| | difficult / challenging / straitened circumstances / difficult situation | HSK 3 |
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| | ugly / unsightly | HSK 2 |
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| | disaster; catastrophe | HSK 5 |
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| | to feel sad / to feel unwell / (of life) to be difficult | HSK 2 |
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| | to feel unwell / to suffer pain / to be difficult to bear | HSK 2 |
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| | hard to avoid / difficult to escape from / will inevitably | HSK 4 |
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| | degree of difficulty | HSK 3 |
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| | difficult (to...) / problem / difficulty / difficult / not good | HSK 1 |
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| | unpleasant to hear / coarse / vulgar / offensive / shameful | HSK 2 |
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| | difficult / hard / challenging | HSK 5 |
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| | to feel embarrassed or awkward / to make things difficult (for someone) / to find things difficult (to do or manage) | HSK 5 |
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| | hard to take / embarrassed | HSK 7-9 |
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| | don't tell me ... / could it be that...? | HSK 3 |
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| | difficult problem | HSK 2 |
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| | lit. an interval of time is worth an ounce of gold, money cannot buy you time (saying) / fig. time is precious | |
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| | unforgettable | HSK 6 |
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| | to sacrifice oneself in a just cause / a victim of a disaster | |
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| | easy to grasp but difficult to put into practice (idiom) / easier said than done | |
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| | loath to part (idiom); emotionally close and unwilling to separate | |
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| | suffering | HSK 7-9 |
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| | (Tw) evacuation to an air-raid shelter | |
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| | hard to (predict, imagine etc) | HSK 5 |
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| | hard to explain in a few words (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly | |
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| | a torment / a trial / tribulation / a cross (to bear) / well-tried | HSK 7-9 |
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| | spilt water is difficult to retrieve (idiom) / it's no use crying over spilt milk / what's done is done and can't be reversed / the damage is done / once divorced, there's no reuniting | |
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| | seldom / rare / hard to come by | HSK 5 |
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| | difficulty | HSK 7-9 |
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| | if you ride a tiger, it's hard to get off (idiom); fig. impossible to stop halfway | |
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| | to take refuge; to seek asylum | HSK 7-9 |
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| | rarely seen | HSK 7-9 |
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| | trouble shooting / solution to difficulties | |
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| | calamity | |
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| | (idiom) hard to believe; incredible | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to raise a tough question | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to be unavoidable (idiom) | |
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| | mountain accident | |
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| | difficulty / crisis | HSK 7-9 |
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| | hard to understand / incomprehensible | |
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| | unable to move a single step (idiom) / to be in an (extremely) difficult situation | |
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| | every family has its problems (idiom) | |
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| | misfortune / crisis / grave danger / critical situation / disaster / emergency / to be zealous in helping others out of a predicament | |
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| | a nobleman's word is his bond (proverb) | |
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| | cannot escape censure (idiom) / has to bear the blame | |
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| | can't be bought for one thousand in gold (idiom) | |
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| | (idiom) between a rock and a hard place / in a dilemma | |
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| | to overcome all obstacles / to overcome countless difficulties | |
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| | (it's) no wonder (that...) / (it's) not surprising (that) | HSK 7-9 |
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| | air crash / aviation accident or incident | HSK 7-9 |
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| | dilemma / quandary / to face a difficult choice | |
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| | to rise in revolt / to raise difficult questions | |
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| | perils of the sea | |
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| | hard to endure / unbearable | |
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| | not to pose a problem for sb / cannot stump sb | |
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| | loath to part (idiom); emotionally close and unwilling to separate | |
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| | Destiny is inexorable, there is no fleeing it (idiom). Your doom is at hand. | |
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| | deep grief / extensive sorrow | |
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| | hard to tell (i.e. hard to judge or hard to predict) / cannot bring oneself to say it | HSK 7-9 |
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| | hard to get to / difficult to travel (i.e. the road is bad) | |
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| | to force someone to do something | |
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| | (idiom) insatiably greedy | |
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| | catastrophic | |
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| | hard to endure (hot weather, itchiness etc) | |
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| | lit. easy to dodge the spear in the open, hard to avoid a stab in the dark (idiom); it is hard to guard against secret conspiracies | |
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| | there are no rivers to one who has crossed the ocean, and no clouds to one who has passed Mount Wu (idiom) / one who has seen the world doesn't stop at small things | |
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| | so many that the bamboo slats have been exhausted / innumerable crimes (idiom) / see also 罄筆難書|罄笔难书 | |
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| | a hidden trouble hard to mention (idiom) / sth too embarrassing to mention / an embarrassing illness | |
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| | trouble; difficulty; problem | HSK 7-9 |
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| | lit. there is nothing the determined person can't accomplish (idiom) / fig. persistence will overcome | |
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| | rare and precious / valuable / remarkable | |
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| | to suffer a calamity / to suffer (e.g. under torture) / distress | |
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| | cannot control oneself (idiom) / to be beside oneself | |
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| | victim of an accident / casualty / martyr for one's country | |
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| | it's difficult to please everyone (idiom) | |
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| | extremely difficult / even more difficult | |
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| | (idiom) between a rock and a hard place / in a dilemma | |
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| | It is hard to change one's essential nature (idiom). You can't change who you are. / Can the leopard change his spots? (Jeremiah 13:23) | |
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| | to go through thick and thin together (idiom) | |
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| | disaster movie | |
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| | no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation | |
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| | to make do in difficult circumstances by being resourceful / (of circumstances) difficult / challenging / (of a budget) tight / (of a man-made thing) makeshift / rough and ready | |
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| | even heroes have a weakness for the charms of a beautiful woman (idiom) | |
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| | elusive / hard to pin down / enigmatic | |
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| | the problem is... | |
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| | (idiom) one cannot afford to incur public wrath / it is dangerous to incur the anger of the masses | |
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| | extremely difficult | |
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| | one is bound for good fortune after surviving a great disaster (proverb) | |
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| | (idiom) it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance; the reverse is not so easy | |
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| | old habits are hard to change (idiom) | |
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| | it's easier to invite the devil in than to send him away | |
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| | to run into misfortune | |
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| | Prince Ananda, cousin of the Buddha and his closest disciple | |
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| | to become caught up in an irresolvable situation (idiom) | |
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| | harder than climbing to heaven (idiom) | |
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| | refugee | |
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| | hard to pass | |
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| | The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Eighty-one Difficulties, medical text, c. 1st century AD | |
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| | lit. cannot rest or eat in peace (idiom) / fig. extremely worried and troubled | |
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| | To enjoy blessings and endure misfortune together (idiom); for better or for worse | |
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