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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
difficult / hard / arduous
HSK 5
exhausting / hard / tough / arduous / to work hard / to go to a lot of trouble / hardship(s)
HSK 5
hardworking / assiduous
HSK 7-9
to speak sarcastically / to make cutting remarks / also pr. [wa1 ku5]
HSK 7-9
to bear hardships
HSK 7-9
why bother? / is it worth the trouble?
HSK 7-9
to grumble / to complain / grievance
HSK 7-9
to suffer hardship
HSK 7-9
impoverished / destitute
poverty-stricken / poor
pain and difficulties / suffering (of the people)
deprivation / distressed / miserable
to toil / hard work
to be born under an ill star
painstakingly / with great trouble
forlorn; miserable
to suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations / with difficulty / after some effort
destitute but honest / poor and simple / spartan / austere
to whine about hardships / to complain of one's bitter lot / to complain / to grumble
to make nothing of hardships
to ponder earnestly / to give a lot of thought to sth
bleak; miserable
anxiety / distress
to suffer every possible torment (idiom); bitter hardship / to bear one's cross
strenuously / persistently / hard / painful
to spare no effort
to visit the poor and ask about their suffering (idiom)
good times and hardships / joys and tribulations / for better or for worse
unable to bear the pain (idiom)
to treat (sb) unjustly / anguish caused by an injustice
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)
pains (of illness) / sufferings (esp. in Buddhism)
chloropicrin
expert craft from hard practice (idiom); hard-won skill / A masterpiece demands suffering.
second persecution
lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation / dire straits
(idiom) to have suffered all kinds of hardships
hardworking / assiduous
shared delights and common hardships (idiom); to share life's joys and sorrows / for better or for worse
to share joys and sorrows / sharing good times and hard times / same as 同甘共苦
sweet mouth, bitter heart (idiom); insincere flattery
A small hole not plugged will make you suffer a big hole (idiom); a stitch in time saves nine
(Buddhism) the pain of parting with what (or whom) one loves, one of the eight distresses 八苦
physical pain / lit. skin and flesh suffer
excruciating
to feign and complain bitterly of being poverty stricken (idiom)


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