To bring trouble upon oneself; to court disaster; to ask for trouble; self-inflicted misery.
他总是喜欢冒险尝试，结果常常自诒伊戚，给自己制造了不少麻烦。
He always likes to take risks and try new things, often bringing trouble upon himself and creating many problems.
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Ancient
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The earliest collection of poems in China, "The Book of Songs" (Shi Jing), contains a poem describing an official who was homesick while on official business:
He was dispatched to the west in February to handle political affairs, and in that distant place, he constantly missed his family.
From the sowing season until the harvest season, he could not return home, accumulating endless worries and sorrows in his heart.
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