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bitter / hardship / pain / to suffer / to bring suffering to / painstakingly
HSK 4
suffering
HSK 7-9
to train hard / to practice diligently / hard work / blood, sweat, and tears
HSK 7-9
bitter work / hard toil / (loanword) coolie, unskilled Chinese laborer in colonial times
HSK 7-9
vexed / distressed
HSK 7-9
painstaking effort / to take a lot of trouble / laborious at pains
HSK 7-9
to force a smile / a bitter laugh
HSK 7-9
bitter and astringent / pained / agonized
bitter struggle / hard battle / arduous effort
pain / suffering
depressed / dejected / feeling low
bitter melon (bitter gourd, balsam pear, balsam apple, leprosy gourd, bitter cucumber)
to suffer from (a disadvantage)
wormwood / Artemisia absinthium
bitter water (e.g. mineral water containing sulfates) / suffering / digestive fluids rising from stomach to the mouth / fig. bitter complaint
bitter work / sweated labor
liquorice (Sophora flavescens), with roots used in TCM
bitterness finishes, sweetness begins (idiom); the hard times are over, the good times just beginning
bitter taste / bitterness
bitter cold
hard work / laborious effort / painstaking work
hard lot / bitter fate / unfortunate
secret trouble / sorrow / difficulties
sufferings
to suffer unspeakable misery / indescribably painful / hellish
lit. bitter taste (cf good medicine tastes bitter 良藥苦口|良药苦口) / fig. earnestly (of warning, advice)
lit. sea of bitterness / abyss of worldly suffering (Buddhist term) / depths of misery
suffering / misery / pain (esp. psychological)
toil / hard work
lit. bitter fruit / fig. painful consequence
to work hard
victim's family (esp. in murder case)
to consider from all angles (idiom); to think hard / to rack one's brains
to build up an enterprise through painstaking efforts
hard labor (in penal code) / coolie
to think hard / bitter thoughts / to pour out one's sufferings
bitter bamboo (Pleioblastus amarus)
ascetic practice
forced labor / corvée / penal servitude
great bitterness, deep hatred (idiom); deeply ingrained long-standing resentment
strenuously / persistently / hard / painful
grievance / dire straits
to find joy in sorrows (idiom); to enjoy sth in spite of one's suffering
to make painstaking efforts (idiom); after much trouble / to work hard at sth
suffering / distress
earnest and well-meaning advice (idiom); to persuade patiently
gallbladder
hard job / arduous task
torture / corporal punishment (traditionally involving mutilation or amputation)
to endure (years of suffering)
The sea of bitterness has no bounds, turn your head to see the shore (idiom). Only Buddhist enlightenment can allow one to shed off the abyss of worldly suffering. / Repent and ye shall be saved!
hard task / difficult mission / arduous and unrewarding undertaking / drudgery / grind / chore
wretched situation / plight / wretched / miserable
affliction
amygdalin
chinaberry (Melia azedarach)
to have difficulty getting by / to struggle (financially etc)
see 苦差
chinaberry (Melia azedarach)
sour expression on one's face
endive
(coll.) miserable; wretched
slightly bitter
erhua variant of 苦不唧
treat harshly
hard times
underlying cause of poverty
wretched state / miserable plight
erhua variant of 苦活
sea of bitterness is vast (idiom)
bitter sweet
(slang) prison
the trick of injuring oneself to gain the enemy's confidence / CL: 條|条
absinthe (distilled anise-based liquor)
to entreat piteously / to implore
endive
Bitter Cauliflower, 1954 socialist realist novel by Feng Deying 馮德英|冯德英 loosely based on Maxim Gorky's Mother, made into a 1967 film by Li Ang
Ixeris denticulata
cutleaf ground-cherry / Physalis angulata
penance (to atone for a sin)
to admonish strenuously
wretched feelings (opposite: 樂趣|乐趣, delight)
coup d'état (loanword)
the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), namely: all life is suffering , the cause of suffering is desire , emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 滅|灭, the way to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 八正道 / also called 四諦|四谛
deep grief / extensive sorrow


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