文革時(shí)期常用詞匯的英譯

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壓倒一切

all-conquering/overriding

奄奄一息

scarcely a breath left/on the point of dying

閹割

cut... out of.../emasculate

言必信，行必果

Promise must be kept and action must be resolute.

言必稱……

cannot open their mouths without citing...

言必行

be true in word

言行不一

One's words and deeds are at complete variance./say one thing and do another

言者無(wú)罪，聞?wù)咦憬?/dt>

Blame not the speaker but be warned by his words.

嚴(yán)懲

punish with the utmost severity/be severely punished

嚴(yán)防

strict precautions against

嚴(yán)禁亂打亂殺

strictly forbid beating and killing without discrimination

嚴(yán)陣以待

stand in battle array/remain in combat readiness

嚴(yán)格控制

exercise strict control over

嚴(yán)格區(qū)別

be sharply differentiated from

閻王殿

palace of Hell

掩耳盜鈴

run away from one's shadow/stuff one's ears when stealing a bell

演正派人物總是不大像

Some actors are never so life-like in positive roles.

演雙簧

put on a puppet show/joint performance with one acting in front and another dictating behind

“陽(yáng)春白雪”

"The Spring Snow"

陽(yáng)奉陰違

comply in public but oppose in private/overtly agree to but covertly oppose

洋八股

foreign stereotyped writing

“洋包子”

"Westernized Chinese"

洋框框

foreign conventions/foreign restrictions

洋里洋氣

exotic flavor/outlandish

洋奴

foreigners' slaves

洋奴哲學(xué)

philosophy of servile dependence on foreigners for everything

洋為中用

make foreign things serve China

洋學(xué)堂

Westernized school

揚(yáng)眉吐氣

be elated/feel proud/hold one's head high

養(yǎng)尊處優(yōu)

revel in a high position and indulge in comfort/lead a comfortable life

樣板田

demonstration fields

樣板戲

model opera

妖風(fēng)

evil winds/evil flurry of

妖魔鬼怪

monsters and ghosts

腰桿硬起來(lái)

put some stiffening into

搖旗吶喊，鳴鑼開道

sound the clarion to clear the way for

搖錢樹

milch cow/ready source of income

搖身一變

suddenly changed

搖羽毛扇的人物

the idea man

咬牙切齒，恨之入骨

bare one's fangs and show one's inveterate hatred

要擴(kuò)大教育面，縮小打擊面

Help more people by educating them and narrow the target of attack.

要立新功

Make new contributions.

要允許失敗、允許犯錯(cuò)誤，還要允許改正錯(cuò)誤

There should be no fear of failures or mistakes. Allowance should be made for them, and people must be permitted to correct their mistakes.

要文斗，不要武斗

struggle by reasoning and not by coercion or force

“野火燒不盡，春風(fēng)吹又生”

"The grass cannot be burned out by a prairie fire but grows again with the spring breeze."

“業(yè)務(wù)掛帥”

"put vocational work first"

“業(yè)務(wù)至上”

"put professional skill above all"

業(yè)余鬧革命

carry out revolution after working hours

野心家

careerist/ambitious climbers

葉公好龍

Lord Ye who claimed to be fond of dragons but in fact was mortally afraid of them.

夜郎自大，利令智昏

be blinded by one's presumptuous self-conceit and overweening ambition

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