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


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