文革時(shí)期常用詞匯的英譯

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馬大哈

carelessness/blind heedlessness

唯……馬首是瞻

dance to someone's tune/follow on the heels of

螞蟻啃骨頭

ants gnawing at a bone

埋頭苦干，奮發(fā)圖強(qiáng)

work hard and courageously

埋頭業(yè)務(wù)

immersed in vocational work

賣國(guó)求榮

seek after glory by selling out one's own country

賣國(guó)主義

national betrayal

賣身投靠

hire oneself out to

“瞞天過(guò)?！?/dt>

"cross the sea under camouflage"

滿城風(fēng)雨

like a storm over the whole city

滿懷戰(zhàn)斗豪情

full of militant spirit

滿口革命詞句

use a profusion of revolutionary phraseology

滿口仁義道德，滿腦子男盜女娼

Though they write and speak abundantly of justice and morality, in fact their heads are obsessed by "men as robbers" and "women as prostitutes".

滿面紅光

glowing with health

謾罵

fling abusive charges/vituperation

盲目的、不完全的、不清醒的

blind, half-baked, muddle-headed

盲目性

blindness/blindly and uncritically

矛盾尖銳化

intensification of contradictions

矛盾上交

pass on the contradictions to one's superiors

矛盾轉(zhuǎn)化

transformation of contradiction

矛頭對(duì)準(zhǔn)

direct its spearhead against

冒進(jìn)

adventurous advance

冒牌的

phony

冒天下之大不韙

defy the universal will of the people/risk universal condemnation

冒險(xiǎn)主義

adventurism

貌似公正

presence of fair play/seemingly impartial

貌似極“左”而實(shí)質(zhì)極右

sound extremely "Left" but in essence be extremely Right

貌似強(qiáng)大

appear so powerful/look quite strong

貌似有理

seemingly plausible

沒(méi)有調(diào)查，沒(méi)有發(fā)言權(quán)

No investigation, no right to speak.

沒(méi)有改造好的地、富、反、壞、右分子

unreformed landlords, rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries, bad elements and rightists

沒(méi)有革命的理論，就不會(huì)有革命的運(yùn)動(dòng)

Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

“沒(méi)有功勞也有苦勞，沒(méi)有苦勞還有疲勞”

"If the contributions are not to be counted, still I can say I have done hard work. Even if hard work is not to be mentioned, still you cannot deny that I did not spare my strength and worked myself to the point of exhaustion."

沒(méi)有赫魯曉夫的赫魯曉夫修正主義

Khrushchev revisionism without Khrushchev

沒(méi)有什么了不起

not so great/nothing wonderful

美其名曰

euphemistically describe ... as...

（受）蒙蔽

hoodwinked by/befuddled

蒙混過(guò)關(guān)

slip by/slip through/sneak away in the confusion

蒙在鼓里

"living in a drum"

靡靡之音

demoralizing music/beguiling music

密切聯(lián)系群眾

maintain close ties with the masses

面和心不和

friends on the surface

面向農(nóng)村

geared to the needs of the countryside

面向群眾

identify oneself with the masses/face the masses

面子

face-saving

滅敵人威風(fēng)，長(zhǎng)自己志氣

destroy the arrogance of the enemy and enhance the spirit of the great masses of the people

滅頂之災(zāi)

buried beneath the waves

滅資興無(wú)

eradicate what is bourgeois and foster what is proletarian

“民不畏死，奈何以死懼之？”

"The people fear not death, why threaten them with it?"

民憤大

incur the great wrath of the masses/strong indignation among the people

“民以食為天”

"Food is the first necessity of the people."

民族敗類

national outcast

名不見“經(jīng)傳”

those whose names are not on "celebrity" lists

名利雙收

gain both fame and wealth

名利思想

ideas of seeking personal fame and material gains

“名”、“洋”、“古”

"famous plays", "foreign plays" and "ancient plays"

明火執(zhí)杖

conduct activities openly

明目張膽

openly/in a bare-faced way/in a flagrant way

明槍易躲，暗箭難防

It is easy to dodge an open spear thrust, but difficult to guard against an arrow in the dark.

明修棧道，暗渡陳倉(cāng)

do something behind the facade of

明哲保身，但求無(wú)過(guò)

be worldly wise and play safe and seek only to avoid blame

明知故犯

violate it knowingly/commit deliberately

明知山有虎，偏向虎山行

He knows there are tigers in the mountains but insists on taking that road./Well aware that there are dangers ahead, he goes on undeterred.

明知征途有艱險(xiǎn)，越是艱險(xiǎn)越向前

Well we know that there's danger ahead, we are all the more set on driving forward.

鳴不平

to air grievances for

鳴鑼開道

sound the gongs to clear a way for

鳴冤叫屈

make bitter complaints

命根子

lifeline/one's very life

命運(yùn)寄托在……

stake one's fate on

命中注定

decreed by fate

謬種流傳，誤人不淺

Error is disseminated, doing people great harm.

摸底

feel out

摸老虎屁股

touch the backside of a tiger

磨洋工

slacking

抹黑

defame and discredit

抹煞

negate/ignore/deny/repudiate/efface/write off/blot out/obliterate

莫須有的

fabulous/fabricated/concocted

墨守成規(guī)

stick to established practice/stick to accustomed rules

幕后操縱

behind-the-scenes manipulations

幕后人物

the man who directs behind the scenes

幕后指使人

those maneuvering behind the scenes

木已成舟

What's done is done.

目無(wú)法紀(jì)

flout law and discipline

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