wait for death(zuò ér dài bì)

wait for death

Sit and wait to die, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Zu à é Rd à IB à, meaning to sit and wait to die. It is used to describe a person who is in danger and does not take active measures to wait for death. It comes from Zhuge Liang's model for later generations.

The origin of Idioms

"If you don't fight against thieves, you will also die. If you just sit and wait for your death, which one is the best one to fight against."

Idiom usage

It has a derogatory meaning. Waiting for death

Examples

In answer to yuan jiehuan (yuan Keli) Zhongcheng's book written by Minggao Panlong (2), "if things are poor, they will change, and if they change, they will be flexible. It's no use sitting there waiting to die. " Although the city has more than enough garrison, but there is no foreign reinforcements, food will be exhausted. History of the Yuan Dynasty: biography of Wang Yi

"If you don't attack the thief, the king will die. If you just sit and wait for your death, which one is the best one to attack."

Chapter 108 of the outlaws of the Marsh: Yang Zhi, sun an, Bian Xiang and a thousand sergeants were all sitting in the woods waiting to die

He Liangjun of the Ming Dynasty wrote in "four friends Zhai Cong Shuo: Shi Jiu": "good people, sit and wait to die."

The second part of "the joy of the houyujiale" written by Zhu zuochao in the Qing Dynasty: "since Xianqi is going with me, my wife is lonely here. Why don't you go to other places together? Mother and son must have care, so why wait to die."

Wu Yuzhang's Wuchang Uprising of the 1911 Revolution: "we all feel that it is better to rise and fight than to sit and wait for death." Also save for "sit dead.".

Volume 2 of the series of talks on tieweishan written by Tsai Tae of Song Dynasty: "master Shiwan suffered from severe abdominal disease, and the dead were eight or nine... Gai Kui accepted the prime minister Fengzhi and died because of it."

The third chapter of part a of the book of great harmony by Kang Youwei: "empty bed groans, unable to extend medical treatment, so we can't call it Ji."

Chinese PinYin : zuò ér dài bì