維基辭典YuePhrase
Jyutping:
jat6 ceot1 ji4 zok3
jat6 jap6 ji4 sik1
to begin work at sunrise and retire at sunset; to work from dawn till dusk
Examples
堯時，五十之民擊壤於塗。觀者曰：“大哉，堯之德也！”擊壤者曰：“吾日出而作，日入而息，鑿井而飲，耕田而食。堯何等力？”
During the reign of Yao, a fifty-year-old man was tilling the soil by the roadside. "How great is the virtue of Yao!" A passer-by ejaculated. The farmer replied, "When the sun’s up I work, and when it’s down I rest. I dig wells and there’s drink, plow fields and there’s food. Emperor Yao? What’s his awesome power to me?!"