清苦

They lived an austere life.

他们过着极端清苦的生活.

For others, thrift implies denial and deprivation, and that makes for a tough call-to-arms.

而对于其他人, 节约就意味着克制和清苦的生活,因此很难得到响应.

It is better to struggle on one's own than to rely on others.

虽然生活清苦,也比傍人门户要好.

Few things are lonelier than the solitary task of confronting the blank page for years on end.

年复一年地面对一张白纸，写作的清苦是世间鲜有能及的。

The monastic life is poor and simple, even dinning is a practice of Buddhism.

修行的生活很清苦，即便是进餐，也是一种功课。

I am a man from the countryside and all my ancestors live in a poor life at the mountain area.

我是一个土生土长的农民，我家祖祖辈辈住在大山里过着清苦的生活。

Monks are leading simple , austere lives.

僧侣们过着清苦的生活.

The monks lived a very ascetic life.

僧侣过着很清苦的生活。

His father was a bitter teachers union organizer and political agitator who spent his weekends hiking nude in the Anza Borrego desert.

父亲是个清苦的教师联合会的领导，也是一个政治变革的煽动者，周末常在安沙波列哥沙漠裸走。

a spartan existence

清苦的生活

Wang Tso-shu live his life, committed to nurturing creative talents and poetry.

王作枢一生清苦, 致力于培植人才和诗文创作.

The life of the troops was still comparatively austere.

军队的生活还是相对清苦的。

Living on selling benne, he led a hard and poor life.

他靠卖胡麻为生, 日子过得很清苦.

A peasant in the state of Song led an extremely hard life for he was destitute1, depending on worn sackcloth to defense2 the chill of winter.

宋国的一个农民，因家境贫寒，生活极为清苦，全靠一件烂麻衣抵御冬天的严寒。