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好过 (好過)
  • [hǎoguò]
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Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

好过 [hǎoguò]
  1. 1. adjective Rich; well-off.
    那些不好过的日子想起来就心酸。
    We feel sad whenever we think of the difficult days in the past.
  2. 2. adjective Feeling comfortable and happy.
    我们聊天后,她的心里好过多了。
    She felt better after our chat.

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

好过 [hǎoguò]
  1. 1. 生活上富裕;日子过得宽松
    现在的日子好过了。
  2. 2. 感到舒服、愉快
    出了一身汗,身体好过多了。

Examples

日子越来越好过了。
Life is getting better and better.
解放前的日月可真不好过啊!
What a hard life we had before liberation!
日子越来越不好过
Things are getting harder and harder.
鳏夫的日子是不好过的,出门无人惦记,归来无人问寒暖。
Life is quite hard for a wifeless man: no one cares about him when he goes out and no one shows concerns to him when he comes back.
这样浑噩的日子,还有什么好过的,不如早点结束吧。
Such a muddle-headed life is meaningless. Stop it right now!
那年头,日子不好过
In those days, life was hard.
I never did very well in math.
我的数学成绩从来就没好过
to make sb's life a misery
使某人日子不好过

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