饱尝辛酸

饱尝辛酸

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put through the mill; go (have been; pass) through the mill; have met with many trials of life; taste to the full the bitterness of life:

他们不少人就是在这种暗无天日的岁月中，饱尝辛酸地度过了大半生。 Those are days of darkness, when many of them spent most of their lives enduring all kinds of hardships.