苦力 (kǔ lì) — (historical) coolie; manual laborer; strenuous physical work; hard labor

Historical term for an unskilled manual laborer (e.g. dock worker, rickshaw puller), often with a sense of exploitation. The second sense, 'strenuous labor,' is a modern extension of the same image.

noun
(historical) cooliemanual laborerstrenuous physical workhard labor
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예문

  • 苦力
    Tā yǐ qián zài mǎ tou zuò kǔ lì.
    He used to work as a coolie at the docks.
  • 苦力
    Zhè fèn gōng zuò tài xīn kǔ le, jiǎn zhí shì kǔ lì huó.
    This job is too hard; it's practically slave labor.
  • 苦力
    Tā bù xiǎng yí bèi zi dāng kǔ lì.
    He doesn't want to be a laborer all his life.

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