文革时期常用词汇的英译

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爬行主义: the doctrine of trailing behind at a snail's pace
爬在别人头上: tread on others' necks
怕得要命: fear intensely/mortally fear
怕得要死，恨得要命: scared to death and mortally hate
怕丢丑，怕丢名，怕挨斗，怕丧失威信: fear of losing face or reputation, fear of public criticism, and fear of forfeiting prestige.
怕字当头: put fear before everything else
排华: discrimination against the Chinese
排山倒海之势，雷霆万钧之力，磅礴于全世界，而葆其美妙之青春: full of youth and vitality, sweeping the world with the momentum of an avalanche and the force of a thunderbolt
派性: factionalism
攀登前人没有攀登过的高峰: scale heights yet unclimbed
盘古开天地以来: since Pan Ku divided the heavens from the earth
叛变投敌: become a traitor and surrender to the enemy
叛徒、内奸、工贼: renegade, hidden traitor and scab
叛徒哲学: renegade philosophy
盼星星，昐月亮: We looked at the stars and looked at the moon, hoping...
庞然大物: colossus/formidable giant
抛到茅厕里去: dump on the muck heap
抛到历史垃圾箱: (something or somebody) history will discard
抛头颅，洒热血: shed blood and lay down lives
抛砖引玉: cast away a brick and attract a jadestone
跑龙套: utility man
炮制: dish up/be cooked up
炮打司令部: bombard the headquarters
培养干部: cultivate cadres
“裴多菲俱乐部”: the Hungarian Petofi Club
配给制: ration system
蓬勃发展: surging vigorously forward
捧场: eulogize/extol/laud/hail/acclaim/cheer/applaud
捧上天: laud (praise) someone to the skies
碰得头破血流: knock one's head against a brick wall/badly battered and smashed
碰钉子: run into snags/meet with failure/meet disappointment/get snubbed
碰头会: meeting with heads together
碰一鼻子灰: being snubbed/get a rebuff
批陈整风: criticize Chen Boda and rectify the style
批斗会: exposure-criticism meeting
批林批孔: repudiate Lin Biao and criticize Confucius
批判从严，处理从宽: strict in criticism, lenient in handling the cases
批判地继承: inherit in a critical way
批判会: repudiation meeting
批深，批透，批倒，批臭: criticize penetratingly, repudiate thoroughly, overthrow and discredit completely
披着……外衣: wear the cloak of
披着羊皮的狼要比不披羊皮的狼阴险十倍: Wolves in sheep's clothing are ten times more sinister than wolves undisguised.
披着形形色色的外衣: don all sorts of cloaks
皮之不存，毛将焉附？: When the skin has gone, what can the hair adhere to?
蚍蜉撼大树，可笑不自量: like ants trying to shake a huge tree, ridiculously overrating themselves
蚍蜉撼树谈何易: How can ants topple the giant tree?
把屁股坐到……那一边去: go over to the side of
辟谣: deny a rumor
偏见比无知离真理更远: Prejudice is farther from the truth than ignorance.
片面地看问题: take a one-sided approach to problems
骗局: fraudulent game/fraud/trap/trickery
骗人的鬼话: deceitful rubbish
拼刺刀: bayonet charge
拼命渲染: play up and exaggerate
贫、下中农出身: of poor and lower-middle peasant origin
贫协（贫下中农协会）: the poor and lower-middle peasants' association
平等、互利、互相尊重主权和领土完整: equality, mutual benefit, mutual respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity
平地一声春雷: A peal of spring thunder roars over the horizon.
平反: reverse the decisions/rehabilitate/reverse the verdicts on
平均主义: equalitarianism
乒乓外交: ping-pong diplomacy
评工记分: evaluation of work and allotment of points
评《水浒》: appraisal of Shuihu; （编者说明）《水浒》或《水浒传》有几种英译版本：All Men are Brothers, Outlaws of the Marsh，Water Margin，Men of the Brothers；较新的版本是：Marshes of Mount Liang。
评价历史人物: appraise historical characters
泼冷水: a dash of cold water
破除迷信，解放思想: break down the superstitions, emancipate the mind
破旧立新: destroy the old and establish the new
破烂货: rubbish
破私立公: fight self and foster devotion to the public interest
破四旧，立四新: destroy old ideas, old culture, old customs and old habits; foster new ideas, new culture, new customs and new habits
破天荒: unprecedented/for the first time
破字当头，立在其中: Destruction comes first and construction comes in the course of destruction.
迫不及待: hurriedly/in haste
迫于形势: under the circumstance they could not do anything else/under the pressure of events
迫不得已: do something against one's will
铺张浪费: extravagance and waste
普遍真理: universally true/the universal truth
普及到工农群众中去: become widely diffused among the workers and peasants
普及和提高相结合: the principle of combining popularization with elevation
普通劳动者: ordinary laborers
普照大地: illuminate every corner of the land