为五斗米折腰

繁体词形

為五斗米折腰

来源拼音（数字声调）

wei4 wu3 dou3 mi3 zhe2 yao1

英文原释义

中文教学解释尚未补齐；每条来源记录独立，不将以下释义片段机械拆为已审义项。

• (allusion to Tao Qian 陶潛|陶潜[Tao2 Qian2], who used this phrase when he resigned from government service rather than show subservience to a visiting inspector) to bow and scrape for five pecks of rice (that being a part of his salary as a local magistrate)
• (fig.) to compromise one's principles for the sake of a salary

来源：CC-CEDICT 2026-10-31T21:06:18Z；cedict_ts.u8 第69498行。保留大小写与读音差异。