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pain / suffering / painful / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
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bitter / hardship / pain / to suffer / to bring suffering to / painstakingly
HSK 4
sour, sweet, bitter and spicy hot / fig. the joys and sorrows of life
HSK 5
difficult / hard / arduous
HSK 5
exhausting / hard / tough / arduous / to work hard / to go to a lot of trouble / hardship(s)
HSK 5
suffering
HSK 7-9
to grumble / to complain / grievance
HSK 7-9
to look anxious (idiom) / to look miserable
HSK 7-9
to train hard / to practice diligently / hard work / blood, sweat, and tears
HSK 7-9
hardworking / assiduous
HSK 7-9
bitter work / hard toil / (loanword) coolie, unskilled Chinese laborer in colonial times
HSK 7-9
to bear hardships
HSK 7-9
to struggle arduously
HSK 7-9
vexed / distressed
HSK 7-9
to speak sarcastically / to make cutting remarks / also pr. [wa1 ku5]
HSK 7-9
painstaking effort / to take a lot of trouble / laborious at pains
HSK 7-9
why bother? / is it worth the trouble?
HSK 7-9
to force a smile / a bitter laugh
HSK 7-9
to suffer hardship
HSK 7-9
bitter and astringent / pained / agonized
to suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations / with difficulty / after some effort
bitter struggle / hard battle / arduous effort
pain / suffering
depressed / dejected / feeling low
to consider from all angles (idiom); to think hard / to rack one's brains
hardworking and enduring hardships (idiom)
bitter melon (bitter gourd, balsam pear, balsam apple, leprosy gourd, bitter cucumber)
to suffer from (a disadvantage)
to ponder earnestly / to give a lot of thought to sth
wormwood / Artemisia absinthium
pain and difficulties / suffering (of the people)
to toil / hard work
bitter water (e.g. mineral water containing sulfates) / suffering / digestive fluids rising from stomach to the mouth / fig. bitter complaint
to be born under an ill star
bitter work / sweated labor
liquorice (Sophora flavescens), with roots used in TCM
to whine on for days (idiom) / to endlessly grumble complaints / incessant whining
bitterness finishes, sweetness begins (idiom); the hard times are over, the good times just beginning
bitter taste / bitterness
deprivation / distressed / miserable
bleak; miserable
to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work / to make an all-out effort / up to the neck in work
poverty-stricken / poor
to complain without stopping (idiom); to bitch endlessly / incessant grievances
forlorn; miserable
impoverished / destitute
bitter cold
hard work / laborious effort / painstaking work
to study diligently / to train assiduously
destitute but honest / poor and simple / spartan / austere
hard lot / bitter fate / unfortunate
secret trouble / sorrow / difficulties
to ask for trouble (idiom) / to make a rod for one's own back
sufferings
to make nothing of hardships
to suffer unspeakable misery / indescribably painful / hellish
lit. bitter taste (cf good medicine tastes bitter 良藥苦口|良药苦口) / fig. earnestly (of warning, advice)
lit. sea of bitterness / abyss of worldly suffering (Buddhist term) / depths of misery
leading a plain, hardworking life (idiom)
suffering / misery / pain (esp. psychological)
toil / hard work
shared delights and common hardships (idiom); to share life's joys and sorrows / for better or for worse
lit. bitter fruit / fig. painful consequence
to work hard
to take a lot of trouble (idiom); painstaking / at the cost of a lot of effort
to view one's past as miserable and one's present as happy (idiom)
to suffer every possible torment (idiom); bitter hardship / to bear one's cross
to whine about hardships / to complain of one's bitter lot / to complain / to grumble
good times and hardships / joys and tribulations / for better or for worse
painstakingly / with great trouble
victim's family (esp. in murder case)
to consider from all angles (idiom); to think hard / to rack one's brains
solitary and impoverished (idiom)
to build up an enterprise through painstaking efforts
to bear hardships and work hard (idiom); assiduous and long-suffering / hard-working and capable of overcoming adversity
hard labor (in penal code) / coolie
to think hard / bitter thoughts / to pour out one's sufferings
bitter bamboo (Pleioblastus amarus)
anxiety / distress
ascetic practice
forced labor / corvée / penal servitude
great bitterness, deep hatred (idiom); deeply ingrained long-standing resentment
strenuously / persistently / hard / painful
grievance / dire straits
to find joy in sorrows (idiom); to enjoy sth in spite of one's suffering
to spare no effort
to make painstaking efforts (idiom); after much trouble / to work hard at sth
suffering / distress
hardworking / assiduous
earnest and well-meaning advice (idiom); to persuade patiently
gallbladder
lit. bleak wind and icy rain (idiom) / fig. hardships; miserable circumstances
hard job / arduous task
torture / corporal punishment (traditionally involving mutilation or amputation)
to endure (years of suffering)
good medicine tastes bitter (idiom); fig. frank criticism is hard to swallow
to mull over (idiom) / to think long and hard
The sea of bitterness has no bounds, turn your head to see the shore (idiom). Only Buddhist enlightenment can allow one to shed off the abyss of worldly suffering. / Repent and ye shall be saved!
hard task / difficult mission / arduous and unrewarding undertaking / drudgery / grind / chore
to visit the poor and ask about their suffering (idiom)

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