文革时期常用词汇的英译

蒋割荆

L（1）

拉出去，打进来: pull somebody out or put someone in/pull out our cadres or sneak into our ranks
拉大旗作为虎皮，包着自己，去吓呼（唬）别人: Use the great banner as a tiger-skin to cover themselves and intimidate other people.
拉关系: establish contacts with
拉拉扯扯: resort to boasting, flattery and touting
拉下水: drag... into the mire
拉线搭桥: pull strings and make contacts
拉一帮，打一帮: support one section of people in attacking another
拉一拉: win one over
垃圾堆: garbage heap
来不得半点的虚伪和骄傲: No dishonesty or conceit whatsoever is permissible.
来去自由: freedom of movement
来头不小: with powerful backing
来而不往，非礼也: It is impolite not to give after receiving.
来历不明: unknown source or origin
来龙去脉: sequence of events
来者不善，善者不来: With good intent he would not come./Whoever is coming surely has bad intentions.
癞皮狗: mangy (scabby) dog
赖是赖不掉的: No attempts at evasion on his part will succeed.
拦路虎: obstacle
“懒婆娘的裹脚，又长又臭”: "foot-bindings of a slattern, long as well as smelly"
烂掉（编者说明：“烂掉”指的是领导权已被坏人或走资派所掌握。）: become rotten
烂摊子: a rotten (trashy) legacy
狼狈不堪: in a dilemma/in an embarrassing (helpless) situation
狼狈为奸: collude in doing evil/in collusion with
狼子野心: wolfish ambition
捞取政治资本: gain political capital
捞一把: reap some profit
捞资本: make capital for oneself
捞油水: fish for personal gains
劳动改造: reform through labor
劳动人民要知识化，知识分子要劳动化: Working people should master intellectual work and intellectuals should integrate themselves with the working people.
劳改队: group for "reform through labor"
劳苦功高: with toilsome labor and distinctive merits
劳民伤财: harass the people and waste money
“劳心者治人，劳力者治于人”: "Those who work with their minds govern, while those who toil with their hands are governed."
牢记血泪仇: Remember your life of blood and tears.
“老大难”单位: unit long considered a tough nut to crack/unit known for its difficult problems long regarded as insoluble
“老大难”问题: problems which have been described as long-standing, big and difficult
老调重弹: the same old song/strike up the old tune about
老好人: good old chaps
老虎屁股摸不得: like a tiger whose backside no one dares to touch
老干部: veteran cadres
老革命: veteran revolutionary
老奸巨猾: an old hand at trickery and deception
老九（见“臭老九”）: intellectuals
老路: the beaten track
老弱病残者: those who are old, weak, ill or disabled
老牌机会主义者: old-time (seasoned) opportunist
老前辈: predecessor/veteran
老生常谈: platitudes
老师傅: master worker/skilled worker
老实交代: make an honest confession
（做）老实人，说老实话，办老实事: be an honest person, speak and act honestly
老手: old stager (hand)
老鼠过街，人人喊打: rats running across the street and being chased by all
老爷太太少爷小姐: lords and ladies and their pampered sons and daughters
老一辈: people of the older generation
老一代: the old generation
老一套: old ways/the same old story/the beaten track
老造反: veteran rebels
“老子党”: "father party"/"patriarchal party"
“老子天下第一”: "the number one authority in the world"
老资格: people of experience/seniority
老祖宗: ancestor/forefather/doyen
（打上阶级的）烙印: be stamped with the brand of a class
乐于为人民服务，勇于为革命牺牲: We are ready to endure hardship for the people and die for the revolution.
雷厉风行: rigorously and effectively/all-out and sweeping
雷霆万钧之力: the force of a thunderbolt
屡教不改: refuse to correct errors after repeated education/refuse to mend one's ways after repeated education
冷冷清清: coolly and quietly
冷战: cold war
“离经叛道”论: the theory of "discarding the classics and rebelling against the orthodoxy"
里程碑: milestone
里通外国: have (maintain) illicit (traitorous) relations with a foreign country
里应外合: strike together from without and within
理工科大学: colleges (universities) of science and engineering
理论一旦掌握群众: once theory grips the masses
理论阵地: theoretical basis/bastion of theory
理直气壮: be in the right and self-confident
礼尚往来: Courtesy requires a return of visits received./give and take