文革时期常用词汇的英译

蒋割荆

B（2）

包产到户: the fixing of output quotas based on the household
包办代替: do everything on behalf of
包庇: to harbor/to shield
包藏祸心: harbor ill intent
包袱: get these loads off their backs
包干制: the supply system/over-all rationing system
（反华）包围圈: ring of encirclement against China
包含险恶用心: harbor the sinister design of
保持清醒头脑和警惕: remain sober and alert
保持（劳动人民）本色: maintain the distinction character of the working people
保持晚节: maintenance of proletarian integrity in later life
保皇派: loyalists
保守派: loyalists
“保”字当头: dominated by "loyalty"
保守派组织: "loyalist" organization/conservative organization
保护过关: help a person to slip through
保护好人: protect the innocent
保护伞: protective umbrella
保留意见: reserve one's view
保命哲学: philosophy of survival
堡垒最容易从内部攻破: A fortress is most vulnerable when attacked from within.
饱食终日，无所用心: loaf around all day long and do nothing
报仇雪恨: take revenge
报复: retaliate
报喜不报忧: report only the good things but not the bad
暴发户: upstart
暴风骤雨: mighty storm
暴力没收地主的土地: forcible confiscation of the landlords' land
暴露在光天化日之下: expose to the bright light of day
暴露文学: literature of exposure
暴露无遗: completely unmasked
背叛原来的阶级: forsake one's original class
背叛自己出生的阶级: rebel against one's own class
背弃: betray the people
背包袱: take on heavy burdens
背后议论: talk behind someone's back
背靠背地揭发: expose a person in his absence
背信弃义: perfidious/play false
北大荒: the Great Northern Wilderness
卑鄙伎俩: despicable trick
卑鄙无耻的小人: a most mean creature
卑躬屈膝: submissive/bow low and humiliate oneself
备荒: be prepared against natural disasters
备战: preparations against war
被驳得体无完肤: refuted down to the last point
被管制分子: someone under public surveillance
被人利用: cat's paw
本末倒置: confuse cause and effect
本人成分: personal class status
本位主义: departmental egoism
本能: instinct
本色: distinctive character
崩溃: breakdown/collapse/crumble
比、学、赶、帮: the campaign to emulate the advanced, learn from and overtake them and help the less advanced
庇护: shield someone/put someone under one's aegis
逼供信: obtain confessions by compulsion and give them credence
逼上梁山: driven to drastic alternatives/driven to revolt
必欲置其死地而后快: not happy with anything less than the destruction of
必由之路: inevitable course of history
（美帝）必败！: Defeat to US imperialism!
闭门思过: meditate on one's own
闭门造车: work on some project without reference
避重就轻: evade the crucial point
辨别是非: distinguish right from wrong
辨别力: ability to see tings in their true light
辩护士: apologist
辨明真相: clarify matters
变本加厉: intensify
变工队: labor-exchange teams
变花样: conjuring feats
变换手法: change tactics
变节: defect
变节分子: defectors
变色: change political color
变色龙: chameleon
“变天”: make a come-back/restore the reactionary rule
变天帐: keep their records in expectation of a come-back
（把党的政策）变为群众的行动: translate the Party's policy into action of the masses
变革: transformation
变相的: in disguised form
变相体罚: corporal punishment in any shape of form