文革时期常用词汇的英译

蒋割荆

D（2）

打扮: make oneself out to be/dress oneself up as
打草惊蛇: beat the grass to frighten away the snakes
打成“反革命”: be stigmatized as "counter-revolutionaries"/label (brand) someone as "counter-revolutionary"
打成一片: be integrated with/merge with/become one with/identify oneself with
打出风格（水平）: give full play to their sportsmanship (skill)
打错算盘（主意）: miscalculate/make a wrong decision
（彻底）打倒打垮，使他们威风扫地: thoroughly topple, smash and discredit
打倒奴隶思想，埋葬教条主义: Down with the slave mentality! Bury dogmatism!
打倒“私”字，树立“公”字: get rid of self-interest, foster devotion to public interest
“打倒一切”: "Down with the whole lot."
打倒在地，使他们永世不得翻身: overthrow them and pin them down so that they will never rise again
打倒中国的赫鲁晓夫: Down with China's Khrushchev!
打的是……旗号: make the banner of
打得粉碎: crush to pulp/smash to smithereens
打得狠，打得准: strike hard and well-aimed blows
打得火热: fraternize with/carry on intimately with
打得落花流水（狼狈不堪、焦头烂额、七零八落）: shatter to pieces/smash to smithereens
打得头破血流: badly battered
打翻在地，再踏上一只脚: strike someone down to the dust and keep him there/beat them down and keep them underfoot
打击对象: target of attack/aim our blows at
打击报复: take revenge/retaliate
打击面: scope of attach
打击面要小，教育面要宽: The target of attack should be narrowed and more people should be helped through education.
打击歪风: combat unhealthy tendencies
“打击一大片，保护一小撮”: "hit hard at many in order to protect a handful"
打江山，坐江山: conquer and rule the country
打进来，拉出去: worm their way into... and pull people out of...
打开缺口: make a breath
打乱了……阵线: throw into confusion the battle array of
打落水狗: beat the mad dog even though it is already in the water/beat a dog in the water
打内战: engage in feuds/fight a civil war
打破常规: break away from convention/go off the beaten track
打破洋框框: break down (with) foreign conventions
打入泠宫: relegate to limbo
打上烙印: be stamped with a brand
打手: hatchet man/henchman
打退堂鼓: draw in one's horn
打先锋: act the shock brigade/be vanguard
打小算盘: petty niggling
打响第一炮: get off to a good start
打掩护: provide cover for/shield
打油诗: doggerel/ragged verse
打硬战: fight the enemy head-on
打、砸、抢: beating, smashing and looting
打着……幌子: on the pretext of
打着“红旗”反红旗: wave "red flags" to oppose the red flag
打着……旗号: flaunt the banner of
打中要害: deal a blow at the heart
打肿脸充胖子: an impudent attempt to represent the defeat as a victory
打着……招牌: put up the signboard of
代表人物: persons representing...
代理人: agents
带着问题学: study to find a solution to
带纲领性的: programmatic
带根本性的大事: major measure of fundamental importance
带头人物: ringleaders
（愿意）带着花岗岩脑袋去见上帝的人: those who would prefer to keep their thinking ossified down to the Day of Judgment
戴帽子: clamp the label on someone/stigmatize
戴高帽子游街: crown some ones with tall paper-hats, and parade them through the streets
戴上……大帽子: stigmatize...with such labels as...
戴有色眼镜看: look through colored spectacles
单纯业务观点: purely vocational view
单干: "go it alone"/work on one's own
单干风: the trend of "going it alone"
单干户: "go-it-alone" peasants
单枪匹马: single-handed
当场逮住: catch in the act/caught red-handed
当官做老爷: act the high and mighty official
当家作主: be the master of one's own affairs (fate)
当面不说，背后乱说: say nothing to people to their faces but gossip behind their backs
当面说得好听，背后又在捣鬼: say nice things to a person's face, but play tricks behind his back
当面说人话，背后说鬼话: speak human language to one's face, but talk devil's language behind his back
当面一套，背后一套: at one way to your face and another behind your back
当面说好话，背后下毒手: say nice thing to the face of..., but lay murderous hands on in the back/say nice thing to someone's face and then stab him in the back
当权派: person in power/people in authority
当权人物: person in power
（把……）当作主要的打击对象: make...the main target of attack
党八股: stereotyped Party writing
党阀: Party tyrants
党风: style in the Party's internal and external relations
党群关系: relations between the Party and the masses
“党内外矛盾的交叉”: "the intertwining of the contradictions inside and outside the Party"
党内走资派: Party persons in power taking the capitalist road
（解决）党内不纯的问题: the removal of impurities from Party organizations
党内的思想斗争: inner-Party ideological struggle
党同伐异: defend those who share the similar views and attack those who don't
刀山敢上，火海敢闯: dare to climb a mountain of swords or plunge into a sea of flames
倒打一耙: make unfounded counter-charges
倒行逆施: perverted action/turn back the wheel of history
倒卖票证: trade in rationed coupons