(A)living dog is better than a dead lion

出处：按学科分类—哲学、宗教 复旦大学出版社《圣经典故辞典》第478页（852字）

【释义】：

活狗比死狮强；(喻)好死不如赖活

This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in the heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward: for the memory of them is forgotten.

Ecc!es.9:3-5

在日光之下所行的一切事上，有一件祸患，就是众人所遭遇的，都是一样。

并且世人的心，充满了恶。活着的时候心里狂妄，后来就归死人那里去了。

与一切活人相连的，那人还有指望。

因为活着的狗，比死了的狮子更强。

活着的人，知道必死。死了的人，毫无所知。也不再得赏赐，他们的名无人记念。

《传道书》9∶3－5］

【条目出处】：《圣经·旧约》