not to undress
It's a Chinese idiom. Pinyin is y ī B ù Ji ě D à I, which means that you can't take off your clothes and sleep because of overwork. I don't care to untie my clothes and go to sleep. It is often used to describe nursing patients or working very hard. It comes from Pai Diao, a new account of the world.
Notes on Idioms
To untie, as of a garment.
The origin of Idioms
Liu Xiao quoted zhongxingshu in Liu Yiqing's Shi Shuo Xin Yu Pai Diao in the Southern Song Dynasty: "when Zhong Kan's father tasted the classic of disease, he couldn't take off his clothes for several years."
Idiom usage
Used as a predicate, attributive, or adverbial; used in writing.
Examples
The eighth chapter of the romance of the Three Kingdoms written by Luo Guanzhong of Ming Dynasty: "Zhuo is infected with a small disease occasionally, Diao Chan is not able to take off his clothes and flatters himself, Zhuo Xin is more and more happy."
When he saw that his father was seriously ill, he couldn't take off his clothes and waited for more than ten days. (the 40th chapter of scholars by Wu Jingzi in Qing Dynasty)
In the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang, who looked at the wolf with a tiger in his eyes, planned to raise his dead brother's son and served his sick uncle. He won "filial piety".
Chinese PinYin : yī bù jiě dài
not to undress
Cool breeze at the end of the day. tiān mò liáng fēng
give instructions after discovering the trace. fā zōng zhǐ shǐ
look up to the past and look down on the present. zūn gǔ bēi jīn
ant holes may cause the collapse of a dyke. dī kuì yǐ xué
warning taken from the overturned cart in front. qián chē zhī jiàn
Carving insects and seal characters. diāo chóng kè zhuàn