糖衣炮彈

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Chinese

sugar coating artillery shell; cannonball
trad. (糖衣炮彈/糖衣砲彈) 糖衣 炮彈/砲彈
simp. (糖衣炮弹) 糖衣 炮弹
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Etymology

Coined by Mao Zedong in 1949:

可能這樣一些共產黨人他們不曾敵人征服他們這些敵人面前不愧英雄稱號但是經不起人們糖衣砲彈攻擊他們糖彈面前敗仗
可能这样一些共产党人他们不曾敌人征服他们这些敌人面前不愧英雄称号但是经不起人们糖衣炮弹攻击他们糖弹面前败仗
From: 5 March 1949, 毛澤東,《在中國共產黨第七屆中央委員會第二次全體會議上的報告》(Report To the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China), English translation based on Foreign Languages Press edition
Kěnéng yǒu zhèyàng yīxiē gòngchǎndǎngrén, tāmen shì bùcéng bèi ná qiāng de dírén zhēngfú guò de, tāmen zài zhèxiē dírén miànqián bùkuì yīngxióng de chēnghào; dànshì jīngbùqǐ rénmen yòng tángyī guǒ zhe de pàodàn de gōngjī, tāmen zài tángdàn miànqián yào dǎ bàizhàng.
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.

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Idiom

糖衣炮彈

  1. Sugar-coated bullets (of the bourgeoisie)”, an expression used by Mao Zedong to refer to the method of using a deceptive image to rope in and corrupt the enemy.

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