文革时期常用词汇的英译

蒋割荆

G（2）

割断历史: chop up history/lop off history
革别人的命: make revolution against others
革命不分前后: Whoever makes revolution, whether early or late, is revolutionary.
革命不怕死，怕死不革命: Revolutionaries brave death; cowards flee the revolution.
革命不能输出: Revolution cannot be exported.
革命串连: exchange revolutionary experience
革命闯将: revolutionary path breakers
革命大方向: general revolutionary orientation
革命大联合: revolutionary great alliance
革命大批判: revolutionary mass criticism
革命第一，工作第一: give first place to the revolution and work
革命斗争果实来之不易: The fruit of revolutionary struggle are hard-earned.
“革命到头了”: "reach the end of the revolution"
革命到底: remain revolutionaries to the end
革命的根本问题是政权问题: The fundamental question of revolution is political power.
革命的战斗的群众性的文艺批评: revolutionary, militant mass criticism on literature and art
革命发展阶段论: theory of the development of revolution by stages
革命豪情: revolutionary spirit
革命化、民族化、大众化: make literature and art truly revolutionary, national and popular in both form and content
革命加拼命: revolutionary optimism
革命乐观主义: revolution plus all-out exertion
革命理想主义: revolutionary idealism
革命烈火: raging revolutionary flames
革命灵魂: revolutionary essence
革命气节: revolutionary integrity
（把）革命气概和实际精神结合起来: combine revolutionary sweep with practical application
革命群众组织: revolutionary mass organizations
革命热情与科学精神相结合: combine revolutionary zeal with s scientific spirit
革命熔炉: revolutionary crucible
革命圣地: sacred place of the revolution
革命是不能输入的: Revolution cannot be imported.
革命是历史的火车头: Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
革命委员会: revolutionary committee
革命无罪，造反有理: Revolution is no crime, rebellion is justified.
革命先辈: revolutionary forebears
革命现实主义和革命的浪漫主义相结合: combine revolutionary realism with revolutionary romanticism
革命小将: young revolutionary fighter
革命样板戏: model revolutionary theatrical works (operas)
革命，也得革自己的命。不革自己的命，这个革命是搞不好的。: In making revolution, we must also revolutionize ourselves. Without revolutionizing ourselves, we cannot succeed in making this revolution.
革一辈子命: remain revolutionary all one's life
革命造反派: revolutionary rebel groups
“革”字当头: dominated by "revolutions"
革命左派: revolutionary Left
隔离审查: examination by separating...from
隔靴瘙痒: scratch an itch through one's boot - a useless attempt
格格不入: misfits/incompatible with
格杀勿论: kill with lawful authority
个别谈话: personal talks
各行各业: all trade and professions
各怀鬼胎: Each has his own axe to grind./Each has something up his sleeve.
“个人迷信”: "cult of the individuals"
个人奋斗: make one's own way
个人服从组织: The individual is subordinate to the organization.
个人利益、局部利益服从集体利益、长远利益: subordinate one's immediate individual interests to the long-term collective interests
个人说了算: the arbitrary style of "do as I say"
个人野心: personal ambition
个人野心家: careerists
（资产阶级）个人主义是万恶之源: Bourgeois individualism is the source of all evil.
个体经济: the individual economy
个体经营: individual farming
个人名利: personal fame and gain
个人生活问题: questions affecting everyday life
个人主义思想: individualist thinking (ideology)
各打五十大板: a balance of blame
“各人自扫门前雪”: clear the snow away only from one's doorstep
各行其是: act as one pleases
各自为政: Everyone goes his own way.
各个击破: crush (defeat, destroy)...one by one
各种各样的人物: a variety of characters
给出路: give a way out
给以生活出路: give one a chance to earn one's living
根深蒂固: deeply rooted
跟着指挥棒转: follow the baton
耿耿于怀: stick in one's throat
更加深入: developed in depth
更加光荣、更加伟大、更加正确: more correct, greater and more glorious
工、农、商、学、兵: workers, peasants, businessmen, students, intellectuals and soldiers/industrial, agricultural, trade, educational and military circles
工农差别: difference between workers and peasants
工农联盟: alliance of the workers and peasants/worker-peasant alliance
工农子弟: children of workers and peasants
工农子弟兵: the army of the workers and peasants
工人讲师团: the group of worker lecturers
工人阶级本色: sterling qualities of the working class
工人阶级必须领导一切: The working class must exercise leadership in everything.
工种: kind of work
工资制度: wage system
工资级别: wage category/wage scales
工作队（组）: a political work force (team, group)
工作重心: center of gravity of the work
（把）功劳归于自己，把错误推给别人: claim credit for himself and shift blame onto others
攻其一点，不及其余: attack someone for a single (particular) fault without considering the whole
宫廷政变: "palace" coup
公报: communiqué/bulletin/official report
公报私仇: use one's position to get even with another person for a private grudge
公共食堂: community dinning hall
公、检、法: judicial and public security organs
公开论战: open polemics
公审大会: public (open) trial at mass meeting
公私兼顾: take both public and private interests into account
“公私熔化论”: theory of "merging public and private interests"
公字当头: put public interest to the fore
巩固社会主义阵地: fortify the positions of socialism
“共产风”: "tendency to effect the transition to communism prematurely"
共鸣: echo
共命运，同呼吸: share weal and woe
共同对敌: join hands to oppose the enemy
共同富裕: prosperity in common
供给制: free supply system/supply on a maintenance basis