文革時(shí)期常用詞匯的英譯

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挖掉黑線(xiàn)

eradicate the... black line

挖空心思

rack one's brain for/think hard

挖墻腳

undermine the foundation/subvert

歪風(fēng)邪氣

evil winds and noxious influence/perverse trends

歪曲事實(shí)，顛倒事非，混淆視聽(tīng)

distort the facts, confound right and wrong, and mislead the people

外來(lái)干部

cadres from outside

外強(qiáng)中干

strong in appearance but weak inside

玩火者必自焚

Whoever plays with fire gets burned.

玩弄花招

play tricks

玩弄兩面派（兩手）

play double-dealing tactics

玩弄字眼

words juggling

玩物喪志

sap one's spirit by seeking pleasures

頑固不化

incorrigible/headstrong/pig-headed

頑抗到底，死路一條

（編者譯）If you stubbornly resist to the end, the only road is death.

頑強(qiáng)地表現(xiàn)他們自己

stubbornly try to project oneself/stubbornly assert oneself

“萬(wàn)般皆下品，唯有讀書(shū)高”

"All occupations are base, only book-learning is exalted."

萬(wàn)變不離其宗

No matter how many changes he has made, he has not departed from his line.

萬(wàn)惡之源

source (root) of all evils

萬(wàn)古長(zhǎng)青

flourish forever/be evergreen

萬(wàn)里長(zhǎng)征走完了第一步

only the first step in a long march of ten thousand li

“萬(wàn)馬齊瘖”

"ten thousand horses stand mute"

萬(wàn)水千山只等閑

hold light ten thousand crags and torrents

萬(wàn)歲不離口，語(yǔ)錄不離手

（編者譯）cheering long live Chairman Mao from the outset of speaking, holding Quotations from Chairman Mao all the time

亡羊補(bǔ)牢，猶未為晚

It is not too late to mend the fold even after some of the sheep have been lost.

枉費(fèi)心機(jī)

rack one's brains in vain/waste one's efforts

妄自菲薄

sense of inferiority/think lightly of oneself

危機(jī)四伏

be threatened by growing crises

危言聳聽(tīng)

sensational/make an inflammatory statement

危在旦夕

Death is expected at any moment./in imminent danger

威逼利誘

big stick and carrot

威脅利誘

threats and blandishments

威風(fēng)掃地，永世不得翻身

Shorn of its prestige, it will never rise again.

威力無(wú)窮

colossal power

威信掃地

forfeited prestige/prestige completely swept into the dust

為虎作倀

play the jackal to the tiger/assist the evil-doer/act as the paws of the tiger

為富不仁

the heartless rich

為革命使完最后一點(diǎn)勁，灑完最后一滴血

give every ounce of strength, every drop of blood for the revolution

“為民請(qǐng)命”

"plead for the people"

為人民立新功

Make new contributions to serving the people.

為人民所唾棄

be cast aside by the people

為偉大的社會(huì)主義祖國(guó)爭(zhēng)光

win honor for our great socialist motherland

為人民而死，雖死猶榮

To die for the people is a glorious death!

為人民服務(wù)

serve the people

為人民利益而死，就比泰山還重

To die for the people is weightier than Mount Tai.

為所欲為

do as one pleases/do whatever one likes

為資本主義復(fù)辟鳴鑼開(kāi)道

to pave the way for the restoration of capitalism

違背

violate/go back on/go against/defy/be contradicted by

違法亂紀(jì)

break laws and violate discipline/offences against law and discipline

“唯成份論”

"theory that only class origin should be taken into account"/take into account class origin alone

唯恐天下不亂

anxious to stir up trouble/The only anxiety is that there should be no trouble on the earth.

唯利是圖

pursue profit as one's only aim/work exclusively for profit

唯命是從

be at one's disposal

“唯生產(chǎn)力論”

the theory of "productive forces"

唯我獨(dú)左

think of himself as "the only Left"

唯我獨(dú)尊

over lordship/suppremacy over all

唯物辯證法

the materialist dialectics

唯心歷史觀

the idealist conception of history

巍然屹立

stand majestically (firmly)/tower in the world

委曲求全

suffer wrong for the sake of general interest/in a spirit of conciliation and compromise

偽君子

hypocrite

偽造歷史

falsify (fabricate) history

偽裝應(yīng)當(dāng)剝?nèi)?/dt>

The mask must be stripped off.

尾巴翹到天上去了

very cocky

尾巴主義

to tail behind the masses

未雨綢繆

take precautions/have forethought/provide against the future

（資本主義復(fù)辟的）溫床

hotbed (breeding ground) of the capitalist restoration

溫情主義

moderations/soft-heartedness

洗“溫水澡”

"take a bath in warm (tepid) water"

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