AK47突击步枪的发明者卡拉什尼科夫去世 享年94岁
Festivities were held at the Kremlin fouryears ago to celebrate Kalashnikov's 90th birthday
四年前在克里姆林宫为庆祝卡拉什尼科夫90岁生日举行的庆祝活动Theinventor of the Kalashnikov assault rifle, Mikhail Kalashnikov, has died aged94, Russian officials say.
俄罗斯官员说，卡拉什尼科夫突击步枪的发明者，米哈伊尔·卡拉什尼科夫已经去世，享年94岁。The automatic rifle he designed became oneof the world's most familiar and widely used weapons.
他设计的自动步枪，已经成为世界上最熟悉的和广泛使用的武器之一。
Its comparative simplicity made it cheap tomanufacture, as well as reliable and easy to maintain.
其比较简单使它可以被便宜的制造，同时可靠且易于维护。Although honoured by the state, Kalashnikovmade little money from his gun. He once said he would have been better offdesigning a lawn mower.
虽然由国家表彰，但是卡拉什尼科夫从他的枪那里几乎没有赚到钱。他曾经说过，他会更好地设计一台割草机。Kalashnikov was admitted to hospital withinternal bleeding in November.
卡拉什尼科夫在十一月由于内出血而被送往医院。He died on Monday in Izhevsk, Udmurtia,where he lived, an official there said.
周一，他在乌德穆尔特共和国伊热夫斯克的住所中去世，一名官员说。Matchingthe Germans
与德国匹敌Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov was bornon 10 November 1919 in western Siberia, one of 18 children.
米哈伊尔·季莫费耶维奇·卡拉什尼科夫1919年11月10日出生于西西伯利亚，家中18个孩子之一。卡拉什尼科夫和他的AK47（资料图片）
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，他被征召加入了红军，他的设计技巧被用来提高苏联使用的坦克团武器装备的效能。
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.在他被一个战友问道，为什么俄国人不能设计出一把能与德国人使用的那些相匹敌的枪之后，他设计了这种机关枪。
Work on the AK47 was completed in 1947, andtwo years later the gun was adopted by the Soviet army.设计AK47工作于1947年完成，并且这种枪在两年后被苏联军队采用。
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，其间他在伊热夫斯克公司担任首席设计师，这家公司最早生产AK-47。
He received many state honours, includingthe Order of Lenin and the Hero of Socialist Labour.他获得了许多国家级荣誉，包括列宁勋章和社会主义劳动英模。
Kalashnikov refused to acceptresponsibility for the many people killed by his weapon, blaming the policiesof other countries that acquired it.卡拉什尼科夫拒绝接受许多人被他的武器杀死的指责，把这归咎于购买它的其他国家的政策。
However, pride in his invention wastempered with sadness at its use by criminals and child soldiers.然而，对其发明的自傲，在其发明被罪犯和童军使用时受到了损害，并感到悲伤。
"It is painful for me to see whencriminal elements of all kinds fire from my weapon," Kalashnikov said in2008.“对我来说这是痛苦的，当我看到各种各样的犯罪分子用我的武器开火的时候，”卡拉什尼科夫在2008年时说。
