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difficult / challenging / straitened circumstances / difficult situation
HSK 3
disaster; catastrophe
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *難* | 難* | *難
difficult (to...) / problem / difficulty / difficult / not good
HSK 1
difficult / hard / challenging
HSK 5
to feel embarrassed or awkward / to make things difficult (for someone) / to find things difficult (to do or manage)
HSK 5
to sacrifice oneself in a just cause / a victim of a disaster
easy to grasp but difficult to put into practice (idiom) / easier said than done
suffering
HSK 7-9
(Tw) evacuation to an air-raid shelter
a torment / a trial / tribulation / a cross (to bear) / well-tried
HSK 7-9
to take refuge; to seek asylum
HSK 7-9
calamity
mountain accident
misfortune / crisis / grave danger / critical situation / disaster / emergency / to be zealous in helping others out of a predicament
(idiom) between a rock and a hard place / in a dilemma
to overcome all obstacles / to overcome countless difficulties
air crash / aviation accident or incident
HSK 7-9
dilemma / quandary / to face a difficult choice
to rise in revolt / to raise difficult questions
perils of the sea
to force someone to do something
to suffer a calamity / to suffer (e.g. under torture) / distress
extremely difficult / even more difficult
(idiom) between a rock and a hard place / in a dilemma
to go through thick and thin together (idiom)
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
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
extremely difficult
(idiom) it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance; the reverse is not so easy
it's easier to invite the devil in than to send him away
to run into misfortune
Prince Ananda, cousin of the Buddha and his closest disciple
lit. even harder than reaching the sky (idiom) / fig. extremely difficult / far from an easy task
to be faced with problems
every beginning is difficult (idiom) / getting started is always the hardest part
extremely difficult / hard and dangerous / challenging
to feel embarrassed / to feel awkward
countless difficulties / extremely difficult / against all odds
to censure
to die in an accident or disaster / to be killed
extremely difficult / even more difficult
to die in an accident / to die for a just cause
to make sth difficult / to create obstacles
to be plagued with misfortunes / precarious
trials and tribulations
return what you borrowed on time, you may borrow again next time (idiom)
the first step is the hardest (idiom)
to seek refuge from calamities
to thwart / to impede
retort with challenging questions / debate
to be daunted by challenges
to debate / to retort / to refute
great catastrophe
to meet with misfortune / to fall into dire straits
to meet with disaster / killed / in the clutches of the enemy / to fall foul of / in danger
hard to understand / difficult to deal with / knotty / complicated
mining disaster
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *難* | 難* | *難
disaster / distress / to scold
to blame
to sacrifice one's wealth to save the state (idiom)
inconvenient / difficult for some reason / to find sth embarrassing
reproof / blame
lit. at home, one can spend a thousand days in comfort, but spending a day away from home can be challenging (idiom) / fig. there's no place like home
to resolve a difficult situation and leave worries behind (idiom)
national calamity
in peril / facing disaster
to be hard on sb; to deliberately make things difficult / Taiwan pr. [diao1nan2]
HSK 7-9
dysphagia (medicine)
dysphagia (medicine)
to run away from trouble / to flee from calamity / to be a refugee
no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma / trapped / in an impossible situation
to tackle a difficult job (idiom) / to do sth reluctantly
to perish / to be killed
HSK 7-9
to tackle a thorny problem and overcome its challenges
to rescue / rescue (operation, workers)
(idiom) to put up innumerable obstacles; to create all kinds of difficulties
political asylum
anxious to help others resolve difficulties (idiom)
(classical) (of soldiers etc) resolute in the face of adversity
calamity
to take refuge / to seek refuge from disaster
variant of 磨難|磨难


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