Thursday, January 29, 2015

29 Jan - 吃苦 - Bear Hardship

Word of the Day: 吃苦 - Bear/Suffer Hardship
Pronunciation: - ㄘㄨㄤˊ ㄈㄥㄅㄠˋ ㄩˇ

Breaking it Down:
The phrase 吃苦 is comprised of the character for eat and bitter/painful .

(1) - P: ㄔ || Chī - Eat
(2) - P: ㄎㄨˇ || Kǔ - bitter/painful, hard, miserable

Living Language:
I typed the phrase 吃苦 into Google news and I got the following two headlines.

The first one reads: 希臘不想再吃苦了 - roughly translated means - "Greece doesn't want to bear hardship/suffer again" - so I am guessing it is about the Euro Zone Crisis and the ongoing Greek Debt Crisis.

The second (highlighted part) one reads: 不能"吃苦", 又懂得"享受" - this one is a little weird. The first part 不能"吃苦" means "Cannot Suffer Hardship" and the second part 懂得"享受"" means "can know happiness". Together, I cannot figure it out.

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