#守株待兔#

[开学季] 守 means ‘guard or keep watch over,’ 株 means ‘tree stump,’ 待 means ‘await,’ and 兔 means ‘hare, rabbit,’ The literal meaning is ‘keep watch over a tree stump waiting for hares (to come and dash themselves against it).’ A freer translation is ‘wait passively for a windfall, wait for gains without pains, trust chance and windfalls.’

📝 Allusion: There was a farmer who made his living on the land. One day a rabbit was running too quickly; all of a sudden, it ran into a wooden post in the ground, snapped its neck, and died. The farmer got a rabbit for nothing and was very happy. So he stopped doing work and every day waited next to the wooden post, hoping more rabbits would run into it, but no more rabbits came. His land became uncultivated, but he also became mocked by everyone. (from “Wu Du” in Han Feizi)

🔗来源：500 Common Chinese Idioms: An Annotated Frequency Dictionary / 《成语五百条》

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