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  *穷* | 穷* | *穷
poor / destitute / to use up / to exhaust / thoroughly / extremely / (coll.) persistently and pointlessly
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poor people / the poor
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to pursue relentlessly
(idiom) when you hit bottom, you have to come up with a new approach
to think hard (idiom) / to give sth much thought
to travel on a small budget
destitute / wretched poverty
lit. poor and with few means of subsistance (idiom) / fig. destitute
impoverished / destitute
fiendish / black-hearted
cornered enemy
(of a scholar) impoverished, shabby and pedantic / impoverished pedant
to engage in wars of aggression at will (idiom) / militaristic / bellicose
to use up / to exhaust / to probe to the bottom / limit / end
to exhaust / to use up
poor country
the poor are ignored in the busiest city; the rich will find relatives in the deepest mountain
extravagant in the extreme (idiom)
poor but ambitious (idiom); hard-pressed but determined / the worse one's position, the harder one must fight back
wretched look / shabby looks
to raise (a child) frugally
(idiom) to live in poverty and despair; down and out; destitute and without hope
lit. the path exhausted, the end of the road (idiom); an impasse / in a plight with no way out / things have reached a dead end
exhausted and hungry
poor wretch / pauper / destitute man / poverty-stricken peasant / penniless good-for-nothing / impecunious vagabond
to struggle to cope (with a situation) / to be at one's wits' end
to indulge in a life of luxury (idiom); extreme extravagance
to be short of sth / to be wanting in sth
poor but spirited person / (old) (derog.) peasant
to pursue relentlessly
hard-up / in dire straits / desperate
the working poor
extremely; utterly
a remote and desolate place
(vulgar) impoverished person; the poor
those who did not benefit from the Chinese economic reforms of the 1980s / see also 富二代
impoverished and dejected; wretched and penniless
to shake uncontrollably / to jiggle (one's leg etc)
(idiom) at home be frugal, but when traveling be prepared to spend
lit. barren hills and wild rivers (idiom) / fig. inhospitable natural environment
destitute / troubled / penniless and full of care
Archimedes' method of exhaustion (an early form of integral calculus)
a desperate rat will bite the fox (idiom); the smallest worm will turn being trodden on


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