文革时期常用词汇的英译

蒋割荆

H（2）

很不理解，很不认真，很不得力: have very poor understanding and their leadership is far from conscientious and effective
狠斗资产阶级的“私”字: relentlessly fight bourgeois "self-interest"
狠抓革命，猛促生产: energetically grasp the revolution and vigorously promote production
横眉冷对千夫指，俯首甘为孺子牛: Fierce-browed, I coolly defy a thousand pointing fingers; head-bowed, like a willing ox I serve the children.
横扫一切牛鬼蛇神: Sweep away all ghosts and monsters!
横下一条心: take the firm resolution
轰轰烈烈: with vigor and vitality
轰下台: shout one down
洪流: powerful current/giant torrent
洪水猛兽: like flood and wild beasts
（装）红白脸: with some wearing the white make-up of the stage villain and others the red make-up of the hero
《红灯记》: The Red Lantern
红光满面: glowing with health
红旗手: red-banner pace-setter
红人: favorite
“红色买办”: "red comprador"
红五类: the red five-category status (revolutionary army men, revolutionary cadres, workers, poor peasants including hired farm labors and tenant-peasants, lower-middle peasants)
红卫兵: Red Guards
红小兵: Little Red Guards
红袖章: red armband
（日日）红，月月红，全年红: making great achievements everyday, every month and throughout the year.
喉舌: mouthpiece
后继有人: have qualified successors
后浪推前流，一浪高一浪: each wave pushing at the one ahead, each wave higher than the last
后台老板: behind-the-scenes boss
（走）后门: back-door deals
厚古薄今: pay more attention to the past than to the present
呼风唤雨、煸风点火: fan the flames and foment trouble
呼风唤雨、推波助浪: summon the wind and the waves
呼风唤雨、兴风作浪: rise and swell the adverse current
忽而显出极右，忽而装作极“左”: appear as an ultra-rightist one minute and on the extreme "Left" the next
忽而赞成这个，忽而赞成那个: approve one thing today and another tomorrow
狐狸尾巴是藏不住的: A fox cannot hide its tail.
狐狸再狡猾也斗不过好猎手: The craftiest fox can't escape the skilled hunter.
狐朋狗友: evil associates
狐群狗党: a gang of scoundrels
互相标榜: put up placards for each other
互相勾结，又互相争夺: collude and at the same time contend with each other
花岗石脑筋: ossified thinking
花天酒地: indulge in a gay life and debauchery
花言巧语: fine words/honeyed words
花招: play games/tricks
滑天下之大稽: make a great laughing-stock of itself
化悲痛为力量: run grief into strength
化大为小，蒙混过关: turn big issues into small ones and slip through
化整为零: break up the whole into parts
化成美女的蛇: serpents assuming the guise of beautiful girls
划分阶级: classify/determine class status
划分阶级成分: differentiate the class status
划清界线: draw a clear line between
划清政治界限: draw a clear line of demarcation politically
划清政策界限: draw distinctions in accordance with our policy
“怀疑一切”: "suspecting all"
坏分子: bad elements
坏事变好事: Bad things can be turned into good things.
坏事做尽: commit every evil
坏头头: ringleader
欢声雷动、掌声不绝: thunderous cheers and prolonged applause
还乡团: home-going contingents
换汤不换药: old wine in new bottles
荒谬绝伦: absolutely preposterous
黄色书刊: decadent books and periodicals
黄色音乐: vulgar music
皇皇不可终日: in a desperate situation
“皇天不负有心人”: "Heaven rewards the faithful."
幌子: signboard
恢复党籍: reinstate Party membership
恢复名誉: rehabilitation
回避要害问题: steer clear of the crucial question
（走）回头路: reverse its course
回顾过去，展望未来: review the past and look forward the future
回击: fight back
回忆对比: recall the past and contrast it with the present
回忆旧社会，对比新社会: recall the old society and compare it with the new
“悔过启事”: "public apology"
悔过自新: repent and turn over a new leaf/repent and start anew
混进党内的走资本主义道路的当权派: those in authority who have wormed their way into the Party and are taking the capitalist road
混淆黑白: mix up black and white
混淆阶级阵线: confuse the class alignments
混淆是非: confuse right and wrong
混淆视听: confuse the public
浑水摸鱼: fish in troubled water
和稀泥: blur the line between right and wrong
“活老虎、铁老虎、真老虎”: "living tigers, iron tigers, real tigers"
活学活用: living study and application of
活生生的事实: living reality
活思想: living idea/current thinking
“活命哲学”: "philosophy of survival"
活阎王: demon king
（把）火药味搞得浓浓的: make the air thick with the pungent smell of explosives
祸害: evils/bane
祸不单行: Misfortunes never come singly.
祸国殃民: injure the country and bring calamity to the people
祸首: arch-criminal