痛苦 | tòng kǔ | pain; suffering; painful; Classifiers: 个 | |
艰苦 | jiān kǔ | difficult; hard; arduous | |
辛苦 | xīn kǔ | exhausting; hard; tough; arduous; to work hard; to go to a lot of trouble; hardship(s) | |
刻苦 | kè kǔ | hardworking; assiduous | |
苦难 | kǔ nàn | suffering |
1 | You can hardly imagine what a hard time your mother had when she was a child. | |
2 | They talked over the bitterness of the past. | |
3 | This matter really gave him a hard time. | |
4 | Husbands, love [your] wives, and be not bitter against them. | |
5 | If you eat these raw, which they do in many places around the world, if you eat a bitter one, you could, in fact, get enough cyanide to kill you. |