Mikhail Kalashnikov, who is credited with inventing the AK-47 rifle died Monday in Russia after a lengthy battle with illness. He was 94 years old.
經(jīng)過與病魔的長期斗爭后，AK-47突擊步槍發(fā)明人米哈伊爾·卡拉什尼科夫周一在俄羅斯去世，享年94歲。

Born Nov. 10, 1919 to Russian peasants who were deported to Siberia when he was a child, the future lieutenant general fought in, and then commanded, a tank brigade in World War II, but ended up in a gun shop after a wound took him from the front.
卡拉什尼科夫1919年11月10日出生于俄羅斯一個農(nóng)民家庭。當他還是一個小孩子的時候，他就被流放到了西伯利亞。在二戰(zhàn)期間，這位未來的中將在一個坦克旅中作戰(zhàn)，之后成為這個坦克旅的指揮官。但是他最終因傷離開前線，最后去到槍支商店工作。

After the war, Kalashnikov and a team entered a state-sponsored contest and invented the rifle, which became the best-selling rifle in history.
二戰(zhàn)結束后，卡拉什尼科夫與他的團隊參加了一項國家主辦的競賽，并在競賽中發(fā)明了AK-47這種歷史上最暢銷的突擊步槍。

And Kalashnikov’s fame rose as well. By the time he passed, he’d been honored twice as a hero of the Soviet Union, once as a hero of the modern Russian Federation, and had served six terms in the Supreme Soviet.
卡拉什尼科夫也隨之聲名鵲起。在他去世的時候，他已經(jīng)2次榮獲社會主義勞動英雄稱號、1次獲得現(xiàn)代俄羅斯聯(lián)邦英雄稱號，而且他在最高蘇維埃里工作了6個任期。

In 1987, Kalashnikov said, ”Blame the Nazi Germans for making me become a gun designer. I always wanted to construct agriculture machinery.”
卡拉什尼科夫在1987年說：“都怪納粹德國讓我成為了槍支設計者。我一直以來只想設計農(nóng)業(yè)機械的?！?/div>