文革时期常用词汇的英译

蒋割荆

T（2）

听其言而观其行: hear their words and judge them by their deeds/hear what a man says and see how he acts
听取群众意见: listen to the masses
听任宰割: place themselves at the mercy of
听天由命: submit to the will of God/abide by the will of Heaven/trust to luck
听之任之: allow them to continue/let one have one's own way
铤而走险: risk danger when in desperation/take a risk
挺身而出: step forth bravely
通报: circular/notification for general information
通风报信: provide someone with information
同病相怜: People similarly afflicted feel pity for one another. /Fellow sufferers sympathize with one another.
同吃、同住、同劳动（即“三同”）: eat, live and work together with the masses
同仇敌忾: fight shoulder to shoulder with/treat one as a common enemy
同床异梦: sleep in the same bed but dream different dreams
同党一条心: be at one with the Party
同甘共苦: share weal and woe with/share joys and sorrows/in weal and woe
同甘苦，共患难: share weal and woe/go through storm and stress together with
同工同酬: equal pay for equal work
同呼吸，共命运: share weal and woe
同流合污: wallow the mire with/join in their evil-doings
同生死，共患难: coming together through thick and thin/go through hardships and tribulations together
同谋者: accomplices
同舟共济: share with one in trouble
铜墙铁壁: wall of bronze/iron bastions
统筹规划: over-all planning
统筹兼顾: over-all planning and all-round considerations
统购统销: planned purchase and marketing by the state
统一计划，统一安排，统一调配，统一分配收入: unified planning, unified arrangement, unified allocation of resources and unified distribution of income
统一领导，分散经营: unified leadership and decentralized management
统一认识，统一政策，统一计划，统一指挥，统一行动: unity in thinking, policy, plan, command and action
痛打落水狗: relentlessly beat the dog in the water
痛改前非: reform with a keen sense of error/reform earnestly one's misdeeds
痛击: batter
痛加批判: subject... to merciless criticism
痛哭流涕: cry and shed bitter tears
偷工减料: cheat in work and cut down material
偷梁换柱: secretly replacing the beams and pillars with rotten timbers
偷天换日: play a sly trick/substitute the fake for the genuine
投案自首: give oneself up to the government
投靠: hire oneself out to/sell oneself to/throw oneself into the arms of/put oneself under the wing of/subservient to
投机倒把: speculate/profiteering/capitalize
投机取巧: gain something by trickery
投身到斗争中去: plunge into the thick of the fray/participate in the struggle
头等大事: issue of prime importance
头号敌人: enemy number one
（党内）头号走资本主义道路的当权派: top Party person in power (the number one Party person in power) taking the capitalist road
头可断，血可流: not afraid of death or shedding our blood/not afraid to lose our lives or to shed our blood
头可断，血可流，祖国的神圣领土一寸也不能丢: We are determined to defend our motherland at the cost of our lives and shall never yield even one inch of our sacred territory to the enemy.
头面人物: bigwig/those in the limelight/top people
头目: ringleader/chieftain
头痛医头，脚痛医脚: palliative measures for one's illness
透过现象看本质: see through the appearance to perceive the essence
突出无产阶级政治: put proletarian politics in the forefront
突出政治: put politics first
突破口: force a breakthrough into
徒有虚名: have an undeserved reputation
涂脂抹粉: embellish/varnish/make presentable
屠刀: butcher's knife
土办法: indigenous methods
“土包子”: boor/bumpkin
土崩瓦解: crumble and perish
“土豆烧牛肉的共产主义”: "goulash communism"
土洋并举: simultaneous employment of modern and indigenous methods of production
土专家: indigenous experts
吐故纳新: exhale the old and inhale the new/get rid of stale and take in the fresh
兔死狐悲，物伤其类: The fox mourns over the death of the hare. Like mourns over the death of like.
团结、紧张、严肃、活泼: Be united, alert, earnest and lively.
团结一切可能团结的力量: unite with all those forces that can be united with
团结在党的周围: rally closely around the Party
团结在一起，战斗在一起，胜利在一起: always be united, always fight together and be victorious together
团结、批评、教育的政策: the policy of uniting with, criticizing and educating...
（把一切错误）推给别人，把一切功劳归于自己: shift all errors onto others and claim all credits for themselves
推陈出新: weed through the old to let the new grow
推到某人身上: lay the entire blame on someone
推荐和选拔相结合的新招生办法: a new method of enrolment, a combination of recommendation and selection
推卸责任: shirk one's responsibility
退避三舍: keep a good distance from
退出历史舞台: quit the stage of history/retire from the stage of history
退贓从宽、不退从严: be lenient with those who return the loot, but severe with those who refuse to do so
蜕化变质分子: political degenerates
拖泥带水: be dragged through mud/messy matters
拖人下水: involve in trouble/drag into hot water
脱产: be disengaged from work
脱节: out of keeping with
脱离群众: estrange oneself from the masses
脱胎换骨: create new thing out of the old
脱颖而出: become eminent/come out into the open
鸵鸟政策: ostrich policy
唾弃: cast aside