文革时期常用词汇的英译

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挖掉黑线: eradicate the... black line
挖空心思: rack one's brain for/think hard
挖墙脚: undermine the foundation/subvert
歪风邪气: evil winds and noxious influence/perverse trends
歪曲事实，颠倒事非，混淆视听: distort the facts, confound right and wrong, and mislead the people
外来干部: cadres from outside
外强中干: strong in appearance but weak inside
玩火者必自焚: Whoever plays with fire gets burned.
玩弄花招: play tricks
玩弄两面派（两手）: play double-dealing tactics
玩弄字眼: words juggling
玩物丧志: sap one's spirit by seeking pleasures
顽固不化: incorrigible/headstrong/pig-headed
顽抗到底，死路一条: （编者译）If you stubbornly resist to the end, the only road is death.
顽强地表现他们自己: stubbornly try to project oneself/stubbornly assert oneself
“万般皆下品，唯有读书高”: "All occupations are base, only book-learning is exalted."
万变不离其宗: No matter how many changes he has made, he has not departed from his line.
万恶之源: source (root) of all evils
万古长青: flourish forever/be evergreen
万里长征走完了第一步: only the first step in a long march of ten thousand li
“万马齐瘖”: "ten thousand horses stand mute"
万水千山只等闲: hold light ten thousand crags and torrents
万岁不离口，语录不离手: （编者译）cheering long live Chairman Mao from the outset of speaking, holding Quotations from Chairman Mao all the time
亡羊补牢，犹未为晚: It is not too late to mend the fold even after some of the sheep have been lost.
枉费心机: rack one's brains in vain/waste one's efforts
妄自菲薄: sense of inferiority/think lightly of oneself
危机四伏: be threatened by growing crises
危言耸听: sensational/make an inflammatory statement
危在旦夕: Death is expected at any moment./in imminent danger
威逼利诱: big stick and carrot
威胁利诱: threats and blandishments
威风扫地，永世不得翻身: Shorn of its prestige, it will never rise again.
威力无穷: colossal power
威信扫地: forfeited prestige/prestige completely swept into the dust
为虎作伥: play the jackal to the tiger/assist the evil-doer/act as the paws of the tiger
为富不仁: the heartless rich
为革命使完最后一点劲，洒完最后一滴血: give every ounce of strength, every drop of blood for the revolution
“为民请命”: "plead for the people"
为人民立新功: Make new contributions to serving the people.
为人民所唾弃: be cast aside by the people
为伟大的社会主义祖国争光: win honor for our great socialist motherland
为人民而死，虽死犹荣: To die for the people is a glorious death!
为人民服务: serve the people
为人民利益而死，就比泰山还重: To die for the people is weightier than Mount Tai.
为所欲为: do as one pleases/do whatever one likes
为资本主义复辟鸣锣开道: to pave the way for the restoration of capitalism
违背: violate/go back on/go against/defy/be contradicted by
违法乱纪: break laws and violate discipline/offences against law and discipline
“唯成份论”: "theory that only class origin should be taken into account"/take into account class origin alone
唯恐天下不乱: anxious to stir up trouble/The only anxiety is that there should be no trouble on the earth.
唯利是图: pursue profit as one's only aim/work exclusively for profit
唯命是从: be at one's disposal
“唯生产力论”: the theory of "productive forces"
唯我独左: think of himself as "the only Left"
唯我独尊: over lordship/suppremacy over all
唯物辩证法: the materialist dialectics
唯心历史观: the idealist conception of history
巍然屹立: stand majestically (firmly)/tower in the world
委曲求全: suffer wrong for the sake of general interest/in a spirit of conciliation and compromise
伪君子: hypocrite
伪造历史: falsify (fabricate) history
伪装应当剥去: The mask must be stripped off.
尾巴翘到天上去了: very cocky
尾巴主义: to tail behind the masses
未雨绸缪: take precautions/have forethought/provide against the future
（资本主义复辟的）温床: hotbed (breeding ground) of the capitalist restoration
温情主义: moderations/soft-heartedness
洗“温水澡”: "take a bath in warm (tepid) water"