文革時期常用詞匯的英譯

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三八作風(fēng)（三句話是：堅定正確的政治方向，艱苦樸素的工作作風(fēng)，靈活機動的戰(zhàn)略戰(zhàn)術(shù)；八個字是：團結(jié)，緊張，嚴(yán)肅，活潑。通稱“三八作風(fēng)。）

The "three-eight" working style - the three mottoes and eight characters representing the fine tradition of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. The three mottoes are: Keep firmly to the correct political orientation; maintain a style of hard work and plain living; and be flexible in strategy and tactics. The eight characters mean: Be united, alert, earnest and lively.

三查（查階級成分，查工作，查斗志）

the three check-ups (on class origin, performance of duty and will to fight)

三大差別

the difference between town and country, between worker and peasant and between mental and manual labor.

三大革命運動

Class struggle, the struggle for production and scientific experiment are the three great movements.

三大紀(jì)律，八項注意

the three main rules of discipline and the eight points for attention

三反運動

the movement against three evils (corruption, waste and bureaucracy)

“三分天災(zāi)，七分人禍”

"three parts of natural calamities and seven parts of man-made disasters"

三個臭皮匠，頂個諸葛亮

Three cobblers with their wits combined equal Chukeh Liang the master mind.

“三和一少”（即所謂“對帝修反要和（三和），對世界革命援助要少（一少）”）

"the liquidation of struggle in its relations with imperialism, the reactionaries and modern revisionism, and reduction of assistance and support to the revolutionary struggle of other peoples"

三級所有，隊為基礎(chǔ)

the three-level system of ownership of the means of production in the peple's commune, with ownership by the production team as the basic form

“三家村”（即“鄧拓、廖沫沙、吳晗”，名字是文革時期的譯法。）

"three family village", a "gangster inn" run jointly by Teng To, Liao Mo-sha and Wu Han

“三駕馬車”（即赫魯曉夫集團、鐵托集團、意大利共產(chǎn)黨總書記陶里亞蒂為首的修正主義領(lǐng)導(dǎo)。）

the revisionist "troika" - the Khrushchev group, the Tito clique and the revisionist leadership of the Italian Communist Party headed by Togliatti

三結(jié)合

three-way combination consisting of representatives of the revolutionary mass organizations, revolutionary leading cadres and the People's Liberation Army/"three-in-one" combination

“三結(jié)合”的臨時權(quán)力機構(gòu)

the provisional "three-in-one" organ of power

三面紅旗

the Three Red Banners of the General Line for Socialist Construction, the Great Leap Forward and the People's Commune

三整（整頓組織，整頓思想，整頓作風(fēng)）

three improvements (organizational consolidation, ideological education and rectification of style of work)

三年嚴(yán)重自然災(zāi)害

grave natural calamities for three consecutive years

三十六計

the thirty-six stratagems

瞞天過海

cross the sea under camouflage

圍魏救趙

relieving the state of Chao by besieging the state of Wei

借刀殺人

killing someone by another's hand

以逸待勞

waiting at one's ease for the exhausted enemy

趁火打劫

plundering a burning house

聲東擊西

making a feint to the east and attacking in the west

無中生有

creating something out of nothing

暗渡陳倉

advancing secretly by an unknown path

隔岸觀火

watching the fire from the other side of the river

笑里藏刀

covering the dagger with a smile

李代桃僵

palming off a substitute for the real thing

順手牽羊

picking up something in passing

打草驚蛇

beating the grass to frighten away the snake

借尸還魂

using a corpse to resurrect a dead soul

調(diào)虎離山

luring the tiger out of his den

欲擒故縱

letting the enemy off in order to catch him

拋磚引玉

giving the enemy something to induce him to give up more valuable things

擒賊擒王

capturing the ringleader first in order to capture all his followers

釜底抽薪

extracting the firewood from under the cauldron

渾水摸魚

fishing in troubled waters

金蟬脫殼

slipping away by casting off a cloak

關(guān)門捉賊

catching the thief by closing his escape route

遠交近攻

befriending the distant enemy while attacking the enemy nearer home

假途伐虢

attacking the enemy by passing through a common neighbor

偷梁換柱

stealing the beams and pillars and replacing them with rotten timbers

指桑罵槐

reviling the locust tree while pointing to the mulberry

假癡不癲

feigning madness without becoming insane

上屋抽梯

removing the ladder after the enemy has climbed up

樹生開花

putting artificial flowers on trees

反客為主

turning from a guest into a host

增兵減灶

bringing in reinforcements while reducing cooking-stoves

十面埋伏

ambushing on all sides

虛張聲勢

making a false show of strength

誘敵深入

luring the enemy in deep

美人計

using seductive women to corrupt...

空城計

presenting a bold front to conceal unpreparedness

反間計

sowing discord among the enemy

苦肉計

deceiving the enemy by torturing one's own man

連環(huán)計

coordinating one stratagem with another

拖刀計

feigning defeat in order to kill the enemy

疑兵計

deceiving the enemy by sham deployment

三十六計，走為上計

Of the thirty-six stratagems, running away is the best.

“三十年代文藝”

the literature and art of the 1930s

三思而后行

Look before you leap./think twice

三天打魚、兩天曬網(wǎng)

spend three days fishing and two days drying nets

三同（同吃、同住、同勞動）

eat, live and work together with the masses

三支兩軍

"three supports and two militaries" (support industry, support agriculture, support the broad masses of the Left, military control and military training)

“三自一包”（自留地，自由市場，自負(fù)盈虧，包產(chǎn)到戶）

san zi yi bao: the extension of plot for private use, the extension of free markets, the increase of small enterprises with sole responsibility for their own profits or losses, and the fixing of output quotas based on the individual households

三座大山

the three great mountains which weighed on the backs of the Chinese people - imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat-capitalism

喪家之犬

stray dogs/homeless dog

喪權(quán)辱國

humiliate the nation and forfeit its sovereignty

喪失革命志氣

sap one's revolutionary will

喪失警惕

put one off one's guard

喪失立場

lose one's class stand

喪失原則

depart from principle/lose principle

喪心病狂

become frenzied

喪鐘敲響了

ring the knell for

掃除一切害人蟲

Sweep away all pests.

掃地出門

be swept out like rubbish

殺出一個無產(chǎn)階級的新世界

hew out a proletarian new world

煞費苦心

cudgel one's brains/rack one's brains

煞有介事

pull a sanctimonious face/in all apparent seriousness/pretend to be serious

剎住歪風(fēng)

check bad tendencies

山窮水盡疑無路，柳暗花明又一村

“Just as the weary traveler despairs of finding a road, a village appears and the shade of willows and riotous flowers beckon.”

山頭主義

mountain-stronghold mentality

山雨欲來風(fēng)滿樓

The turbulent wind precedes the mountain storm./Strong winds foretell the coming storm.

扇風(fēng)點火，推波助瀾

make (stir up) trouble/fan up the fire (flames)

扇陰風(fēng)，點鬼火

fan up evil winds and fires

善有善報，惡有惡報；不是不報，時候未到；時候一到，一切都報

"Good will be rewarded with good, and evil with evil; if the reward is not forthcoming, it is because the time has not arrived; and when the time arrives, one will get all the reward he deserves."

善于斗爭，善于革命

be good at waging struggles and making revolution

擅離職守

absence without leave

擅用私刑

take the law into one's hands

擅自修改

make unauthorized change/modify without authorization

商品糧

commodity grain

商業(yè)網(wǎng)

trade network

傷風(fēng)敗俗

pervert the manners and customs/corrupt the morals

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