文革时期常用词汇的英译

蒋割荆

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非常无产阶级化，非常战斗化，非常群众化: highly (extremely) proletarian and militant and completely identified with the masses
非对抗性矛盾: non-antagonistic contradiction
非法活动: underground work/unlawful activities
非驴非马: neither hay nor grass
非组织观点: disregard of organizational discipline/non-organizational viewpoint
飞扬跋扈: throw one's weight around/arrogant
飞跃: by leaps and bounds/a forward leap
诽谤: vilify/slander
费尽心机: painstakingly/rack one's brains
费力不讨好: unappreciated effort/a thankless job
分崩离析: disintegrating/crumbling/falling apart
分别对待: deal with case on its own merits
分道扬镳: take separate routes/go different
分工负责: division of responsibilities
分化: disintegrate/divide
分化瓦解: demoralized
分类排队: classifying and listing of
分裂主义: secessionism/separatism
分片包干: divide up the work and assign a part to each
分批吸收: enroll in groups
分期分批: stage by stage and group by group
分清大是大非: distinguish between right and wrong on vital questions
分清敌友我: drew a distinction between ourselves and our friends and the enemy
分清是非: differentiate (distinguish) between right and wrong
分清问题的性质和情节的轻重: determine the nature and seriousness of the case
分手: part ways with/take leave of
分散主义: departmentalism
分水岭: watershed/dividing line/demarcation line
“分数第一”: "Stress is put exclusively on getting good marks."
分田到户（组）: allocation of land to individual households (groups/teams)
分庭抗礼: stand up to
分销店: retail shop
分组讨论: group discussion
（牛鬼蛇神）纷纷出笼: One monster after another comes out of its hiding place.
焚尸扬灰: burn somebody's corpse and scatter the ashes to the winds
“焚书坑儒”: "burn books and bury the literati"
粉墨登场: don one's costume and appear on the stage/assume office
粉身碎骨: utterly crush/be smashed/be ground to dust
粉饰门面: serve as window-dressing
奋不顾身: selfless heroism
奋斗终身: dedicate one's life to the struggle for
奋发图强、自立更生: energetically building a prosperous country through self-reliance
奋起自卫: fight bravely in self-defense
（一有）风吹草动，就纷纷出笼: whenever some wind stirs the grass, they will raise their ugly heads.
风卷残云: like a whirlwind scattering wisps of clouds
风雷激荡: tempestuous struggle
（说）风凉话: make irresponsible and carping comments from the side lines
风流人物: truly great and noble-hearted men
风潮: campaign/in the storm and stress of this period
风浪: squalls/in moments of stress
风马牛不相及: have nothing in common with
风靡一时的“大人物”: one who has stood briefly in the limelight as a "great personage"
风起云涌: tempestuous growth
风气: common practice
风声鹤唳，草木皆兵: a slight movement in the grass or a gust of wind is enough to make the enemy jittery/be scared by the sigh of the wind or the cry of the cranes/fear ambush at every tree and tuft of grass
（看）风向: see which way the wind blows
风头一时: become popular for a time
风头主义: strive for the limelight/showing off
风行一时: be all the rage for a time
风雨飘摇: unstable
风云人物: man of the day
风展红旗如画: The wind will unfurl likes a scroll our scarlet banner.
疯狂敌视: rabid hostility
疯狂反扑: launch a frantic counter-offensive
疯狂挣扎: frenzied and desperate kicks
疯狂咒骂: frenzied vilification
锋芒指向: direct the spearhead against/focus the attack on
丰功伟绩: valiant record
丰衣足食: ample food and clothing
封官许愿: hand out official posts and make lavish promises
封建家长制: feudal patriarchal domination
封建迷信活动: feudal and superstitious practice
封锁消息: prevent the leakage of news
奉公守法: respect justice and abide by the laws
奉陪到底: keep the enemy company and fight the finish
奉若神明: revere as sacred
奉若至宝: revere as a priceless treasure
否定一切的态度: a completely negative attitude
敷衍态度: perfunctory attitude
敷衍了事: perfunctory
浮夸作风: working style characterized by exaggeration
浮在上面，做官当老爷: become bureaucrats or lords
服从领导: be obedient to the chiefs
服从分配: obey the allocation
服从组织: submit to the Party
俯首甘为孺子牛: Head bowed, like a willing ox I serve the children.
腐化分子: a degenerate
腐化堕落: corruption and degeneracy
腐蚀干部: corrupt the cadres
付诸东流: cast to the winds
付诸实施: be carried out
付诸行动: put into practice
附敌叛国: betray one's country, attach oneself to the enemy
复辟: stage a come-back/restoration
复辟活动: activities of restoration
复古思想: back-to-the-ancient ideology
复旧: restoration of the old
复课闹革命: re-open school classes and carry on the revolution
复审: review of a case
复职: reinstate
赴汤蹈火: jump into hot water or walk through fire
富贵不能淫，贫贱不能移，威武不能屈: Neither riches nor honors can corrupt him, neither poverty nor lowly condition can make him swerve from principle, neither threats nor force can bend him.
（共同）富裕的道路: the road of common prosperity
富日子当穷日子过: Though we could have lived quite well, we live frugally.
富农: rich peasant
富裕中农（即“上中农”）: well-to-do middle peasant
负隅顽抗: resist desperately