文革时期常用词汇的英译

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收买人心: win people's hearts
收起臭架子: Away with your ugly airs!
手把手地教: take one in hand and teach one how to...
手伸得太长: be greatly over-extended
手脚不干净: hands are not too clean/seek minor illicit gains
手续不完备: The procedure is inadequate.
守口如瓶: tight-lipped
首当其冲: first to be affected
首恶必办，胁从不问，坦白从宽，抗拒从严，立功折罪，立大功受奖: punish the chief criminals, not punish those are accomplices under duress; leniency towards those who acknowledge their crimes, severely punish those who stubbornly refuse to do so; recognize the good deeds as atonement for crimes, and reward those who have exceptionally meritorious actions to their credit
首要分子: ringleaders
首长负责，亲自动手: The leading cadres must assume responsibility and take an active part.
受蒙蔽的群众: befuddled people
疏散: evacuate
梳妆打扮: disguise oneself
赎买政策: policy of redemption
蜀中无大将，廖化作先锋: （编者译）No qualified general was found in the State of Shu and Liso Hua, an officer, had to be made as the commander of the advance troops.
鼠目寸光: short-sighted/see only what is under one's nose
树碑立传: glorify someone by erecting a monument for him and writing his biography
树倒猢狲散: Once the tree falls, the monkeys on it will flee helter-skelter.
树社会主义之新，立无产阶级之异: create new and original socialist and proletarian works
树雄心，立大志: aim high and have lofty ambitions
树欲静而风不止: The tree desires stillness but the wind will not cease.
束缚生产力: fetter the productive forces
束手待毙: wait for death with tied hands
束手束脚: over-cautiousness/undue caution
束手无策: fold one's hands without knowing what to do
束之高阁: put aside from duty or service/put or lay on the shelf
耍花招: play tricks
耍两面派手法: resort to two-faced tactics
摔跟斗: take a tumble
双重领导: dual leadership
双簧: two-man perform
双手沾满了血: both hands stained with blood
谁胜谁负的问题: the question of which will win out
谁是谁非: the question of who is right and who is wrong
谁说鸡毛不能飞上天: Who says a chicken feather can't fly up to heaven?
水火不相容: exclude each other like fire and water
水落石出: come to light
水泼不进，针插不进: watertight and impenetrable
水深火热: keep in suffering/plunged... into dire suffering
水有源，树有根: Every river has a source; every tree has its roots.
水涨船高: The boat floats high when the river rises.
水中捞月: catch the moon in the water
睡在我们身边的赫鲁晓夫: a Khrushchev lying by our side/a Khrushchev lying right beside us
顺乎天理，合乎人情: conform to the course of nature and the ways of the people
顺之者存，逆之者亡: those who bow before it survive and those who resist perish
顺致崇高的敬意: Please accept the assuances of my highest consideration.
说曹操，蓸操到: Talk of Cao Cao and he's sure to appear.
说穿了: in plain (blunt) language
说到底: in the final analysis
说得出，做得到: carry out one's pledge/Speak and follow through in action.
说法: way of putting things/reasoning
说风凉话: make irresponsible and carping comments
说空话: use empty words
说来说去，无非是两条: Boil down to two counts, no matter how varied they are.
说老实话: call a spade a spade/be frank/candid
说了算: have the final say
说半个不字: to mutter the word "no"
说成漆黑一团: completely blacken something/paint a black picture of
说得好听: plausible
说服教育，洗手洗澡，轻装上阵，团结对敌: persuade and educate, wash one's hands and take a bath, lay down one's burdens, and unite against the enemy
说理斗争: struggle by argument and reasoning