Chinese English Dictionary Online

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  • to boil; to simmer
  • to cook on a slow fire; to extract by heating; to decoct
  • to endure
  • to endure (years of suffering)
  • to stay up late or all night
  • puffed grain
  • popped wheat
  • popcorn
Trad. 熬藥
  • to decoct medicinal herbs
Trad. 難熬
  • (of pain or hardship) hard to bear
  • to suffer
  • to torture
  • to torment
  • ordeal
  • suffering
  • torture
  • torment
Trad. 熬出頭
  • to break clear of all the troubles and hardships
  • to achieve success
  • to make it
Trad. 熬頭兒
  • (coll.) the reward of one's efforts
  • the light at the end of the tunnel
Trad. 媳婦熬成婆
  • lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (idiom)
  • fig. the oppressed will become the oppressor
  • what goes around comes around

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