文革时期常用词汇的英译

蒋割荆

B（3）

标榜: brag about/present oneself as
标新立异。标社会主义之新，立无产阶级之异: Create what is new and original, new in the sense that is socialist and original in the sense that is proletarian.
“标语口号式”的倾向: the tendency towards the "poster and slogan style"
表决: put a question to the vote
表面是人，暗中是鬼: appear to be men but are demons at heart/ghosts in human guise
表面现象: superficial phenomenon
表面文章: specious writing
表态: make public (proclaim) one's stand on
表现自己: assert oneself
表现好: acquit oneself well
表里不一: speak and act in one way but actually aim at something quite different
表忠: affirm one's loyalty to
婊子还想立牌坊: It is like a woman of easy virtue who, while selling herself, believes that she must have a monument erected to her chastity.; （编者译）It is like a whore longing for a monument to her chastity.
别树一帜: raise another standard
别有用心: with ulterior motives
冰冻三日，非一日之寒: It takes more than one cold day for the river to freeze three foot deep.
兵民是胜利之本: The army and the people are the foundation of victory.
波浪式的起伏: in a wave-like manner
拨开迷雾洞察一切: clear away the miasma to achieve a profound insight into things
拨开迷雾，端正方向: chart the correct course through heavy fog
拨正航线: set right the course of
剥削阶级本能: exploiting class instinct
剥夺……权利: deprive someone of one's rights
剥光……外衣: strip someone of one's mantle of
剥削阶级轻视劳动的思想影响: the contempt for labor, which is an expression of the influence exerted by the ideas of the exploiting classes
剥削收入: income from exploitation
剥削有罪，罪该万死: Exploitation is criminal, utterly criminal.
剥开画皮: expose...for what it is
博爱观: concept of brotherhood
勃列日涅夫主义: Brezhnev doctrine
不白之冤: a wrong that has not been righted
不卑不亢: neither humble nor pert
不齿于人类的狗屎堆: something filthy and contemptible like dog's dung
不打无准备之仗: fight no battle unprepared
不打自招: a confession made without duress
不戴帽子: be exempted from stigmatization
不得人心: contrary to the will of the people
不得已而求其次: have to take the second best
不得违背: no violation whatsoever will be permitted
不懂就是不懂，不要装懂: We must not pretend to know what we do not know.
不斗则已，斗则必胜: We will not fight unless we are sure of victory.
不二法门: standard practice
不法地主: lawless landlords
不法资本家: lawless capitalists
不放过一个坏人，不冤枉一个好人: See to it that not a single bad person escapes or a single good person is wronged.
不分敌我友: make no distinction between enemies, friends and ourselves
不分轻重缓急: without regard to the degree of importance or urgency
不分青红皂白: indiscriminately
不给出路的政策，不是无产阶级的政策: It is not the policy of the proletariat to deny people a way out.
不共戴天之仇: bitter enemy
不够论战的水平: fall far below the standards of a debate
不顾大局: lack of consideration for the whole
不辜负党的信任: live up to the Party's trust
不辜负党的培养: be worthy of the Party's care
不怪天也不怪地: blame neither heaven nor earth
“不管白猫黑猫，捉住老鼠就是好猫。”: "White or black, so long as the cats can catch mice, they are alright."
不管地位多高，资格多老，声望多大: no matter how high one's position, how senior his service and how great his renown
不管三七二十一: no matter what may happen
不怀好意: ill intentions
不会有好下场: will come to no good end
不获全胜决不收兵: Never stop till complete victory.
不计报酬，不讲条件，日以继夜地劳动的态度: the attitude of laboring day and night irrespective of pay or working conditions
不见棺材不掉泪: He does not shed tears until he sees his own coffin.
不讲情面: not care to save the face of
不绝其自新之路: not deny a person the chance to turn over a new leaf
（任何时候都）不可忘记阶级斗争，不可忘记无产阶级专政，不可忘记贫农、下中农，不可忘记党的政策，不可忘记党的工作: At no time must we forget class struggle, forget the dictatorship of the proletariat, forget to rely upon the poor and lower-middle peasants, or forget the policy of the Party and Party work.
不可挽救的蜕化变质分子: incorrigibly degenerate elements
不可救药: incurable
不可告人的勾当: furtive activities
不可收拾: unmanageable/get out of hand
不可思议: unthinkable/incomprehensible
不堪设想: inconceivable
不劳动者不得食: He who does not work, neither shall he eat.
不劳而获的收入: unearned income
（把）不利因素转化为有利因素: turn unfavorable factors into favorable ones
不良分子: unhealthy elements
不良现象: unhealthy phenomena
不流血的斗争方式: a form of struggle without blood-shed
不伦不类: be neither fish nor fowl
不漏掉一个坏人: make sure that not a single bad person escapes
不买帐: pay no heed to
不明真相: be unaware of the true
不拿群众一针一线: Don't take a single needle or piece of thread from the masses.
不谋私利: unselfish
不怕苦，不怕死: fear neither hardship nor death
不怕天，不怕地: fear neither heaven nor earth
不破不立，不塞不流，不止不行: There is no construction without destruction, no flowing without clamming and no motion without rest.
不认账: go back on one's word
不入虎穴，焉得虎子: how can you catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger's lair?
不失时机: lose no time
不识人间有羞耻事: lost to all sense of shame
不是你吃掉我，就是我吃掉你: Either you swallow me up, or I swallow you up.
不是东风压倒西风，就是西风压倒东风，中间的道路是没有的: Either the East Wind prevails over the West Wind, or the West Wind prevails over the East Wind. There is no middle road.
不躺在过去的成绩上: not to rest on one's past achievement
不调和的斗争: irreconcilable struggle
不痛不痒: superficially
不为名，不为利: seek no fame nor gain
不畏艰险: fearing neither hardship nor danger
不问政治: pay no attention to politics
不闻不问: turn a blind eye to
不忘阶级苦，牢记血泪仇: Never forget the bitter class oppression!
不惜任何代价: at all costs
不肖子孙: unworthy descendants
不幸而言中了！: Unfortunately, our words have proved all too true!
不许别人革命: forbid people to make revolution
不学无术: not study and know nothing
不言而喻: it goes without saying that... /self-evident
不要忘本: never forget one's origin
不要小看不拿枪的敌人: must not lose sight of the enemy without guns
不要打草惊蛇: Let the sleeping dog lie.
不要脸: shameless
不要上当: not allow oneself to be misled
（只有）不要脸的人，才说得出不要脸的话: Only someone without any sense of shame dare suggest anything so shameful.
不以人们意志为转移的客观规律: an objective law independent of man's will
不遗余力地吹捧: spare no efforts in extolling
不在没收之列: not be subject to confiscation
不折不扣地: carry out to the letter
不正当收入: illegitimate income
不正派: the dishonest way
不知羞耻地: unblushingly
不知人间有羞耻事: lost to all sense of shame
不准革命的理论: theory of forbidding revolution
不着边际地，无关痛痒地: indulge in irrelevant inanities
不着边际的长篇大论: long-windedness
不自量力: overreach oneself
不足为奇: not at all surprising
不足为据: not prove the point
补贴工分: subsidiary work-points
捕风捉影: beat the air
步步紧跟: follow at every step
步伐: tempo
步行串连: travel on foot to exchange revolutionary experience
步步为营且战且退的策略: make a stand at every step and carry on the fight while beating a retreat
部署: arrangements for