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Trad. 克難
- to make do in difficult circumstances by being resourceful
- (of circumstances) difficult
- challenging
- (of a budget) tight
- (of a man-made thing) makeshift
- rough and ready
Trad. 困難
- difficult
- challenging
- straitened circumstances
- difficult situation
Trad. 安難
- (classical) (of soldiers etc) resolute in the face of adversity
Trad. 為難
- to feel embarrassed or awkward
- to make things difficult (for someone)
- to find things difficult (to do or manage)
Trad. 難保
- hard to say
- can't guarantee
- difficult to protect
- difficult to preserve
Trad. 急難
- misfortune
- crisis
- grave danger
- critical situation
- disaster
- emergency
- to be zealous in helping others out of a predicament
Trad. 蒙難
- to meet with disaster
- killed
- in the clutches of the enemy
- to fall foul of
- in danger
Trad. 刁難
- to be hard on sb; to deliberately make things difficult
- Taiwan pr. [diao1nan2]
Trad. 難為
- to bother
- to press sb, usu. to do sth
- it's a tough job
- sorry to bother you (polite, used to thank sb for a favor)
Trad. 難經
- Classic on Medical Problems, c. 1st century AD
- abbr. for 黃帝八十一難經|黄帝八十一难经[Huang2 di4 Ba1 shi2 yi1 Nan4 jing1]
Trad. 難纏
- (usu. of people) difficult
- demanding
- troublesome
- unreasonable
- hard to deal with
Trad. 難說
- hard to tell (i.e. hard to judge or hard to predict)
- cannot bring oneself to say it
Trad. 受難者
- sufferer
- a victim of a calamity
- a person in distress
Trad. 死難者
- victim of an accident
- casualty
- martyr for one's country
Trad. 阿難陀
- Prince Ananda, cousin of the Buddha and his closest disciple
Trad. 難逃法網
- It is hard to escape the dragnet of the law
- the long arm of the law
Trad. 眾口難調
- it's difficult to please everyone (idiom)
Trad. 百般刁難
- (idiom) to put up innumerable obstacles; to create all kinds of difficulties
Trad. 眾怒難犯
- (idiom) one cannot afford to incur public wrath
- it is dangerous to incur the anger of the masses
Trad. 善財難捨
- to cherish wealth and find it hard to give up (idiom); refusing to contribute to charity
- skinflint
- miserly
Trad. 勉為其難
- to tackle a difficult job (idiom)
- to do sth reluctantly
Trad. 恨海難填
- sea of hatred is hard to fill (idiom); irreconcilable division
Trad. 寢食難安
- lit. cannot rest or eat in peace (idiom)
- fig. extremely worried and troubled
Trad. 插翅難飛
- lit. even given wings, you couldn't fly (idiom); fig. impossible to escape
Trad. 坐立難安
- unable to sit or stand still (out of nervousness etc) (idiom)
Trad. 可共患難
- to go through thick and thin together (idiom)
Trad. 長夜難明
- lit. many nights under a harsh moon
- long years of oppression (idiom)
Trad. 多災多難
- to be plagued with misfortunes
- precarious
Trad. 排憂解難
- to resolve a difficult situation and leave worries behind (idiom)
Trad. 擢髮難數
- lit. as difficult to count as hair pulled from sb's head (idiom)
- fig. innumerable (crimes)
Trad. 從難從嚴
- demanding and strict (idiom)
- exacting
Trad. 死結難解
- enigmatic knot hard to untie (idiom); thorny problem
- intractable difficulty
Trad. 防空避難
- (Tw) evacuation to an air-raid shelter
Trad. 孤掌難鳴
- It's hard to clap with only one hand.
- It takes two to tango
- It's difficult to achieve anything without support.
