poor; destitute; to use up; to exhaust; thoroughly; extremely; (coll.) persistently and pointlessly

poor wretch; pauper; destitute man; poverty-stricken peasant; penniless good-for-nothing; impecunious vagabond

(vulgar) impoverished person; the poor

to pursue relentlessly

impoverished; destitute

to raise (a child) frugally

to be short of sth; to be wanting in sth

destitute; wretched poverty

poor country

cornered enemy

to use up; to exhaust; to probe to the bottom; limit; end

destitute; troubled; penniless and full of care

to shake uncontrollably; to jiggle (one's leg etc)

extremely; utterly

to travel on a small budget

to exhaust; to use up

hard-up; in dire straits; desperate

to pursue relentlessly

(of a scholar) impoverished, shabby and pedantic; impoverished pedant

exhausted and hungry

those who did not benefit from the Chinese economic reforms of the 1980s; see also 富二代[fu4 er4 dai4]

the working poor

poor but spirited person; (old) (derog.) peasant

Archimedes' method of exhaustion (an early form of integral calculus)

wretched look; shabby looks

a remote and desolate place

to struggle to cope (with a situation); to be at one's wits' end

to engage in wars of aggression at will (idiom); militaristic; bellicose

fiendish; black-hearted

(idiom) when you hit bottom, you have to come up with a new approach

(idiom) to live in poverty and despair; down and out; destitute and without hope

extravagant in the extreme (idiom)

to indulge in a life of luxury (idiom); extreme extravagance

(idiom) at home be frugal, but when traveling be prepared to spend

lit. poor and with few means of subsistance (idiom); fig. destitute

lit. barren hills and wild rivers (idiom); fig. inhospitable natural environment

poor but ambitious (idiom); hard-pressed but determined; the worse one's position, the harder one must fight back

to think hard (idiom); to give sth much thought

impoverished and dejected; wretched and penniless

lit. the path exhausted, the end of the road (idiom); an impasse; in a plight with no way out; things have reached a dead end

a desperate rat will bite the fox (idiom); the smallest worm will turn being trodden on

the poor are ignored in the busiest city; the rich will find relatives in the deepest mountain