bitter smile; wry smile; strained laugh; sarcastic laugh
trouble; hardship; difficulty; anxiety; worry; concern
trouble (I have put you through); (your) hard work; thank you for your hard work; I appreciate your efforts
hard fight; close game; struggle; tight contest
(mental) agony; anguish; suffering; distress
absurd; unreasonable; extreme; senseless; disorderly; chaotic
nonsensical; unreasonable; awfully; extremely; disorder; confusion
pain; anguish; suffering; duhkha (suffering)
thank you for your hard work; I appreciate your efforts
complaint; troubles; objection; grievance
suffering; distress; hardship; trial
pains; hard work; effort; trouble; labour; labor
I appreciate your efforts
bitterness; distress; pain; bitterness and astringency
faint, ironic or bittersweet smile
difficult situation; adverse circumstances; predicament; trouble; dilemma; distress
penance; austerities; mortification; asceticism
being in dire distress; being hard put to it; the four and eight kinds of suffering
to give candid advice; to give harsh but honest advice; to admonish
candid advice; frank advice; honest opinion; exhortation; harsh but honest advice
hard fighting; hard struggle; fighting against heavy odds
to be bothered (by something); to suffer
last resort; desperate measure taken under pressure of necessity
ninja throwing knives; mediaeval farming tool for digging, prying, etc.
overanxiety; needless worry
racking one's brains; worrying oneself; being anxious
labor; labour; toil; hardship
hard fight; difficult struggle
to share (life's) joys and sorrows (with); to share the good and the bad (with); to stick together through thick and thin
trial and tribulation; hardships; privations; difficulties
pleasure and pain; joys and sorrows
to be in difficulties; to be in trouble; to be in a difficult situation
nervous temperament; worry habit; pessimistic nature; pessimism
distress; anguish; mental suffering
self-supporting student; working student
toil; drudgery; penal servitude; imprisonment (with hard labour)
unremitting effort; dogged perseverance; unswerving loyalty
working one's way through school; earning one's own school fees; studying under adversity; studying in harsh economic circumstances
bitter liquid; (fig.) bitter experience
hardships of poverty; serious poverty
hellish pain; suffering; distress; agony
best regards; please remember me; please treat me favorably (favourably); please take care of
world of suffering; life of prostitution
triple handicap (esp. blindness, deafness and mutism)
bitter experience (ordeal)
to relieve a person's pain
the four kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death)
to have a bitter experience
the eight kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death, parting from loved ones, meeting disliked ones, not getting what one seeks, pains of the five skandha)
laborious composition; struggling to compose a poem
sweetness and bitterness; joys and sorrows
terrible pain; terrible hardship; terrible suffering
trouble; distress; sorrow
suffering pain; experiencing hardship
the Seven Misfortunes and Eight Pains; a series of disasters
account of the hardships one has encountered
double torture; double pain; double hardship; double whammy
being arduous; working diligently enduring hardships
inevitability of death (one of the four kinds of suffering); death pains; agony of death
toil and moil; working assiduously for; tireless hard work; painstaking labor (labour)
stratagem for causing a rift in the enemy camp by using a seditious plot
being arduous; working diligently enduring hardships; making a strenuous effort
crumpled; wrinkled; crinkled; creased
the pain of separation from loved ones
sea of suffering; human realm
after pleasure comes pain; there is no pleasure without pain; there is no rose without a thorn; take the good with the bad
trials and tribulations; adversities; suffering hardships and troubles
strenuous pursuit of learning under difficulties
the pain of not getting what one seeks
the pain of meeting people one dislikes
Suffering, Source of Suffering Desire, The Cessation of Suffering, The Way Leading to the Cessation of Suffering (The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism)
magnesia; magnesium oxide
bitter tea; low-quality tea
all things are causes of sufferings
Arduous March; North Korean famine of the late 1990s
worrying oneself (about); being anxious (about); fidgeting (about)
no pain, no gain; no cross, no crown
suffering caused by the cold
Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambsoides); giant timber bamboo; madake; Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)
trials and tribulations; adversities; suffering hardships and troubles
jostling; being jostled; being mobbed; crumpling
being arduous; working diligently enduring hardships; making a strenuous effort
to go through all sorts of hardships
coldest time of the year; bitter suffering
the pain brought on by the five skandha
filled with numerous sufferings
grievance machinery; complaints department
spare no effort while you are young; heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age
spare no effort while you are young; heavy work in youth is quiet rest in old age
patripassianism (theology)
putting up a good fight against some odds
a Buddha or Bodhisattva taking away suffering and conferring peace
one cannot have pleasure without pain; no pain, no gain
there's no pain without pleasure, and there's no pleasure without pain
harm zone; people who will suffer the negative effects of new public facilities, infrastructure, etc. (e.g. pollution)
cold-suffering bird; kankuchō; imaginary bird said to live in the Himalayas who forgets the cold of night as soon as morning comes; (lazy) person who is poor at practicing asceticism; person unlikely to reach satori
hardships and joys; tasting the sweets and bitters of life; (having seen much of life) being well-versed in the ways of the world
numerous sufferings; suffering of many people
numerous sufferings; various kinds of suffering