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Give the man his due
There seems little risk of it. (1)In 1999 the BBC conducted a series of polls, asking people to name the greatest men and women of the millennium. In October of that year, within a few weeks of the tenth anniversary of the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, the BBC declared the people's choice for “greatest thinker”. It was Karl Marx. Einstein was runner-up, （3）Newton and Darwin third and fourth, respectively. “Although dictatorships throughout the 20th century have distorted original ideas,” the state-financed broadcaster noted, “his work as a philosopher, social scientist, historian and a revolutionary is respected by academics today.” Concerning the second point, at least, the BBC was correct: Marx is still accorded respect.(4)As a field of scholarship in its own right（5）, admittedly, Marxist political and economic theory is past its peak. By now, presumably, most of the things that Marx meant, or really meant, or probably meant, or might conceivably have meant, have been posited and adequately (though far from conclusively) debated. （6）But a slackening of activity amid the staggeringly voluminous primary sources is not the best measure of Marx's enduring intellectual influence.（7）
Books on Marx aimed at undergraduates and non-specialists continue to sell steadily in Western Europe and the United States. And new ones keep coming. For instance, Verso has just published, to warm reviews, “Marx's Revenge” by Meghnad Desai, a professor of economics at the London School of Economics. Mr Desai argues that Marx was misunderstood and that the great man was right about far more than he is given credit for. In August, Oxford University Press published “Why Read Marx Today?” by Jonathan Wolff. It too is an engaging read. The author, a professor at University College London, is a particularly skilful elucidator of political philosophy.(8) In his book, he argues that Marx was misunderstood and that the great man was right about far more than he is given credit for.
The newly released memoirs of Eric Hobsbawm, the celebrated historian, lifelong Marxist and unrepentant member of the Communist Party for as long as it survived, also deserve mention. The reviews were mixed, in fact, but rarely less than respectful, finding much to admire in the author's unwavering intellectual commitment.(9) Mr Hobsbawm argues...well, he argues that Marx was misunderstood and that the great man was right about far more than he is given credit for.（10）Adam Smith, one might say, stands in relation to liberal capitalism, a comparatively successful economic order, roughly where Marx stands in relation to socialism.（11）Searches on Amazon.com and other booksellers indicate that titles in print about Marx outnumber books about Adam Smith by a factor of between five and ten.(12)
A hard day's browsing of undergraduate reading-lists suggests that, in economics faculties, Smith is way out in front—interesting, given that Marx saw himself as an economist first and foremost. Elsewhere in the social sciences and humanities,（13） the reverse is true. Smith is rarely seen, as you might expect, though in fact there is far more in Smith than just economics; whereas from Marx and his expositors and disciples it seems there is no escape. It is the breadth of Marx's continuing influence, especially as contrasted with his strange irrelevance to modern economics, that is so arresting.（14）How is one to explain this? What, if anything, remains valuable in Marx's writings? This is not a straightforward question, given that he evidently had such difficulty making himself understood.
(1)开头是过渡句子，与上文衔接。 Poll n.选举之投票, 民意测验
(2)dismantling分解,指柏林墙的倒塌
（3）runner-up n.亚军 dictatorship n.专政 distorted adj.扭歪的, 受到曲解的
(4) be accorded respect=be worth respect 值得尊敬
（5）in one's own right 凭本身的头衔[资格、质量] admittedly adv. 无可否认的
（6）past one’s peak 过了顶峰 presumably adv.推测起来, 大概 后面的这个句子是我认为比较经典的句子之一，用了几个mean表示不同的意义，分别是表达的，真正想表达的，可能要表达的，确实想表达的。posit v.安置
（7）slacken v.减少 amid prep.在...中 staggeringly adv.摇晃地, 蹒跚地 voluminous adj.大部分的 enduring adj.持久的, 不朽的
(8) give credit to相信engaging adj.动人的, 有魅力的, 迷人的 elucidator n.说明者
(9) memoir n.论文集 unrepentant adj.不后悔的 unwavering adj.不动摇的, 坚定的
后面的句子中是对文章的评论：评论虽然比较混杂，但事实上并不是不值得人们
尊敬，因为里面折射了作者坚定的理论。
（10）这个句子很有意思在于他和前面的句子形成了互相之间的呼应，有个well,
表达了这个句子和前面的句子在意思上的对应，很有味道。
（11）后面是where带的从句，in relation to adv.关于, 涉及, 与…相比
(12) outnumber vt.比...多 by a factor of between five and ten 多了5%-10%
（13）way out in front 已经不再受到人们那么多的重视 humanities人文学科
仍然有着很大的意义。
题 意识是马克思影响的深度表现在他的那些与现代经济看起来相悖的理论现在
（14）whereas conj.然而 expositor n.评注者 disciple n.信徒 irrelevance n.枝节问
文段分析：本文段的主要内容是应该给予马克思理论足够的重视，由BBC和书籍销售的问题来看出马克思在当今仍然受到西方人士的赏识，甚至把马克思和亚当-斯密进行比较（要知道亚当-斯密在西方经济理论中的重要地位几乎是无人可及的，而马克思的某些经济理论却超越了他的自由资本主义理论）最后一段是问句，用来引出下文对马克思理论的进一步分析。
TO BE CONTINUED~~~~~~
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其实毕答哥拉斯定理是费马猜想的源头之一，地心说被证明是错的所以才称为科学，牛顿的伟大之处是发明了被爱因斯坦推翻的三定律，以上有部分是波普的证伪主义理论，根据该理论，我走了可以说明我还和你在一起。所以，886
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