Meaning:Dry, dry; rut, a mark run over by a wheel; perch, carp. Water dried up in the car ditch small fish. A metaphor for someone in distress who is desperate for help.

Pronunciation: 涸辙之鲋 [hé zhé zhī fù].

Citation: But one cannot starve and wait for the arrival of the ideal world, one must at least leave a little residual breath, just as ~, eagerly seeking the water of the rising bucket. ◎ Lu Xun, "What Happened After the Grave-Nala Left".

Grammar: "涸辙之鲋" is a metaphor for a person who is in a difficult situation and is waiting to be rescued; it usually serves as the subject and object in a sentence.

Origin: "Zhuangzi - External Objects": "Zhou came yesterday; there was a call in the middle of the road. Zhou looked into the rut; there was a perch in it. Zhou asked: 'perch to come; son of what for?' He said: 'I am a minister of the East China Sea. Do you have a bucket liter of water and live me? ...... I have got a bucket liter of water to live; Jun is saying this; had better to ask me in a withered fish's restaurant earlier!'"

Example sentence: ~ phase warm, to wet mutual moistening, where not if we forget each other in the river and lake.

Near synonyms:

嗷嗷待哺 [áo áo dài bǔ]

Interpretation: 嗷嗷, wailing sound; 待, wait; 哺, feed. The way of eagerly seeking food when hungry. It describes the tragic situation of being starved.

Citation: The articles can be published in other publications, but not a single word of the several publications of the ~ Creation Society will fly in.

Citation: The articles could be published in other journals, but not a word of the several publications of the Society of Creation would fly in.

Originality: "Poetry - Xiao Ya - Hong Yan": "Hong Yan Yu Fei; Mourning Ow."

Example sentence: Seeing the bird ~ for the first time, the students felt very new.