孤苦伶仃
gū kǔ líng dīng
Pinyin

Definition

孤苦伶仃
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gū kǔ líng dīng
  1. solitary and impoverished (idiom)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

孤单
gū dān
  1. 1 lone
  2. 2 lonely
  3. 3 loneliness
孤独
gū dú
  1. 1 lonely
  2. 2 solitary
痛苦
tòng kǔ
  1. 1 pain
  2. 2 suffering
  3. 3 painful
  4. 4 classifier: 个 gè
苦
kǔ
  1. 1 bitter
  2. 2 hardship
  3. 3 pain
  4. 4 to suffer
  5. 5 to bring suffering to
  6. 6 painstakingly
辛苦
xīn kǔ
  1. 1 exhausting
  2. 2 hard
  3. 3 tough
  4. 4 arduous
  5. 5 to work hard
  6. 6 to go to a lot of trouble
  7. 7 hardship(s)

Idioms (20)

一意孤行
yī yì gū xíng
  1. 1 obstinately clinging to one's course (idiom)
  2. 2 willful
  3. 3 one's own way
  4. 4 dogmatic
不胜其苦
bù shèng qí kǔ
  1. 1 unable to bear the pain (idiom)
伶牙俐齿
líng yá lì chǐ
  1. 1 clever and eloquent (idiom); fluent
  2. 2 having the gift of the gab
倒悬之苦
dào xuán zhī kǔ
  1. 1 lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation
  2. 2 dire straits
备尝辛苦
bèi cháng xīn kǔ
  1. 1 to have suffered all kinds of hardships (idiom)

Sample Sentences

这怎么行。让我爸一个人孤苦伶仃地住在那里，和一些不认识的人同吃同睡，而我这个做儿子的却在家享福，这说得过去吗？这种大逆不道的事我可做不出来。
zhè zěnme xíng 。ràng wǒ bà yī ge rén gūkǔlíngdīng de zhùzài nàli ，hé yīxiē bù rènshi de rén tóng chī tóng shuì ，ér wǒ zhège zuò érzi de què zài jiā xiǎngfú ，zhè shuō de guòqù ma ？zhèzhǒng dànìbùdào de shì wǒ kě zuò bu chūlái 。
How could we? How could we send my dad off to live all alone there, eating and sleeping with strangers, while his son lives happily at home? I just can't betray him that way.
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