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 吃 and bitter/painful 苦.
(1) 吃 - P: ㄔ || Chī - Eat
(2) 苦 - 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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