文革时期常用词汇的英译

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勾当: fraudulent deal
勾勾搭搭: hitch up with
勾结: collaborate with/gang up with/collude with
勾销: expunge/efface/erase/delete/remove
勾心斗角、互相倾扎: scheme against each other and get locked in strife
狗屎堆: dog's dung-hill
狗地主: the damned landlord
狗急跳墙: a cornered dog tries to jump over a high wall
（像）狗屎一样: as dog's droppings
狗血淋头: pour dog's blood on
（骂得）狗血喷头: pour out a torrent of abuse
狗崽子: son of a bitch
狗咬狗: on a dog-eat-dog basis/dog-fight/dog-eat-dog strife between
狗嘴里吐不出象牙: No ivory will come from a dog's mouth.
苟且偷安: seek ease and comfort at the expense of principles
苟且偷生: philistine philosophy of mere vegetative existence
苟延残喘: try to prolong one's exhausted panting
构陷: false charge
估计不足: underestimate
沽名钓誉: buy reputation and fish for praise/fish for fame and reputation
姑息养奸: foster evil propensities by being over lenient
孤家寡人: a man without followers
孤掌难鸣: You can't clap with one hand.
孤注一掷: make a last desperate effort
古今中外: at all times and in all countries
古为今用，洋为中用: Make the past serve the present and the foreign things serve China.
鼓足干劲，力争上游，多快好省地建设社会主义: Go all out, aim high and achieve greater, faster, better and more economical results in building socialism.
鼓吹: boost/agitate for
鼓动: foment/agitate
蛊惑人心: blind the minds of the people
骨干分子: backbone elements
故技（伎）: stock tricks
故伎重演: repetition of the old dodge/up to one's old tricks
故态复明: go back to his old way of doing...
故作姿态: make a gesture
固步自封: stand still and cease to make progress
故意刁难: deliberately place obstacles
固执己见: unduly attached to one's own opinions/abide by one's opinion
雇佣思想: "employee" mentality
顾此失彼: unable to attend to everything at once/be put in a double squeeze
顾全大局: take the whole situation into consideration
刮翻案风: trying to have the previous decisions reversed
刮目相看: have a completely new appraisal of somebody
刮起一股歪风: stir up an adverse current
刮起一阵妖风: stir up a gust of ill wind
"（奖金）挂帅": "bonus in command"
（政治）挂帅: politics in command
“（业务）挂帅”: ""professional skill in command
“（利润）挂帅”: "profit in command"
“（分数）挂帅”: "school marks in command"
挂羊头，卖狗肉: selling horse meat as beefsteak/hang out a sheep's head when what they are selling is dog's fresh
挂着……招牌: wear the cloak
官复原职: the restoration of cadres to their original posts
官官相护: All bureaucrats shield each other.
官气: official airs
官样文章: empty official formalities
关门主义者: exclusivist
观礼代表: representative attending National Day celebrations
冠冕堂皇: ostentatious
（被）管制分子: person under surveillance
管制劳动: labor under public surveillance
管制生产: production under public surveillance
贯穿（串）着: throughout this stage/from beginning to end
贯彻……精神: be permeated with the spirit of
惯犯: inveterate criminal
惯技: customary tactic
惯用手法: habitual (customary) practice
惯用技俩: old trick
灌输: instill something into the minds of/imbue with
光杆司令: commander without troops
光辉思想: brilliant teachings
光辉形象: brilliant image
光辉照耀下: under the resplendent light of
光芒万丈: brilliant/radiant
光明正大: above-board and straightforward
光宗耀祖: make one's ancestors illustrious/bring honor to ancestors
光天化日之下: in broad daylight
广阔天地: a wide prospect
广泛深入地: both extensively and intensively
归根结底: in the final analysis
（只许他们）规规矩矩，不许他们乱说乱动: The must remain orderly, must not be unruly either in word or deed.
鬼话: utter nonsense
鬼迷心窍: be possessed by ghosts/be haunted by ghosts
“鬼戏”: traditional operas on ghost themes/operas acclaiming ghosts
贵族老爷: overlords
滚蛋: scampered off
滚滚向前: roll ahead
滚一身泥巴: get oneself covered with mud and grime
（从台上）滚下去: tumble from power
“国防文学”: "a literature of national defense"
国际反美统一战线: the international united front against U.S. imperialism
“国际分工”论: the theory of "international division of labor"
国际共产主义运动总路线: the general line of the international communist movement
国家机关: state organs/government offices
国家机关工作人员: government workers
国家机器: state apparatus (machinery)
国民党作风: the Kuomintang style of work
国内外反动派: domestic and foreign reactionaries
过好社会主义关: pass the test of socialism well
（大搞人人）过关: for everyone to make a self-criticism so as to pass the test
过河拆桥: remove the plank after crossing the bridge-leave one in the lurch
过火: overstep the limits
过火政策: excessive policy
过街老鼠，人人喊打: the object of universal condemnation
过去的功劳: one's own past merits
“过电影”: go over the day's events in the mind
过硬本领: first-rate capabilities in
过着牛马不如的生活: live a dog's life
过“左”的政策: ultra-"Left" policy
过左和（或）过右: any deviation, either to the "Left" or to the Right