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《孩子们的呼声》(“The Cry of Children”)是英国十九世纪维多利亚女王时代杰出的女诗人伊丽莎白·巴列蒂(勃朗宁夫人)于1844年所写的一篇十分动人的诗篇.它揭露和谴责当时英国矿场主对童工惨无人道的剥削行为.马克思和恩格斯在十九世纪五十和六十年代曾多次发表政论文章对这种剥削行为予以痛斥.甚至连当时英国一位名叫莱昂纳德纳的工厂视察员也不得不承认:“为了使资本家获得更多的利润,童工与未成年工和女工每天工作时间延长,而且常增加夜班.这些现象根本不能保持他们的健康,同道德、儿童教育和正常生活完全不能相容,使人根本不能合理地享受丝毫的生活乐趣.”无怪马克思1859年在《不列颠工业的状况》中十分赞赏这位视察员的仗义直言的谴责.马克思写道,“我很想利用这个机会向那些不顾万能的阶级利益、以道义上的英勇气慨、顽强的毅力和出众的智力来保护被压迫群众的不列颠工厂视察员表示敬意.”译者也是怀着敬意来翻译英国女诗人E·B·勃朗宁夫人的杰作《孩子们的呼声》的.《孩子们的呼声》文字感人,骤读时似乎使人感到战斗精神不强,其实不然,作者在诗的结句中已经正告统治者:孩子们的无声啜泣将会带来一股摧毁旧世界的强大革命力量.
The Cry of Children was a very touching poem written in 1844 by Elizabeth Baltti (brilliant lady of England), a victorious female poet of the nineteenth century in the United Kingdom. It uncovered and condemned the inhuman exploitation of child labor by British miners at the time, and Marx and Engels repeatedly denounced such exploitation in the 1950s and 1960s, even when a British name Factory inspectors called Leonardana also have to admit: “In order to make capitalists more profitable, child laborers, minors and women workers work longer hours per day and often increase night work, and these phenomena simply can not keep them healthy , With morality, children’s education and normal life completely incompatible, people simply can not reasonably enjoy the slightest joy of life. ”No wonder Marx in 1859 in the“ state of British industry ”very much appreciated the inspector’s justification bluntly condemned Marx wrote: “I would very much like to take this opportunity to show my courage to those who, in spite of all the class interests, And the superior intelligence of the British factory inspectors who protected the oppressed masses. ”The translator also paid homage to the translation of“ The Voice of the Children, ”a masterpiece of the British poet, Ms. E. Browning." The children The words are touching, it seems to make people feel that fighting spirit is not strong at the time of reading, but in actual fact, the author has already ruled rulers in the concluding poem that the silent sobs of children will bring a mighty revolution to destroy the old world power.