文革時(shí)期常用詞匯的英譯

蔣割荊

S（4）

司空見(jiàn)慣

it is quite common for/a matter of repeated occurrence

司馬昭之心，路人皆知

This Szuma Chao trick is obvious to every man in the street./all too evident/obvious to everybody

私心雜念

selfish ideas and personal considerations

私字當(dāng)頭

make the self-interest the first consideration

思想過(guò)硬，生活過(guò)硬，本領(lǐng)過(guò)硬

stand severe tests in one's thinking, life and professional skills

思想改造

ideological remold

思想革命化

ideological revolutionization

思想根源

ideological root-cause

思想混亂

ideological confusion

思想落后

ideological backwardness

思想落后于實(shí)際

thinking lags behind reality

思想認(rèn)識(shí)問(wèn)題

a matter of ideology and understanding

思想政治工作

ideological and political work

死路一條

There is only one road, the road to extinction.

死不回頭

never repent

死不認(rèn)罪

be adamant in refusing to admit one's guilt

死不改悔的走資本主義道路的當(dāng)權(quán)派

absolutely unrepentant persons in power taking the capitalist road

死不要臉

lose all sense of shame

死黨

sworn followers/someone's followeer even unto death

死得其所

worthy death

死胡同

blindy alley/dead end

死灰復(fù)燃

like dying embers that flare up/come to life again/rise again from

死老虎

the slain tiger

死氣沉沉

without vitality/lose one's vitality

死心塌地

be dead set on

死心眼

pig-headed

死硬派

die-hands

死有余辜

deserve more than death

死有重于泰山有輕于鴻毛

The death may be weightier than Mt. Tai or lighter than a feather.

四個(gè)第一（即林彪提出的“人的因素第一，政治工作第一，思想工作第一，活的思想第一”）

The "four-first" are: first place to man, first place to political work, first place to ideological work and first place to living ideas. (The details of the "four-first" are: First place must be given to man in handling the relationship between man and weapons; to political work in handling the relationship between political and other work; to ideological work in relation to routine tasks in political work; and, in ideological work, to the living ideas in a person's mind as distinguished from ideas in books.)

四海之內(nèi)

within the limit of the four seas

四好連隊(duì)（指的是：政治思想工作好，“三八作風(fēng)”好，軍事訓(xùn)練好，生活管理好）

"Four-Good" companies are: companies which are good in political and ideologicalwork, in the "three-eight" working style, in military training and in arranging their everyday life.

四舊（即“舊思想、舊文化、舊風(fēng)俗、舊習(xí)慣”）

"Four-Olds" (old ideas, old culture, old customs and old habits

四類(lèi)分子

the landlords, rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries and other bad elements

四面樹(shù)敵

make too many enemies

四面楚歌

be surrounded by the enemy on four sides/find oneself besieged on all sides

四清復(fù)查

check the results of the "four clean-ups" movement

四清工作隊(duì)

four clean-ups work teams

“四清四不清的矛盾”

"the contradiction between the 'four cleans' and the 'four uncleans'"

四清運(yùn)動(dòng)

the "four clean-ups" movement (the socialist education movement to clean things up in the fields of politics, ideology, organization and economy)

四人幫

Gang of Four (Wang Hongwen, Zhang Chunqiao, Jiang Qing, Yao Wenyuan)

四體不勤，五谷不分

can neither do physical work nor distinguish rice from wheat

四新（即“新思想、新文化、新風(fēng)俗、新習(xí)慣”）

"four news" (new ideas, new culture, new customs and new habits)

伺機(jī)再起

wait for an opportunity to stage a comeback

伺機(jī)而動(dòng)

wait for the opportune moment to go into action again

似是而非

appear what it is really not/look right, but really wrong

肆無(wú)忌憚

unscrupulously/reckless and unbridled

肆意污蔑

wantonly slander

肆意揮霍

freely squander public money

松懈情緒

mood of relaxation

聳人聽(tīng)聞

sensational

送貨上門(mén)

home delivery service

送進(jìn)歷史博物館

be consigned to the museum of history

訴苦

pour out grievances/air one's sufferings

塑造典型形象

create typical characters

塑造工農(nóng)兵形象

create images of workers, peasants and soldiers

塑造英雄形象

create the heroic images

肅反

clean out the counter-revolutionaries

肅清暗藏的反革命分子

ferret (weed) out undercover counter-revolutionaries

算剝削賬

calculate the extent of exploitation

算總賬

general check-up

隨波逐流

go with the stream (tide)

隨大流

go (flow) with the tide

隨風(fēng)倒

veer with the wind

隨機(jī)應(yīng)變

adjust to changing circumstances

隨軍家屬

the families who have followed the army

隨聲附和

agree to what other people say

隨時(shí)準(zhǔn)備殲滅入侵之?dāng)?/dt>

ready at all times to wipe out the enemy intruders

隨心所欲

wilfully/arbitrarily

誰(shuí)說(shuō)雞毛不能上天

Who says that a chicken feather cannot fly up to the sky?

“孫行者鉆進(jìn)肚皮的戰(zhàn)術(shù)”

the tactics of the Monkey King making his way into the stomach

損人利己

injure others for the sake of one's own advantage

"損失是最小最小最小，成績(jī)是最大最大最大"

The losses are of the smallest while the gains are of the biggest.

損公肥私

injure the public interest to profut the private interest

縮手縮腳

be handicapped

縮小打擊面

reduce the number to be attacked/narrow the target of attack

所向披靡

ever triumphant

版權(quán)所有