血汗 (xuè hàn) — blood and sweat; hard toil, strenuous effort
Definition
A fixed pair meaning 'blood and sweat' — emphasizes painful, exhausting effort put into earning or achieving something. Functions as an attributive modifier, as in 血汗钱 / 血汗劳动.
noun
blood and sweathard toilstrenuous effort
Examples
- 血汗。Zhè xiē cái fù dōu shì tā yòng xuè hàn huàn lái de.This wealth was all earned by his blood and sweat.
- 血汗。Wǒ men yīng gāi zūn zhòng gōng rén de xuè hàn láo dòng.We should respect the hard labor of workers.
- 血汗。Tā fù chū le hěn duō xuè hàn cái chéng gōng.He paid a lot of blood and sweat to succeed.
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