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- bitter
Related words (131)
(lit.) bitter taste (cf good medicine tastes bitter 良藥苦口|良药苦口); (fig.) earnestly (of warning, advice)
hard task; difficult mission; arduous and unrewarding undertaking; drudgery; grind; chore
bitter water (e.g. mineral water containing sulfates); suffering; digestive fluids rising from stomach to the mouth; (fig.) bitter complaint
the Four Noble Truths (Budd.), namely: all life is suffering 苦, the cause of suffering is desire 集, emancipation comes only by eliminating passions 滅|灭, the way 道 to emancipation is the Eight-fold Noble Way 八正道; also called 四諦|四谛
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)
to work hard; hard; exhausting; strenuous; toilsome; laborious; arduous; to go to treat; difficult (life); thanks for your trouble
to have bitter digestive fluids rising to the mouth; (fig.) to complain bitterly; to pour out one's sufferings
(lit.) mourning the wind and bewailing the rain; fig. in a wretched plight; miserable circumstances
Idioms (34)
great bitterness, deep hatred (idiom); deeply ingrained long-standing resentment
bitterness finishes, sweetness begins (idiom); the hard times are over, the good times just beginning
(lit.) the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation; dire straits
to bear hardships and work hard (idiom); assiduous and long-suffering; hard-working and capable of overcoming adversity
to suffer untold hardships (idiom); trials and tribulations; with difficulty; after some effort
to whine on for days (idiom); to endlessly grumble complaints; incessant whining
hardworking and enduring hardships (idiom); to bear hardships and stand hard work; to be inured to hardships; to work hard
shared delights and common hardships (idiom); to share life's joys and sorrows; for better or for worse
to bury oneself in work (idiom); to be engrossed in work; to make an all-out effort; up to the neck in work
to ask for trouble (idiom); to shoot oneself in the foot; to ask for it; to bring trouble upon oneself; to make a rod for one's own back
expert craft from hard practice (idiom); hard-won skill; A masterpiece demands suffering.
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