chịu cực

Người nông dân ấy đã chịu cực cả đời để nuôi con ăn học.

Definition

1. Verb phrase:
   • To endure hardship/suffering: To voluntarily or patiently bear difficult, painful, or impoverished conditions without complaint.
   • To put up with misery: To accept and tolerate a state of poverty, deprivation, or great difficulty.

Usage Examples

• Verb phrase:
  • Người nông dân ấy đã chịu cực cả đời để nuôi con ăn học. (That farmer endured hardship his whole life to put his children through school.)
  • Trong thời chiến, nhân dân phải chịu cực rất nhiều. (During the war, the people had to endure immense suffering.)
  • Cô ấy sẵn sàng chịu cực vì tương lai tốt đẹp hơn. (She is willing to endure hardship for a better future.)

Advanced Usage

• "chịu cực chịu khổ": A common four-word idiom that intensifies the meaning, emphasizing enduring all kinds of hardship and toil.

  • Bà mẹ đơn thân ấy đã chịu cực chịu khổ một mình nuôi ba đứa trẻ. (That single mother endured all kinds of hardship and toil alone to raise three children.)

• "chịu cực đã rồi mới hưởng phúc" / "chịu cực khổ về sau mới thành công": Proverbs meaning one must endure hardship first to enjoy happiness or achieve success later.

  • Anh ta tin vào câu "chịu cực đã rồi mới hưởng phúc". (He believes in the saying "endure hardship first, then enjoy happiness.")

Variants and Related Words

• Chịu đựng (verb): To endure, to bear, to tolerate. A more general term for enduring difficulties, pain, or unpleasant situations.

  • Anh ấy không thể chịu đựng được sự phản bội. (He could not bear the betrayal.)

• Cực khổ (adjective): Harsh, arduous, miserable. Describes a state of hardship.

  • Cuộc sống cực khổ đã làm bà già đi trước tuổi. (The harsh life made her age prematurely.)

• Cam chịu (verb): To resign oneself to, to accept (a negative situation) passively.

  • Cô ấy không cam chịu số phận. (She does not resign herself to fate.)

Synonyms

• Chịu khổ: To suffer, to endure misery. Very close in meaning, often used together with "chịu cực".
• Chịu đau khổ: To endure pain and suffering.
• Nhẫn nại chịu đựng: To endure patiently.

Related Idioms

• "Chịu thương chịu khó": To be hardworking and enduring. This idiom focuses more on diligence and perseverance through difficulty, often in work.

  • Người dân ở đây rất chịu thương chịu khó. (The people here are very hardworking and enduring.)

• "Ăn cay ăn đắng": Literally "to eat spicy, to eat bitter"; figuratively means to go through tough, bitter experiences.

  • Họ đã cùng nhau ăn cay ăn đắng mới có ngày hôm nay. (They went through thick and thin together to get to where they are today.)