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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
difficult / hard / arduous
HSK 5
sour, sweet, bitter and spicy hot / fig. the joys and sorrows of life
HSK 5
why bother? / is it worth the trouble?
HSK 7-9
to force a smile / a bitter laugh
HSK 7-9
to grumble / to complain / grievance
HSK 7-9
vexed / distressed
HSK 7-9
to suffer hardship
HSK 7-9
suffering
HSK 7-9
to struggle arduously
HSK 7-9
to train hard / to practice diligently / hard work / blood, sweat, and tears
HSK 7-9
hardworking / assiduous
HSK 7-9
to bear hardships
HSK 7-9
to look anxious (idiom) / to look miserable
HSK 7-9
painstaking effort / to take a lot of trouble / laborious at pains
HSK 7-9
to speak sarcastically / to make cutting remarks / also pr. [wa1 ku5]
HSK 7-9
bitter work / hard toil / (loanword) coolie, unskilled Chinese laborer in colonial times
HSK 7-9
pain / suffering
good times and hardships / joys and tribulations / for better or for worse
painstakingly / with great trouble
depressed / dejected / feeling low
to suffer every possible torment (idiom); bitter hardship / to bear one's cross
poverty-stricken / poor
bitter and astringent / pained / agonized
bitter melon (bitter gourd, balsam pear, balsam apple, leprosy gourd, bitter cucumber)
hardworking / assiduous
sufferings
bitter taste / bitterness
deprivation / distressed / miserable
earnest and well-meaning advice (idiom); to persuade patiently
to be born under an ill star
to take a lot of trouble (idiom); painstaking / at the cost of a lot of effort
to ponder earnestly / to give a lot of thought to sth
to study diligently
to work hard
liquorice (Sophora flavescens), with roots used in TCM
bitter struggle / hard battle / arduous effort
lit. bitter taste (cf good medicine tastes bitter 良藥苦口|良药苦口) / fig. earnestly (of warning, advice)
impoverished / destitute
to think hard / bitter thoughts / to pour out one's sufferings
victim's family (esp. in murder case)
to study diligently / to train assiduously
pain and difficulties / suffering (of the people)
grievance / dire straits
to make nothing of hardships
strenuously / persistently / hard / painful
to admonish strenuously
absinthe (distilled anise-based liquor)
to build up an enterprise through painstaking efforts
to suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations / with difficulty / after some effort
persisting despite trials and tribulations (idiom); conspicuous determination
to suffer from (a disadvantage)
hard lot / bitter fate / unfortunate
to entreat piteously / to implore
hardworking and enduring hardships (idiom)
to have difficulty getting by / to struggle (financially etc)
leading a plain, hardworking life (idiom)
to find joy in sorrows (idiom); to enjoy sth in spite of one's suffering
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 bear hardships and work hard (idiom); assiduous and long-suffering / hard-working and capable of overcoming adversity
see 苦差
hard times
chinaberry (Melia azedarach)
to escape from the abyss of suffering / to shed off a wretched plight
bleak; miserable
lit. sea of bitterness / abyss of worldly suffering (Buddhist term) / depths of misery
to view one's past as miserable and one's present as happy (idiom)
to whine on for days (idiom) / to endlessly grumble complaints / incessant whining
lit. bleak wind and icy rain (idiom) / fig. hardships; miserable circumstances
cutleaf ground-cherry / Physalis angulata
Heaven will not disappoint the person who tries (idiom). If you try hard, you're bound to succeed eventually.
bitterness finishes, sweetness begins (idiom); the hard times are over, the good times just beginning
suffering / distress
sour expression on one's face
wretched state / miserable plight
to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work / to make an all-out effort / up to the neck in work
secret trouble / sorrow / difficulties
to whine about hardships / to complain of one's bitter lot / to complain / to grumble
to visit the poor and ask about their suffering (idiom)
the trick of injuring oneself to gain the enemy's confidence / CL: 條|条
to make painstaking efforts (idiom); after much trouble / to work hard at sth
shared delights and common hardships (idiom); to share life's joys and sorrows / for better or for worse
gallbladder
to have bitter digestive fluids rising to the mouth / fig. to complain bitterly / to pour out one's sufferings
sweet mouth, bitter heart (idiom); insincere flattery
suffering / misery / pain (esp. psychological)
forlorn; miserable
anxiety / distress
erhua variant of 苦活
to suffer / to suffer for one's actions / to pay dearly / to burn one's fingers
ascetic practice
endive
good medicine tastes bitter (idiom); fig. frank criticism is hard to swallow
pains (of illness) / sufferings (esp. in Buddhism)
to endure (years of suffering)
treat harshly
hard labor (in penal code) / coolie
destitute but honest / poor and simple / spartan / austere

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