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Change log entry 69399
Processed by: goldyn_chyld (2020-03-09 06:01:55 GMT)
Comment: << review queue entry 65918 - submitted by 'richwarm' >>
- almost always plural ("bullets") -- see examples below
- I think we need to explain what "sugar-coated bullets" means -- the expression would be unfamiliar to many people (such as me, until today)


這是毛澤東創造的著名比喻,帶著鮮明軍事色彩和濃重憂患意識。1949年3月中共全面奪得政權以前,毛澤東在西柏坡召開的中共七屆二中全會中說道:
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B3%96%E8%A1%A3%E7%82%AE%E5%BC%B9

It was against this historical and theoretical backdrop that Mao developed the concept
of ‘sugarcoated bullets’ (tangyi guozhe de paodan) a formulation that first appeared in
his ‘Report to the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the
CCP,’ issued in March 1949. [...] The bourgeoisie, having failed to defeat the revolution,
might resort to flattery and temptation as the means by which to undermine revolutionary morale.
They might, in other words, make use of ‘sugarcoated bullets’ in order to destroy the system of
revolutionary morality that had been developed through the struggle of the preceding decades.
http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n5354/pdf/ch43.pdf

Communist leaders have put the blame for current corrupt practices on "class enemies" who allegedly are launching attacks on socialism and "corrupting our cadres, our poor and lower-middle peasants, and particularly our leading groups, with sugar coated bullets".
Publication Date: April 01, 1970
https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=4&post=6118

J ~ There may be some Communists, who were not conquered by enemies with guns and were worthy of the name of heroes for standing up to these enemies, but who cannot withstand sugar-coated bullets; they will be defeated by sugar-coated bullets.
可能有这样一些共产党人,他们是不曾被拿枪的敌人征服过的,他们在这些敌人面前不愧英雄的称号; 但是经不起人们用糖衣裹着的炮弹的攻击,他们在糖弹面前要打败仗。
Diff:
- 糖彈 糖弹 [tang2 dan4] /sugar-coated bullet/
+ 糖彈 糖弹 [tang2 dan4] /sugar-coated bullets, term used by Mao (originally in 1949) to refer to corrupting bourgeois influences (abbr. for 糖衣炮彈|糖衣炮弹[tang2 yi1 pao4 dan4])/
- 糖衣炮彈 糖衣炮弹 [tang2 yi1 pao4 dan4] /sugar-coated bullet/
+ 糖衣炮彈 糖衣炮弹 [tang2 yi1 pao4 dan4] /sugar-coated bullets, term used by Mao (originally in 1949) to refer to corrupting bourgeois influences/
By MDBG 2024
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