to simmer / to boil slowly
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to cook on a slow fire / to extract by heating / to decoct / to endure
to stay up late or all night
to suffer / to torture / to torment / ordeal / suffering / torture / torment
to break clear of all the troubles and hardships / to achieve success / to make it
to stay up through the night (idiom)
suffering / torture
to simmer to a paste
to decoct medicinal herbs
(coll.) the reward of one's efforts / the light at the end of the tunnel
see 媳婦熬成婆|媳妇熬成婆[]
lit. even a submissive daughter-in-law will one day become a domineering mother-in-law (idiom) / fig. the oppressed will become the oppressor / what goes around comes around
to endure (years of suffering)
(of pain or hardship) hard to bear
(old) popped glutinous rice (term used during the Song dynasty)
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27