还是隐姓埋名?
“or live in obscurity?”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
是流亡边陲
“Flee to the frontier”
还是 隐姓埋名 ?
“or live in obscurity?”
我谢燕芳此生
“How could I suffer”
“Are you really willing to surrender your pride and live in total obscurity like a coward?”
For an elite member of a distinguished lineage, concealing one's ancestral surname ('隐姓埋名') was often viewed as a humiliation worse than death, as clan lineage defined identity.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
to conceal one's name and identity; to live incognito
A classic four-character idiom (chengyu) describing living in hiding to escape enemies or political persecution.