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bitter / painful / deeply distressed
HSK 7-9
to meet with disaster / to die tragically
(literary) cruel; savage; merciless
disastrous
HSK 7-9
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  *惨* | 惨* | *惨
miserable / wretched / cruel / inhuman / disastrous / tragic / dim / gloomy
HSK 6
lit. so horrible that one cannot bear to look (idiom) / fig. miserable; horrendous; atrocious
inhuman (idiom) / brutal and unfeeling
bitter smile
massacre / tragedy / CL:
extremely tragic (idiom); with unprecedented brutality
deathly pale
HSK 7-9
wretched situation
tragic situation; dreadful state
to slaughter / to kill mercilessly
tragedy / calamity / atrocity
dark red
to manage by painstaking effort (idiom)
(idiom) dreadful to hear
disaster
to suffer a crushing defeat
devastation / miserable condition
to suffer (defeat, death etc)
grieved / distressed
calamitous turn of events / (of one's complexion) to change markedly due to shock, illness etc; to turn deathly pale
bitter / desperate
to scream / blood-curdling screech / miserable shriek
cruel / vicious
(literary) to massacre; to slaughter; to brutally kill
to die tragically / to meet with a violent death
wretched sight
dark / gloomy / dismal / by painstaking effort
terrible tragedy / grave mishap
grieved / distressed
variant of 慘淡|惨淡


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