suffered untold hardships
Suffering, Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ǎ OJ ī ngy ō Uhu à n, refers to experience enough hardship. From Nanguan grass.
The origin of Idioms
The first scene of the second act of Guo Moruo's nanguancao: "Lady Sheng, the legitimate mother of Xia Wanchun, is more than 50 years old. She is very old because of suffering."
Analysis of Idioms
[synonym]: full of hardships, vicissitudes, wind and rain, hardships, vicissitudes, vicissitudes [antonym]: without vicissitudes, not deep into the WTO, plain sailing, bad breath, yellow mouth, not falling teeth
Idiom usage
They said he came from a poor Manchu family. Bing Xin's late sunny days: Lao She and the children
Chinese PinYin : bǎo jīng yōu huàn
suffered untold hardships
the fallen grass and sinking cesspool. zhuì yīn luò hùn