Firebanden
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Danish
Proper noun
Firebanden
- Gang of Four
- 2014, Mette Holm, Dagbog fra Beijing: 25 år senere; hvor gik kineserne hen?, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:
- Han røg atter ud, denne gang anklaget for at modarbejde Firebanden – Kulturrevolutionens hovedkræfter.
- Once again he was thrown out, this time accused of working against the Gang of Four - the main forces of the Cultural Revolution.
- 2008, Mogens Lykketoft, Kina: kapitalisme med særlige kinesiske kendetegn, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN, page 17:
- Nu om dage er det kun spørgsmål om Tibet og — måske — Taiwan, der kan udløse sådan en gang maskinsnak — propagandistisk, forhåndsgodkendt udenadslære, som man dengang oplevede overalt om Firebanden.
- These days, it is only questions about Tibet and — maybe — Taiwan that can elicit that manner of machine talk — propagandist, in-advance-approved memorized doctrine, of the kind that, back then, one encountered everywhere regarding the Gang of Four.
- 2011, Anne Wolden-Ræthinge, Farvel min varme ven: og andre essays og reportager, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:
- Over til et nyt Kina: Mao, folkerepublikken, femårsplan, kulturrevolution, Firebanden.
- Thither, to a new China: Mao, the people's republic, five-year-plan, cultural revolution, the Gang of Four.
- (by extension, humorous) any other quartet
- 2015, Alex Frank Larsen, Anker: Et liv med fejder, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:
- Auken, Nyrup og Jensen satte sig sammen med den nye finansminister Svend Jakobsen i et udvalg, der blev kaldt Firebanden efter et samtidigt opgør i Kinas top oven på Formand Maos død.
- Auken, Nyrup and Jensen, together with the new minister of finances, Svend Jakobsen, sat down in a committee that was called the gang of four, after a contemporaneous showdown in China in the wakes of the death of Foreman Mao.
- 2010, Thorstein Thomsen, Nørdernes forvandling, Rosinante&Co., →ISBN, page 72:
- »Har du lagt mærke til Dominique fra firebanden?« »Firebanden, hvem er det?« »Line, Anemone, Dominique og Dorte.« »Kalder du dem firebanden? Skidegodt navn.«
- »Have you noticed Dominique from the gang of four?« »The gang of four, who is that?« »Line, Anemone, Dominique and Dorte.« »Do you call them the gang of four? Damn good name.«
- 2012, Johan Theorin, Sankt Psyko, Politikens Forlag, →ISBN:
- Alene med Firebanden – håbet var ude for ham. (...) Hænderne, der holder ham fast, løsnes lidt, fingrene begynder at blive trætte.
- Alone with the Gang of Four - hope was dead to him. (...) The hands that hold him, loosen slightly, the fingers begin to tire.
- 2013, Ævar Örn Josepsson, Mulighedernes land, Klim, →ISBN:
- Nu, da billederne var blevet offentliggjort på nettet, flyttede efterforskningens tyngdepunkt sig pludselig fra firebanden til de unge mennesker på ulykkesstedet.
- Now that the pictures had been published online, the center of gravity of the investigation suddenly moved from the gang of four to the young people on the scene of the mishap.
- 2015, Astrid Saalbach, Fordrivelsen, Gyldendal A/S, →ISBN:
- Firebanden klamrede sig til det bord de sad ved, som om de befandt sig på et skib i høj sø.
- The gang of four held tightly onto the table by which they sat, as if they were situated on a ship in high sea.