Meaning of the Idiom
wei zui qian tao(abscond to avoid punishment)
After the First Emperor of Qin unified the six kingdoms, he searched for the magic of immortality. Hou Sheng and Lu Sheng, two Buddhist scholars, searched for immortal people and immortal medicine for the emperor for a long time, but they could not find them.
According to the law of the Qin Dynasty, failure to find the fairy medicine was punishable by death. Hou Sheng and Lu Sheng were afraid of being punished, so they secretly fled.
Qin Shi Huang was very angry and ordered the execution of hundreds of Confucian scholars who had been involved in the affair. This is the famous burning of books and burying scholars.
畏罪潜逃
[wèi zuì qián táo],意思是犯罪后害怕定罪而逃走。
出自《吕不韦与秦王政的批判》。
例句
找了半天,却没有找到,我以为它真是“畏罪潜逃”了。
老板畏罪潜逃后,公司就人去楼空,铁门深锁,使得员工们都丧失了赖以维生的工作。
这家伙畏罪潜逃,今天自己送上门来,岂不是飞蛾投火。
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