文革时期常用词汇的英译

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染缸: dyeing vats
“让步政策”: "policy of concession"
让高山低头，叫河水让路: make the mountains bow their heads and the rivers give way
扰乱市场: disrupt the market
扰乱阵线: create confusion within our ranks
绕过暗礁: bypass hidden reefs and dangerous shoals
惹火烧身: stir up fire only to burn oneself
人剥削人的制度: the system of exploitation of man by man
“人不为已，天诛地灭”: "Heaven destroys men who won't look out for themselves."
人多力量大，柴多火焰高: There is strength in numbers; more logs make a big fire.
人多议论多，热气高，干劲大: More people mean a greater ferment of ideas, more enthusiasm and more energy.
人固有一死，或重于泰山，或轻于鸿毛: Though death befalls all men alike, it may be weightier than Mount Tai or lighter than a feather.
人还在，心不死: Persons of these classes are still living and they are not reconciled to their defeat.
“人口论”: Essay on Population (by T.R. Malthus in 1798)
人类灵魂工程师: engineers of human souls
人民大众开心之日，就是反革命分子难受之时: The day of rejoicing for the masses of the people is a day of woe for the counter-revolutionaries.
人民解放军永远是一个战斗队: The People's Liberation Army is always a fighting force.
人民是历史的创造者: The people are the makers of history.
人民子弟兵: the people's soldiers
人穷志不穷: Though we are poor, we have lofty aspirations./poor but with lofty ideals
人人得而诛之: anyone will have the right to punish...
人是决定的因素: Man is the decisive factor.
人头落地: take a great toll of lives/lose one's life
“人向高处走，水向低处流”: "Man endeavors to rise, water flows downwards."
人的社会存在: man's social being
“人性的异化”: "alienation of man"
“人之初，性本善”: "Man's nature is good at birth."
仁至义尽: magnanimous/forbearance
任凭风浪起，稳坐钓鱼船: Never mind the storm, just sit tight in the fishing boat.
任人唯亲: appoint people by favoritism
任人宰割: submit oneself to the mercies of...
任重而道远: take a heavy burden and embark on a long road
认敌为友: regard (treat) enemies as friends
认真搞好斗、批、改: Carry out the tasks of struggle-criticism-transformation conscientiously.
认识和改造客观世界: know and change the objective world
日薄西山: decline like the setting sun
日暮途穷: in one's decline
日新月异: bring about new changes day after day
日子越来越不好过: have an increasingly difficult time
容光焕发，神采奕奕: glowing with health and in high spirits
儒家: Confucian school
儒法斗争: struggle between the Confucians and the Legalists
如此而已，岂有他哉！: That is all there is to it!
如实地反映情况: report the situation accurately
辱骂和恐吓决不是战斗: Hurling insults and threats is certainly not fighting.
“入党做官论”: the theory of "joining the Party in order to climb up"
软刀子割肉: the gentle method of decapitation
软刀子杀人: murder with an invisible knife
软骨病: rickets
软骨头: a weak-kneed fellow
瑞雪兆丰年: Auspicious snow promises good harvests.
弱肉强食: The weak will stand an easy prey to the strong.
若要人不知，除非已莫为: The only way to keep people from knowing something is not to do it.