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poor / destitute / to use up / to exhaust / thoroughly / extremely / (coll.) persistently and pointlessly
HSK 4
poor people / the poor
HSK 4
impoverished / backward both economically and culturally
to have a rich aftertaste / (fig.) memorable; to linger in one's memory
more and more emerge / innumerable succession / breeding like flies (idiom)
HSK 7-9
endless / boundless / inexhaustible
HSK 7-9
a remote and desolate place
poor / impoverished
HSK 7-9
mountain and river exhausted (idiom); at the end of the line / nowhere to go
(idiom) endless; boundless; infinite
to have disastrous consequences / also written 貽害無窮|贻害无穷
the people are impoverished, their means exhausted (idiom); to drive the nation to bankruptcy
poor and with low expectations / poverty stunts ambition
(of a scholar) impoverished, shabby and pedantic / impoverished pedant
the poor are ignored in the busiest city; the rich will find relatives in the deepest mountain
poor wretch / pauper / destitute man / poverty-stricken peasant / penniless good-for-nothing / impecunious vagabond
impoverished / destitute
lit. barren hills and wild rivers (idiom) / fig. inhospitable natural environment
to raise (a child) frugally
help the starving but not the poor (idiom)
lit. having presented a flawed argument, one has nothing further to add (idiom) / fig. unable to provide a convincing argument to support one's position / to not have a leg to stand on
extravagant in the extreme (idiom)
cornered enemy
destitute / wretched poverty
boundless joy
extraordinary strength / super strong / strong as an ox
lit. the assassin's dagger, concealed in a map scroll, is suddenly revealed when the map is unrolled (referring to the attempted assassination of Ying Zheng 嬴政 by Jing Ke 荊軻|荆轲 in 227 BC) (idiom) / fig. malicious intent suddenly becomes apparent
destitute / troubled / penniless and full of care
to have disastrous consequences
(idiom) there will be no end of trouble in the future
(vulgar) impoverished person; the poor
to give sympathy to the rich and relief to the poor (idiom)
sunset, the end of the road (idiom); in terminal decline / at a dead end
to sew and mend clothes for a pittance
to travel on a small budget
to think hard (idiom) / to give sth much thought
boundless joy
fiendish / black-hearted
infinite sequence
poor country
Song Renqiong (1909-2005), general of the People's Liberation Army
(idiom) when you hit bottom, you have to come up with a new approach
impoverished and dejected; wretched and penniless
to use up / to exhaust / to probe to the bottom / limit / end
to bewail one's poverty / to complain about being hard up / to pretend to be poor
(idiom) if you beat the snake without killing it, endless evils will ensue
to exhaust / to use up
Archimedes' method of exhaustion (an early form of integral calculus)
to pursue relentlessly
(idiom) poor but with great ambitions; poor but principled
hard-up / in dire straits / desperate
to take refuge with a rich relative
infinitesimal (in calculus) / infinitely small
point at infinity (math.) / infinitely distant point
to shake uncontrollably / to jiggle (one's leg etc)
extremely; utterly
poor
infinite set (math.)
to feign and complain bitterly of being poverty stricken (idiom)
to endure poverty stoically
to pursue relentlessly
exhausted and hungry
poor but ambitious (idiom); hard-pressed but determined / the worse one's position, the harder one must fight back
poor but spirited person / (old) (derog.) peasant
those who did not benefit from the Chinese economic reforms of the 1980s / see also 富二代
destitute; poverty-stricken
to struggle to cope (with a situation) / to be at one's wits' end
(Internet slang) (of a man) unmarriageable (lit. short, ugly and poor) / opposite: 高富帥|高富帅
lit. the path exhausted, the end of the road (idiom); an impasse / in a plight with no way out / things have reached a dead end
wretched look / shabby looks
the working poor
(idiom) at home be frugal, but when traveling be prepared to spend
to be short of sth / to be wanting in sth
to not know what to say; to be lost for words
to exhaust one's limited abilities (idiom)
(idiom) to live in poverty and despair; down and out; destitute and without hope
endless / boundless / inexhaustible
the country weakened and the people empoverished (idiom)
to indulge in a life of luxury (idiom); extreme extravagance
a desperate rat will bite the fox (idiom); the smallest worm will turn being trodden on
exhaustible / limited / finite
lit. poor and with few means of subsistance (idiom) / fig. destitute
to engage in wars of aggression at will (idiom) / militaristic / bellicose


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