不要在一棵树上吊死

bù yào zài yī kē shù shàng diào sǐ

释义

1. don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom)
2. there's more than one way to skin a cat

不要在一棵树上吊死 的构成词

• 一 yī: one
• 不 bù: no; not so
• 不要 bù yào: don't!
• 吊 diào: to suspend
• 在 zài: to exist; to be alive
• 棵 kē: classifier for trees, cabbages, plants etc
• 树 shù: tree
• 死 sǐ: to die
• 要 yāo: (bound form) to demand; to coerce
• 要 yào: to want; to need; to ask for
• 上吊 shàng diào: to hang oneself
• 吊死 diào sǐ: death by hanging
• 上 shàng: on top