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Engels (whose name resembles the word for "angel" in German) offered an astoundingly big-hearted solution: he would go back to Manchester to resume life in the detested family cotton business and provide Marx with the money he needed to write his world-changing treatise. For the next 20 years Engels worked grumpily away, handing over half his generous income to an ever more demanding Marx. He also collaborated intensively on the great work, contributing many ideas, practical examples from business and much-needed editorial attention. When at last volume I of "Das Kapital" was finished, he extricated himself from the business and moved to London to be near the Marx family, enjoying life as an Economist-reading rentier and intellectual.
Engels was an enigma. Gifted, energetic and fascinated by political ideas, he was nevertheless ready to play second fiddle to Marx. "Marx was a genius we others were at best talented," he declared after his friend's death. Mr Hunt does a brilliant job of setting the two men's endeavours in the context of the political, social and philosophical currents at the time. It makes for a complex story that can be hard to follow but is well worth persevering with.
A. 어휘
resemble 닮다. astoundingly 놀랍도록. big-hearted 관대한, 통이 큰.
resume 다시 시작하다, 회복하다, 되찾다. detest 몹시 싫어하는.
treatise 학술논문, 보고서. grumpily 묵묵하게, 기분이 언짢아서, 무뚝뚝하게.
worked grumpily away 무뚝뚝하게 열심히 일하였다.
collaborate 공동으로 일하다, 合作(합작)하다. intensively 강렬하게, 高度(고도)로.
contribute 기여하다. practical examples 實例(실례). editorial 편집상의.
volume I 제 1권. extricate 해방시키다, 이탈하다. Economist-reading 잡지신문 The Economist(1843년 창간)를 읽는. rentier 정기적인 수입이 있는 사람.
intellectual 지식인. enigma 수수께끼, 불가해한 것. gifted 천부적인 재능이 있는.
fiddle 바이올린. play second fiddle 단역(보조역)을 맡아 하다.
endeavour 노력. context 脈絡(맥락). current 潮流(조류).
makes for ...에 기여하다, 접근하다. persevere 인내하다.
worth persevering with 인내하며 읽을만한 가치가 있는.
100-4-473
Tall and handsome, Engels had a taste not just for ideas but for the good lifewine, women, riding with the Cheshire huntand seems to have felt little sense of irony that all these things were paid for by the proletariats back-breaking labour. His domestic life was much more unconventional than Marxs. He lived, on and off, with a semi-literate Irish working-class girl, Mary Burns then, when she died, with her sister, Lizzy, whom he married only on her deathbed. He had no children, though he chivalrously took responsibility for a boy whom Marx had fathered with a housekeeper.
Engels's sacrifices continued after Marx's death. He not only carried on funding the Marx family and their various hangers-on, but also spent years pulling together the chaotic notes Marx left behind for volumes II and III of "Das Kapital". Inevitably there were lots of loose ends which Engels tied up as he saw fit, and sometimes the results were more revolutionary than the author may have intended. In volume III, where Marx discussed the tendency of companies' profitability to fall and noted that this might lead to the "shaking" of capitalist production, Engels substituted the word "collapse", opening up the text to much more radical interpretations by 20th-century Marxists.
When Engels died in 1895, he eschewed London's Highgate cemetery where his friend was laid to rest. Self-effacing to the last, he had his ashes scattered off England's coast at Eastbournethe scene of happy holidays with the Marxes.
A. 어휘
taste 취향. idea 사상. riding 乘馬(승마). Cheshire 영국 서부의 州(주).
the Cheshire hunt 매년 11월에서 이듬해 3월까지 열리는 사냥대회.
domestic life 가정생활. unconventional 전통에 얽매이지 않는, 자유로운.
on and off 때때로, 불규칙적으로.
semi-literate 半文盲(반문맹)의, 읽을 수는 있으나 쓸 수는 없는.
chivalrously 기사도에 맞게, 예의바르게, 관대하게. sacrifice 희생.
carried on 계속하였다. fund 돈을 대다. hangers-on 측근들, 食客(식객)들.
chaotic 무질서한, 대혼란의. inevitably 불가피하게.
loose ends 문맥이 논리에 맞지 않는 부분. profitability 收益性(수익성).
substitute 置換(치환)하다, 대신하다. radical 급진적인, 과격한.
interpretation 해석. open up 길을 열다. eschew 피하다, 멀리하다.
cemetery 공동묘지. self-effacing 표면에 나서지 않는. scatter 뿌리다.
the Marxes 마르크스 가족.
B. 구문
- and seems to have felt little. . . the proletariats back-breaking labour.
cf. (he) seems to have felt→it seems that he felt 〈완료부정사: 본동사(seems)보다 한 시제 앞선다. 〉
ex. It seems that he was a thief→He seems to have been a thief.
[이 모든 것에 대한 비용은 프롤레타리아(무산계급)의 매우 힘든 노동에 의해서 지급된다는 아이러니를 거의 느끼지 않았던 것처럼 보인다.]
- there were lots of loose ends which Engels tied up as he saw fit,
[논리에 맞지 않아서 Engels가 알맞게 수정한 글들이 많이 있었다.]
- In volume III, where Marx discussed. . . by 20th-century Marxists.
[마르크스가 회사의 수익성이 하락하는 경향을 논하고 이것이 자본주의의 생산성을
shaking하는 쪽으로 이끌 것이라고 언급한 제 3권에서 Engels는 “shaking을 collapse로 대신하였는데 이것이 20세기 마르크스주의자들에게 ”資本論(자본론)“을 보다 더 급진적으로 해석하도록 하는 길을 열어 주었다.]
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