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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年年轻的弗拉基米尔读完了法律学校，但作为一个被处以绞刑的策划谋杀罪人的弟弟他的前景并不乐观
Instead Vladimir became a full-time socialist activist under the name of Lenin.
相反，弗拉基米尔成为了一个全职的社会主义活动家，新名字是列宁
In December 1897 he was arrested and exiled to Siberia with his fiancee, Nadezhda Krupskaya whom he married in 1898.
1897年12月时列宁被捕并同未婚妻娜杰日达·克鲁普斯卡娅一同被流放到斯伯利亚，他们后来在1898年结婚
Returning from exile in 1900 Lenin lived almost totally in Europe for the next 17 years,
1900年流放结束的时候，列宁后来在欧洲几乎居住了整整17年，
returning only to watch the 1905 revolution from the sidelines.
只有1905年革命爆发的时候回来过一次，只是在边境远远观望这场革命
He ran the Bolshevik party from various European cities via letters and couriers.
他通过信件和信使在不同的欧洲城市组织布尔什维克党
The February 1917 caught him by total surprise.
1917年爆发的二月革命完全震惊了列宁
When it started Lenin and Krupskaya were living in a Swiss hovel so close to a sausage factory
它刚爆发的时候列宁和克鲁普斯卡娅生活在瑞士一座小屋里，小屋离一家香肠厂十分近
that they could only stand to open their one window only in the evenings.
以致于他们白天无法忍受，到了晚上才能打开一扇窗户
Lenin was a very old 46 and was close to packing it in.
列宁那时已经46岁，快要放弃了
Germany saw in Lenin a great opportunity to maim the Russian war effort.
德国方面在列宁身上看到了阻碍俄国参战的极好的机会
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.
不同于大多数俄国的社会主义分子，列宁在这一点上毫不犹豫：他希望俄国可以输掉战争，这样便可以加速实现马克思所说的世界革命
