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Chinese dictionary
- 1
adj.bitter
这药苦极了。
This medicine tastes very bitter.
这个果子很苦。
The fruit tastes very bitter.
如果它是苦的，我不想要它。
If it is bitter, I don't want it.
- 2
adj.painful; hard
苦日子终于过去了。
The hard times are over at last.
他的日子真的太苦了。
His life is really hard.
我真的受够了这种苦日子。
I'm really fed up with this miserable life.
antonym
- 3
v.cause somebody to suffer; cause somebody so much pain
可真苦了他。
This really gave him a hard time.
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- 4
adj.dial(cut off) too much
树枝修得太苦了。
The trees are over-pruned.
树枝修得太苦了。
The trees are over-pruned.
- 5
v.suffer from; be troubled by
苦旱
suffer from drought
- 6
adv.painstakingly; doing one's utmost
苦读
study hard
Words and phrases with 苦
- 苦劳[word]toil
- 苦寒[word]bitter cold; poverty-stricken
- 苦旅[word]hard journey
- 苦水[word]suffering; hard, bitter water
- 苦艾[word]wormwood
- 苦酒[word]wine with tart flavour; awful result
- 苦心[word]trouble taken; extend much care and thought
- 苦命[word]ill-fated life
- 苦苦[word]strenuously; sincerely
- 苦思冥想[idiom]think long and hard
- 苦心孤诣[idiom]make extraordinarily painstaking efforts
- 苦大仇深[idiom]have suffered bitterly and nurse deep hatred
- 苦中作乐[idiom]seek joy amidst sorrow
- 苦不堪言[idiom]the misery or hardship is beyond words
- 苦心经营[idiom]be elaborative in the undertaking
- 苦尽甘来[idiom]After the bitter comes the sweet.
- 苦口婆心[idiom]urge earnestly and with kind intentions
- 苦苦哀求[idiom]entreat piteously