坐以待斃

to sit and wait for death (idiom); resigned to one's fate

to sit / to take a seat / to take (a bus, airplane etc) / to bear fruit / variant of 座[zuo4]

old variant of 以[yi3]

old variant of 以[yi3]

abbr. for Israel 以色列[Yi3 se4 lie4]

to use / by means of / according to / in order to / because of / at (a certain date or place)

to stay

to wait / to treat / to deal with / to need / going to (do sth) / about to / intending to

to await death / to be a sitting duck

to die / to shoot dead / to reject / to fall forward / (suffix) to death