文革时期常用词汇的英译

蒋割荆

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心潮澎湃: be full of excitement
心存侥幸: engage in winning by luck (a fluke)
心红似火: with a heart red as fire
心怀敌意: be hostile
心怀鬼胎: with misgivings in one's heart
心惊胆战: be deeply alarmed/tremble with fright
心连心: Their hearts are closely linked./Their hearts are joined as one.
心明眼亮: see and think clearly
心往一处想，劲往一处使: work with one heart and one mind
心心相印: see eye to eye with/like-minded/both of the same mind
心血来潮，忘乎所以: forget oneself in a moment of excitement
心有灵犀一点通: Hearts which have a common beat are linked.
心有余而力不足: more than willing but lacking the power to...
心有余悸: with unforgotten trepidation
心照不宣: tacit understanding/not necessary to say more
心中有鬼: have a guilty conscience
信口雌黄，一派胡言: There is sheer nonsense!/irresponsible talk
信口开河，胡说八道: talk at random and utter sheer nonsense/speak at random and talk nonsense
信心百倍，斗志昂扬: full of confidence and high spirit
星星之火，可以燎原: A single spark can start a prairie fire.
兴风作浪: stir up trouble/incite and create trouble
行尸走肉: a walk skeleton
行政处分: be given disciplinary penalties
刑讯逼供: extort confession by torture/use torture to extract confessions
形而上学: metaphysics
形形式式: of various forms/of all kinds/of every kind
形“左”实右: "Left" in form but Right in essence
形式主义: formalist/formalism
性质不同: different in nature/essentially different
性质未定: The nature of the case has yet to be decided.
凶相毕露: reveal the atrocious features
汹涌澎湃: rise in tempestuous waves/rise in a surging tide
胸怀祖国，放眼世界: have the country in heart and the whole world in mind
兄弟般的团结: fraternal solidarity
兄弟党关系的准则: principles guiding relations among fraternal Parties
雄赳赳、气昂昂: valiant and high-spirited
熊熊烈火: raging flames
修正主义思潮: revisionist trend
修正主义苗子: revisionist seedlings
休戚与共: share the same fate/share each other's weal and woe
“秀才不出门，全知天下事”: "Without going outdoors the scholar knows all the wide world's affairs."
“秀才造反，三年不成”: "Scholars stage a rebellion without result even if they try for three years."
嗅觉最灵，眼睛最亮: the keenest nose and the sharpest eyes
臭味相投: like drawn to like
虚无主义: nihilism
虚心使人进步，骄傲使人落后: Modesty helps one to go forward, whereas conceit makes one lag behind.
虚张声势: make a demonstration/a pompous but empty show of power and influence
旭日东升: the rising sun in the eastern sky
宣传工具: propaganda media
渲染: exaggerate/create the impression that...
喧嚣一时: bluster for a time/raise a hue and cry for a while
悬崖勒马: ward off disaster at the critical moment/pull back before it is too late
血口喷人: make slanderous charges
血泪仇: vengeful feelings nurtured by blood and tears
血泪史: a history replete with blood and tears/the history of blood and tears
血淋淋的事实: harsh fact
血肉相连，休戚与共: flesh and blood relationship
“血统论”: "blood heritage theory"/"theory of family lineage"
血债累累: heavy blood-debts/blood-steeped
血债血还: The blood-debt must be repaid in kind./demand (pay) blood for blood
血战到底: fight to the finish/fight the enemy to the last drop of our blood
“学而优则仕”: "A good scholar will make an official."
学阀: scholar-tyrants
学工、学农、学军: learn industrial production, agricultural production and military affairs
学先进，比先进，赶先进，帮后进: learn from the advanced, emulate and catch up with the advanced, help those lagging behind
学以致用: learn in order to practice
学用结合: integrate study and application/link what we learn with practice
学哲学小组: philosophy study group
学制改革: reform in school system
雪中送炭: offer fuel in snowy weather/timely assistance
巡回演出队: mobile troupe
巡回医疗队: mobile medical teams
循环往复以至无穷: repeat itself in endless cycles
循序渐进: step by step/by regular steps
徇私: practice favoritism
“驯服工具论”: the theory of "docile tools"
殉葬品: a funerary object