文革时期常用词汇的英译

蒋割荆

C（1）

擦亮眼睛: keep our eyes open
拆烂污: make a mess of
才子佳人: talents and beauties
踩在脚下: trample underfoot
“残酷斗争，无情打击”: ruthless struggle and merciless blows
残渣余孽: dross and remnant evils
灿烂的思想政治之花: the magnificent ideological and political flowers
惨痛教训: painful lessons
藏垢纳污: a vehicle for filth
藏身之处: a place to hide
藏在暗处: lie low
草草收场: hastily wind up a matter/end up rashly
曾几何时: it was not long before...
插手: have a hand in
插队落户: go down to the countryside to become members of production teams
插遍全球: plant...throughout the world
查无实据: investigations show no evidence against
查户口: check residence cards
拆穿谎言: give the show away
拆墙脚: undermine
拆台: sabotage
铲除: uproot
铲除毒草: eliminate poisonous weeds
猖獗一时: run wild for a while
猖狂进攻: furious attack
（循着）常规走路的人们: those who follow the old routine
唱白脸: wear the white make-up of the stage villain
唱反调: harp on a discordant tune
唱红脸: wear the red make-up of the hero
唱颂歌: psalm-singing
唱挽歌: sing the elegy for
唱对台戏: put on a rival show
唱高调: chant bombastic words
唱一个调子: sing the same tune as
畅所欲言: speak out one's mind freely
超现实主义: surrealism
超级大国: super-powers
超阶级: transcend classes
彻底查明: investigate thoroughly
彻底揭露: thoroughly (completely) expose
彻底的革命精神: the spirit of thorough-going revolution
彻底消灭: be destroyed thoroughly
彻底打击: attack...at the very roots
彻底抛弃: discard...once and for all
彻底推翻: overthrow once and for all
彻底的革命者: a thorough-going revolutionary
彻底的唯物主义者: thorough-going materialists
彻头彻尾，彻里彻外: from top to bottom and inside out
撤销处分: penalty shall be rescinded
撤销职务: dismiss from
撤职罢官: dismiss...from office
撤职查办: discharge from one's post to be prosecuted
撤职处分: punishment by dismissal
陈词滥调: often-repeated trash
陈规陋习: outdated conventions and bad customs
“沉舟侧畔千帆过，病树前头万木春”: A thousand sails pass by the shipwreck; ten thousand saplings shoot up beyond the withered tree.
趁火打劫: plunge a burning house
趁机捣乱/乘机捣乱: seize the opportunity to make trouble/seize the opportunity to create disturbances
称霸世界: dominate the world
成份: class status/class origin
成份不纯: impurities in class composition
成份好、出身好: people of good class and family origin
成名成家: seek fame and become an expert
成果: fruits
“城市老爷卫生部”: "Ministry of Health for Urban Overlords"
城乡差别: difference between town and country
城市小资产阶级: the urban petty bourgeoisie
惩办和宽大相结合: combine punishment with leniency
惩办少数、改造多数: punish the few and reform the many
惩前毖后，治病救人: learn from past mistakes to avoid future ones and cure the sickness to save the patient
惩办要严: severe punishment should be meted out to
乘风破浪: ride the winds and break the waves
乘机翻案: take the opportunity to whitewash
乘机报复: exploit the situation to take revenge
乘其不备: catch someone unprepared
乘人之危: take advantage of others' misfortune
乘胜前进: go forward in triumph
乘虚而入: get a chance to step in
吃喝玩乐: gluttony and pleasure-seeking
吃苦在前，享乐在后: be the first to bear hardships, the last to enjoy comforts
吃老本: live off one's past glory
吃人的: for the blood of the people
吃透两头: have a thorough grasp of the Party's policies and have a thorough understanding of the views of the masses
“吃小亏占大便宜”: "lose a little, gain much"
吃忆苦饭: eat the kind of meal the poor people used to eat in the old society
吃闲饭: lead an idle life
吃香: favorite
吃大亏，上大当: be badly fooled
吃二遍苦，受二茬罪: be hurled back into misery
吃人政治: man-eating governments
吃人制度: cannibalistic system
赤膊上阵: come out without any disguise
赤脚医生: barefoot doctors
赤胆忠心: dedicatedly
赤地千里: thousands of miles of cracked, parched and deserted land
赤贫: the utterly destitute
赤裸裸的: undisguised/barefaced