文革时期常用词汇的英译

蒋割荆

Z（3）

只此一家，别无分店: （编者译）Without any branch, only one store is there.
“只反贪官，不反皇帝”: （编者译）Down with the corrupt officials only, not the emperor!
只顾一时: take a short view
只顾自己，不顾别人: think only of oneself and never of others
只号召，不动手: issue verbal calls without personal action
只见树木，不见森林: fail to see the wood for the trees
只能赞扬，不能批评: tolerate only praise and no criticism
只凭动机，不问效果: act solely by motive and not inquire what effect one's action will have
只许挨打，不准还手: must take a beating and not strike back
只要帝国主义还存在，就有发生侵略战争的危险: So long as imperialism exists there will always be soil for aggressive wars.
只要还有一口气: as long as... have a breath in
只有天知道: Heaven alone knows!
只许他们规规矩矩，不许他们乱说乱动: only permitting them to behave themselves properly and not allowing them to speak or act wildly
只许州官放火，不许百姓点灯: The magistrates were allowed to burn down houses, while the common people were forbidden even to light lamps./The magistrate had the power to set houses on fire while forbidding ordinary folk to light lamps.
只有解放全人类，才能最后解放无产阶级自己: Only by emancipating all mankind can the proletariat achieve its own final emancipation.
只有批判旧世界，才能发现新世界: A new world can only be discovered in the course of repudiating the old world.
只有人民生活才是文学艺术的唯一源泉: Literature and art can only spring from the life of the people.
只有做群众的学生，才能做群众的先生: Only be being a pupil of the masses can one be their teacher.
只争朝夕: seizing the day and seizing the hour
只专不红: be experts without socialist consciousness/become experts devoid of socialist consciousness
趾高气扬: ride the high horse/step high and look proud
纸包不住火: Fire cannot be wrapped with fire.
纸老虎一戳就穿: paper tigers that can be punctured with a mere thrust
纸上谈兵: armchair strategy/fight on paper
至死不改: incorrigible die-hards
至死不悟: never repent even unto death
致命打击: a lethal (fatal) blow at
致以无产阶级文化大革命的战斗敬礼: We extend to you the fighting salute of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
制造分裂: manufacture (foment) split
制造思想混乱: create confusion in people's minds
制造舆论: create public opinion
置之度外: ignore/not take into account
置之死地而后快: will not be satisfied with anything less than the destruction of
置之脑后: banish from one's mind
治病救人: cure the sickness to save the patient
治党治国: run the Party and the state
“智育第一”: "give first place to intellectual development"
《中俄瑷珲条约》: the 1858 "Sino-Russian Treaty of Aigun"
《中俄北京条约》: the 1860 "Sino-Russian Treaty of Peking"
《中俄布连斯奇条约》: the "Sino-Russian Burinsky Treaty" (1727)
中俄不平等旧约: the old unequal Sino-Russian treaties
《中俄勘分西北界约记》: the 1864 "Tahcheng Protocol on the Delimitation of Sino-Russian Boundary"
《中俄尼布楚条约》: the 1689 "Sino-Russian Treaty of Nipchu"
《中俄天津条约》: the "Sino-Russian Treaty of Tientsin" (1858)
《中俄续勘喀什噶尔界约》: the 1884 "Protocol on Sino-Russian Boundary in Kashgar Region"
《中俄伊犁条约》: the "Sino-Russian Ili Treaty" (1881)
《中共中央关于目前农村工作中若干问题的决定（草案）》（即《十条》）
Draft Decision of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party on Certain Problems in Our Present Rural Work (i.e., the 10-Point Decision): 中国国情; Chinese conditions/conditions in our country
中国化的马列主义: Marxism-Leninism in its application to China
“中国通”: a China expert
《中华人民共和国和美利坚合众国联合公报》（即《上海公报》）: Joint Communiqué of the People's Republic of China and the United States of America (1972)
中间分子: middle elements/intermediate elements
中间派: middle-of-the-roaders/intermediate forces
“中间人物论”: the theory of "middle characters"
中坚分子: those who are the backbone of/those playing the backbone role
中流砥柱: the mainstay/the pillar rock in mid-stream
《中苏解决悬案大纲协定》: the 1924 "Agreement on General Principles for the Settlement of the Questions Between China and the Soviet Union"
中央各部门: central organs/departments under the Party's Central Committee or the State Council
中央和地方并举: simultaneous development of national and local enterprises
中央集权: centralization of authority
中央文化革命小组（即“中央文革”）: The Cultural Revolution Group under the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
中央各部委: ministries and commissions under the State Council
中央领导机关: central leading organ
中央批准: approval of the central authorities
中央各主管部门: all the ministries under the State Council
“中庸之道”: "the doctrine of the mean"
中游思想: feel content with remaining mid-stream without making further advance
中了诡计: taken in by their maneuver of
中间环节: intermediate links
中心环节: key link
忠实走狗: servile lackeys
忠心耿耿: infinitely loyal/faithfully and conscientiously/loyal and devoted
忠字舞: （编者译）loyal dancing
种子选手: seeded player
种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆: reap what one has sown/plant melons and get melons, sow beans and get beans
众叛亲离: rebellion by the masses and desertion by the followers
重点批判: criticize a typical example
重事实，讲道理: have respect for the facts and talk reason
重证据而不轻信口供: The stress must be on the weight of evidence and confessions should not be taken on trust.
咒骂: malign/vile ravings/direct invectives against
“朱门酒肉臭，路有冻死骨”: "Behind these vermillion gates meat and wine go to waste, but along the road are bones of men who have frozen to death."
蛛丝马迹: the gossamer threads of a spider and the trail of a horse/clues
诸如此类，不一而足: so on and so forth
竹篮打水一场空: draw water with a bamboo basket - a useless effort
主观臆断: subjective and groundless conclusion
主流: mainstream/main current/main trend
主人翁: master
“主帅”: ringleader/chief culprit
主宰: arbiters of the destiny of/an overlord who determines the destiny of mankind/dictate the destiny of mankind
注意一种主要倾向的时候，也要注意可能掩盖着的另一种倾向: While taking notice of the main tendency we should also pay attention to another, possibly hidden, tendency.
注定灭亡: be doomed to destruction