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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
a remote and desolate place
(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
extravagant in the extreme (idiom)
cornered enemy
destitute / wretched poverty
destitute / troubled / penniless and full of care
(vulgar) impoverished person; the poor
to travel on a small budget
to think hard (idiom) / to give sth much thought
fiendish / black-hearted
poor country
(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 exhaust / to use up
Archimedes' method of exhaustion (an early form of integral calculus)
to pursue relentlessly
hard-up / in dire straits / desperate
to shake uncontrollably / to jiggle (one's leg etc)
extremely; utterly
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
to struggle to cope (with a situation) / to be at one's wits' end
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
(idiom) to live in poverty and despair; down and out; destitute and without hope
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
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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