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


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