文革时期常用词汇的英译

蒋割荆

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大办民兵师: organize contingents of the people's militia on a big scale
大暴露: a devastating exposure
“大比武”: "make a big show of military skills"
大辩论: great debate
大，并不可怕: Bigness is nothing to be afraid of.
大搏斗: intense struggle
大串联: mass exchange for revolutionary experience
大打: large-scale warfare
（准备他们）大打，早打，打常规战，打核大战: make preparations against their launching a big war and against their launching a war at an early date, preparations against their launching a conventional war and against their launching a large-scale nuclear war
大胆发展而又不让一个坏分子混入: Expand the Party boldly, but do not let a single undesirable in.
大胆使用: boldly assign work to
大党阀: big party tyrants
大刀阔斧: make snap decisions
大动荡，大分化，大改组: great upheaval, great division and great reorganization
大多数人对少数人的专政: dictatorship of the majority over the minority
大毒草: a big poisonous weed
大方向: main orientation
大放厥词: loosen one's tongue/to talk drivel
大放特放: "open" as wide as possible
大风大浪: violent storms and waves
大翻身: completely throw off the oppressor
大发展: immense growth
大干一场: an all-out effort to do big things
大搞技术革命: go full steam ahead with the technical revolution
大搞群众运动: launch vigorous mass movements
大刮单干风: actively encourage "going it alone"
大国沙文主义: great-power chauvinism/great-nation chauvinism
大好的革命形势: an excellent revolutionary situation
大检查，大评比: large-scale inspection, large-scale comparison and appraisal of work done
大家动手: everyone takes a hand
大节: major issue of one's revolutionary integrity
大节小节都好: maintain one's revolutionary integrity in regard to both major and minor issues
大讲: talk a great deal about
大开方便之门: open the gates wide to
大快人心: to the satisfaction of the masses
大课题: a great task
大老爷们: Your Lordships
大老粗: rustic/illiterate
大论战: a great polemic
（革命的）大联合: the revolutionary great alliance
大量出笼: grow en masse
大灭资产阶级威风: greatly crush the arrogance of the bourgeoisie
大民主: mass democracy/extensive democracy
大鸣大放: full and frank expression of views and opinions
大鸣、大放、大字报、大辩论: air their views freely, write big-character posters and hold great debates
大逆不道: thoroughly turbulent and absurd
大批判: mass criticism
大批判专栏: wall newspapers for mass criticism
大破剥削阶级的四旧，大立无产阶级的四新: destroy the "four olds" of the exploiting classes on a large scale and extensively foster the "four news" of the proletariat
大破私字，大立公字: firmly eliminate egoism and foster devotion to the public interest
大破（灭）资产阶级思想，大立（兴）无产阶级思想: destroy bourgeois ideology and foster proletarian ideology on a grand scale
大破大立: utterly destroy...and vigorously establish the supremacy of
大批逮捕: make wholesale arrests of
大人物: big shot/a bigwig
大扫除: general cleaning up
大少爷作风: style of life of pampered youngsters
大势所趢、人心所向: the general world trend and the popular feeling
大事做不来，小事又不做: be incapable of doing great things yet disdain minor tasks
大事化小，小事化无: first reduce major issues to minor ones, and then minor issues to naught
大是大非: right and wrong on cardinal issues
大肆吹嘘: preach and trumpet
大肆泛滥: run rampant
大肆贩卖: energetically peddle
大肆放毒: pour out a great deal of poison
大肆攻击: wantonly attack
大肆鼓吹: make a big hue and cry about
大肆进攻: massive attacks
大肆活动: bustle around
大肆捏造: spread fabrication
大肆渲染: play up/enormously exaggerate
大肆宣扬: vigorously propagate
大肆吹捧: extol...to the sky
大肆宣传: particularly active in the propaganda to
大同小异: mostly alike except slight differences/for the most part the same/a general resemblance with slight differences
大踏步: in full stride
大无畏的精神: indomitable spirit
大无畏的英雄气概: dauntless heroism
大学阀: big scholar-tyrants
大兴调查研究之风: energetically undertake investigations and studies
大兴水利: large-scale building of water conservancy projects
大学解放军: learn in a big way from the PLA
大写特写: write a great deal about
“大、洋、古”: big, foreign and ancient
“大、洋、全”: big, foreign and all-inclusive
大野心家: arch-careerist
大义灭亲: cut off consanguinity for the sake of righteousness
大鱼吃小鱼: big fish swallowing little fish
大跃进: the Big Leap Forward
大杂烩: hodge-podge
大有人在: here are quite a few persons who...
大有文章: there is much finesse in...
大有作为: plenty of room to develop their talents to the full
大长无产阶级革命派的志气，大灭资产阶级的威风: heighten greatly the militancy (morale) of the proletarian revolutionaries and deal serious blows to the arrogance of the bourgeoisie
大张旗鼓地、雷厉风行地: a large-scale, all-out and sweeping
大众化: popularize
大抓狠抓活思想: make the greatest effort to grasp living ideas
大抓阶级斗争: actively grasp class struggle
大字报: big-character posters/Dazibao
大做文章: make a big noise about