自取灭亡 meaning in Chinese
bring about [invite] one's own destruction [extinction]; bring destruction on oneself; court one's own ruin [disaster; doom]; cut one's own throat; draw ruin upon oneself; fry [stew] in one's own grease; make nooses for one's own neck; pull down one's house about one's ears; put nooses round one's own neck; put one's head in a nooserun towards disaster; seek one's own downfall [doom]; tate the road to one's doom; work one's own undoing
Examples
- One is ruined by attempting greatness to which he has no claim .
妄自尊大的人必将自取灭亡。 - The self-defeating system gives limitless power to egomaniacs .
这个自取灭亡的制度把无限的权力给了极端利己主义者。 - So not merely treason , but suicidal treason
就不仅仅是叛国,而是自取灭亡的叛国之道 - Give a rogue rope enough and he will hang himself
谚语坏人必自取灭亡。 - Give one enough rope and he will hang himself
任其放纵必自取灭亡。