束手

to have one's hands tied / helpless / unable to do anything about it

to bind / bunch / bundle / classifier for bunches, bundles, beams of light etc / to control

hand / (formal) to hold / person engaged in certain types of work / person skilled in certain types of work / personal(ly) / convenient / classifier for skill / CL:雙|双[shuang1],隻|只[zhi1]

lit. to have one's hands bound and be unable to do anything about it (idiom); fig. helpless in the face of a crisis

hands tied and waiting to be captured

to wait helplessly for death (idiom) / to resign oneself to extinction

hands tied and expecting the worst

hands tied and expecting the worst