【英译汉欣赏】If money, according to Augier, “comes into the world with a congenital blood-stain on one cheek,” capital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt. 资本来到世间，从头到脚，每个毛孔都滴着血和肮脏的东西。Capital is said by a Quarterly Reviewer to fly turbulence and strife, and to be timid, which is very true; but this is very incompletely stating the question. Capital eschews no profit, or very small profit, just as Nature was formerly said to abhor a vacuum. With adequate profit, capital is very bold. A certain 10 per cent. will ensure its employment anywhere; 20 per cent. certain will produce eagerness; 50 per cent., positive audacity; 100 per cent. will make it ready to trample on all human laws; 300 per cent., and there is not a crime at which it will scruple, nor a risk it will not run, even to the chance of its owner being hanged. If turbulence and strife will bring a profit, it will freely encourage both. Smuggling and the slave-trade have amply proved all that is here stated.《评论家季刊》说：“资本逃避动乱和纷争，它的本性是胆怯的。这是真的，但还不是全部真理。资本害怕没有利润或利润太少，就象自然界害怕真空一样。一旦有适当的利润，资本就胆大起来。如果有10％的利润，它就保证到处被使用；有20％的利润，它就活跃起来；有50％的利润，它就铤而走险；为了100％的利润，它就敢践踏一切人间法律；有300％的利润，它就敢犯任何罪行，甚至冒绞首的危险。如果动乱和纷争能带来利润，它就会鼓励动乱和纷争。走私和贩卖奴隶就是证明。”
——马克思《资本论》第1卷第31章
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