lao khổ

Thân thiện

Người nông dân lao khổ trên cánh đồng dưới cái nắng.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Hard and miserable; arduous and wretched: Describes a state, condition, or life characterized by extreme physical hardship, toil, and suffering, often involving poverty and distress.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Cuộc đời lao khổ của người nông dân. (The hard and miserable life of the farmer.)
  • Họ đã trải qua những năm tháng lao khổ. (They went through arduous and wretched years.)
  • Công việc lao khổ trong hầm mỏ. (The arduous and wretched work in the mines.)

Advanced Usage

• The term "lao khổ" is often used in literary or formal contexts to evoke a strong sense of pity and the severe struggle associated with a life of poverty and relentless labor. It describes not just temporary difficulty but a prolonged, ingrained state of hardship.

Variants and Related Words

• Cực khổ (adj): extremely hard, full of hardship.
  • Một cuộc sống cực khổ. (A life full of hardship.)
• Khổ cực (adj): difficult and painful, suffering.
  • Lao động khổ cực. (Toil and suffering labor.)
• Vất vả (adj): hard, laborious, tough (can be slightly less intense than "lao khổ").
  • Công việc vất vả. (Hard work.)

Synonyms

• Arduous: Involving strenuous effort; difficult and tiring.
• Wretched: In a state of deep misery or poverty.
• Miserable: Wretchedly unhappy or uncomfortable.

Related Idioms

• Đồng bào lao khổ: A phrase meaning "the laboring and suffering compatriots," often used historically or rhetorically to refer to the impoverished working masses.
  • Vì quyền lợi của đồng bào lao khổ. (For the rights of the laboring and suffering compatriots.)

Học thuật

adj

1. hard and miserable