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活地狱

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Collocation

1
好比活地狱
2
简直是个活地狱
3
是个活地狱
4
如同活地狱一般
5
活地狱一样的生活

Definition

活地狱

Literally means:

hell on earth

Actually means:

world of suffering

It metaphorically refers to a miserable and cruel living environment. It also means the misery in the human world that resembles that in the hell. It in dicates that living such a life is no better than death. Derogatory.

比喻悲惨残酷的生活环境。也指像在地狱里里一样苦难的人间。含有生不如死的意味。具有贬义色彩。

Example

Used as object or attributive. (作宾语、定语)
1
li
那里
de
zhōngyíng
集中营
  
,
měi
dōu
shì
diǎnxíng
典型
de
huó
地狱
  
,
néng
jiǎoxìng
侥幸
cóng
li
那里
zǒu
chūlái
出来
de
dōu
bèi
zhé
折磨
de
xiàng
rényàng
人样
  

The concentration camps there, each of which was a typical living hell, were tortured like human beings when they came out of there.

2
Yǒude
有的
xìngcúnzhě
幸存者
huí
回忆
shuō
  
,
zhōngyíng
集中营
de
shēnghuó
生活
tóng
如同
huó
地狱
bān
一般
  

Some survivors recalled that life in concentration camps was like living hell.

3
Zhè
这里
yuánlái
原来
shì
zuò
  
,
měi
美丽
de
cūnzhuāng
村庄
  
,
shì
可是
zhànzhēng
战争
biànchéng
变成
le
huó
地狱
  

It used to be a beautiful village, but the war turned it into a living hell.