almost did not desire to live

almost did not desire to live

It's a Chinese idiom, J ī B ù y ù sh ē ng in pinyin, which means that you almost don't want to live. It comes from diaoshuo by Lu Dajun of Song Dynasty.

The origin of Idioms

Lu Dajun of the Song Dynasty wrote in diaoshuo: "his heart of compassion and his sense of pain and illness do not want to live."

Idiom usage

I'm almost desperate.

[example]

It's time for Sister Feng, a greedy woman, to be completely copied. She is naturally sad and afraid of complaint. A dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin in Qing Dynasty