Archimedes' method of exhaustion (an early form of integral calculus)
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hard-up / in dire straits / desperate
to pursue relentlessly
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
to travel on a small budget
wretched look / shabby looks
to raise (a child) frugally
exhausted and hungry
a desperate rat will bite the fox (idiom) / the smallest worm will turn being trodden on
impoverished / backward both economically and culturally
endless / boundless / inexhaustible
(idiom) poor but with great ambitions / poor but principled
poor and with low expectations / poverty stunts ambition
boundless joy
boundless joy
extraordinary strength / super strong / strong as an ox
poor
to bewail one's poverty / to complain about being hard up / to pretend to be poor
to have a rich aftertaste / (fig.) memorable / to linger in one's memory
to endure poverty stoically
the country weakened and the people empoverished (idiom)
(lit.) the assassin's dagger, concealed in a map scroll, is suddenly revealed when the map is unrolled (referring to the attempted assassination of Ying Zheng 嬴政[] by Jing Ke 荊軻|荆轲[] in 227 BC) (idiom) / (fig.) malicious intent suddenly becomes apparent
see 圖窮匕見|图穷匕见[]
to give sympathy to the rich and relief to the poor (idiom)
mountain and river exhausted (idiom) / at the end of the line / nowhere to go
(idiom) there will be no end of trouble in the future
help the starving but not the poor (idiom)
sunset, the end of the road (idiom) / in terminal decline / at a dead end
exhaustible / limited / finite
(math.) positive infinity
the people are impoverished, their means exhausted (idiom) / to drive the nation to bankruptcy
(math.) infinitesimal / infinitely small
infinite sequence
point at infinity (math.) / infinitely distant point
infinite set (math.)
lit. having presented a flawed argument, one has nothing further to add (idiom) / fig. unable to provide a convincing argument to support one's position / to not have a leg to stand on
(Internet slang) (of a man) unmarriageable (lit. short, ugly and poor) / opposite: 高富帥|高富帅[]
to sew and mend clothes for a pittance
to feign and complain bitterly of being poverty stricken (idiom)
to not know what to say / to be lost for words
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