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Meaning of 束手待毙

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shù shǒu dài (Trad.: 束手待斃)
to wait helplessly for death (idiom); to resign oneself to extinction
Example Sentences
1
We shall simply be resigning ourselves to extinction unless we carry on the four modernizations.
2
We can do nothing and get swamped, or learn to surf and ride the wave.
3
I think that things can get...have the potential to get very, very bad if we don't do anything. However, I really do.
4
Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.
5
So the battleships and destroyers were sitting ducks when the Japanese bombers swept in from the sea.