文革时期常用词汇的英译

蒋割荆

Z（4）

抓辫子: seize hold of the mistakes and shortcomings of
抓党权、军权、政权: grab power in the Party, army and government
抓典型: grasp (seize) typical examples
抓而不紧，等于不抓: Not to grasp firmly is not to grasp at all.
抓革命，促生产: grasp revolution, promote (spur) production
抓纲: take firm hold of the key link of all work
抓活思想: grasp living (current) ideas
抓两头，带中间: keep watch over the most advanced and the most backward so as to bring along the majority in the middle category
抓思想问题: tackle the ideological problem
抓思想，抓生产，抓生活: give all-round attention to the ideological development, production and well-being of
抓意识形态: grasp ideological work
抓重点: grasp the essential point
抓住不放: tackle the problem on hand firmly and persistently
抓住……大做文章: seize on something and make a big issue of it
抓住阶级斗争这个纲: take class struggle as the key to all our work
抓住小辫子: have somebody by the short braids (plaits)
抓住主要矛盾: single out the principal contradictions
抓到一根救命草: snatch at a straw
抓住……把柄: get hold of something with which to discredit...
抓住事物的本质: grasp the essence
专案组: special group for the examination of a case
“专家路线”: line of relying solely on "experts"
专家治厂: rely on specialists in running factories
专人分工负责: division of labor and fixed responsibility
专政对象: be subject to dictatorship
转弯抹角: in a devious way/in a round-about way
转移斗争大方向: switch the general orientation of the struggle
转移到以农业为基础的轨道上来: switch... onto the road of serving agriculture which is the foundation of the economy
装可怜相: pretend ignorance/assume a pitiable look
装聋作哑: play deaf and dumb
装模作样: make a pretence of
装腔作势，借以吓人: strike a pose in order to intimidate people
装死躺下: play dead
装出一副假公正的面孔: feign impartiality
壮大左派队伍: strengthen the ranks of the Lefts
壮士暮年，雄心不已: The heart of the hero in his old age is as stout as ever.
壮志凌云: soaring determination
概不追究: no action will be taken against those who...
追随: follow/adhere to/pursue
准备他们大打，早打，打常规战，打核大战: Make preparations against their launching a big war, and against their launching a war at an early date, preparations against their launching a conventional war and against their launching a large-scale nuclear war.
准备两手: prepare for two eventualities
酌情处理: deal with on the merits of each case
茁壮成长: steadily mature
资本主义复辟: capitalist restoration
资本主义工商业的社会主义改造: socialist transformation of capitalist industry and commerce
资本主义倾向严重的上中农: upper-middle peasants with strong capitalist tendencies
资产阶级代表人物: representatives of the bourgeoisie
资产阶级的“权威老爷”: Messrs. bourgeois "authorities"
资产阶级的思想殘余: survivals of bourgeois ideology
资产阶级法权: bourgeois rights
资产阶级反动学术权威: bourgeois reactionary academic authorities
资产阶级分子: bourgeois elements
资产阶级个人奋斗、追逐名利的白专道路: become bourgeois specialists by the bourgeois method of "making one's own way" and achieving individual fame, wealth and position
资产阶级个人主义: bourgeois individualism
资产阶级老爷式的态度: the attitude of a bourgeois master
资产阶级生活方式: the bourgeois way of life
资产阶级思潮: bourgeois trend
资产阶级司令部: bourgeois headquarters
资产阶级野心家、两面派: bourgeois careerist and double-dealer
资产阶级知识分子: bourgeois intellectuals
资产阶级自由化: bourgeois liberalization
资方人员: capitalists and their representative
子弟兵: troops who are the sons and brothers of our people
自产自销: produce and market all on one's own
自吹自擂: brag and boast
（不会）自动退出历史舞台: It will not step down from the stage of history of its own accord.
自发的资本主义倾向: spontaneous tendency towards capitalism
自己不革命，也不准别人革命: refuse to make revolution oneself and not permit others to make revolution
自己不反帝，也不准别人反帝: refuse to oppose imperialism oneself and not permit others to oppose imperialism
自己动手，丰衣足食: ample food and clothing through self-reliance
自绝于人民: alienate oneself from the people
“自来红”: "born red"
自力更生，艰苦奋斗，破除迷信，解放思想: Be self-reliant, work hard, do away with all fetishes and superstitions and emancipate the mind.
自力更生为主，争取外援为辅的方针: the policy of relying mainly on one's own efforts while seeking external assistance as an auxiliary
自立于不败之地: secure an invincible position
自留地: private plots
自欺欺人: deceive oneself and others
自取灭亡: head for disaster/run towards disaster/bring destruction on oneself
自命不凡: pride oneself on being out of the ordinary
自然灾害: natural calamities
自食其力: earn one's own living
自首变节: make confessions and surrender
自首书: letter of confession
自投罗网: fall into a trap through one's own fault/caught in a net through one's own fault
自讨苦吃: ask for trouble/seek out hardships
自卫反击: strike back in self-defense
自我标榜: glorify oneself
自我吹嘘: boast smugly/boost oneself
自我教育: self-education
自我陶醉: self-glorification
自我牺牲精神: the spirit of self-sacrifice
自下而上地: from the bottom up
自相矛盾: self-contradictory
自行消灭: spontaneous disappearance
自寻死路: bring about their own destruction
自以为得计: think oneself a smart fellow/fancy oneself clever
自以为不可一世: swagger like a conquering hero
自以为了不起: think oneself terrific
自以为是: self-approbation/consider oneself always in the right
自由泛滥: open wide the floodgates to
自由放任: unrestrained self-indulgence
“自由化”: "liberalize"/"liberalization"
“自由市场”: free market
自圆其说: make out a good case/justify oneself
自动交待: admit one's errors voluntarily
自觉地造就: purposefully train
自私自利的个人主义: self-seeking individualism
自我表现: self-expression
“自由、平等、博爱”: "Liberty, Equality and Fraternity"