文革时期常用词汇的英译

蒋割荆

C（2）

充耳不闻: turn a deal ear to
充分发挥: give full rein (weight) to
充分估计: make a full appraisal of/take full account of
充分说明: prove to the hilt that...
充分注意: make quite sure that...
充实: replenish and enrich/strength/broadly based/be reinforced/fill... with new content
冲锋陷阵: breach and storm enemy citadel/make frontal attacks/storm the enemy's positions
冲劲: drive/full of go
冲击: impact/pound away at/onslaught
冲昏了头脑: become dizzy
冲破罗网: smash all the trammels
冲天干劲: soaring enthusiasm
重蹈覆撤: meet with the same fate as that of/fall into the rut
重叠的行政机构: duplication in the administrative structure
重温: review/recapitulate
重温旧梦: again indulge in one's pipe-dreams/renew one's old dream
重新登记党员: re-registration of Party members
重新入党: be re-admitted into the Party
重新审查: re-investigation/reconsideration
重新做人: turn over a new leaf
重新上台: regain power
重新学习/从新学习: study anew/learn afresh
重新组合: realignments
重演故伎: repeat the stock tricks
重整旗鼓: rally forces again
重振信心: restore the confidence
崇美、媚美、恐美和联美的思想: the ideas of worshipping, toadying, fearing and uniting with the United States
崇洋媚外: worship of the foreign things and toady to the foreign powers
丑化: defame
丑恶嘴脸: ugly features
丑态百出: utterly ridiculous
（放下）臭架子: shed the ugly mantle of pretentiousness
臭不可闻: malodorous
臭老九: stinking ninth-category status (landlords, rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries, bad elements, rightists, renegades, enemy agents, persons in power within the Party taking the capitalist road, intellectuals)
臭知识分子: stinking intellectuals
出洋相: make a person a laughing-stock for all
（纷纷）出笼: come forward in large numbers
（已）出笼、未出笼的牛鬼蛇神: ogres and monsters, open or hidden
出乱子: lead to trouble
（给）出路: give a way out
出谋献策: offer advice
出生入死: brave countless dangers
出身: class origin
出身清白: with a clean class origin
出尔反尔: inconsistent
出卖: betray the interests of
出修正主义: give rise to revisionism
初级阶段: primary (first) phase of
处置: disposition
处理: dispose of
处理从宽: be treated with leniency
处心积虑: set one's mind on
处于水深火热之中: plunge into an abyss of suffering
触及灵魂: touch the people to their every souls
触目惊心: horrid/startling/shocking
穿连档裤: as thick as thieves
穿小鞋: deliberately make trouble for a person
穿新鞋，走老路: wear new shoes but walk on old ways
传达: communicate to/make reports
传达报告: relay a report/transmit a report
传家宝: hereditary treasure
传播: propagate
串通: in collusion with
串通一气: hand in glove with
（革命）串连: establish revolutionary ties
闯将: path breakers
闯劲: spirit of a path breaker
吹吹打打，拉拉扯扯: resort to boasting, flattery and touting
吹得天花乱坠: laud to the skies
吹灰之力: as easy as to blow away the dust
吹毛求庇: find fault with
吹鼓手: trumpeter/bugler
吹响号角: sound the clarion call for
吹捧一部分人，攻击一部分人: sing the praises of one group of people and damn another
吹阴风: stir up a malicious wind
垂死挣扎: give dying kicks
“纯学术讨论": "purely academic discussion"
蠢蠢欲动: itch for action
戳穿: poke a hole in
此地无银三百两: A thief posted a marker saying: "The missing treasure is not buried here."
刺刀见红: fight courageously at bayonet-point range
从长远的、整体的观点看问题: look at the problem as a whole and from a long-term point of view
从群众中来，到群众中去: from the masses, to the masses
从群众中集中起来，又到群众中坚持下去: Take the ideas of the masses and concentrate them, then go to the masses, persevere in the ideas and carry them through.
从弱到强，从小到大: from a weak and small beginning into strong and large forces
从团结的愿望（目标）出发: start with the desire (purpose) for unity
从无到有、从小到大: grow out of nothing and expand from a small to a large force
从最困难处着想，向最好处努力: prepare from the worst and strive for the best
从难、从严、从实战出发: undergo intensive and rigid training to meet the needs of actual fighting
从不平衡达到新的平衡: achieve a new balance out of imbalance
从严惩办: severely punish
从轻处理: give lighter punishment
从一个极端跳到另一个极端: jump from one extreme to the other
促进派: promoters of progress
促退派: promoters of retrogression
篡党、篡军、篡权: usurp Party, military and state power
篡夺领导权: usurp leadership
窜（篡）改: tamper with
存在决定意识: Man's social being determines his consciousness.
挫伤积极性: dampen one's enthusiasm
措手不及: be caught unawares (unprepared)
错误言论: fallacious statement (speech)
错误路线: wrong line
错误常常是正确的先导: Error is often the precursor of what is correct.