文革时期常用词汇的英译

蒋割荆

X（1）

吸取精华，弃其糟粕: its essence should be absorbed and its dross discarded
吸收新鲜血液: absorb fresh blood
洗心革面，重新做人: repent genuinely and make a fresh start
喜闻乐见: preferred by the masses/love to see and hear
细水长流: plan on a long-term basis
下不了台: nonplussed
下毒手: strike a vicious blow/stab a person in the back
下放: transfer cadres to work at the grassroots levels
下放劳动: go down to do manual labor
下工厂（生产队，连队）: go out to the factories (production teams or army companies)
下马威: prompt reprisals/instant severity
下台: step down/removed from power/toppled/thrown out of office
“下乡镀金论”: "go to the countryside so as to gain credit"/"go to the countryside to gild oneself"
先公后私: put public interest before self-interest
先破后立，破中有立: destruction before construction and construction in the course of destruction
先入为主: First impressions are firmly entrenched./formulate pre-conceived ideas
“先天下之忧而忧，后天下之乐而乐”: "be concerned about affairs of state before others, enjoy comfort after others"
先下手为强: The early bird gets the worm./Whoever strikes the first blow has the advantage.
先做学生，再做先生: Be a pupil before you become a teacher.
鲜血凝成的战斗友谊: blood-cemented comradeship-in-arms
现身说法: take oneself as an example
“现实主义深化”论: the theory of "the deepening of realism"
现行反革命分子: acting counter-revolutionary
相信群众，依靠群众，尊重群众的首创精神: trust the masses, rely on them, respect their initiative
香花与毒草: fragrant flowers and poisonous weeds
响彻云霄的凯歌: a song of triumph which resounds through the skies
“响当当的左派”: "genuine Leftists"
向党交心: confide what one has in mind to the Party
向反面转化: change into the reverse
向上爬: climb up social ladder/office seeker
逍遥法外: The convict is still at large.
逍遥派: persons who get away (stand aloof) from the struggle
嚣张: wild/unbridled/rampant/formidable
小丑: clown/knave
小道理服从大道理: The minor principle should be subordinated to the major principle.
小道消息: grape-vine news
小恩小惠: sops/a little bit of economic bail
小脚女人: woman with bound feet
小骂大帮忙: criticize in a small way and help in a big way/minor attacks in words but major help in deeds
小题大做: make a fuss about a trifling matter
小巫见大巫: be dwarfed
小车不倒只管推: I'll keep on pushing the cart until I drop.
孝子贤孙: filial progeny of
笑里藏刀: murderous intent behind one's smile
效法: pattern after/follow in the steps
邪门歪道: crooked means
胁从分子: unwilling followers/those who are coerced into becoming accomplices
胁从者不问: Accomplices under duress shall go unpunished.
写得何等好啊: be indeed superbly written
“写真实”论: the theory on "truthful writing"
“写中间人物”: "portray middle characters"
欣欣向荣: growing (blooming) prosperity/thriving/flourishing
新陈代谢: the transition from the old order of things to the new/metabolism/the new superseding the old
新的资产阶级分子: new capitalist (bourgeois) elements
新仇旧恨: new hatred piled on the old
新人新事: new people and new things/new personalities and new deeds
新沙皇: new tsars
新生力量: new rising forces/new emerging forces
新生事物: emerging new things
新思想、新文化、新风俗、新习惯（即“四新”）: new ideology, new culture, new customs and new habits
新高潮: a new high tide of
新纪元: a new epoch