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miserable / tragic
HSK 6
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  *惨* | 惨* | *惨
miserable / wretched / cruel / inhuman / disastrous / tragic / dim / gloomy
HSK 6
bitter / painful / deeply distressed
HSK 7-9
disastrous
HSK 7-9
deathly pale
HSK 7-9
cruel / vicious
(idiom) too appalling to look at
devastation / miserable condition
bitter / desperate
to suffer a crushing defeat
to suffer (defeat, death etc)
lit. so horrible that one cannot bear to look (idiom) / fig. miserable; horrendous; atrocious
massacre / tragedy / CL:
tragedy / calamity / atrocity
to scream / blood-curdling screech / miserable shriek
dark / gloomy / dismal / by painstaking effort
extremely tragic (idiom); with unprecedented brutality
to die tragically / to meet with a violent death
inhuman (idiom) / brutal and unfeeling
plaintive / mournful / miserable
calamitous turn of events / (of one's complexion) to change markedly due to shock, illness etc; to turn deathly pale
terrible tragedy / grave mishap
to manage by painstaking effort (idiom)
wretched situation
bitter smile
grieved / distressed
variant of 慘淡|惨淡
(literary) cruel; savage; merciless
disaster
to slaughter / to kill mercilessly
wretched sight
(literary) to massacre; to slaughter; to brutally kill
(of women) grieved appearance (idiom) / sorrowful mien
(idiom) dreadful to hear
Les Misérables (1862) by Victor Hugo 維克多·雨果|维克多·雨果
grieved / distressed
tragic situation; dreadful state
the massacre of 12th Mar 1927 / the Shanghai coup of 12th Mar 1927 by Chiang Kai-shek against the communists
dark red
to meet with disaster / to die tragically


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