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  *穷* | 穷* | *穷
poor / destitute / to use up / to exhaust / thoroughly / extremely / (coll.) persistently and pointlessly
HSK 4
poor people / the poor
HSK 4
poor / impoverished
HSK 7-9
endless / boundless / inexhaustible
HSK 7-9
more and more emerge / innumerable succession / breeding like flies (idiom)
HSK 7-9
impoverished / destitute
to sew and mend clothes for a pittance
to bewail one's poverty / to complain about being hard up / to pretend to be poor
to exhaust / to use up
to travel on a small budget
help the starving but not the poor (idiom)
lit. barren hills and wild rivers (idiom) / fig. inhospitable natural environment
poor country
(idiom) poor but with great ambitions; poor but principled
to use up / to exhaust / to probe to the bottom / limit / end
a desperate rat will bite the fox (idiom); the smallest worm will turn being trodden on
(idiom) endless; boundless; infinite
to pursue relentlessly
(of a scholar) impoverished, shabby and pedantic / impoverished pedant
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
to raise (a child) frugally
Archimedes' method of exhaustion (an early form of integral calculus)
boundless joy
to have a rich aftertaste / (fig.) memorable; to linger in one's memory
(vulgar) impoverished person; the poor
infinite set (math.)
destitute / wretched poverty
mountain and river exhausted (idiom); at the end of the line / nowhere to go
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
fiendish / black-hearted
to engage in wars of aggression at will (idiom) / militaristic / bellicose
to exhaust one's limited abilities (idiom)
a remote and desolate place
to pursue relentlessly
poor
destitute / troubled / penniless and full of care
to indulge in a life of luxury (idiom); extreme extravagance
sunset, the end of the road (idiom); in terminal decline / at a dead end
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
to shake uncontrollably / to jiggle (one's leg etc)
(idiom) at home be frugal, but when traveling be prepared to spend
extravagant in the extreme (idiom)
to have disastrous consequences
the people are impoverished, their means exhausted (idiom); to drive the nation to bankruptcy
poor but spirited person / (old) (derog.) peasant
cornered enemy
to not know what to say; to be lost for words
extremely; utterly
children of entrepreneurs who became wealthy under Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms in the 1980s / see also 窮二代|穷二代
to be short of sth / to be wanting in sth
exhausted and hungry
hard-up / in dire straits / desperate
extraordinary strength / super strong / strong as an ox
poor wretch / pauper / destitute man / poverty-stricken peasant / penniless good-for-nothing / impecunious vagabond
the poor are ignored in the busiest city; the rich will find relatives in the deepest mountain
Song Renqiong (1909-2005), general of the People's Liberation Army
the working poor
poor but ambitious (idiom); hard-pressed but determined / the worse one's position, the harder one must fight back
to give sympathy to the rich and relief to the poor (idiom)
infinitesimal (in calculus) / infinitely small
to take refuge with a rich relative
endless / boundless / inexhaustible
boundless joy
impoverished / backward both economically and culturally
poor and with low expectations / poverty stunts ambition
"the Eight Great Eminent Officials" of the CCP, namely 鄧小平|邓小平, 陳雲|陈云, 李先念, 彭真, 楊尚昆|杨尚昆, 薄一波, 王震, and 宋任窮|宋任穷 / abbr. to 八老
to endure poverty stoically
the country weakened and the people empoverished (idiom)
(idiom) there will be no end of trouble in the future
(idiom) if you beat the snake without killing it, endless evils will ensue
exhaustible / limited / finite
infinite sequence
point at infinity (math.) / infinitely distant point
(Internet slang) (of a man) unmarriageable (lit. short, ugly and poor) / opposite: 高富帥|高富帅
those who did not benefit from the Chinese economic reforms of the 1980s / see also 富二代
(idiom) when you hit bottom, you have to come up with a new approach
(idiom) to live in poverty and despair; down and out; destitute and without hope
lit. poor and with few means of subsistance (idiom) / fig. destitute
to think hard (idiom) / to give sth much thought
impoverished and dejected; wretched and penniless
to struggle to cope (with a situation) / to be at one's wits' end
wretched look / shabby looks
to feign and complain bitterly of being poverty stricken (idiom)
destitute; poverty-stricken
(Internet slang) (wryly jocular) poverty limits my power of imagination / (fig.) flabbergasted by the antics of the wealthy / the rich live in another world / (abbr. for 貧窮限制了我的想象力|贫穷限制了我的想象力)
to have disastrous consequences / also written 貽害無窮|贻害无穷


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