1. to share joys and sorrows2. sharing good times and hard times3. same as 同甘共苦
1. to have bitter digestive fluids rising to the mouth2. fig. to complain bitterly3. to pour out one's sufferings
1. unsavory meal taken in remembrance of past hardships2. fig. poor-tasting meal
1. to have difficulty getting by2. to struggle (financially etc)
erhua variant of 苦活[kǔ huó]
sour expression on one's face
Bitter Herbs, 1958 novel by Feng Deying 冯德英[féng dé yīng], made into a film in 1965
to make a hard living as unskilled laborer
unable to bear the pain (idiom)
1. lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation2. dire straits
(idiom) to have suffered all kinds of hardships
1. to bear hardships and work hard (idiom); assiduous and long-suffering2. hard-working and capable of overcoming adversity
1. to rack one's brains2. to think hard
1. to whine on for days (idiom)2. to endlessly grumble complaints3. incessant whining
sweet mouth, bitter heart (idiom); insincere flattery
persisting despite trials and tribulations (idiom); conspicuous determination
愁眉苦脸 愁眉苦臉 chóu méi kǔ liǎn HSK 7–9 1. to look anxious (idiom)2. to look miserable
(Buddhism) the pain of parting with what (or whom) one loves, one of the eight distresses 八苦[bā kǔ]
a blood soaked and hard-fought struggle (idiom)
1. lit. bleak wind and icy rain (idiom)2. fig. hardships; miserable circumstances
1. to ponder earnestly2. to give a lot of thought to sth
1. to escape from the abyss of suffering2. to shed off a wretched plight
to bring trouble on oneself
1. expert craft from hard practice (idiom); hard-won skill2. A masterpiece demands suffering.
good medicine tastes bitter (idiom); fig. frank criticism is hard to swallow
leading a plain, hardworking life (idiom)
to find joy in sorrows (idiom); to enjoy sth in spite of one's suffering
sea of bitterness is vast (idiom)
1. to entreat piteously2. to implore
1. the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), namely: all life is suffering 苦[kǔ], the cause of suffering is desire 集[jí], emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 灭[miè], the way 道[dào] to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 八正道[bā zhèng dào]2. also called 四谛[sì dì]
1. deep grief2. extensive sorrow
1. bitter hardship2. to bear one's cross
to visit the poor and ask about their suffering (idiom)
see 备尝辛苦[bèi cháng xīn kǔ]
see 苦思冥想[kǔ sī míng xiǎng]
see 苦思冥想[kǔ sī míng xiǎng]
variant of 孤苦伶仃[gū kǔ líng dīng]
the eight distresses - birth, age, sickness, death, parting with what we love, meeting with what we hate, unattained aims, and all the ills of the five skandhas (Buddhism)
underlying cause of poverty
chinaberry (Melia azedarach)
1. cutleaf ground-cherry2. Physalis angulata