文革时期常用词汇的英译

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开倒车: turn the clock back
开动宣传机器: set the propaganda machine in motion
开卷考试: allow the use of textbooks, notes and reference material during examinations
开门红: make a good start
开脱: whitewash oneself
开小差: desert one's post/decamp
开眼界: widen one's field of vision
开除党籍: expel somebody from the Party/expulsion from the Party
开拓无限广阔的道路: open up boundless vistas
开展增产节约的劳动竞赛: develop labor emulation in increasing production and practicing economy
开展批评与自我批评: unfold criticism and self-criticism
揩干净身上的血迹: wipe off the blood from one's wounds
凯歌阵阵，喜讯频传: Songs of triumph are heard all round and good news keeps pouring in.
凯旋归来: triumphant return
看菜吃饭，量体裁衣: regulate the appetite according to the dishes and fit the dress to the figure
看风使舵: steer according to the wind
看门狗: watch-dog
看清本质: grasp the essence
看透: see right into
康庄大道: the board path of
考虑个人得失: concern with one's own gains and losses
靠边站: stand aside/step aside
靠山: patron/mainstay
靠山吃山，靠水吃水: Those living on a mountain get their living from the mountain, those living near the water get their living from the water.
科班出身: people who have undergone professional training/those who took the formal education
科学论断: scientific thesis
可歌可泣: inspiring
可怜虫: pathetic creatures
可笑不自量: cut a ridiculous figure because of lack of self-knowledge
可以教育好的子女（编者说明：“可以教育好的子女”实际上指的是出身不好或被打倒的走资派的子女。）: the sons and daughters that can be educated
克己奉公: wholehearted devotion to public duty
克已复礼: comply with the rites by setting restraints on oneself
刻骨仇恨: bitter hatred
刻骨铭心: imprint on the bones and inscribe on the memory
刻骨的阶级仇恨: irreconcilable (bitter) class hatred
“肯定一切”的观点: viewpoint that "everything is positive"
啃硬骨头: a hard nut to crack
孔孟之道: the ways of Confucius and Mencius
空口说白话: speak without acting
控诉会: accusation meeting
口蜜腹剑: honey in mouth, dagger in heart
口是心非: say yes and mean no
口头革命派: revolutionaries on their lips
口诛笔伐: condemn both by word of mouth and in writing
扣大帽子: put labels on/be branded as
苦大仇深: suffered bitterly in the old society and have a deep class hatred
苦干，实干，加巧干: working hard, conscientiously and skillfully
“苦海无边，回头是岸”: "Boundless is the sea of sorrow, yet a man who will turn back can reach the shore."
苦练过硬的杀敌本领: make hard efforts to master the skills of wiping out the enemy
苦难深重: untold suffering
苦水中长大: grow up in dire poverty/grow up amidst sufferings
“垮掉的一代”: "beat generation"
垮台: collapse/completely vanish
快马加鞭: spur the flying horse to full speed/with whip and spur
宽大处理: be accorded lenient treatment/be treated with leniency
窥测方向，以求一逞: see how the wind blows in order to achieve one's evil ends
窥测时机: bide one's time
捆绑手脚: fetter
扩大化: broaden the scope of
扩大会议: enlarged session (meeting, conference)
扩大教育面，缩小打击面: Help more people by educating them and narrow the target of attack.