文革时期常用词汇的英译

蒋割荆

Y（5）

有案可稽: the record warrants that...
有把握: be certain of/with confidence
有百害而无一利: have everything to lose and nothing to gain
有百利而无一害: gain everything and lose nothing
有备无患: Preparedness prevents calamity./Where there is precaution there will be no danger.
有步骤地: in a planned way/methodically
有唱有和: echo each other
有的放矢: shoot the arrow at the target
有反必肃，有错必纠: Counter-revolutionaries must be suppressed whenever they are found; mistakes must be corrected whenever they are discovered.
有计划、按比例地发展: develop proportionately in a planned way
有拉有打: try to win over and at the same time struggle against
有来历的: there is a background for
有来有往: reciprocity
有利必有害: Advantage must be accompanied with disadvantage.
有利可图: reap (make) some profit/there is profit to be derived
有利于国计民生: beneficial to national welfare and the people's livelihood
有理，有利，有节: with good reason, with advantage and with restraint
有两下子: He's really something./He really knows a thing or two.
有了眉目: be under way/A clue has been known.
有了政权就有了一切，没有政权就丧失一切: To have political power is to have all, to lose it is to lose all.
“有奶便是娘”: He'll lick the hand of anyone who throws him a few crumbs./Whoever suckles me is my mother.
有破有立: overthrow certain things and establish others
“有其父，必有其子”: Like father, like son.
有色眼镜: colored spectacles
有事和群众商量: consult the masses whenever problems arise
有恃无恐: feel reassured and emboldened/have something secure to rely on
有所发现，有所发明，有所创造，有所前进: go on discovering, inventing, creating and advancing
有条不紊: in perfect order
“有限主权论”: the theory of "limited sovereignty"
有压迫就有反抗: Oppression beget resistance.
有眼不识泰山: have eyes but fail to see Mount Tai
有意无意地: wittingly or unwittingly
有则改之，无则加勉: Correct mistakes if you have committed them and guard against them if you have not.
有朝一日: some day
有指挥，有组织，有计划，有目的: under direction, in an organized way, according to plan and with a set purpose
有志者事竟成: Where is a will, there is a way.
有职有权: entrusted with the responsibility and authority that should go with one's post
有准备，有步骤: in a well-prepared and step-by-step way
有过之而无不及: go farther than
有决心，有办法: have the will and the way
有领导、有步骤地: well-guided and systematic
有社会主义觉悟的有文化的劳动者: well-educated worker imbued with socialist consciousness
有原则、有条件的让步: principled and conditional concessions
又臭又长: smelly and long-winded/fetid, wordy hodge-podge/the article with offensive smell and prolixity
又打又拉: use the stick and the carrot
又何其毒也！: How poisonous!
又红又专: both politically conscious and professionally competent/red and expert
又联合又斗争的政策: the policy of both unity and struggle
又难又不难: It is at once difficult and not difficult.
又团结，又斗争，通过斗争达到团结: unity, struggle, unity through struggle
又想当婊子，又想立牌坊: They want to be prostitutes, yet they insist on having a monument erected to their chastity.
又压又拉: use both the stick and the carrot
“又要马儿好，又要马儿不吃草”: You can't make a horse work without feeding it.
又有集中又有民主，又有纪律又有自由，又有统一意志又有个人心情舒畅、生动活泼的政治局面: a political situation in which there are both centralism and democracy, both discipline and freedom, both unity of will and personal ease of mind and liveliness
右派分子: Rightist
右倾机会主义: Right opportunism
右倾机会主义分子: Right opportunist
幼稚病: infantile disorder
余孽: left-over evils
余粮户或自给户: peasant households having grain reserve or becoming self-sufficient
鱼目混珠: pass fish eyes for pearls/mix the genuine with the fictitious
鱼水般的密切联系: close relations like those of fish to water
愚弄: dupe/fool
愚公移山，改造中国: transform China in the spirit of the Foolish Old Man who removed the mountains
愚民政策: obscurantist policy
与人民为敌: set oneself against the people
与人为善的批评: criticism aimed at helping those criticized
与群众同甘共苦共呼吸: share weal and woe with the people
与天斗、与地斗、与阶级敌人斗: Fight the heavens, fight the earth, fight the class enemy!
与天奋斗，其乐无穷！与地奋斗，其乐无穷！与人奋斗，其乐无穷！: What joy it is to struggle with heavens! What joy it is to struggle with earth! What joy it is to struggle with man!
羽毛丰满: become full-fledged
雨后春笋: to mushroom/spring up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain
语重心长: in all earnestness
欲盖弥彰: The more one tries to hide, the more one is exposed.
“欲加之罪，何患无辞”: "Give a dog a bad name and hang him."
欲擒故纵: let the enemy off in order to catch him
欲速则不达: Haste does not bring success./Haste brings no success.
御用的: serve as someone's tool
御用报刊: controlled press
御用文人: scribblers in their pay/hack writers
预谋的: premeditated/pre-arranged
预言家: prophet
愈来愈不得人心: increasingly unpopular
冤案: unjust case
冤有头，债有主: Every wrong has its cause, every debt has its debtor.
原封不动的翻版: exact replica/exact reproduction
原形毕露: reveal one's real nature
原则性的错误: errors of principle
原则性立场: principled stand
援引经典: cite the classics
援越抗美: assist Viet Nam in resisting U.S. aggression
远见卓识的革命闯将: far-sighted revolutionary path breakers
远水不解近渴: Distant waters cannot quench thirst.
远在天边，近在眼前: be far away on the horizon and yet right under your eyes
怨声载道: Voices of discontent are heard everywhere.
愿意坦白: want to come clean
越是表演得充分的反动派，垮得就越彻底: The more a reactionary performs, the more thorough his collapse.
越是艰险越向前: The harder things get, the more determined we are to fight.
越来越深入人心: penetrate deeper and deeper into the hearts and minds of the people
越怕，就越有鬼: The more they are afraid, the more they are haunted by ghosts.
越学心里越亮堂: The more I study the cleaner my mind.
越“养”越“修”: The more the "cultivated" themselves, the more revisionist they became.
越走越远: going farther down
运筹帷幄之中，决胜千里之外: contrive strategic plans in the headquarters, win victory in a battle a thousand li away
运筹学: operation research
运动的重点: the main target of this movement
“运动就是一切，目的是没有的”: "The movement is everything, the aim is nothing."
醖釀讨论: deliberation and discussion
蕴藏了一种极大的社会主义的积极性: a potentially inexhaustible enthusiasm for socialism