苦苦
kǔ kǔ
Pinyin

Definition

苦苦
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kǔ kǔ
  1. strenuously
  2. persistently
  3. hard
  4. painful

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

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)
何苦
hé kǔ
  1. 1 why bother?
  2. 2 is it worth the trouble?
刻苦
kè kǔ
  1. 1 hardworking
  2. 2 assiduous

Idioms (20)

不胜其苦
bù shèng qí kǔ
  1. 1 unable to bear the pain (idiom)
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)
冥思苦想
míng sī kǔ xiǎng
  1. 1 to consider from all angles (idiom); to think hard
  2. 2 to rack one's brains
冥思苦索
míng sī kǔ suǒ
  1. 1 to mull over (idiom)
  2. 2 to think long and hard

Sample Sentences

这些我也都知道，可是我还是接受不了。可能是我的传统观念太强了。老话不是说“养儿防老”吗？我爸辛辛苦苦把我拉扯大，容易吗？现在老了，应该是我孝敬他的时候了。
zhèxiē wǒ yě dōu zhīdào ，kěshì wǒ háishi jiēshòu buliǎo 。kěnéng shì wǒ de chuántǒng guānniàn tài qiáng le 。lǎohuà bù shì shuō “yǎng\'érfánglǎo ”ma ？wǒ bà xīnxīnkǔkǔ bǎ wǒ lāche dà ，róngyì ma ？xiànzài lǎo le ，yīnggāi shì wǒ xiàojìng tā de shíhou le 。
I know all that, but I just can't accept it. Maybe my traditional views are too strong. Doesn't the old proverb go ''Raise a child to ward off old age?" My dad busted his hump to raise me. Do you think that was easy? Now that he's old, this is the time when I should be a good son for him.
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他们的文化不一样。爸爸妈妈辛辛苦苦把你养大，你长大了就要离开我们。你是不是嫌弃爸妈啊？
tā men de wénhuà bùyīyàng 。bàbamāma xīnxīnkǔkǔ bǎ nǐ yǎng dà ，nǐ zhǎngdà le jiùyào líkāi wǒ men 。nǐ shì bùshì xiánqì bà mā a ？
Their culture is different from ours. Mom and dad worked so hard to raise you. And now that you're all grown up, you just want to leave us. Are you kicking us to the curb?
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好，你要用“苦肉计”。告诉她你是怎么每天苦苦打拼，下班站在车上都能睡着。可是只要能让她过好日子，你再苦再累都无所谓。总之重点就是要让她感动。
hǎo ，nǐ yào yòng “kǔròu jì ”。gàosu tā nǐ shì zěnme měitiān kǔ kǔ dǎpīn ，xiàbān zhàn zài chēshang dōu néng shuìzháo 。kěshì zhǐyào néng ràng tā guò hǎorìzi ，nǐ zài kǔ zài lèi dōu wúsuǒwèi 。zǒngzhī zhòngdiǎn jiùshì yào ràng tā gǎndòng 。
OK. To win her trust, you should show that you're sacrificing yourself. Tell her about how you bust your hump day after day. In the train on the way home you're tired enough to sleep. But as long as she can live well, you don't care how hard you have to work or how tired you get. The most important thing is that you need to move her.
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