度日

dù rì

to pass one's days / to scratch out a difficult, meager existence

Example Sentences

人民的文化程度日益提高。

rén mín de wén huà chéng dù rì yì tí gāo.

The education level of the people is increasingly being raised.

父母早逝后，年幼的姐弟俩在这个偏僻的小村庄里相依为命，艰难度日。

fù mǔ zǎo shì hòu, nián yòu de jiě dì liǎ zài zhè ge piān pì de xiǎo cūn zhuāng lǐ xiāng yī wéi mìng, jiān nán dù rì.

After their parents died young, the young siblings depended on each other and struggled to survive in this remote village.

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a day drags past like a year (idiom); time hangs heavy / time crawls when one is wretched

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