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to worry / to be concerned
HSK 6
to worry / anxiety (about)
HSK 7-9
to be worried
HSK 7-9
fears of trouble in the rear (idiom); family worries (obstructing freedom of action) / worries about the future consequences / often in negative expressions, meaning "no worries about anything"
HSK 7-9
sullen; depressed; melancholy; dejected
HSK 7-9
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to worry / to concern oneself with / worried / anxiety / sorrow / (literary) to observe mourning
(idiom) carefree; without worries
suffering / misery / hardship
to share tribulations / to help sb with worries and difficulties
worrying / bleak
to be anxious and worried / agitated / pensive
concerned / worried / disturbed / anxious
internal trouble and outside aggression (idiom); in a mess both domestically and abroad
deeply worried and sick at heart (idiom)
to resolve a difficult situation and leave worries behind (idiom)
secret concern / private worry
to worry / to fret
to sleep peacefully (idiom) / (fig.) to rest easy / to be free of worries
distressed / laden with grief
to report bad news / to announce failure, shortcoming or disaster
apprehension / apprehensive
(literary) to be in mourning after the death of a parent
depressed / full of worries / feeling down
having experienced much suffering
worrying
(psychology) depression
anxious / distressed / burdened with care
to have mixed feelings (about sth)
variant of 擔憂|担忧
(literary) worried facial expression
He who gives no thought to far-flung problems soon finds suffering nearby (idiom, from Analects). / Smug concentration on the here and now will lead to future sorrow.
not having to worry about clothes and food (idiom) / to be provided with the basic necessities
to report only the good news, not the bad news / to hold back unpleasant news / to sweep bad news under the carpet
to be the first to worry about affairs of state, and the last to enjoy oneself (quotation from the essay On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記|岳阳楼记 by Song writer Fan Zhongyan 范仲淹)
antidepressant
happy on the one hand, but worried on the other
internal trouble and outside aggression (idiom); in a mess both domestically and abroad
daylily (Hemerocallis fulva)
to fret over the worries of long-departed people (idiom); to worry unnecessarily / crying over spilt milk / often used with negatives, e.g. no need to worry about past issues
to fret over the worries of long-departed people (idiom); to worry unnecessarily / crying over spilt milk / often used with negatives, e.g. no need to worry about past issues
lit. the fear held by a man of that the sky would fall (idiom) / fig. groundless fears
lit. like the man of who feared the sky would fall (idiom) / fig. to entertain groundless fears
deep suffering can lead to enlightenment (idiom) / storms make oaks take deeper root
to thrive in calamity and perish in soft living (idiom) / life springs from sorrow and calamity, death comes from ease and pleasure


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