束手待毙

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

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

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

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]

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

to collapse / variant of 斃|毙[bi4] / variant of 獙[bi4]