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In 1891 young Vladimir finished law school, but as the brother of an executed wanna-be murderer his prospects were not too good.
1891年年輕的弗拉基米爾讀完了法律學(xué)校，但作為一個被處以絞刑的策劃謀殺罪人的弟弟他的前景并不樂觀
Instead Vladimir became a full-time socialist activist under the name of Lenin.
相反，弗拉基米爾成為了一個全職的社會主義活動家，新名字是列寧
In December 1897 he was arrested and exiled to Siberia with his fiancee, Nadezhda Krupskaya whom he married in 1898.
1897年12月時列寧被捕并同未婚妻娜杰日達·克魯普斯卡婭一同被流放到斯伯利亞，他們后來在1898年結(jié)婚
Returning from exile in 1900 Lenin lived almost totally in Europe for the next 17 years,
1900年流放結(jié)束的時候，列寧后來在歐洲幾乎居住了整整17年，
returning only to watch the 1905 revolution from the sidelines.
只有1905年革命爆發(fā)的時候回來過一次，只是在邊境遠遠觀望這場革命
He ran the Bolshevik party from various European cities via letters and couriers.
他通過信件和信使在不同的歐洲城市組織布爾什維克黨
The February 1917 caught him by total surprise.
1917年爆發(fā)的二月革命完全震驚了列寧
When it started Lenin and Krupskaya were living in a Swiss hovel so close to a sausage factory
它剛爆發(fā)的時候列寧和克魯普斯卡婭生活在瑞士一座小屋里，小屋離一家香腸廠十分近
that they could only stand to open their one window only in the evenings.
以致于他們白天無法忍受，到了晚上才能打開一扇窗戶
Lenin was a very old 46 and was close to packing it in.
列寧那時已經(jīng)46歲，快要放棄了
Germany saw in Lenin a great opportunity to maim the Russian war effort.
德國方面在列寧身上看到了阻礙俄國參戰(zhàn)的極好的機會
Unlike most Russian socialists Lenin made no bones about it: he wanted Russia to lose the war in order to speed up Marx's world revolution.
不同于大多數(shù)俄國的社會主義分子，列寧在這一點上毫不猶豫：他希望俄國可以輸?shù)魬?zhàn)爭，這樣便可以加速實現(xiàn)馬克思所說的世界革命
