文革时期常用词汇的英译

蒋割荆

G（1）

改变颜色: change political color
改革不合理的规章制度: reform (change) irrational and outdated rules and regulations
改过自新: turn over a new leaf/become a new person
改良主义思想: reformist ideas
改天换地: transform heaven and earth/remake nature
改头换面: to disguise
改邪归正: give up evil ways and return to the right
改弦更张: make a fresh start
改弦易辙: make a new start
改造世界: change the world
改造思想: remold ideology
改进思想作风: raise ideological level and improve working style
改口: change one's tune
改善待遇: improve living conditions/increase the pay of
改善伙食: with better food
改善民生: improve the people's livelihood
改善生活: improve the living conditions
改造: remold/reform/transform
（未曾）改造的: have not been remolded
改造成为新人: remold them into new men
盖棺论定: Only when a person is dead can he be finally judged and assessed.
概不追究: no action will be taken against
甘当小学生: make oneself a willing pupil of the masses
甘居下游: resigned to a state of lagging behind
甘心情愿: willingly and gladly
赶下台: oust from office
敢冲敢拼: dare to take on anything and dare to risk all
敢闯、敢干、敢革命、敢造反的无产阶级革命精神: proletarian revolutionary spirit of daring to break through, to act, to make revolution and to rise up in rebellion
敢打、敢拼、敢造反: dare to fight, dare to have a trial of strength, dare to rebel
敢死队: dare-to-die teams
敢想敢干: bold thinking and action
敢想、敢说、敢闯、敢做、敢革命: have the courage to think, to speak out, to break through, to act and to make revolution
敢于斗争、敢于革命、善于斗争、善于革命: dare to struggle and dare to make revolution and be good at waging struggles and at making revolution
敢在太岁头上动土: dare to scratch Buddha's head
敢字当头: place daring above everything else/put daring above all else
感性认识: perceptual knowledge
擀面杖吹火一窍不通: don't know the first thing about
干尽坏事: have done every evil
干社会主义: fight for socialism
干一行，爱一行，干一行，钻一行: love whatever job one is given and try to be proficient in whatever one does
干部参加集体生产劳动: system of cadre participation in collective productive labor
干校: school for cadres
（提到）纲上: raise it to the level of principle
纲领性的文件: programmatic document
纲举目张: once the head rope of a fishing net is pulled up, all its meshes open/once the key link is grasped, everything falls into place
钢琴伴唱《红灯记》: Piano Music The Red Lantern with Peking Opera Singing
钢铁般的团结: iron-like unity
高标准要求自己: set high demands on oneself
高高飘扬，永远飘扬: waves on high forever
高高在上: hold oneself aloft
高歌猛进: advance boldly with songs
高官厚禄: high position and a large income
高级干部: high-ranking cadre
高级知识分子: hgher intellectuals
“高精尖”: "high-grade, precision and advanced"
高举三面红旗: hold aloft the Three Red Banners (of the General Line, the Great Leap Forward and the People's Commune)
（土）高炉: small indigenous blast furnace
高帽子: tall paper-hat/empty title/high hat
高屋建筑，势如破竹: press on irresistibly from a commanding height
高瞻远瞩: look far ahead and aim high/far-sighted
高枕无忧: sleep without any anxiety
高度集中: high degree of centralization
高踞于群众之上: stand above the masses
高谈阔论: harangue/loud and big talk
搞臭: make a person's name reek to high heaven/discredit
搞好斗批改: make a success of the struggle-criticism-transformation
搞好样板: do well in the production of good models
搞阶级斗争: carry on class struggle
搞乱阶级阵线: confuse the class line-up
搞马列主义: go in for Marxism-Leninism
搞深搞透: carry through thoroughly and in depth
搞通思想: arrive at a right perception of
搞小动作: indulge in petty and mean actions
搞阴谋: embark on conspiracy
搞政治: dabble in political activities
搞好关系: build good relation with
搞乱: end up in a mess
告发: report/lodge accusation against
歌功颂德: flattery and exaggerated praise/praise and eulogy