随风倒舵 |
suí fēng dǎo duò |
to trim one's sails with the wind / to adopt different attitude depending on the circumstances (idiom) |
随 |
Suí |
surname Sui |
随 |
suí |
to follow / to comply with / varying according to... / to allow / subsequently |
随风 |
suí fēng |
wind-borne / tossed about by the wind |
随风倒 |
suí fēng dǎo |
to bend with the wind |
风 |
fēng |
wind / news / style / custom / manner / CL:阵,丝 |
倒 |
dǎo |
to fall; to collapse; to lie horizontally / to fail; to go bankrupt / to overthrow / to change (trains or buses) / to move around / to resell at a profit |
倒 |
dào |
to invert; to place upside down or frontside back / to pour out / to tip out; to dump / inverted; upside down; reversed / to go backward / contrary to what one might expect; but; yet |
舵 |
duò |
helm / rudder |