文革时期常用词汇的英译

蒋割荆

Y（2）

一般和个别相结合: combine the general with the particular
一帮一，一对红: One helps one, to become a red pair.
一鼻孔出气: be in tune with/breathe through the same nostrils
一边倒: lean to one side
一波未平，一波又起: One trouble follows another.
一不怕苦，二不怕死: fear neither hardship nor death
一不做，二不休: A thing once begun will not be put off until done.
一点也没有交代: say not a single word about
一唱一和: sing in duet/echo each other/chime in with
一尘不染: not to be stained with a particle of dust/pure-hearted
一打一拉: use the stick and the carrot/hit and wheedle by turns
一打三反（打击反革命破坏活动，反对贪污盗窃、投机倒把，反对铺张浪费）: （编者译）movement of blow at the counter-revolutionary destructions and struggle against three evils (embezzlement and theft, speculation, extravagance and waste)
一旦时机成熟: as soon as the time is ripe/once conditions are ripe
一旦有机可乘: whenever they see the chance
一刀两断: break with... once for all/make a clean break with
一代不如一代，一年不如一年: be faring even worse and their conditions deteriorating year after year
一而再，再而三: again and again
一分为二: divide one into two
一竿子插到底: carry... down to the grass-roots levels
一个巴掌拍不响: It takes two to make a quarrel.
一个不杀，大部不抓: kill none and not arrest most
一个指头和十个指头的关系: a question of one finger among ten
一官半职: some official appointment
一棍子打死: finish... off with a single blow/knock down at one stroke
一花独开不是春，百花齐放春满园: Spring does not arrive with the blossoming of a single flower; when one hundred flowers blossom, spring permeates the orchard.
一计不成，又生一计: When one tactic fails, they fall back on another.
一箭双雕: kill two birds with one stone/dual gain/achieve two things at one stroke
“一就是一，二就是二”: "One is just one and two just two."
“一句顶一万句”: "Every sentence carries more weight than ten thousand ordinary sentences."
一口一口地把敌人吃掉: chew up the enemy mouthful by mouthful
一浪高过一浪: surge wave upon wave
一劳永逸: hold good for all time/once and for all
一厘钱精神: the spirit of making every mill count
一路货色: be of the same stock (kind, brand, stripe)
一落千丈: a precipitate (great, terrific) drop
一脉相承: be imbued with the same spirit/a continuation of
“一年土，二年洋，三年不认爹和娘”: "The first year they are still country folk, the second year they become citified, and the third year they turn their backs on their parents."
一盘散沙: a heap of loose sand
“一平二调”: "equalitarianism and indiscriminate transfer of manpower, land, draught animals, farm tools, funds, etc."
一批二看，或一批二用，或一批二养: Either criticize them and see, or criticize them and give them work to do, or criticize them and provide them with a proper livelihood.
一切革命的根本问题是国家政权问题: The fundamental question in all revolutions is that of state power.
一切行动听指挥: Obey orders in all your actions.
一丘之貉: jackals of the same lair
一去不复返: be gone forever
一群嗡嗡叫的苍蝇: a swarm of buzzing blowflies
一人困难众人帮: Everyone helps a comrade in difficulties.
一人红，红一点；大家红，红一片: When a single person is ideologically revolutionized, his contribution is limited; when all of us are ideologically revolutionized, our contribution will be tremendous.
一如既往: continue as always
一闪念: the thoughts which flash through one's mind/fleeting thoughts
一声春雷: a clap of spring thunder
一手拿镐，一手拿枪: pick in one hand and rifle in the other
一手抓革命，一手抓生产: take a form hold of revolution with one hand and spur production with the other
一手遮天: shut out the heavens with one palm
一塌糊涂，一无是处: utterly black and without a single virtue
一天等于二十年: Twenty years are concentrated in a day.
一网打尽: take them all at one haul of the net/all captured at once
一往无前的精神: an indomitable spirit
一系列事件: a train of events
一心为革命，一心为人民: complete dedication to the revolution, to the people/be wholly dedicated to the revolution and the people
一心为公: be heart and soul devoted to public interests
一心一意: with one heart and one mind
“一言堂”: "rule by the voice of one man alone"
一言以蔽之: in a word/in short/briefly
一意孤行: persist in willfully and arbitrarily
一应俱全: complete in every line
一有风吹草动: in times of stress/at the mere rustle of leaves in the wind
一元化的领导: unified (centralized) leadership
一月革命的红色风暴: red hurricane (storm) of the "January Revolution"
一张一弛: tense and relax
一长制: system of one-man leadership
一朝一夕: overnight/a short duration of time
一朝被蛇咬，三年怕井绳: The burnt child dreads the fire.
一针见血: make a pointed remark/go right to the heart of the matter/hit the nail on the head
一整套: in its entirety/the whole range of
一只耳朵进，一只耳朵出: in at one ear and out at the other
一字之差: a difference of only a single word