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.

经过与病魔的长期斗争后，AK-47突击步枪发明人米哈伊尔·卡拉什尼科夫周一在俄罗斯去世，享年94岁。

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日出生于俄罗斯一个农民家庭。当他还是一个小孩子的时候，他就被流放到了西伯利亚。在二战期间，这位未来的中将在一个坦克旅中作战，之后成为这个坦克旅的指挥官。但是他最终因伤离开前线，去到枪支商店工作。

After the war, Kalashnikov and a team entered a state-sponsored contest and invented the rifle, which became the best-selling rifle in history.

二战结束后，卡拉什尼科夫与他的团队参加了一项国家主办的竞赛，并在竞赛中发明了AK-47这种历史上最畅销的突击步枪。

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.

卡拉什尼科夫也随之声名鹊起。在他去世的时候，他已经2次荣获社会主义劳动英雄称号、1次获得现代俄罗斯联邦英雄称号，而且他在苏维埃里工作了6个任期。

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年说：“都怪纳粹德国让我成为了枪支设计者。我一直以来只想设计农业机械的。”