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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
exhausting / hard / tough / arduous / to work hard / to go to a lot of trouble / hardship(s)
HSK 5
lit. sour, sweet, bitter and spicy (idiom) / fig. all kinds of flavors; the joys and sorrows of life
HSK 5
difficult / hard / arduous
HSK 5
hardworking / assiduous
HSK 7-9
suffering
HSK 7-9
to force a smile / a bitter laugh
HSK 7-9
vexed / distressed
HSK 7-9
to suffer hardship
HSK 7-9
to speak sarcastically / to make cutting remarks / also pr. [wa1 ku5]
HSK 7-9
to struggle arduously
HSK 7-9
bitter work / hard toil / (loanword) coolie, unskilled Chinese laborer in colonial times
HSK 7-9
to bear hardships
HSK 7-9
painstaking effort / to take a lot of trouble / laborious at pains
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
to grumble / to complain / grievance
HSK 7-9
why bother? / is it worth the trouble?
HSK 7-9
affliction
amygdalin
to bear hardships and work hard (idiom); assiduous and long-suffering / hard-working and capable of overcoming adversity
painstakingly / with great trouble
to whine on for days (idiom) / to endlessly grumble complaints / incessant whining
to entreat piteously / to implore
hard lot / bitter fate / unfortunate
bitter bamboo (Pleioblastus amarus)
anxiety / distress
chinaberry (Melia azedarach)
bitter and astringent / pained / agonized
the trick of injuring oneself to gain the enemy's confidence / CL: 條|条
chinaberry (Melia azedarach)
hardworking and enduring hardships (idiom)
bitter work / sweated labor
to study diligently / to train assiduously
good times and hardships / joys and tribulations / for better or for worse
suffering / distress
strenuously / persistently / hard / painful
sufferings
deprivation / distressed / miserable
depressed / dejected / feeling low
to have difficulty getting by / to struggle (financially etc)
to take a lot of trouble (idiom); painstaking / at the cost of a lot of effort
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!
to suffer / to suffer for one's actions / to pay dearly / to burn one's fingers
to suffer from (a disadvantage)
sour expression on one's face
see 苦差
to work hard
secret trouble / sorrow / difficulties
liquorice (Sophora flavescens), with roots used in TCM
to make nothing of hardships
gallbladder
to study diligently
to make painstaking efforts (idiom); after much trouble / to work hard at sth
to spare no effort
to suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations / with difficulty / after some effort
to view one's past as miserable and one's present as happy (idiom)
(idiom) to ask for trouble; to make a rod for one's own back
hard times
treat harshly
cutleaf ground-cherry / Physalis angulata
bleak; miserable
to ponder earnestly / to give a lot of thought to sth
lit. bleak wind and icy rain (idiom) / fig. hardships; miserable circumstances
endive
wretched state / miserable plight
(idiom) to have suffered all kinds of hardships
pain / suffering
to build up an enterprise through painstaking efforts
Heaven will not disappoint the person who tries (idiom). If you try hard, you're bound to succeed eventually.
to escape from the abyss of suffering / to shed off a wretched plight
good medicine tastes bitter (idiom); fig. frank criticism is hard to swallow
pains (of illness) / sufferings (esp. in Buddhism)
(Buddhism) the pain of parting with what (or whom) one loves, one of the eight distresses 八苦
ascetic practice
(old) the family of the victim in a murder case / (Tw, HK) victim (of a crime, misfortune etc) / (Tw) (coll.) person who bears the burden while others benefit
bitterness finishes, sweetness begins (idiom); the hard times are over, the good times just beginning
earnest and well-meaning advice (idiom); to persuade patiently
to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work / to make an all-out effort / up to the neck in work
pain and difficulties / suffering (of the people)
grievance / dire straits
to admonish strenuously
persisting despite trials and tribulations (idiom); conspicuous determination
lit. bitter taste (cf good medicine tastes bitter 良藥苦口|良药苦口) / fig. earnestly (of warning, advice)
suffering / misery / pain (esp. psychological)
lit. sea of bitterness / abyss of worldly suffering (Buddhist term) / depths of misery
to be born under an ill star
hard labor (in penal code) / coolie
shared delights and common hardships (idiom); to share life's joys and sorrows / for better or for worse
to have bitter digestive fluids rising to the mouth / fig. to complain bitterly / to pour out one's sufferings
bitter struggle / hard battle / arduous effort
bitter water (e.g. mineral water containing sulfates) / suffering / digestive fluids rising from stomach to the mouth / fig. bitter complaint
forlorn; miserable
lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation / dire straits
ascetic monk
to suffer unspeakable misery / indescribably painful / hellish
bitter hardship / to bear one's cross
bitter taste / bitterness
the eight distresses - birth, age, sickness, death, parting with what we love, meeting with what we hate, unattained aims, and all the ills of the five skandhas (Buddhism)

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