"miserable plight" Chinese-English Dictionary

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Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
苦况 苦況 kǔ kuàng wretched state / miserable plight
Chinese Pinyin Translation Actions
悲惨 悲慘 bēi cǎn miserable / tragic syn
困境 kùn jìng predicament / plight syn
田地 tián dì field / farmland / cropland / plight / extent syn
惨叫 慘叫 cǎn jiào to scream / blood-curdling screech / miserable shriek
惨不忍睹 慘不忍睹 cǎn bù rěn dǔ lit. so horrible that one cannot bear to look (idiom) / fig. miserable / horrendous / atrocious syn
凄惨 悽慘 qī cǎn plaintive / mournful / miserable syn
困苦 kùn kǔ deprivation / distressed / miserable syn
惨状 慘狀 cǎn zhuàng devastation / miserable condition syn
辛酸 xīn suān pungent (taste) / bitter / fig. sad / miserable syn
颠沛流离 顛沛流離 diān pèi liú lí homeless and miserable (idiom) / to wander about in a desperate plight / to drift syn
凄苦 qī kǔ bleak / miserable syn
忆苦思甜 憶苦思甜 yì kǔ sī tián to view one's past as miserable and one's present as happy (idiom) syn
愁眉苦脸 愁眉苦臉 chóu méi kǔ liǎn to look anxious (idiom) / to look miserable syn
悲苦 bēi kǔ forlorn / miserable syn
凄楚 qī chǔ sad / wretched / miserable syn
流离 流離 liú lí homeless and miserable / forced to leave home and wander from place to place / to live as a refugee
凄风苦雨 凄風苦雨 qī fēng kǔ yǔ lit. bleak wind and icy rain (idiom) / fig. hardships / miserable circumstances syn
cǎn miserable / wretched / cruel / inhuman / disastrous / tragic / dim / gloomy syn
贱骨头 賤骨頭 jiàn gǔ tou miserable wretch / contemptible individual syn
穷途末路 窮途末路 qióng tú mò lù lit. the path exhausted, the end of the road (idiom) / an impasse / in a plight with no way out / things have reached a dead end syn
苍生涂炭 蒼生塗炭 cāng shēng tú tàn the common people in a miserable state
苦情 kǔ qíng wretched situation / plight / wretched / miserable
脱离苦海 脫離苦海 tuō lí kǔ hǎi to escape from the abyss of suffering / to shed off a wretched plight
种族隔离南非境内黑人妇女的困境 種族隔離南非境內黑人婦女的困境 The Plight of Black Women in Apartheid South Africa
何不食肉糜 hé bù shí ròu mí lit. "Why don't they eat meat?" (said by Emperor Hui of Jin 晉惠帝|晋惠帝[Jin4 Hui4 di4] when told that his people didn't have enough rice to eat) / fig. (of people from higher class etc) to be oblivious to other people's plight
哭丧脸 哭喪臉 kū sang liǎn long face / miserable look
可怜兮兮 可憐兮兮 kě lián xī xī miserable / wretched
悲摧 bēi cuī grieved / miserable
悲催 bēi cuī (Internet slang) miserable / pathetic / the pits
苦逼 kǔ bī (coll.) miserable / wretched
The four tones The four tones of Mandarin Pitch over time: tone 1 high and level (red), tone 2 rising (orange), tone 3 falling then rising (green), tone 4 falling (blue). tone 1 tone 2 tone 3 tone 4 Time Pitch

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