1 to seek

2 to look for

3 to request

4 to demand

5 to beseech

1 pain

2 suffering

3 painful

4 classifier: 个 gè

1 bitter

2 hardship

3 pain

4 to suffer

5 to bring suffering to

6 painstakingly

1 to request

2 to require

3 requirement

4 to stake a claim

5 to ask

6 to demand

7 classifier: 点 diǎn

1 exhausting

2 hard

3 tough

4 arduous

5 to work hard

6 to go to a lot of trouble

7 hardship(s)

1 unable to bear the pain (idiom)

1 lit. not aiming to achieve the best possible result, but rather trying to avoid making mistakes (idiom)

2 fig. to take a risk-averse approach

1 lit. not requiring a detailed understanding (idiom); only looking for an overview

2 not bothered with the details

3 superficial

4 content with shallow understanding

1 begging for pity and asking for help (idiom)

1 lit. the pain of being hanged upside down (idiom); fig. extremely critical situation

2 dire straits