文革時期常用詞匯的英譯

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開倒車

turn the clock back

開動宣傳機器

set the propaganda machine in motion

開卷考試

allow the use of textbooks, notes and reference material during examinations

開門紅

make a good start

開脫

whitewash oneself

開小差

desert one's post/decamp

開眼界

widen one's field of vision

開除黨籍

expel somebody from the Party/expulsion from the Party

開拓無限廣闊的道路

open up boundless vistas

開展增產(chǎn)節(jié)約的勞動競賽

develop labor emulation in increasing production and practicing economy

開展批評與自我批評

unfold criticism and self-criticism

揩干凈身上的血跡

wipe off the blood from one's wounds

凱歌陣陣，喜訊頻傳

Songs of triumph are heard all round and good news keeps pouring in.

凱旋歸來

triumphant return

看菜吃飯，量體裁衣

regulate the appetite according to the dishes and fit the dress to the figure

看風使舵

steer according to the wind

看門狗

watch-dog

看清本質(zhì)

grasp the essence

看透

see right into

康莊大道

the board path of

考慮個人得失

concern with one's own gains and losses

靠邊站

stand aside/step aside

靠山

patron/mainstay

靠山吃山，靠水吃水

Those living on a mountain get their living from the mountain, those living near the water get their living from the water.

科班出身

people who have undergone professional training/those who took the formal education

科學(xué)論斷

scientific thesis

可歌可泣

inspiring

可憐蟲

pathetic creatures

可笑不自量

cut a ridiculous figure because of lack of self-knowledge

可以教育好的子女（編者說明：“可以教育好的子女”實際上指的是出身不好或被打倒的走資派的子女。）

the sons and daughters that can be educated

克己奉公

wholehearted devotion to public duty

克已復(fù)禮

comply with the rites by setting restraints on oneself

刻骨仇恨

bitter hatred

刻骨銘心

imprint on the bones and inscribe on the memory

刻骨的階級仇恨

irreconcilable (bitter) class hatred

“肯定一切”的觀點

viewpoint that "everything is positive"

啃硬骨頭

a hard nut to crack

孔孟之道

the ways of Confucius and Mencius

空口說白話

speak without acting

控訴會

accusation meeting

口蜜腹劍

honey in mouth, dagger in heart

口是心非

say yes and mean no

口頭革命派

revolutionaries on their lips

口誅筆伐

condemn both by word of mouth and in writing

扣大帽子

put labels on/be branded as

苦大仇深

suffered bitterly in the old society and have a deep class hatred

苦干，實干，加巧干

working hard, conscientiously and skillfully

“苦海無邊，回頭是岸”

"Boundless is the sea of sorrow, yet a man who will turn back can reach the shore."

苦練過硬的殺敵本領(lǐng)

make hard efforts to master the skills of wiping out the enemy

苦難深重

untold suffering

苦水中長大

grow up in dire poverty/grow up amidst sufferings

“垮掉的一代”

"beat generation"

垮臺

collapse/completely vanish

快馬加鞭

spur the flying horse to full speed/with whip and spur

寬大處理

be accorded lenient treatment/be treated with leniency

窺測方向，以求一逞

see how the wind blows in order to achieve one's evil ends

窺測時機

bide one's time

捆綁手腳

fetter

擴大化

broaden the scope of

擴大會議

enlarged session (meeting, conference)

擴大教育面，縮小打擊面

Help more people by educating them and narrow the target of attack.

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