文革时期常用词汇的英译

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发愤（奋）图强: rise in great vigor/work energetically
发国难财: exploit the national crisis for profiteering purposes
发人深省: something to think deeply about
发言权: have a bigger say in matters of
发扬成绩，纠正错误，以利再战: Add to your achievements and correct your mistakes so as to do still better in future struggle.
发扬革命传统，争取更大光荣: Carry the revolutionary tradition forward, may you gain still greater glory.
发扬光大: give greater scope to
发扬民主: promote democracy
发展不平衡: uneven development
发展经济，保障供给: develop the economy and ensure supplies
发展生产，繁荣经济: develop production and bring about a prosperous economy
发展体育运动，增强人民体质: Promote physical culture and build up the people's health.
发动群众: call on the masses
法宝: wonder-working weapon
法办: to be dealt with according to law
法家: Legalist school
翻不了天: cannot topple the skies
翻案: reverse earlier (previous) correct decisions
翻案风: the evil wind of reversing decisions already made
翻版: reproduction/refurbished version/replica
翻老帐: thumb through the records of
翻身: remake one's life/emancipate/to stand up
翻手为云，覆手为雨: with one turn of the hand, and with another turn of
翻天覆地: a tremendous change/earth-shaking/titanic changes
反党反社会主义黑线: sinister anti-Party and anti-socialist line
反党分子: anti-Party elements
反党联盟: anti-Party bloc
反动党团骨干分子: key-elements of reactionary parties and the reactionary Kuomintang youth league
反动会道门: secret reactionary society
反动透顶: ultra-reactionary
反动集团: clique of reactionaries
反动家伙: reactionary scoundrels
反动言行: reactionary statements and actions
“反对一切，排斥一切，打倒一切”: "oppose, exclude and overthrow all"
反帝必反修: To oppose imperialism, it is imperative to oppose modern revisionism.
反夺权: counter-seize power
反复讲，年年讲，月月讲，天天讲: repeat every year, every month, every day
反复教育，反复宣传，反复学习，反复实践: repeated education, dissemination, study and practice
反革命复辟阴谋: plot for a counter-revolutionary come-back
反革命黑手: a sinister counter-revolutionary hand
反革命两手: counter-revolutionary dual tactics
反革命气焰: counter-revolutionary arrogance
反革命政变: counter-revolutionary coup d'état
反戈一击: turn back to hit those who have misled you
反攻倒算: counter-attack in revenge
反共老手: inveterate anti-communist
反共逆流: ant-communist counter-current
反华大合唱: anti-China chorus
反华包围圈: anti-China encirclement
反华必降美: Opposition to China inevitably leads to capitulation to U.S. imperialism.
反华叫嚣: anti-China outcries
反华浪潮: the anti-China tide
反“火药味”论: theory of opposition to "the smell of gunpowder"
反击右倾帆案风: fight back the Right wind of reversing previous correct decisions
反面教材: lesson by negative example
反面教员: teacher by negative example
反面人物: negative character
反其道而行之: act in opposition to
反贪污、反浪费、反官僚主义: struggle against corruption, waste and bureaucracy
反“题材决定”论: the theory of opposition to "subject matter as the decisive factor"
反省: self-reflection
反修防修: oppose revisionism and prevent its emergence
反咬一口: turn on by slanderously accusing
反映工农兵: portrayal of workers, peasants and soldiers
反映到党内来: find its expression within the Party
反映情况: to report the local situation
反右倾: against the Right deviation
犯错误的好人: good persons who have made mistakes
犯走资派的错误: those who committed the errors characteristic of the capitalist-roaders in power
犯错误的干部: erring cadres
方向错误: wrong in orientation
方向盘: steering wheel
方兴未艾: rising/in the ascendant
方针: guiding line/policy
访贫问苦: go to see the poor and ask about their past bitterness
放暗（冷）箭: stab on the back
“放长线钓大鱼”: angle for a large fish with a long line
放出笼: let loose
放开眼界看未来，坚定不移向前进: broaden one's vistas of the future and press forward unswervingly
放老实点: behave yourself
放手让大家讲话: let all people express their opinions freely
放肆: blatant/intemperate/unbridled
放下包袱: cast off mental burdens
放下臭架子: drop pretentions airs
放下官架子: discard bureaucratic manners
“放下屠刀，立地成佛”: "the butcher who lays down his knife and at once becomes a Buddha"
放一放: lay aside
放在第一位: make...one's prime concern
放之四海而皆准: a universally applicable truth
放出毒草: spread poisonous weeds
放开手脚: have one's hands and feet unfettered
放射出灿烂的光辉: shine forth brightly
放手发动群众: boldly arouse the masses
放眼全球，展望未来: keep the whole globe in view and look ahead into the future
放在首要地位: assign the primary role to
放在群众中进行斗争: be made the objects of mass struggle