【重要講話】

　　中華民族是世界上偉大的民族，有著5000多年源遠流長的文明歷史，為人類文明進步作出了不可磨滅的貢獻。1840年鴉片戰爭以后，中國逐步成為半殖民地半封建社會，國家蒙辱、人民蒙難、文明蒙塵，中華民族遭受了前所未有的劫難。從那時起，實現中華民族偉大復興，就成為中國人民和中華民族最偉大的夢想。

     The Chinese nation is a great nation. With a history of more than 5,000 years, China has made indelible contributions to the progress of human civilization. After the Opium War of 1840, however, China was gradually reduced to a semi-colonial, semi-feudal society and suffered greater ravages than ever before. The country endured intense humiliation, the people were subjected to great pain, and the Chinese civilization was plunged into darkness. Since that time, national rejuvenation has been the greatest dream of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation.

——2021年7月1日，習近平在慶祝中國共產黨成立一百周年大會上的講話

　　為了拯救民族危亡，中國人民奮起反抗，仁人志士奔走吶喊，太平天國運動、戊戌變法、義和團運動、辛亥革命接連而起，各種救國方案輪番出臺，但都以失敗而告終。中國迫切需要新的思想引領救亡運動，迫切需要新的組織凝聚革命力量。

     To save the nation from peril, the Chinese people put up a courageous fight. As noble-minded patriots sought to pull the nation together, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, the Reform Movement of 1898, the Yihetuan Movement, and the Revolution of 1911 rose one after the other, and a variety of plans were devised to ensure national survival, but all of these ended in failure. China was in urgent need of new ideas to lead the movement to save the nation and a new organization to rally revolutionary forces.

——2021年7月1日，習近平在慶祝中國共產黨成立一百周年大會上的講話

　　十月革命一聲炮響，給中國送來了馬克思列寧主義。在中國人民和中華民族的偉大覺醒中，在馬克思列寧主義同中國工人運動的緊密結合中，中國共產黨應運而生。中國產生了共產黨，這是開天辟地的大事變，深刻改變了近代以后中華民族發展的方向和進程，深刻改變了中國人民和中華民族的前途和命運，深刻改變了世界發展的趨勢和格局。

     With the salvoes of Russia's October Revolution in 1917, Marxism-Leninism was brought to China. Then in 1921, as the Chinese people and the Chinese nation were undergoing a great awakening and Marxism-Leninism was becoming closely integrated with the Chinese workers' movement, the Communist Party of China was born. The founding of a communist party in China was an epoch-making event, which profoundly changed the course of Chinese history in modern times, transformed the future of the Chinese people and nation, and altered the landscape of world development.

——2021年7月1日，習近平在慶祝中國共產黨成立一百周年大會上的講話

【相關詞匯和短語】

仁人志士

noble-minded patriots

開天辟地的大事變

epoch-making event

半殖民地半封建社會

semi-colonial, semi-feudal society