Results for “难”

political asylum

to rescue / rescue (operation, workers)

see 明槍易躲，暗箭難防|明枪易躲，暗箭难防[míng qiāng yì duǒ , àn jiàn nán fáng]

lit. easy to dodge the spear in the open, hard to avoid a stab in the dark (idiom) / it is hard to guard against secret conspiracies

easily guarded, hard to attack

too many to count / very many / innumerable

there are no rivers to one who has crossed the ocean, and no clouds to one who has passed Mount Wu (idiom) / one who has seen the world doesn't stop at small things

return what you borrowed on time, you may borrow again next time (idiom)

To enjoy blessings and endure misfortune together (idiom) / for better or for worse

It is hard to change one's essential nature (idiom). You can't change who you are. / Can the leopard change his spots? (Jeremiah 13:23)

enigmatic knot hard to untie (idiom) / thorny problem / intractable difficulty

to die in an accident / to die for a just cause

victim of an accident / casualty / martyr for one's country

to sacrifice one's wealth to save the state (idiom)

lit. even harder than reaching the sky (idiom) / fig. extremely difficult / far from an easy task

rivers and mountains are easy to change, man's character much harder

it is easier to change mountains and rivers than to alter one's character (idiom) / you can't change who you are / Can the leopard change his spots?

hard to forget even after one's teeth fall out (idiom) / to remember a benefactor as long as one lives / undying gratitude

it is hard to escape the net of justice (idiom)

like a clay Bodhisattva fording a river, can't guarantee his own safety / unable to save oneself, let alone others

even an honest and upright official will have difficulty resolving a family dispute (proverb)

water once spilt cannot be retrieved (idiom) / irreversible change

catastrophic

disaster movie

(idiom) you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink

(idiom) it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance / the reverse is not so easy

to be daunted by challenges

to make sth difficult / to create obstacles

knotty problem / intractable difficulty

trouble shooting / solution to difficulties

dubious or hard-to-treat cases (medicine) / hard cases

to profiteer in a time of national calamity

(a line from a poem by the Tang poet Liu Yuxi 劉禹錫|刘禹锡[Liú Yǔ xī]) one gains very little insight into one's enemy from a hundred victories, but he who breaks his arm three times will be a good doctor / (fig.) one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes

(idiom) to put up innumerable obstacles / to create all kinds of difficulties

hard to distinguish real from imitation

it's difficult to please everyone (idiom)

(idiom) one cannot afford to incur public wrath / it is dangerous to incur the anger of the masses

easy to grasp but difficult to put into practice (idiom) / easier said than done

(lit.) to sound out the difficulties and retreat to avoid defeat (idiom) / (fig.) to back out of an awkward situation / to get out on finding out what it's really like

inconvenient / difficult for some reason / to find sth embarrassing