中文拼音： zhi4 zhi1 si3 di4 er2 hou4 sheng1

中文繁体： 置之死地而後生

英文翻译： place sb on field of death and he will fight to live (common saying based on Sunzi's Art of War 孫子兵法|孙子兵法); to fight desperately when confronting mortal danger/fig. to find a way out of an impasse