文革时期常用词汇的英译

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马大哈: carelessness/blind heedlessness
唯……马首是瞻: dance to someone's tune/follow on the heels of
蚂蚁啃骨头: ants gnawing at a bone
埋头苦干，奋发图强: work hard and courageously
埋头业务: immersed in vocational work
卖国求荣: seek after glory by selling out one's own country
卖国主义: national betrayal
卖身投靠: hire oneself out to
“瞒天过海”: "cross the sea under camouflage"
满城风雨: like a storm over the whole city
满怀战斗豪情: full of militant spirit
满口革命词句: use a profusion of revolutionary phraseology
满口仁义道德，满脑子男盗女娼: Though they write and speak abundantly of justice and morality, in fact their heads are obsessed by "men as robbers" and "women as prostitutes".
满面红光: glowing with health
谩骂: fling abusive charges/vituperation
盲目的、不完全的、不清醒的: blind, half-baked, muddle-headed
盲目性: blindness/blindly and uncritically
矛盾尖锐化: intensification of contradictions
矛盾上交: pass on the contradictions to one's superiors
矛盾转化: transformation of contradiction
矛头对准: direct its spearhead against
冒进: adventurous advance
冒牌的: phony
冒天下之大不韪: defy the universal will of the people/risk universal condemnation
冒险主义: adventurism
貌似公正: presence of fair play/seemingly impartial
貌似极“左”而实质极右: sound extremely "Left" but in essence be extremely Right
貌似强大: appear so powerful/look quite strong
貌似有理: seemingly plausible
没有调查，没有发言权: No investigation, no right to speak.
没有改造好的地、富、反、坏、右分子: unreformed landlords, rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries, bad elements and rightists
没有革命的理论，就不会有革命的运动: Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.
“没有功劳也有苦劳，没有苦劳还有疲劳”: "If the contributions are not to be counted, still I can say I have done hard work. Even if hard work is not to be mentioned, still you cannot deny that I did not spare my strength and worked myself to the point of exhaustion."
没有赫鲁晓夫的赫鲁晓夫修正主义: Khrushchev revisionism without Khrushchev
没有什么了不起: not so great/nothing wonderful
美其名曰: euphemistically describe ... as...
（受）蒙蔽: hoodwinked by/befuddled
蒙混过关: slip by/slip through/sneak away in the confusion
蒙在鼓里: "living in a drum"
靡靡之音: demoralizing music/beguiling music
密切联系群众: maintain close ties with the masses
面和心不和: friends on the surface
面向农村: geared to the needs of the countryside
面向群众: identify oneself with the masses/face the masses
面子: face-saving
灭敌人威风，长自己志气: destroy the arrogance of the enemy and enhance the spirit of the great masses of the people
灭顶之灾: buried beneath the waves
灭资兴无: eradicate what is bourgeois and foster what is proletarian
“民不畏死，奈何以死惧之？”: "The people fear not death, why threaten them with it?"
民愤大: incur the great wrath of the masses/strong indignation among the people
“民以食为天”: "Food is the first necessity of the people."
民族败类: national outcast
名不见“经传”: those whose names are not on "celebrity" lists
名利双收: gain both fame and wealth
名利思想: ideas of seeking personal fame and material gains
“名”、“洋”、“古”: "famous plays", "foreign plays" and "ancient plays"
明火执杖: conduct activities openly
明目张胆: openly/in a bare-faced way/in a flagrant way
明枪易躲，暗箭难防: It is easy to dodge an open spear thrust, but difficult to guard against an arrow in the dark.
明修栈道，暗渡陈仓: do something behind the facade of
明哲保身，但求无过: be worldly wise and play safe and seek only to avoid blame
明知故犯: violate it knowingly/commit deliberately
明知山有虎，偏向虎山行: He knows there are tigers in the mountains but insists on taking that road./Well aware that there are dangers ahead, he goes on undeterred.
明知征途有艰险，越是艰险越向前: Well we know that there's danger ahead, we are all the more set on driving forward.
鸣不平: to air grievances for
鸣锣开道: sound the gongs to clear a way for
鸣冤叫屈: make bitter complaints
命根子: lifeline/one's very life
命运寄托在……: stake one's fate on
命中注定: decreed by fate
谬种流传，误人不浅: Error is disseminated, doing people great harm.
摸底: feel out
摸老虎屁股: touch the backside of a tiger
磨洋工: slacking
抹黑: defame and discredit
抹煞: negate/ignore/deny/repudiate/efface/write off/blot out/obliterate
莫须有的: fabulous/fabricated/concocted
墨守成规: stick to established practice/stick to accustomed rules
幕后操纵: behind-the-scenes manipulations
幕后人物: the man who directs behind the scenes
幕后指使人: those maneuvering behind the scenes
木已成舟: What's done is done.
目无法纪: flout law and discipline