文革时期常用词汇的英译

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拿原则做交易: barter away principles / bargain over principles / trade in principles / haggle about principles
哪里有压迫，哪里有反抗: Where there is oppression, there is resistance.
哪有猫儿不吃油: Was there ever a cat that did not love fish?
难免有一天要垮台: be pretty sure to fall one day
纳入轨道: be placed in line
耐人寻味: afford much food for thought
难兄难弟: two just alike
男盗女娼: behave like thieves and prostitutes/men as robbers and women as prostitutes
南辕北辙: go south by driving the chariot north
脑袋掉了，还不知道怎么掉的: lose one's head without knowing how it happened
闹分裂: keep on splitting away from
闹矛盾: at loggerheads
闹了几十年还没有闹清楚: After several decades of wrangling it has still not been cleared up.
闹不出什么名堂: have not been able to get anywhere
闹地位: be after position
闹名誉: be after fame
内查外调: make investigations both inside and outside/investigate internaly and externally
内奸: hidden traitor
内外交困: beset with difficulties both at home and abroad
能“官”能民: both serve as "official" and remain one of the common people
能伸能屈: able to stoop or stand erect
能上能下: able to work both at the top and down below
泥菩萨过江，自身难保: like the clay idol that can hardly survive while crossing the river
你不斗他，他就斗你: If you do not attack them, they will attack you.
你打你的，我打我的: You fight in your way and we fight in ours.
你死我活的斗争: life-and-death struggle
你有你的一套打法，我有我的一套打法: You have your way of fighting and we have ours.
年年讲，月月讲，天天讲: be repeated of this every year, every month and every day
念念不忘: bear in mind constantly
捏造: fabricate/concoct
宁为革命前进一步死，不为个人后退半步生: rather die for the revolution than quit to save my neck
宁“左”勿“右”: prefer being "Left" to being "Right"
牛鬼蛇神: monsters and ghosts
（放手让）牛鬼蛇神出笼: turn monsters of all kinds loose
扭转历史车轮: reverse the wheel of history
《农村社会主义教育运动中目前提出的一些问题》（即《二十三条》）: Some Current Problems Raised in the Socialist Education Movement in the Rural Areas (i.e., the 23-Point Document)
农村社会主义教育运动: socialist education movement in the rural areas
农民意识: peasant mentality
全国农业发展纲要: National Program for Agricultural Development 1956-1967
农业为基础、工业为主导: take agriculture as the foundation and industry as the dominant factor of the national economy
农业学大寨: In agriculture, learn from Tachai.
把学习……的空气搞得浓浓的: create an atmosphere of keenness to study...
弄清是非: clarify what is right from what is wrong
弄清思想，团结同志: clarity in ideology and unity among comrades
弄清事实: set facts straight
奴才哲学: philosophy of willing slaves
奴化教育: enslaving education
奴隶思想: slave mentality
奴颜婢膝: bend one's knees before
挪用公款: embezzle public funds