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bitter / hardship / pain / to suffer / to bring suffering to / painstakingly
HSK 4
amygdalin
bitter work / hard toil / (loanword) coolie, unskilled Chinese laborer in colonial times
HSK 7-9
to train hard / to practice diligently / hard work / blood, sweat, and tears
HSK 7-9
earnest and well-meaning advice (idiom); to persuade patiently
painstaking effort / to take a lot of trouble / laborious at pains
HSK 7-9
vexed / distressed
HSK 7-9
to entreat piteously / to implore
hard job / arduous task
to build up an enterprise through painstaking efforts
lit. sea of bitterness / abyss of worldly suffering (Buddhist term) / depths of misery
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!
to force a smile / a bitter laugh
HSK 7-9
lit. bitter fruit / fig. painful consequence
secret trouble / sorrow / difficulties
suffering
HSK 7-9
hard lot / bitter fate / unfortunate
to endure (years of suffering)
sufferings
strenuously / persistently / hard / painful
ascetic monk
hard labor (in penal code) / coolie
bitter melon (bitter gourd, balsam pear, balsam apple, leprosy gourd, bitter cucumber)
(idiom) great bitterness and deep hatred; deeply ingrained long-standing resentment
absinthe (distilled anise-based liquor)
the trick of injuring oneself to gain the enemy's confidence / CL: 條|条
to find joy in sorrows (idiom); to enjoy sth in spite of one's suffering
cutleaf ground-cherry / Physalis angulata
liquorice (Sophora flavescens), with roots used in TCM
affliction
toil / hard work
bitter and astringent / pained / agonized
forced labor / corvée / penal servitude
endive
to work hard
(old) the family of the victim in a murder case / (Tw, HK) victim (of a crime, misfortune etc) / (Tw) (coll.) person who bears the burden while others benefit
bitter water (e.g. mineral water containing sulfates) / suffering / digestive fluids rising from stomach to the mouth / fig. bitter complaint
(coll.) miserable; wretched
bitter cold
see 苦差
penance (to atone for a sin)
grievance / dire straits
depressed / dejected / feeling low
wormwood / Artemisia absinthium
wretched state / miserable plight
bitter bamboo (Pleioblastus amarus)
ascetic practice
lit. bitter taste (cf good medicine tastes bitter 良藥苦口|良药苦口) / fig. earnestly (of warning, advice)
hard times
wretched feelings (opposite: 樂趣|乐趣, delight)
to suffer unspeakable misery / indescribably painful / hellish
hard task / difficult mission / arduous and unrewarding undertaking / drudgery / grind / chore
bitter struggle / hard battle / arduous effort
(idiom) to think deeply; to rack one's brains
bitterness finishes, sweetness begins (idiom); the hard times are over, the good times just beginning
bitter taste / bitterness
suffering / misery / pain (esp. psychological)
deep grief / extensive sorrow
sea of bitterness is vast (idiom)
treat harshly
suffering / distress
wretched situation / plight / wretched / miserable
to admonish strenuously
to suffer from (a disadvantage)
pain / suffering
gallbladder
torture / corporal punishment (traditionally involving mutilation or amputation)
hard work / laborious effort / painstaking work
bitter sweet
sour expression on one's face
to have difficulty getting by / to struggle (financially etc)
Ixeris denticulata
underlying cause of poverty
(slang) prison
(loanword) coup d'état
to think hard / bitter thoughts / to pour out one's sufferings
chinaberry (Melia azedarach)
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
bitter work / sweated labor
endive
to make painstaking efforts (idiom); after much trouble / to work hard at sth
slightly bitter
Bitter Herbs, 1958 novel by Feng Deying 馮德英|冯德英, made into a film in 1965
(loanword) coup d'état
chinaberry (Melia azedarach)
erhua variant of 苦活
erhua variant of 苦不唧


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