celebrate Kalashnikov's 90th birthday
四年前在克里姆林宮爲慶祝卡拉什尼科夫90歲生日舉行的慶祝活動Theinventor of the Kalashnikov assault rifle, Mikhail Kalashnikov, has died aged94, Russian officials say.
俄羅斯官員說，卡拉什尼科夫突擊步槍的發明者，米哈伊爾·卡拉什尼科夫已經去世，享年94歲。The automatic rifle he designed became oneof the world's most familiar and widely used weapons.
他設計的自動步槍，已經成爲世界上最熟悉的和廣泛使用的武器之一。
Its comparative simplicity made it cheap tomanufacture, as well as reliable and easy to maintain.
其比較簡單使它可以被便宜的製造，同時可靠且易於維護。Although honoured by the state, Kalashnikovmade little money from his gun. He once said he would have been better offdesigning a lawn mower.
雖然由國家表彰，但是卡拉什尼科夫從他的槍那裏幾乎沒有賺到錢。他曾經說過，他會更好地設計一臺割草機。Kalashnikov was admitted to hospital withinternal bleeding in November.
卡拉什尼科夫在十一月由於內出血而被送往醫院。He died on Monday in Izhevsk, Udmurtia,where he lived, an official there said.
週一，他在烏德穆爾特共和國伊熱夫斯克的住所中去世，一名官員說。Matchingthe Germans
與德國匹敵Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov was bornon 10 November 1919 in western Siberia, one of 18 children.
米哈伊爾·季莫費耶維奇·卡拉什尼科夫1919年11月10日出生於西西伯利亞，家中18個孩子之一。卡拉什尼科夫和他的AK47（資料圖片）
He was called up by the Red Army in 1938,and his design skills were used to improve the effectiveness of weapons andequipment used by Soviet tank regiments.1938年，他被徵召加入了紅軍，他的設計技巧被用來提高蘇聯使用的坦克團武器裝備的效能。
He designed the machine gun after beingasked by a fellow soldier why the Russians could not come up with a gun thatwould match the ones used by the Germans.在他被一個戰友問道，爲什麼俄國人不能設計出一把能與德國人使用的那些相匹敵的槍之後，他設計了這種機關槍。
Work on the AK47 was completed in 1947, andtwo years later the gun was adopted by the Soviet army.設計AK47工作於1947年完成，並且這種槍在兩年後被蘇聯軍隊採用。
Kalashnikov continued working into his late80s as chief designer at the Izhevsk firm that first built the AK-47.卡拉什尼科夫一直工作到80年代末，其間他在伊熱夫斯克公司擔任首席設計師，這家公司最早生產AK-47。
He received many state honours, includingthe Order of Lenin and the Hero of Socialist Labour.他獲得了許多國家級榮譽，包括列寧勳章和社會主義勞動英模。
Kalashnikov refused to acceptresponsibility for the many people killed by his weapon, blaming the policiesof other countries that acquired it.卡拉什尼科夫拒絕接受許多人被他的武器殺死的指責，把這歸咎於購買它的其他國家的政策。
However, pride in his invention wastempered with sadness at its use by criminals and child soldiers.然而，對其發明的自傲，在其發明被罪犯和童軍使用時受到了損害，並感到悲傷。
"It is painful for me to see whencriminal elements of all kinds fire from my weapon," Kalashnikov said in2008.“對我來說這是痛苦的，當我看到各種各樣的犯罪分子用我的武器開火的時候，”卡拉什尼科夫在2008年時說。
