文革时期常用词汇的英译

蒋割荆

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仔细你们自己的脑袋: Look out for your own skins!
宗派分裂活动: factional splitting activity
宗主权: suzerainty
总崩溃: complete collapse
总后台: chief behind-the-scenes boss/chief backer
总是要进行垂死挣扎的: invariably conduct desperate struggles
总爆发: general outbreak
总结会: summing-up meeting
纵容包庇: with the connivance of and shielded by
纵深发展: develop in depth
走狗: lackeys/servile followers
“走过场”: make the movement a sham/reduced to mere formality
走后门: a backdoor deal/get "back door benefits"
走回头路: turn the clock back
走老路: adhere to the old ways
走马观花: look at the flowers while on horseback/take a brief look at
走前人没有走过的道路: break paths where none have gone before/break paths unexplored by people before
走上邪路: follow the wrong track
走投无路: go down a dead alley/be in an impasse
走弯路: take a roundabout route/make a detour
走向反面: go over to the opposite side/turn into its opposite
走与工农相结合的道路: follow the road of integrating with the workers and peasants
走着睢: wait and see
走自己的路: follow one's own road
走自己工业发展的道路: follow China's own road of industrial development
走资派: capitalist-roader/persons in power within the Party taking the capitalist road
走卒: cat's paw/foot-man
走上正轨: be on the correct path/set on the right path
走向灭亡: head for one's doom
走向胜利: advance towards victory
走一步看一步: short-range makeshifts
祖师爷: venerable masters/supreme masters
祖祖辈辈: for generations
组织处分: organizational discipline
组织处理为辅: organizational measures should be only supplementary
组织纪律性: sense of organization and discipline
组织军事化，工作战斗化，生活集体化: organize along military lines, work as if fighting a battle and live the collective way
组织处理应当放宽一些: in taking disciplinary measures, leniency should be practiced
组织关系: membership certificates
组织生活: the activities of an organization
钻进: worm their way into/sneak into/steal their way into
钻营: be busy with... machinations
钻进去: dig (probe) into a subject
钻空子: avail oneself of loopholes/seize every opportunity/crawl through any crack
钻牛角尖: get into a blind alley
钻业务: go in for professional efficiency/improve one's professional skill
“嘴上没毛办事不牢”: "Downy lips make thoughtless slips."
最光荣的时刻: the most glorious moment
最广泛的民主: the fullest democracy/democracy in the widest (broadest) sense
是广泛的统一战线: the broadest united front
最凶恶的敌人: the sworn enemy
最薄弱的地方: the most vulnerable area
最广大群众: the overwhelming majority of the masses
最后解放: ultimate liberation
最坚决的回击: the most resolute rebuff
罪大恶极: heinous (monstrous, atrocious) crimes/criminal and wicked in the extreme
罪恶多端: up to all kinds of evil
罪该万死: guilty of a crime deserving ten thousand deaths
罪魁祸首: arch-criminal/chief criminal
罪名: bring charges against
罪有应得: deserve one's punishment
罪责难逃: One cannot shirk responsibility for one's crimes.
罪证确凿，铁案如山: The evidence of these crimes is conclusive, the iron-clad proofs pile up mountain high.
“醉生梦死”: lead a befuddled life
“醉翁之意不在酒”: "Though one professes to be a drinker, he is really not interested in wine."
“尊孔读经”: the worship of Confucius and the study of the Confucian canon
尊儒反法: the worship of Confucian and the opposition of Legalist
坐办公室: do desk work
坐山观虎斗: sit on top of the mountain to watch the tigers fight/see both sides go for each other and not involve in
坐失良机: allow an opportunity to slip past
坐视不救: sit idly by without lending a helping hand
坐收渔人之利: have an advantage fall into one's lap/reap the spoils of victory without lifting a finger/get profit at others' expense
坐以待毙: await one's doom/sit passively for one's end
座上客: a guest of honor
座右铭: permanent reminders/maxims
作恶多端: up to all kinds of evils
作结论: draw the conclusion/reach conclusion on
作风不正: wrong style of work
“左”得出奇: be surprisingly "Left"
左派: leftist/the forces of the Left
“左”倾机会主义: "Left" opportunism
“左”倾冒险主义: "Left" adventurism
左一条清规，右一条戒律: one taboo after another
左右手: right-hand man/valuable assistant
左右摇摆: vacillate now to the left and then to the right
左右逢源: win advantage from both sides
做到老，学到老，改造到老: So long as we live, we shall always work, study, and remold ourselves.
做官当老爷: act as high and overbearing bureaucrats/act as bureaucrats and overlords
做好本职工作: do a good job at their specific tasks
做好组织处理工作: take disciplinary measures in an appropriate way
做尽了坏事: have committed every evil
（把事情）做绝: push things to the extreme/render matters irretrievable
做老实人，说老实话，办老实事: be an honest person, speak and act honestly/be honest in thinking, speech and action
做前人所没有做过的事: do things never previously attempted
做人要做这样的人: We must be like that kind of man.
做样子给人看: just to put on a show
“做一天和尚撞一天钟”: So long as one remains a monk, one goes on tolling the bell.
做贼心虚: have a guilty conscience, as a thief
做表面文章: put on a show
做牛马: be a beast of burden
做戏: put up (on) a show