文革時期常用詞匯的英譯

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拿原則做交易

barter away principles / bargain over principles / trade in principles / haggle about principles

哪里有壓迫，哪里有反抗

Where there is oppression, there is resistance.

哪有貓兒不吃油

Was there ever a cat that did not love fish?

難免有一天要垮臺

be pretty sure to fall one day

納入軌道

be placed in line

耐人尋味

afford much food for thought

難兄難弟

two just alike

男盜女娼

behave like thieves and prostitutes/men as robbers and women as prostitutes

南轅北轍

go south by driving the chariot north

腦袋掉了，還不知道怎么掉的

lose one's head without knowing how it happened

鬧分裂

keep on splitting away from

鬧矛盾

at loggerheads

鬧了幾十年還沒有鬧清楚

After several decades of wrangling it has still not been cleared up.

鬧不出什么名堂

have not been able to get anywhere

鬧地位

be after position

鬧名譽

be after fame

內(nèi)查外調(diào)

make investigations both inside and outside/investigate internaly and externally

內(nèi)奸

hidden traitor

內(nèi)外交困

beset with difficulties both at home and abroad

能“官”能民

both serve as "official" and remain one of the common people

能伸能屈

able to stoop or stand erect

能上能下

able to work both at the top and down below

泥菩薩過江，自身難保

like the clay idol that can hardly survive while crossing the river

你不斗他，他就斗你

If you do not attack them, they will attack you.

你打你的，我打我的

You fight in your way and we fight in ours.

你死我活的斗爭

life-and-death struggle

你有你的一套打法，我有我的一套打法

You have your way of fighting and we have ours.

年年講，月月講，天天講

be repeated of this every year, every month and every day

念念不忘

bear in mind constantly

捏造

fabricate/concoct

寧為革命前進一步死，不為個人后退半步生

rather die for the revolution than quit to save my neck

寧“左”勿“右”

prefer being "Left" to being "Right"

牛鬼蛇神

monsters and ghosts

（放手讓）牛鬼蛇神出籠

turn monsters of all kinds loose

扭轉(zhuǎn)歷史車輪

reverse the wheel of history

《農(nóng)村社會主義教育運動中目前提出的一些問題》（即《二十三條》）

Some Current Problems Raised in the Socialist Education Movement in the Rural Areas (i.e., the 23-Point Document)

農(nóng)村社會主義教育運動

socialist education movement in the rural areas

農(nóng)民意識

peasant mentality

全國農(nóng)業(yè)發(fā)展綱要

National Program for Agricultural Development 1956-1967

農(nóng)業(yè)為基礎(chǔ)、工業(yè)為主導

take agriculture as the foundation and industry as the dominant factor of the national economy

農(nóng)業(yè)學大寨

In agriculture, learn from Tachai.

把學習……的空氣搞得濃濃的

create an atmosphere of keenness to study...

弄清是非

clarify what is right from what is wrong

弄清思想，團結(jié)同志

clarity in ideology and unity among comrades

弄清事實

set facts straight

奴才哲學

philosophy of willing slaves

奴化教育

enslaving education

奴隸思想

slave mentality

奴顏婢膝

bend one's knees before

挪用公款

embezzle public funds

版權(quán)所有