Trad. 罄竹難書
- so many that the bamboo slats have been exhausted
- innumerable crimes (idiom)
- see also 罄筆難書|罄笔难书[qing4 bi3 nan2 shu1]
Trad. 罄筆難書
- too numerous to be cited (of atrocities or misdeeds) (idiom)
- see also 罄竹難書|罄竹难书[qing4 zhu2 nan2 shu1]
Trad. 法網難逃
- it is hard to escape the net of justice (idiom)
Trad. 艱難險阻
- untold dangers and difficulties (idiom)
Trad. 左右兩難
- (idiom) between a rock and a hard place
- in a dilemma
Trad. 左右為難
- (idiom) between a rock and a hard place
- in a dilemma
Trad. 強人所難
- to force someone to do something
Trad. 人心難測
- hard to fathom a person's mind (idiom)
Trad. 礙難從命
- difficult to obey orders (idiom); much to my embarrassment, I am unable to comply
Trad. 排除萬難
- to overcome all obstacles
- to overcome countless difficulties
Trad. 騎虎難下
- if you ride a tiger, it's hard to get off (idiom); fig. impossible to stop halfway
Trad. 排難解紛
- to remove perils and solve disputes (idiom); to reconcile differences
Trad. 毀家紓難
- to sacrifice one's wealth to save the state (idiom)
Trad. 一言難盡
- hard to explain in a few words (idiom); complicated and not easy to express succinctly
Trad. 知易行難
- easy to grasp but difficult to put into practice (idiom)
- easier said than done
Trad. 更僕難數
- too many to count
- very many
- innumerable
Trad. 好夢難成
- a beautiful dream is hard to realize (idiom)
Trad. 多難興邦
- much hardships may awaken a nation (idiom); calamity that prompts renewal
Trad. 落落難合
- a loner
- someone who does not easily get along with others
Trad. 覆水難收
- spilt water is difficult to retrieve (idiom)
- it's no use crying over spilt milk
- what's done is done and can't be reversed
- the damage is done
- once divorced, there's no reuniting
Trad. 一木難支
- lit. a single post cannot prop up a falling house (idiom)
- fig. one is helpless alone
Trad. 知難而退
- lit. to sound out the difficulties and retreat to avoid defeat (idiom)
- fig. to back out of an awkward situation; to get out on finding out what it's really like
Trad. 大難臨頭
- to be facing imminent calamity (idiom)
- disaster is looming
Trad. 急人之難
- anxious to help others resolve difficulties (idiom)
Trad. 靖難之役
- war of 1402 between successors of the first Ming Emperor
Trad. 千載難逢
- extremely rare (idiom)
- once in a blue moon
Trad. 疑難問題
- knotty problem
- intractable difficulty
Trad. 疑難解答
- trouble shooting
- solution to difficulties
Trad. 疑難雜症
- dubious or hard-to-treat cases (medicine)
- hard cases
Trad. 面有難色
- to show signs of reluctance or embarrassment
Trad. 潑水難收
- water once spilt cannot be retrieved (idiom); irreversible change
Trad. 千金難買
- can't be bought for one thousand in gold (idiom)
Trad. 攻堅克難
- to tackle a thorny problem and overcome its challenges
Trad. 劫數難逃
- Destiny is inexorable, there is no fleeing it (idiom). Your doom is at hand.
Trad. 本性難移
- It is hard to change one's essential nature (idiom). You can't change who you are.
- Can the leopard change his spots? (Jeremiah 13:23)
Trad. 進退兩難
- no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma
- trapped
- in an impossible situation
Trad. 難上加難
- extremely difficult
- even more difficult
Trad. 進退為難
- no room to advance or to retreat (idiom); without any way out of a dilemma
- trapped
- in an impossible situation
Trad. 羞口難開
- to be too embarrassed for words (idiom)
Trad. 難以啟齒
- to be too embarrassed to mention sth (idiom)
- to find it hard to speak about sth
Trad. 難以實現
- hard to accomplish
- difficult to achieve
Trad. 難以捉摸
- elusive
- hard to pin down
- enigmatic
Trad. 難以撼動
- unsusceptible to change
- deeply entrenched
Trad. 難以理解
- hard to understand
- incomprehensible
Trad. 難以置信
- (idiom) hard to believe; incredible
Trad. 難以自已
- cannot control oneself (idiom)
- to be beside oneself
Trad. 寸步難移
- see 寸步難行|寸步难行[cun4 bu4 nan2 xing2]
Trad. 寸步難行
- unable to move a single step (idiom)
- to be in an (extremely) difficult situation
Trad. 難兄難弟
- lit. hard to differentiate between elder and younger brother (idiom)
- fig. one is just as bad as the other
Trad. 難兄難弟
- brothers in hardship (idiom)
- fellow sufferers
- in the same boat
Trad. 天理難容
- Heaven cannot tolerate this (idiom)
- intolerable behavior
Trad. 難分難捨
- loath to part (idiom); emotionally close and unwilling to separate
Trad. 難分難解
- to become caught up in an irresolvable situation (idiom)
Trad. 沒齒難忘
- hard to forget even after one's teeth fall out (idiom); to remember a benefactor as long as one lives
- undying gratitude
Trad. 見難而上
- to take the bull by the horns (idiom)