painful; difficult; distressing; (psychologically) difficult; straitened (circumstances); tight (financial situation)
trouble; hardship; difficulty; anxiety; worry; concern
to suffer; to groan; to be worried
poor (at); weak (in); not very good (at); not one's cup of tea; not one's favorite
pain; anguish; distress; suffering; hardship
bitter smile; wry smile; strained laugh; sarcastic laugh
bitter smile; wry smile; forced smile; strained laugh
to torment; to pain; to inflict (physical) pain; to harass; to cause (emotional) pain; to afflict
trouble (I have put you through); (your) hard work; thank you for your hard work; I appreciate your efforts
choking; suffocating; stifling; oppressive; heavy
hard fight; close game; struggle; tight contest
(mental) agony; anguish; suffering; distress
heavy (feeling, etc.); gloomy (weather, etc.); oppressive (atmosphere, etc.); stifling; strained
unsightly; ugly; unseemly; indecent; deplorable; disgraceful
pain; anguish; suffering; duhkha (suffering)
unpleasant; disgusting; loathsome; shameful; scandalous
nonsensical; unreasonable; awfully; extremely; disorder; confusion
painful; being sorry; feeling sorry
absurd; unreasonable; extreme; senseless; disorderly; chaotic
thank you for your hard work; I appreciate your efforts
formal; strict; ceremonious; stiff
complaint; troubles; objection; grievance
thank you for your hard work; I appreciate your efforts
sultry; sweltering; stuffy; uncomfortably hot-looking (clothing, etc.); stuffy-looking
suffering; distress; hardship; trial
I appreciate your efforts
pains; hard work; effort; trouble; labour; labor
bitterness; distress; pain; bitterness and astringency
difficult situation; adverse circumstances; predicament; trouble; dilemma; distress
(out of) desperation; (as a) last resort; (driven by) pain
penance; austerities; mortification; asceticism
awareness that somebody will be hard to deal with; awareness that one is not good at something; (feeling) not up to doing something
being in dire distress; being hard put to it; the four and eight kinds of suffering
to be unable to understand; to baffle one's understanding; to be beyond one's comprehension
worry; care; anxiety; mental exhaustion
to give candid advice; to give harsh but honest advice; to admonish
sour (expression); (lit.) as if having swallowed a bitter bug
faint, ironic or bittersweet smile
hard fighting; hard struggle; fighting against heavy odds
filthy; squalid; dirty; foul; sordid
to be bothered (by something); to suffer
candid advice; frank advice; honest opinion; exhortation; harsh but honest advice
have a pain in one's chest
last resort; desperate measure taken under pressure of necessity
slightly bitter (taste); bittersweet (memory, experience, etc.)
trouble (I have put you through); (your) hard work; thank you for your hard work; I appreciate your efforts
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
no problem; no objection; it doesn't matter
trial and tribulation; hardships; privations; difficulties
(out of) desperation; (as a) last resort; (driven by) pain
to be in difficulties; to be in trouble; to be in a difficult situation
(feeling of) tightness in the chest
nervous temperament; worry habit; pessimistic nature; pessimism
pleasure and pain; joys and sorrows
difficult to hear; unpleasant to hear
ninja throwing knives; mediaeval farming tool for digging, prying, etc.
absurd; unreasonable; extreme; senseless; disorderly; chaotic
sour (expression); (lit.) as if having swallowed a bitter bug
thank you for your hard work; I appreciate your efforts
self-supporting student; working student
unremitting effort; dogged perseverance; unswerving loyalty
toil; drudgery; penal servitude; imprisonment (with hard labour)
distress; anguish; mental suffering
sour (expression); (lit.) as if having swallowed a bitter bug
bitter liquid; (fig.) bitter experience
thank you for your hard work; I appreciate your efforts
formal; strict; ceremonious; stiff
hardships of poverty; serious poverty
working one's way through school; earning one's own school fees; studying under adversity; studying in harsh economic circumstances
world of suffering; life of prostitution
triple handicap (esp. blindness, deafness and mutism)
to relieve a person's pain
best regards; please remember me; please treat me favorably (favourably); please take care of
hellish pain; suffering; distress; agony
bitter experience (ordeal)
to have a bitter experience
I appreciate your efforts
sweetness and bitterness; joys and sorrows
laborious composition; struggling to compose a poem
formal; strict; ceremonious; stiff
overanxiety; needless worry
terrible pain; terrible hardship; terrible suffering
to have a bitter experience
trouble; distress; sorrow
overanxiety; needless worry
sultry; sweltering; stuffy; uncomfortably hot-looking (clothing, etc.); stuffy-looking
to have a bitter experience
the most helpful advice may be difficult to listen to; (lit.) good medicine tastes bitter
double torture; double pain; double hardship; double whammy
the Seven Misfortunes and Eight Pains; a series of disasters
account of the hardships one has encountered
being arduous; working diligently enduring hardships
suffering pain; experiencing hardship
slightly bitter (taste); bittersweet (memory, experience, etc.)
