文革時期常用詞匯的英譯

蔣割荊

X（1）

吸取精華，棄其糟粕

its essence should be absorbed and its dross discarded

吸收新鮮血液

absorb fresh blood

洗心革面，重新做人

repent genuinely and make a fresh start

喜聞樂見

preferred by the masses/love to see and hear

細水長流

plan on a long-term basis

下不了臺

nonplussed

下毒手

strike a vicious blow/stab a person in the back

下放

transfer cadres to work at the grassroots levels

下放勞動

go down to do manual labor

下工廠（生產(chǎn)隊，連隊）

go out to the factories (production teams or army companies)

下馬威

prompt reprisals/instant severity

下臺

step down/removed from power/toppled/thrown out of office

“下鄉(xiāng)鍍金論”

"go to the countryside so as to gain credit"/"go to the countryside to gild oneself"

先公后私

put public interest before self-interest

先破后立，破中有立

destruction before construction and construction in the course of destruction

先入為主

First impressions are firmly entrenched./formulate pre-conceived ideas

“先天下之憂而憂，后天下之樂而樂”

"be concerned about affairs of state before others, enjoy comfort after others"

先下手為強

The early bird gets the worm./Whoever strikes the first blow has the advantage.

先做學(xué)生，再做先生

Be a pupil before you become a teacher.

鮮血凝成的戰(zhàn)斗友誼

blood-cemented comradeship-in-arms

現(xiàn)身說法

take oneself as an example

“現(xiàn)實主義深化”論

the theory of "the deepening of realism"

現(xiàn)行反革命分子

acting counter-revolutionary

相信群眾，依靠群眾，尊重群眾的首創(chuàng)精神

trust the masses, rely on them, respect their initiative

香花與毒草

fragrant flowers and poisonous weeds

響徹云霄的凱歌

a song of triumph which resounds through the skies

“響當(dāng)當(dāng)?shù)淖笈伞?/dt>

"genuine Leftists"

向黨交心

confide what one has in mind to the Party

向反面轉(zhuǎn)化

change into the reverse

向上爬

climb up social ladder/office seeker

逍遙法外

The convict is still at large.

逍遙派

persons who get away (stand aloof) from the struggle

囂張

wild/unbridled/rampant/formidable

小丑

clown/knave

小道理服從大道理

The minor principle should be subordinated to the major principle.

小道消息

grape-vine news

小恩小惠

sops/a little bit of economic bail

小腳女人

woman with bound feet

小罵大幫忙

criticize in a small way and help in a big way/minor attacks in words but major help in deeds

小題大做

make a fuss about a trifling matter

小巫見大巫

be dwarfed

小車不倒只管推

I'll keep on pushing the cart until I drop.

孝子賢孫

filial progeny of

笑里藏刀

murderous intent behind one's smile

效法

pattern after/follow in the steps

邪門歪道

crooked means

脅從分子

unwilling followers/those who are coerced into becoming accomplices

脅從者不問

Accomplices under duress shall go unpunished.

寫得何等好啊

be indeed superbly written

“寫真實”論

the theory on "truthful writing"

“寫中間人物”

"portray middle characters"

欣欣向榮

growing (blooming) prosperity/thriving/flourishing

新陳代謝

the transition from the old order of things to the new/metabolism/the new superseding the old

新的資產(chǎn)階級分子

new capitalist (bourgeois) elements

新仇舊恨

new hatred piled on the old

新人新事

new people and new things/new personalities and new deeds

新沙皇

new tsars

新生力量

new rising forces/new emerging forces

新生事物

emerging new things

新思想、新文化、新風(fēng)俗、新習(xí)慣（即“四新”）

new ideology, new culture, new customs and new habits

新高潮

a new high tide of

新紀元

a new epoch

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