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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「慘淡經營」, with its definition and usage detailed below.
Miserable: to spend a lot of effort; to manage: to plan. Put a lot of thought and effort into the planning. The latter refers to working hard on a certain undertaking under difficult circumstances.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
cǎn dàn jīng yíng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chaam2 daam6 ging1 ying4
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