sour (expression); (lit.) as if having swallowed a bitter bug
toil and moil; working assiduously for; tireless hard work; painstaking labor (labour)
overanxiety; needless worry
stratagem for causing a rift in the enemy camp by using a seditious plot
to have a bitter experience
bitter melon (Momordica charantia); bitter gourd
danger past, God forgotten
inevitability of death (one of the four kinds of suffering); death pains; agony of death
to have a bitter experience
bittern; concentrated solution of salts (esp. magnesium chloride) left over after the crystallization of seawater or brine
crumpled; wrinkled; crinkled; creased
difficult situation; adverse circumstances; predicament; trouble; dilemma; distress
being arduous; working diligently enduring hardships; making a strenuous effort
unpleasant; disgusting; loathsome; shameful; scandalous
to be distressed with debts
the pain of separation from loved ones
sea of suffering; human realm
the four kinds of suffering (birth, old age, disease, death)
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
difficult to hear; unpleasant to hear
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)
toil and moil; working assiduously for; tireless hard work; painstaking labor (labour)
strenuous pursuit of learning under difficulties
the pain of not getting what one seeks
danger past, God forgotten
Ixeris dentata (species of the daisy family)
magnesia; magnesium oxide
wormwood (Artemisia absinthium); absinthium; absinthe wormwood; absinthe
bitter tea; low-quality tea
the pain of meeting people one dislikes
to have a bitter experience
Suffering, Source of Suffering Desire, The Cessation of Suffering, The Way Leading to the Cessation of Suffering (The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism)
jostling; being jostled; being mobbed; crumpling
suffering caused by the cold
Arduous March; North Korean famine of the late 1990s
no pain, no gain; no cross, no crown
worrying oneself (about); being anxious (about); fidgeting (about)
trials and tribulations; adversities; suffering hardships and troubles
all things are causes of sufferings
Japanese timber bamboo (Phyllostachys bambsoides); giant timber bamboo; madake; Simon bamboo (Pleioblastus simonii)
best regards; please remember me; please treat me favorably (favourably); please take care of
to go through all sorts of hardships
being arduous; working diligently enduring hardships; making a strenuous effort
the pain brought on by the five skandha
to cause one's parents distress
coldest time of the year; bitter suffering
filled with numerous sufferings
overanxiety; needless worry
trouble; hardship; difficulty; anxiety; worry; concern
kousso (African flowering plant, Hagenia abyssinica); kosso; cusso; koso; brayera
best regards; please remember me; please treat me favorably (favourably); please take care of
bittern; concentrated solution of salts (esp. magnesium chloride) left over after the crystallization of seawater or brine
starry handfish (Halieutaea stellata)
after pleasure comes pain; there is no pleasure without pain; there is no rose without a thorn; take the good with the bad
no pain, no gain; no cross, no crown
kousso (vermifuge made from pistillate brayera flowers); kosso; cusso; koso
sow thistle (Sonchus oleraceus); milk thistle
horned melon (Cucumis metuliferus); kiwano; African horned cucumber; jelly melon
grievance machinery; complaints department
to suffer; to complain of a pain
hardships and joys; tasting the sweets and bitters of life; (having seen much of life) being well-versed in the ways of the world
putting up a good fight against some odds
one cannot have pleasure without pain; no pain, no gain
there's no pain without pleasure, and there's no pleasure without pain
there's no pain without pleasure, and there's no pleasure without pain
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
a Buddha or Bodhisattva taking away suffering and conferring peace
pain; anguish; distress; suffering; hardship
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
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)
numerous sufferings; suffering of many people
harm zone; people who will suffer the negative effects of new public facilities, infrastructure, etc. (e.g. pollution)
numerous sufferings; various kinds of suffering
creeping lettuce (Ixeris stolonifera)
Ixeris dentata var. alpicola (mountain flower in the dandelion family)