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Chinese
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mountain; hill
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exhausted; poor
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water; river
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to use up; to exhaust; to end to use up; to exhaust; to end; to finish; to the utmost; exhausted; finished; to the limit (of something) |
| trad. (山窮水盡)
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山
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窮
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水
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盡
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| simp. (山穷水尽)
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山
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穷
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水
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尽
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| Literally: “the mountains run bare, and the streams run dry”.
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Pronunciation
Idiom
山窮水盡
- having no more options; being at the end of one's rope; extremely desperate and hopeless
我們已經山窮水盡，無法再去賭了 [MSC, trad.]
我们已经山穷水尽，无法再去赌了 [MSC, simp.]- wǒmen yǐjīng shānqióngshuǐjìn, wúfǎ zài qù dǔ le
- We are already at the end of our rope, there's nothing left to risk.