穷日子 [
qióng rì zi]
days of poverty
straitened circumstances
- 她是个实际的女人,不能接受一辈子在农村过穷日子的命运。
She was a practical woman, and she wasn't reconciled to a life of rural squalor. - 他们宁愿到美国去过穷日子,也不愿意在国内过相对富裕的生活。
They would rather live in poverty there than enjoy a relative prosperity at home. - 当时,张福河的父老乡亲还是靠几张破渔网、一条小木船过着穷日子。
At that time, father fellow-townsman of Zhang Fuhe kisses or rely on an a few pieces of broken flue, little wooden vessel to live days of poverty.